April 6, 2025 • 25 mins
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today on from his Heart with Pastor Jeff Shreeve, learn
how to not be deceived by the devil.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse.
The Bible says deceiving and being deceived. And you know
where that can really show up. It shows up in
institutions of higher learning.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It shows up in seminaries.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Why because the guys that are studying, studying, studying studying
a lot of times they're looking for some hidden meaning.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
They're looking for some hidden truth.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You mark this down if it's new, it's not true.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
In so many vocations and professions, accuracy, precision and truth
are so very important. But how much more is it
important for the Man of God to be accurate, precise
and true when it comes to the Word of God.
You see some people talk the talk, and some go
to truly walk the walk, but then they may become
(01:26):
easily deceived, and so they balk, they hesitate, they think
twice before walking with the Lord. This is from his
Heart with Pastor Jeff Shreeve. And today he concludes his
three message series that we've been in so far this
month called Nothing but the Truth, and today part two
of the final lesson are you holding firmly to the truth?
(01:49):
Right now? Open your Bible to the Book of Second John.
Here's Pastor Jeff to explain what it really means to
love Jesus and how to know for sure that your
answer would be absolutely yes when God's Holy Spirit whispers
in your heart this question, are you holding firmly to
the truth?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And I want you to notice three warnings, three admonitions
concerning holding fast to the truth, holding firmly to the truth,
and being able to spot error when it comes, even
when it comes just one degree off. Warning Number one,
watch out for a warped christology, a warped Christology. What
(02:35):
did the Gnostics bring to the table a warped Christology?
They talked about Jesus. They didn't deny Jesus. They would
talk often about Jesus. But their Jesus was not the
Jesus of the Bible. He was the Jesus of the Gnostic,
(02:55):
And the Jesus of the Gnostic was not the Jesus
of the Bible. And so John says, many deceivers have
gone out into the world verse seven, those who do
not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This
is the deceiver and the anti Christ. That's coming from
an anti Christ spirit. So John dealt with false teachers.
(03:19):
What did the false teachers do? They attacked the person
of Jesus, and Jesus is God.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And he is man. He is the God Man.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Now, any teaching that denies the full deity and full
humanity of Christ, according to the apostle John, that teaching
is the demonic lie. Watch out for a warped Christology.
Second warning, watch out for a warped Gospel, a warped gospel.
(03:54):
Verse eight, he says, watch yourselves that you might not
lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive
a full reward. Anyone who goes too far and does
not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God.
The one who abides in the teaching he has both
the Father and the Son. And if you tolerate falsehood,
(04:18):
if a church tolerates falsehood, then we will lose our reward,
will be unfaithful to the Lord.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Because we're to hold firmly to the truth.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
We're going to contend earnestly Jude one three for the
faith which was once for all delivered to the saints
and professing Christians who don't abide in the truth may
not be Christians at all. As I said before, just
because a guy gets up and he's pastor so and so,
or doctor so and so, or Bishop so and so,
(04:49):
and he opens up the Bible and he talks about Jesus,
be careful. He may be not talking about the Jesus
of the Bible. He may be talking about another Jesus,
whom we have not preached. And just because he's talking
about Heaven doesn't mean he's going there. The false teachers,
they didn't come out and say, hey, I just want
you to know I'm a false teacher. Now let's talk.
(05:12):
They don't do that. The devil is too smart to
do that. The Bible says about the devil that he
disguises himself.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
As an angel of light.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
First two Corinthians, chapter eleven says this, for such men
are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an
angel of light. Therefore, it's not surprising if his servants
also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end shall
(05:44):
be according to their deeds.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Deceivers don't tell you they're deceivers.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
And sometimes people who come to your door and preach
to you another Jesus and we have not preached, they
can be deceived and not know they're deceitd evil men
and impostors will go from bad to work. The Bible
says deceiving and being deceived. Lots of people in colts today.
It's not that they know that they are deceivers. It's
they themselves are deceived. They think they're right, but they
(06:14):
are deceived and they're deceiving other people. So professing Christians,
how do we know if a professing Christian is not
a true Christian?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It says that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He goes too far and does not abide in the
teaching of Christ, the teaching that came from the lips
of Jesus or the teaching about Jesus. He doesn't abide
in that, he doesn't remain in that, he doesn't dwell
in that, he doesn't continue in that.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And you know where that can really show up.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It shows up in institutions of higher learning.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
It shows up in seminaries.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Why because the guys that are studying studying, studying studying
a lot of times they're looking for some hidden meaning there,
looking for some hidden truth.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You mark this down. If it's new, it's not true.
