Here's a message that will make false teachers
wiggle in their seats and those of us
who are not false converts will be excited
about this type of message.
But it's been something I've wanted to talk
about for some time and where we're at
in Matthew, we find ourself in that actual
passage where Jesus is talking about wolves don't
advertise is the title of this message.
And you realize that right?
Wolves do not advertise.
A wolf is not going to come and
say, hey, look at who I'm a wolf.
He appears to be a sheep.
That's the whole point of the text where
we're at.
So if you have your Bibles, turn to
Matthew chapter seven, Matthew chapter seven.
If you weren't here last week, go online,
get last week's message.
We're hearing from a lot of people, mainly
in the United States, of that message really
changing and transforming them.
And it was on the narrow way is
the only way.
Why is the narrow way the only way?
It's the narrow way is the only way
because it gets in the way.
So look at next week's message.
It's online already.
It's been uploaded.
Matthew seven, verse 15.
Now, remember, last week we're in.
We ended verse 14.
Jesus said the road is narrow.
Be very careful.
The road is narrow.
The leads to eternal life and broad is
the way to destruction.
OK, that's the setting.
The narrow road to life is very narrow.
When you say that Jesus is the only
way, the only truth, the only life, that's
very narrow.
Yep.
Unapologetically narrow.
I'm not going to apologize about it.
Jesus said it and God's truth confirms it.
So that's the narrow way.
And then what does he do?
He goes right into this next verse because
of that.
Beware of false prophets.
Why, Jesus?
Because they'll either lead you down the false
prophets will lead you down the broad road
that leads to destruction.
True proclaimers of God's truth will point you
towards the narrow truth.
So Jesus saying beware.
Anytime Jesus tells us to beware, guess what?
Beware.
Be very, very aware.
If Jesus Christ can say, listen, guys, beware.
It's time to sit up, turn off our
cell phones and look at it.
Look at the word of God.
Beware of false prophets who come to you
in sheep's clothing.
But inwardly, they are ravenous, ravenous.
Either way, I pronounce that, I'm not sure
just on me, I might have pronounced it
wrong at the first service.
Let's just say they are wolves inside.
I'm just a vessel.
You all know I'd barely graduate high school,
so.
You will know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or
figs from thistles?
Of course not.
Even so, every good tree bears good fruit,
but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree, a good a good tree
cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad
tree tree.
I knew it's going to be tough after
first service.
Let's just pick up verse 19.
Every tree, this is what Jesus is getting
to.
I don't know why I just didn't say
this in verse 19.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit
is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Therefore, by their fruits, you will know them.
See, they're not going to come, a wolf
or a false teacher is not going to
be wearing red, holding a pitchfork.
He's going to come in, she's going to
come in subtly and bring destructive heresy, bring
destructive teaching to draw people away from the
narrow way.
That's the whole point of a false teacher.
So the first thing we can glean from
this is point one, beware, be on alert,
be discerning.
Jesus says, beware, Christians should be the most
discerning people on the planet.
Doesn't mean we walk around and put everything
under this microscope, every single thing and we
become a judgmental Pharisee.
But it does mean that we become very
discerning of the culture, very discerning of the
church, very discerning of what we view, who
we associate with, what we read, what we
should be discerning, discerning the times because the
times are evil.
We live in some very evil times right
now, and I was pulling off some sermon
illustrations from the news, and I swore I'd
never do that again.
There's so much depressing things going on.
There's another school shooting.
Mom kills her two daughters and takes her
own life.
We are living in some very, very difficult
times.
We're called to be discerning people.
So it begs the question, how do we
discern?
Do you realize if you're not in the
word, the word will not be in you?
How do you know?
How do you know what I'm saying tonight
is true?
You can take my word for it.
No, don't take my word for it.
We're going to be revisiting scripture.
We're going to be looking to scripture.
Not just scriptures.
I mean, you can say you can make
you can say that have the Bible say
anything you want if you just pull out
certain scriptures.
But how do you know that's what that's
the Christians more than anybody else should be
devouring the word of God, looking to the
word of God.
That's the anchor.
That's what holds everything together.
That's how you can tell a false teacher
from a genuine teacher.
You look at what they're saying.
So he's saying, don't look at how they're
dressed because he's going to look just like
me.
You got to see what the words that
are coming out of his mouth.
What is the fruit that is being produced?
That's the only way you can tell is
to line it up.
Wolves don't advertise the name of the sermon
and their seven traits of false teachers.
Now, I need to let you know up
front the seven traits of false false teachers
that I'm going to get to at the
end.
I borrowed that from the Gospel Coalition on
their Web site.
They've got this article titled Seven Traits of
False Teachers.
I came across it and I said, this
is this is perfect.
This is exactly what we're trying to say
tonight.
So they get all the credit.
They wrote it.
But that's not until towards the end of
the sermon.
So I want to make that point clear.
I think the link is in your bulletin
in the actual article that they wrote where
you can look at it a little bit
more.
So the context, as we as we know,
the context is Matthew.
Jesus is saying narrow enter by the narrow
gate because broad is the weight of destruction.
So you better be careful who you're listening
to, who is guiding you, who's influencing you.
Do you realize that all of us are
guided or directed by somebody?
You think I live in a bubble and
don't read or listen to anything all week
and then you show up here?
Who's influencing me, Hollywood or the Holy Spirit,
Desperate Housewives or my wife, who's influencing me,
American Idol or God's Word, or it says,
submit to yourself, humble yourself under the mighty
hand of God and do time.
He will exalt you.
Do not exalt yourself.
Who's influencing you?
You know who I listen to a lot
of you guys listen, same people, James McDonald,
John MacArthur, Alistair Begg, Philip DeCourcy, David Jeremiah
down in San Diego.
These are the people investing into my life.
If I want to get real hardcore, I
put Paul Washer on.
You probably won't know who that is.
You can Google him.
