Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
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… We're going backwards now. There were indeed false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the master who bought them and will bring swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved ways and the way of truth will be maligned because of them. They will exploit you in their greed with made up stories. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not idle and their destruction does not sleep. I do wanna pause here. Who are these false teachers? Peter is spending his last letter that he will ever write in his life talking about them. Who are they? There's been a lot of ideas throughout church history. certain scholars would try to say, oh, they were Stoics. Oh, they were Epicureans. Oh, they were Gnostics. And the fact is none of those answers really seem to do what they believe justice. None of those seem to be exactly what they believed. We don't exactly know who they were. Peter doesn't give us a full rundown of their theology. And at some point, I don't think we really need to stress about who were these people. People believe wonky things. Like you can go walk on any street in Albuquerque, and I guarantee you, somebody you will bump into believes something funky. People just believe wonky ideas. We don't always have to know where they come from. But what we do know is that they are arrogant because Peter calls them scoffers. They're arrogant. These aren't winsome, …
… impossible to detect unless the Holy Spirit is in you. He will warn you. Next verse, we have quite a few of these verses. 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 1 says, but there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you who will secretly bring in destructive heresies. Okay, everybody, that's a big warning. If you're a Christian tonight, wherever you go to church, even here, always be on the guard for weirdos. Listen, you know what? This is a big church. Big church, big problems. Big church, big blessings. big church big influence big church big attacks against it and people come all the time to try to bring in destructive heresies. Listen, we've had to have people, they were so, in the last couple of months, we've had two Jesuses show up here in services. They didn't look, they look completely different, by the way, but we had two different Jesuses show up saying they were Jesus. Last week or the week before, God's anointed prophet came here, and he said, can I talk to you? …
… 2 Peter 2. but there were also false prophets among the people even as there will be false teachers among you who will secretly bring in destructive heresies even denying the Lord who bought them and bring on themselves swift destruction. But these are like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed speak evil of the things that they do not understand and they will utterly perish in their own corruption. Wow. The Bible says this is the day that is going to This is the age that is going to describe the end times. A time, lack, or void of wisdom. Let's all stand. I want to, I'm going to have you stand, but I'm going to show you one more thing, which is just absolutely crazy. And you can look at it later in detail if you would look at the notes. can you guys throw the quote up there by Elon Musk if you would he was in an interview recently by the way this guy has really been on a journey His latest comment is, when interviewed, the reporter asked, where do you go to, listen to the question, where do you go to for inspiration? …
… This is a theme in Scripture. 2 Peter 2.1. There were also false prophets in Israel in the olden days, just as there, here it is, will be false teachers among you. They will cleverly teach. Do you like that? He's saying they're going to be good at it. It's not going to be just immediately visible. They're going to put enough truth on it to make the hook palatable. But they'll bring destructive heresies and even deny the master who bought them. In this way, he says, they will bring sudden destruction on themselves. And of course, Paul had a lot to say on the subject. including one of the most important realities, knowing what there is in the world today about false teaching, and that is that Satan likes to transform himself, 2 Corinthians 11, 14, into an angel of light. Beware any angel of light that shows up. So he's not going to have the pitchfork. He's not going to have pointy ears. He's going to come as a bright light, as a beautiful light. …
SOMETIMES IT'S FOR PRESTIGE. SOMETIMES IT'S FOR POPULARITY. SOMETIMES IT'S FOR POWER. PUT THIS VERSE IN YOUR MARGIN. SECOND PETER CHAPTER TWO VERSE ONE, BUT THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AMONG THE PEOPLE, EVEN AS THERE SHALL BE FALSE TEACHERS AMONG YOU, WHO PRIVALLY OR PRIVALLY SHALL BRING IN DAMNABLE HER, HERESIES, EVEN DENYING THE LORD THAT BOUGHT THEM AND BRING UPON THEMSELVES SWIFT DESTRUCTION, AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS, BY REASON OF WHOM THE WAY OF TRUTH SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF. MANY WILL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS. THOSE WHO ARE IN THE WAY OF TRUTH SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF. BUT NOW NOTICE VERSE 3, AND THROUGH COVETISHNESS, COVETISH, COVETISHNESS SHALL THEY WITH FAIN WORDS MAKE MERCHANDISE OF YOU. COVETISHNESS, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO BALAIM. NOW THERE ARE MANY FALSE PROPHETS, BUT YOU SPELL THE WORD PROPHET, P-R-O-F-I-T. THEY'RE IN IT FOR WHAT THEY CAN GET. THEY MAY BE ORTHODOX. THEY MAY STAND UP AND THEY MAY PREACH THE BLOOD. THEY DON'T PERVERT THE GOSPEL. THEY PROSTITUTE THE, THE GOSPEL. THEY SELL THE GOSPEL THE SAME WAY THAT MADISON AVENUE SELLS CARS AND SOAP. PAUL SAID IN SECOND CORINTHIANS CHAPTER TWO VERSE 17, THEY PEDDLE THE WORD OF GOD. THAT WAS THE THIRD KIND OF FALSE PROPHET. YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE TO SEE ALL KINDS. THEY'RE ALL OUT THERE, FRIEND. THEY'RE IN THE WOODWORK. THERE ARE THOSE WHO PERVERT THE GOSPEL. THAT'S THE WAY OF CAIN. THERE ARE THOSE WHO PROSTITUTE THE GOSPEL. …