INTRODUCTION

• A. We've been talking this month about moving the church forward
  
• 1. The church needs to be thinking about the future
  
• a. looking forward
  
• b. thinking forward
  
• c. planning forward
  
• d. moving forward
  
• 2. Phil 3:12-14 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (NKJ)
  
• B. The past two Sundays
  
• 1. Challenges to Accept
  
• 2. Enemies to Defeat
  
• C. Today, I want to discuss Dangers to Avoid
  
• 1. What if, after you entered the building today, I discovered that we had a rattlesnake loose in the auditorium.
  
• 2. Now, I could keep quiet about it, since I wouldn't want anyone to become upset, nor would I want people to get hurt trying to get out
  
• 3. However, it might be handled, I think all would agree that if a rattler was loose under your pew, you'd want to know about it
  
• 4. This is the reason we must discuss dangers that lie before the church -- they will stop, or kill our ability to move into the future
  

• A. Definitions
  
• 1. False = that which is not true; something that is a lie
  
• 2. Doctrine = teaching; or that which is taught with the intent of producing a body of information to be believed and used for one's basis of faith, worship, life and service to God
  
• 3. False doctrine is, then, a body of information, which people believe and then use as a basis for their relationship with God that is untrue
  
• 4. If the doctrine is untrue, then it cannot actually produce what it claims, and leaves the one believing it in a dangerous position
  
• B. The Bible has many warnings about the dangers of false teachers who dispense false doctrine or teaching