Combating False Teaching (1 TImothy 1:1-11)

Well, it's good to see you.

If you have your Bibles turned with me to first Timothy,

we're going to start this morning a new series in

the Book of Timothy. This is Paul's letter to Timothy,

a young pastor of a church in called Ephesus, And

so we're going to.

Start that through this new year.

You know, as we start the new year, it's time

for us new Year's resolutions. And I don't know if

you've started one. Many times as we start New Years

where we think about starting out a healthier new year.

After we eating all the goodies from Christmas, it's time

to maybe change the diet a little bit and.

Start eating a little healthier.

And you know, if you start thinking about physically wanting

to be more healthy, you start thinking about, okay, what

am I consuming right? Because what we eat right, it

makes a huge impact on whether we're healthy or not.

Did you know, like, for according to what we know

from doctors and is that an individual should a woman

should eat around sixteen hundred and twenty four hundred.

Calories a day.

A man would eat somewhere around twenty two hundred and

twenty to thirty two calories a day.

Now, did you know as good as they are.

The pancake breakfast at McDonald's has twelve hundred calories. So

just in one meal at the very beginning of your day,

you can almost ruin everything you need to eat for

the rest of the day. Do you know, as good

as taco bell salad is, and it's a salad, it

has a thousand calories in it right now, as good

as that chocolate cake is. It is almost a thousand

calories and one slice of cake. So you think about

all that here is like there's limits to what I

maybe need to eat a day, and if I'm not

careful and what I'm consuming, it may be good, right,

it may taste good, but it may not be what's

healthy for me. You know, just as much as we

as we think about New Year's resolutions, we think about

being healthier. If we're going to be healthy spiritually, if

we're going to be healthy as a church spiritually, we

also have to examine what we're consuming as we come

to first Timothy Paul is writing to Timothy. Timothy's a

young pastor. As we ended, if you remember, just a

few months ago, we were preaching through the Book of Acts,

and we got to the end of acts. Paul was

in Rome. You remember he was in Rome. He was

in prison. We now understand he was under house arrests.

We know from history that Paul would be in house

arrest for maybe a year or so, and then after

that he would leave. He would be freed. They wouldn't

sendence him. He would be freed, and he would leave

and he would travel from Rome, and he traveled back

to Cree, which is the island there in the Mediterranean Sea,

and he would stop at that island as a church

he started there, and he would visit with that church,

and he would leave another kind of young pastor he'd

been training, named Titus, and he'd leave Titus there to

lead the church in Creed. From there, he'd leave Kree

and he would head to Ephesus. Ephesus was a church

that he had started. He'd spent three years there and

there he left a young pastor by the name of Timothy.

He would leave Ephesus and he would start going and

seeing all the other churches that he had started in Macedonia.

And as he's in Macedonia, he hears that Timothy is

having trouble with false teachers.

He's the church has.

Been consuming some false teaching, and he wants Timothy to

confront the false teaching within the church in order for

the church to be healthy. Today, as we start our journey,

we're going to look in this through the next few months.

In first Timothy, we're gonna look what it means to

be a healthy church. What that means to be is

healthy church, and what it means to be we must

have healthy leaders, we must have healthy lives, we must

have healthy spiritual lives. But we also much have healthy teaching.

And so this morning we're going to look at that.

And I just encourage you today as you think about

your own spiritual walk and you want to be healthy spiritually,

I think it's also important for us to examine what

are you consuming spiritually? Do you understand can you recognize

false teaching? Do you know the difference between faithful teaching

and false teaching?

Can you? And then you know the important stuff.

We listen me as a pastor of the church, but

it's just not a pastor's role, it's also a church role.

We are to recognize what it's faithful teaching, what's false teaching,

and listen, it's important if we're going to be healthy,

healthy we must oppose false teaching in.

This world and in our church. And so this morning

we're gonna look at that.

What does it mean to combat false teaching? We stand

with me, Unlet's read God's word together this one, Timothy.

