False Teaching / Powerful Word from Apostle Al Simmons

Be encouraged and strengthened by this impactful message from Apostle Al Simmons. This word will inspire your faith, renew your mind, and help you walk boldly in God’s purpose for your life.

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As I look around, I think back and I remember all those times I listened to preachers teach about what's in the Word of God, and then I got the Holy Spirit, and I realized that just 'cause it's in the Bible doesn't mean they understand. What am I talking about? False teaching. False teaching. Now, I know you're saying, "Well, hold up now. If it's in the Bible, then it makes sense." Well, I remember, and you would, 'cause I'm gonna ask a question, I want you to think about it, and I want you to really think about it hard and long now. When you're talking about the Ten Commandment, thou shall not kill, thou shall not steal, thou shall not commit adultery, thou shall not lie, uh, false, you know, though bear false witness against thy neighbor. Which law, we talking the Ten Commandment now, which law is the worst? You know, they came up to Jesus and it was asking a question, which law is the best? Well, which law is the worst? Something for you to think about. Thou shall not kill, thou shall not steal, thou shall not lie, thou shall not commit adultery, thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Now, I mean, which law is the worst? We'll get back to that later, but let's move on, and let's get into this, and then we'll get back to that, which law is the worst. In 1 Timothy 1:1-11, Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ, is trying to show us something that we really need to pay attention to. We talking about false teaching. But before he gets in depth about that, he starts to explain who he is, and he starts out in verse one, it says, "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus," we talking the Messiah, "according to the commandment of God," who? Our Savior, "and of Christ Jesus," who is our hope. If He's not our hope, I'm telling you right now, we're in trouble. He has to be our hope. But he's talking to Timothy. See, we are reading the Word of God, but most of us don't understand it has to come from somebody who's well-known in this walk. Paul is a prophet of God. And he's talking to Timothy, who's sitting under him, who's being taught, and he says, "To Timothy, my true son in the faith, grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Just as I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, I remained on to at Ephesus." He said, "To remain on at Ephes- uh, Ephes- Ephesus," um, Ephesians is really what it was saying, so, "so that you would instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrine, nor to pay attention to myths and unl- un- and useless genealogy." It's endless. It keeps going on and on. Why? "Which give rise to useless speculation rather than advance the plan of God," which is what? By faith. So I urge you now. Now, we're talking about false teaching. He's telling Timothy, "I need you to stay here while I'm gone, but be aware of this." What am I talking about in false teaching? We talking about the law. People talk about the law. You can see them in the churches, they talk about the law. We talking about people who are homosexual and they have called themselves the preacher. We talking about women preachers. We talking about people who are liars, people who are murderers, people who are Christian but yet having adulterous relationships. We're talking about things that Paul is trying to show Timothy, "Hey, pay attention. There's a lot of false teaching going on here." Back to the question I asked earlier. Which law is the worst? Somebody would say, "Well, thou shall not kill." That's the worst. Then somebody else would says, "Well, thou shall not commit adultery." That's the worst. Someone say, "Well, thou shall not lie." To be honest with you, all of them the same. And now you say, "Whoa, now, they're not different levels?" No, they all are sin. And what he said? No, they all sin. But now I'm gonna say something that's gonna confuse some people. The law wasn't made for me. What? The law was never made for me, and that's false teaching. And I know you saying, "Well, it, it's in the Bible." It is in there. But did you ever go further than the law? What does it say about the law? Ah, now we're talking. 'Cause now in First Timothy chapter 1 through 11, we on verse 5, "But the goal of our instruction," is what? Love from a what? Pure heart. How many people do you know can literally love you with no intentions, no ulterior motives, nothing to gain back, just love? From a good conscience. Well, the minute you say a good conscience, it has to come from a pure being because you can't have a good conscience if you're a immoral person. Doesn't work. And from a sincere faith. You know, a lot of people say, "I believe in God. I believe in Jesus." Well, Satan believes. Satan believe in God. It's not gonna follow. So back to what I was covering certain things, the law never was meant for us. For people who say they are preacher but they are homosexual cannot be of God. Women preachers, not of God. Liars, murderers cannot be of God. Christians who are having adulterous relations cannot be of God. Those are all flesh. Now, I know you're saying to yourself, "Whoa, we talking about false teaching." I haven't even got to what the word says yet about false teaching. I'm giving you the background of how Paul is laying this out so people can get a understanding that now can move it. I'm not shocked that people don't know this. I'm not shocked. I understand. That's why in verse 6 it says, "Some people have strayed from these things and have turned aside to fruitless disobedience, wanting to be teachers of the law." Why do you wanna be a teacher of the law? That makes no sense. But it's gonna explain what it's talking about. Even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they have made confident assertions. So when I listen to people and they wanna debate certain things, I'm like, "Wow, they don't have a clue about the word of God." But watch what it does when it shifts. Uh, we talking about now in verse 8 is where it starts to give you some understanding. But we know- It didn't say we guessed this now. We talking about somebody who really understands through the Spirit of God what was God's plan. But we know the law is good. Now, I know you're saying, "Well, you just tell me that we, we shouldn't be under the law." I did, but I didn't tell you the law was bad. What the law says is correct, but it's deeper than that. Now, I know you're saying to yourself, "But you just tell me we know the law is good." It is, but here's the average person understanding. They go to the Ten Commandments and they says, "Well, you said the law is good." Well, 'cause you locking the law in the Ten Commandments. Really, it was 613 commandments, and if you break any one of them, you break all of them. So now who can stand under the law? Nobody. It was never intended for you to stand under the law. It was to show you where you are in your walk. 