Tag: What the Bible says about false teachers

Bible Verse of The Day – 9-28-24

Deuteronomy 12:32 (NKJV) 32 “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.

His Word has purpose. It is to help bring salvation and deliverance to us. And to teach us of His ways.

If we take it lightly, or add our own twist to it so that we can continue to do things that we want to be doing without being convicted, we jeopardize our lives.

Beware of people who stand in the pulpit and take God’s word and turn it around.

Beware of people who fluff up the words of God and sugar-coat them so they can build a big following.

Beware of people who don’t teach the whole truth, but only the things they want to teach to keep it easy on the listeners.

A lot of words are being spoken today that lead people away from God. We need to beware and keep our guard up; our ears attentive and our Bible close by.

We must let the Holy Spirit prompt us. And we need to be ready to listen quickly.

James 1:19 (NKJV) 19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath…

We need to be alert. And if something we hear doesn’t sit right with us, there is probably a reason.

Check into it and compare it to God’s Word. His word is pure.

Our spirit will pick up on things that are off if we keep feeding it with God’s word.

When that happens, it’s up to us to make a move, and to stay clear of those who are adding to or taking away from His truth.

We are responsible for ourselves and what/who we let feed us.

Proverbs 30:5-6 (NKJV) 5 Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. 6 Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries 
49 N Lamplighters Walk 
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 8-2-23

Hebrews 4:12 (NKJV) 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

During our lifetimes as a follower of Christ, we will see and hear many people claiming to have a word for us from God.

We will hear teachings on many different topics, all supposedly based on God’s word.

We will have people tell us that God wants to bless us, or that He wants to anoint us for a specific task.

We will see groups of people, some of them exceptionally large, following teachers who tell them how good their lives can be.

Our walk with God will be a lengthy obstacle course full of things that we will need to discern and determine whether they are of God or not.

How do we do this?

How do we accurately discern these things and know who or what to believe as truth?

Simple.

Go back to the word of God.

The word of God is our measuring stick. It is the standard by which everything we see and hear is validated or proven to be false.

Sometimes the things we hear are plainly false. We know it the second we hear it.

Other things might not be quite so cut and dry.

Many falsehoods are skillfully wrapped in tidbits of truth but are really lies in a pretty package.

This is why it is critical for us to always go back to the word of God.

As we spend time studying, learning, researching, growing, and maturing, we will gain a more solid understanding of His word that will help us break through the confusion and peel back the layers of false teachings.

And this will make the truth glaringly obvious to us, allowing us to toss away the heresy that masquerades as the genuine article.

Always go back to the word of God!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-23-23 – Back to The Word of God

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the name of our wonderful Savior, Jesus Christ! 

False teachings have been around for centuries.

The word of God warns us about them quite frequently. It is up to us to be able to spot them. 

In today’s video, Back to The Word of God, we teach about the importance of using God’s word to discern the things that we see and hear, to determine whether it is a false teaching or not. 

This is an especially important topic for today, so we hope you will take a few minutes to watch the video. 

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We hope you enjoy it! 

We love you all. 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443  

401-439-3780

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-8-23

2 Peter 2:1-2 (NKJV) 1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

False teachers and false prophets are nothing new. They have been around for centuries.

They are still here today.

Their teachings and false prophecies are dangerous to the body of Christ. They always have been.

But today they are more dangerous because they are more easily propagated.

Modern media has created a way for false teachings to be passed around and put before the eyes and ears of millions who otherwise would not hear them.

This is one of the biggest causes of the mass spreading of these heresies.

Many of today’s cultures are also much more inclined to fall prey to these false teachers and false prophets because society today is largely self-centered, with strong desires to promote self, rather than elevating God to His rightful place.

This is the root cause of “itching ears”.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 (NKJV) 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

So, it is imperative that we not allow ourselves to be persuaded by these false teachers, trading the truth for words that make us feel good or justify our less-than-righteous desires.

God’s word is our lifeblood and the shield that helps to guard our hearts from the deceitful words of the false teachers who speak as if to sway us and move us away from the truth.

Hold fast to God’s word, partaking of it as if your life depends on it.

Why? Because our lives do depend on it!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-12-21

2 Timothy 4:3 (NKJV) 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;

We need to be careful. Not everything that we hear is what it may seem to be.

Some things that are presented as truth are really just lies wrapped in tiny tidbits of truth to lend credibility to them.

This is true even within the church. Paul clearly warned us about this in the verse above.

As human beings, we can sometimes be persuaded to believe something that isn’t true, even if we might initially believe it to be a lie.

Why? Because it sounds good.

I know someone personally who heard a specific teacher make a statement, and his first thought was, “you’re a liar”.

But he continued to listen to this same teacher, and over time he began to believe the lie and eventually adopted it and accepted it as truth.

This is very dangerous for us.

God’s word is always our measuring stick. We need to be diligent to compare everything we hear to His word. If it lines up, it’s truth. If it doesn’t, it’s a lie. It’s very plain and simple overall.

So, let’s be careful not to be those who Paul warned about in the verse above, with itching ears to hear the things that sound good or make us feel good.

These are perilous times we’re living in, so we need to be sure we are arming ourselves with the truth of God’s word, not the lies of man and the enemy of our souls.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-4-21

2 Peter 2:1-2 (NKJV) 1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

Corruption runs amok throughout the world.

Governments. Big business. Big tech. Even in small towns and cities. It’s everywhere.

It covers everything, from the smallest of villages to the largest of cites, and everything in between.

It lurks in small-town city councils and big-city mayors.

And, guess what. It’s also in the church, the body of Christ.

Now, I’m not referring to “church politics”, although it does live within that. I’m referring to false teachers and false prophets.

What do I mean by that?