And I always tell people, you think I'm
hardcore?
Go Google Paul Washer.
And that's but he's calling the church back
to the purity of the gospel.
So be very careful because you are being
influenced one way or the other.
So am I.
What we open ourselves up to, what do
we allow into our minds?
That's why when I talk to young adults
a lot, I go back to this point.
What you're reading, Facebook, Twitter, all your friends,
what you're reading, what you're absorbing, your media
input is not just input.
It's influence.
We're being we wish we think we I
can hold my own.
I can just hold this guy.
No, you can't.
I can't either.
We were designed to whatever we open ourselves
up to.
We allow that to influence us.
That's why a lot of modern day entertainment,
what people are enjoying isn't just enjoyment.
It's influence.
It's influencing the culture.
It's reflecting the culture, but it's also influencing
the culture.
So we have to be careful in this
area of who is leading us.
So, number one, beware beyond beyond alert, discern.
How do you discern?
You discern them by the truth.
You discern them by what is being said.
So the next thing we can pull out
of this is they look like sheep, but
they act like wolves.
They look like sheep.
So how are we going to these guys
on TV or in the radio or me
or anybody else?
How are you going to know?
Think about that is now a little disheartening.
Well, the good news is it doesn't have
to be.
You just line everything up with truth.
So, Shane, I don't know what the truth
is.
Exactly.
That's the thrust of my message.
You better live in the word of God.
In order to be able to discern, because
if not, you're going to be tossed to
and fro.
The Bible says you're tossed to and fro
by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery
of men.
Why?
Because I'm not anchored in the truth.
See, when truth is my anchor, I can
drift off course a little bit.
But what's blowing me back?
The anchor.
Everything's anchored to the truth.
It's pulling me back.
If there's no anchor, people are being tossed
to and fro.
That's why it's Jesus Christ one day and
this person the next.
That's why I'll try this.
But now I switch to this and now
I'm over here.
Why?
There's no anchor.
There's no grounding.
And false teachers love that they jump on
that.
Here's what they do.
They subtly challenge the inerrancy and the authority
of Scripture.
They subtly come in and challenge it.
They're not going to come out and say,
hey, guys, I'm challenging this.
They're going to come in and subtly challenge
it.
And they add to salvation.
It's not in Christ alone.
It's well, well, we won't come out and
say it, but unless you belong to our
society.
Yeah, it's Jesus plus it's Jesus plus our
society.
Ask a Mormon if you can be saved
outside the Mormon church.
Yeah, I'm going to step on toes tonight.
No apologies.
You want to know why?
What does this say?
Restoring centrality to Jesus's words, not to Joseph
Smith, not to bring him young, not to
the Jehovah Witness, not to the false teachers.
The whole point of the pulpit is to
restore centrality to the words of Christ.
That is the only name that says that's
the only name that heals.
It's OK to step on toes because they're
presenting false doctrine.
And I'm tired of wimpy pastors who don't
want to say anything because they want their
name recognition.
They want the big church.
They don't want to call sin sin.
They don't want to call false teachers, false
teachers.
Now, we don't come into this looking forward
to it.
I actually don't want to give this message.
I'm not looking forward to it.
But the text finds us in Matthew seven,
chapter seven, verse 15.
And if you look at the totality of
scripture and you go through expositionally, you've got
to confront it.
And you have to remember, when these teachers
come out and they remove the deity of
Christ, I have a biblical, a biblical obligation
to bring the deity of Christ back into
it.
You try preaching like this an hour ago
and doing it again.
That's why, Lord, fill me with your spirit.
I cannot do this.
It's all about you.
And the hard part is after this, we
have to pick what service we're going to
put on the website.
Lord, you know, it's it's just this topic
is burning in my in my in my
stomach because I see so many people.
Being led astray by false doctrine, they're walking
up and down my street holding their little
kids hands and those kids are on their
way to hell.
You realize that it's OK to get a
little passionate about that.
When they come to your door and they
say a Jehovah's Witness, you say, no, I'm
Jehovah's Witness.
You're a false witness.
And here's why.
Because I love you enough to say something.
Don't worry, I'll get to other cults, too,
in the point a minute.
We see it called heresy.
Listen, those words are just words that the
church uses to identify false doctrine, heresy, look
it up, heretical, a self-willed opinion that
opposes the truth, heresy.
That fits the definition.
So when we come out against people like
I've warned before, do not read Rob Bell,
do not let him influence you.
Why?
Because he says there's no hell that we're
all going to end up in heaven.
Gay marriage is OK.
We should embrace it.
And you guys are just rigid, narrow minded.
Well, listen, you come out and you say
that stuff.
I got to come out and counteract it.
So see, people get upset at me for
saying something.
Why don't you get upset at him for
bringing out false doctrine?
He's the one you should be upset at.
He comes out here as if God isn't
going to care.
God's going to wink.
He's not going to talk about sin.
He's not going to talk about judgment or
the righteousness to come.
Well, then what was Paul's problem in front
of Felix?
Felix told Paul, get out of here.
Why?
Because I'm convicted.
You're talking about sin and righteousness and the
holiness of God.
And when they come against those things and
we bring them back now, I'm the bad
guy.
He's just a mean spirit.
No, I want Christian unity.
But remember, biblical unity, Christian unity is unity
with the spirit, unity with the son and
unity with the father, not unity with men.
So I will be divided with men as
long as I'm united with the father.
You realize that?
Opposing false teachers gets people upset.
I'm not going to go through the list
because some people on TV, I don't really
know.
I don't know.
And I'm not in a position to.
Yeah, they are, unless I talk to them
like Rob Bell and Brian McLaren, Doug Paget,
Tony Jones, all these guys that were part
of the emergent church movement.
And I've read their biographies, I've read their
words.
I say that's not a good direction to
be going.
These guys are pulling young adults away from
Christ.
That's not good.
