From Malvern Free Presbyterian Church we present, Let the Bible Speak. Let the Bible Speak is the international radio ministry of the Free Presbyterian Church of North America, preaching Christ in all His fullness. This edition of the program comes to you from the Free Presbyterian Church in Malvern, Pennsylvania. During the next several programs, Dr. Mark Allison, minister of the Malvern Church, will be bringing a special series of messages. Here to introduce the series is Dr. Allison. This is Mark Allison, and I'd like to welcome you to another broadcast of Let the Bible Speak. Today we're turning in God's Word to Deuteronomy chapter 13. Deuteronomy chapter 13 and I want to read the first five verses of this chapter and then we'll make some comments upon it as we let the Bible speak concerning the biblical doctrine of separation. Deuteronomy chapter 13 and verse 1. If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and giveth thee a sign or a wonder And the sign, or the wonder, come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them. Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God proveth you to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. Women are reading there at verse 5. There is a further discourse here dealing at length as to even cities and relatives are to put the false prophet out of their midst. But you get the gist here in these first five verses as to what our attitude ought to be to false teachers. Now one of the reasons why we are studying this biblical doctrine of separation is because we're living in a time where there is much compromise going on with apostasy, where people are in apostate denominations or apostate churches or apostate organizations. and they are truly Bible believers and they're giving money to those organizations or churches or denominations and they're helping to keep those doors open so that they can continue on teaching their heresy. If all the Bible believers pulled out of liberal denominations or pulled out of churches that were not teaching the Word of God or pulled out of organizations that were propagating false doctrines many of those denominations and churches and organizations would fold. It is Bible believers who disagree with what is being taught in the denomination, taught in the church, they disagree with it, and yet because they are there giving their finances, because they are there encouraging people by their presence, the doors stay open and the heresy continues on. Here we find in this passage of Scripture that we are to deal with the false teacher by removing his influence. Now in the Old Testament they were to stone the individual. We can't do that. We don't do that in the church, nor do we get the government to do it for us. But we do practice biblical excommunication for those that are heretics denying cardinal doctrines of Scripture or those that will not repent of great immorality. great moral evil. We have in the country today a man who has been proclaiming things that are not true. This man's name is Harold Camping and a few months ago we began to warn the people concerning some of the predictions that he was making so that they not be led astray by his predictions. We said that he was predicting that Christ would come back on May the 21st When Christ came back on May the 21st, he would rapture his people. There would be this rolling earthquake that would come through the world. The whole world would go into a terrible time of tribulation, a time of terror, a time of great persecution and hardship. No one would be saved during that time period. And after five months, then you would have the end of the world on October the 21st. Well, this is October the 21st. And just as Christ did not come back May the 21st, so the world has not come back or has not been brought to an end on October the 21st. Now this is not the first time that he has made such predictions. He predicted that Christ would return in 1978, but Christ did not. He predicted Christ would return in 1994, in September of 1994, and he had a large book defending that. And then when Christ did not come back in 1994, he said, well, we were right in what we wrote in the book, but the event was wrong. The event was wrong. 1994, he now says, began the last harvest by organizations that are outside of the church. And then he said Christ was coming May the 21st, 2011. And when Christ didn't come, well, how did he spin that? He said that Christ did come, you just didn't see him. It was a spiritual coming and that the tribulation really did begin. And no one has been saved over these last five months. What folly. And now he's been telling people that the end of the world is coming on October the 21st today. And as you can see, the end of the world has not come. Now let me be perfectly clear. The Bible does teach that Jesus Christ is coming. The Bible does teach that there is going to be an end to this world and a bringing in of a new heavens and a new earth. Christ, when he comes, will change this world. There will be cataclysmic changes taking place in the earth. But only Christ will do that. This is not something that a denomination or a church or the United Nations can bring about. The changes that are talked about in scripture will only come to pass when the Lord comes and He brings in the new heavens and the new earth according to His own almighty power. That is going to happen because the scripture predicts it. But what the scripture also does is it tells us that no man knows the day and the hour of Christ's