Contend for the faith against false teachers | Rapp Report Daily 0176 | Striving for Eternity

False Teachers in the New Testament and the Old Testament

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We have to deal with the issue very often of false teachers. This is nothing new. In fact, we see the book of 1 Peter and also the book of Jude deals with this specifically, but we see it throughout the New Testament, even in the Old Testament, there were always an issue with false teachers.

Contending for the Faith Once for All Delivered

We want to look at the book of Jude and see what it says to us that we can learn about false teachers, how to spot them, how to avoid them. Right off the bat, in verse 3 and 4, he says that he writes these things for our common salvation and that it was necessary that these believers would contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

So this is the motivation that we have, that we have to think about. When we are going out to contend against false teaching, it is not to promote ourselves. It is about the gospel message. So first thing that we end up seeing that Jude instructs us is that it isn't that we should be out there looking for heresy everywhere we can find it.

Warning the Church Without Hunting for Heresy Everywhere

No, but there are going to be false teachers. And we do need to warn people because of the fact that as we look at false teachers, we end up seeing that there are those who would pray on the church. And that's why Jude, Peter, Paul, John, those are just New Testament writers, but you can go in the Old Testament and all the prophets, and you can see how often false teaching was condemned and addressed as an issue.

And so as we look at this, I want you to think about false teachers. Don't be looking under every rock for them. There's plenty of them to find, but we want to figure out how can we identify who's a false teacher.

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