Notes from Beware Of Wolves
1. Beware of the Wolves
2 John
2. Guiding Principle
Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits…
3. Beware of the Wolves
Talking about false prophets and teachers this am.
4. A little humor
Tough topic need comic relief
5. Next Epistle
The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth, for the sake of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever: Grace, mercy and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
6. This is to a church that John was very familiar with
Saved under John’s ministry
Read the Gospel of John
Read I John
Emphasizing certain points
7. What are these points?
Truth
Love
Abiding
Jesus is the Son of God
8. Get ready to answer
I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father. Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning,
9. What are the commandments?
Love and obey
10. You know this!
that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
11. Love and Obedience
Walk these out in your life
12. However
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.
13. From last week
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask and God will for him give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should make request for this. All unrighteousness is sin…
14. God takes false teachers/prophets seriously
Bring destruction on themselves 2 Peter 2
Cut down and thrown into fire Matt 7:19
Will not enter the Kingdom Matt 23:13
15. Our old friends
Gnostics
Jesus not flesh and blood
Jesus didn’t die
Jesus not the Son of God
Hidden knowledge
16. Inconvenient truth
Reject
Revise
Revile
17. Right belief has its reward
Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.
18. Going beyond orthodoxy
Whoever goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.
19. It’s about abiding
Goes too far-Isn’t saved
Lives the teaching–Is saved
20. Warning
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.
21. Standards
What does the Bible plainly say?
22. Application
Prosperity Gospel
Word Faith Movement
23. PRO$PERITY GO$PEL
the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, the gospel of success, or seed faith) is a controversial religious belief among some Protestant Christians, who hold that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to religious causes will increase one's material wealth. Prosperity theology views the Bible as a contract between God and humans: if humans have faith in God, he will deliver security and prosperity.
The doctrine emphasizes the importance of personal empowerment, proposing that it is God's will for his people to be blessed. The atonement (reconciliation with God) is interpreted to include the alleviation of sickness and poverty, which are viewed as curses to be broken by faith. This is believed to be achieved through donations of money, visualization, and positive confession.
24. Benny Hinn
Amen
25. Jim Bakker
“The more I studied the Bible, however, I had to admit that the prosperity message did not line up with the tenor of Scripture. My heart was crushed to think that I led so many people astray. I was appalled that I could have been so wrong, and I was deeply grateful that God had not struck me dead as a false prophet.”
26. Jesus on prosperity
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;
27. Jesus on prosperity (continued)
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
28. It’s a heart condition
Which is more likely to be God’s choice for you?
29. Jesus view of money
He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?
30. Jesus view of money (continued)
And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
31. Ask yourself
Would God bless you with a temptation?
32. Paul warns Timothy
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
33. Peter
Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
34. Word Faith
Neither soundly orthodox nor thoroughly heretical
35. Word faith
Believe a “rights centered” gospel
Old Covenant in the New Covenant age
Faith in their faith
Faith is a force and becomes a reality
Positive/negative confession
Prosperity based on giving
36. Joyce Meyer
Yes
37. In a nut-shell
Christians should be healthy and wealthy.
Our prayers are always answered.
We speak things into existence through faith.
38. A man centered message
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life,
39. A man centered message (continued)
is not from the Father but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.
40. The worldly message
Fulfilling desires
Coveting
Pride in yourself
Temporary
41. Guess who said these Little gods Guess
You’re created in the same spiritual class as God. The difference between you and me and God Almighty is that He’s sovereign, and we’re not.
42. Creation confusion
“God’s reason for creating Adam was His desire to reproduce Himself. I mean a reproduction of Himself, and in the Garden of Eden He did just that. He was not a little like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to God even. . . . Adam is as much like God as you could get, just the same as Jesus. . . . Adam, in the Garden of Eden, was God manifested in the flesh.”
43. Little gods
When I read in the Bible where He says I AM, I just smile and say, 'Yes, I AM too.’
44. Words matter
“I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is….The biggest one is God….I mean, He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel; the first man He ever created; the first woman He ever created; the whole earth and all the Fullness therein; a third of the angels, at least – that’s a big loss, man… Now, the reason you don’t think of God as a failure is He never said He’s a failure. And you’re not a failure till you say you’re one.”
45. Huh?!
"Words create pictures, and pictures in your mind create words. And then the words come back out your mouth....And when that spiritual force comes out it is going to give substance to the image that's on the inside of you. Aw, that's that visualization stuff! Aw, that's that New Age! No, New Age is trying to do this; and they'd get somewhat results out of it because this is spiritual law, brother."
46. Is this in the Bible?
“Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.”
47. The cross
"Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell"
48. Three days in the tomb
He [Jesus] allowed the devil to drag Him into the depths of hell….He allowed Himself to come under Satan’s control…every demon in hell came down on Him to annihilate Him….They tortured Him beyond anything anybody had ever conceived. For three days He suffered everything there is to suffer.
49. Ask your self
Would you listen to him?
Buy his books?
Support his ministry?
