690 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 2 Book 58 - Love and Truth - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 58 LOVE AND TRUTH - Part 2 II & III JOHN All right, you know by now this is an informal Bible study. You don’t have to be a PhD or seminary graduate to understand the Word of God. That’s the work of the Holy Spirit. Fortunately, I’m never asked well how can you do what you’re doing without the seminary degree, because I think people understand that God has chosen the weak things of this world to confound the wise. All right, back into our study then, II John and we finished the first six verses in the last lesson. Look out, because from day one Satan has been promoting deception confusion and false teaching. Don’t fall for their gods and goddesses. II John 1:7 "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not (or will not believe) that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh (in other words, that He’s the God-man. Matthew 24 as far as I’m concerned is all Tribulation and Jesus is just foretelling it. And it’s in a perfect parallel with Revelation chapter 6, so now in Matthew 24 verse 4. All right, now Jesus doesn’t give us anything here that’s different. Matthew 24:3 Now you want to remember that all the Old Testament was looking forward to that earthly Kingdom over which Israel’s Messiah would rule and reign. All right, so now then the last part of verse 3 again. Matthew 24:3b-5 4. And Jesus answered and he said unto them, (that is the Twelve) Take heed (or the word Paul will us is - beware) that no man (now again what’s the word?) deceive you. We are getting hit with everything imaginable today because Satan knows his time is short and if he can confuse the masses with deception, hey, he’s the winner – he’s the winner, don’t ever forget that. Now it was already evident in Paul’s time. Genesis 1 the last verse. Genesis 1:31 Genesis 2:2 All right, and so this is Satan’s business. To divert man’s attention. Why do you suppose the pagans always built such beautiful temples for their gods and goddesses? Satan will do anything to keep people from hitting the mark. All right, now look what he does in II Corinthians chapter 11. The false teachers coming in, bombarding his little congregations with false teaching, telling them they have to add this and that to his beautiful Gospel of salvation that we see in I Corinthians 15:1-4. All right, and how is it done? Verse 13. II Corinthians 11:13a "For such are false apostles,…" Apostles mind you! They call themselves apostles. Hey they’re false. And that’s what the Scripture calls them. II Corinthians 11:13b "…deceitful workers, (see that word deceit? And in their deceit) transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ." God doesn’t do it. Satan doesn’t even transform them, they do that themselves. II Corinthians 11:14 Well I don’t know what kind of a school he was in, but anyway, I can remember and I think almost everybody I’ve ever shared it with remembers, and if I remember right, it was a village over in Europe someplace and they were covered up with rats. You remember that? "…for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. All right, now let’s go on to Colossians, chapter 2, and this again is just only one of many in Paul’s epistles warning the believers of his day as well as you and I today, "beware of these false teachers, false doctrines." "Let no man beguile you (well what does beguiling agree with? All right, let’s move on to I Timothy chapter 4 verse 1 and listen, these are just as appropriate for us today as they were the day that Paul wrote it. Satanic control) 2. Well what’s hypocrisy? All right, come on over to II Timothy chapter 3 verse 1 and we haven’t got time to read all of these but oh what a chapter of warning for us today. II Timothy 3:1-5 4. Traitors, (my does this ring as bell) heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; 5. Here’s another warning. II Timothy 3:13 deceived." Well let’s see, I guess that’s enough for that line of thought. That’s not the last one, remember that Peter also warned, James warned and I John. Here in I John, remember now we’re back in John, so he’s writing to Jewish believers. I John 2:18a "Little children, (he’s writing to his fellow believers) it is the last time: and you have heard that anti-Christ shall come, even now there are many anti-Christs;…" Remember Matthew 24? What did Jesus say? Well John is agreeing with that and All right, warning, warning, warning against deception. Chapter 4 again in I John, and this is what I admonish people when they call on the phone, I say, "Look, the Bible tells us to check these things and compare them with the Word of God. If you can’t find what they’re saying in the Word of God, turn them off. All right, that’s what John is telling us here. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: (Why?) #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible