This morning in your Bible, 2 Peter, chapter number two. We're going to jump right on over to chapter number two, try to finish up a little bit on chapter one. In the latter part of chapter one, we discussed that the sure word of prophecy. So we understand that. I think we have that pretty well settled in our hearts and minds that the word of God is the settled word of God. It is the pure word of God and King James Bible is what we stand on. Amen. We don't have to make excuses for that. We don't apologize for that. We believe that to be the closest to the original. It's not the original, but it's the closest to the original for the English speaking people. King James was certainly not, he was not ordained of God. He was not one of the authors of the Bible, but he allowed the Bible to be printed in the English language during his reign. King James actually was not a saved individual. But he was the king that reigned during the time that they wanted to translate the Bible into the English language. And so that version is the version that we use. Amen? Amen. Pretty sure we're all settled on that. But we do know that the Bible is the pure word of God. It is absolute. So we won't spend a whole lot of time going over the latter part of chapter number one. I think we've got that settled. We're going to jump right to chapter number two. Serious, serious study. Peter is mentioning some things that's happening in his day, and of course it's still going on. It was going on before Christ ever came to this world. It's prophesied in scripture that Jesus would come, and we've read that in the book of Isaiah, and we've read it in other prophecies where Jesus was prophesied to come, born of a virgin. And he did, amen, he showed up, just as the scripture said he would, he came. came of a virgin, just like the Bible said he would. But there's a lot of things that even in those days, they rejected. They rejected the truth. They rejected Christ. They rejected the prophecies from the preachers of those days. And of course, they're still doing that in our day. They're still rejecting Christ. So we'll start chapter number two, verse one, but there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways, by whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment, and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly, and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly. and deliver just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked. For that righteous man dwelleth among them, dwelling among them, and seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds. Verse nine, the Bible says, the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust until the day of judgment to be punished. but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they're not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusations against them before the Lord. But these are a natural brute beast, made to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of the things that they understand not, and shall utterly perish in their own corruption, and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness as they that count it pleasure to ride in the daytime. spots they are in blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you, having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, beguiling unstable souls, a heart they have exercised with covetous practices, cursed children, which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray. Following the way of Balaam, the son of Azor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, but was rebuked for his iniquity, the dumbass speaking with man's voice forbade the madness of the prophet. Verse 17 says, these are wells without water. clouds that are carried with a tempest to whom the midst of darkness is reserved forever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lust of the flesh, through the much wantonness, those that were clean escape from them who live in error. While they promised them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption. For of whom a man is overcome, are the same as he brought in bondage. For if they after have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome. The latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, Then, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it has happened unto them according to the true proverb, the dog is turned to his own vomit again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mine." That's 2 Peter chapter number two, verse one through 22. And Peter, in this passage of scripture, is dealing with the false preachers and false teachers, false prophets of those days and in our day, because he says they will come. Verse number one, but there are false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you who proudly shall bring in damnable heresies. So we see that Peter's delivering his prophecy of his 40 verses all together. When you go back to chapter number one and tie that into chapter number two, he's dealing with the word of God, the sure word of prophecy that was prophesied and that he's tying that in with chapter number two. And he's given us the understanding of a common apostasy. An apostasy is someone who know the truth and turn from truth. They know what's right, but they turn from that to follow after something else, follow after a lie. Here we find that this is composed of three major sections. It's the prophecy concerning the false teachers. It's the prophecy concerning the last day scoffers. And then it also talks about, the latter part of it talks about the day of the Lord in chapter number three. We'll get to that a little later. This is a part of the large body of the New Testament prophecy about prophecy, which refers to the turning away from the truth by professing Christian. Those who profess, I didn't say possess, but those who profess to be Christians know the truth and they turn from that. That's called apostasy, all right? It's a major theme of the scripture and it must therefore be a major theme of every church. That's why we need to teach it and preach it and stand against it. It has to be a major theme of every church, amen? There's many examples in the book of Matthew chapter 13, the book of Acts chapter 20, the book of Romans chapter 16, And I have many other verses that you can find that where it deals with apostasy, those that turn from truth. The apostasy began in the early days of the apostles. So just because we read about it or hear about it in our day doesn't mean it's something new. It's not just something that came about. This was going on long before. I mean, long before Christ ever came. They rejected even the prophecies about Christ. But now we find that there were Judaizing legalists who preached salvation by the law, which is found in Acts chapter 15, Galatians chapter one, and Titus chapter one. We find all that there in the scriptures. There was the deniers of the bodily resurrection, 1 Corinthians chapter 15. There was the preachers of false gospels, false Christ, and false spirits, which is found in 2 Corinthians chapter 11, verse one through four. They were those who tried to spiritualize the resurrection. You find that in 2 Timothy 2. They were those who denied the Godhead of Christ and sought salvation by rituals or mystical means. You find that also in 1 Timothy 1. There was the Nicolaitans mentioned in Revelation 2, verse 6, and God said He hated their ways. Amen? And so there's many others throughout Scripture, and it talks about the apostasy now. And these that I've just mentioned represented the beginning of apostasy that started at the early beginnings of the church. And they were professing Christians, Christian teachers who departed from the New Testament faith and drew a large crowd of followers with them into their air. There's many, when we get into denominations and talk about denominations and things like that, and cults and different religions, there's religions that started out with truth, decided they didn't like that, and turned from it. A prime example of that is Jehovah's Witness. There's one that decided there was no hell, there's no such thing as hell. Joseph Smith said, hey, listen, there's no such thing as hell. That was his thought, that was his idea, so he twisted the scripture, and started writing another magazine called The Witness or something like that. So he started using that as his idea to go along with scripture so he can confuse everybody and he started the religion Jehovah's Witness which denies a lot of things about scripture and it denies Christ. It denies hell. It says that heaven's here on earth. I mean, this is a bunch of mess. Anyway, there's a lot of religions like that. Roman Catholicism is like that. Roman Catholicism, listen, it is the great whore of the scriptures because it draws a huge crowd of people, amen, who think they are being godly and think they're doing things that are biblical according to the the Catholic's rituals and according to the Catholic's way of doing things, they think they're doing right. But it's somebody who took the scriptures and twisted them. I can give you all the details of this and we can talk about it, Constantine and Augustine and all those others that ripped the Bible apart and caused all this religious crowd to get confused. But those are religions that somebody took the truth and left the truth and started their own belief. And so the Bible has warned us, even in the days of the apostles, and in our day, you better be careful that Roman Catholicism has been around for a long time. Amen? They rejected the word of God. And so there's many others, and I won't get into all those this morning, but we have to understand that that's what Peter is warning us of. And when we think about that, so a preacher, I'm not a Catholic. I'm not a Jehovah's Witness. I'm sitting in a Baptist church this morning. I believe in the Baptist doctrine. I believe that. I believe the King James Bible. And that's good. That's wonderful. But there's religions in our day who reject the Jesus of the Bible. There's that rock and roll crowd. Amen? who reject, listen now, they reject the Christ of the Bible. They reject the truth of the Word of God because they say that it's okay to do those things when God said in His Word to be a separate from the Word. Amen? So they reject truth to receive that and they think by receiving that and following the crowd that follows them, they think that it's okay because somebody said it was okay. but God didn't say it was okay. And God even told us through the prophets, Peter and Paul both wrote, and I'll speak more about Paul in the 11 o'clock service, but they both wrote and warned about the