The book I wrote before this one, Answers
for a Confused Church, deals with this whole
movement because of that, listen, if they're saying
something, they'll find a big publisher, put out
hundreds of thousands of copies.
But we can't come out and counteract it.
Oh, the day that the silent church is
over.
Absolutely.
Because God's spirit is helping, willing that none
should perish, that all should come to salvation.
But the false teachers are leading them astray.
It's time for the voice of truth to
come on the scene and say, here is
truth.
Come back to truth.
Truth will save.
Truth will transform.
Truth will heal.
Truth will deliver you.
That's how powerful truth is.
And that's why they want to neglect it.
Or that's why they want to fight it.
Or that's why they want to cover it
up.
And somebody actually came up after the first
service and said, it's such and such a
false teacher.
And of course, you all know if I
say his name, you know what?
Honestly, I don't know.
I don't know because I'd have to talk
to them.
I have to.
I'm not in a position to say.
But what I do realize is I wouldn't
want to be on that fringe where people
are questioning it.
He might not be a false teacher, but
why is he giving people the impression that
he is?
Well, let's find out why Jesus says why.
They bring in subtly, they challenge the scripture
said that they bring in subtle changes and
challenging.
And here's what I've noticed just in my
time of ministry is, you know, speaking a
lot before this church for about a decade.
I've traveled and I spoke and then we
planted this church.
So maybe in 13 years talking to a
lot of different backgrounds, a lot of different
people, lukewarm, not safe, you know, everything.
A lot of it boils down to me.
What I noticed in false teachers, they usually
don't want to preach.
They want to have a conversation.
You'll hear that a lot in a lot
of the terminology with the young and upcoming
church and younger adults is let's just be
missional.
Let's not preach.
Let's just sit down, have a conversation so
we can discuss things.
So you can't come out and say thus,
say it, the Lord, by the authority of
scripture, you have to sit down and have
a discussion.
Kumbaya, let's all get along.
What do you think?
And what do you think?
What do you think?
And what do you think?
Well, yeah, what do you think?
Preaching is not asking for the opinions of
men, it's proclaiming the counsel of God.
So they always want to have a conversation.
Let's just talk in the conversations are good,
right?
Absolutely.
But they want to have a conversation.
Here's the next point.
And then they'll start to ask, have you
ever considered?
Have you have you ever considered?
Like in Rob Bell, one of his books,
he talks about I think Velvet Elvis, that
Christianity is like a trampoline.
And could theoretically, could we move the spring
of the virgin birth and keep springing?
Yeah, I guess we could.
That's a good point, Rob.
Never considered that.
See, folks, you can't do the gospel is
not a trampoline.
Remove the virgin birth and you remove the
deity of Christ.
He was not begot of man or woman.
He was he was the Holy Spirit went
into Mary and formed Christ, not the bloodline
of man, not the bloodline of woman, but
but the Holy Spirit.
Yeah, the virgin birth is pretty important.
I don't care if you can pull out
spring and keep jumping on the trampoline.
That is irrelevant.
But see how they bring that.
Have we considered?
He's not going to come out and say,
I've got a book.
Y'all, you know, this that now will
take out the deity of Christ will take
away this and he's not going to do
that.
They're bringing subtle hints and subtleties.
And that's how it works.
Or, of course, this one, most false teachers
are exceptions.
They will avoid difficult truths.
You won't hear them talking about sin and
repentance and judgment and holiness.
Why?
Because they're drawing men to themselves.
See, I could fill this room if I
told everybody what they wanted to hear, not
what they needed to hear.
I would lose most of you.
I know.
Understand.
But we can open three services and just
advertise the church is just going to tell
you what you want to hear.
And people come and they think they're going
to church.
So they'll avoid difficult truths.
Oh, I'm not going to talk about the
difficult truths.
Why?
Christ did.
Christ died for the very thing you're not
going to mention.
Christ died on the cross for sin, took
the wrath and indignation of God at that
point in history.
I'm not going to mention that, though.
Might upset some people.
Yeah, absolutely.
The gospel is offensive.
Get over it.
Jesus Christ himself said the message of redemption
will be offensive.
The world will hate you.
So if the world loves some of these
guys, what's the disconnection here?
Be careful.
Be very careful.
Be careful.
But also another thing a false teacher will
do is they'll pound this down your throat.
And they'll control and they'll manipulate with the
word of God.
I'm your spiritual authority.
You come to me.
All these things you have to sit and
they become your almost your God, your guru,
all these things.
They scram it down your throat and you
just have to submit to it or else
you're not a Christian.
So they just use this and they beat
you up with it so you can look
at there's polar opposites there Of course, one
of the things is money It's gonna be
a mark of their ministry for sure.
They're in it for greedy gain It's gonna
be about book sales.
Probably it's gonna be about I mean Do
you realize you the bigger your audience the
more you're offering is you know that?
Right, I'm not surprising anybody.
So be careful because money is their end.
That's their focus One last focus is it's
follow me not follow him Follow me.
So no follow him John the Baptist said
I must decrease but he must increase so
false prophets will say Jesus must decrease and
I must increase and the order and the
reason I must increase is so now I
can promote Jesus See, it's all about me.
But Jesus is coming to it's all about
me.
But Jesus is coming to can he come
to like?
Well, I got to keep him here because
if you if I don't keep him here,
I'm not gonna Laurel Thousands and millions of
Christians asleep.
I have to keep him here.
I got to keep Jesus here as my
backup plan As my kind of oh see
I have Jesus here But it's all about
them and the money and building and and
building their their ministry Now, of course, you've
got to be careful because false teachers not
everybody's a false teacher people become prideful and
they get the lust of money and power
and things take over and they get Sidetracked
and you know, sometimes God brings them back.
So but that's one of the characteristics with
them So with that said let's talk about
this point wolves don't advertise Wolves don't advertise
And if you need the complete sermon notes,
we have them online now and in our
website under complete sermon notes That's kind of
catchy, but it works Complete sermon notes.
