Not Every Spiritual Person Is Spirit-Led

• If you aren’t grounded in the truth of God’s Word, you are a prime target to be deceived by the world’s ways.
• Much of what we hear these days that sounds spiritual is actually satanic (4:1). 

Counterfeit Christianity (4:2-3) 

• False teachers deny the exclusive claims of Christianity.
• False teachers reject the absolute authority of Jesus.

Comfortable Christianity (4:4-5)

• False teachers can be recognized by how they focus more on worldly goals than heavenly priorities.

Current Deceptive Versions:

1. Prosperity Gospel – God is not a means to your financial end.
2. Pleasure Gospel – God does not permit you to do whatever you feel like doing.
3. Political Gospel – God’s work can never be perfectly paired with any political idealogy. 

Contradictory Christianity (4:6)

• False teachers deceitfully share spiritual platitudes that subtly contradict biblical truth.
• If we remain biblically illiterate, we run the risk of accepting counsel that sounds spiritual enough.

Overcome the nonsense of the world by the power of the Word.