Sunday 021625
Together, you and I, let’s open the Word and study what we’ve ALL been freely given. Use me to help you open up your Bible and search what God wants for us to hear. We’re only going to follow what we find written in the Word that pertains to us and hopefully from what we find, we will be able to use it in our lives, not only for ourselves but hopefully for those that we love also.
The verses we are going to study tonight:
Deuteronomy 18:20; Ezekiel 13:9; Jerimiah 14:14, 23:16; Luke 6:26; Matthew 24:24, 16:11-12; 2 Timothy 4:3-4; Acts 20:28-30; 2 Peter 3:14-18; 1 John 4:1-6; Matthew 7:15-20; 2 Peter 1:12-21; Titus 1:6-16; Romans 16:17-18; 1 Timothy 4:1.
SATAN KNOWS HIS TIME IS SHORT.
Do you realize the end is near?
Do you want to know?
Are you going to try and be READY?
The end is near, but only God knows for certain when this end will occur.
So, as we’re waiting for Jesus to return to get His church, ‘STAND FIRM’ and beware of those that are trying to teach you the wrong things.
Read the Word for yourselves and prepare for the lies spoken directly to your face.
Deuteronomy 18:20 ‘…But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name, a word which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Ezekiel 13:9 ‘…So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, so that you may know that I am the Lord God…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Jerimiah 14:14 ‘…Then the Lord said to me, the prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them, nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility, and the deception of their own minds…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Jerimiah 23:16 ‘…This is what the Lord of armies says: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into futility; They tell a vision of their own imagination,
Not from the mouth of the Lord…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
The entire Bible warns us of ‘FALSE TEACHERS.’
Luke 6:26 ‘…Woe to you when all the people speak well of you; for their fathers used to treat the false prophets the same way…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Matthew 24:24 ‘…For false Christ’s and false prophets will arise and will provide great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Matthew 16
vs11 ‘…How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees…’
vs12 ‘…Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Do you understand, that if you are unaware what is written in the Word …
PEOPLE WAKE UP!!!
Do you NOT know that you can be lied to … directly to your face … over the loudspeakers on Sunday morning.
This is the reason God gave us His armor so we could protect ourselves from this false word.
If we know what has been written in God’s Word, Satan cannot get his foot inside the door, he will be unable to creep into our rooms.
2 Timothy 4
vs3 ‘…For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires…’
vs4 ‘…and they will turn their ears away from the truth and will turn aside to myths…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
How many churches today are more interested in ‘tickling ears’ instead of preaching the Word of God as it is written?
Is your church that way … do YOU know for sure?
Acts 20
vs28 ‘…Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood…’
vs29 ‘…I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock…’
vs30 ‘…and from among your own selves’ men will arise, speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
We are ALL supposed to be looking out for one another. We are ALL supposed to keep our neighbors safe.
You MUST know what is and what is NOT written in the Word for you to guard against the lies.
READ YOUR BIBLES.
Tell your friends that you know in church.
2 Peter 3
vs14 ‘…Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and blameless by Him, at peace…’
vs15 ‘…and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you…’
vs16 ‘…as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction…’
vs17 ‘…You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unscrupulous people and lose your own firm commitment…’
vs18 ‘…but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
1 John 4
vs1 ‘…Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world…’
vs2 ‘…By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God…’
vs3 ‘…and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world…’
vs4 ‘…You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world…’
vs5 ‘…They are from the world; therefore, they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them…’
vs6 ‘…We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us; the one who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Speak to others in your church and compare what was taught. Speak up to one another and voice what the Word tells us. Is it the same thing that was preached inside your church today?
Matthew 7
vs15 ‘…Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves…’
vs16 ‘…You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they…’
vs17 ‘…So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit…’
vs18 ‘…A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit…’
vs19 ‘…Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire…’
vs20 ‘…So then, you will know them by their fruits…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
2 Peter 1
vs12 ‘…Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them and have been established in the truth which is present with you…’
vs13 ‘…I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder…’
vs14 ‘…knowing that the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me…’
vs15 ‘…And I will also be diligent that at any time after my departure you will be able to call these things to mind.
Eyewitnesses
vs16 ‘…For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty…’
vs17 ‘…For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such a declaration as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory: This is My beloved Son with whom I am well pleased…’
vs18 ‘…and we ourselves heard this declaration made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain…’
vs19 ‘…And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts…’
vs20 ‘…But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture becomes a matter of someone’s own interpretation…’
vs21 ‘…for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Titus 1
vs6 ‘…namely, if any man is beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of indecent behavior or rebellion…’
vs7 ‘…For the overseer must be beyond reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not overindulging in wine, not a bully, not greedy for money…’
vs8 ‘…but hospitable, loving what is good, self-controlled, righteous, holy, disciplined…’
vs9 ‘…holding firmly the faithful word, which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict it…’
vs10 ‘…For there are many rebellious people, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision…’
vs11 ‘…who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of dishonest gain…’
vs12 ‘…One of them, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons…’
vs13 ‘…This testimony is true. For this reason, reprimand them severely so that they may be sound in the faith…’
vs14 ‘…not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth…’
vs15 ‘…To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled…’
vs16 ‘…They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Romans 16
vs17 ‘…Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them…’
vs18 ‘…For such people are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
1 Timothy 4:1 ‘…But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Keep on your guard. Be alert. Keep your Bibles always open and read His Word ALL the time.
I love ALL of y’all.
Jesus, I pray that those ears and eyes, either listening or seeing this message today would be opened to the very fullest and allow Your love to come inside their lives and comfort them. Teach us Jesus. Protect us. We love You. Amen
InHIM. ><)))o>