Concerning Deceivers (Part B)

No list of blessings from being a Christian from living like a Christian. Don't lose the blessings from serving the Lord. Second Corinthians 510 for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.

That is the bema seat of the great white throne that each one may receive the things done in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Everybody will be blessed in heaven someone have a bigger Basque. This is cross reference radio with our pastor and teacher. Rick asked Rick is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Mechanicsville.

Pastor Rick is currently teaching through a special series called truth, love testimony, please stay with us after today's message to hear more information about cross reference radio, specifically how you can get a free copy of this teaching today. Pastor Rick will continue his message called concerning deceivers as he teaches through the book of second John. John has is added to John can't stand these guys as waist Doremus shake their hands and in those days it was in a handshake. It was a kiss on the cheek. Is it don't don't do that I would not shake Ralph morphemes hand is not.

I would preach the gospel to if he repents him him otherwise. I am not going to shake the hand of a serial killer who can stand up and say you can assemble and worship God. You can come murder and unborn child. Is this not disgusting. I'm not self-righteous with this. This is 2+2. This is basic.

Well, we need to tell in the workplace. We need to tell it in family. We need to send the anathema to you, you wrong this is interest in hatred as we love the truth and we hate all I and we hate people damning souls and they don't have to believe it or agree with us for us to stand our ground.

They also deny the second coming on the same grounds. God would never he never come the first time so he couldn't come the second of nevermind what Jesus preached. Nevermind with those who lived with Jesus preach nevermind what Paul was persecuting Christians then met Christ converted to Christianity and begin to preach the same thing. Signs and wonders following. They made up this deep knowledge as they do today. Darwin study the life of Darwinism who would ever listen to this guy is a loser as main goal Ingersoll who was so intelligent. He had the blueprint he needed to push his brand of Gnosticism of secret knowledge in many churches got right onto it and to this day. There those churches out there who do not believe in the creation of the universe. According to the book of Genesis, the word of God you can say we call it the book of Genesis to help us find what we need to be what it's all God's word. Second, John is no less God's word than the 23rd Psalm.

It is just as powerful and mighty it is. It is authored by Jesus Christ of the Holy Spirit to us and no naysayer is going to take that away from us and so is Paul saying, of course, as I just read from Philippians that he humbled himself. This is how God did see we believe Philippians not you that's the message. As I mentioned, rather than organizing assemblies. They just infiltrated the existing assemblies. I mean, they had their lecture halls and they wrote their papers, but they really had was no church of the Gnostics, there were just Christian churches who were teaching Gnosticism. After a while that they became apostate churches or and it was circulated in the neighborhoods in the workplaces in the government people just thought this was the greatest thing was better than triplets, ice cream, according to many of these people so they were adherents both in the church and outside the trigger people that despise Christianity and they held onto Gnosticism. And then there were those who tried to merge the two and John of course he knew about this junk and you knew that the will to great influence the work they were pulling it off when we get the third. Johnny says I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth he was talking about the Gnostics were telling lies, and John Versace such a relief that you not falling for this junk of others that are falling for it. He says this is a deceiver and an antichrist. It's the devil that's what he is saying. That's what the devil is a deceiver and what we believe matters in antichrist as an anti-God. According to the Scripture and the soul that is against Christ is doing in that present state Paul when he writes, he says now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons on the Paul said, you know I don't have to know what brand of heresy they going to throw our way. It's coming and it will be identifiable to hold up next to the Scripture and you'll have your evidence disabled in the Gnostic Christians do that now.

They did not.

Instead of looking at the Scripture. The Scripture says that as they set policy and we can weave the two together.

We still see this today people writing books and throwing a little Scripture garnish it with some scripture so that's the authority and supposedly he's right.

The Scripture verse there. What is the original thought of that, Scripture verse that kind of deception and manipulation is is got to be identified. If you're not satisfied with the biblical record you. You are susceptible to do stuff that's got to just latch right onto you. You're always guilty of your years to be tickled with some sensation.

You understand that much of life is a forced march is hard and you gotta just keep going and is not always as little real happy little party and if you looking for that from authors you're going to line yourself up to be tricked because the going to tell you happy things lined their pockets with your money for buying their books and then two years later. You can even remember the title of their book.

It was so good. Five steps to be the perfect Christian when Jesus said be perfect, as your father is he quoting the Old Testament he sink throw into this everything you've got. You not going to be perfect, but without this effort, it it won't work well.

You want to be a Christian throw into it everything you have and that is not easy. He didn't say it was going to be easy something very beautiful that the Bible teaches us about ourselves and God that no hunt, no matter how we struggle, the matter how many times he fall flat on our face. He is there he is not looking to abandon us.

He's not just waiting for that final mess up so he can just be done with us. You think like that than you know you're listening to the voice of the devil, and you need to be checked get out of that ship.

