Our text is found in the Gospel
according to Matthew 7.15 Matthew 7.15 Beware of false
prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly
they are ravening wolves. Matthew 7.15 Beware of false
prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly
they are ravening wolves. This morning we were considering
Christ in his prophetic office, that promise that was given back
in the 18th chapter of the book of Deuteronomy, as Moses speaks
there under the inspiration of the Spirit of God speaking the
word of God, he says, at verse 15, the Lord thy God will raise
up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren,
like unto me, unto him ye shall hearken. It is the promise of
Christ and then it is repeated and God speaks very directly
subsequently in verse 8, Moses is but the lip of God, He says,
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like
unto thee and will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak
unto them all that I shall command him. We read the chapter of course
and we saw in the former part of the chapter Israel was to
be evidently very different to the nations that were about them. As they entered into the land,
they were not to practice the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among
you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through
the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an
enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consultant with familiar
spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. Necromancy having to do with
dreams and so forth. They were not to follow the ways
of those wicked nations. They were such an abomination
that God drove them out of the land before the children of Israel. They were to attend then to the
word of God and that word came by the mouth of his servants,
the prophets. They were to attend then to God's Holy Word. It was not, of course,
in those days, the Scriptures as we know them today, the complete
canon of the Word of God as we possess it here. In the Old Testament
and the New Testament, God was at that time giving to men his
Word. He was raising up his servants,
the prophets. But how were they able to discern
between one who was a true prophet and one who was false? They were false prophets, as
we see here in verse 20. The prophets which shall presume
to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak,
or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet
shall die. The false prophets were to be
destroyed, they were to be killed. They were not to attend to the
words of false prophets. And here in the words that we've
announced for our text in the New Testament we find the Lord
Jesus Christ himself also warning against such false prophets. Beware, he says, of false prophets
which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are
ravening wolves. Having considered something of
the true prophets and that prophetic office which finds its culmination
in the Lord Jesus Christ who is the great prophet of God. It is in Christ that God has
in these last days spoken unto us. We come now to say something
with regards to the false prophets. The prophets in the Old Testament
were men who were able to foretell future events. And this is the
area in which they were able to discern between a prophet
who was truly the Lord's servant and one that was not the Lord's
servant. Where there was the ministry
of one who was sent of God, what he said came to pass. his predictions would be fulfilled. And that's the test as we see
it there at the end of that 18th chapter in Deuteronomy. If they say in thine heart, how
shall we know the words which the Lord hath not spoken? When
a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow
not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath
not spoken. But the Prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, thou
shalt not be afraid of him. The false prophet, he'll make
his prediction, he'll speak of things, but these things will
not come to pass. And there is the evidence that
he is not sent of God. God is that one who knows the
end from the beginning. God is that one who has purpose
to all things. and he reveals his secrets to
his servants the prophets and they can speak then of things
that have not yet taken place but would certainly come to pass
and if a man was to make predictions presumptuously and his word was
not accomplished, they would know that that man was not the
servant of God. The prophets then in that sense
were seers, that's a word that's sometimes used in the Old Testament,
they're seers, they see future things. But we're not to think
of the prophetic office simply in terms of men who are able
to foretell things that have not yet taken place, things that
would certainly come to pass. We know that the prophets were
also forth-tellers. Not only forth-tellers, they
were forth-tellers. Forth-tellers in this sense that
they were men who proclaimed the word of God. They spoke the
word of God. In time and again we have that
expression used in the Old Testament prophetic writings. God says,
the Lord their speaking force the word of God and we saw that
did we not with regards to a man like Jeremiah he received the
word at the hand of God remember in the very first chapter
of the book of Jeremiah the prophet
the Lord said unto me say not I am a child for there shall
go to all that I shall send And whatsoever I command thee, they
shall speak. Be not afraid of their faces,
for I am with thee, to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Then the
Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said unto
me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. See, I have this
day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms to root
out and to pull down and to destroy and to throw down, to build and
to plant. This is his ministry, there is
certainly a negative aspect to it and that's what's so offensive.
