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EMPTY WELLS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
2 Peter 2:17-18

Psalm 37:27-40

 

“…I have hoped in thy word.”

 

EMPTY WELLS
 
Only through a knowledge of the Word of God can we live the holy lives to which we have been called. Jesus noted that the learned Sadducees of His day were unable to understand the truth because they did not know the Scripture. It is only in the Scripture that we find God’s revelation of Himself and the truth concerning spiritual things. For this reason, the teachers of the church are challenged to preach God’s Word and all believers are to study it (2 Tim 2:15).
 
Peter continued now with a description of false teachers in the church. Since they deny the truth of God’s Word, they were like wells without water (2 Pet 2:17). Their high-sounding words and appeals to human intellect and feelings came from hearts filled with pride (2 Pet 2:18). Their words were empty of any spiritual value or truth. These false teachers were most apt to take new or untaught believers into error. In the early church, such men taught that the grace of God was licence to sin. Today, they go a step further and teach that there is no such thing as sin! How sad when these who have just heard the Gospel are taught by such false teachers and miss the truth of God’s call to holiness. We need to remind ourselves how important it is to fellowship in churches where such false teachers are not tolerated, lest we be guilty of leading young Christians into the care of such dangerous men as described here.
 
Severe judgment is waiting for those men in that final day. In the meanwhile, we must continue to be on our guard against those teaching error. Churches are responsible to mark such men and have nothing to do with them (Rom 16:17-18). And if a church organisation tolerates false teachers in their midst, true believers must separate themselves from such a group or else they will be partakers in their sin (2 Cor 6:17).
 
THOUGHT: Why are teachers in the church challenged to preach God’s Word?
PRAYER: Father, may I be alert to darkness and have no fellowship with it.

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