Should We Call Out False Teachers?

Should We Call Out False Prophets?

Mary Ann Wray

Sinful frolicking behind the pulpits of America is being called out-like it or not! If the Apostle Paul was alive in this day and time, there's no doubt he would have a YouTube Channel and a FB page, using modern technology to spread the everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Not only would he preach and teach through these amazing and wonderful platforms (yes, some people misuse them), but he would call out the false teachers, false prophets and false apostles today just as he did in many of his hand written letters. There are many of us who use these platforms to spread the gospel of Christ and bring forth the truth to the best of our ability.

You may say, "But YouTubers are not "apostles" and have no authority to call out men like this today." My response is if MORE pastors would do their job (some of them are) and modern day "apostles" were preaching the truth rather than making up tales and false doctrines, God wouldn't need the help of ordinary sons and daughters of His to get the job done! With modern technology, Paul could have and the modern day Prophetic Podcasters of today can spread the word faster and farther.

May I humbly interject here that to be prophetic means you hear what God is saying to the church today and relay that to the people of God..."In the last days I'll pour my spirit out upon all flesh and your sons and daughters will PROPHESY!" Joel 2: 28 & Acts 2: 17

Don't forget, when Samuel was a small child, he gave Eli a stern prophetic warning. Unfortunately, Eli didn't heed the warning even though he knew God was speaking through the little prophetic prodigy (1 Samuel 3: 11-14).

Back to Paul calling out heretics and the like....Here are a few Biblical examples of who Paul warned about and called out in the books of Acts and many of his Epistle letters to Timothy and the churches...

Demas, who deserted him because he loved the world (2 Timothy 4: 9 & 10), Hymenaeus and Alexander the Coppersmith, who he turned over to Satan for blasphemy (1 Timothy 1: 20 & 2 Tim. 4: 14), Phygelus and Hermogenes who turned away from him-probably in a betrayal of some sort (2 Timothy 1: 15), and Hymenaeus again with Philetus who swerved from the truth and upset the faith of some believers teaching false doctrines (2 Tim 2: 17 & 18).

In 1 Timothy 5: 19-21 he said that unruly elders needed to be rebuked publicly so the rest would stand in fear...

”Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses. As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear. In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality."

In Acts 20: 28-29 he warned of fierce wolves coming in the Body of Christ to carry people away and would make for themselves their own disciples...sadly it's still happening today but with much more intensity and frequency.

"Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them."