Can you tell the difference?

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;  and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

We live in dangerous times. The voice of the enemy is relentlessly looking for ways into our souls and not necessarily with what looks like evil. How? Just like God uses many people for good, satan uses many for his purposes, which is to lead and distract us away from truth.

You see, satan knows the scriptures much better than any of us, which means he is an expert in how to make something look so good if you didn’t know any better you would think it’s correct. There are so many teachers our there on social media, YouTube, etc. with what sounds like so good sounding teaching, but isn’t. Much of it isn’t overtly wrong, which is why it can be hard to discern truth from fiction. Why?

Because we haven’t studied the Word enough to be able to tell the good from the counterfeit.

When banks hire new tellers they don’t spend time training them by looking at what counterfeit bills look like. TThe website bankersonline.com tells us the following: “The most efficient way to discover a piece of counterfeit currency is to FEEL it! A teller handles so much currency in a day’s time that the different feel of the paper stops that teller dead in their tracks. Counterfeits get by them when they ignore the feel.”

Are we handling the scriptures so much that we can tell that something is off? Spend enough time with the real, and the fake will stop you dead in your tracks.