Save yourself that way. The mark of heresy as to claim Christ's salvation while at the same time disagreeing with him. That's heresy you can say I'm saving Christ. But he's wrong is Lord of all, not at all is who he says he is and you are who he says he is or you're bringing in a false teaching that will damn your soul and others to they acknowledged Christ. They just disagreed with him. They disagree with his apostle to them. It was nothing that these men lived with him for 3 1/2 years. What was more important that they were educated. They had their charts and their models and their graphs didn't catch that one verse eight look to yourselves that we do not lose those things we work for, but that we may receive a full reward that word look to yourselves. It's a single word in Greek the original language that John wrote in blackball is the Greek word I don't have to say that Buddhist I just wanted to. It means to watch out beware. Pay attention. It's a minefield. You cannot sashay through a minefield and expect to make it not all your parts. They may be gifted and charming. They may say some true things.

Some helpful things. Then they break the deal. You know you go to buy a car and injures all these things about it, but then is a dealbreaker. I mean, what if you going to buy a guard is a you know will give you this excellent deal. Get everything you have in a but we going to cut off your right hand. That's a dealbreaker to me their damning souls. To this day still goes on. It's always a subtle error at first, but beneath that subtle error is a serious one, and usually it's regarding the person of Christ. When Jesus and the men say that I am human.

This was all about is if you deny me if you tell me I'm not who I am.

You have a problem on me and here when they come along.

To this day they have a problem with the person of Christ Mormonism Jehovah witnesses, etc. there probably the Holy Spirit, they either over you and all inflated him to the point which Christ is no longer in the picture, or they drug days mess him up some other way in their thinking or the trustworthiness of Scripture is fallible. This got these problems, you can't trust what it's saying is not self-correcting. That's how they do business and that you are well.

I'm so analytical tool fault.

You be damned in your analysis to just stick to the Scripture so simple. It is our personal responsibility to not be deceived. That's why I read Scripture verses.

When I make a point. I often give you one or two verses to give you what to do. Witnesses Colossians 2, verse 18. Let no one cheat you of your reward. Taking delight in false humility worship of angels intruding into those things which is not being been seen vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind. Paul is saying to let them cheat you of what God wants to give you well is nonsense to bringing your way and again Coliseum was where the Gnostics was starting to take root. Early on, the Judaism was still the dominant bread, but there were pockets of Gnosticism growing with the Gentiles.

So you go to the book of acts in the day of Pentecost and is this glorious time in the tongues of fire on the apostles in the wind.

All this stuff is happening, troubles coming. The church was magnify the church was multiplied and Satan formed a plan to come against it. All that's just sobriety was being sober minded Christians fools trade Christianity for insanity very quickly look for that thrill.

They're more interested in singing songs and ever learning what Jesus wants them to learn nothing wrong with songs that you can do it to a fault that can become what's important to you while not being what's important to God or other, otherwise God would just left us with a hymnal you can get off centered you begin majoring in the minors Isaiah puts it this way to the law and to the testimony of the do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them and the Gnostics were boasting we've got the life you want to get saved you going to have to have this knowledge. It's not the cross of Christ that saves it is the knowledge of spiritual things that God is so pure and holy. He would never put his hands on anything material because everything material is defiled, dualistic yin-yang stuff get out of my face. Sounds good.

If you have no relationship with the Lord. But if you know the Lord if he is your Savior and your Lord God before he's your friend. Now you have power to handle deceivers messing with my Lord like that you should tell the percent okay sorry is not that I'm getting in the flesh is a righteous indignation. Of course, but what he says here will not.

But what, but that we may receive a full reward. He says avoid the penalties though lose the blessings from being a Christian from living like a Christian.

Don't lose the blessings from serving the Lord. Second Corinthians 510 for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.

That is the bema seat of the great white throne that each one may receive the things done in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Everybody will be blessed in heaven. Some will have a bigger basket. I mean I look at the life of Paul and nice you know I'm going be stealing stuff from his basket. You won't notice it missing. It's so big. So, may I say very gently to any Christian who you read this in your you're very afraid because you fall on your face so many times. You may say to yourself I have such a low grade Christianity.

How could I ever gain a reward with Christ. Take heart. Keep moving forward. God will just the loves you he loves you because he is love, and he's not looking to work against you seizure weakness. He understands why he is left you as weak as you are.

That's his business, but this is our business where sin abounded, grace did much more the love of God overcomes if love overcomes a multitude of sins amongst people. What does the love of God due to my multiple failings as a Christian she Satan is now you just pulled his teeth can't bite you now how can he bite you if you say I am secure in my faith I am secure because of my Lord.

He holds me up. I don't fail my Lord and do a dance over it and say it's not important and dismiss it, by go back to my war room and I come up with a strategy to face this thing again and again and again that is a distinction between the believer and the nonbeliever nonbeliever shrugged her shoulders as how well or workout. The believer says if it works out is because the mighty hand of God is upon me. It is his doing. Joseph ball abode and strength held by the mighty hand of God. That is the lesson throughout the Bible. It is not an encouragement to be weak. It is an encouragement to be strong in your weakness.

Should I should I tell you nobody we fall apart lie on the ground you're done.

