Teaching

2 Peter 2
Characteristics of false teachers:
-denying the Lord
-speak evil of the truth
-covetousness
-feigned words
-walk after the flesh in lust
-despise government
-presumptuous (boastful)
-selfwilled
-not afraid to speak evil of dignities
-natural man
-speak evil of the things they understand not
-pleasure to riot in the day time
-sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you
-eyes full of adultery
-cannot cease from sin
-beguiling unstable souls
-covetous practices
-forsaken the right way and gone astray
-speak swelling words of vanity
-allure through the lusts of the flesh
-allure through wantonness
-promise liberty, but are servants of corruption
This list helps us avoid false prophets. It can help us identify the false teachers of our days. Even certain movies can be "false teachers". How many movies do we watch that allure through lust, that are full of adultery, that make it look like a good thing, that laugh at truths? There are false prophets all around us....in the DAY time. They don't sneak around in the night. They are right in front of our faces and they trick us every day with their smooth talking and their clever words. They try to make bad look good and good to look bad. They tell us we are close-minded, in bondage, or just too naive. We cannot afford to hear them.

2 Peter 2:20-22
Dangers of returning to the pollutions of the world.
When we know the truth and have sinned, we have the opportunity to repent. This is a great gift. But when we have known the truth and return to our old ways after repenting, then greater condemnation is upon us. It would be better that we had never known the truth. Our former sins will return to us, when we continue to commit those sins. We are in grave danger when we return to our sins.