{"id":2360,"date":"2021-06-13T20:11:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T03:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2021-06-13T20:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T03:11:53","slug":"beware-of-false-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2021\/beware-of-false-prophets\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of False Prophets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I did late this past week was develop a <em>draft<\/em> outline for a lesson in Chapter 14 of the Sermon on the Mount book I&#8217;ve been working on. Here is just a portion of the outline for Matthew 7:15&#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2361\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/beware-of-false-prophets-mark-roth-12-june-2021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/beware-of-false-prophets-mark-roth-12-june-2021-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"Beware of false prophets (Matthew 7:15)\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/beware-of-false-prophets-mark-roth-12-june-2021-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/beware-of-false-prophets-mark-roth-12-june-2021-150x125.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/beware-of-false-prophets-mark-roth-12-june-2021-768x642.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/beware-of-false-prophets-mark-roth-12-june-2021-668x558.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/beware-of-false-prophets-mark-roth-12-june-2021.jpg 838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beware of false prophets (Matthew 7:15)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Inner Character of False Prophets<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>look beneath the sheep&#8217;s clothing\n<ul>\n<li>they and their message will look safe and sound on the surface<\/li>\n<li>they will sound like they are declaring the Word of God<\/li>\n<li>they will look like a fellow citizen<\/li>\n<li>they will feel like caring, empathetic leaders and prophets<\/li>\n<li>look beneath the surface and past the obvious<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>their Christianity is shallow and superficial\n<ul>\n<li>they have a form of godliness (2 Timothy 3:5)<\/li>\n<li>their identity in Christ is only as a piece of clothing, not who they really are<\/li>\n<li>it is all an act, a cover<\/li>\n<li>they lack the character traits of kingdom citizens<\/li>\n<li>they do not personally feed on the Word<\/li>\n<li>their heart is in the broad way<\/li>\n<li>their focus, their motivation, and their agenda is self\n<ul>\n<li>not Christ nor His kingdom nor His righteousness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>their true identity\n<ul>\n<li>their <em>doing<\/em> and <em>saying<\/em> and <em>appearing<\/em> may seem right \u2014 but what is their <em>being<\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>wolves \u2014 greedy, predatory, and plundering<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;enemies of the cross of Christ&#8221; (Philippians 3:18)<\/li>\n<li>self-promoters seeking a following by a flock of consumables (Acts 20:30)<\/li>\n<li>fierce waves of the sea (Jude 13), carrying along unguided ships\n<ul>\n<li>unanchored and unattached (ungrounded and unrooted, but that&#8217;s a different metaphor!)<\/li>\n<li>restless and dissatisfied<\/li>\n<li>adrift<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong style=\"color:darkgreen\">Here are two other posts of mine on the general subject:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/discerning-deception\/\" title=\"Discerning Deception\">Discerning Deception<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2018\/destructive-false-teachers-with-well-turned-ideas\/\" title=\"Destructive: False Teachers With Well-Turned Ideas\">Destructive: False Teachers With Well-Turned Ideas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inner character of false prophets<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[60],"class_list":{"0":"post-2360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-matthew","7":"tag-warning","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-C4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}