Grace Fellowship Church www.GraceDoctrine.org

Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard

Sunday

January 20, 2008

1 John 4:4;"You are from God, little

children, and have overcome them; because

greater is He who is in you than he who is in the

world."

1 John Series1 John 4:1

A Warning about False Teachers

Part II

Chapter 4 begins with a warning to recognize and

avoid false teachings.

“Beloved ones” is used to designate the Royal Family

of God, emphasizing the fact that Jesus Christ is the beloved and you and I are accepted in the beloved

(Eph 1:6).

We are Royal Family, and with the privilege comes

responsibility, the responsibility to advance to

maturity through discernment between true

and false teaching.

We are told to stop doing something we are currently

doing; “stop believing” falsehoods of

“influential speakers” or “eloquent speakers”.

Eloquence isn’t always true, eloquence is not a

sign of truthfulness, it's just a personality trait or

learned behavior.

With persuasive speech this constitutes thought testing on behalf of the

believer, a great momentum test in

advancing towards spiritual maturity.

Eloquence is often mistaken for spiritual

dynamics; it may or may not be. The issue is not

eloquence but the content of message.

Only the believer with maximum Bible doctrine resident in his soul and perceiving while inside GPS, can determine or discern the difference.

It is not the man but the message. Eloquent error is

still error. Eloquence cannot convert what is false into what is true.

Principle: Perception of Bible doctrine provides

discernment and common sense, which eliminates

naïve appreciation of talent.

“Into the World” KOSMOS =

Satan’s Cosmic System.

Satan’s system embraces false teaching and rejects

true doctrine.

John 15:18-20, “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I

chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates

you….

… Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not

greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also

persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.”

Offering

Grace Fellowship ChurchSunday, January 20, 2008

Tape # 08S-003

1 John Series Warning Against False Teachers, Pt 2

1 John 4:1-6; John 15:18-20

James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2008