FALSE PROPHET

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHET

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.(Matt. 7:15-20)

When our Lord warns us to beware of false prophets, he is speaking to us about a group of the most dangerous of all kinds of people. Whereas a murderer might take away the physical life of a person, a false prophet destroys the eternal souls of people.

A false prophet is a false teacher. Don’t let the word “prophet” confuse you. We normally think of a prophet as someone who predicts the future, but in the Bible the prophet might predict the future, but the basic duty of the prophet was to speak the word of God.

Anyone who speaks on behalf of God, teaching others the word of God, is, in that sense, acting as a prophet.

A prophet is someone who simply claims to be preaching God’s truth. Our Lord alerts us to beware, to be on our guard, because these false prophets, these false teachers, may not be easy to detect.

The false prophet does not come to us as a wolf who is seeking to destroy us. The false prophet appears as one of the sheep. As you know, one of the metaphors that our Lord frequently uses to describe his own followers is that of sheep. “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27). ” When a false prophet comes into our midst, he comes as one of the sheep, and, on the surface, he looks and behaves like one of the sheep.

When our Lord warns us to beware of false prophets, he is not warning us to beware of atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims. They do not claim to be teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. The false prophet, on the other hand, claims to be a follower of Jesus Christ and claims to be a true, reliable teacher of the word of God. The Apostle Paul warned the Ephesians about the presence of false teachers in their midst, using this comparison to wolves. In Acts 20:28-30, Paul warns the pastors of the church, “ Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them” (Acts 20:28-30).

The wolves may infiltrate the church from the outside, or they may spring up from within the local church itself. They will be friends, neighbors, people considered brothers and sisters in Christ, but they will be wolves who will destroy the sheep

LET US PRAY
FATHER IN JESUS NAME, GUIDE US WITH TRUTH NEVER TO FALL VICTIM OF FAKE PROPHET THAT WILL LEAD US TO HELL IN JESUS NAME