We're gonna start in verse one. We'll read it through

verse eleven.

Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus, by command of our

God and Savior, and of Christ Jesus, our hope to Timothy,

my true child, and the faith grace, mercy and peace

from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. As

I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, you

remain at Ephesus. So you may charge certain persons not

to teach any different doctrine, nor devote themselves to myth

or endless genealogies which promote speculation, rather than stewardship from God,

that is by faith. The aim of our charge is

love that issues from a pure heart, a good conscience,

and a sincere faith. Certain persons have by swerved from these,

have wandered away into vain discussions, desiring to be teachers

of the law, without understanding either what they are saying

or to the things about which they make confident assertions.

Now we know that the law is good if one

uses it lawfully. Understanding this, the law is not laid

down for the just, but for the lawless, the disobedient,

for the ungodly, in the sinner, for them holy in

the profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers,

for the murderers, the sexual, moral men who practice homosexuality,

in slavers, liar perjuries, in whatever is contrary to the

sound doctrine, in accordance with the Gospel of the Glory

of the Blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

Let's pray together. Father, We thank you Lord for your word.

We thank you Lord for God you bringing us together

to here this morning to hear your word. To understand, Lord,

what is a faithful teaching? What is false teaching? And Lord,

to the command that you give us to oppose these

false teaching in our world and our community and our homes,

in our lives. So Lord, help us lead us through

your word today, just as you, Lord spoke to Timothy, Lord,

may you speak to our hearts today.

Lord.

May we recognize the danger of false teaching, and Lord,

may we guard against that. Lord, may we seek to

worship you with a pure heart and a clear conscience.

Lord, we love you. We thank your Lord for this morning.

Your name we pray. I mean in this passage of Scriptures,

again Paul is in Macedonia. He's writing back to Timothy,

and he begins this passage by starting out with really

establishing his credibility as an apostle. Again, he would write

this to Timothy, but he knows there'd be those in

the church will read that. It would also know that

these false teacher who he's going to oppose, would stand

against them. So Paul begins by starting this letter by

giving his credentials. If you will, he says in verse one,

Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the command of God.

He says, here, I am an apostle. It was not

by my will or my desire.

It was God who appointed me. Is God who commanded me.

And so he does that at the very beginning, and

then he greets Timothy's as kind of a standard if

you read through Paul's letter, a standard greeting by Paul.

He says in verse two to Timothy, my true child.

It describes here we know that Paul led Timothy to

the Lord. We know Paul was the one who mentored

Timothy into the faith. We also understand that this is

an understanding for Paul, is that he's mentoring Timothy to

be a pastor as he has led us to be

a shepherd, as he is shepherded and say, this is

a true child in the faith, but also a true

child in the ministry, if you will. In verse he

continues by greeting him by saying grace, peace and grace,

mercy and peace from God, the father of Lord Jeus

christis was a greeting that Paul would use. And then

Paul gets right to the point. Verse three, Paul goes

to the matter at hand. He says, here, as I

urged you when I was going to Macedonia. Paul reminds

Timothy that as he was in Ephesus with Timothy, they

had visited the church, and now Paul was leaving to

go to Macedonia to visit the other churches. Just says

he visited the church in Creed and Ephesus, he would

go do that same.

The other churches. He just before he left, he pulled.

Timothy aside and says, Timothy is a young church, only

a few years old, Timothy, there's false teachers here. His

false teachers is here to disrupt what God is doing.

And he urged Paul says, he urged him to listen

to the imagery here as I was going to Macedonia,

I urge you to remain in emphasis. So that was

one thing. Remain in ephesis, so that listen, so that

you may charge certain persons not to teach any false doctrine.

Paul urged him at the very beginning, I'm leaving you

here to oppose to charge the false teachers not to

teach false doctrine. It's as we walk through this passage

this morning, you're going to see Paul do something. You're

going to see Paul expose false teaching, and he doesn't

compare in contrast. And so in this he'll he'll maybe

expose the false teaching, and he shows what is true teaching.