If it's new, it's not true. Somebody's gonna read something
and say, wow, the church has gotten this wrong for
two thousand years. Now I know what the truth is.
If it's new, it's not true. I saw a debate
between James White and this other guy. Can't remember his name,
(07:25):
but the other guy was defending homosexuality, and his argument
was from the days of Genesis, God's people have gotten
it wrong about homosexuality, that homosexuality was never a sin,
it was never a problem.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
We just got it wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I don't know how you have to move heaven and
earth to get the Bible to say that it's you know,
homosexuality is good. God made them male and female, and
God brought them together. You just look at anatomy and
a man is different from a woman, and they fit
together so that they can be fruitful and multiply and
fill the earth. But that was his argument, We've just
gotten it wrong. Hey, if it's new, it's not true.
(08:07):
And if people go past what is written in the
scripture and they come up with something else. Flags should
red flags go up? Wait, that guy is off base.
He may not be a Christian at all. He may
be what John says, the deceiver and the Antichrist. So
any Christian tolerating falsehood, you can lose your reward. Professing
(08:29):
Christians who don't abide in the truth may not be
Christians at all. And all Christians are called to be
biblically discerning.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Because we live in a world where people aren't discerning
at all. They just believe anything.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
They're blown about by every wind of doctrine because they're
not steeped in the scripture. They don't know what the
Bible says, and they don't think it really matters. I
ran across a study just this morning. George Barna, the researcher.
He published this in nineteen ninety one, thirty years ago,
and one of the questions he asked was do you
(09:05):
believe in absolute truth? And in nineteen ninety one, seventy
five percent of those who claim to be Christians said
they did not believe in absolute truths. That you had
your truth and I had my truth and your truth
even though they conflict. Well, that's that's true for you,
(09:26):
but it also can be true for me, and two
plus two can equal five for you. But two plus
two can equal four for me. And who's to say
either one of those are right or wrong. They both
can be right, well, obviously they both can't be right.
Absolute truth is super important, and Christians need to be
biblically discerning. John said in First John four, one beloved,
(09:50):
do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to
see whether they are from God. Why, because many false prophets.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Have gone out in to the world.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
They present themselves as angels of like Satan does and
his emissaries those who are of his ilk. They are deceivers,
and they have the spirit of Antichrist in them, and
they do the same thing. So we're to be like
the Bahrean Christians Acts seventeen eleven. Paul goes from Thessalonika,
(10:24):
and he goes to a place called Berea, And he said,
these were more noble minded acts seventeen eleven than those
in Thessalonika, for when.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
They heard the truth, they receive the truth with great.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Eagerness, examining the scriptures daily to see whether these things
were So, this is coming from the apostle Paul he
is preaching, and they would listen to the apostle Paul
very eagerly, and then they would go home and check
the scripture to see is he telling us the truth.
(10:56):
That's the way every Christian ought to be. That's how
I wants you to be. When I preach a sermon,
you examine the scriptures daily to see whether these things
are so. One of the reasons we give you sermon
notes and I give you verses and stuff, so you
can go back and say, is Pastor Jeff telling me
the truth? Is this really true? Is this what the
Bible says? That is critical? Now you have probably heard
(11:23):
of a teaching that is coming into the church. It
is hit our world, it has hit our nation. It's
called critical race theory, critical justice, the social justice movement,
the quote unquote woke gospel, and critical race theory puts
(11:43):
people in groups, and it puts people in this group,
you're the oppressors.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You're horrible, you're awful.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Look what you did to oppress and this other group, well,
you're the oppressed.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
You're the victims.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And the more things that you can have to be
victimized by, then the more victimized you are. So if
you're a white guy, you're in the oppressure group. I
don't care what you've done. It doesn't matter. You're a
white guy, you're in the pressure group. And if you're
a black person, doesn't matter what you've done. You're in
(12:17):
the victim group. But if you are a black woman,
then you're really in the victim group. If you are
a black lesbian, then you're really.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
In the victim group. See it just keeps going down.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh, you got all these intersections in here, and it
pits people against one another, and it basically tells this
group in the oppressure group, there is nothing you can.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Do to repent to get rid of your guilt.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
And it tells this other group that you don't have
to repent because you're a victim and.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
People owe you. It takes away personal responsibility.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Now, we in staff meeting are reading this book by
Vodie Bacham called fault Lines, the Social Justice Movement and
Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe. You don't think this is a looming catastrophe.