That would be a lie and I know what Satan does to human beings because I'm one of the human beings.

And I also know how to fight back and I don't have to wind I win I just have to fight back.

Verse nine he says whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God he who abides in the doctrine of Christ is both the father and the son. See puts Christ on the same level. He puts his son in the same level as the father can do this with anyone else it in of the easiest way to refute the Jehovah witnesses and Mormon heresies is take the words of Jesus Christ from the gospel and put them in anybody else's mouth and what you have blasphemy you. Nobody can say that what Jesus is no angel, no created being can say the things Jesus Christ said about himself.

I am the way the truth and the life no man comes to the father. Just a basic one God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, say that if you believe in rank.

You shall not bear the laughable not that funny. This is it is insane and just read the guys would be coming to Mark's gospel.

I'm so looking forward to the gospel church.

The church needs to go back to the gospel move forward.

Some go back to the gospel and forward some demo going to hit the book of acts. Maybe by then the revelation I say that because I'm thinking a Mayan, how much work it is all right well but back to verse nine.

Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. Whoever leaves the ship of Christ will sink. That's the basic way of just interpreting that verse. That's what it means leave Christ in you done and you will have no one to blame but yourself. No one can force you away from Christ. If you choose to follow some false faith in you choose to not abide in Christ does not fooling around. Neither should we is one thing to be weak.

It's nothing to be a heretic parrot to being a heretic and apostate is not about weakness it's about choice and so the let man's doctrines undo what you know.

Second Timothy chapter 4 for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.

They won't be able to sit under the word of God. They don't want to hear its convictions is true.

This challenges but according to their own desire.

That's idolatry because they have years that want to be tingled. They will heap up they will pile up. They will mount up teachers for themselves. They just go shop for teachers was preaching what they want to hear. He says he will abides in the doctrine of Christ is both father and the son.

There is the assurance of beautiful verse for any believer who struggles in the flesh, the doctrine, the teaching of Christ what Christ taught that began in Genesis 11 and all the way through Romans 10. Listen to this in context of Gnosticism because I'm going to read Romans 10, nine and 10, which the. The Gnostics disagreed with and tried to chip away in the lives of believers. When John was preaching and Peter was preaching.

Paul's letters were circulating. They reached churches people at least the Old Testament they had will see in just in this section 2 how all of them. He just couldn't get to it. Romans 10 910 if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

The part where he says if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead.

That's what the Gnostics refused to believe. I would never allow such a thing he did and he plea backs it up in the prophecy is one of the draw.

One of the greatest points of God kept saying that I Isaiah 53 just lays it right out for us all. Not to mention Psalm 22 and other places over to the big ones.

Psalm 32.

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh does not compute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. Not trying to trick God. I'm not trying to get something at the cost of someone else. Gnostics disagreed with all that I keep saying that because it's up to us to do the math or to connect the dots from first second third century Gnosticism to this present day all through history you find people like these people deceivers were not satisfied with Christians believing Christ and whether they bring in idolatry from some other religion and mix it into Christianity, or some other just made up junk. They're doing the same thing they're denying the doctrine of Jesus Christ and the bringing in their doctrines and it's not tricky. If you are committed to the Scripture.

It is not hard to unmask these people. I know that's the word of the day. Gen. Flynn being unmask.

If anyone and I am sure what that means in the context but if anyone comes to you and does not verse 10 bring this doctrine do not receive them into your house and agreed him while you don't have this doctrine. By default you do in estimable damage and estimable damage you do I support subverting the truth.

The damage against the work of the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ. So those contrary to Christ, false teachers is what our Bible says what we believe what we hold to. They don't have to like it they can think of mean and cruel they can call us bigots and because anything they want. They can even call is late for dinner. We had elsewhere. You know the saying. You can call me anything but late for dinner. Truth always comes down to doctrine and always it has to be something that makes sense. That is tied to proof, to reason, not without it.

Job's theology that was the battleground was Joe going to believe in his experience, or was he going to believe in truth concerning God and this is friends tried to get him off of that Job you've done something wrong, admit it and show it was like I've not done anything more than wrong then you.

In fact, you probably done things worsened me. In fact, I know people going worse to me and they don't like me the proof was everywhere, is I know my Redeemer lives and he struggled, he was in pain and suffering of so many things inside and outside because I look, I don't know what all that's going on, but I know this my Redeemer lives in all CM with my eyes so you either hold to the historic doctrines that the biblical doctrines of Christ or you don't you either go with doctrine or experience doctrinal.

What's these there is a sin leading to death.

When Jesus said, listen to this. We read this last session. Whoever does not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake the very dust off your feet. Listen here comes as a testimony against them. In other words, you knock the dust as it does not blame. Thanks for listening to cross reference radio today cross reference is the teaching ministry of Pastor Rick Gaston of Calvary Chapel Mechanicsville, Virginia. If you're interested in more information about this ministry, you can visit our website cross reference radio.com. You'll find more of Pastor Rick's teachings available.

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