return. You can see that very clearly stated in Matthew 24. Our Lord Himself said no man knows the day and the hour. And now it's been very clearly pointed up to us by the fact that Christ has not come. He didn't come in 78. He didn't come in 1994. He didn't come on May the 21st. He didn't come on October the 21st. It's very clear to us that what we're dealing with in the ministry of Mr. Camping is a false prophet. And I may be speaking to some, you have been deceived by this man. You thought he was a man telling you the truth. And now you're coming to the conclusion that he lied to you again and again and again. May I say this to you? That the date that he set and was wrong about is not the worst of his errors. When he said the church, the Bible-believing church was given over to Satan, that's a far worse error. When he told you to come out of the church and take yourself out from under the discipline of godly men called elders, that was a far worse error. When he told you not to baptize in the Lord's name, not to take the Lord's table, that was a far worse error. And when he told you not to come to Christ when your heart was burdened and you wanted forgiveness of your sins, even though the Lord himself bid you come, even though the apostle Paul said to the Philippian jailer who was burdened, wanted his sins removed and said, what must I do to be safe? Paul said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved in thy household. And yet this false prophet told you to go home and read your Bible. The Bible doesn't tell you to go home and read your Bible. The Bible tells you to come to Christ if you want salvation. The Bible tells you to believe on Christ if you want salvation. The same Spirit that produces in your heart the desire to come will give you the power to come. Come to Christ. Don't sit and wait. Come this day. But you have been sitting under the false prophet, and he has been telling you things that are not true. He tells you it's the faith of Christ that will save you, not your faith. That's a lie. It's very clear, as you read John's Gospel, that you must believe. And it's your believing that is the instrument whereby the great work of Christ is applied to you. Oh, it's the work of Christ that saves you. It's His blood applied to your unrighteousness that removes your unrighteousness. It is His righteousness imputed to you and received by faith. that indeed becomes your righteousness and your right standing before God. But when are your sins removed? When is this righteousness imputed to you? It is imputed to you the moment you believe. You must believe. And you're going to find that this false prophet who prophesied of the Lord's coming, and he was wrong and clearly wrong, has been wrong on doctrine after doctrine after doctrine. Now, Mr. Camping is not alone. We are living. in a time when if you preach Orthodoxy, you preach the Word of God, you're going to find yourself on the outs of most of what's called Christendom. We have become the land of the cults. We have become the land of false doctrine. Romanism is viewed as truth. Mormonism is viewed as truth. Jehovah's Witness is viewed as truth. Even some would even tell us, Christians would tell us that the Muslim religion is true. Well, if all those things are true, then there is no truth. When you're hearing somebody come to you and say that these things are true, you are dealing with a false prophet. I grew up in Protestantism, but most of what I was taught in Protestantism was a lie. It was not according to the scripture. Men taught me that we did not. We were not created by God, but we evolved. That's not what the Scripture says. God is the creator of the ends of the earth. And He did it according to Scripture in six days. Men would say that you're born without sin, you're naturally good. But that's not what the Scripture says. David himself said, in sin did my mother conceive me. That He was formed, He was shapen in iniquity. The very first essence of David, when he was in his mother's womb, was a sinful nature. Because of that, when we come out of the womb, we sin. Psalm 58 speaks about children coming out of the womb and living the lie, as it were. We're, by nature, children of wrath, even as others, Paul says. Our very natures are corrupted. Yet I grew up in a church saying we're all basically good. How are you to deal with such false prophets, whether they be among liberal Protestantism, whether it be someone like a Mr. Camping, or the cult leaders of our day, whether it be Romanism? How do you deal with such false teachers? Well, it's very clearly stated that we're to put the evil away from our midst. You see that again in verse 5. Put the evil away from the midst of thee. Now you can do that in one of two ways. You can move them out of your church and move them out of your denomination, these false teachers, those that won't repent of their sin, or you can come out of the church and form a new church that is faithful to the Word of God. But you cannot continue to be unequally yoked with unbelievers and expect that God is going to bless you. He will not bless you. Instead, His wrath will be upon you. Instead, His chastening hand will be upon you. Come out from among them, Paul says, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. That is the statement from the Almighty. I will receive you, and I will be a father to you, and ye shall be sons and daughters to me. If we can be of help to you in coming out from the apostasy, call us at 610-993-3170. That's 610-993-3170.