Danger, Destruction,
Description
of False Teachers
Teachers of error are numerous.
Why do they exist if their teaching
cannot save a soul?
Introduction
• 2 Timothy 4:3-4 “For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine; but
wanting to have their ears tickled, they will
accumulate for themselves teachers in
accordance to their own desires; and will turn
away their ears from the truth, and will turn
aside to myths”.
Introduction
• People want the error, because they do not
love the truth.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 “And for this reason
God will send upon them a deluding influence
so that they might believe what is false, in
order that they all may be judged who did not
believe the truth, but took pleasure in
wickedness.”
• Verse 10 says “…they did not receive the love
of the truth so as to be saved”.
Danger, Of False Teachers
• 2 Peter 2:1 “But false prophets also arose among
the people, just as there will also be false teachers
among you, who will secretly introduce
destructive heresies, even denying the Master
who brought them, bringing swift destruction
upon themselves.
• They deny Jesus is Lord and God.
• They are antichrists.
• They certainly do not listen to Him.
Danger Of False Teachers
• They think that it is a bit arrogant to think one
knows “the truth” on anything,
• Yet, they will divide churches if people don’t accept
their ideas.
• 2 Peter 2:2 “And many will follow their sensuality,
and because of them the way of the truth will be
maligned”.
• How many people look at the hypocrisy of people
who claim to be Christians, but do not live like they
believe the word God.
Danger Of False Teachers
• 2 Peter 2:3 “and in their greed they will exploit
you with false words; their judgment from
long ago is not idle, and their destruction is
not asleep”.
• “All these rich pastors lead many who are not”
• A recent article from a liberal newspaper
made this observation about the doctrine of
wealth that is so predominant.
• These preachers do not like the truth because
it exposes them for what they truly are.
Destruction Of False Teachers
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2 Peter 2:4-9
All sin is punished
God knows how to protect His faithful ones.
Sodom and Gomorrah were examples of the
destruction to those who would live ungodly.
• God provides the way of escape.
• 1 Corinthians 10:13
Description Of False Teachers
• Despises authority – 2:10.
• One thing that these people want to get away from is
having to stick to biblical patterns.
• They will try to undermine the credibility of those
who speak of “commands, examples, and necessary
inference” as a means of “proving what is acceptable
to the Lord” (Rom.12:1-3).
• They want brethren to believe that this is all
“legalism” and “church of Christ tradition” and
“Pharisaic”.
• They want to get away from “establishing authority”
for all we do.
Description Of False Teachers
• Is “presumptuous” and “self-willed” –v.10.
• They do not seek to “prove what is acceptable to
the Lord”(Romans12:1-3; Ephesians5:10; 1
Thessalonians 5:21) because that would get them
back to “legalism” that they so despise.
• So, they simply “presume” that God accepts
whatever they like.
• They cannot tell their adherents how to “prove
what is acceptable to the Lord” so they pull out
and do their own will.
Description Of False Teachers
• 2 Peter 2:12 “Speak evil of things they do not
understand (or do not have knowledge of).
• They have rejected things like how to establish
Bible authority.
• How to “prove what is acceptable to the Lord”.
• They have rejected God’s commands whether
they like it or not.
Description Of False Teachers
• 2 Peter 2:14 Will “beguile unstable souls” –
• Those who do not have a good grasp of Bible
authority and how to establish it are easy prey for
their ways.
• Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge”
• While many will have some knowledge of God’s
teaching on certain matters, most do not hold to
the very basic matters of doctrine.
Description Of False Teachers
• 2 Peter 2:15
• Don’t believe there is a “right way”.
• Their only “right way” is open to all kinds of error
(but only the error that allows them to do what
they want to do).
• They will embrace anyone’s beliefs, but will not
tolerate those who speak the truth of God’s word.
Description Of False Teachers
• 2 Peter 2:17
• The False Teachers Are “wells without water”
(what use are they?)
• Always raise questions but never any real
answers.
• They appear to promise good things but there
is no real substance to draw out of them.
Description Of False Teachers
• 2 Peter 2:17-18
• They allure through “lust of the flesh” (the
core of the appeal of the social gospel)
• MDR has been and always will be a major
issue concerning souls.
• Most of the false doctrines have been created
to ignore the teaching of Jesus on this subject.
Description Of False Teachers
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2 Peter 2:19
There is always promise of more freedom.
Sounds so great to have freedom.
Many want freedom from religion and call for its
removal.
• Some want freedom from God and His
commands.
• The false teachers enslave undiscerning people
to erroneous thinking and erroneous ways.
Conclusion
• The writers of the New Testament warned
about false teachers.
• Anyone who teaches error is a false teacher.
• Some say we cannot know their hearts, but
our response is “by their fruits you will know
them (Matthew 7:15-20)
• Error exist and we should not ignore those
who teach it or those who follow it.