From the ages of 11 to 18, I studied martial arts. The most useful thing I learned there for the rest of my life is how to fall. And what I can advise you guys is when you're falling, the worst thing you can do is try to stop falling. It's actually very hard on your body. And so what I'm used to, when I fall, that's it. I'm committed to falling now. I'm not going to make any attempt to stop. And there's techniques that I learned on dissipating the energy and taking it on parts of your body that, not this part. But last night, I tripped over the rug in the living room, and I was heading straight for the TV and the table in front of it. So I had no room to fall. So my brain decided to stand upright and not fall. And my ankle failed under load, and I just felt everything in it tear. And so that's where I am. It's at least a sprain. I don't know how bad. Pray for me so hopefully it won't take too long to heal. I'm hoping it's just a bad sprain and in a week or two I'll be in better shape. So this week I may not be standing as much as usual. So Peter warns against false teaching. The mic on the pulpit is still live, it sounds like. The apostles prepared the church to contend for the faith. Same memory verse we've had for the last two weeks, I believe. Let's say it together. For our conversation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body. according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." Excuse me. Last week, we looked at the book of 1 Peter and Peter teaching about holiness. Peter described and encouraged holiness throughout that first letter and encouraged the believers to live authentic lives consistent with their faith. This week, we're going to look at false prophets. Israel had a very long history of false prophets. If we start in the book of Ezekiel, God says through Ezekiel, her priests have violated my law and have profaned mine holy things. They have put no difference between holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between unclean and clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves, ravening the prey to shed blood and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity and divining lies unto them, saying, thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord God hath not spoken. And God has a very clear position in the Old Testament on false prophets, in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 13. And that prophet, or the 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." Now, you know, we look at the Old Testament and we go, wow, that's a bit rude. That's kind of extreme. But you have to understand the context. God is building a new society in the desert. And God is establishing certain standards of behavior, and he's teaching these stubborn, pig-headed, stiff-necked people to follow him. And in that environment, that society cannot tolerate false prophets. Now, does that mean today, if we run into a false prophet, we should stone him? No. No, we have to understand context, clues. And this is very clearly written to the children of Israel for that period. Now, God knows the works of Satan. Really, Satan hasn't come up with any new tricks since the beginning. And his favorite is to counterfeit messages from God. And God used Peter to warn his churches because Satan, they knew, would soon start the fakery And there are ways to test the words of prophets and determine if they are true or if they are false. And Peter also says, be prepared to contend for your faith. Now, Peter, we haven't seen a lot of. After the Acts 15 meeting in Jerusalem, Peter goes silent. Apparently, he passed leadership of the Church of Jerusalem on to James, and he went elsewhere. Not a lot of clues in scripture. He and his wife may have been missionaries. They may have served in Corinth. Tradition tells us that he wrote the books of 1st and 2nd Peter from Rome. The 2nd Peter was written a few years after his first in his mid-60s, so a very old man for that age, likely in prison under Nero, who was at that time beginning to seriously persecute Jews. Let's look at the first reading from Alexander Scorby. According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you, that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore, the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure. For if ye do these things, ye shall never fall. So Jesus, in His divine power, Peter says, has given us everything we need to live our lives. And our knowledge of him transforms us from the crude beings we were into progressively more spiritual beings. We've been given great promises by God. I mean, we have the promise of heaven. We have the promise of eternal life. We have the promise of salvation that we cannot lose no matter how badly we screw up. And we have the opportunity to participate in his divine nature. Even here on earth, we have a little piece of God inside us. And we can attend to the words of that little piece of God, or we can ignore them. And Peter lays out a plan to grow our faith. And he says, you've got to be diligent about it. You've got to work at it. It don't come for free. We all start, of course, with faith. Without faith, we cannot become Christians in the first place. Because God does not come down and tap us on the shoulder and say, good-bye. Didn't even know God was Australian, did you? God does not appear to us. He has the power to make the stars spell out, repent, sinner. But he doesn't. He chooses a different way. And so we have to have faith to become Christians in the first place. But Paul says now, to that foundation of faith, add virtue. As Brother Leland Lanier, thank you, he always said virtue, which used to make me go twitch. But yes, we have to add to our faith virtue. What is virtue? Not a word we use in conversation very often. What is virtue? Anybody? If you read the word virtue in the Bible, did you even know what it means? Brother? No. Although a person who is virtuous will be respectful, virtue is just a right attitude and right living. We