1 Timothy 6:3 “If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;”
False teaching has always been around and we are not about to change it. As Christians and churches, we must focus on the Truth of the bible and not what other men are teaching. If we are going to fulfill our responsibility to God then we have more to do than counter false teachers or doctrine. We always need to remember that our Great Commission is to get the true unmolested gospel message out to every living soul. Our responsibility is to be the pillar and ground of Truth and not to allow ourselves from getting detoured by false teaching. God has warned those that teach false doctrine, “If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ…He is proud, knowing nothing.” That is, he knows nothing of God’s word, because God’s word is Truth and anything less is not God’s word, it is not God’s teachings, and it is not God’s doctrine. We need to heed the same warning that the Apostle Paul issued to Timothy in 1 Timothy 1:3 - 4 “As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, (4) Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.” People that teach the bible can only teach it one of two ways, in Truth or as a lie, there are no in between. The Trueth glorifies God and the lie glorifies man and Satan. People that teach lies do so because they are not blessed by the Holy Spirit to have been taught the Truth. These people are bounded to the lies they teach because to them it is truth, it is just as much truth to them as the real Truth is to us. Jesus said to these people, “Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.” John 8:43 They have no ability to hear Biblical Truth and any attempt to teach them just falls on deaf ears. Jesus went on to say “And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.” John 8:45 Why would they not believe Jesus, because what they heard was a lie to them, because they are spiritually discerned, or they cannot connect the dots of the bible to see the truth. The Truth of the bible goes against everything humanistic. Jesus told them, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” There is no truth in Satan and therefore there is no truth in any lost soul. Jesus said in verse 46b “… And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?” If they will not believe Jesus then why would they ever believe us? If Satan has these people blinded then only God can cause them to see, and we are certainly not God. God must “command” the light to shine from darkness to light or else they will never believe God. 2 Cor. 4:4. The word command means God must order by causing the light of His word to shine on them. We do not have that power, no power to save the lost, nor the power to change the mind of a lost soul to Truth. So, some may ask, why didn’t Jesus cause them to see the Truth, He answered that in John 8:47 “He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.” They will never believe the Truth over their lie because Satan has them blinded, and only Jesus can make the glorious light or Truth shine in their hearts. Listen to Jesus in John 10:26 - 27 “But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:” But do not be discouraged, Jesus is not done with His earthly work until He returns for the rapture. But for us, much prayer if needed for those who do not hear.