I. The marks of false prophets and teachers

INTRODUCTIONFor anyone at this stage of Christianity, is novel to know that from many pulpits of different churches that exist today are constantly bombarded false doctrine that is false teaching, after all this is what doctrine teaching. One of the reasons why this is happening is that we have a cunning enemy, strong, smart, pursues without rest. Do not forget that Satan is who benefits from both false doctrine and those who follow. In this regard any non-Biblical doctrine, or any perversion of sound doctrine, serve the purposes of Satan.That is why Paul recommended to Timothy the following:You, however, persists in the things you have learned and of which you are convinced of, knowing of who you learned it and how from infancy you have known the holy scriptures, which can give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 2Ti 3:14-15Yet God has not left us helpless or defenseless against the fury of Satan. God has provided enough information and insight into His Word to recognize which are the marks of a false teacher. By way of introduction The Bible teaches us that a false teacher is someone who perverted, distorted, or manipulated God's message for personal purposes. Simply, the false teacher does not deliver the message as God gave His Word.The Bible speaks of the preacher using the concept of "herald," this was a person who repeated what he said a king so that he did not have to shout. Any change to the message of the herald was justification enough to lose not only their job of representing the king, but his life (Deuteronomy 18:18-20).That's why any minister to change the message of God comes to losing his ministry, thus demonstrating that it was never saved (Revelation 22:18-19). He can keep preaching and having a super church, but will not have God's approval, his judgment and is determined to be executed in the time stipulated by God, just by reading a history of Saul realizes that easily.God has not consulted with the man on his message that this "fix the bad parts", "incomplete" or change the layout to make it more acceptable. God has sent us to preach His Word but this causes conflict, or will not be easily received, and so on. All this is in God's sovereignty. We simply must deliver their message as heralds, without changing one jot or tittle, which causes or produces it is the responsibility of God, for God has established.On the other side in 2 Peter 1:21 reads: For prophecy never came by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. This means that the message is not brought by man, and was inspired by the Holy Spirit is the message of God and therefore must be turned without removing and omitting nothing, the responsibility of the real teacher is simply to obey God rather than men.For example, many say we should not attack homosexuality as a sin. God says the opposite. Others say that women are like men in their roles, and then they claim that women can be leader of the home, take her husband in subjection, preach, teach, lead, and dominate the man. God says the opposite in His Word. The minister of God does not change God's message, but gives it as he has been given to him.In many cases we can see the marks (character) of the false teachers precede false doctrine, that is more caring reputation and what people will say that what God opine on them. With others, the opposite is true, their doctrine is a form of godliness but their hearts are evil. God warns us over and over again that such a minister (who identify with these brands) then probably will eventually show what their true doctrine and true character and their conduct, because his heart is captive to greed and the love of money and not genuine love for God and his flock.Today this has happened to thousands of preachers and evangelical world today is that they have "forgotten" that the false doctrine produces deviant behavior.We must understand that false doctrine and false prophets or teachers, come from a poor formation of his character, often you can see his character and conduct before and obviously teach something when he says taught many heresies and has many false doctrines.We can recognize a false anointed one of three ways:(1) Recognizing the errors of his teaching, which is usually if not always is extra biblical.(2) Recognizing the way you work for the cause of Christ, if indeed it does do it for love of God and his sheep or interests ... usually to generate money.(3) Recognizing that kind of person, his character, his ambition, if a manipulator, its form of godliness, and so on.The danger in false teachers is that sometimes the change is slow to move from being a "good" minister to be a false minister. This is because there are situations, crisis, or changes in the way of thinking about the minister who move from side to side like the pendulum of a wall relog, look what the Bible says:Ever learning and never able to get to know the truth. 2Ti 3:7Personally I never ordered their inner world from the beginning, they always had beliefs and ways of working non-biblical, so that finally reveals what kind of ministers really are.We also need to clarify that not all those who make mistakes in the ministry, in their behavior, or even preaching the doctrine can be classified as false teachers. Sometimes because of lack of understanding something, the minister can not explain everything very well, but when someone says that God revealed something and says it was God who told him to teach something and it contradicts the Bible that it is extremely serious and critical and that is the case of many preachers today, especially modern apostles and prophets and their associations with other international ministries.Recall that the herald simply repeats the message, he is not the originator of the message, and maybe he even understands the message it gives, but simply repeats what God has given you. To find out who is a good minister, this is the most practical way to identify their loyalty to communicate the message, the message faithfully as God has revealed in His Word - the Bible.But when they say that God revealed something and is totally contrary to the Bible and that is very serious, remember that God said very clearly that we should not take his name in vain. In the fund all this is that the false teacher, has decided not to worry about accurately convey God's message, they forget that He is God's message.In contrast the good minister has understood that God has placed him as an example to the flock of Christ (1 Peter 5:3 "being examples to the flock", Hebrews 13:7 "consider ... their conduct, imitate their faith "), and his leadership is through his own example, not human authority as in the army by force or show of power. The strength of his ministry is in how he does things just as he teaches the doctrine that lives and believes.A false teacher is a character who returns again and again to the erroneous doctrine to sinful behavior, because it has the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth and guides us into all Truth. He has his character flawed because it does not focus on the will of God, but what he thinks, is what seems good to him. No doubt all Christians sin. But the false teacher promotes specific sins, until he delivers them with logic, even uses Bible verses to justify. His answer to his own sin is to defend and justify.