Sermon Tone Analysis

Acts 20

Apostates - The False Teachers

In the age of tolerance it is getting harder to define apostasy as the Bible would

It is frowned upon to call someone an antichrist or apostate

Jesus warned about

Apostasy Exposed

Exposed by the Holy Spirit

VERSE 1

What is an apostate?

The word

To go away, Refers to literal physical movement away from something or somewhere

To go away, Literally to physical movement away from something or somewhere

Cause to rebel, depart, leave, forsake, desert, abandon, keep away from, avoid association

False teachers that deny what Christ’s church confesses —John Stott

They contradict and deny the essential doctrines of the faith

They create a false Jesus Christ

Apostasy will happen

The Holy Spirit very plainly and clearly warns that some will depart from the faith

The Holy Spirit is guarding the truth of God’s word

The Holy Spirit reveals to Paul the coming of apostasy in the church.

Either through recorded scripture or under the inspiration of which Paul was writing this letter

The Holy Spirit’s authority in this matter

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The Holy Spirit identifies the false teachers and reveals their sources for their teaching

The Holy Spirit gives the timing

Latter times meaning afterwards or later or finally there will be seasons of apostasy.

These seasons will be repeated throughout the history of the Church.

During the final days a worldwide apostasy will fill the earth under the rule of satan’s Antichrist ()

The Holy Spirit identifies the victims

Beware

Someone who once said they believed but has forsaken the faith

Some who once said they believed but have forsaken the faith

Hebrews

Parable of the sower

Someone who has listened to the false teachers and demons

It contradicts the faith as taught in the scripture

It counters the truth with it’s own false truth

The Holy Spirit very plainly and clearly warns that some will depart from the faith

The Holy Spirit very plainly and clearly warns that some will depart from the faith

The Holy Spirit revealed to Paul the coming of apostasy in the church.

Either through recorded scripture or under the inspiration of which Paul was writing this letter

False teachers deny what the church confesses —John Stott

Apostasy is not a new thing

Latter times meaning afterwards or later or finally there will be seasons of apostasy.

These seasons will be repeated throughout the history of the Church.

During the final days a worldwide apostasy will fill the earth under the rule of satan’s Antichrist ()

When?

In latter times

Who? False teachers, Some will depart from the faith

Why? False teachers give heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons

What? speaking lies in hypocrisy

The Holy Spirit very plainly and clearly warns the cause for the departing

They paid attention to deceiving spirits and devoted their life to their teaching

The false teacher and the evil spirit that uses him

Deliberate deceptiveness

Attempting to: lead astray, to wander, roaming, to seduce, error

Invisible spirits characterized by:

Deliberate deceptiveness

Attempting to: lead astray, to wander, roaming, to seduce, error

They paid attention to doctrines of demons

The teaching of demons (evil spirit)

John 8:44

The great danger is that today false doctrines are not recognized as coming from demons unless they deny the faith in toto, as if the devil is not cunning enough to begin with little lies, as if only those that are as big as mountains come from him.

Expounded by apostates

Their speech and their mind

VERSE 2

False teachers deliberately express their lies

Deceiving is to lead astray

False teachers have a deadened conscience and have branded for the use of satan

VERSE 3

VERSE 4

A conscience no longer sensitive to the Holy Spirit

They have grieved and quenched the Holy Spirit

They have become slaves of satan

VERSE 5

They were slaves

Examples of their apostasy

VERSE 3A

They produce and proclaim teachings that opposes the will of God recorded in the word of God

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They lead an attack to reject sacred and sanctified things

Forbidding to marry and abstaining from gifts, such as food that God has created for us

Marriage and food relate to the two most basic appetites of the human body, sex and hunger.

They are natural appetites too, although both can be abused by degenerating into lust and greed.

—Stott, John.

The Message of 1 Timothy and Titus (The Bible Speaks Today Series) .

InterVarsity Press.

Kindle Edition.

Stott, John.

The Message of 1 Timothy and Titus (The Bible Speaks Today Series) .

InterVarsity Press.

Kindle Edition.

Stott, John.

The Message of 1 Timothy and Titus (The Bible Speaks Today Series) .

InterVarsity Press.

Kindle Edition.

Marriage is a gift God gave to the man and woman at creation

Marriage is a gift no one has the right to tear apart and rearrange it to their liking

Exposing their error through the Scriptures

Promoting the idea of spiritual superiority is gained

Abstaining from certain foods

VERSE 3B