You can see everything I'm looking at.
I told the first service.
It's ironic I used to not have any
sermon notes because I would memorize my outline
and then I put clothes on it You
know like a skeleton put clothes as I'm
speaking, but now I don't have six days
to prepare back Then I would have a
month or two So it's much different now.
I've got to have you know to help
keep everything the train of thought going in
the right direction So those are available online.
But with that said let's let's go to
this point.
I've been wanting to get to Jesus says
you must be fruit inspectors You must be
fruit inspectors Seeing this is interesting because a
lot of times we want to be fruit
inspectors people say you're just being judgmental.
I Want to be a fruit inspector, no,
you can't come out against that guy what's
wrong with you?
You're quenching green in the Spirit of God
No, I'm called to be a fruit inspector
No, you're not.
You can't say anything And then they'll get
upset at you if you start to call
things in question Hey that I'm not sure
if we should be doing that and I'm
not sure and we're called to be fruit
inspectors Now however, though the other side of
that is somebody thinks they've been given the
God gifting gift of God-given gift of
Criticism and they're a fruit inspector for everybody
and they have an apologetics ministry and they
like to tell off everybody Pick apart every
type of ministry.
That's not good either Jesus just saying listen
be be You know little grapes aren't going
to grow on a weed and weeds aren't
going to be found on a great Bush
there you're gonna find the fruit of what
that person is about will come to pass
So with that said I'm pulling again from
the gospel coalition article What he did is
he compared the authentic Christian with the counterfeit
or he compared the the authentic teacher with
the counterfeit Teacher based on first Peter it
ties in perfectly.
The first point is this there's a different
source There's a different source, where does their
message come from?
Where does their message come from?
You have two people up here false teacher
real teacher.
Where does their message come from?
Peter says we did not follow Cleverly invented
stories when we told you about the power
and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
And then he says the false teachers exploit
you with stories that they made up So
the true teacher sources everything what he what
he gets from the Bible the false teacher
relies on his own creativity And he makes
up his own message a lot of times.
It's not necessarily from the Bible Maybe a
little verse here and there but it's a
message he brings up and it right when
I was writing this I said hello book
of Mormon book of Mormon right there I'm
not trying to upset.
I'm not trying to upset But this is
a bunch of fables that you can't find
the cities.
You can't find the kingdoms You can't find
any spears or any shovels or anything from
that history.
You can't find anything You can't find the
gold tablets that special glasses to view them.
You can't find any of that Nothing nothing
in there is lines up with Scripture so
you're left with this dilemma You can get
mad at me if you want, but you
either believe Jesus Christ or you believe Joseph
Smith.
They cannot both be right So when they
come out and they say here's a false
gospel.
I have to come and say no.
Here's a true gospel And I have to
show you the difference Remember I told you
a while back this summer.
I caught four Mormon missionaries up on the
aqueduct for Bible study They didn't know what
they're in for I start talking to him
and they're tongue-tied.
They didn't know and they kept going No,
but look, here's the book of Mormon.
I don't want to see the book of
Mormon I want to see the glorious gospel
of Jesus Christ in the living Word of
God.
Oh, that's supplementary.
This is primary You can't read this and
read that and see what?
The Bible Jesus is the Son of God
Book of Mormon He's a brother of Lucifer
What's the Bible say God is holy and
lifted up the angels cry.
Holy.
Holy is our God the Whole temple shook
in his presence is the angels cried.
Holy.
Holy is our God What does this book
say?
God was once like us and we will
be like God Blasphemy Blasphemy, I told those
kids that She's your blasphemy God See, they
can't both be right What do you do
with Jesus?
Jesus whose wife will she be?
Oh, there's no marriage in heaven.
Have you not read the scriptures book of
Mormon?
You'll be married in heaven you'll have celestial
sex and raise spirit children Well,
I might sound better.
I think to some of you but yeah,
I walked myself into that one didn't I?
But you see these aren't just little errors.
I went to our paper and I said,
here's my article I'm writing about the little
bulletin thing you have in your bulletin.
I Have a full article sent to the
papers and we're not gonna print that Shane
You're attacking other Christians Other Christians last time
I checked Christians were Christ followers followers of
Christ the way El Paseo in Spanish The
way the followers of the way and when
groups I don't like it I would I
would just love to get along with these
groups But when they're leading millions of people
astray their little kids are walking with them
up and down Can I tell you about
a false doctrine?
Can I tell you about a false doctrine
and we have none of us going to
doors and say can I tell you about
a true doctrine We should be shamed of
ourselves One of the reasons why I got
those postcards Printed up.
My wife will tell you I'm gonna mail
them to every house.
I see them going to That's the true
gospel And going down the line Jehovah Witness
John why in the beginning was the Word
and the Word was with God and the
Word was God Jehovah Witness book Watchtower.
Well, let's define that for you In the
beginning was the Word and the Word was
a God and they'll remove the deity of
Christ They removed the D you you following
this this is important.
They will remove the deity of Christ The
very foundation of Christianity is being removed Charles
Taz Russell started this religion had the Bible
re-edited redone By people who don't even
know Greek or Hebrew or Aramaic They just
put a Bible together that would fit their
theology dangerous So what do we do be
silent?
Chain, you're being mean-spirited.
No, I'm not It's the love of Christ
that compels me to share the truth To
those guys up on the aqueduct left there
really thinking asking some hard questions after about
an hour of Of drilling them you're gonna
be like God God was once like us.
How do you worship a God like that?
So salvation is only in the Mormon Church
What do you do with the Bible says
repent and believe whoever confesses Christ will be
saved What do you do with all the
scriptures what just well you got the Book
of Mormon said no no, no You don't
understand.
I don't want to see that book.
