#false teachers

Years ago, talk show host Oprah Winfrey said she started rejecting Christian beliefs when she heard that God is a jealous God (Deuteronomy 6:15).  She said she couldn't believe in a god who was “jealous of her” (source/ video /video minute 7:50).  

Jesus made it clear that anyone who adds or takes away from His word would be in danger facing His holy wrath (Revelation 22:18-19). As such, not only does changing the word of God directly misrepresent God to the masses, it also leads His children onto the broader path to damnation.

This is not something the Lord will stand for, and His followers, neither should we.

Beware of those who spin the Gospel into means for prosperity; promising God’s blessings over you and your family if you donate to their mega churches. These people tell of God’s grace, but leave out His hatred for sin, and its consequences of eternal damnation. They don’t care about you, your salvation, or your spiritual walk with Christ. Instead, they’re focused on the pleasures and wealth of this world, trading the riches of heaven for a world that is passing away.

They aren’t interested in your soul being saved. Rather, they’re interested in what new sports car they’re going to be buying, or the luxury of owning private jets. The palates of this world have choked the word within them, and they have become unfruitful.

Preachers like these are Joel Olsteen, Joyce Meyer, Kenneth Copeland, Robert Morris, Tony Evans, or really any mega church pastor.

These false pastors can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. The enemy has more than one disguise after all. As such, any teaching that goes against and contradicts scripture is not worth listening to. Our job as Christians is to peach the unsugarcoated, unaltered word of the Lord to a world that does not know Him.

We are called to be rejected, insulted, and persecuted for the faith. And if we compromise that just fit in with the world that killed the perfect man, then we’ve clear which side we’re on, and it isn’t God’s.

The Epistle of Jude

1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: 2 Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied. 3 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. 4 For there are certain men who have crept in unawares, who were foreordained of old for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who believed not.

6 And the angels who kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great Day-- 7 even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 8 Likewise also, these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil and disputing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke thee!" 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not; but what they come to know naturally as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

11 Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain and have run greedily after the error of Balaam for their reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. 12 These are spots on your feasts of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear. Clouds they are without water, carried about by winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, "Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of His saints 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all who are ungodly among them of all their godless deeds which they have godlessly committed, and of all the harsh speeches which godless sinners have spoken against Him."

16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, giving admiration to men's persons to gain advantage. 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18 how they told you that there would be mockers in the last times who would walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 22 And on some have compassion, making a difference; 23 and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. 24 Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, 25 to the only wise God our Savior be glory and majesty, dominion and power, now and ever. Amen. — Jude 1 | Third Millennium Bible (TMB) Third Millennium Bible, New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. Cross References: Genesis 4:3; Genesis 5:18; Genesis 19:24; Exodus 12:51; Numbers 16:11; Deuteronomy 34:6; Psalm 31:18; Proverbs 25:14; Amos 4:11; Matthew 13:55; Luke 1:47; John 5:44; Acts 6:7; Acts 11:23; Acts 20:29; Romans 2:5; Romans 2:14; 1 Corinthians 2:14; 2 Corinthians 4:14; Galatians 6:6; Ephesians 6:18; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 2:3; 2 Peter 2:10; 2 Peter 2:17

“There is a species of ant that approaches the edge of another colony, grabs a worker, and rubs against it to take on the colony’s scent. For ants, scent is everything. Wearing that scent, the intruder walks in with no resistance. The workers pass by without concern. The intruder moves inward, toward the queen, then sprays the queen with a different scent that makes the workers turn on her. Then…

"Lo, I detest the sight of you, O churches of men, And in bitterness I have spit you from My mouth!…

Behold, blasphemy is heard from every pulpit, And perversion is laid upon every altar!…

CHURCHES OF MEN, YOUR HOUSES ARE COVERED IN THE FILTH OF THE PAGAN AND DRIP WITH THE POLLUTED BLOOD OF THE HEATHEN!

For by your harlotries have you set the stage for the deceiver, while each one of you claps the hands and offers up praises to your soothsayers!… False prophets and teachers whose words seem oh so wise in your eyes, whose voices are smooth, soothing your itching ears… Prepared speeches, soft songs, lulling you to sleep as you rest comfortably in your padded chairs, slowly fading into all this darkness in which you are so easily ensnared, thick darkness from which you will not escape, says The Lord."

📖 Excerpt from "Far Removed": https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Far_Removed