The Christian Response to Apostates and their Teaching

Allow God to use you in extending his mercy to those caught in the web of Apostates

Jude
22 And have mercy on some, who are doubting;
23 save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh

Be on your guard

2 Peter 3:17
17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness

Test the Spirits (teachers)

1 John 4:1
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Grow in Grace and knowledge

1 Pet 2:1
1 like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation

2 Peter 3:18
18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen

Be under sound Godly teaching

Eph 4:11-14
11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

Purpose
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ
13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.

The Result
14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

Apply what you are learning

Heb 5:17
17 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil

Contend for the faith

Jude 3-4
3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.
4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Keep and eye on them

Romans 16:17-18
17 Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.
18 For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting

Expose them

Eph 5:11
Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;....

Avoid them

2 Timothy 1:5
1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of ,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of ,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these