The non-biblical churches have a face they’re putting on.  We talked about the church, again, and the false prophets.  How do you know a false prophet from a biblical prophet, one that operates in the biblical office of the prophet, or a biblical teacher?  How do we know a gift that is a teacher, an instructor, an edifier of the body of Christ with the Word of God?  How do we know?  We know them by their fruit, and the greatest expression of their fruit is their doctrine.  We can’t know about these men, what their private lives are, but we can examine the fruit of their ministry, the expression of their doctrine.  False doctrine is any doctrine that does not glorify the God of the Bible.

Today, in our society, there’s a great move toward polytheism again.  It’s wrapped differently than it was back 2,000 years ago, when you would go into the Pantheon in Rome.  That used to be the largest dome in the world.  The big hole that’s in the middle, where all of the sacrificial smoke used to ascend, it gave it a way to escape.  Pantheism is “accepting multiple gods.”  The other day on our panel, we talked about when we had some of the visitors at our camp, among them, were Hindus.  For the Hindus we were talking about, an apparent openness to the gospel.  It’s because they already have 10,000, or more, gods, adding one more doesn’t make any difference.  That’s the same thing that was happening in Rome.  The problem wasn’t the message that was being preached.  The Romans would have been happy to add one more god, Jesus Christ, to the realm.  The flak started coming back against Christianity when the Christians refused to bow their knees to Caesar and recognize him as god.  Caesar, then, stepped up, demanded himself to be worshiped.  The Christians stood and make their declaration, “the Lord our God is one,” amen?  “The Lord our God is one.”  We don’t worship anybody else but Jehovah God, triune, Father, Son, Holy Ghost.