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Core Christianity

How Can You Spot a False Teacher?

Core Christianity

Aaron Simon

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8585 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Jesus warned that false teachers would come in sheep's clothing. How do you spot them? Pastor Adriel Sanchez explains four key markers: bad fruit, being soft on sin, rejecting authority, and distorting the gospel.

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even more people to grow in knowing God and seeing everything in his light.

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One of the most consistent warnings you find throughout the pages of the New Testament is

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the warning against false teachers.

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Paul told the Ephesian elders in Acts chapter 20, pay careful attention to yourselves and

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to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to care for the Church

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of God which he obtained with his own blood.

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I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock,

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and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things to draw away the disciples

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after them.

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Therefore, be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day

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to admonish everyone with tears.

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Jesus similarly warned his disciples in Matthew chapter 24, verse 11, saying, many false

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prophets will arise and lead many astray.

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And Peter wrote in 2 Peter chapter 2, verses 1 and 2, but false prophets also arose among

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the people, just as there will be false teachers

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among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies even denying the master who bought them,

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bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them,

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