I'll give you a little example. David Platt, who is
well known in Christian circles. He's the pastor of McLean
(13:09):
Bible church in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
He became the pastor of that church.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
According to the Washington Post in twenty seventeen, they had
sixteen thousand members. He has been talking a lot about
race and critical race theory and things like that. He
has twenty five hundred members now and there's a lawsuit
in his church and members are getting very angry. And
(13:34):
I think anytime you sue a church, that's wrong. I
don't care what the issue is, is wrong. But that's
what's going on in his church because there's a fault
line there.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Well, this is what.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Vodi Bacham writes in his book As he closes is Out,
He says this, I wrote this book fault Lines because
I love God more than life, the truth than other's
opinion of me, and the Bride of Christ more than
my platform. My heart is broken as I watch movements
(14:08):
and ideologies become entrenched at the highest and most respected
levels of evangelicalism. I want to unmask the ideology of
critical theory, critical race theory, and intersectionality in hopes that
those who have imbibed it can have the blinders remove
from their eyes, and those who have bowed in the
face of it can stand up take courage and contend
(14:29):
for the faith.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
That was once for all delivered to the saints.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Hey, that is coming and is here at our doorstep
for the Church of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
What are we going to do? Well? John says, you
hold firmly to the truth.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And those who don't continue in the truth, Hey, those
people are not of God. Watch out for a warped
gospel when someone tries to take works and cram it
into the gospel of grace Romans eleven, verse six. For
if it is by grace, this is no longer on
the basis of works. Otherwise grace is no longer grace.
(15:06):
Grace and works are separate. Works don't produce grace. Works
flow out of grace. But if you try and say
you get to heaven by grace plus works, you've destroyed
the concept of grace. Grace is the unmerited favor of God.
We need to be biblically discerning. And then warning number three,
watch out for a warped love, a warped love. What
(15:31):
he says in verse ten and verse eleven, If anyone
comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do
not receive him into your house, and do not give
him a greeting for the one who gives him a
greeting participates in his evil deeds. You can read that
and say, well, John, that's just that's so harsh. I
(15:53):
can't even give him a greeting on not not welcome?
And aren't I supposed to be hospitable? Well that's not
that's not loving. See, our idea of love is so
warped that we think it's loving to be kind and
accommodating to a false teacher who is in league with
the devil. The early Church and the Apostles they saw
(16:17):
that for what it is, and they said, no way
do you have anything to do with that body. Bacham
likes to say, you know the eleventh commandment in churches today,
you know what it is. The eleventh commandment is this,
thou shalt be nice. And if you're not nice, if
you're in a debate and you're considered the guy that's
(16:37):
not nice, I don't care what you've said. We discount
everything you said because you weren't nice. Elijah wasn't very
nice to the prophets of Bail. Remember when he mocked him, said, Hey, maybe.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
You guys need to yell louder.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Maybe your God's on the potty. So he did to him,
made fun of him. Paul wasn't very nice. Thou shalt nice. No,
real love is to tell the truth. We speak the
truth in love, and if somebody is going in the
wrong direction, you call them out. So John is saying this,
(17:16):
do not help those who do not abide in the truth.
Now you got to remember it first century, okay, So
you had traveling prophets who would come in and speak
to the churches. And there a lot of house churches,
so they'd come into the house. And hospitality is really
important in that world in the first century, because there's
(17:37):
not a bunch of holiday inns or Hilton Garden ends.
So you have to where am I going to stay? Well,
Christians will let you in. And so the false prophets
figured it out very quickly. Hey, I can get these Christians.
They'll put me up, they'll feed me, they'll pay me,
and they'll give me an audience, so I can share
with them my false teaching.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
And John says, hey, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Don't help those guys at all, don't bring them into
your home, don't watch them on TV. If they're teaching
a false gospel. Definitely don't support them. Don't help those guys,
don't encourage them in any way.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Don't even give them a greeting. What does that mean?