talk about someone being virtuous if they are saintly in their ways. Virtue is just that core in you that tells you what is right. So to faith, add virtue. And then, add knowledge. Peter says you've got to understand who God is. Now, the knowledge Peter's talking about is not the knowledge that the atomic number of uranium is 93. That's not very helpful in your Christian life. It's not the knowledge of how to put adjectives in the right order in a sentence. English grammar is not going to help you in your life. It's the knowledge of God. So faith, and then virtue, and then the knowledge of God. And then he says, adding on top of that, temperance and patience. Temperance is not drinking alcohol, right? It was called the temperance movement. But temperance is not being excessive. Control, brother. Temperance is if one does drink alcohol, you really ought to stop at one drink or two, but certainly not five or six. Temperance is understanding that there are certain behaviors that going too far is just not appropriate for a Christian. And then temperance add to that patience. You know what patience is? Patience is putting up with other people when they don't show temperance. When they tell you that 17th joke in a row. Sorry. And then to temperance and patience, add godliness. Godliness and virtue are much the same. But I think virtue is inside, and godliness is the expressed behavior outside. And then kindness, being nice to people. and truly being nice to people, putting their needs ahead of yours. And then on to charity, which is the old, the King James translation. Whenever you see charity, you should hear in your head love. And it's the agape, the godly love that comes about because of who you are. God loves us because of who he is, not because we're terribly lovable. I was listening to someone this morning who was talking about his conversion experience. And he says, you know, he finally reached the point where he said to God, okay, I'm willing to give my life to you. I'm willing to accept Christ as my savior. He says, that's like bringing a 74 Hugo into a Lamborghini dealership and says, I'm ready to do an even swap. I thought that was an excellent analogy. But this path that Peter describes is building you up in your Christian life. He says, consider this path. Consider going through these steps. You have faith. Now add virtue and knowledge, temperance and patience, then godliness, kindness, and godly loves all the way up here. We try to jump straight to godly love without going through these other steps. It doesn't tend to work. And Peter says, once you've added these characteristics and they overflow, that is, there's so much of them inside you that they are expressed and they're obvious. When we do that, we won't be barren. That is unfruitful. Remember, we have a purpose in this life. And as Brother Darren has been pointing out rather extensively for the last several months, that purpose is to spread the gospel. Well, Peter suggests that if you want to spread the gospel, you've got to work on who you are in God first. And then the desire to spread the gospel will come. And I don't think that's at all inconsistent with what Brother Darren's been telling us. On the other hand, if we lack these seven characteristics, we're blind. We've got tunnel vision. We can't see the reality around us and we tend to re-adapt our old ways. Re-adopt our old ways, living like the world. So Peter says, be diligent, work hard to make your calling and election sure. Our calling and election sure. If we believe that we can't lose our salvation, Why would it be necessary to make our calling sure? Well, because are you sure you got saved in the first place? Now, Peter's not trying to throw doubt into people's lives, but if a person calls themselves a Christian and they live their life in Christ for 20 years and never grow, and they're in the same place they always were, how much evidence do they have that they were ever saved in the first place? is kind of the point that Peter's making. Growing in the Lord, truly going through those steps, and then getting out there and teaching others and telling others about God, that's the greatest assurance of your salvation you can have, is the point that Peter is making. Let's look at this next passage, please. But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the law that bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways, by reason of 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. Peter says that just as false prophets have come before in the history of Israel, they certainly will come again. Satan cannot let the gospel spread unopposed. The gospel is Satan's defeat. And at this point, at least in history, and today, as well as back then, Satan's still fighting for all he's worth. Satan knows where he's going. And he hates all of us, and he wants to have as much company as possible. Misery loves company? That is a truly satanic thought. Because that's the attitude Satan has. I'm losing, and I'm going to drag as many of God's creation down with me as I can. And one of the most effective tools Satan has in his arsenal is counterfeiting the gospel. Because we're built, we're designed with a hole in us, a God-shaped hole. And if there weren't all these false religions, we would turn to God. But if Satan can get us caught up in something that feels good and convinces us we're okay, well, we still go to hell, and he's got another one. Peter says, they will privately bring in damnable heresies. What is a heresy? It's some kind of a hairy little animal, right? Wrong thinking. OK. Heresy is the opposite of orthodoxy, which is literally right thinking. Now, we may not be comfortable with the word orthodox, because you think Greek orthodox, Russian orthodox. Orthodoxy is just accurate theology. It's not a word we tend to use very much. But the opposite of orthodoxy technically is heterodoxy, different thinking. And a heresy is any teaching that diverges from the right thinking. Now, I tend