false teachers. Listen, it is so much easier for people just to go with the crowd and do what everybody else is doing than it is to follow God. There's many times that people will go with the crowd and do what they do at a church. Because for conscience sake, they went to church. That's their idea. They went to church. Well, what good did it do? Amen? Well, they go to church and they rock with the rest of the crowd and they... You know, all the stuff that they do with the rest of the crowd. And there's never conviction for their sin. And they go right back Monday or Sunday after church, and they go right back and living in the sinless. What good did it do? Church is not about just showing up for church. Amen? Being a member of a local Bible-believing church is not just about having your name on the roll. Let me just go on a little deeper than that. Salvation is not just about being saved. Amen? There's a whole lot more to it than just being saved. Hallelujah. There's a work to be done. And we joined an army. Amen, we are ambassadors for Christ, and we are to live according to scripture, and we're to live godly and holy and righteous in this present world, and we are to carry forth the gospel message, not just by word, but also by deed. The things that we do, the things that we say, so people around us can see and understand and know there is a true God in heaven. And he's got a remnant of people who still serve him and love him and worship him. Amen. So that crowd of unbelievers who get drawn into this other stuff and they see there's something missing in that. I've had many people tell me that has been drawn into the contemporary movements and a lot of people are coming away from that contemporary movement because they say there's something missing there. It's just not like church should be. Yeah, of course it's not because they're living a lie, amen? And a lot of that stuff, they've left the truth. And the Bible teaches us if any man If any man changes the Word of God, he shall be accursed. Amen? Doesn't matter who he is, if he changes what God said in His Word, he's accursed. And so if you're following that crowd, someone who's following that crowd, and they go to that church, and there's someone there that's changed the Word of God, twisted the Scripture to make it feel comfortable, or make it where it's more attractive, that's a curse. And everybody that's drawn into that has been cursed by the deception. Everybody all right? That's deep, I know it's deep. But we're warned of that in Scripture. Peter says, hey, listen, they'll be false teachers. Well, we don't have nobody standing before us that's begging us to come over to the Catholic church. We don't have nobody standing before us that's teaching us the things of the Jehovah's Witness and how we need to believe that. We don't have that, but what we do have in our day is the contemporary easy-believism. We have Baptist churches that preach and teach easy-believism. That means that they can just fall down on the altar and pray and get up and walk back to their seat and they're saved. That's not Bible. There must be, there must be a calling of the Holy Spirit, amen. There's gotta be a wooing, if you will, an old-fashioned word. The Holy Ghost don't deal with them and convict them of their sin and God doesn't call and place a call upon their heart and they don't realize that they are a sinner. They can walk up here 100 million times until they wear the carpets out. And they can pray till they're blue in the face. Doesn't make them saved. Amen? Praying a prayer doesn't make nobody saved, but it's what they believe, amen? We've discussed that many times before. So we have Baptist churches in our day that's turning from truth. What, you mean there's a Baptist church that would do? Yes, there's lots of them. They have turned from what the Bible teaches to be absolute truth, they have turned from that and twisted the scripture, and they have a big following. It's easy. When it's easy, it can't be always correct. Amen. I don't know about y'all, but I've never always had it easy. It's always been the hard way. Amen. Rake and scrape and beg and plead and work your fingers to the bones. Amen. And I'm not saying that serving the Lord is that difficult. Amen. It's not what we do. It's what we believe. But whenever the churches make it so easy for people, and they get up and say, all you have to do is just come forward. All you have to do is raise your hand. I'm against some of these missionaries that go into these foreign countries, and they preach this easy believism stuff, or teach it, because they'll have a big crowd, and they'll say, all you have to do is just raise your hand and repeat this prayer after me, and thou shalt be saved. I don't have time for that. I would not support that. That's not of God. Now let me run a little rabbit right quick. It's only 1030. I can run this rabbit real quick. One of the problems I have with the Rock of Ages prison ministry is that very thing. Those missionaries that go into the prisons, now I understand they can't go to every prisoner and talk to them individually. Whenever they have a meeting, service, they can't go to them. But they'll do that. And I've been at some of their services. Mentality is that they can't deal with them one-on-one, so they'll say, well, repeat this prayer after me. And if