'Cause if you don't know where you are in your walk, how do you know what was the purpose of your walk? That's why it says in verse nine, "Realizing the fact," uh, it wasn't, wasn't a guess. "Realizing the fact that the law is not made for a righteous person." If I got the Spirit of God, if you got the Spirit of God, the law was never made for you. Who teaches that? Somebody with the Spirit of God, somebody that's been called by God to teach what God is saying. I'm gonna say it again. "Realizing the fact that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are," what? "Lawless and rebellious." So when somebody say, "Well, I'm under the law," well, that makes you a lawless and a rebellious person. "For the ungodly, the sinners, for the unholy and the worldly, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexual immorality," the immoral people, "for homosexuals." I'm just telling you what the Word says. See, we wanna cover it, but we don't wanna cover all of it. And then he goes on, "Slanderers, liars, for prejudiced persons, for whatever else," he didn't stop now, "for whatever else is contrary to sound teaching." We talking about false teaching. 95% of all religion is false teaching. You can like it or not, it's true. This is the problem with truly understanding the word of God. According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted. Now, Paul is telling you, you can listen to false teachers, but understand that it is false. I'm not coming to you as a false teacher. I know I'm righteous. So I'm telling you and showing you things that most people will never see. There's not a church that I can preach this message to. Not one. I don't know of one. Why? Because they all pretty much operate under false teaching. They don't even know this fact that the law was never meant for righteous people. Once you have the spirit of God, you cannot be judged. Not by man. Why? Because the only person that can judge you is God and you got the spirit of God in you. You know what's right and wrong. Doesn't mean that you won't sin. It doesn't mean that. You still have the ability to sin. But even with the Holy Spirit, if you sin, you're going to pay for it, but he's not going to charge it to you because faith is faith. Once he promised you that you were saved, you're safe. See the difference between real teaching of God and false teaching of God? That's why so many people who call themselves Christians, followers of Christ, fall into condemnations. Why? Because they keep judging according to the law. Well, I just did this. Well, if you was really of this, you wouldn't do that because your conscience, which is through the Holy Spirit, would be like, you know this ain't right now. And the guilt would be so much that you would repent. That's why it said a just man falls 10 times. He didn't fall because he was just. He's just because he keeps getting up knowing he was wrong. This is a process. You don't wake up one day and say, oh, I'm saved and baptized and now I ain't going to sin no more. That's a lie. The process. When the Spirit first come into you as a seed, it's so small it doesn't change your behavior because it has to grow. It is growing by the watering of the word. And if you don't get the watering of the word, it can't grow. And if it doesn't grow, it doesn't mean you're not saved. You don't have the Holy Spirit. It can't grow to get you some fruit so you can change from fruit of love, peace. We now, we start talking about long suffering, patience, goodness, godliness, now meekness. Now you can truly learn to be humble because now you're walking in something you didn't have before, and that's the Spirit of God that's allowing you to be operating at a good nature. That's why it's a goodness. Now, why? I don't do good because I want to do good. I do good because I'm good. I, I don't just stop lying because I hate lying. I stop lying because I know it's wrong, and I stop doing it because I'm not trying to impress nobody. Most people, when they're lying, they're trying to impress somebody. Once you get to be who you really are, you stop trying to impress people, and you just be you. They can like it or not, guess what? It doesn't matter because you stop trying to please man, you start trying to please God, and that's why the Word says you either please God or man, you won't do both. You're either pleasing man or God, but you're not doing both. I know if I'm pleasing God, I'm not gonna please man. I'm not, I'm not shocked. People like, "Well, well, that's, that's, that's hard truth." I understand that. Why? Would you rather me lie to you? Well, I know if I lie, I can't inherit. Why? Because no lies will inherit the kingdom of God. If you truly a believer, there's no reason to lie. Why? Because God, there's no lying in Him. We talk about false teaching. The law, we can get-- you can fall under it if you want to, but it was never meant for you. It was meant for the children of Israel after they came out of bondage. We take it upon ourself to put ourself under the law. People who are homosexual, well, the Word tells you, "Okay, this is what the law is for." Why? I'm telling you that's wrong. Don't wanna listen if you want to, but I'm telling you it's wrong. Women preaching, I'm telling you it's wrong. Liars, wrong. Murderers, lie. Christians who have an adulterous relationship, wrong. Feeding flesh. That's the word for today. We talk about false teaching. You can get it or not get it, but to me, all up to you because guess what? The Word will be true, and it tells you there will be false teaching, and they are upon us today. That is His Word.