He doesn't just build up, he doesn't just plant, he is to
pull down, root out, destroy and throw down, as well
as building up and planting. His ministry was offensive. but
it is God who is with him. And though he would forbear,
as we see later, God's word was in his bones, he has to declare
the word that God has given to him. The Lord put forth his hand
and touched my mouth, and the Lord said unto me, Behold, I
have put my words in thy mouth. And then we read, Moreover, the
word of the Lord came unto me, saying, and he has to speak that
that God says to him, he foretells, he proclaims, he declares and
preaches the words of God. But here Christ in his sermon
is warning us that besides such true servants there would be
false prophets. Beware of false prophets which
come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening
Now I want to mention here three marks of those who were the false
prophets. First of all, we see how they
proclaim a false commission. The true prophet, the true apostle
in the New Testament was one who was called of God, commissioned
of God. We know that that was the case
with a man like Isaiah. called him, he experienced that
remarkable vision that's recorded in the sixth chapter of the book
that bears his name, Isaiah chapter 6, and he sees the throne of God
and he sees the angels about the throne of God, and he receives
there his call and his commission, he is sent by God. And so he preaches that truth
that God alone had given to him. God says to him, go and tell
these people, hear ye indeed but understand not, and see ye
indeed but perceive not, make the heart of these people fat,
and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see
with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with
their heart, and convert, and be healed. What a remarkable
ministry. God had said, Whom shall I send,
who will go for us? And he had said, Here am I, send
me. And God sends him. And yet this is the ministry
that he is to exercise, they will not hear him, they will
not receive him, because they cannot understand with their
hearts. And yet this is part of God's
purpose, it's a searching and a sifting ministry that the man
is to exercise. But he receives his commission
from God, whereas the false prophets. They have a false commission.
Everything about them is false. In Revelation, in the opening
part of the second chapter there, we read of they which say they
are apostles and are not. They call themselves, they say
they are apostles, but they are not apostles. Now, Paul was a
true servant the true apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
remember he has to defend his ministry, defend his apostleship
when he writes to the church at Corinth. And he has to do
such because there were those who had come amongst them who
were false apostles. And he names them as such. Such
are false apostles, he says, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel, for
Satan himself is transformed into an angel of life. 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. Oh, it tells them that these
men who have come in and stolen their hearts with their false
teaching, they are not the true servants of Christ, they are
false apostles. They make a false claim then. They say that they are apostles
and they are not apostles. Today there are those, who you
are aware, there are those who call themselves apostles modern-day
apostles in certain circles, but they don't bear the marks
of an apostle. Paul, when he defends himself
and his own ministry to the Corinthians, tells them what is the mark. Am not I an apostle? He says,
have I not seen Jesus Christ and more? This is one of the
marks of an apostle. He can bear witness to the Lord
Jesus Christ. He bears witness to the resurrection
of Christ from the dead. He has seen the risen Christ.
In Acts chapter 1, where one must be chosen to join the eleven
apostles, Judas had fallen from his apostleship. He had gone
to the appointed place appointed for him. And they draw lots. Remember the lot falls on this
man called Matthias. and he is added to the number
of the apostles. And what do the apostles do? We are told
quite clearly, they are those that bear witness to Christ.
They have seen Christ. They testify to his resurrection
from the dead. And so too this man Paul, who
was Saul previously. Am I not an apostle, he says?
Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? There can be no apostles
to die. Because there's no apostle, or
no person we might say, who has seen Christ risen again from
the dead, seen him as it were in the flesh, can testify to
the reality of his resurrection. The very office of the apostle
is of course that that belongs to the beginning of the Christian
church. It's a foundational office in
that sense. In Ephesians 2, Paul speaks of
the church built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. The apostles
were, in a sense, prophets. There were
apostles and prophets in the New Testament, but the apostles,
together with the prophets, they could speak the word of God.
