This is a message from Dr. Michael Youssef, Bible teacher on leading the way.

Our prayer is that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.

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In the last message, we saw Peter telling us that these false teachers are enticing the unstable.

These false teachers are misleading the weak.

These false teachers are deceiving the dupes into giving sin a new name.

Ah, but Peter also tells us something else about these false teachers. giving sin a new name. Ah.

But Peter also tells us something else about these false teachers.

He said, these false teachers and preachers are no rank amateurs.

They are schooled in the art of seduction.

They are trained. They are brilliant communicators. Here in verse 14, he makes what must have been a very painful statement for Peter to make and for us to hear,

but it's the truth and the truth sometimes hurt. He said, they are under a curse. Some of you probably

have a problem with that. Well, I have a problem with it, too, but how I feel is not the issue.

What God thinks is the issue. Amen? And, beloved, I want to tell you, and I said that last message, that Western culture

got itself in the mess that it is in today is because we have ceased to think and began to only

feel. And feeling can be very unreliable. And that's why Peter goes on to give us an example of a good prophet who went bad. I'm going to come to him in a

minute. Some of these false teachers did not start as false teachers. They at some point began to think

more highly of themselves than they ought.

They started out with good intentions.

But their pride and their arrogance got in the way.

Their pride and their arrogance began to take over.

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