If someone gives you a counterfeit $20 bill, the only way you'll recognize

it as fake is if you know what a real $20 bill looks like. Well the same is true

with Christian teaching. You have to know the truth to be able to spot the lies.

Today on Truth for Life we'll learn how we can spot false teaching and false

teachers. Alistair Begg is in First Timothy chapter 1.

When the people of God do not have their minds filled with the great truths of

the gospel, they will be susceptible to all kinds of silly ideas and loved ones. Do

you realize what it took for example in the city of Ephesus? How soon after this

there was mayhem and destruction where there had once been a church that had

been founded by the Apostle Paul himself? This is not an issue of marginal

importance. These people were spinning all these kinds of yarns. The rabbis, you

can say the rabbis in general, but certain rabbis love to find little hints in

the law and they would take these little hints and then they would weave them

into intricate fictional embroideries and they were then deposited in the

Haggadah, the Haggadah, which is part of the Talmud. And when you read that

dimension of the Talmud you can find for example that the book of Genesis is

embroidered into all kinds of speculative things. And there for example you will

learn that the art angels observed the Sabbath. There you will find out that

angels practice circumcision. And when you read that you say who says exactly.

But what they did was they said hey isn't this a really kind of freaky idea?

He said yeah maybe we should get together and call ourselves an institute and

you know kind of beef this up. I think we could make it a chart, a diagram, a

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