I want to see the book And there's
always all the times I get email sometimes
from Roman Catholics when I talk about the
history of Rome and the papacy and the
buying of that papacy the buying of the
authority the bringing of indulgence of Going to
priests as a mediator and Mary worship is
co-redeemer.
The last time I checked Mary did not
die on the cross I don't go to
priests.
I go to Christ Hebrews says I have
a high priest who's been tempted and tested
in all points Like me, but he was
without sin.
He's my high priest The papacy is not
over scripture scripture is over the papacy So
the church was fine first second centuries third
century Now that now they begin to buy
Power it was just the Catholic Church.
They just they bought power.
They bought here's a million dollars Let me
have this spiritual authority and Then they married
the church with the state hence the word
Roman Catholic Church It became a position of
power and authority now they come out with
these different dictates that go against scripture And
they bring in all this stuff Consubstantiation transubstantiation
that the communion actually becomes a literal body
and blood of Christ they get Well, let's
just let's stay to this.
Let's just stay to this.
Can we no we can't false teachers.
Take you directly this way Shane are you
saying that some Popes might not have even
been saved?
Absolutely They burn Christians If I would have
said what I'm saying now 600 years ago
heretic take him out Let the flames of
raise that guy up in the sky pour
gasoline all over him didn't have gasoline back
then, but you know oil Listen, this is
truth and it hurts Have you heard names
John Whitecliffe Huss William Tyndale?
Have you heard them?
They wrote the Bible two of those men
were killed by the church For proclaiming the
truth They told Martin Luther recant all your
works or you'll face possible execution He told
the council here I stand I can do
no other I stand on the Word of
God alone and To spark the flames of
the Reformation We don't worship these guys.
They have their faults.
I can pick them apart They can pick
me apart But when are we gonna wake
up church and say hey, he's okay.
Listen, they kill Christians.
They burned him at the stake Because they
were challenging the papacy they were challenging the
Pope's authority They're saying listen, you don't you
know, put it put a coin in the
coffer string and somebody from purgatory Well, you
know all these things that they have you
give give money you can spring your relatives
out of purgatory That's a false system of
works and you're mad at me They
don't want people to read their Bible So
everything is in the Latin the Latin Vulgate.
They're gonna read Latin.
So you don't know the Bible you have
to go No, you read your Bible would
you actually I said, would you please read
your Bible?
How often do I promote read your Bible
because this is about Shane Idleman.
This is about Jesus Christ We glorify him
we magnify him That's the only reason I
can preach like this is because he radically
changed my life and it's the Spirit of
God crying Abba Father preaching the truth Go
to 30 Mormon tabernacles tomorrow, and I doubt
they'll even get this loud Just turn to
this why because there's no spiritual authority in
them There's not there's no fruit.
There's nothing I'm not saying it means spirit.
I'm not saying with arrogance.
I'm saying guys wake up Genuine true historical
biblical Christianity must line up with Scripture Christ
is the only way the only truth the
only life.
There's no other way You don't have to
belong to a church.
You don't have to belong to a society
You don't have to get baptized.
You don't have to do this You don't
have you just have to repent and believe
in the only name that saves So back
to the question What are they doing the
first point different sources John I'm gonna let
you choose what video to put on them
since you're both services Number two different message
They promote a different message.
What is the substance of the message?
False teacher real teacher.
What is the substance the true teacher for
the true teacher Jesus Christ is central We
have everything we need for life and godliness
in him, but the false teacher Jesus is
at the margins Remember I told told you
earlier.
Jesus is back here.
We got him.
He's good.
We got Jesus.
We have to have Jesus We'll be thrown
out of the church If we don't have
Jesus TBN will not air my shows Right.
I mean you can't just come out and
blatantly say it Am I seeing everybody on
there's wrong.
Of course not.
I don't have time to watch.
I don't know I've seen some good stuff
on there back in the past great glory,
you know the way the master Charles Stanley,
you know, there's There's wheat and tare It's
always gonna be that way But think about
this is Jesus Christ central When you have
a false teacher or to treat teacher, is
it all about Jesus Christ or is it
all about them?
Who is the true teacher?
Notice the word secretly it is rare for
someone in church to openly deny Jesus They
wouldn't be a wolf if they showed you
there who they were.
That's the whole point.
They subtly come in They're not gonna they're
not gonna deny him outright Well, how do
you did?
How do you detect a counterfeit?
We've talked about that right in the truth,
but many of you know in Josh McDowell's
book or evidence that demand of demands a
verdict I believe it is As he talks
about bank tellers, how do they check the
original from a counterfeit?
They sit and look at originals all day
long You want to see counterfeits?
Nope.
I want to see the originals.
I want to study the originals I must
see the original so when a counterfeit comes
along I Already know what the original looks
like and that is the problem many people
are not in this They're listening to people
who say they are but they're not themselves.
So there's nothing to gauge that truth They're
not in and that's why I promote prayer
all the time If you're a spirit filled
believer in the Word of God and praying
you will not be led astray Now the
statement might give me some mean emails But
think about it if you're a spirit filled
believer in the Word of God and praying
to the one true and living God to
guide you to lead you Just you cannot
be led astray because you're anchored.
That's the anchor Your relationship with Christ Grounded
in truth from a praying heart filled with
the Spirit of God That that that's the
anchor The third point in the article from
the gospel coalition Different position different position and
what position will the message leave you?
This is very important you guys listen to
this The true Christian escapes the corruption in
the world But counterfeit Christians are slaves of
depravity So The true believer is escaping corruption
while the counterfeit believer is mastered by it
So the false teacher is going to cater
to that depravity In other words, they're not
going to talk about sin.
They're not going to talk about hell They're
not going to talk about these these things
the very things that Jesus died for they're
not going to mention Why why why just
think why aren't they going to mention that
I'll lose my audience I Want to tell
you what you want to hear So if
my goal is to build my name to
build the ministry to build my checkbook to
build Build build build.