You can't even say hi to them.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
The greeting meant you said, rejoice brother Gods speed. It
was a way to encourage them. You don't want to
encourage a false teacher. You want that person to get
away from the false teaching. And you're definitely not going
to do anything that would help them. These guys are
itinerant guys. If they have nowhere to go, it shuts
(18:45):
off their lifeline. But if they have people letting them
come into their homes, then they can continue on in
their sin. Now you say, well, that doesn't sound very loving, okay.
One Corinthians thirteen. That's the Love chapter. The apostle Paul
wrote the Listen to what he said in Galatians chapter one.
(19:07):
This is the guy who wrote the Love chapter by
inspiration of the Holy Spirit. He knows about love. He
says this to the Galatians, I am amazed that you
are so quickly deserting him who called you by the
grace of Christ, for a different gospel, which is really
not another. Only there are some who are disturbing you
and want to distort the Gospel of Christ. But even
(19:27):
though we or an angel from heaven should preach to
you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached
to you, let him be a cursed, let him be anathema.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
As we have said before.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
So I say again now, if any man is preaching
to you a gospel contrary to that which you receive,
let him be a cursed, let him be condemned to hell.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
That's what he said.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That person needs to go to hell because truth is
so critical.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
If you lose truth, you lose everything.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And then recognize the evil that is present in false
teachers and false teaching. There's evil present there. The devil
is working there, and that's why he says, the one
who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.
John the Apostle was in a public bath house in
(20:25):
Ephesus when Sirentthus, who was a well known gnostic in
the first century, he entered, and John said, this, let
us hurry away lest the building collapse on us.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Sirnthus, the enemy of the truth is here.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
He didn't sugarcoat things with those false apostles Polycarp, who
was the disciple of John. He met the heretic Marcion
one day and Marcion asked him this question, do you
recognize me, Polycarp? Polycarp said, I recognize Satan's firstborn.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And it's just tough stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
They didn't tolerate that stuff because they knew that was deadly.
I'm not going to tolerate somebody being a degree off
on my flight plan because we're going to crash in
the spiritual realm. We need to recognize that evil is
present in false teachers and false teaching.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Scripture says this in Roman sixteen.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those
who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which
you learned, and turn away from them, For such men
are slaves not of our Lord Jesus Christ, but of
their own appetites. And by their smooth and flattering speech,
they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
That's what the Bible tells us to do. Hey, do
you know the truth? Are you walking in the truth?
Are you holding firmly to the truth?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Because because truth matters, it's the truth that sets us free.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Now, if you don't know Jesus Christ in a personal way,
you've never asked him to personally come into your heart
and save you, then you need to first come to
him now, as the Bible clearly tells us. Simply and
sincerely cry out to Him from your genuinely repentant heart
and ask him to come in. Say Lord, I repent
up my sin. I put my faith totally in you.
(22:30):
And when you do that, he will come in and
you will be changed, and you'll begin to see how
to walk with God. And we pray that if you've
done that, that you'll go to our website at fromisheart
dot org click the why Jesus link to find out
more about what turning to Christ really means for you,
and there you'll have some free materials to download to
(22:51):
help you in your new journey. God bless you. Our
world is drifting further and further away from God. Some
Christians are not holding firmly to the truth, inventing competing
theologies to teach. As pastor Jeff Shreef said, if it's new,
it's not true when it comes to God's forever truth
revealed in his Holy Word. Some people are proudly giving
(23:14):
themselves over to sinful desires and sexual immorality. But these
messages and Pastor Jeff's three lesson series Nothing But the Truth,
have exposed the truth behind the state of society today.
We'd love for you to have a copy of this
timely and powerful series from Pastor Jeff called Nothing but
the Truth. It's our thank you for your support this
(23:35):
month of any amount, and it will be a blessing
to you. With that gift, will also send you the
booklet Sticks and Stones what to Do When the going
gets tough. You can get the series in the format
of your choice when you call eight six six four
zero Bible eight six six four zero Bible, or go
online to From His Heart dot org and request the
(23:57):
series Nothing but the Truth. Well that's all the time
we have for today. Thank you for joining us. I'm
Larry Nobles, trusting you'll be with us next time when
Pastor Jeff Shreeve will open up God's word and reveal
lessons from his heart. From his Heart is the listeners
(24:38):
supported broadcast ministry of doctor Jeff Shreeve speaking the truth
in love to a lost and a hurting world. Remember,
no matter what, God loves you and has a wonderful
plan for your life. Find out more at from his
Heart dot org.
