Rat Poison

With fall weather approaching, mice start making their way in from the fields to find a warm winter home in our farm buildings. They can do a lot of damage if left unchecked - destroy insulation in the walls, eat holes in feed bags, foul feed, chew on wiring, spread diseases, scare women and children, and other damage. I bought a large supply of rat and mouse bait today to prepare for the invasion.

As I was looking at the ingredient list on the packages, I was reminded of the rat poison lesson.
The make-up of the expensive bait I bought started with 99.99% inert ingredients - wholesome, healthy, tasty grain! But, the other .o1% is the poison - that which kills the rats!
When we look outside of the Word of God and sound Biblical doctrine, wanting something more for our spiritual edification, we can be deceived, then poisoned just like the rats. What we find may be 99.99% good spiritual food, but if just .01% is deceptive false doctrine, then great spiritual harm can come to us. Often, it is too late before we realize it, or before someone tries to warn us.
The old standby D-Con bait took days and weeks of feeding before the rats finally died. The new generation baits can kill in days after a single feeding. As our society gets darker and modern theology gets more enticing and deceptive, the danger of the rat poison lesson gets greater! We must be extremely cautious and skeptical when any new winds of doctrine are presented to us.



For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
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.
2 Corin. 11:13-15

That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
Ephesians 4:14