you mean it from your bottom of your heart, then you shall be saved. And then they'll pray the prayer. And then they'll say, well, how many of you prayed that prayer? I mean, I've watched it. And then several of them will raise their hand, and they'll write it down. Hey, we had 15 saved at service tonight. No, you didn't. You have 15 people that you led astray. They don't want to hear that. Well, they said, based on their profession, it's a no. It don't work like that. Did the Holy Ghost convict them? Did they believe? Do they even know what to believe? Amen? Sorry, we're running rabbits. Stuff like that bothers me. I'm not going to support a ministry whenever I read their prayer letters. There's one called, come to our church one time, it's the Final Frontier. That was the name of the organization that's supposed to be in a mission work. And I mean, they was, I don't know, the numbers was astronomical. The services they had, the folks that was baptized, the folks that were saved in all these foreign countries. And I thought, my, so if y'all are winning that many people, why is the church even in business? We just need to follow the final frontier. They didn't have a home church to work out of. They didn't have any authority. And everything that you read was how they prayed and had them to raise their hand and make professions. And they'd write those numbers on those reports. I ain't got time for that. Amen? Throw that stuff in the trash can. That's a false, false doctrine. That's false teaching. And look at the thousands of millions of people that's drawn into that and thinking they're going to go to heaven when they die. It's serious stuff. Amen? It's serious stuff. It's real serious. The church has to be on guard, has to be alert as we're instructed in Scripture that we preach truth. We live it, we preach it, and we stand on it. Because that crowd out there that's bringing in all the heresies is drawing a crowd, and we have to be the ones that's different, that stands on the truth of the Word of God, so whenever that mess fails, they have somewhere they can turn to. Amen? The true church of God is a place of refuge for the hungry soul. You know what the psalmist said? He said, my soul longeth, it longeth. Amen. It was thirsting, it longeth for some refreshment. Where'd he find it at? The house of God. Amen. All right. I'm supposed to be teaching. I don't even know where I got to in my notes here, but I lost myself. Apostasy begins in the days of apostles, deniers of the resurrection, talk about all that, we have all those things here. Prophets and Christian teachers depart from the New Testament faith. Prophecies teach that apostasy will increase throughout the church age. The Bible says in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 13, evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. You know what evil men and seducers are? Seducers, we're not talking about sensual stuff or sexual stuff when we talk about seducers. We're talking about spiritual seducers. They encourage you to come on over to our church. Our preacher ain't like that. Our folks don't do that. Come on over to our church. That's evil seducers. Amen? Seducing you to believe what they believe and come on over and run with them. The Bible says it will wax worse and worse. and will explode at the end of the church. As the Bible says, until the whole was leavened. Matthew chapter 13, verse 33. This is exactly what we see in church history. The prophecies has been fulfilled in perfect detail. Second Peter chapter two, verse number one. But there were false prophets among, also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you. Peter introduces his prophecy about the coming of false teachers by comparing them to the false prophets of old. There's many verses of scriptures we can do with all those false prophets of old. There's many of them throughout the scripture. 1 Kings chapter 13 verse 18. 1 Kings chapter 22 verse 6. Nehemiah chapter 6. Isaiah chapter 9. Isaiah chapter 28. Jeremiah chapter 2. Jeremiah chapter 5. Jeremiah chapter 6. Jeremiah chapter 14. Jeremiah chapter 23. Jeremiah chapter 27. Jeremiah chapter 29. Lamentations chapter 2, Ezekiel chapter 13, Ezekiel chapter 22, Micah chapter 2, Micah chapter 3, Zephaniah chapter 3, Zechariah chapter 13. You want to read all those? We don't have time. If you need me to get those and write them down for you, I will do that. But those scriptures deal with the false prophets of old. And we know there was many of them. And the names of some of them, you'll find them in 1 Kings chapter 22 was Zedekiah. Hananiah Jeremiah chapter 28 and some other names in there. I'm not gonna go through all the names But Jeremiah describes the false prophets in a nutshell as follows. Here's what he said Jeremiah chapter 23 verse 16 17 Here's what he said thus saith the Lord of hosts hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you They make you vain. They speak a vision of their heart and not out of the mouth of the Lord. They say, steal unto them that despise me. The Lord hath said, you shall have peace. And they say unto everyone that walketh after the imagination of their own heart, no evil shall come upon you. So they were false teachers. They were saying that nothing bad is going to come upon you if you walk after your own heart. Who does that sound like? Joel