False Teachers

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God has laid it upon my heart to study this subject: false teachers. I was 'briefed' on it last week, but I know there is more that needs to be covered. On looking through my concordance, there is so much more, to the point that I feel rather overwhelmed. Nevertheless, this is Part 1.
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First, 2nd Timothy 4:2-5. Verse 2 explains our rights and responsibilities with regards to how we speak God’s word.

“Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.”

Verses 3 and 4 explain what is going on, and why.

“For the time will come when they will not indure sound doctrine, but according to their desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”

Verse 5 explains our response, and further responsibilities.

“But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”
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Second, 1st Timothy 4:1-3. More about what will happen.

“Now the Spirit expressly/explicitly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.”
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Thirdly, 1st Timothy 4:12-14. Encouragement on how to conduct ourselves.

“Let no one despise (or, look down on) your youthfulness, but be an example to the believers in the word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Until I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine (teaching).”
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Faith: Trusting God

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"I do beg of you to recognize, then, the extreme simplicity of faith; that it is nothing more nor less than just believing God when He says He either has done something for us, or will do it; and then trusting Him to do it. " -- Hannah Whitall Smith, "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life"

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So this is faith: believing what God has said. Shall we look then for what God has said? And declare that it is so? I have posted this passage already, so let's start here.

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Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither.
And whatever he does shall prosper.

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First, do not live one's life by the advice and 'wisdom' of the ungoldly. Delight in the law of God, and think on it continually. For us, that is the Bible. Learn the scriptures - verses, passages, lessons, and instruction. We will be watered, we will bear fruit, we shall not wither, and we will prosper. Whatever the metaphors mean practically I don't exactly know, but the image is that we will THRIVE, and that's good enough for me.

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