to associate that orthodox word more with Catholicism than with Christianity. Because they're more apt to use it. Lutherans tend to use the word orthodox a lot. Certainly the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches use the word orthodox a lot. But if we believe, if we believe that we understand the truth of the Bible, then we have orthodox thinking. We have an orthodoxy. Now, hopefully we didn't invent it. Hopefully we're taking it out of the Bible. which is appropriate, but it's still right thinking about what the Bible says. And so a heresy is a deviation from that. And trust me, they were seeing them in the first century AD. We're still seeing many of them today. And these people will bring in damnable, that is, worthy of being consigned to hell. And every heresy is worthy of being consigned to hell, because it is not godlike. Even going so far as to deny the deity of Christ, Peter says they will be destroyed, but not before many follow their evil ways, causing biblical Christianity to be badly spoken about. Every heresy that's out there causes people who are not saved to think they are saved which results in people who take the name of Christian, who have no godly power behind their lives, and lead sinful lives, causing Christians to be spoken bad about. It's inevitable. This is the argument that Peter's making. And these false prophets, Peter says, are motivated by greed for both power and money. Because there is a certain prestige in being a preacher of the gospel. Look at all the televangelists in the 80s and 90s and how much money they made selling God as a product. They will fool you with their apparent piety, their godliness. And again, I'm going to use these guys as easy targets. Because they looked great until the investigation started. And they'll take their opportunity to make money from you. This passage in Peter promises their destruction, but warns against getting caught up in it. Do not send your college fund from your kids to the televangelists. And Peter is confident of their destruction. In the prior passage, which we are not looking at, and actually the one after as well, he's referencing the Noahic flood and the obliteration of Sodom as examples of how God treats ungodliness. And so these false teachers are going to suffer the same fate. But Peter's warning is, that's happening to them. Don't let it happen to you. Don't get caught up in their false teachings. and suffer the same destruction they are. Next passage in Peter, please. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless, and account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things. which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable rest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen. Amen. Peter says we await the new heaven and the new earth. We should therefore be ready for his return. We should be in peace, not in conflict with our fellow Christians. We should be unspotted without public sin. We should be blameless. We shouldn't be giving anyone any traction to tear us down because how terrible we are. And while we hope for his soon return, says Peter, remember, there was an expectation in the first century that Jesus would show up right then and right there. We have that same expectation today. I've had that same expectation my entire life. I'm astonished that I'm living as a 60-year-old man, because I expected Christ to come before now. Don't get discouraged. Every year he waits are more souls that are being saved, says Peter. And I happen to agree with him. His delay gives time for others to be saved. Peter then references Paul's writings and calls them inspired. That little detail should encourage us. Because if anyone had human cause to be jealous, it was Peter. Peter was the number one disciple. when Jesus died. Peter was the number one disciple at the day of Pentecost. But now, 30 or 40 years later, Paul is the number one guy. Paul's the one who wrote so much of the New Testament. And in his humanity, Peter has every reason to be jealous of Paul. But he's not. He recognizes they're both servants of God. And he speaks well of Paul's writing. He says it is inspired. He says Paul's got some hard doctrines in there. And he says there are unlearned, that is, ignorant and unstable people who are twisting those doctrines to their own benefit and to their own destruction. And it's certainly true. There are a lot of the doctrines that are expressed in Paul's letters that are a little bit challenging. They're maybe not for a first-year Christian. They need some explaining before they quite make sense, and they're real easy, historically, to twist out of line. In general, the Bible has often warned Christians of the ravenous wolves of false teachers. In the book of Acts, Also of your own self shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them. They can arise from inside the church. Many of the worst heresies, I'm going to name Calvinism as one, came from inside the Christian church. 2 John, verse 7, for many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus has come in the flesh. This is deceiver and an antichrist. Now, when we see the word antichrist, we tend to think of one individual. who's coming in the future, the Antichrist. But when you read the Bible, you'll see that phrase very often in the New Testament, that descriptor, Antichrist, and it doesn't always point to that one future individual. An idea can be Antichrist because it's anti-Christian. It's against what Christ stands for. Atheism is Antichrist. Many of the heresies that are mentioned in the Bible clearly are anti-Christ, and John there is talking about an anti-Christ. This is an idea that goes against the ideas of Christianity. They often deny the divinity of Christ. This is deceptive and clearly directly against Christian doctrine. In 2 Timothy, Paul writing to Peter says, But shun profane and vain babblings, for they will increase unto more ungodliness, and their word will eat as does a canker, of which is Hymenaeus and Philetus, who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already. and overthrow the faith of some, it is biblical to call out false teachers by name. We may think that's not loving. Oh, we're supposed to be loving. How could we possibly embarrass somebody by saying that their teaching is false? Recognize it is more loving to warn people against something that you know is false. But you best be real careful in that judgment. Because as soon as you judge another, you're setting yourself up in God's place. So make sure you have a clear understanding of the Bible. If you don't want to call them out by name, go talk to your pastor. See what he says about what they're saying. And then it's his job to call them out by name and say what they are teaching is wrong. I'm comfortable here, sitting here, calling out one guy in Houston, Joel Osteen, I'm comfortable calling him out by name. I think I understand enough about the Bible to say that most of the stuff he's preaching is garbage. In 2 Timothy, again, same passage, slightly different emphasis now, their word doth eat as a canker. False doctrine spreads like cancer. Okay? It will overpower good doctrine. Because the problem is false doctrine tends to be more attractive than good doctrine. It makes you feel good. As a matter of fact, one of the first indications that doctrine is false, any doctrine that makes you feel good about yourself has a real good chance of being false. Because there's nothing in our Christianity that should make us feel good about ourselves. Because it's all from Him, right? It's nothing we did. If there's a doctor that makes you feel special, I'd be careful. Because there's nothing in God's Christianity that should make us in our humanity feel special. Specially called out by God? Sure. Thank you, Father. I didn't deserve this. But the doctor of Calvinism, which makes you feel special because God chose you, I'm sorry, that's heresy. Finishing up this theory, this line of thought, again in 2 Timothy, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof from such turn away, the last piece of advice Paul has practically, when you find them, avoid them like the plague. They're not people you should be associating with. because the heresy will rub off onto you. In Titus, these things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise this. The cure for false doctrine is the truth. True doctrine is the cure for false doctrine. And then again in 1 Peter, the elders which are among you I exhort. who am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly, not for filthy luger, but of a ready mind." Peter says the elders are there to feed and protect their flock, and most of the protection is against heresy. It is the responsibility of the pastor and the deacons and the more mature Christians, elders includes more mature Christians in that category whose job is to protect the church. We have a reading here in Jude, please. But beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. are that they told you there should be mockers in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the spirit. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some, have compassion, making a difference. and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Jude warns against current peril. Jude, the half-brother of Christ, wrote later, and actually quoted Peter in this passage, where Peter said, knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts. Jude references this. Jude is writing at least 10 years later than Peter. And while Peter looked ahead to false teachers, by the time of Jude, they'd already cropped up, made themselves obvious. Jude says they caused division. They're focused on their own pleasures, and they have no spirit of God within them. And you can best defend yourselves, says Jude, by building up your faith and praying, staying within the merciful love of God. And Jude says, when our strength is strong, and a brother has been led astray, we need to be willing to snatch them back from error, but know that there are some that are lost. And you have to let them go. He says it's difficult. It's a discernment issue. You may need to discern the difference. And this is a job for, not a job for baby Christians, but for the most mature. Because a baby Christian trying to pull back a brother from heresy is likely to get ensnared by that heresy as well. Add a second John, please. For many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him Godspeed. For he that biddeth him Godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds. Now, we looked at this passage when we were talking about ravenous wolves, but now looking at the more full passage, John, writing even later than Jude, there was one heresy in particular that really started popping up as John was writing. These were false doctrines that claimed that Jesus had not come in the flesh. That's a biblical reference to a particular heresy that was very common in the first century called Gnosticism. The G is silent. If you say Gnosticism, people realize you don't really quite know what's going on. It was a common heresy. It was a mystery religion. Have you guys heard of a mystery religion? There's a lot of them present in the world today. And I'm going to specifically call out Jesus Christ Church of Latter-day Saints as a mystery religion. The idea that there are some truths that are reserved for the elite. There are certain truths that everyone finds out at the basic level. But as you become more advanced in the church, you learn deeper and more important truths that the layperson simply cannot understand. Remember what I said about any doctrine that makes you feel good about yourself is worrisome? See, mystery religions are there to make you feel special, to make you feel more educated and aware than the common herd. Gnosticism was a mystery religion that incorporated a lot of Greek philosophy. Duality was a big deal in Greek philosophy, two different things that were opposites. And in Gnosticism, all matter is evil, and all spirit is good. Since Jesus was good, they argue, he could not have been physically incarnate because that would have made him evil because all matter is evil. It was an illusion, a spirit inhabiting an only apparently physical body, say the Gnostics. It gets worse. That's bad enough, but it gets worse. There is a hidden over-God who is the source of all good. And there's this lesser, somewhat evil deity called Yahweh. Yeah. Who created the material universe, which is why all matter is evil. It hangs together, but it's crazy. The material universe, which is why matter is evil, and now salvation to their mind happens when you understand the existence of the higher God by some mystical or esoteric insight. This absurdity went under the name of Christianity. There were a lot of people who were sucked into this because it was more attractive than Christianity. Christianity taught you to be humble. Gnosticism, you could be proud about. I am special. I have hidden knowledge that you don't. You're just a Christian. I know more. Johns calls these false teachers deceivers, and again, anti-Christ, not the person, but contrary to the true doctrines of Christ. And John says the way to identify these people is whether or not they stay in the doctrines of God. This might seem very simplistic to us, but this was a very attractive heresy, again, because it made people feel special. But it was against the doctrines of Christ, so these people were not Christians. That's all John is saying. And John takes a strong line against these deceivers who were not Christians. He says, don't let them into your house. Don't even greet them. Don't offer them common courtesies and blessings of God, because you don't want any part of their anti-Christian, anti-God ideas. He said, if you wish them Godspeed, God bless you on your journey, you're participating in their heresies. And again, this might seem awfully mean, Aren't we Christians supposed to be nice? Bear in mind how Christ spoke to the Pharisees. Was Christ always nice to the Pharisees? No. There comes a point where nice is no longer appropriate. That doesn't mean you have to be nasty and rude. But it's not always about being nice. There are people who do not actually deserve to come into your house, an opportunity to speak to you. They don't deserve it, because they will lead you astray. In 2 Timothy, then, Paul offers some practical advice. I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom, preach the word, be instant, in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things and your afflictions. Do the work of an evangelist. Make full proof of thy ministry. Paul charged Timothy. Do you know the word charged? Do you understand it? It doesn't just refer to using a credit card. Okay. Charged is an old English word. When someone charges you, it doesn't mean they have a spear and they're running at you as fast as possible. It can, but hopefully not. When someone gives you a charge, first of all, they have to be speaking from authority. A charge comes from a person with a higher authority than you. Traditionally, it came from royalty. But a pastor can absolutely give you a charge because he has higher status than you in the church, right? This is the part where you do your up and down head exercises. Not these. These say you don't agree. Pastor has more authority in the church than you. Very good. Very good. So he can give you a charge. A charge is an assignment. Go do it. Yeah. Once you receive a charge, you have a duty. And Paul charges Timothy as a senior pastor to a junior pastor. to preach the word. And he gives him this charge on the basis of the authority of Christ's future judgment of the world. He doesn't actually do it on his authority. He says, in the name of Christ, I charge you. And he tells Peter. No, he does not. He tells Timothy to be ready at all times to preach and defend the truth. And he uses three words, reprove. Now, reprove and rebuke, in the English, are mighty close. There's not a big difference between them. Reproof is correction. Rebuke is also correction, maybe just a little sharper. But in the original Greek, they're a little further apart. The word translated in English, reprove, elekcho, is a statement that you've done something wrong. There's no emotional weighting on it. It's just a statement of right or wrong. And it's categorizing what you've done as wrong. That's a reprove. When a child does something wrong, we should first be reproving them. Hey, that's not right. When one of the junior engineers that I'm training up in the ways of engineering, it's one of the privileges I have in my job now, does something wrong, inappropriate, doesn't document a calculation correctly, I reprove them. Hey, that's not the way to do that. Do it this way instead. It's going to be clearer to a person reading it. Oh, OK. When they do a calculation wrong, that's not going to give you the right answer. Try doing it this way. That's all reproof. Now, rebuke, epitomeo, there's strong disapproval in that. If I see someone smacking a kid that's not their kid, that they're not disciplining them, if I see two kids fighting, hey, is that right? It's wrong. And I might rebuke. Similarly, if one of my younger engineers refers to a client as an idiot, in the hearing of the client, That might deserve a little more than a little reproof. That's rebuke. Don't do that. You're going to cost us business. So reprove and rebuke, and then exhort to strongly encourage. It's what pastors doing every Sunday is exhorting us, encouraging us to do certain things that are part of the Christian life. And Paul predicts that people would not endure sound doctrine, but would prefer comfortable lives, lies, lies, comfortable lies. And I again turn back to the oasis of love. So my question is for you now. Let's see if we can get some participation this week, guys. What are some specific false doctrines that you've seen in our church or in church in general?