Today on from his Heart with Pastor Jeff Shreeve, learn
how to not be deceived by the devil.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse.
The Bible says deceiving and being deceived. And you know
where that can really show up. It shows up in
institutions of higher learning.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It shows up in seminaries.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Why because the guys that are studying, studying, studying studying
a lot of times they're looking for some hidden meaning.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
They're looking for some hidden truth.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You mark this down if it's new, it's not true.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
In so many vocations and professions, accuracy, precision and truth
are so very important. But how much more is it
important for the Man of God to be accurate, precise
and true when it comes to the Word of God.
You see some people talk the talk, and some go
to truly walk the walk, but then they may become
(01:26):
easily deceived, and so they balk, they hesitate, they think
twice before walking with the Lord. This is from his
Heart with Pastor Jeff Shreeve. And today he concludes his
three message series that we've been in so far this
month called Nothing but the Truth, and today part two
of the final lesson are you holding firmly to the truth?
(01:49):
Right now? Open your Bible to the Book of Second John.
Here's Pastor Jeff to explain what it really means to
love Jesus and how to know for sure that your
answer would be absolutely yes when God's Holy Spirit whispers
in your heart this question, are you holding firmly to
the truth?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And I want you to notice three warnings, three admonitions
concerning holding fast to the truth, holding firmly to the truth,
and being able to spot error when it comes, even
when it comes just one degree off. Warning Number one,
watch out for a warped christology, a warped Christology. What
(02:35):
did the Gnostics bring to the table a warped Christology?
They talked about Jesus. They didn't deny Jesus. They would
talk often about Jesus. But their Jesus was not the
Jesus of the Bible. He was the Jesus of the Gnostic,
(02:55):
And the Jesus of the Gnostic was not the Jesus
of the Bible. And so John says, many deceivers have
gone out into the world verse seven, those who do
not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This
is the deceiver and the anti Christ. That's coming from
an anti Christ spirit. So John dealt with false teachers.
(03:19):
What did the false teachers do? They attacked the person
of Jesus, and Jesus is God.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And he is man. He is the God Man.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Now, any teaching that denies the full deity and full
humanity of Christ, according to the apostle John, that teaching
is the demonic lie. Watch out for a warped Christology.
Second warning, watch out for a warped Gospel, a warped gospel.
(03:54):
Verse eight, he says, watch yourselves that you might not
lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive
a full reward. Anyone who goes too far and does
not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God.
The one who abides in the teaching he has both
the Father and the Son. And if you tolerate falsehood,
(04:18):
if a church tolerates falsehood, then we will lose our reward,
will be unfaithful to the Lord.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Because we're to hold firmly to the truth.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
We're going to contend earnestly Jude one three for the
faith which was once for all delivered to the saints
and professing Christians who don't abide in the truth may
not be Christians at all. As I said before, just
because a guy gets up and he's pastor so and so,
or doctor so and so, or Bishop so and so,
(04:49):
and he opens up the Bible and he talks about Jesus,
be careful. He may be not talking about the Jesus
of the Bible. He may be talking about another Jesus,
whom we have not preached. And just because he's talking
about Heaven doesn't mean he's going there. The false teachers,
they didn't come out and say, hey, I just want
you to know I'm a false teacher. Now let's talk.
(05:12):
They don't do that. The devil is too smart to
do that. The Bible says about the devil that he
disguises himself.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
As an angel of light.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
First two Corinthians, chapter eleven says this, for such men
are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an
angel of light. Therefore, it's not surprising if his servants
also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end shall
(05:44):
be according to their deeds.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Deceivers don't tell you they're deceivers.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
And sometimes people who come to your door and preach
to you another Jesus and we have not preached, they
can be deceived and not know they're deceitd evil men
and impostors will go from bad to work. The Bible
says deceiving and being deceived. Lots of people in colts today.
It's not that they know that they are deceivers. It's
they themselves are deceived. They think they're right, but they
(06:14):
are deceived and they're deceiving other people. So professing Christians,
how do we know if a professing Christian is not
a true Christian?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It says that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He goes too far and does not abide in the
teaching of Christ, the teaching that came from the lips
of Jesus or the teaching about Jesus. He doesn't abide
in that, he doesn't remain in that, he doesn't dwell
in that, he doesn't continue in that.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And you know where that can really show up.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It shows up in institutions of higher learning.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
It shows up in seminaries.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Why because the guys that are studying studying, studying studying
a lot of times they're looking for some hidden meaning there,
looking for some hidden truth.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You mark this down. If it's new, it's not true.