And so you're going to see this kind of back

and forth exposing it is bad, showing what is good. Right,

this is good food, this is bad food, This is

good teaching. This is I mean, this is bad teaching,

this is good teaching. And so he kind of goes

back and forth and he begins hereby, and I want

you to see that. As as Paul was walking through

this this passage, he first, how do we combat false teaching?

He commands Timothy, and he commands us, We're commanded to

oppose false teaching method. He starts by describing to timid,

I mean, he reminds Timothy of what is the method

of these false teachers. Listen to this in verse one,

he says, not to teach false doctrine. You know, there's

two method as a false teachers.

One is that.

They they teach false thing. They're they're very doctrine. The

very things that which they teach teach are not true.

This suggests, by the way that the church as a

whole would have understood.

What was sound doctrine that the church at ephesis.

Paul had been there three years, and he had taught

this church for three years, and they would have known

the truthfulness of God's word. They would know what true doctrine,

sound doctrine is. And he's saying, these people are teaching

something contrary to what I've taught you. This is something Also,

Paul says another place of scripture, they're teaching false doctrine.

Another method of false.

Teaching is that he says this in this passive scripture,

they certain persons not to teach different doctrines this in

verse four, nor devote themselves to endless myths, and I

mean themselves to myths and endless genealogy. The word myth

that Paul uses here actually had a history before their

New Testament was written. The word myth was actually used

in the Greek to understand fables or fall or fetch

stories that would be written about God or or God's

if you will.

That's the idea of the term.

Actually Plato, who was a philosopher at the time. Plater

used the word to describe people who would use stories

about God just to deceive people.

So Plato understood it.

As a as a deceptive tactive by others to use

stories to deceive people.

That's what Paul is saying. This is what the false

teachers are doing now.

They're teaching things that are not sound, and they're doing

it with myths stories about God that are not true,

with the intent to deceive people. And so he's exposing this,

and he says, Timothy, you must oppose these things.

We know that as we One of the.

Other issues that we see about this idea about myths.

Most scholars believe that the false teachers that were in

Ephesus were misusing the stories about the Mosaic law. Just

a minute, you're going to see that Paul reminds them

of some commands that were found in the very mirror

the Old Testament, the Ten Commandments, And we understand scholars

believe that these false teachers were using misusing the Ten

Commandments to justify their immoral lifestyles. And Paul is saying,

that's what false teachers are doing. They're using myths. They're

using these false stories to justify immoral lifestyles. He knowly

describes these myths, but he also uses this term of

endless genealogy. We see this in Titus. By the way,

these same issues were happening in the early Church. Can

you I just think as important as we were just

walking through on Wednesday night a New Testament survey class,

we walk through all the books of the New Testament,

and it's so interesting if you come to after Acts

and you come to almost all the early letters that

Paul wrote to the churches of pastoral epistles like Timothy

and Titus, and also James and John and Firs Peter.

One of the most issues with all these young churches

throughout the New Testament time, one of the biggest adversaries

against them was false teaching. One of the biggest issues

that they were facing was false teaching that was permeating

these churches.

It was happening in Creed.

And when Paul wrote Titus and Titus one fourteen, he says,

not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of

people who turn from the truth. This idea, the genealogies

that there was in this church in Ephesus, where helenus

Jews who were Jews, they were Greek Jews, if you will,

and they would get wrapped up in these genealogies, trying

to trace genealogies back all the way back to Abraham

and the fathers of the Old Testament, and they would

get wrapped up in these endless genealogies and create these

myths about these stories. We understand this even came this

book of the Old Testament called was written called the

Book of Jubilees, and they used these fabricated stories about

genealogies and all these things that have and the whole

point of this is to deceive people to lead people away.

Do you know today this.

We hear stories like this and it's kind of hard

for us to comprehend about these false teachers and how

this is happening.

