This excerpt is taken from Tabletalk Magazine (Tuesday August 11th):
"Matthew Henry comments, "When men are not content with the instruction of the Lord Jesus Christ, but will frame notions of their own and impose them, they sow the seeds of all harm in the church."
Deprived of the truth, some even turn godliness into a means of financial gain (1 Tim. 6:5). It is right for the Lord's-appointed shepherds to earn a living from their work (5:17-18), but not heretics who, despite their best efforts to the contrary, often offer some godly truth in the toxic mess they sell. They might profess salvation in Christ but give false promises of wealth and prosperity in order to entice people to give, or they may present the gospel as a way a person can buy his way into heaven. Such people are to be avoided at all costs."
Jesus said, and says to us in the here and now: "For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect." Matthew 24:24
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