If it's new, it's not true. Somebody's gonna read something
and say, wow, the church has gotten this wrong for
two thousand years. Now I know what the truth is.
If it's new, it's not true. I saw a debate
between James White and this other guy. Can't remember his name,
(07:25):
but the other guy was defending homosexuality, and his argument
was from the days of Genesis, God's people have gotten
it wrong about homosexuality, that homosexuality was never a sin,
it was never a problem.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
We just got it wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I don't know how you have to move heaven and
earth to get the Bible to say that it's you know,
homosexuality is good. God made them male and female, and
God brought them together. You just look at anatomy and
a man is different from a woman, and they fit
together so that they can be fruitful and multiply and
fill the earth. But that was his argument, We've just
gotten it wrong. Hey, if it's new, it's not true.
(08:07):
And if people go past what is written in the
scripture and they come up with something else. Flags should
red flags go up? Wait, that guy is off base.
He may not be a Christian at all. He may
be what John says, the deceiver and the Antichrist. So
any Christian tolerating falsehood, you can lose your reward. Professing
(08:29):
Christians who don't abide in the truth may not be
Christians at all. And all Christians are called to be
biblically discerning.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Because we live in a world where people aren't discerning
at all. They just believe anything.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
They're blown about by every wind of doctrine because they're
not steeped in the scripture. They don't know what the
Bible says, and they don't think it really matters. I
ran across a study just this morning. George Barna, the researcher.
He published this in nineteen ninety one, thirty years ago,
and one of the questions he asked was do you
(09:05):
believe in absolute truth? And in nineteen ninety one, seventy
five percent of those who claim to be Christians said
they did not believe in absolute truths. That you had
your truth and I had my truth and your truth
even though they conflict. Well, that's that's true for you,
(09:26):
but it also can be true for me, and two
plus two can equal five for you. But two plus
two can equal four for me. And who's to say
either one of those are right or wrong. They both
can be right, well, obviously they both can't be right.
Absolute truth is super important, and Christians need to be
biblically discerning. John said in First John four, one beloved,
(09:50):
do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to
see whether they are from God. Why, because many false prophets.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Have gone out in to the world.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
They present themselves as angels of like Satan does and
his emissaries those who are of his ilk. They are deceivers,
and they have the spirit of Antichrist in them, and
they do the same thing. So we're to be like
the Bahrean Christians Acts seventeen eleven. Paul goes from Thessalonika,
(10:24):
and he goes to a place called Berea, And he said,
these were more noble minded acts seventeen eleven than those
in Thessalonika, for when.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
They heard the truth, they receive the truth with great.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Eagerness, examining the scriptures daily to see whether these things
were So, this is coming from the apostle Paul he
is preaching, and they would listen to the apostle Paul
very eagerly, and then they would go home and check
the scripture to see is he telling us the truth.
(10:56):
That's the way every Christian ought to be. That's how
I wants you to be. When I preach a sermon,
you examine the scriptures daily to see whether these things
are so. One of the reasons we give you sermon
notes and I give you verses and stuff, so you
can go back and say, is Pastor Jeff telling me
the truth? Is this really true? Is this what the
Bible says? That is critical? Now you have probably heard
(11:23):
of a teaching that is coming into the church. It
is hit our world, it has hit our nation. It's
called critical race theory, critical justice, the social justice movement,
the quote unquote woke gospel, and critical race theory puts
(11:43):
people in groups, and it puts people in this group,
you're the oppressors.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You're horrible, you're awful.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Look what you did to oppress and this other group, well,
you're the oppressed.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
You're the victims.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And the more things that you can have to be
victimized by, then the more victimized you are. So if
you're a white guy, you're in the oppressure group. I
don't care what you've done. It doesn't matter. You're a
white guy, you're in the pressure group. And if you're
a black person, doesn't matter what you've done. You're in
(12:17):
the victim group. But if you are a black woman,
then you're really in the victim group. If you are
a black lesbian, then you're really.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
In the victim group. See it just keeps going down.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh, you got all these intersections in here, and it
pits people against one another, and it basically tells this
group in the oppressure group, there is nothing you can.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Do to repent to get rid of your guilt.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
And it tells this other group that you don't have
to repent because you're a victim and.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
People owe you. It takes away personal responsibility.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Now, we in staff meeting are reading this book by
Vodie Bacham called fault Lines, the Social Justice Movement and
Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe. You don't think this is a looming catastrophe.