Osteen, hello, Joel Smyre, many others, amen. So let me give you this in a nutshell, maybe if I can. The prophecy describes a multitude of false teachers who have professed the name of Christ but have brought reproach upon Christ's holy name by their heresies and their ungodliness. It describes Roman Catholicism, Greek Orthodoxy, unregented Protestantism, The theological modernism, Jehovah's Witness, Mormonism, Christian Science, Unity, School of Christianity, Armstrong's heresy. Armstrong's, he's got a crowd. It's heresy. Liberal evangelicalism, I can't even talk. And there's many others. So, notice as we look at this in Peter, 2 Peter, there's a powerful language that describes the false teachers. Preachers must follow this example. Of course, all pastors follow them and not be soft. When God makes it hard, amen, don't weaken the word of God. If it's hard to accept, preach it. That's what we're commanded to do. Preach the word of God. Amen. Be instant in season out of sin. Improve, rebuke, exhort with all unsuffering doctrine. Amen. That's what the man of God has to do. So we're not to let up, we're to use the same language that it is brought forth from the Spirit of God that convicts us and causes us to repent, we still use that same language. So if a man cannot reprove and rebuke from the same fashion of the Bible and the Bible preachers, then he does no business preaching. Amen. Chapter and verse, 2 Timothy chapter four, Titus chapter two, 1 Peter chapter four. So as your pastor, I'm obligated to preach and teach as the Bible gives it to us. So it's powerful language and people sometimes say, boy, he's a mean preacher. No, he's a Bible preacher. Now there's a difference in being a hard preacher and being a mean preacher. I know some mean preachers. I mean, they get plumb out of the Bible and get plumb ugly and mean. God's not part of that either. Hard preaching sometimes it's hard to receive because it convicts people and they don't want to hear it. The metaphors that we find here in the scripture that are pulled from every area of life that Peter uses to illustrate spiritual growth, just as Jesus did. Notice verse number three, look with me there, it says, make merchandise of you. Verse number 12 says, natural brute beast. Verse 17 says that these false teachers are whales without water, clouds that are carried with the tempest. Verse 22 says that the dog is turned to his own vomit again and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. That's describing those that are false teachers and teaching the false Christ, the false gospel. So in a nutshell here, 2 Peter 2 verse 15, the Bible says there, which have forsaken the right way and gone astray. They knew what was right, but they decided they didn't like what was right. And they went astray from that to do what felt good in their heart. What does Jeremiah say about the heart? It's desperately wicked. Who can know it? And so these are those that knew the right way, but forsook that and followed the heart. This is the brief definition of false teaching. It is to forsake the right way. It is not an intellectual problem. It is a heart problem. Amen. Paul gives the same definition in 2 Timothy 2 verse 18. He says this, who concerning the truth have erred, amen, they've erred. concerning the truth. God's word is an absolute standard of truth. Amen. It is an absolute word. The entire word of God is an absolute word from God, and it is truth, and we are not to forsake it. If we forsake it, then we are participating in apostasy, which is turning from truth. To forsake it and err from truth is false teaching. if we tell people that this is the Bible. So that's the story in a nutshell of the false teachers. It meant they forsook the right way. Now, we talk about the different religions and all kinds of other things there in the Bible days that they did and things that they was taught and said and all that kind of stuff and people followed that. But then we have in our day, don't be confused just because we talk about false teachers and Peter wrote it in the word of God. Well, this was written thousands of years ago and it's not pertaining to us. It's written to the New Testament church. We've discovered that already whenever we started, Peter didn't write it to a church, but Peter had the church in mind in his writing, because he was inspired to the Holy Ghost, amen, to pen these words. And so we understand that they're teaching, the Bible says there in verse number one, they're damnable heresies. What does that mean? Heresies means a self-willed choice of error. Self-willed choice of error. They know it's wrong, but they're gonna do it anyway. A true brother in Christ can walk disorderly and not act in the tradition which he received according to 2 Thessalonians 3, verse 6 through 15. Someone who is truly saved believed on the Lord Jesus Christ to be their savior. They know they're saved, but they can turn from truth and leave the truth and walk in air. And they're warned about that, amen? You mean somebody could be saved and preach something different? Yeah, they can. They can teach something different. That's why we have to be careful when someone teaches a Sunday school class. Just because they come in and they're saved and have a testament on salvation, we don't just turn them loose and teach something in the Sunday school