1 Sam. 23; Psa. 31,54; Mt. 7

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves”. Matt. 7:15

The Kingdom of darkness has a simple but sinister strategy. Keep raising up as many false prophets as possible to confuse people from recognizing the truth. Cults abound, hybrids from Eastern philosophy coming from self proclaimed prophets. The majority of those prophets today come from what we would have thought a few years ago were unlikely sources. To days false prophets are from the entertainment business. People like Tom Cruise, and Opra, and Dr. Phil. These celebrities talk as if they are religious theologians but have no knowledge of the truth, they are absolutely ignorant of the most important book in the world but promote the writing of their false prophets. They’re not the only ones, there are the musicians and vocalists who will give glory to God for winning an award and dishonor him in every aspect of their very public personal life without one inkling of repentance. Their false unspoken message is that God cares nothing about sin and you can be right with God and have no conviction of the Holy Spirit. Our athletes and politicians are now different not to mention some of the pulpits in some of our most notable churches. How do we recognize the counterfeit. When I was working my way through Bible College I worked as a vault teller. When they trained me to identify counterfeits they didn’t bring in a bunch of counterfeit bills for me to get familiar with, they just had me get real familiar with the real thing so that when the counterfeit came my way I would know it wasn’t the real thing. You get the message as we get more familiar with the real thing as expressed in the word of God the counterfeit will be easy to recognize. Cults today claim that they are filled with people who once went to a Christian church. To bad they didn’t get to know the truth first, maybe they wouldn’t have been taken in by a false prophet.

Pastor Rick