We praise the Lord for giving some men a special burden for the people living in closed tribes in Stone Age conditions, like Stan Dale and Phil Masters, daring rugged terrain, primitive conditions, and risk of a likely death to bring the everlasting Gospel to people living in darkness.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tpeKZukLgY

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Last week I wrote a series on discernment in 6 essays. They are below. I called it “Wolf Week” because false teachers are called wolves in scripture. My own version of Shark Week, lol.

Wolf Week Intro: or, We DO know the heart
Wolf Week # 1: My two “starter false teachers”
Wolf Week # 2: Why Wolves?
Wolf Week # 3: Types of false teachers and their different methods
Wolf Week # 4: Has that false teacher REALLY ‘helped’ you?
Wolf Week # 5: Why does God allow false teachers?

A follow-up series I am publishing contains 4 more essays in short form focusing on 4 influential ‘Bible’ teachers. I cut to the chase and made shorter essays showing why these folks are false.

Today I look at 4 reasons not to follow Lori Alexander, half of the duo behind godlywomanhood/ The Transformed Wife.

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Last week I wrote a series on discernment in 6 essays. They are below. I called it “Wolf Week” because false teachers are called wolves in scripture. My own version of Shark Week, lol.

Wolf Week Intro: or, We DO know the heart
Wolf Week # 1: My two “starter false teachers”
Wolf Week # 2: Why Wolves?
Wolf Week # 3: Types of false teachers and their different methods
Wolf Week # 4: Has that false teacher REALLY ‘helped’ you?
Wolf Week # 5: Why does God allow false teachers?

A short follow-up series I am publishing beginning today contains 4 more essays in short form focusing on 4 influential ‘Bible’ teachers. These are essays illustrating why you should not follow 4 certain teacher highlighted in that essay.

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I've spent the last 5 days discussing from the Bible the fact of false teachers, their methods, their characteristics, and their traits. False teachers are destructive to the individual, to the local church body, and to the faith in general.

Tune in for the answer!

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Replies to statements that such and such is a false teacher:

Christian Lady 1: So-and-So is a false teacher.
Christian Lady 2: No way! But she's helped me in my walk! And she says true things sometimes!
Christian Lady 1: The demon possessed slave girl was 'helping' Paul, so why was Paul 'greatly annoyed'? Because her statement was only partly true, AND it was spiritually ambiguous. Paul exorcised her.

Ladies, we don't need to allow a false teacher to help along our God. He doesn't need just any truth. Truth that's proclaimed must be clearly explained and specifically credited to HIM. Here is what the slave girl was saying-

Denny Burk, How to Deal with False Teachers

Tim Challies, Lessons I've learned from False Teachers

Tim Challies: False Teachers and Deadly Doctrines

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So, discernment is more than pointing out this or that false teacher. False teachers also exhibit certain characteristics. As is written at The Masters University, false teachers exhibit a "pathology." We need to be "spiritual pathologists" to detect them.

To that end, I include a wealth of links to begin learning what the Bible has to say about the characteristics false teachers possess.

The Masters University, The Pathology of False Teachers

Noah Adams, lead pastor of City Park Church in CO, 10

Colin Smith, 7 Traits of False Teachers

Tim Challies, 7 Traits of False Teachers

Kim Sorgius Jones, 7 False Teaching Messages & How to Battle Them"

Tim Challies "The Spiritual Gift of Discernment" book

Sinclair Ferguson, "What is Discernment?" article

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Matthew 7:15 says, "Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves."

We've all heard this verse probably many times. We can understand it on the surface. It's a simple axiom.

Why did the Spirit choose Wolves as the primary symbol that represents false teachers in His inspired word? Tune in for an exploration of these and other facts about wolves the animal and wolves the false teachers.

Beware of false teachers
They are called false brothers (2 Corinthians 11:26); false apostles (2 Corinthians 11:13); false teachers (2 Peter 2:1); false speakers, that is, liars (1 Timothy 4:2); and false Christs (Matthew 24:24). The apostle John tells us, therefore, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1).

How to watch for wolves: Three signs of a false teacher
When a wolf looks at sheep, what does he see? Food. His motivation for getting close to sheep is not to care for their needs or protect them from danger; it’s to feed on them. But in order to get close to sheep, a wolf employs deceptive tactics to keep the sheep from discerning his dangerous presence before he can achieve his aims.

What does it mean that false prophets are wolves in sheep's clothing?
Jesus alerts us to “watch out for false prophets” in Matthew 7:15. He compares these false prophets to wolves in sheep’s clothing. Jesus also tells us how to identify these false prophets: we will recognize them by their fruit (Matthew 7:20).

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Wolf Week! Lack of discernment is the cause of much trouble in the church and much confusion. This is entry #1 in my series after the Introduction I did the other day.

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Today and the next 5 weekdays I'll publish something about discernment. So, Wolf Week! Lack of discernment is the cause of much trouble in the church and much confusion.

This inaugural entry to the week of discernment essays is called "We DO know the heart!"

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By Elizabeth Prata

The National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Administration, AKA NOAA, advised yesterday that an 'extreme' geomagnetic storm was gong to hit the US last night. They issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning of 'G5' (highest) when a solar outburst reached Earth on Friday. The effects include glowing lights in the northern sky, colors of ethereal and jaw dropping beauty.

My friends here in Georgia are excited. Northern Lights are rarely seen this far south! Indeed, as I awoke this morning many of them had posted photographs of the Lights in the sky. One social media account posted seeing them as far south as Key Largo, Florida!

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