I'll give you a little example. David Platt, who is
well known in Christian circles. He's the pastor of McLean
(13:09):
Bible church in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
He became the pastor of that church.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
According to the Washington Post in twenty seventeen, they had
sixteen thousand members. He has been talking a lot about
race and critical race theory and things like that. He
has twenty five hundred members now and there's a lawsuit
in his church and members are getting very angry. And
(13:34):
I think anytime you sue a church, that's wrong. I
don't care what the issue is, is wrong. But that's
what's going on in his church because there's a fault
line there.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Well, this is what.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Vodi Bacham writes in his book As he closes is Out,
He says this, I wrote this book fault Lines because
I love God more than life, the truth than other's
opinion of me, and the Bride of Christ more than
my platform. My heart is broken as I watch movements
(14:08):
and ideologies become entrenched at the highest and most respected
levels of evangelicalism. I want to unmask the ideology of
critical theory, critical race theory, and intersectionality in hopes that
those who have imbibed it can have the blinders remove
from their eyes, and those who have bowed in the
face of it can stand up take courage and contend
(14:29):
for the faith.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
That was once for all delivered to the saints.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Hey, that is coming and is here at our doorstep
for the Church of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
What are we going to do? Well? John says, you
hold firmly to the truth.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And those who don't continue in the truth, Hey, those
people are not of God. Watch out for a warped
gospel when someone tries to take works and cram it
into the gospel of grace Romans eleven, verse six. For
if it is by grace, this is no longer on
the basis of works. Otherwise grace is no longer grace.
(15:06):
Grace and works are separate. Works don't produce grace. Works
flow out of grace. But if you try and say
you get to heaven by grace plus works, you've destroyed
the concept of grace. Grace is the unmerited favor of God.
We need to be biblically discerning. And then warning number three,
watch out for a warped love, a warped love. What
(15:31):
he says in verse ten and verse eleven, If anyone
comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do
not receive him into your house, and do not give
him a greeting for the one who gives him a
greeting participates in his evil deeds. You can read that
and say, well, John, that's just that's so harsh. I
(15:53):
can't even give him a greeting on not not welcome?
And aren't I supposed to be hospitable? Well that's not
that's not loving. See, our idea of love is so
warped that we think it's loving to be kind and
accommodating to a false teacher who is in league with
the devil. The early Church and the Apostles they saw
(16:17):
that for what it is, and they said, no way
do you have anything to do with that body. Bacham
likes to say, you know the eleventh commandment in churches today,
you know what it is. The eleventh commandment is this,
thou shalt be nice. And if you're not nice, if
you're in a debate and you're considered the guy that's
(16:37):
not nice, I don't care what you've said. We discount
everything you said because you weren't nice. Elijah wasn't very
nice to the prophets of Bail. Remember when he mocked him, said, Hey, maybe.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
You guys need to yell louder.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Maybe your God's on the potty. So he did to him,
made fun of him. Paul wasn't very nice. Thou shalt nice. No,
real love is to tell the truth. We speak the
truth in love, and if somebody is going in the
wrong direction, you call them out. So John is saying this,
(17:16):
do not help those who do not abide in the truth.
Now you got to remember it first century, okay, So
you had traveling prophets who would come in and speak
to the churches. And there a lot of house churches,
so they'd come into the house. And hospitality is really
important in that world in the first century, because there's
(17:37):
not a bunch of holiday inns or Hilton Garden ends.
So you have to where am I going to stay? Well,
Christians will let you in. And so the false prophets
figured it out very quickly. Hey, I can get these Christians.
They'll put me up, they'll feed me, they'll pay me,
and they'll give me an audience, so I can share
with them my false teaching.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
And John says, hey, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Don't help those guys at all, don't bring them into
your home, don't watch them on TV. If they're teaching
a false gospel. Definitely don't support them. Don't help those guys,
don't encourage them in any way.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Don't even give them a greeting. What does that mean?