there was still being given that revelation from God, the writings
of the New Testament Scriptures. The Old Testament was complete,
but there must also be the writings of the New Testament, that we
might possess the Word of God in its totality, the Old and
the New Testament. And this is why these men were
raised up, who could speak with authority, as men who were commissioned
and sent by God Himself. And to suggest now that there
are those who are apostles or prophets is to undermine the
very doctrine of scripture. It is to suggest that we don't
possess in the Bible the finality of the Word of God. It undermines
the sufficiency of the Word of God. Our only authority now is
this book. We don't appeal to any man as
a prophet or an apostle. But we say with Isaiah to the
Lord and to the testimony if they speak not according to this
word it is because there is no light in them. There are not prophets and there
are not apostles but there are those who are called to have
a commission to what? To proclaim the word of God.
Preach the word. be instant, in season, out of
season, reprove, rebuke with all long-suffering, impatience. That is the cause. The false prophets then, they have a false
commission. They are not those who are sent
by God, if they in any way undermine the doctrine of Scripture. But
I said, Three marks of the false prophets, not only a false commission,
but also they preach false doctrine. They preach false doctrine. Look
at what the Lord says in the text. Beware of false prophets
which come to you in sheep's clothing. They come in sheep's
clothing. They appear to be those who are
the sheep of Christ. Remember in this world there
are the two categories of people. There are those who are elect
and there are those who are reprobate. There are those who are the sheep
and there are those who are the goats. And of course in the great
day of judgement there will be a final separation Christ will
make the division, he'll gather his sheep on his right hand when
he comes as the great judge and he'll put the goats on his left
and he'll send each to their appointed place. Now these false
prophets Christ says they come to you in sheep's clothing. They appear to be sheep, and
they're gentle like sheep. On their exterior, they're very
plausible. It's been rightly said, you know,
that we need to be wary of nice men. What some say, all be wary
of nice men. And God's true servants, you
see, have to speak often times harsh things. Harsh things. Things that are not very pleasant. Things that people don't like
to hear. But the false prophets, we read
of them in the Old Testament. Ezekiel speaks of them. God says
through Ezekiel they seduce my people saying peace, peace when
there was no peace or they like to tickle the ears of the people
to say things that were pleasant to be heard God's judgments were
going to fall upon the nation but they didn't speak of judgment
they spoke only of peace and as with is equal so also with
Jeremiah at that time, that dreadful time of the Babylonian captivity. Jeremiah has to speak seriously
concerning the sad state of the nation, and this is an offence
of course, in contrast to those who were
the false prophets. in chapter 14 there, in verse
13, then said, I, I, Lord God, behold, the prophets say unto
them, ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine,
but I will give you assured peace in this place. Then the Lord
said unto them, the prophets, the prophets say lies in my name,
I sent them not, neither have I commanded them. Neither spoke
unto them, they prophesy unto you a false vision, and divination,
and a thing of naught, and the deceit of their heart." They're
only speaking what they imagine the people want to hear. They're
not speaking the faithful word of God. therefore thus saith
the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name and
I said them not yet they say sword and famine shall not be
in this land by sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed
and the people to whom they prophesied shall be cast out in the streets
of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword and they shall
have none to bury them their wives nor their sons nor their
daughters for I will pour their wickedness upon them." What hard
things then does this man Jeremiah have to speak. So different to
the words of these false prophets. Their teaching, their doctrine
is a false teaching. Now look at what we read here
in the context. In the previous verses Christ
said, Enter ye in at the straight gate, For wide is the gate, and
broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there
be which go in thereat. Because straight is the gate,
and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that
find it." What is the context? Christ speaks here of the way
of salvation before he goes on to give warning concerning the
false prophets. The way of salvation, now that
way of salvation It is a narrow way when we consider it objectively. It is narrow in this sense, Christ
says, I am the way. Christ only is the way. I am
the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father
but by me. There is but one way of salvation. And there will be those, you
see, false teachers, who will come and speak in many ways.
And we see it today, do we not? Amongst religious people, even
those who profess themselves to be Christian people. They
don't like the idea of something that is exclusive. There's something
to learn, they say, or they used to say, from every denomination.
