"But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping." 2 Peter 2:1-3 (NIV)
These are the words of warning to the believers, written by the Apostle Peter, and inspired by The Holy Spirit of God. He warned them that there were false prophets and false teachers among them who would tell them made up stories in order to deceive, exploit, and take advantage of them.
Unfortunately for us, there are still false prophets and false teachers among us today. Every thing that we hear from our leaders, even some religious leaders, is not truthful or Biblically correct. Some of them seek to deceive others for their personal gain. We must be careful to use the Bible as the standard of truth and compare all that we hear to it. We are to study The Word of God so that we can rightly divide what we hear. (2 Timothy 2:15) We are to speak up against that which we hear that is not truthful. (Acts 17:11) We are to guard our minds and our hearts because some who are close to us will lie to us, and we do not want to repeat that which is not the truth. (Proverbs 4:23) All that sounds good is not truthful. (Proverbs 3:5)
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