Text: 2 Timothy 4:2-4

What is Sound Doctrine?

• The word we are to preach, the truth (2 Timothy 4:2-4)
• The gospel (1 Timothy 1:10-11)
• The words of Christ (1 Timothy 6:3) and the apostles (2 Timothy 1:13)
• All of God’s word (Acts 20:26-27), only God’s word (1 Peter 4:11), without changes (Galatians 1:6-7)

What is False Teaching?

• Opposite of truth (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12)
• A perverted form of the gospel (Galatians 1:6-9)
• Determined by message, not by a preacher’s motives

How Does the Progression Occur?

• Start with sound doctrine, backed up by book, chapter and verse (BCV)
• Right message, but BCV is replaced by stories, human wisdom, and misused Scripture
• Eventually false teaching is introduced — How? Through stories, human wisdom, and misused Scripture
• The “style” is the same as those who make the right points without properly using Scripture — Therefore it is hard for people to see the difference

How Is This Stopped?

• Use the style of preaching found in the New Testament (1 Peter 4:11; Acts 17:2-3)
• Do not be afraid to talk about all that God has revealed (Acts 20:26-27)
• This may not be popular (2 Timothy 4:2-4), but it is God’s way (2 Timothy 4:5)

Read the article: The Progression from Sound Doctrine to False Teaching