Conclusion
By Allan Turner
In closing, I want all of us to be reminded of what the apostle Peter said when he warned against the false teachers that would rise up among the people of God: “But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed” (2 Peter 2:1-2). He said “many” would follow their destructive ways. Let us be praying that this will not be repeated in our time.
Today, our theological chickens are coming home to roost. We are creating idols for our own destruction (Hosea 8:4) and are in the process of being destroyed for our ignorance of God’s Word (Hosea 4:6). As the Lord’s own unique and special people, poised, as we are, on the brink of the 21st century, we will either reject, resist, and, in some cases, repent of these destructive heresies, or we will be “cut off.” As free moral agents, the choice is ours. “Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. So the people answered and said: “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods” (Joshua 24:14-16).