Accommodation Abounds

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Accommodation Abounds

• Worldliness
• Be not deceived Evil companionships corrupt
  good morals.
• (1 Corinthians 1533)

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Accommodation Abounds

• Unity in diversity (2 Cor. 614 Eph. 511)
• Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the
  doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who
  abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the
  Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and
  does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him
  into your house nor greet him for he who greets
  him shares in his evil deeds. (2 John 9-11)

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Accommodation Abounds

• Those who love to have it so
• An astonishing and horrible thing has been
  committed in the land The prophets prophesy
  falsely, and the priests rule by their own power
  And My people love to have it so. But what will
  you do in the end? (Jeremiah 530-31)

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Are there any false teachers?

• Told we cannot identify one as a false teacher
  unless he is insincere or dishonest
• Results of this false teaching
• Must read hearts to determine motives
• Bible not clear enough to be definite
• Called factious if one raises Bible concerns
• Open-ended fellowship with sin

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False Teachers False Doctrine

• Growing view among brethren
• A false teacher is surely one whose dishonest
  motives and/or ignorance distinguish him from the
  sincere brother who has reached an erroneous
  conclusion.
• (Ed Harrell, Homer Hailey False Teacher?,
• Christianity Magazine, Nov., 1988, p. 9)

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False Teachers False Doctrine

• Growing view among brethren
• I do not regard Homer Hailey as a false
  teacher... because I am persuaded by his conduct
  his arguments that he honestly believes that he
  is faithful to God's teaching on the subject.
• (Ed Harrell, Divorce Fellowship,
• written speech at Florida College Open Forum,
  Feb., 1991)

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False Teachers False Doctrine

• Growing view among brethren
• You have noticed that I have said little about
  false doctrine. There is a reason for that
  false doctrine is an unscriptural term!
• (R. Andrew Parker,
• Sentry Magazine, XVII1, Mar. 31, 1991)

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Not a false teacher unless

• Dishonest motives
• Hypocrite
• Conscious effort to deceive
• Insincerity
• Ignorance
• Leads to the view that there is no such thing as
  false doctrine

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Is Oral Roberts a False Teacher?

• First, I judge Oral Roberts to be a sincere and
  honorable man. I would not make such a sweeping
  statement about many of the religious leaders I
  have studied...Nonetheless, I suspect that some
  readers will be troubled by an objective
  biography of Roberts which does not conclude with
  a harangue against religious quacks and
  profiteers. The facts simply will not bend to
  such a clear and moral interpretation.
• (Oral Roberts An American Life, David Edwin
  Harrell, ix)

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Bible Definition of False Teacher

• Not determined by motives
• Motives do not determine truth of a teachers
  doctrine - Phil. 115-18
• FALSE Falsehood, perversion of religious
  truth (Moulton, 442)
• FALSE TEACHER One who teaches false doctrine

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Bible Definition of False Teacher

• Teaches in opposition to revealed truth
• 1 But there were also false prophets among the
  people, even as there will be false teachers
  among you, who will secretly bring in destructive
  heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them,
  and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2
  And many will follow their destructive ways,
  because of whom the way of truth will be
  blasphemed. (2 Peter 21-2 see 119-21)

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Bible Definition of False Teacher

• Teaches in opposition to revealed truth
• 17 Now I urge you, brethren, note those who
  cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the
  doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. 18
  For those who are such do not serve our Lord
  Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth
  words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of
  the simple. (Romans 1617-18)

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Bible Definition of False Teacher

• Teaches in opposition to revealed truth
• 3 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia
  remain in Ephesus that you may charge some that
  they teach no other doctrine10that is contrary
  to sound doctrine, 11 according to the glorious
  gospel (1 Tim. 13, 10-11)

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Bible Definition of False Teacher

• Teaches in opposition to revealed truth
• 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven,
  preach any other gospel to you than what we have
  preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we
  have said before, so now I say again, if anyone
  preaches any other gospel to you than what you
  have received, let him be accursed. (Galatians
  18-9)

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Bible Definition of False Teacher

• Teaches in opposition to revealed truth
• 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test
  the spirits, whether they are of God because
  many false prophets have gone out into the
  world6 We are of God. He who knows God hears
  us he who is not of God does not hear us. By
  this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit
  of error. (1 John 41, 6)

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Bible Definition of False Teacher

• An action takes its nature from its relation to
  Gods revelation (divine truth), not the attitude
  of heart with which one acts
• UZZAH - 1 Chron. 139-10 1513
• Good intentions
• SAUL OF TARSUS - Acts 231 (269) 1 Tim. 113
• Clean conscience

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Bible Definition of False Teacher

• Same is true of false teacher his teachings
• 16 But shun profane and idle babblings, for they
  will increase to more ungodliness. 17 And their
  message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and
  Philetus are of this sort, 18 who have strayed
  concerning the truth, saying that the
  resurrection is already past and they overthrow
  the faith of some. (2 Tim. 216-18)
• --Nothing said of dishonesty, insincerity or
  ignorance!

