I. A Warning about False Teachers

II. Punishment for False Teaching: Bad Angels, the Flood and Sodom & Gomorrah

III. God will Rescue the Righteous: He Delivers those who Trust Him

I. A Warning about False Teachers

Look at verse 1 again:

1. Church Government differences: “To deacon or not to deacon.”

2. Style of worship: Hymns, Contemporary worship, Monastic chants, etc.

3. Baptism: “To dunk or not to dunk”

4. Free will vs. Election: My Choice or Chosen?

5. Eschatology (End Times teaching): Pre, Mid or Post tribulation…

(Yes! You can believe anyone of these views and still get to heaven)

6. Charismatic vs. Non-Charismatic: “To lift hands or not to lift hands.”

7. Bible Translation: NIV, ESV by in large it’s all good with me!

1. The Erasing of Hell.

2. The idea that there are “many paths to God.”

3. Any teaching that redefines the person of Jesus Christ.

4. Teaching that adds human religious works to Christ’s finished work on the cross

as necessary ingredients for salvation.

5. The teaching that presents grace as a license to sin.

A.W. Tozer:

“Each generation of Christians must look to its beliefs. While truth itself is unchanging, the minds of men are porous vessels out of which truth can leak and into which error may seep to dilute the truth they contain. The human heart is heretical by nature and runs to error as naturally as a garden to weeds…the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness…”

–A.W. Tozer

1. Be Careful and Cautious.

1. Be Careful and Cautious.

2. Be a Berean - Compare everything to Scripture.

1. Be Careful and Cautious.

2. Be a Berean - Compare everything to Scripture.

3. We need to Wake up - Don’t be Spiritually Sleepy.

I. A Warning about False Teachers

II. Punishment for False Teaching: Bad Angels, the Flood and Sodom & Gomorrah

Example #1: Bad angels

Example #2: The Flood

Example #3: Sodom & Gomorrah

I. A Warning about False Teachers

II. Punishment for False Teaching: Bad Angels, the Flood and Sodom & Gomorrah

III. God will Rescue the Righteous: He Delivers those who Trust Him

Example #1: Noah

Example #2: Lot

- He was miserable.

- He was without a mission.

Example #3: You and Me – Jesus Came to Rescue Us!

I believe in God, the Father almighty,

creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,

who was conceived by the Holy Spirit

and born of the virgin Mary.

He suffered under Pontius Pilate,

was crucified, died, and was buried;

he descended to hell.

The third day he rose again from the dead.

He ascended to heaven

and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty.

From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,

the universal church,

the communion of saints,

the forgiveness of sins,

the resurrection of the body,

and the life everlasting. Amen.