But can I tell you it still happens to day.

Do you know in nineteen eight I mean eighteen twenty three,

there's a man he lived in I think up near

New York, if I could.

Be off on that a little bit, His name was

Joseph Smith.

Joseph Smith had a dream that he had an angel

visit him in his home, appeared to him, and in

this vision that this angel appeared to him in this home,

this angel told him that outside of his home, down

on the hill, there was these these golden plates that

we would be found, and he was to go to

this place and he would be visited by this angel

once a year for four years, and after four years,

the angel will reveal to him, because it took four

years for him to be prepared to be ready for this,

And after four years, he would find these mysterious golden plates,

and then he would take them back to his home

and he would put these golden plates in his hat

and he'd read from these golden plates while his wife

would transcribe the interpretation of these golden plates that the

Angel appeared to him, which would now be God's word.

And you know who this man is. His name is

Joseph Smith, and he is the founder of the Church

of Latter day Saints. Now you see this, this what

did I say you? These false teachers were endless myths

stories about God and Joseph Smith just now today the

Church of Latter day Saints is built upon these same

types of myths stories.

Do you recognize today that.

False teaching is still teaching doctrines, teachings that are contrary

to sound doctrines.

Do you understand that many of them.

Are built upon myths, fabricated stories, just seeking to deceive you.

That is what's happening in one Timothy, and it is

happening today.

And listen, we must.

Be aware, and we must be on guard, and.

We must oppose that. Can I tell you today? And

we're going to talk about this in just a moment.

It's not only important that we recognize false teachings among

those who look and sound like Christians, maybe like the

Church of Latter day Saints and Jeffy Witnesses and other

culture in our world. But do you also understand that

one of the greatest aspects of false teaching today is

in liberal theology? And you must recognize that just as

much as there are false teachers that are that disguise

themselves as Christians, there are also false teachers in liberal theology.

We'll go look at that and are you are you?

Do you recognize that there?

What is sound?

I can challenge you today? The early Church knew this

stand of what is sound doctrine? Do you know what

is sound doctrine today? In order for you to spot

it faith, you got to know the real thing the

early Church did, Timothy did.

We are too.

We are commanded to pose false teaching. But listen to

what Paul does here. He know it says we are

commanded to oppose, but we're commanded to promote what is

faithful teaching. Again, this is this, this is bad, and

this is good. And look at verse four. He describes

that nor devote themselves to a miss and endless genealogy

which promotes speculation rather than stewardship from God, that.

Is by faith.

The aim of our charge is love that issues from

a pure heart and a good conscience. And this is

there faith It's the interesting Paul says, they these guys

have swerved from the faith and they and we're gonna

look at this in just a minute. They they promote speculations.

They don't promote truth. They promote speculations. And rather than

Paul is saying, rather than promoting what stewardship is from God,

this word stewardship from God is this idea.

It means office of stewardship.

It kind of means of someone who was in an

administrative position, a manager, managing a property, managing something. He

understands that as a pastor, as an apostle, and as

Paul as Timothy, as a pastor, they have a responsibility

to lead the church to minister God's word and to

do that faithfully, to faithfully divide God's word. And the

purpose of faithfully dividing God's word is to lead people

not to speculations, but to what the truth of God's word.

And this is what he says by saying that, he says,

these people will lead to speculations, and our stewardship to

lead people to God, to lead them faith in faith

and listen. He says that rather than stewardship from God,

that is faith, and then he goes into this is

what our image. This is what my goal is as

an apostle. This is what our goal, your goal, as

Timothy as the pastor of Ephesis, this is what your

charge or your desire should be in leading people. This

is the way, it says the aim of our charge.

Aim of another term for charge there would be command,

it's love.

The reason why.

