"Watch your Back!"
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· 17 viewsStaying viligent as it relates to false teaching and messages
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Introduction:
Introduction:
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Illustrations about Suits: Learning how to touch and feel fabric so that I don’t buy cheap suits.
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-Paul recognizes that challenges of a church that is in world, but having some challenges staying separate from the world. This is a challenge for all churches to smell different from the world. To be unique and special
-Paul recognizes that challenges of a church that is in world, but having some challenges staying separate from the world. This is a challenge for all churches to smell different from the world. To be unique and special
(v.5) “For this you know with certainty”
(v.5) “that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater”
(v.5) “has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God”
Always-As believers it is our responsibility to inform our minds & watch our company so that we can discern truth from error.
I. Protect your Mind
I. Protect your Mind
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
(v.6) “Let no one deceive you” Paul starts out this sentence here again with an imperative verb. “Let” this verb is present meaning that this command is a “daily” command, it is not a one-time battle this is daily battle. Listen to Paul words. Let no one(emphatic) deceive you. Let’s take a look at the word deceive:
a. Deceive(present; Daily)----to beguile, delude or trick. This is an intentional act, this is never by mistake.
Summarize— Paul says “Do let nobody play you for a fool!!”
-Paul then tells us how folks(teachers) will play you for a fool
(v.6) “Let no one deceive you with empty words”
What does Paul mean by empty words?
-We need to establish a definition of “Empty”Kenos---Hollow; Without substance of truth or reality
-Gaslighting: Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's belief
-These words aren’t weighty. These are words that have no eternal value, because they have no eternal value they will come back to bite you…Let’s take a look at it used in another passage so that we can pined down the etymology of the word.
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5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?
(v.5) “5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose” James in this text is asking a rhetorical question. James is talking to the church and asking them “Do you really believe that the scriptures are just a bunch of words without “kenos”(purpose) you will notice in this text that the translators use the word “purpose” as an antonym for the greek word “kenos”. These are words that minister to the flesh they do not minister to the Spirit. In a modern vernacular. “They tell you what you want to hear rather than what is right.” These types of people have existed since the beginning of time I will call them “deceivers” listen to Jeremiah talk about them:
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16 This is what the Lord of Armies says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are deluding you. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the Lord’s mouth. 17 They keep on saying to those who despise me, ‘The Lord has spoken: You will have peace.’ They have said to everyone who follows the stubbornness of his heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’ ”
Jeremiah
(v.16) Notice what name of God is used: “The Lord of Armies” or “the Lord of Hosts” we will call him the “I ain’t playing God.
(v.16-17) Notice what the false prophets do.
They deceive(They are deluding you)
They Contradict(They speak visions from their own minds, not from the Lord’s mouth”
They Confuse
To those the reject God they say “you will have peace”
To those that follow their heart “No harm will come to you”
To those
Now let’s go back and summarize the phrase in Ephesians with our new found knowledge
Now let’s go back and summarize the phrase in Ephesians with our new found knowledge
Summary— “Let no on play you for a fool, with fake(empty) words!!” (Ebonics)
-The Bible illustrates this flawlessly in
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1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; 3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’ ” 4 The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die! 5 “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
Key points:
a. Satan starts off with a question to get you to question what God has already made clear
b. Satan moves from question to contradiction “You surely will not die!”
c. Satan moves from question to contradiction to indoctrination “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing Good and evil.
-The indoctrination stage is when your heart/mind is totally open to his philosophy/teaching. They have both turned from the truth and embraced a lie. Satan teaching sounded good but it ministered to the flesh and not the Spirit.
Back to Ephesians
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
eph 5:6-7
(v.6) “Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things”
What does “these things” refer back too?
(v.6) It is important that we determine what “these things” refer too, because that it is what “the wrath of God” coming for. In other wards it is imperative that you & I know the things that will cause God pour his wrath out on humanity.
(v.6) “these things” refers back to the previous scriptures starting in (v.3-5): Sexual Immorality, Sexual indecency, greed, filthy talk, foolish talk, inappropriate joking and idolatry.
(v.6) Paul says “these things” are the direct cause of the Wrath of God visiting mankind. Paul’s words in this text gives us an idea of what certain teachers were saying in the church at Ephesus. “Hey it is alright for you to engage in illicit sexual behaviour, it is alright for you to be profane in your words because Jesus is a man of grace and forgiveness” Do you remember him forgiving the thief on the cross? Do you remember the story of him forgiving the adulterous woman? you see his grace allows us to sin and behave just like we used to as long as we go to church on Sunday and give him praise.
