Who Can You Trust With Your Soul??

Fellow Christian, this may come as a shock to you, but it is extremely dangerous to trust a teacher, unless you yourself know the New Testament scriptures. What price do you place on your soul? How can you trust your soul to anyone other than the Lord Jesus Christ’s words and the inspired teachings of his Apostles? Many would not trust their pet to someone they know as little as they know their pastor! Even if you know him, you would not bet your soul that he is not addicted to pornography or money. Our soul is more important than our pet.

Did Jesus or the Apostles tell you to find a teacher? Where? In Jesus' day the religious leaders (Pharisees) were the ones Jesus warned the people about. The people could not even afford to buy scrolls! In our day, we have multiple bibles in our homes and countless millions ignore them and go to a preacher for their doctrines. The religious teachers killed Jesus. Today, millions are being spiritually killed by teachers who are themselves deceived and deceiving the people! What is our soul worth?

Paul warned us through Timothy about the last days. We are told that in the last days people will seek out teachers to tickle their ears. 

2 Timothy 4 ISV

• 1In the presence of God and the Messiaha Jesus, who is going to judge those who are living and those who are dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly appeal to you 2to proclaim the message. Be ready to do thisb whether or not the time is convenient. Refute, warn, and encourage with the utmost patience when you teach. 

• 3For the time will come when people will not tolerate healthy doctrine, but with itching ears will surround themselves with teachers who cater to their people’s own desires. 4They will refuse to listen to the truth and will turn to myths. 5But you must be clear-headed about everything. Endure suffering. Do the work of an evangelist. Devote yourself completely to your ministry.

Paul also warned us that savage wolves would enter the churches and not spare the Christians. Satan has had almost 2,000, years to practice his deception!  

Acts 20 ISV

• 25“Now I know that none of you among whom I traveled preaching about the kingdom will ever see my face again. 26I therefore declare to you today that I’m not responsible for the blood of any of you, 27because I never shrank from telling you the whole plan of God. 28Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God’sh church, which he acquired with his own blood. 

• 29I know that when I’m gone, savage wolves will come among you and not spare the flock. 30Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them. 31So be alert! Remember that for three years, night and day, I never stopped tearfully warning each of you.

Paul also noted that the Bereans searched the Old Testament scriptures to see if what Paul said was true. We must know the scriptures or we are wide open for deception. 

Acts 17 ISV

• 10That night the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. 11These people were more receptive than those in Thessalonica. They were very willing to receive the message, and every day they carefully examined the Scriptures to see if those things were so.12Many of them believed, including a large number of prominent Greek women and men.

Revelation 21:6 ISV

• 6Then he told me, “It has happened! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give a drink from the spring of the water of life to the one who is thirsty. 7The person who conquers will inherit these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. 

• 8But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselvesb in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

The teachers are busy making sure their pensions are protected. 300,000, Masons are in the Southern Baptist churches. The Word of Faith, money preachers, have their reward and unless they repent they will perish. Doctrines of demons are found in many churches. The entertainment preachers who keep the people laughing while they skip over the warnings, will mourn. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 

Satan has filled the pulpits with hirelings, false teachers and wolves in sheep's clothing. There is a famine of hearing the Word. Relatively very few pastors are teaching the truth and warnings.

How can a teacher of a large church deceive you and tell the truth at the same time? He will simply ignore the warnings in the scriptures. They stay away from the subjects that trouble people: sin, repentance, holiness, sexual immorality, etc. Many will have blood on their hands and are in danger of going to the Lake of Fire. 

I am an encourager. I love to talk about the pleasant things of God, but I am compelled to warn this generation that they are being deceived. I do not like to warn, but I am compelled to warn.

Do not trust me. If you read the New Testament slowly, looking at each statement and then ask yourself if you believe what you just read, you will find you have been lied to by the ear tickling teachers. Do not do away with a scripture just because another scripture appears to disagree. Trust God with that. 

Please read what Paul told the Corinthians. Corinth was a wicked place as we are today.

Paul Contrasts Himself with False Apostles

1I wish you would tolerate a little of my foolishness. Yes, please tolerate me! 2I am jealous of you with God’s own jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to the Messiah.a 3However, I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by its tricks, so your minds may somehow be lured away from sincere and pureb devotion to the Messiah.c

4For if someone comes along and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or should you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you are all too willing to listen. 5I do not think I’m inferior in any way to those “super-apostles.” 6Even though I may be untrained as an orator, I am not so in the field of knowledge. We have made this clear to all of you in every possible way.

7Did I commit a sin when I humbled myself by proclaiming to you the gospel of God free of charge, so that you could be exalted? 8I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you. 9When I was with you and needed something, I did not bother any of you, because our brothers who came from Macedonia supplied everything I needed. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.

10As surely as the truth of the Messiahd is in me, my boasting will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!

12But I will go on doing what I’m doing in order to deny an opportunity to those people who want an opportunity to be recognized as our equals in the work they are boasting about. 13Such people are false apostles, dishonest workers who are masquerading as apostles of the Messiah.e 14And no wonder, since Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their doomf will match their deeds!

Paul’s Sufferings as an Apostle

16I will say it again: No one should think that I am a fool. But if you do, then treat me like a fool so that I can also boast a little. 17When I talk as a confident boaster, I am not talking with the Lord’s authority but like a fool.18Since many people boast in a fleshly way, I will do it, too. 19You are wise, so you will gladly be tolerant of fools. 20You tolerate anyone who makes you his slaves, devours what you have, takes what is yours, orders you around, or slaps your face!