Dry wells

These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.. - 2 Peter 2.17-19

 

False teachers are insidious. The seem to offer the best of everything. They seem to offer liberty and licence without penalty. They offer a world where anyone can do whatever they want without recourses.  They seem to offer easy hope to the thirsty soul.

 

These folks promise liberty from restraint. They promise pure freedom, but at the end of the day they bring only destruction. They promise the kind of no restraint living that so many seem to desire.

 

But there is no real hope in what they offer. It is all empty promises. There is no peace of comfort or satisfaction in what they offer. Man’s only hope is in Jesus and that’s why the false teachers want to lead us astray.

 

They promise liberty but all they can give bondage.

 

We must beware of those dry well and instead look to the spring of living water