We preach faithful God's word truth is because we love people,

We love God's people, we love God. And then that

leads us to what. Listen, the aim of our charges

love that issues from a pure heart, a good conscience,

and sincere faith. You know what the product of faithful

teaching is. You know what it produces and want you

to see that here It produces three things in this

passage when when pastors faithfully teach God's Word, it produces

in believers three things. Paul lays these out. Number one

a pure heart. You think about this in your life

for today about why are you here at church today?

Why do you come to a church that you believe

teaches sound teaching, faithful teaching.

What's the goal in it?

What's the goal of When you read the Bible and

you study sound doctrine, and you say, Pastor, I do

want to understand more. I do want to read my Bible.

Do you want to find a devotional this year that

I can really grow in understanding?

What sound? What's the end result?

What's the report just to have head knowledge of understanding

more about God? Or is there a purpose of saying

that it's more than just knowing things and understanding though,

I want it to do something? And Paul says, this

is what sound doctrine produces. This is what being involved

in a church that teaches faithfully produces.

This is what it does for you. This what my

faithful teaching I hope.

Produces in you. One it helps produce in you at

pure heart. And this idea for pure heart is one

that comes from the Old Testament. The heart stands of

the total, the totality of a man's moral affections.

It's the idea of within your heart. We want to

lead people.

To have a pure heart with God, a right heart

with God. You know, we don't want you to be

just all heady and that you just have knowledge, but

it not change your heart. No, we want knowledge of

God's word to lead that it changes and it brings

you to a right heart, a clean heart before God.

That's the that's the goal of what our preaching should

be is not to make you moral compasses that know

morally what's the right thing to do? Know, we want

you to have people who have a heart that is

clean before God. That's why we teach, That's why you study.

It's because God, I want to have a pure heart

with you. Secondly, we want to have a good conscious,

and faithful teaching produces.

A good conscious.

The word conscious here literally means a joint knowledge that

came to be used to distinguish, like what is right

and wrong.

It's the idea of when we understand.

Faithful teaching, God uses it to produce a right hard

on us. But then it leads us to have a

good conscience to know what is right for me, what

does God want me to do?

What is the wrong thing for me to do? And

what's the right thing to do?

And I don't do it because I want to be moral.

I do it because I want to be right before

with God and I want to do what.

Pleases is God.

Thirdly, faithful teaching on produces a pure heart, a good conscience.

But thirdly it produces a sincere faith. Faith is this.

That you've heard me use the.

Acronym for saking. Oh, I trust him. That's why.

That's the goal of our preaching is to produce you

who have a pure heart, a good conscience. But we

want you to have a sincere faith, not a faith

that just says, yeah, I trust him on Sundays. Know

a faith that says I trust him every day. I

trust him with my life. I trust him with my decisions,

I trust him in my relationships, I trust him in

every area of my life.

He is what I trust in.

That's the goal of preaching, right, you know, the reality

is that our world wants to loot and not lead

people into sincere faith, but they wanted to dilute people's faith. Right,

take a little bit here, maybe a good doctrine here,

but take a little false doctrine here, and yeah, maybe

you just you have a little bit of good, but

maybe have a little bit of bad. Reality is, though,

if we are not have it pure heart and we

have these different things, it leads to what devastation and destruction.

Heard the story of a storm that came and there

was this big, large tree and it became this giant

just within the community, and it was located in a park,

and everybody just saw this tree, how strong it was.

Hoko we win a few years ago. There's this massive tree.

It's like a monument in the middle of the the

biggest tree.

I've ever seen in my life. I can't even describe.

I mean, it's bigger than this room. Almost half of

this room would be just the trunk of that tree.

It's kind of the same imagery of this story. There

was this tree and it was got so big through

the years. After the storm came through it, it fell,

It broke in half.

And as people came, they thought, man, this tree was

so strong.

It was how in the world would this tree ever

comes as big as it was?

How could it ever fall? And as they.

Came through a closer examination within the root of that

tree with some tiny insects that had eaten at the

heart of the tree, and slowly after time after time,

it began waking that tree. Than when the storm came

it fell apart.

