False teachers seek money for serving God | Rapp Report Daily 0182 | Striving for Eternity

False Teachers and the Way of Cain

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As we look in the book of Jude, we end up seeing now a warning that he provides for us when it comes to false teachers. In verse 11, he says, Woe to them, speaking of the false teachers, woe to them, cursed on them!

For they walk in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error, who perished in Korah's rebellion. So what you see is, let me give you some background, the way of Cain.

The way of Cain means the way of doing things your own way. Not God's preserved way, not the way that God instructs us to do it, but doing it on our own. That is what the idea of the way of Cain. He abandons God's word for his own.

Balaam’s Error: Serving God for Money

And what is the Balaam's error? Balaam, you can look in Numbers 22 -25 and see about him. He was someone that wanted to try to walk the path of gaining money and serving God. He was paid to curse the nation of Israel.

He wanted the money. He took the money. He just wouldn't curse Israel because he knew it was wrong. And what you see in the example of Balaam is people who want to, in the service of God, make money. There are plenty of charlatans like Balaam today who look to make their livelihood, make money off of quote-unquote serving God, when really they're in the way of Cain.

They serve themselves. There are people who are trying to make a living this way. This is a mark of a false teacher. Men who are more interested in the money they can earn from claiming to serve God like Balaam and they will punish.

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