---This is a very old philosophy and it is called “Antinomianism”
This is a combination of two words “Anti”-No and Nomos-Law. Combine those together you get NO LAW or Without Law
-This crept in early in the church. As folks began to say we are no longer under law but under grace. So they took that to mean you could live anyway you want without any consequences.
Paul helps us out:
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1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
(v.1) Paul ask two rhetorical questions. What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? Let me rephrase “Let me get this straight, are yall saying that it is alright to sin, because you know the more you sin the greater is God’s forgiveness?
(v.2) “May it never be!” NASB “Absolutely Not” HCSB Now listen to his question “How shall we who died to sin still live in it?” Paul is saying that the new believer has been constitutionally changed he is fundamentally different.
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Why don’t living people hang out at a cemeteries?
Easy: Because cemeteries are for dead people not living. You would find it quite odd if you knew on the way home every night Pastor Johnson spent the evening sitting next to a tombstone then falling asleep next to it. You would think Pastor Johnson has lost it. and why? Pastor don’t you know “cemeteries are for dead people?” in the same way Paul is saying to those who have been changed “Truly Saved” living in Sin when you have been saved from it is like being alive and hanging out at the cemetery.
Current Situation
Lest you think that this teaching was just happening in antiquity. One of the fastest growing movements in the church right now are “grace churches” who love, embrace, and accept all forms of behaviors without rebuke, because they reason that all sins are under grace.
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
(v.6) “Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.”
(v.6) Notice what Paul says “Daddy is going to handle this issue when he comes home” the six most horrible words in the Johnson house growing up were “wait to your father get’s home!” Those words were sobering in my house. They had a way of slowing me down. Whatever I was doing I stopped and I became the model child. Paul here warns “the wrath of God is coming”
-It is important to note that God’s wrath can function in two ways:
a. God’s direct wrath—Flooding the Earth; Sodom & Gommorroh, Plagues of Egypt....This is when God directly by his own hand brings death, disease and destruction.
b. God’s indirect wrath---Saul(went crazy), Samson(went blind), The Nation of Israel falling into captivity because of their sin, Judas(The guilt of what he did caused him to commit suicide)
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11 “But My people did not listen to My voice, And Israel did not obey Me. 12 “So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk in their own devices. 13 “Oh that My people would listen to Me, That Israel would walk in My ways!
(v.11-12) Notice this text. Rather than discipline them by his own hand God removed his restraining hand of grace and let them have anything they wanted. Now the natural consequences of their behavior are manifested.
Analogy: As parents we do this all the time particularly fathers, sometimes we watch our children keep playing with fire we get silent and just watch next thing you hear is screaming. Then we say “I bet you wont’ touch that fire again!”
Rather than spanked their hand we let the fire spank them.
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
(v.6) “the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience” In this text I cannot tell you if this is God’s direct wrath or his indirect wrath. But I can tell you that you don’t want either of them.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Analogy----Mom and Dad leaving a chore list and Sabrina job was to make sure we read it and follow through with it.
Author: Lucy Sherriff / Illustration Exchange12
ILLUSTRATION
The Huffington Post reports:
A Zimbabwean pastor has reportedly convinced his congregants his holy pens can make students pass their exams - and the more you pay for one, the better grades you'll get.
Prophet Sham Hungwe of House of Grace International Church in Harare is selling the pens, which cost from $1 up to $20.
According to News24Zim, the prophet told his congregation those sitting exams only needed faith and one of the special pens to pass.
"They are anointed and I declare passes when your children sit for exams. They are said to work for anyone who is sitting for any test," he said.
According to Nigerian Watch, one parishioner testified: "My son is not very bright and I think this will help him. With the knowledge he has acquired and this pen from the man of God, I think it is going to work."
One student said he scored highly in his A-levels last year after using the pen he was given by the prophet, reports Amebo Book.
APPLICATION
There is perhaps no other time when we are more vulnerable to deception than when we are told something we really want to believe. It doesn't matter how outrageous the claim, or how obvious it is that the messenger is motivated by greed. If it's what we want to be true, we swallow hook, line and sinker.
"For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear" ().
Yall it is your responsibility. To know that word so that you are not easy prey for a deceiver!!!
Open the Doors of the Church
II. Guard your Company
II. Guard your Company
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II. Guard your Company
II. Guard your Company
7 Therefore do not be partakers with them;