That's the reality of what.

Happens to us when we don't combat false teaching. The

false teaching, whatever it may be, weakens us, and it

weakens us against the tax of the enemy, and we

fall today. I love what God's word says. How can

we keep our heart pure? You know the Bible asked

that question in Psalm nineteen Psalm nineteen nine. It says,

how can young man keep his way pure? How does

he do that by guarding it according to your word?

How do we.

Battle against the tacks of the enemy false teaching? Another

we guard our heart through faithful teaching.

Can I encourage you?

It's no better time because it's maybe not only because

it's New Year's and we're starting new traditions. There's no

better time than right now to say, you know what, Lord,

I want to commit my heart to faithful teaching. And

that means getting in your word and devotions and reading

through the Bible, of finding a devotional planner, or getting

committed the church, no matter what it is, God, I

want to commit to faith teaching because God, I want

a pure heart. God, I want a clear conscience, and God,

I want a sincere faith. And I want to resist

the attacks of the enemy. And I only do that

by seeking You in your word. I courage you, have you,

Will you do that this today? Will you make that

commitment in your own heart?

I want you to see.

Thirdly, as we look today, we're commanded to pose false

teaching and their methods. We're commanded to promote faithful teaching.

But third Paul tells Timothy, we're commanded to expose false teachings.

Results.

What what? What's the results of faithful teaching? Is a

pure heart and a clear conscience, it's sincere faith. What

are the results of false teaching? Paul examines those listen

to what it says in verse four, he says, nor

devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies which promote one

is speculations. So what is what are they? What is

the results?

One?

They produce speculations?

Number two?

They produce vain discussions. Listening away, it says, certain persons,

by swerves from these have wandered away into vain discussions.

So not only does false teaching, what do they? What

do they produce? What was the results of false teaching?

It wanted speculations? Number two, it's vain discussions. It's it's

seeking after things that produce no results. That's what vanity is.

Vanity is what it is.

It's worthless.

It doesn't produce anything, it doesn't bring anything to our life,

and false teaching. Although it may seem like it's true,

it may seem like it produces, it actually produces nothing.

It's vanity. It's vain discussions. Paul would also say later

in verse seven, desiring to be teachers of law without

understanding either what they're saying or the things they make

confident assertions. This idea of misunderstandings. They think they know

God's word, and the reality is they do not understand

God's word. There's misunderstandings about God's word. You know, there's

that's the product of false teaching. Product of false teaching

is speculations. You know, we all have those people in

our lives. We love them, right, But you know I

have that person in your life that's conspiracy theorists.

Right.

They love a good alien story, you know, they love

to you know, this conspiracy theory. What's happening in this

different thing, or I bet this is happening, or you

know all sports games are rigged, right, there's some guy

that's you know, in the end, that's planning it all

and all them.

You know, we all have people like that.

They love a good conspiracy, right, That's the idea of

false teachers. They produce this conspiracy thought about God's word

and in the end, all it does is create speculations.

All.

In the end, all it creates is vain discussions about

things that really are not true. In the end, all

it does is just confuses people.

It brings up misunderstandings.

People don't understand really what's going on, what's true and

what's not. That's the idea that Paul is saying. That

is the results of false teaching. Do you know today

false teaching is continuing to grow in our in our

in our world today, probably in the different ways that

maybe we've seen in a while. We think of cults

like Mormonism and Jehovah witnesses.

But do you know there's a.

Book written by Terry Burton. She writes a book called

Strange Rights, and then that she starts outlying in our

culture today that things that are happening among people that

people are gravitating to. She calls it spiritual but not religious.

She outlines three different tribes, if you will, of people

who are seeking these different spiritual things. I would say

false teachings like that produce these speculations, vain discussions, misunderstandings,

and you know she in the first group I just

this morning just talk about those. One of the things

that's growing in North America today within our culture is

spiritual yoga. There's another uh, these retreats. Aaron Rodgers, who's

gonna be probably playing football today, is one who talked

about these spiritual retreats where he goes out and he

goes into this house and it's completely dark and he

has nothing for like three or four days and he's

enlightened by just being in the darkness. That's growing in

our world today. Micro dosing mushrooms to to create spirituality.

