Have you ever watched some of the mega-church preachers? I was curious about one in particular, so I watched his show tonight. WOW!!! It was amazing. Tons of people. Fancy decorations. Fancy suit. He talked all about how God wants to give us the desires of our hearts, all we have to do is believe. He quoted scripture where God blessed people. The crowd was smiling and cheering. He sounded wonderful.
I noticed, however, that someone was missing. There was a whole lot of "me", but there was no Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 2:18 says "For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error." Peter was talking about false teachers.
John says, in 1 John 4:5-6 "They are from the world, and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of the truth and the spirit of falsehood." He is also talking about false teachers.
The only way you will be able to identify a false teacher is to pray for discernment and read your bible. If you know the real thing, then you will recognize the false one. If you never feel offended (I call it conviction), you might want to investigate a little bit.
If you really want to know Jesus, then listen to preachers like Dr. Dobson, James McDonald, Chip Ingram. Read something by Chuck Swindoll, Chuck Colson. Check out Way of The Master.
Read your bible, pray!
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