Now we're told, you know, interfaith is the right thing. There's something
to learn from other religions. Christ says concerning the wide
gate and the broad one it leads to destruction and many there
believe that go in their act. All beware of false prophets
which come to you in sheep's clothing. They call themselves
Christians and what is their message? It's confusion. They
do not speak plainly concerning the only way of salvation, and
that only way is Christ, it's altogether Christ. There must
be a cessation from everything else. Cease from your own works,
good and bad. Wash your garments in my blood.
We often sing those lines of Joseph Hart. There is to be a
cessation from everything. We have nothing that we can do
for our salvation. And Paul knew that, did he not?
His one desire is to be found in Christ, he says. This man
who was once such a proud Pharisee, who considered himself to be
a keeper of the Lord of God, and looked to his own law-keeping,
and is zeal for the tradition of the fathers, and he comes
to this, that all that is but done. One thing only to be found
in Christ, he says, not having mine own righteousness which
is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ,
the righteousness which is of God, by faith. Oh friends, it
is a narrow way and it centres in the person of the Lord Jesus
Christ and it centres in the work that the Lord Jesus Christ
accomplished here upon the earth. There is salvation. There we
need to be those who are always looking only unto Jesus, looking
away from every other object looking to the Lord Jesus alone,
the author and the finisher of our faith. I say it is a narrow
way objectively. It centres in that one person
and all that he has accomplished. And it is a narrow way subjectively. If we would enter in at the straight
gate and walk in the narrow way Why do we find it so subjective? We must, through much tribulation,
enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Oh, there's no escaping it, you
see. We must. This is the way into the Kingdom
of Heaven. It is the way of tribulation. Now the word tribulation is in
fact derived from this very word narrow. that we find in verse
14. Straight is the gate and narrow
is the way, which lead us unto life, and few there be that find it. It is not an easy way, is it?
It's not an easy way at all, this way of salvation. Do we find our way through the
strait gate? Is it through that patient waiting
upon God, that endurance, that persevering in seeking Him and
crying to Him? It's all together identified,
you see, with these tribulations. Whereas the false preachers,
what do they do? Why do they speak smooth things? They tell the tale of easy believism. So easy you see, you just sort
of grow into Christianity, you just make your commitments, you
make your decision, you give an assent and you're a Christian.
Well that's what the false prophets are. Beware of false prophets,
which come to you in sheep's clothing. Because straight is
the guide, and narrow is the way which leads us unto light.
and few there be that find it. But there are those who find
it. We have to persevere and we have to cry and call and seek.
We have to discover that all our salvation is outside of ourselves,
it's all in Christ, the one that we look to, who is the author
and the finisher of our faith. have these marks then, these
false prophets, they have a false commission, they are not sent
by God with their presumptions, they preach false doctrine and
they practice false living. Again, in the context, verse
16, He shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes
of thorns? or figs of thistles, even so
every good fruit 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. Where there is that unsound doctrine,
What will it lead to? It will lead to living that is
contrary to God, contrary to the ways of God and the word
of God. It will lead to sinful living by their fruits. Ye shall
know them. The true prophets of the Lord,
do they not speak of the necessity of a new birth? What is this corrupt tree? It's
our fallen nature. It's said that it's born of the
flesh and it's flesh and it never can be anything but flesh. The
sinner must be born again and that that is born of the spirit
is spirit. And so the believer must be that
one who knows what it is to be in possession of a new nature,
a divine nature. Born again, born from above. A man can receive nothing, said
John the Baptist, except it be given him from above. All but
where there is that new nature, there is in that a delight in
the ways of God and the word of God, a love for the precepts
of God, a concern to walk in obedience. There's the good truth
and it brings forth good fruit. All by their fruits ye shall
know them. But let us in the second place look more
particularly, more carefully at the fruits with regards to
what we are told in the text. Beware of false prophets which
come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening
wolves. I want to say something with
regards to the pretension the pretensions of these who are
spoken of as the false prophets they wear animal skins that's
what it says they come to you in sheep's clothing now it appears
