QuickThoughts: False Teachers #1

False teachers are not deceived. They are not victims of Satan’s lies, but they are his servants, parroting the devil’s lies to prey on others!

📘 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 LSB

Anyone who preaches a Christ (1 Corinthians 3:11), spirit (Romans 8:15), or gospel (Galatians 1:6) other than what Paul and the other Apostles recorded in Scripture, is a wolf.

Masquerading as “ministers of righteousness,” they, like Satan, are seeking whom they may devour.

📘 Therefore, beloved, since you are looking for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, and consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard lest you, having been carried away by the error of unprincipled men, fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

2 Peter 3:14-18 LSB

Amen indeed!