[15] Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
[16] Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
[17] Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
[18] A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
[19] Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
[20] Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Matt 7

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Those with corrupt hearts will issue forth speech that sows corruption. Those who sow to the flesh shall reap corruption, and those who sow to the Spirit shall reap eternal life. We will know immediately when they open their mouths that they are false prophets by the fruit that they bear.

If anyone is wondering what a false teacher is, look no further than any televangelist. Joel Osteen, Peter Popoff, Robert Tilton, Benny Hinn, and many others.

They are the ones with megachurches, they want to send you free miracle spring water or oil, claim to be healers.

Just watch a minute or two of any of them on youtube. It is a joke.
Oh trust me they ARE working for a supernatural being, but it isn't Jesus.

19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”

That's the indicator in what you put up.. that's the indicator of their folly.

The word mastered.

See, people are highly confused and divided on , what is godly, then they think they know, because a pastor said so.

I want to point out that, there is no point in time in any of the prophets lives or jesus himself or the apostles after him, where it states or implies that they had a ministerial degree , that they paid cash for to be educated for, to run a church business; on the contrary, it states of the apostles " for they knew that these men were unlearned, but had been with jesus(the living word)"

You have to look at the original teacher these days, you cannot look to the pastor for the truth. Hes running a business, jesus was running a spiritual lifestyle of harmony with what God created.

Back to the word " Mastered".

Jesus " no man can serve two masters, you cannot serve God and Money"

That one word from him, disqualifies 99 percent of the pastors that exist.

" godliness is not a means for gains" also " but godliness with contentment is huge gain" also " with food and clothing, we shall be content" also " a good soldier does not entangle himself with the affairs of this world" add all that together, and realize that pastors are harvesting money for a paycheck(a mark) so they can afford this lifes affairs, houses, cars, wives, lands, etc.

Those are the very things jesus said people used as excuses to not enter heaven, in the parable of the wedding feast that is ready.

There are many other teachings of jesus where i can point out that today's teachers clearly deviate from the original teacher; but I will not list them all..

I gave you the one major point of deviation.. the pastors of today are MASTERED by money(mark) and it's obvious because they preach the acceptance of it, when christ said you could not accept it and God.

So then, listen to your pastors and keep in mind the actual words of jesus, if they dont align with each other, it isnt Jesus who lied..

Anyone who preaches any other “jesus” than the Jesus of the bible is a false teachers.

It's easy to be swayed by charismatic preachers. They try to trick people with lies so clever that they sound like the truth. They preach such false gospels as the "prosperity gospel", the "faith only gospel", the "feel good gospel”, or the “optional Jesus gospel”.
Those who aren't rooted in God’s word will be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching.

Any soldier in combat knows that the most important thing they have is their gun. Their life depends on it. They are taught to know every part of that gun. They are taught to break it down to its basic components and then put it back together quickly in any situation. They don’t just look at it once or twice and expect to somehow know all about it. No, they constantly review it. They go to the range regularly so they not only know how to fire it, but to precisely hit their target nearly every time.

The weapon we have against false teachers is the bible – our “Sword”. We are always in a combat situation (fighting a war). Our lives (our very souls) depend on our weapon. Like any good soldier, we need to know our “weapon” thoroughly; otherwise, we will be overtaken by the enemy. Our enemy is slick, and without our Sword, we’re just sitting ducks. “I like that teaching, it makes me feel good inside. I'll follow it.” “That person’s teaching is so religious sounding; it just HAS to be truth.”

Prove it.

I don't mean to say anything bad about anyone but the church I attend now believes in God the Father, the son Jesus and Holy Spirit but some of their teachings I don't agree with them. I feel like I'm not learning much here cause each Sunday I'm left confused. It's like they fear covit more than they fear God, like they trust the government more than they trust God but then again it's not my place to judge. It's one of those old denominations and I pray God takes me to a church that is not religious but godly. I wish I had a choice what church to attend but if you live in someone's house you have to follow their rules. Sundays have become a chore, I'm only attending just to attend nothing else😑.