class. Amen. Because they can teach something that's not biblical and have people confused and it causes confusion, amen, and it disrupts the church. Is God pleased with that? No, he's not, amen. So we find that heresies is used for the error pertaining to the practice of the Lord's Supper in 1 Corinthians 11, verse 19. But here, Peter is talking about the damnable heresies, which are heresies that bring eternal judgment. Peter gives an example of the damnable heresies, which says, denying the Lord that bought them. Now, let me help you with that if that wasn't clear enough. In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul is dealing with those at the Lord's Supper who had corrupted the Lord's Supper. They were saved, but they were participating in the Lord's Supper outside of the Scripture and how it was supposed to be conducted. They were actually having meals inside the church and calling that the Lord's Supper. They were saved, but they were performing things that were not according to Scripture. And so Paul deals with that and corrects that and tells them how they were erring in their way. Now some of that could be because of immaturity. Spiritually, not understanding what the Lord's Supper was. Some of that could have been that. Some of that was just because somebody said it was okay to do that. So that's one of the things that he's talking about pertaining to the practices that people participate in. You can do things that are wrong according to Scripture out of ignorance. And the Scripture tells us that God winks at ignorance. Not that He likes ignorance. Amen? You can get forgiveness for your ignorance, but God doesn't want us to be ignorant. Because he told us that, I have you not be ignorant brethren. Amen? But whenever it comes to what Peter is writing about here in 1 Peter, he's talking about the damnable heresies that is denying the very Lord Jesus Christ. Any false teaching about the person of Christ or his substitutionary atonement brings damnation because this is a false Christ and a false gospel. Damable heresies include denying that Jesus is the Christ, denying the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, and there's people who deny that. His incarnation is fully God and fully man, His eternal sonship, His sinless character. You know, there's some ungodly mess out there that says that Jesus Christ partook of fallen nature with a woman. They've got this new movie, I've seen the previews, I don't even know what the name of the movie is now, but they've got all this garbage out now, but every once in a while they show a preview, and it was this so-called guy that was so-called playing Christ, and he was so-called on his way to the cross, and I guess it was Mary Magdalene or some woman, I don't know. I didn't get into it that much, I just seen a little brief clip of it, and she kissed him and he kissed her. That's the American Jesus, amen? That's the Jesus that America wants. He's just a good old fellow. He's just one of us. And there's no deity, there's no authority, there's no divine nature. They're leaving all of that out and putting him, because he's 100% man, so he's gotta be just like we were, so he had to have desires and things like, no he didn't. He was sinless. And so that false teaching, anything that denies the sinless character of Jesus Christ is a false, damnable error. Amen. And people watch those movies and think, oh, that's the great, have you seen that show? No, fool, I ain't watching that mess. That's of the devil. Amen. You better not watch it either. Not y'all, but I mean, you know, if somebody says that to you, you tell them. Don't watch that junk, that'll get you confused. They deny His miracles, they deny the substitutionary atonement, they deny the bodily resurrection. on Easter Sunday, man. Resurrection Sunday. There's the crowd that denies his bodily resurrection, said it was a spiritual resurrection. Really? I mean, I don't even know where they come up with some of this stuff at. But that's what Peter's dealing with, and I gotta quit. That's what he's dealing with here when he talks about those damnable heresies. Anything that is denying the Lord Jesus Christ. Notice with me real quickly, I'm gonna share this with you. It says in verse number one, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." Now, there's those that are saved who err like they do at the Lord's Supper, as Paul dealt with, who are saved. There's those who profess to be saved. Notice the Scripture says, they deny the Lord that bought them. Doesn't mean that they were saved, that they accepted the payment. But he died for their sins just like he did for everybody else's. But they deny him. Okay, so that's the unbelieving crowd that's out there that tries to confuse and bring in damnable heresies. False Christ, false gospels, false spirit. You know what that is? It's the work of the devil, it's called deception. And we don't want to give the devil no credit, amen? But he's a liar, amen? He's a liar and he's the father of it and he has been since his very beginning, he's a liar. And so that's where all that comes from. It stems from the devil. Amen. Getting people confused, getting people to believe a lie. You know, it's easier to believe a lie than it is the truth. That's amazing, isn't it? Anyway, I got to stop. It's 10 minutes to 11. Let's pray.