There's a growth of astrology, the worship of stars that's

growing on TikTok today. Do you know one of the

greatest things that's Another thing that's continued to grow today

in America is healing crystals. New Age thought again is

on the rise. Do you know today in America Wicca,

the study of witchcraft is growing. There's even maybe more

followers to Witchcraft to day than there is Presbyterian followers.

And that's North America.

In all of these have this idea of what this

new religion, this new age is new spirituality and what

does it produce? Speculation nothing, vain discussions and misunderstandings. That

is the product of what's happening in our world today.

We must oppose false teaching methods. We must promote faithful teaching,

but we must understand that false teaching leads to emptiness,

there's no truth behind it, and it doesn't produce any results. Lastly,

in want to finish this morning by what Paul commands Timothy,

what should we promote? We should vote faithful teaching, but

lastly we should promote sound doctrine. It's interesting that Paul

and verse seven, he describes something in their doing, and

then he describes again what is bad, and then he

gives them what is true. You remember that in the

miss one of the myths, the fables, the false teachings

that the false teachers were giving in ephesis, they were

misinterpreting the ten Commandments to justify their moral lifestyle.

So in verse seven Paul quotes back some of these

commands of the false teachers.

He says, you think you really understand the mosaic law,

but you really don't understand it at all.

And then he.

Begins to just clearly give sound doctrine, just a little

exert of sound doctrine, to show what is true doctrine

compared to what they've been saying. This is what he

says in verse seven, desiring to be teachers of law

without understanding either on what they're saying or the things

about which they make confident assertions. Now we know that

the law is good if one uses it lawfully, understanding

that the law is not laid down for the just,

but the lawless, the disobedient, for the ungodly, for the center,

for the unholy, the profane, those who strike their fathers

and mothers, for the murderers.

Who's sexual moral?

Men who perhaps homosexuality, it's flabs, liar, perjurers, and whatever

is else's contrary to sound doctrine. He starts walking through

a list of different things that were outlined in the

Old Testament. He outlined those who strike their father and mother.

He outlined murderers. Sexual moral, that world sexual moral is

just a term that talks about anything. It's any sex

outside of marriage. That is the idea of sexual moral.

The other term here, and I think it's important. There's

so many that I could we could spend all day

walking through these individually, but I think the one that's

probably the most prevalent that we need to understand to

talk about today. That's probably the more probably the more

talked about in our society today. It's the term homosexuality.

You know, earlier I told you that liberal theology is

on the rampant. That's another false teaching in our world.

One of the things that liberal theologies say is that

one liberal theology doesn't believe that God's word is in ert.

They believe it's full of errors.

If it's full of errors, it can't be trusted and

you can't use it as a litmus test or a

standard to live by.

Let's say it that way.

One of the things that liberal theology says that conservatives

like us, those who believed in the arts, who scripture,

believe that homosexual homosexuality according to God's.

Word is wrong.

Liberal theology says, well, that's not right, that's not the

way they believed it in the Old Testament. Again, what

did those happen? What did they do in ephesis? They

would take the mosaic law and they would twist it

to justify their moral lifestyles. That's what liberal theology does today.

They says, oh no, no, no, I know, it says homosexuality,

but that's not really what they meant in the Old Testament.

In the Old Testament, this is what liberal theology says.

In the Old Testament, it was people who were having

homosexual relationships with an adultery.

They were having a fail with.

People and homosexual relationship, but it was fair. It was

not people who were committed relationships. That's what they were

talking about the Old Testament. Also, they're also talking about abuse,

sexual abuse, men who would abuse children.

That's what they're talking about.

It's not talking about committed relationships between others.

