I want you to really home in on that in verse four, if you receive another spirit.
Now let me ask you this, is there any other spirit that we should be receiving besides
the Holy Spirit?
Now and clearly he's warning them, this is not a good spirit he's talking about.
He's putting it in the context of another Jesus and another gospel, which are both really
bad things.
And then he says if you receive another spirit, you know what this tells me?
This tells me that false prophets and false teachers who preach another Jesus or another
gospel, you know what they bring with them?
Another spirit.
And you know what that other spirit is, folks?
It doesn't take a genius to figure out it's an unclean spirit.
It is a demon.
It is a devil.
That's what that other spirit is.
And of course we heard the powerful sermon last Sunday night with the example of that
fake faith healer preacher who passed on that demonic spirit onto that woman who came unto
him, who remembers that great illustration from last week.
So that was a modern day example of that.
Now let's jump down in the same chapter to verse 13.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles
of Christ.
So let me ask you something.
These people with another Jesus, another spirit, and another gospel, are they claiming to be
Christian?
Yeah, they're claiming to be Christian.
They're not just showing up and saying, "Hi, we're the prophets of Baal."
And by the way, that's not what the Latter-day Saints are going to tell you when they come
to your door.
We're here from the church of Baal, of Latter-day Baal worship.
That's not what they're going to say.
They transformed themselves into the apostles of Christ, the Bible says.
Look at the next verse.
It says, sorry I have to get there myself, "And no marvel for Satan himself is transformed
into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness
whose end shall be according to their works."
Now flip over if you would to second Peter chapter two.
Second Peter chapter two.
So the Bible's pretty clear here.
We saw an example of what it looks like when a man's demon possessed.
We went to false prophets of the Old Testament in the story there with Elijah and the prophets
of Baal.
And what did they do?
They showed signs that they were demon possessed.
They're cutting themselves, right?
Then we saw in 2 Corinthians 11 that false prophets, false apostles, false teachers,
they bring with them another spirit that's not the Holy Spirit, and that spirit's able
to be received by the unwitting.
They could receive an evil spirit from a false prophet.
And by the way, that explains how a lot of people become demon possessed.
They show up to a false religion, worship a false god, and pick up an unclean spirit.
And the things that the gentiles sacrifice unto idols, they sacrifice unto devils, the
Bible says.
So you mean to tell me that if someone goes and bows down to an idol of a demon in a Hindu
temple that they're not likely to perhaps be infested by that demon, an unsaved Hindu
gets on their knees and serves an idol, they're likely to pick up a demonic spirit.
And you know, same thing if you go to some false worker of iniquity who's claiming the
name of Christ and preaching another Jesus and another gospel, hey, you might end up
if you're unsaved and go to one of these meetings receiving another spirit other than the Holy
Spirit.
Of course we as Christians would be immune to that because we have the Holy Spirit, but
I don't know about you, I still don't want to go anywhere near it, I don't even want
to be around that stuff.