THE GOSPEL VS. FALSE TEACHERS
TITUS 1:9-16

WHEREVER THE SEEDS OF THE GOSPEL ARE SOWN THE SEEDS OF DECEPTION WILL BE CLOSE BY …

“A LIE CAN TRAVEL HALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD WHILE TRUTH IS STILL LACING UP HER BOOTS.” - MARK TWAIN

“AND HOW CONVINCING THESE FALSE TEACHERS ARE. KEEPING THEIR TRUE NATURE CAREFULLY CONCEALED – EVEN FROM THEMSELVES (REMEMBER ONE DAY THEY STAND AND SAY, DID WE NOT PROPHECY IN YOUR NAME AND CAST OUT DEMONS IN YOUR NAME AND PERFORM MIRACLES IN YOUR NAME – THE LORD JESUS WILL SAY, “I NEVER KNEW YOU.”) YET THEY DEFTLY MOVE AMONG THE ELECT, UP THROUGH THE RANKS OF AUTHORITY, AND INTO POSITIONS OF POWER. LACKING BIBLICAL TRUTH, THEY WILL WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE BY MEANS OF CHARISMA THAT DIFFICULT TO RESIST, EVEN FOR THOSE WHO DESPISE FALSEHOOD. NEVERTHELESS, A TRAINED EYE CAN SPOT THEM.” - CHARLES SWINDOLL

MATT.7:15,“BEWARE OF THE FALSE PROPHETS, WHO COME TO YOU IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING, BUT INWARDLY ARE RAVENOUS WOLVES.”

MATT.10:16,”BEHOLD, I SEND YOU OUT AS SHEEP IN THE MIDDLE OF WOLVES; THEREFORE BE SHREWD AS SERPENTS, AND INNOCENT AS DOVES.”

STAND FOR THE TRUTH …

   “HOLDING FAST”

   “THE FAITHFUL WORD”

         ACCURATE TRANSMISSION

         ARCHAEOLOGY

         A UNIFIED MESSAGE – WHEN THE BIBLE SPEAKS, GOD SPEAKS


   “EXHORT” – ENCOURAGE THE SHEEP - ACTS 20:27-31

         “SOUND DOCTRINE”

            HYGIENE

   “REFUTE” – DISCOURAGE THE FALSE TEACHERS

STAND AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF TRUTH …

   DECEPTION, VS.10

MICHAEL HORTON, CHRISTLESS CHRISTIANITY,
“CHRISTLESS CHRISTIANITY USES NAMES LIKE JESUS, LORD, SAVIOR – CHRISTLESS CHRISTIANITY IS THE WAY THOSE NAMES ARE USED WHEN REMOVED FROM THE BIBLICAL CONTEXT OF SIN, REBELLION, A DIVINE RESCUE, HEAVEN AND HELL …
 JESUS BECOMES A THERAPIST OR A BUDDY, A SIGNIFICANT OTHER, OR A POLITICAL MESSIAH.
THE BIBLE IS THEIR RESOURSE FOR TEACHING BUT NOT THEIR SOURCE FOR TEACHING …
IF RELIGION IS BASICALLY ETHICS – IF YOU REDUCE CHRISTIANITY TO GOOD ADVICE, IT BLENDS IN PERFECTLY WITH THE CULTURE OF RELIGION. OUR TEACHING MIGHT SEEM RELEVANT, BUT IT ACTUALLY GETS LOST IN THE MARKETPLACE OF MORALISTIC THERAPIES.”

CHRISTIANITY AT ITS HEART IS THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL –
THE GOOD NEWS THAT GOD HAS RECONCILED US TO HIMSELF IN CHRIST!

TWO ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH AT CRETE:
   JUDAISM, “THOSE OF THE CIRCUMCISION”

   GNOSTICS, VS.14

  DEFILEMENT, VS.15

      MATT. 15:15-20
      I TIM.4:3-5

   DISQUALIFICATION, VS.16


APPLICATION: WHAT ARE WE TO DO?

   SILENCE THEM, VS.11

   REBUKE THEM, VS.13

   RESCUE THEM, VS.13