You can't even say hi to them.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
The greeting meant you said, rejoice brother Gods speed. It
was a way to encourage them. You don't want to
encourage a false teacher. You want that person to get
away from the false teaching. And you're definitely not going
to do anything that would help them. These guys are
itinerant guys. If they have nowhere to go, it shuts
(18:45):
off their lifeline. But if they have people letting them
come into their homes, then they can continue on in
their sin. Now you say, well, that doesn't sound very loving, okay.
One Corinthians thirteen. That's the Love chapter. The apostle Paul
wrote the Listen to what he said in Galatians chapter one.
(19:07):
This is the guy who wrote the Love chapter by
inspiration of the Holy Spirit. He knows about love. He
says this to the Galatians, I am amazed that you
are so quickly deserting him who called you by the
grace of Christ, for a different gospel, which is really
not another. Only there are some who are disturbing you
and want to distort the Gospel of Christ. But even
(19:27):
though we or an angel from heaven should preach to
you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached
to you, let him be a cursed, let him be anathema.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
As we have said before.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
So I say again now, if any man is preaching
to you a gospel contrary to that which you receive,
let him be a cursed, let him be condemned to hell.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
That's what he said.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That person needs to go to hell because truth is
so critical.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
If you lose truth, you lose everything.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And then recognize the evil that is present in false
teachers and false teaching. There's evil present there. The devil
is working there, and that's why he says, the one
who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.
John the Apostle was in a public bath house in
(20:25):
Ephesus when Sirentthus, who was a well known gnostic in
the first century, he entered, and John said, this, let
us hurry away lest the building collapse on us.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Sirnthus, the enemy of the truth is here.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
He didn't sugarcoat things with those false apostles Polycarp, who
was the disciple of John. He met the heretic Marcion
one day and Marcion asked him this question, do you
recognize me, Polycarp? Polycarp said, I recognize Satan's firstborn.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And it's just tough stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
They didn't tolerate that stuff because they knew that was deadly.
I'm not going to tolerate somebody being a degree off
on my flight plan because we're going to crash in
the spiritual realm. We need to recognize that evil is
present in false teachers and false teaching.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Scripture says this in Roman sixteen.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those
who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which
you learned, and turn away from them, For such men
are slaves not of our Lord Jesus Christ, but of
their own appetites. And by their smooth and flattering speech,
they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
That's what the Bible tells us to do. Hey, do
you know the truth? Are you walking in the truth?
Are you holding firmly to the truth?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Because because truth matters, it's the truth that sets us free.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Now, if you don't know Jesus Christ in a personal way,
you've never asked him to personally come into your heart
and save you, then you need to first come to
him now, as the Bible clearly tells us. Simply and
sincerely cry out to Him from your genuinely repentant heart
and ask him to come in. Say Lord, I repent
up my sin. I put my faith totally in you.
(22:30):
And when you do that, he will come in and
you will be changed, and you'll begin to see how
to walk with God. And we pray that if you've
done that, that you'll go to our website at fromisheart
dot org click the why Jesus link to find out
more about what turning to Christ really means for you,
and there you'll have some free materials to download to
(22:51):
help you in your new journey. God bless you. Our
world is drifting further and further away from God. Some
Christians are not holding firmly to the truth, inventing competing
theologies to teach. As pastor Jeff Shreef said, if it's new,
it's not true when it comes to God's forever truth
revealed in his Holy Word. Some people are proudly giving
(23:14):
themselves over to sinful desires and sexual immorality. But these
messages and Pastor Jeff's three lesson series Nothing But the Truth,
have exposed the truth behind the state of society today.
We'd love for you to have a copy of this
timely and powerful series from Pastor Jeff called Nothing but
the Truth. It's our thank you for your support this
(23:35):
month of any amount, and it will be a blessing
to you. With that gift, will also send you the
booklet Sticks and Stones what to Do When the going
gets tough. You can get the series in the format
of your choice when you call eight six six four
zero Bible eight six six four zero Bible, or go
online to From His Heart dot org and request the
(23:57):
series Nothing but the Truth. Well that's all the time
we have for today. Thank you for joining us. I'm
Larry Nobles, trusting you'll be with us next time when
Pastor Jeff Shreeve will open up God's word and reveal
lessons from his heart. From his Heart is the listeners
(24:38):
supported broadcast ministry of doctor Jeff Shreeve speaking the truth
in love to a lost and a hurting world. Remember,
no matter what, God loves you and has a wonderful
plan for your life. Find out more at from his
Heart dot org.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!