But the reality is the word.

Homosexual here in the New Testament and also in the

Old Testament always meant someone who slept with someone of

the opposite sex, no matter what it was, was a

committed relationship or non committed. It was never ever accepted

in the Old Testament. And actually Leviticus, we see see

if I can find the passage scripture here.

And Ollidic is.

Eighteen twenty two. You shall not listen to this shall

not lie with a male as with a woman. It's

an abominations one twenty six, and I mean one twenty

six and twenty seven. For this reason, God gave themselves

the dishonorable passion for women, exchange natural relations for those

are contrary to nature. And that way, likewise, men gave

up natural relations with women who were consumed with passion

for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and

receiving themselves to do penalty for their error. So listen,

in the Old Testament and the New Testament, it was

any relationship of a man sleeping with another man, no

matter what it was, it was seen as wrong, sinful.

We see that in the Old Testament and New Testament.

And I tell you that because that is sound doctrine.

But we live in a world that's there's false teachers

who use miss and misunderstanding of God's word to say no, no, no,

that's not what the Bible says, and what's the purpose

to justify their sinful behaviors. We had to understand this

because this is so important that we understand sound doctrine.

Because why because I know within this sound of my voice,

there's every there's there's maybe you here in this room.

You've heard what others have said that's not really what

the Bible says. You must understand what is sound doctrine.

So as you face false teachers that misuse God's word

to justify their lives.

To recognize this not what God's word says. And if

I follow false teaching, it's not going to produce a

right relationship with me with the Lord. It's cann produce speculations,

vain discussions, and emptiness.

But if I hold to.

Sound doctrine, it leads to me to have a pure heart,

a good conscience, and sincere faith.

So can I challenge you today in your life? How

are you as a church? Again, this is not just

my role.

It's our role as a church to oppose false teaching.

It's our role as a church to promote faithful teaching.

It's our role as a church to expose fault teaching methods.

And that's our role as a church to promote sound doctrine.

You know, I heard of a story of a farmer.

He had produced some cottage cheese and some apple butter.

He'd go to this local farmer's market and there he

would you take these big jugs of the apple butter

and the cottage cheese, and he would have little containers

and he would scoop out of the big containers in

the small Compit depends on what size people wanted. Well,

he got to the farmer's market, was the guy there

he realized, Man, I forgot my spoon. He only had

one spoon, and so throughout the day he just says,

you know, I got to sell this, I got to

make a living. So he used the same spoon for

the apple butter and the same spoon for the cottage cheese.

I can tell you that.

By the end of the day, the farmer says, you

know what, it's hard to tell the difference between the

two when you're scooping out one from the other.

You know, that's the reality of the day.

If we're not faithfully delivering sound doctrine and we're teaching,

we're consuming maybe a little bit of false teaching and

a little bit of sound doctrine. Listen, it'll get to

a place where you can't understand the difference between the two.

You and I must be committed to say, Lord, I

want to know what sound doctrine is. I don't want

to know what your word says, because God, I want

not to be one who's perceived by the world who's

not real. I want people to see that in me,

I am real because I consume what is true?

What is your word? Lord?

Help me today, Help me today consume Lord your word faithfully,

that you might give me a pure heart.

Lord, and that you might produce in me a good conscience.

And Lord, that I might Lord have a sincere faith,

a true faith. You pray with me.

Lord, We love you, We thank your Lord for today.

We thank you Lord for your word. Lord.

I thank you Lord that Lord, as we walk through

these things, we're going to talk about hard topics, hard.

Things, sensitive things.

Lord, and Lord, I pray that we would be faithfully

divide your word faithfully, preach your word, Lord, proclaim your word,

study your word, Lord, that you might produce in us

a pure heart, that you might produce in us a

good conscience, And Lord, that you might produce in us

a sincere faith. Lord, lead us to do that individually

corporately as a church. Lord, help us. Lord, we need

you today. In your name, we pray to