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Forced to read hearts to identify oppose false
  teachers!
• Jesus reads hearts - Matthew 94
• But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Why do
  you think evil in your hearts?
• Miraculous gift of discerning spirits - 1 Cor.
  1210

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Forced to read hearts in order to identify
  oppose false teachers!
• Fruit reading -- Not heart reading!
• For what man knows the things of a man except the
  spirit of the man which is in him? (1 Cor. 211)
• Beware of false prophets, who come to you in
  sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous
  wolves. You will know them by their fruits.
  (Matt. 715-16)

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Forced to read hearts in order to identify
  oppose false teachers!
• Objective standard of testing Revealed truth
• And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall
  make you free. (John 832)
• Baptist on Acts 238 (saved before baptism)
• Christian on 1 Cor. 69-11 (adulterous remarriage
  sanctified)

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Clarity of truth will be called into question
  more and more!
• Always have been differences, and still are
• (Fellowship on Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage,
• Samuel G. Dawson, p. 23)
• So many different positions held by sincere men
  -- how can we be confident of the truth?!

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Clarity of truth will be called into question
  more and more!
• There have been significant differences on these
  issues since the beginning of the restoration of
  the New Testament way of Christ in America..
  Campbell....Scott Brewer McGarvey...Lewis
  OteySrygleyHardemanWhiteside

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Clarity of truth will be called into question
  more and more!
• ...The point is that we regard these men as
  giants, and rightly so. We use their
  commentaries, often quote from them, and are
  thankful for their service. Why all of a sudden
  must we now press each other to draw lines of
  fellowship when men of similar stature have such
  differences? (Dawson, 23-24)

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Clarity of truth will be called into question
  more and more!
• Social gospel?
• Days of creation?
• Instrumental music in worship?
• Women preachers and elders?
• Plan of salvation?

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Clarity of truth will be called into question
  more and more!
• Gods word becomes suspect on every disputed
  subject!
• For what if some did not believe? Will their
  unbelief make the faithfulness of God without
  effect? Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true
  but every man a liar. (Romans 33-4)

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Clarity of truth will be called into question
  more and more! (2 Cor. 113-4)
• But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived
  Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be
  corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom
  we have not preached, or if you receive a
  different spirit which you have not received, or
  a different gospel which you have not
  acceptedyou may well put up with it!

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Clarity of truth will be called into question
  more and more! (Ephesians 33-5)
• ...how that by revelation He made known to me the
  mystery (as I have briefly written already, by
  which, when you read, you may understand my
  knowledge in the mystery of Christ), which in
  other ages was not made known to the sons of men,
  as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His
  holy apostles and prophets...

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Clarity of truth will be called into question
  more and more!
• Are becoming a people willing to compromise the
  clarity of truth for the sake of peace
• And from the prophet even to the priest, Everyone
  deals falsely. They have also healed the hurt of
  My people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace! When
  there is no peace. (Jer. 613-14)

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• It will become impossible to oppose close the
  door to any error!
• Will eventually receive all who are sincere
  and have honest motives
• If anyone comes to you and does not bring this
  doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor
  greet him for he who greets him shares in his
  evil deeds. (2 John 10-11)

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• It will become impossible to oppose and close the
  door to any error!
• Contending for the faith will be ridiculed and
  condemned as factious
• Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to
  you concerning our common salvation, I found it
  necessary to write to you exhorting you to
  contend earnestly for the faith which was once
  for all delivered to the saints. (Jude 3)

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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Lessons like this will be viewed as
• Alarmist
• Legalistic
• Extremist
• Watchdog
• Having a personal agenda

Is there not a cause?
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Consequences of this approach(Where this
thinking leads)

• Fellowship with false teachers will
• Give error freedom to spread
• Solve nothing while increasing sin
• Compromise our fellowship with God

Therefore Come out from among them and be
separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is
unclean, And I will receive you. I will be a
Father to you, and you shall be My sons and
daughters, says the LORD Almighty.
(2 Cor. 617-18)
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