Why would I want to say things that
are going to upset people?
Why I don't I'm not going to say
anything.
So that's what it is.
There's a different position And that's a and
what position won't leave you when a false
teacher speaks.
What position are you left in?
When a true teacher speaks what position are
you left in?
Are you turning from sin or running to
it?
Because that's what happens many people preach they'll
preach certain things right in church, they'll preach
this and they'll preach that and People if
they're not changing, they're not turning from their
sin.
They're not preaching They're telling people what they
want to hear Right There's people that come
in church all the time.
They'll turn on TV.
They'll continue in their porn habit They'll continue
in their abuse or sexual abuse.
They'll continue hitting their spouse.
They'll continue have angry outbursts I do know
they'll continue and all this in because they
can click on the TV and somebody's confirmed
the very lifestyle that they should be turning
from right And on this point And I'm
gonna leave it here I'm not gonna go
because I don't know but many of you
with Joel's team when he goes on Larry
King live And he says Larry, I'm not
gonna talk about sin.
I'm not gonna talk about hell I'm not
gonna talk about homosexual marriage.
I don't talk about any of those things
What I Understand your callings more motivational.
Okay.
Got it, but you're not gonna mention You're
not gonna mention anything that Christ died for
When Christ said go and preach repentance, you're
not going to mention repentance when Christ says
That unless you turn from your sin, you
all like way likewise perish.
You're not gonna say that you're not I'm
confused and I'm perplexed to be quite honest
with you I'm left it like wow.
I must have really missed it on this
one.
I Can see that but to say from
the pulpit I never talk about controversial issues
Well, that would discard everybody in the whole
Bible that wrote a book in the Bible
You everybody See don't get mad at me
get out for him get mad at him
He should say yes, Larry.
There is sin There's a judgment to come
unless you repent and believe on the only
name that saves you all likewise perish.
I say that love Well, it's not that
funny That's what he should do Homosexual marriage
all Larry can't say anything.
Why not?
Just say you know what?
We love those struggling with homosexual We love
every sinner Larry.
We do we love them all But yeah,
the Bible says unless they turn from that
lifestyle they will perish So it makes you
wonder what who's your authority?
The Bible I have a biblical mandate to
preach the whole counsel of God You want
a scripture reference?
Yeah, Timothy Paul told Timothy Timothy preach the
whole counsel of God preach the Word of
God Timothy Be ready in and out of
season for the time will come when they
will not endure sound doctrine They will look
for teachers who will tell them what they
want to hear So Timothy you preach the
truth rebuke exhort with all long suffering and
warning Timothy Bring the people the totality of
Scripture so they can see the whole counsel
of God So I don't understand these guys
I just don't under I don't know how
you can say that Unless you're worried about
book sales and attendance, I don't know It
just doesn't make sense So again, I'm not
coming out and saying this person's I don't
know I'd have to talk with them and
I don't know I don't follow their ministry.
But when I hear that clip, I'm like
wow I guess I should fire myself Well,
Larry, I actually talked about all those things.
I don't know what the difference is Anyway,
I don't want to get off on a
rabbit.
You already did the next point.
I just want to show you though that
true teachers usually Help people escape the corruption
not confirm it If somebody's living in a
sinful lifestyle and I do nothing to help
them.
Well, I'm confirming their sin How is that
a genuine teacher?
Do you realize that Jesus upset entire cities?
He sent people he sent his disciples out
saying go preach God is love What he
tell them go preach repentance Just tell them
about heaven only No, Jesus said be very
worried be very scared of him who can
cast both your body and soul in hell
Do you guys ever read Jesus so I
want to ask these guys you ever read
what he said The same Jesus had turned
the other cheek as a lion of tribe
of Judah Remember John and Revelation.
He saw heaven open Behold, I saw heaven
open and a white horse and he who
said on it was called faithful and true
and in righteousness He judges and makes war
his eyes are like flames of fire and
on his head were many crowns and no
one knew his name except himself That's Jesus
Christ and Out of his mouth came a
sword that he should strike the nations and
he himself will rule the nations with the
rod of iron And he himself will tread
the winepress and fierceness and wrath of Almighty
God That's Jesus Christ This isn't some passive
Luke turn the other cheek just love everything
the love of God compels me to share
all of the truth The lamb that was
slain before the foundation of the world is
also the lion of the tribe of Judah
A W Tozer said that makes me love
him because he's my Savior But it makes
me fear him because he's my judge Wow
We that we could end the sermon right
there Think about that.
That's a very healthy balance.
I love him because he saved me, but
there's a judgment someday We'll be the man
that doesn't warn and contend for the faith
That's all we tell somebody like Joel Spend
some time in prayer and fasting in the
Word of God Pray that the Spirit break
you and humble you I guarantee you'll come
out of that prayer closet a different man
Preach the Word of God.
That's the Word of God that saves People
listen Millions and millions and they're never saved.
They're never converted.
They're built up.
They're encouraged Thank God for that.
We all need some encouragement every now and
then even me.
Hello You see the discouraging emails and stuff
I get you'd need a little encouragement Thank
God for my wife So I love encouragement
Actually, believe it or not One of the
most the one of the feedbacks we hear
the most at this church is thank you
you've encouraged me so much I'm like wow
How is that possible?
I thought discouraged you But see that draws
us closer to the heart of a father
who says sin has separated you from me
Sin has paid a there's a penalty for
that sin the wages of sin is death
The Christ of Cross is central to everything.
Woe be the man who avoids the Christ
the cross of Christ That's where their blood
his blood was shed and that's the atonement
for our souls You're not going to talk
about the very thing that Christ died for
Right here.
It's a different character.
What kind of people does a message produce?
Think about that a false teacher and somebody
under a false teacher and somebody under a
True teacher.
What is the fruit that is produced?
That's all you have to look at I'll
tell you shocker.
