In this final article I will answer the question : How to escape the devilish claws of false teachers? Firstly, Col.3:16, "Letthe word of Christ richly dwell within you." Paul pictures you as a large house with many rooms. The word of Christ is a treasure. "Richly" is literally extravagantly rich. The verb "dwell" is a command that means continually (increasingly) dwell. ...

In the first article we looked at how false teachers are described in the New Testament. In the second article we looked at how they teach. In the third article we looked at what they teach. Today, we will look at how they were dealt with. Firstly, from the verses already shared, you would have seen that false teachers are labelled as savage and ravenous wolves, false pr...

In the first article we looked at how false teachers are described in the New Testament. In this second article we looked at how they teach. In this third article we will look at what they teach. Let us be reminded that false teachers are ravenous wolves dressed in sheep clothing. They are savage wolves who pretend to be shepherds. They are Satanic apostles disguising them...

In the first article we looked at how false teachers are described in the New Testament. In this second article we will look at, "how they teach?" Rom.16:18 says, "by theirsmooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting." The word "smooth" also means plausible speech and insinuating speech. "Flattery" also means false eloquence. In this false eloq...

The Bible has a lot to say about false teachers. In this article I will focus on what the New Testament teaches. Firstly, how are false teachers described? We begin with Jesus. In Matt.7:15 Jesus called them false prophets and ravenous (raging; rapacious) wolves. In Matt.7:23 Jesus described them as lawless, that is, as those who refused to do God's will. In Matt.24:24...

"In the beginning wasthe Word, and the Word waswith God, andthe Word was God. Andthe Wordbecame flesh, anddwelt among us, andwe saw His glory, glory as ofthe only begotten from the Father, full ofgrace andtruth." (Jn.1:1, 14). The Word, Jesus, is the eternal Son of God. The eternal Son of God entered time, born of a woman as a real flesh and blood human being. Jesus is th...

John 1:1-18 has been described as the Prologue of the gospel. In vs.1 John established for his reader the deity of the Logos (Jesus). Then he gave one important added proof about Jesus' deity. He told us in vs.3 that Jesus is the Creator of the heavens and the earth. The apostle Paul made it clear also in Col.1:16 that Jesus is the Creator. And in vs.17 he told us that Jes...

As we have seen in the preceding articles, John has made it very plain in Jn,1:1-2 that the Word, Jesus, is God, the second member of the Triune Godhead. Now in vs.3, John turned our attention to Jesus' relationship to creation. He wrote, "All things (or "everything") came into being through Him [Jesus], and apart from Him nothing (lit. not one thing) came into being that ...

John wrote, "In the beginning wasthe Word, and the Word waswith God, andthe Word was God.2He was in the beginning with God.3All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being." (Jn.1:1-3). Let us review. The gospel of John is evangelistic in its purpose. John wrote so that his readers would believe that the Christ, ...

John wrote, "In the beginning wasthe Word, and the Word waswith God, andthe Word was God.2He was in the beginning with God.3All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being." (Jn.1:1-3). In the beginning, that is, when time and creation began, the Word, Jesus, was there. We saw in the first article that this teach...