Key: SCHAFF: “When the Lord open his mouth, we should open our ears and hearts.
BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS. Matt. 7:15-20 …1
“In your efforts to find and enter the narrow gate, the straitened way, beware of those who would mislead you. Alas! It is not enough that we have personally so much difficulty in finding the way of life, and that so many set us a bad example; there are others who deliberately attempt to lead us astray” Broadus John A These prophets, instead of healing souls with wholesome doctrine, would poison them.
- Matt. 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”
- There were false teachers among the Jews. Deut. 13:5-8, 2Pet. 2:1, Matt. 6:2, Jn. 10:1, 10, 12-13.
- He was preparing for the future, as he did near the close of His ministry. Matt. 24:11, 24.
- The Apostles also warned; Paul in A. D 50 Gal. 2:4-6; 1:6-9 and to the Ephesians elders in A. D. 58 Act. 20:28-30. Peter in. 2Pet. 2:1-3, John. 1Jn. 4:1.
- ‘Who came in sheep’s clothing’ that is, looking like a sheep.2Cor. 11:1-4, 12-15, 1Tim. 1:7; 4:1-5; 6:3-5. Adams Clark says “ Who came professing a commission from God, but whose aim is not to bring heavenly treasures to the people, but rather to rob them of their earthly good.”
- ‘Inwardly they are ravening wolves’ that is rapacious, snatching at everything to devour it Jn. 10:10, 12, Act. 20:29. “They are foxes in cunning 2Cor. 11:1-4, wolves in cruelty” CHRYS. Henry says “Every hypocrite is a goat in sheep’s clothing, but a false prophet is a wolf in sheep’s clothing; not only not a sheep, but the worst enemy the sheep have, that comes to tear and devour, to scatter the sheep, to drive them from God and from one another into crooked paths.” Rom. 16:17-18.
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