Do you know someone who is in a cult?
Have your family members been proselytized by Mormon's, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hare Krishna members or even disciples of Rev. Sung Myung Moon's Unification Church?
Are you aware that false teachers and spiritual deception is at an all time high?
The Bible is clear that Christians are to discern between good and evil. The Bible is also clear that to not heed Scriptural admonitions to discern properly will lead to compromise, confusion and spiritual delusion.
Christians must obey the Word of God. The biblical mandate is nothing less then:
Prove [test] all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil (1 Thes.5:21-22).
We note closely the words of Paul the Apostle to the young pastor Timothy:
I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry (2 Tim. 4:1-5).
It has often been stated:
The shepherd [pastor] who only feeds the flock and never warns them [of false teachings and heretics] is only fattening them up for the slaughter.
How true this is today! Many modernist ministers, liberal theologians and neo-evangelicals profess to be Christian but at the same time reject the fundamental truths of the Christian faith. As a result, many 'church-goers' and new Christians are never taught the basics of Scripture or warned about spiritual deception! This is one of the main reasons why the proliferation of cults and false teachers is at an all time high. When Christian ministers compromise the basics of the Christians faith and individual believers fail to discern properly, the church becomes anemic, wordly and ineffective. This is exactly what is happening in many places around the globe.
It is up to each individual Christian to read their own Bible and be a discerning Christian. The Christian believer must seek the Lord in Spirit and in Truth. If we fail to heed the commands of Scripture, we have no one to blame but ourselves. Let us not forget the words of our Lord Jesus who said, ...“Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and will deceive many" (Mark 13:5-6).
In light of these things, let us get to work! Let us read our Bibles daily! Let us remember that
...everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (Hebrews 5:13-15).
Let us press on to know Christ and Him crucified! Let us partake of the meat of the Word and mature in the faith! And let us by all means "contend earnestly for the faith which was once [for all] delivered to the saints" (Jude 3). These things please the LORD and these things are part of the normal Christian life.
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