You know what the people the people that
are the most upset of me are carnal
Christians They're they're the most they get the
most upset of me.
It's people who name the name of Christ
Is that an interesting?
I mean might have to do with the
fact They love to grab a Mickey's Big
Mouth and head to Las Vegas And watch
all ungodly entertainment as we're calling these things
into check But they don't like these things
because it shines the light in the darkness
of their lives The fifth thing there's a
different appeal.
I'll hurry up and get through this.
There's a different appeal Why should you listen
to the message?
Here's the key Why should you listen to
the message a true teacher appeals to Scripture
the true teacher appeals to Scripture the false
teacher?
Makes a different appeal they appeal to the
lustful desires of man in other words Catering
to the sin and telling us what we
want to hear in a nutshell if people
are not changing.
Are we challenging them?
If people aren't changing are we truly challenging
them and that's why I like this quote
from William still I think it's on your
bulletin Many many people who for the first
time come under under the sound of Holy
Ghost preaching are mortally offended Because they have
never been exposed to the white light of
the Spirit You know what?
He's saying there.
I see this all the time if I
when people ask me to speak at funerals
most of the time it's unbelievers and I
bring a message like this You can almost
see their Jaws drop in there their eyes
big Whoa, what what is this?
What is this?
They're morally offended.
I'll go stand by that door They'll find
the two exits this way.
They are offended.
They'll tell the people who's that guy?
Why'd you ask him to speak?
It's not funny.
What happens to me?
I'm gonna go sit out there and you
come up here you take the bullets and
arrows But it's sad because I'm giving them
the words of life, but they're morally offended
Why are they morally offended because they've never
come in under the light of the gospel
penetrating their hearts They've heard the guys on
TV and the guys on whatever and nothing
hurts them But when they come in here,
it's like they can't hurry up to get
out of here.
When is he over?
I'm a sinner on my way to hell.
I don't know the real shepherd Cuz a
lot of times at funerals I start Psalms
23 the Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want he makes me lie
down between green pastors.
He restores my soul And then I say,
you know what that only applies if he's
your shepherd So don't get all warm and
cozy that does not apply to you if
you're he's not your shepherd Well, think about
it think about it that scripture You're gonna
have a hard choice John This scripture this
scripture is read at thousands of funerals people
come in here sinners They need Christ They
need to hear the message of redemption and
we say the Lord is your shepherd The
Lord is your shepherd.
The Lord is your shepherd.
You shall never want he will make you
lie down between green pastors He'll restore your
soul.
See you later and you leave thousands and
millions to hell He's not their shepherd that
doesn't apply put it in context The context
is David Knowing his true shepherd.
You can't just read that and say the
place to you Actually, you should say does
it apply to you?
Does it listen I didn't come up here
to play games.
I know many of you Talk to again
same with last week.
This is it.
This is all this is my one time
to preach the gospel to you Christ is
central.
Everything else is meaningless That's what this means.
They are mortally offended when you hear the
white light of the gospel You think Larry
King's gonna put a sermon clip of this
up there?
He'll get letters from everybody from the ACLU
to Planned Parenthood To a knee probably and
all the duck dynasty, you know, they'll be
bombarded.
Who's this guy?
He's offensive Yeah, the message of the gospel
is offensive the message of the cross hurts
Oswald Chambers said the message of the gospel
hurts and it offends us until there is
nothing left to hurt and to offend It
breaks you down and you have to bow
and submit to the cross.
I give you everything Lord.
I give you my life Everything tonight I
am offended by everything and I need you
Yeah, it's offensive.
Absolutely, and it's unapologetically offensive So you can
preach the truth with gentleness and love Underscore
with grace and the power of the Spirit
will knock a man down knock a woman
down and they'll have to fall into the
power and presence of God God's just looking
for the empty vessel.
He'll fill you You Realize that right you
think I'm relying on my good teaching ability
or my good exegetical ability my good reading
ability Absolutely, not because I have none of
that.
I Should be laying in the curb over
by grace resources probably homeless honestly So see
what God does I'll take that empty vessel
and I'll make him mine and you will
glorify me and you'll honor me all the
days of your life No,
I Don't know if I should say this
or not.
It's a funny story many of you know,
I left real estate a while back and
People have always asked me how can you
leave, you know, you're on target to make
two three hundred thousand a year How could
you just walk away from all that?
She's just paying my bills.
Let me preach.
That's all I want How can I how
can I not?
That's what he's put in my heart that
word is in my heart like a burning
fire he'll take care of me He'll feel
I leave here on such a spiritual high
that's reward enough.
You couldn't write me a check That feels
how you feel when you please God That's
what he's done in my life There's different
fruit the true believers effective and productive in
his or her knowledge of Jesus Christ The
counterfeit is like a spring without water.
There's no fruit.
There's no fruit in the law in your
life And I asked this first service.
I'll ask it again.
Are you a counterfeit?
Listen, I don't say it in anger.
I don't say it judgmentally because I've been
a counterfeit for many years.
I Attended a Christian school I Was raising
a Christian home.
I was a Christian if you ask me
I Live in America and I Christian Americans
a Christian nation well nation can't be Christian,
so let's stop there, but We think it
was we walk around as counterfeits Christ said
listen I died so you could become an
original You don't have to live as a
counterfeit stop it if this message if you're
squirming in your seat and your hope that
I hurry Up, what do I often say
if you don't like what I'm saying?
It's because you need to hear what I'm
saying He Sent me to offend.
It's time to start offending the church.
The Bible says that judgments gonna start in
Hollywood Judgments gonna start in San Francisco Las
Vegas, New York, where's judgment gonna start in
the house of God?
Judgment is gonna start in the house of
God why because you became you've been given
the oracles of life You must live it
out Our goal is not to preach the
gospel our goal is to be spiritually worthy
to spread it AW Tozer said that many
years ago And it moves us right to
the seventh point Therefore by their fruit you
will know them by their fruits.