False teachers infiltrate the church oh so quietly. They wear big smiles. They blend in with the rest of the body. They speak words that they claim to be truth. But those words are actually lies wrapped in small pieces of truth.

And those words corrupt the gospel of Jesus Christ, eroding and destroying the foundations of our faith ever so slowly.

Before we know it, the lies are being accepted as truth and the path of the church is running parallel to the path of the world; corrupt to the core by lies and deceit.

It’s critical that we, the followers of Christ, don’t fall for these lies, these half-truths. We need to be ever so vigilant, guarding the word of truth that God has imparted into us.

And here’s how we do that. We read and study His word. We feast on it. We digest it and we live it out each and every day in our own lives.

By doing this, we “embed” the word within us. And we present ourselves approved to God.

2 Timothy 2:15 (NKJV) 15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Be sure we are on God’s path, not the parallel path!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-27-20 – Parallels

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the name of Jesus! 

We have a brand-new video for you today that we’re excited to share with you. 

The new video is called “Parallels”. 

In this video, we discuss parallels between the church and the world and how that relates to the bride of Christ. 

We feel like this will be an eye-opening video for many people, so we hope you will take a few minutes and watch it. 

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We love you all. 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808 

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-21-20

Matthew 7:20 (NKJV) 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

As Jesus was nearing the end of the Sermon on The Mount, He began to draw distinctions between different kinds of things.

In this, He alluded to two different paths, two different kinds of builders and two different groups of people.

One path leads to destruction. The other leads to life.

One builder builds on the rock, the truth. While the other builder builds on sand, deception and lies.

One group of people spoke the name of Jesus, prophesied in His name and claimed to be His followers. But their words were tainted and deceitful, being spoken with impure motives of deception and greed.

The other group loved God and followed Him sincerely, giving Him their whole heart.

In verse 15, Jesus specifically discussed false prophets. He told the people that they would know these false prophets by their fruits.

Matthew 7:15 (NKJV) 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

Most times when we hear verse 20, we think of it as knowing believers by their fruits. In reality, though, Jesus was speaking directly about false prophets and false teachers.

So, let’s talk about that for a few minutes.

How do we know false teachers and false prophets? By what they say and what they teach.

Do they share the word of God in its entirety, in all of its truth and power, including those things that might not be so comfortable?

Or do they tend to avoid the topics that might be tough or uncomfortable, and move onto the things that are easier to hear and might not cause any kind of discomfort or controversy?

Do the words they speak focus mostly on how to get wealthy? Does their “gospel” revolve around money and success?

Do they speak only about “positive” things, but never address or discuss sin and its consequences?

Do they proclaim freedom from sin and bondage by the blood of Jesus? Or do they proclaim wealth, social acceptance and happiness for all believers in His name?

This is something that we all need to understand. We all need to know the difference between the truth and the lies.

We need to learn to recognize it. Why? Because our eternal destiny depends on it.

As Jesus continued to speak, He drew a very clear line of distinction between the path that leads to life and the path that leads to destruction.

And He did so with no apologies, as He said these words:

Matthew 7:21-23 (NKJV) 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Beware of false prophets and false teachers.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-18-20

1 Corinthians 2:2 (NKJV) 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

The teaching of God’s word should always have one underlying principle. One truth that permeates everything about it; Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

Without Jesus as the foundation, nothing is done or said without the danger of possibly straying at some point.

When we leave Christ out as the foundation, we can get ourselves into some deep trouble if we’re not very, very careful.

He is everything.

He is the glue that holds everything else together. He is a shield of truth that fends off lies, deception, spiritual perversion and false teachings.

He is the truth.

John 14:6 (NKJV) 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Knowing this helps us to discern what we hear, especially when it comes to what we hear taught about God’s word or about the kingdom of God.

If what we hear revolves around Jesus, His crucifixion, His resurrection, His ascension, His deity and His active role in our everyday lives through the Holy Spirit, then we know that what we’re hearing has a firm foundation.

If, however, what we hear revolves around us always being happy, having a perfect life, making others like us, becoming wealthy, being popular, becoming famous, being successful, etc., we can be pretty sure that Jesus is, at best, on the fringe of what is being taught.

He is an afterthought used to put a pretty bow on a shiny package.

Run from this. Run fast and run far from it.

Run to Jesus, our Redeemer.

Determine in your heart to know Christ, and Him crucified.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-10-20

2 Timothy 4:3 (NKJV) 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers…

There is so much out there today that will tickle our ears. We can pick and choose what we want to hear. And of course, line it up with what makes us feel good about ourselves or our opinion.

What good is it if we get to heaven and find out that what we were doing was wrong? Will we simply say to God, “oops, that isn’t what my teacher told me. He/she said it was OK to continue in what I was doing.”?

Do we think God is going to say, “oh, it’s OK. You didn’t know better. Let me deal with your teacher. It’s their fault they misled you.“?

No. It’s our responsibility to dig in and find the truth. It’s our responsibility to pay close attention to the guidance of the Holy Spirit and obey His leading.

Let us not be ruled by our desires and spend all our time searching for someone to tickle our ears so we can continue to feel good in doing what we know we need to change.

Psalm 119:30 (NKJV) 30 I have chosen the way of truth; Your judgments I have laid before me.

God is faithful to lead us with sound doctrine that He has provided for each one of us. His word brings truth.

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-12-20

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the name of our Savior! 

We trust you are walking hand in hand with God. 

Today’s video, The Prodigal Bride – Part 3, we wrap up our discussion on the state of the modern-day church. 

We change course a bit this week as we present how the bride can mend her broken ways and begin to put God first again. 

This has been a hard-hitting series, and we hope it has helped to bring some things to light that were previously not clear. 

Please click here to watch the video now. 

Enjoy your day. 

Sincerely in Christ, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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