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What is Heaven to you, primarily?
- A destination (and a place far from Hell), or;
- A place where you can fellowship with the Lord

False Profession Is a Very Real Danger!
This has been the main artery supplying our lessons over the past year or so. The Bible tells us that there are many false professors (including teachers) in this world. (e.g., Mt 7:22, Lk 3:8; 18:9-14; Ro 10:1-3, etc.)

Big Picture
The NT letters were written years later to the very same churches the apostles founded and built in the Book of Acts!!! (e.g., Galatia, Thessalonica, Ephesus, Corinth, Rome). The churches were often addressed in defense of the Gospel and/or affirmation of it.

False Professors
One of the hallmarks of false professors is a distinct inability to APPLY godly principles in their own lives. Unconverted people still abide in their sins, seeking their own glory despite using all the right “language” and performing religious acts.

Lawyering Up
When confronted with truth, arrogance always “lawyers up” like its father, the devil, always looking for loopholes and ways to twist the simple truth in order to justify itself and its ungodly deeds.

False Professors
One of the hallmarks of false professors is a distinct inability to APPLY godly principles in their own lives. Unconverted people still abide in their sins, seeking their own glory despite using all the right “language” and performing religious acts.

Displacing God
Arrogance usurps God’s rightful place as Sovereign with itself. Unbelievers do this by default.

“the key of knowledge”
The lawyers had frustrated others’ access to the Truth. Although they outwardly professed loyalty to the Word, inwardly they refused the One of whom Holy Scriptures spoke. (Lk 11:52; cp Ac 28:25-27; Mt 23:13)

Mt 23:13
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.”

False Professors
One of the hallmarks of false professors is a distinct inability to APPLY godly principles in their own lives. Unconverted people still abide in their sins, seeking their own glory despite using all the right “language” and performing religious acts.

“because they did not repent”
Jesus denounced the cities that were abundantly blessed with His personal ministry (Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum) - to whom much is given, much is required! Unbelievers in these cities were stubborn, arrogant, unrepentant.

“revealed them to infants”
Jesus uses the arrogant crowd’s own definitions of “wise and intelligent” vs. “infants” to thank His Father for His sheep. Jesus praised His Father for imparting judicial blindness to the arrogant.

The Burden of Life
The yoke of arrogance is impossible, depressing its wearers. Contrarily, Jesus’ yoke is “easy” and His “burden is light.” With God’s power, “all things are possible” (Mt 19:26); without it, nothing that brings glory to Him is. (Mt 11:30; 23:1-13; 1Jn 5:1-5)