The "Highly Educated" Pharisaical Pastors
1 Corinthians 3:19 "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness."
I have come across a number of these highly qualified pastors who are highly dispensational in their teachings, which means that they also teach pre-tribulation rapture and other things. Many of them also failed to recognize the pure word of God in the King James Bible.
There is a social advantage, whether we are consciously aware of it or not, when it comes to the audiences you will attract especially if you have a Th.D or a Ph.D attached to your name. That's why the Devil is in the anti-God anti-Christ anti-Bible education system. The world will go by sight when it comes to who they will follow but God is no respecter of persons. The word of God shall go forth and shall accomplish that which God pleases.
I remember once a friend of mine remarked how there are so many different groups of Christians today who seem to fight against each other, but they all claim to serve the same God.
John 10:27 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:"
Well, truly born again Bible-believing Christians hear the voice of their Shepherd (Jesus Christ) and they follow him. It is not a man that they follow. It is the voice of the Lord in the 66 books of the Holy Bible that they follow.
John 10:11 "I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep."
Jesus Christ is the good Shepherd who giveth his life for his sheep.
John 10:12-13 "But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep."
Other Christians hear not the voice of the good shepherd but that of another shepherd, and so they follow not the good Shepherd but an hireling who careth not for the sheep.
John 10:14-15 "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep."
Jesus Christ lay down his life for his sheep. That's why Christians who are truly born again cannot lose their salvation. They have eternal life the moment they are born again by the Spirit of God.
John 10:26 "But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you."
Then, there are those Christians who follow the teachings of the world by many different “highly educated” pharisaical pastors which masquerade as ministers of God, teaching heresies, and teaching others to deny the words of the LORD. Oftentimes, these false teachers will also fight among themselves, which is why there are so many different schools of thoughts in Christendom.
Matthew 7:22-23 "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
There are Christians who think they follow the good Shepherd, but in fact, they have been blinded by the big titles the “highly educated” pharisaical pastors carry with them, all the while being deceived. These Christians knew not the good Shepherd, and they are not known of him. In the day of Judgment, many will profess to know him, and in his name claimed to have done many wonderful works. But Jesus will say unto them "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."