Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 23:9-40
SERMON NOTES
TRUE GOD AND FALSE PROPHETS
Jeremiah 23:9-40; Matthew 7:15-23
– Derek Kidner: ‘Without justice a nation suffers, but without truth it sickens.’
1. The rot begins with false religious teachers.
– 23:9-11, 14-15
– e.g. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire
2. False teaching comes from man not God.
– 23:18, 30, 25-28, 31-32
– 23:21-22; see Amos 7:14-15
3. False teaching speaks peace to unbelievers.
– 23:17; Derek Kidner: ‘easy views of sin go [with] rosy views of judgment’.
– 23:23-24, 29
– fire and hammer or soft soap and syrup?
– George Whitefield: ‘To be a Christian is to be a scandal.’