The person who tells one side of a story seems right, until someone else comes an asks questions.

Proverbs 18:17 (NCV)

Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have

come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their

going showed that none of them belonged to us.

1 John 2:18-19

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. I do not write to you because you do not know

the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist – denying the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

1 John 2:20-23

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who

meditates on His law day and night.

Psalm 1:1-2

Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have

come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their

going showed that none of them belonged to us.

1 John 2:18-19

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. I do not write to you because you do not know

the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist – denying the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

1 John 2:20-23

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us;

but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.

1 John 2:19

“[The conference] is going to grow into the largest, best run, most dynamic religious happening in the U.S.”

“[It will] capture the hearts of young Americans who are questioning their evangelical faith and exploring other options.”

“God is changing the church through the bodies of gay men.”

How can we know when someone is a false teacher?

A false teacher is someone whoteaches something that is contrary to Scripture.

Any movement or network or denomination is always a few generations, at most, away from death or heresy.

D.A. Carson

Five Ways to Tell a False Teacher

1. Heresy. Having a false belief regarding a primary Christian doctrine.• Monotheism• That the Bible is God’s Word• The Trinity• Sin nature• That Jesus was pre-existence, fully God, fully man, born

of a virgin, lived sinless life, died and resurrected• Salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ

alone

Hairesis = to choose

Five Ways to Tell a False Teacher

1. Heresy. Having a false belief regarding a primary Christian doctrine.

2. Sensuality/lust. Loose living, condoning or encouraging sin.

In the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing; they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of

evil-doers.

Jeremiah 23:14

Five Ways to Tell a False Teacher

1. Heresy. Having a false belief regarding a primary Christian doctrine.

2. Sensuality/lust. Loose living, condoning or encouraging sin.3. Blasphemy. No fear of God, which leads to slander of God.

Placing yourself above Scripture and God’s Word.4. Greed. Profiting from the popularity of false teaching.

…its priests teach for hire, and its prophets divine for money.

Micah 3:11

A prophet who asks for money or for a table to be spread in front of him is a false prophet.

Didache

Five Ways to Tell a False Teacher

1. Heresy. Having a false belief regarding a primary Christian doctrine.

2. Sensuality/lust. Loose living, condoning or encouraging sin.3. Blasphemy. No fear of God, which leads to slander of God.

Placing yourself above Scripture and God’s Word.4. Greed. Profiting from the popularity of false teaching.5. Despising of authority. Living as your own ruler.

Five Ways to Tell a False Teacher

1. Heresy. Having a false belief regarding a primary Christian doctrine.

2. Sensuality/lust. Loose living, condoning or encouraging sin.3. Blasphemy. No fear of God, which leads to slander of God.

Placing yourself above Scripture and God’s Word.4. Greed. Profiting from the popularity of false teaching.5. Despising of authority. Living as your own ruler.

“Lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.”

But you have an anointing from the Holy One,and all of you know the truth.

1 John 2:20

Anointing oil was used for…

• Consecrating kings and special servants for service• Removing sickness and restoring healing

Anointing oil was used for…

• Consecrating kings and special servants for service• Removing sickness and restoring healing

The anointing of the Holy Spirit marks us as Kings with the ability to see past any sickness, anything that would tear apart

the health of the church, such as false teaching.

What to do When Evaluating a Prophet

1. Respectfully hear what they have to say2. Compare it with Scripture3. Compare with what God’s been personally revealing to you4. Ask the opinions of your spiritual leaders5. Pray about it. You’ve been anointed.