You will know them.
There's a different end Where does the message
ultimately lead you?
Think about how serious this is those little
kids I talked about walking up and down
my street with dad and mom I got
the big old Bible twice the size of
mine.
Just walk her out their kids And I
think where's that leading them?
Therefore by their fruits you will know them
This is a message at the end of
this road is destruction See, this is all
Shane you say this and they say this
there's some disagreeing.
No There's at the end of this road
is destruction.
I Don't like that you say Guess what?
I don't like it either Do I wish
it by says God's gonna save everybody in
the end even the devil.
Oh, man, that would be wonderful But it
doesn't actually I wouldn't want him saved.
He needs to go spend eternity where there's
outer darkness And here's what happens.
We cannot have two fathers Either God is
our father because we've repented and believed on
the only name that saves Or All God
does is say go spend time with your
father See he didn't he God doesn't throw
anybody in hell hell is for the demonic
influences the demons the angels of corruption and
Satan It wasn't God doesn't he's not willing
any should perish.
But when we say God I reject you
and I embrace this God Go spend eternity
with him.
It's our choice It's our choice I'm just
shooting you straight and your reason, you know,
it's because you're mad at me If I'm
just talking about pie in the sky now,
this is us all baloney look who's this
guy think he is No, why are you
so upset?
Why are you upset if this is false
information?
You're upset because it's true information And the
truth hurts doesn't it the truth hurts all
of us Jesus said Depart from me.
I never knew you Jesus tells us there
will be many who have been involved in
ministry in his name and he will say
depart from me I don't know you You
want more in that verse check out last
week's message.
That's where I talked about We're gonna either
hear well done now good and faithful servant
or depart from me.
I don't know you Listen, if Jesus says
beware false teachers gonna lead you down the
broad road.
There's there's outer darkness.
There's weeping There's gnashing of teeth.
Don't go there.
Don't be cast there The father doesn't want
to send you there Be fear him fear
him who can cast both your body and
soul in hell And when he keep and
he's working out and we say no.
No, none of that applies to me Jesus
saying beware watch out for this broad road
that leads to destruction So the title as
you know wolves don't advertise The title the
message wolves don't advertise but I want to
leave you with this fact God does You
catch that?
Wolves dressed in chiefs clothing do not advertise
they come in sneakily, but God advertises Do
you know that he says bring it on
truth invites scrutiny Anybody that wants to debate
anything in life Bring it on because truth
invites your scrutiny when I come to a
false teacher and say let me I took
I don't know What I told you guys
is probably a couple years ago now But
I was actually invited to a Mormon bishops
house and he actually he told me I
had to leave his house And I was
sitting quietly on the couch Yeah, but you
know you see this Yeah, here's what this
says everything I told you we're gonna be
God you heard Jesus He's getting mad why
are you getting mad?
Truth invites scrutiny bring it on you Colts
don't want to bring out the Bible They
want to bring out their resources what truth
says bring it on agnostic Atheist bring it
on the truth will not lie the truth
will not let you down the truth transforms
the truth read the redeems Mankind Jesus said
God's Word is truth.
He said the truth will set you free
this invites scrutiny The heavens cry out the
glory of God I'm reading a book right
now about the universe.
I have to keep reading each chapter again
again because it's too mind-boggling I get
a headache They're seeing things that are a
million or a billion light-years away Do
you know how far light travels in a
year?
Well times that by a billion I Can't
even comprehend it they're seeing galaxies Galaxies like
ours millions of galaxy stars Hundreds of thousand
times bigger than all this all this it's
advertised God says look the heavens declare the
glory of my hand There was a big
bang.
God said BAM and it started and it's
still going There was there wasn't there they're
showing evidence for something that's saying the size
of a pinned needle could have started Could
have started the universe BAM and it's still
the universe is still expanding they expand they
measure the gravitational pull the heat I don't
know how they do any of this the
Hubble telescope all these things They can see
all these stars in the layout and all
these things And that just all happened And
we're on a little tiny earth you can't
even see and all these stars There's just
hovering around the Milky Galaxy all these things
and just right there.
I'll just the Sun perfect some mood there
I mean any scientist worth their salt would
say creator creator But the pride of the
heart has deceived you All false teachers are
doing is telling us what our prideful sinful
hearts want to hear And I truly believe
that false teachers can be a judgment on
The church or those who professing be Christians
hear me out They're telling us what we
want to hear God says I gave them
over to their debates and corrupted minds.
It's a cheer you go Here's teachers who
tell you what you want to hear.
They're not going to save you.
They're not going to help you You you're
getting what you want basically And that's what
leads us to this point Jesus says God
says call on me and you will be
saved call on me and I will help
call on me and I will Heal you
he advertised it everywhere everywhere we go call
on me the name of the Lord call
on the name of the Lord It is
the only name that saves It's the only
name that saves Lord I pray tonight that
this message I Pray that you would open
eyes Lord of people I know I don't
think there's too many people in this first
service Lord But I know we all know
friends and relatives and and family members Lord.
Would you open their eyes tonight Lord as
we worship tonight?
Can we pray for them?
Can we pray for our family members Lord
that we know that have rejected truth.
They've rejected you Lord during this time of
worship Would you begin to set the hound
of heaven loose on these friends and family
members Lord become against these false Theologies we
come against these false doctrines We come across
these against these groups that take away the
deity of Christ Lord restored the centrality of
truth again Lord give us a passion the
hunger for truth Or begin to change the
hearts and change lives in these people Lord
We're contending for family members that we know
tonight Lord that are caught up in these
religions caught up in these false teachers Lord
draw them back to you Lord teach us
to fast teach us to pray teach us
could to contend for these we can all
Names in our heads of people that need
your truth Lord hear the prayers of your
children tonight as we seek you and we
honor you We ask this in Jesus name.
Amen