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What is a False Teacher? - John MacArthur helps us to Identify a False Teacher.
He recommends 5 Key Points to look for in a False Teacher: Pride, Selfishness, Deception, Irreverence, and Destruction. This Article is an Excerpt from John MacArthur's Teachings called: "CONCERNS OF A TRUE PASTOR: HUMILITY AND SELFLESSNESS."
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Article below By John MacArthur
When I sat down and just started writing out Characteristics of False Teachers, these are the things that showed up on my list: Pride, Selfishness, Deception, Irreverence, and Destruction. Those would be probably the First Five Features of False Teachers that would be on my list of the, say, a DOZEN or so. Here are the First 5 Characteristics of a False Teacher:
5 KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF A FALSE TEACHER - LINKS |
(Few of the Many)
1 - PRIDE
2 - SELFISHNESS
3 - DECEPTION4 - IRREVERENT
5 - DESTRUCTION
•CHARACTERISTICS OF A TRUE MINISTER
•CONTENDING EARNESTLY FOR THE FAITH
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They are concerned for their own Popularity. They are concerned for their own Fame. They are concerned for their own Notoriety. They are concerned for their own Prestige. They’re concerned to See themselves and Hear themselves in the Public Eye. They want Large Crowds, as it were, to bow down in great homage to them. They’re Characterized by Pride and they will do anything to gain the ground they need to gain for the welfare of their own Personal Ego, including any amount of Compromise necessary.
They tend to be Self-Centered. They are concerned for their own Comfort. They are concerned for their own Popularity. They are concerned for their own Prosperity. In the end, it’s all about Money, Fame, and Prestige and Notoriety equals an increased Bank Account. They are in it for the Money and the Personal material benefits that they can gain as they endeavor to feed their Selfish Desires.
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If there’s anything that sort of dominates in my thinking about False Teachers, it is their Irreverence. They have absolutely no regard for God. The fact that they would go against God, that they would elevate themselves the way they do, that they would Pervert the Truth indicates their utter Irreverence. They have little, if any, regard for God, His Word, His Truth, His Glory, His Honor…
They seek to Use People; they seek to Abuse People. They seek to Lead People into Error, which destroys them—into Sin, which Pollutes Them.
So, as you look at False Teachers—
With regard to the WORLD, they are Proud and they seek Fame and Popularity.
With regard to THEMSELVES, they are Self-centered, Selfish, Self-aggrandizing, Self-gratifying.
With regard to the NATURE OF THEIR MINISTRY, they are Dishonest and Deceptive and Lack Integrity.
With regard to God, they are utterly Irreverent; in fact, they are Blasphemous. And,
With regard to the PEOPLE THAT THEY INFLUENCE, they are Spiritually Destructive.
So, their Relationship to the WORLD, their Relationship to the MINISTRY, their relationship to THEMSELVES, their Relationship to GOD, their Relationship to THEIR PEOPLE all reflects the DEVIATION OF THEIR HEARTS.
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- Matt 7:15-20 Jesus says, "Beware of the FALSE PROPHETS, who come to you in SHEEP'S CLOTHING but INWARDLY ARE RAVENOUS WOLVES. You can identify them by their FRUIT, that is, by the way they ACT. Can you pick grapes from Thornbushes, or Figs from Thistles? (17) A GOOD TREE produces GOOD FRUIT, and a BAD TREE produces BAD FRUIT. A GOOD TREE can’t produce BAD FRUIT, and a BAD TREE can’t produce GOOD FRUIT. So every TREE that does not produce GOOD FRUIT is chopped down and thrown into the Fire. Yes, just as you can identify a TREE by its FRUIT, so you can IDENTIFY PEOPLE BY THEIR ACTIONS."
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On the other hand, if you were to write a list of Characteristics of the True Minister, a True Pastor, a True Shepherd, a True Preacher, a Faithful Pastor…you would start by saying he is Humble and then you probably would say he is Lovingly Sacrificial, instead of Selfish. He is Honest and has Integrity, rather than Deceptive. And, he is Reverent and Worships and Honors God, rather than being Irreverent. And, he is Spiritually Strengthening and Edifying. You would be right. Remember now, Paul is writing, in defining his own Attitudes here, against the background of these False Teachers whose Attitudes should have become obvious to the people in Corinth. A Faithful Pastor is Humble, Unselfish, Honest, Reverent, and Spiritually Edifying, just the opposite of False Teachers. (END)
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Jude 1:3-25 “I found it NECESSARY to write to you EXHORTING YOU to CONTEND EARNESTLY FOR THE FAITH which was ONCE FOR ALL DELIVERED to the SAINTS. For CERTAIN MEN have CREPT IN UNNOTICED, who long ago were MARKED OUT FOR THIS ...CONDEMNATION, UNGODLY MEN, who turn the GRACE OF OUR GOD INTO LEWDNESS and DENY the only LORD GOD and our LORD JESUS CHRIST."
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Acts 17:11 The people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica,& they listened EAGERLY to PAUL'S MESSAGE. They SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES DAY AFTER DAY to see if PAUL & SILAS were TEACHING THE TRUTH."
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1 John 4:1 "Do NOT Believe EVERYONE who CLAIMS to SPEAK BY THE SPIRIT. You must TEST them to see if the spirit they have comes FROM GOD. There are MANY FALSE PROPHETS in the World"
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- 2 Cor 11:13-15 (NKJV) "For such are FALSE APOSTLES, DECEITFUL WORKERS, transforming themselves into APOSTLES OF CHRIST. And no wonder! For SATAN HIMSELF TRANSFORMS HIMSELF into an ANGEL OF LIGHT." Therefore it is no great thing if his MINISTERS also TRANSFORM THEMSELVES into MINISTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, whose END will be according to their WORKS."
- 2 Tim 4:1-22 (NKJV) "I Charge you therefore before GOD & the Lord JESUS CHRIST, who will JUDGE the Living & the Dead at His Appearing & His Kingdom: PREACH THE WORD! Be Ready in Season & Out of Season (all the time). CONVINCE, REBUKE, EXHORT, with all LONGSUFFERING & TEACHING. For the Time will come when they will NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE, but according to their OWN DESIRES, because they have ITCHING EARS, they will HEAP up for themselves TEACHERS; and they will TURN their EARS AWAY from the TRUTH, and be turned aside to FABLES. But you be WATCHFUL in ALL things, ENDURE AFFLICTIONS, do the Work of an Evangelist, fulfill your Ministry."
- 1 Tim 4:1 "Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the LAST TIMES some will turn away from the TRUE FAITH; they will follow DECEPTIVE SPIRITS & TEACHINGS that come from DEMONS."
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| EXCERPTS FROM— "CONCERNS OF A TRUE PASTOR: HUMILITY AND SELFLESSNESS"
COPYRIGHT © BY JOHN F MACARTHUR, JR / GTY.org ® 1998 / GRACE TO YOU MINISTRIES
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