50. Kenneth Copeland
Word Faith preacher
51. Beware
of the
Wolves
Closing prayer
2 John
2. Guiding Principle
Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits…
3. Beware of the Wolves
Talking about false prophets and teachers this am.
4. A little humor
Tough topic need comic relief
5. Next Epistle
The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth, for the sake of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever: Grace, mercy and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
6. This is to a church that John was very familiar with
Saved under John’s ministry
Read the Gospel of John
Read I John
Emphasizing certain points
7. What are these points?
Truth
Love
Abiding
Jesus is the Son of God
8. Get ready to answer
I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father. Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning,
9. What are the commandments?
Love and obey
10. You know this!
that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
11. Love and Obedience
Walk these out in your life
12. However
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.
13. From last week
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask and God will for him give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should make request for this. All unrighteousness is sin…
14. God takes false teachers/prophets seriously
Bring destruction on themselves 2 Peter 2
Cut down and thrown into fire Matt 7:19
Will not enter the Kingdom Matt 23:13
15. Our old friends
Gnostics
Jesus not flesh and blood
Jesus didn’t die
Jesus not the Son of God
Hidden knowledge
16. Inconvenient truth
Reject
Revise
Revile
17. Right belief has its reward
Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.
18. Going beyond orthodoxy
Whoever goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.
19. It’s about abiding
Goes too far-Isn’t saved
Lives the teaching–Is saved
20. Warning
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.
21. Standards
What does the Bible plainly say?
22. Application
Prosperity Gospel
Word Faith Movement
23. PRO$PERITY GO$PEL
the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, the gospel of success, or seed faith) is a controversial religious belief among some Protestant Christians, who hold that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to religious causes will increase one's material wealth. Prosperity theology views the Bible as a contract between God and humans: if humans have faith in God, he will deliver security and prosperity.
The doctrine emphasizes the importance of personal empowerment, proposing that it is God's will for his people to be blessed. The atonement (reconciliation with God) is interpreted to include the alleviation of sickness and poverty, which are viewed as curses to be broken by faith. This is believed to be achieved through donations of money, visualization, and positive confession.
24. Benny Hinn
Amen
25. Jim Bakker
“The more I studied the Bible, however, I had to admit that the prosperity message did not line up with the tenor of Scripture. My heart was crushed to think that I led so many people astray. I was appalled that I could have been so wrong, and I was deeply grateful that God had not struck me dead as a false prophet.”
26. Jesus on prosperity
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;
27. Jesus on prosperity (continued)
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
28. It’s a heart condition
Which is more likely to be God’s choice for you?
29. Jesus view of money
He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?
30. Jesus view of money (continued)
And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
31. Ask yourself
Would God bless you with a temptation?
32. Paul warns Timothy
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
33. Peter
Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
34. Word Faith
Neither soundly orthodox nor thoroughly heretical
35. Word faith
Believe a “rights centered” gospel
Old Covenant in the New Covenant age
Faith in their faith
Faith is a force and becomes a reality
Positive/negative confession
Prosperity based on giving
36. Joyce Meyer
Yes
37. In a nut-shell
Christians should be healthy and wealthy.
Our prayers are always answered.
We speak things into existence through faith.
38. A man centered message
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life,
39. A man centered message (continued)
is not from the Father but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.
40. The worldly message
Fulfilling desires
Coveting
Pride in yourself
Temporary
41. Guess who said these Little gods Guess
You’re created in the same spiritual class as God. The difference between you and me and God Almighty is that He’s sovereign, and we’re not.
42. Creation confusion
“God’s reason for creating Adam was His desire to reproduce Himself. I mean a reproduction of Himself, and in the Garden of Eden He did just that. He was not a little like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to God even. . . . Adam is as much like God as you could get, just the same as Jesus. . . . Adam, in the Garden of Eden, was God manifested in the flesh.”
43. Little gods
When I read in the Bible where He says I AM, I just smile and say, 'Yes, I AM too.’
44. Words matter
“I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is….The biggest one is God….I mean, He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel; the first man He ever created; the first woman He ever created; the whole earth and all the Fullness therein; a third of the angels, at least – that’s a big loss, man… Now, the reason you don’t think of God as a failure is He never said He’s a failure. And you’re not a failure till you say you’re one.”
45. Huh?!
"Words create pictures, and pictures in your mind create words. And then the words come back out your mouth....And when that spiritual force comes out it is going to give substance to the image that's on the inside of you. Aw, that's that visualization stuff! Aw, that's that New Age! No, New Age is trying to do this; and they'd get somewhat results out of it because this is spiritual law, brother."
46. Is this in the Bible?
“Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.”
47. The cross
"Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell"
48. Three days in the tomb
He [Jesus] allowed the devil to drag Him into the depths of hell….He allowed Himself to come under Satan’s control…every demon in hell came down on Him to annihilate Him….They tortured Him beyond anything anybody had ever conceived. For three days He suffered everything there is to suffer.
49. Ask your self
Would you listen to him?
Buy his books?
Support his ministry?
50. Kenneth Copeland
Word Faith preacher
51. Beware
of the
Wolves
Closing prayer
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