What is the fate of those who embrace and especially those who teach false doctrine? I give you the Word of God in this matter.
“A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall not escape” (Proverbs 19:5).
“Then said He (Jesus) unto the disciples, ‘It is impossible but that offenses will come, but woe unto him through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he be cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones” (Luke 17:1-2).
“He that is not with me (saying and teaching what Jesus said and taught) is against me, and he that gathers not with me scatters (the sheep, unsuspecting believers)” (Luke 11:23).
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:11). Your insulting them may cause them to rethink their course and finally entertain the idea that they might just be in error and working against the Lord, and, thus, scattering the Lord’s sheep.
“For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives not the Spirit by measure….” (John 3:34).
“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, ‘Come out of her (ANY “church” that teaches false doctrine) that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues” (Revelation 18:4).
“Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse (directed to those who attend assemblies where false doctrines are taught and believed)” (I Corinthians 11:12).
“What communion has light with darkness (or truth with error)” (2 Corinthians 6:14).
“And He (Jesus) said unto them, ‘Take heed to what you hear….’ (as you might be listening to profound error)” (Mark 4:24).
“He that troubles you (by teaching error) shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be (a Billy Graham, a Jimmy Swaggart, or a Don Wiley).” (Galatians 5:10).
“Then Jesus said unto them, ‘Take heed and beware of the leaven (teaching) of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees’…Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees” (Matthew 16:6, 12). I wonder what groups or denominations Jesus would say beware of today????
“Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines” (Hebrews 13:9).
“Little children, let no man deceive you….In this the children of God are manifest (shown to be such), and the children of the devil. Whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother, for this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we love one another” (I John 3:7, 10-11).
“But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law, for they are unprofitable and vain. A man that is a heretic after the first and second admonition reject, knowing that he that is such is subverted and sins, being condemned of himself” (Titus 3:9-11).
“This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves….having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof, from such turn away…ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth….these also resist the truth, men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith” (2 Timothy 3:1,2,5,7 and 8).
The first assignment of every seminary student ought to be to memorize all the above verses of scripture and repeat them orally in their class of Bible 101 For their second assignment they should be given 30 days to read the entire Bible from cover to cover – from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21.
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley