Today someone invited me to watch the video of a false prophet bellowing how Christian education is bad...specifically Bible Colleges and Seminaries.   And yes, there are plenty of bad ones out there,  but his plea was to do away with all of them, because they are unscriptural.   Needless to say, this preacher was quite ignorant, and could have used some Bible College himself.  But that's not the point.

My friend who invited me to watch this scripture quoting heretic, also wanted me to watch a so-called refutation video.  I did, and that's when I realized that the refuter of the heretic was himself an even bigger heretic.  He denied that early people in Gen. 4 married their own sisters,  thus suggesting that some people on earth did not spring from Adam.  He denied the inspiration and authority of the Bible, and insisted that we should not interpret it literally, because that is too dangerous.

Needless to say, there was no refutation at all.  It was a case of too weasels wallowing in a puddle.   The refuter started out by saying how much he liked the anti-Bible College preacher. He told him how great his zeal and enthusiasm is, and how America needs more preachers like him, and how much he loves him.  If the refuter loved the man as much as he said, then that is clear evidence that he himself is also lost.  The people of light and truth, do not adore the people who are children of darkness.   And that's precisely why no rebuttal was given, it was simply a case of two false teachers sharing darkness with each other.

This vividly illustrates why the children of light must reprove the hidden things of darkness, and do it with absolute truth and not lies.   To begin a refutation of an unbelieving false prophet, with an  accolade about how wonderful he is, is blasphemous.  The followers and promulgators  of deception are not wonderful.  They are of their father the devil!  We do not "butter them up",  we slay them with the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.  That's what we do.

It is inappropriate behavior for a Christian to be telling a false teacher that he is wonderful, great, and that you love him.  If he hates Christ, who is truth,  then he is an enemy of Christ and the truth.  If he hates Christ, then he hates you also!  He is just as much your enemy as He is Christ's enemy. We don't tell him how good he is.  We tell him that he is rotten to the core, that his doctrine insults God, and that he needs to repent.   We tell him, that he is being controlled by the pitch black darkness of sin, and that his lies originate from Satan, and that God is going to cast him into hell if he does not repent and flee to Jesus for salvation.  That's the truth, and that's what needs to roll off our lips in every case.

The complacent, sissified, watered down, pansy waist,  kiss ass  doctrine,  of speaking kind words to the enemies of truth, and tickling the ears of Christ-haters, has got to cease in the church.   Either we follow the truth, and defend it, or we are following lies.  That's it.  There is nothing difficult here. 

There are appropriate times to encourage a brother, and lift him up and say nice things to him.  But when you are rebuking a devil, a whole different strategy comes into play.  We do not glorify his ignorance,  or endorse his self-righteous egotism.  Christ does not approve of him teaching hateful and deadly false doctrines, so why should we.  No,  We should let him have it with both barrels, and we should call him everything that God calls him!   He is a liar, a thief, a swindler, a snake, a viper, a prostitute, a ravening wolf,  a lost soul, a reprobate, a child of darkness, a blind man, a dead man, and ignorant man, a fool, a menstrual cloth, and a pile of dung;   until such time as he bows before Christ seeking full pardon and new life from above.  Till he repents, we need to treat him the way that He actually is.   Light has no fellowship with darkness, and endorsing devils, patting them on the back with a big smile, is not the way to treat them. 

 The only possibility that exists for their salvation rests in our words.  "How shall they hear without a preacher?"    God uses our words to save sinners.  That's why what we speak must be a 100% accurate statement of the truth.   If we start out lying, when we a refuting a sinner, he will immediately see our inconsistencies, and reject our entire message.  That's why they are so quick to point out that we appear to be a bunch of hypocrites!   Most of us are.  We tell a few lies along, the way  or half-truths, in order to not offend someone;  and in so doing, we demolish our own credibility and message.  Never a good practice.

It takes God to save these people.  We cannot do it.  So if you are delivering God's message to them, then let them have it with both barrels, and let God do what He will with it.   Don't tell them "God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life".  That's bull crap, and they know it!    They know that God hates them, because "He is angry every day  with the wicked" (Psa. 7:11).   What part of going to hell indicates that it's God's wonderful plan for somebodies life?  What's so wonderful about being cast alive into and eternal furnace of fire?  I don't see anything wonderful about that.  Do you?   Then why Lie about it?  And besides that,  who gave you the right to determine whom God loves?  When you tell Christ's enemies that God loves them,  you are clearly overstepping your bounds.  If Christ loves somebody, then they will find that out on their own, because His sheep hear His voice.  You are not authorized to pronounce divine love on someone who clearly evidences that they are a child of Satan.  When God is ready to love somebody He will do it,  and He will do it perfectly.

The gospel is not supposed to be attractive to sinners.  Somebody told me that I will catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar.  But the Bible says that men hate the gospel, they love darkness rather than light, and that when I open my mouth, they are incapable of hearing or understanding, because they are dead, bind, deaf and stupid.     To them  the whole thing is absolutely unintelligible, because they cannot know any things of the Spirit (1Cor. 2:14).  It takes God to bring them to life from the dead,  and he told us to preach the whole counsel of God to them, not just the sweet parts, but the vinegar parts also.  We do not have the option to toss out parts of the Bible that we don't think are sweet enough. We must deal with the whole truth whether we think it's sweet or not.  It's not up to us to decide that.  It's up to us simply to bow to everything God says.

Here's the predicament, as I see it.  The church over the last hundred years or so, has taken far too much liberty with modernizing, softening and rounding off the rough edges of God's word.  That's not our job.  In fact it is blasphemy.  God's word needs no improvement.  God's word needs to be handled carefully, and that always means presenting all of it.  Not slicing out the parts that we don't like.  The sinners in these last days, are being deceived by the greatest age of lying spirits that hell has ever spawned.  We must not be like them.  We must tell them the truth always, whether they like it or not, and whether we like it or not.   They must hear that they are very near to the precipice of eternal destruction,  that God hates their sin, and is ready to cast them alive into hell.  God uses this type of strong language to shock sinners into sensibility and repentance.  Paul in Acts 17 used this very same language to awaken sinners at Mars Hill.  "The times of this ignorance God wicked at, but now commandeth all men, everywhere, to repent!"  We need to address our ignorant generation the same way. " God commands you to repent, if you are ever to be saved."   The people we are trying to reach are on slippery and dangerous ground, we must urge them to turn or burn, with startling,  shocking and radical words, and not with namby pamby, wishy washy, kind and gentle,  words that show no urgency whatsoever.  These people are ready to slip into hell, and you want to speak softly to them?  That's inappropriate!  They will perish without a clear warning.   Don't talk to them about:  "wouldn't you really want to go to heaven when you die?"  You know for a fact that they are going to hell.  Heaven is not an option for them, till they flee from their urgent and present danger, repent of their wickedness, and cast themselves at Jesus feet!   To present heaven as one of their options, is simply a lie.   That's not an option at all.  Don't do that.  God is getting ready to throw them into the pit!  That's what you need to talk to them about.   The gates of heaven don't swing open wide just because you lie to someone and tell them God loves them.   The only time there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels  is when "one sinner repents" (Lk. 15:10).   Without repentance nobody gets in (Lk. 13:3,5).

I AM NOT TELLING YOU TO BE RUDE TO PEOPLE.  Please listen carefully.  We are to treat all men with dignity and respect, and we are to be kind to them in the majority of cases.   I'm not telling you to run up to somebody, and say, brother do you know that your going straight to hell.   That would be stupid and ignorant.  Jesus never did anything like that.  He met people right where they were in their life, and in their situation, and he used his words to  reach out and touch them.  Sometimes he called them vipers and snake.  Sometimes he called them children of the devil.   But not once did he ever say "Smile God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life".  Not once.   Not once did he ever ask someone "Don't you want to go to heaven when you die?"  Not once.   Not once did he ever say:  "If you were to die tonight and stand at the gates of heaven, and God were to say to you, 'why should I let you in?  What would you say?'"  These words and questions never came off Christ's lips, or the apostles lips either.  So why should we use them?  These words focus on good things...wonderful plans, heaven etc.  But none of those things apply to someone who is ready to be cast into hell!   Heaven is not their choice.  God gives it only to those whom He invites,  only those whom he has written their name in His special invitation book.  When you make it appear that anybody can decide to go to heaven anytime they want,  you are lying to them.  You are deceiving them, and are trying to trick them, or lubricate them into heaven yourself.  That's not your job.   Anybody can convince a moron  that he wants to go to heaven.   But to mislead an eternal soul, into thinking he's going there, when in fact,  he's not;  that is an immoral travesty.    Salvation does not come to people because you are slick salesman!   Smooth words, that sound sweet and pleasant to the sinners ears are deceiving words, lying words damning words.  Don't ever use them.  They show your lack of faith in the Savior's ability to save.  He will save all that are his.  You must simple preach the truth to them...not a watered down, modified, feel good truth,  but the truth that God is getting ready to bind them hand and foot an cast them into outer darkness forever, where the worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched, unless they repent and find Christ.     Don't ever speak kindly to false prophets.  Speak Truth!