that such animal skins would be the garb of the prophets certainly
It was the case, was it not, with John the Baptist, who is
said to be the greatest of all the prophets. Remember Christ's
words, that he was the greatest of the prophets, but not greater than those who
were in the Kingdom of God. And we are told concerning John
the Baptist in verse 4 of chapter 3, the same John had his raiment
of camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins, and his
meat was locust and wild honey. And here he is, the great harbinger,
the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way
of the Lord, make his paths straight. And he has on this garb camel's
hair. Now, I say this is a mark of
the Prophet. Back in the Old Testament we
read, of course, of Elijah's mantle. In 1 Kings chapter 19 and verse
13. Elijah's mantle. Interestingly,
in the Greek version, the Septuagint version of the Old Testament,
the word for mantle is shivski. Elijah's shivski. And Elijah
is the great prophet there in the Old Testament. He is really
the representative of the prophetic office, is he not? He is there
with Moses and Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration when
they are discussing that message that Christ was to accomplish
at Jerusalem. Moses and Elijah are with the Saviour. The Old
Testament law and the Old Testament prophets coming together They
testify of the Lord Jesus Christ, Elijah's mantle, Elijah's sheepskin. But there's an interesting verse,
a most significant verse or statement in Zechariah chapter 13 and verse
4 concerning false prophets. It says that they wear a rough
garment to deceive. They wear a rough garment. Margin says they wear a garment
of hair to deceive. You see, this is the garb of
one who is normally recognised as being a prophet. They are
singular men, they are strange men these prophets. And what
do the false prophets do? They dress up. They want to appear
to be like the true servants of God. They wear a rough garment,
a garment of hair to deceive. They want to look the part. They
want to look the part. They want to have the right appearance.
Beware of them. They might have the right outward
garb, but what are they inwardly? Beware of false prophets. which
come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening
wolves. Oh, they look so harmless. They're like sheep. Is it not
interesting? The hypocrite is spoken of as
a goat in sheep's clothing. But the false prophet is worse
than that. He's a wolf, not a goat. He's a wolf. in sheep's clothing. And what of the wolf? Well, when
Christ speaks of himself as the Good Shepherd, in John chapter 10, remember,
he speaks of himself in that capacity, I am the Good Shepherd,
the Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep, and he's
not only the shepherd, he's the door of the foals, and by him
the sheep entering and go out. Those shepherds in the Middle
East, when they brought their sheep into the fold, there wasn't
a door as such, but they would be with the sheep through the
night watches and they would sleep there in the entrance to
the fold. They formed the door as it were,
they were always on hand to protect their sheep. And that's what
the Lord Jesus is saying, I am the door of the sheep. He is all these things to them,
you see. He cares for them, He's their
shepherd and He'll give His life for them. But He speaks also
there in John 10 of the wolf. The wolf entereth therein and
scattereth the sheep. That's what the wolf does. He
scattereth the sheep. And this is a false prophet.
Him would learn. They are ravening wolves. And doesn't the Apostle warn
the elders at Ephesus concerning these false teachers that would
come here? Remember in Acts chapter 20 he
calls the Ephesian elders to him as he is about to depart
from them. This is what he says, Take heed
therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over 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
perversings, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch,
and remember that by the space of three years I cease not to
warn everyone night and day with tears." Oh, how this man, you
see, had such a pastor's heart, such a love, for the well-being
of the churches. That that came upon him daily,
the care, he says, of all the churches and his concern is giving
warning then concerning false teachers, false prophets that
will come in. What are these false prophets? They are the very servants of
Satan. Oh, Paul speaks so plainly concerning
their character when he warns the Corinthians because their
heart had been stolen by these wicked men. And Paul tells them
so plainly, who these really were. Such are false apostles,
he says, 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. He warns faithfully then against
the false prophets and the false teachers who should come in. is echoing the words of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And so, as we conclude, what
of us? What are we to make of such a
word as is beware? Is it not to us also a word of
warning? Oh, we need to be those, you
see, who would prove and test all things That's the exhortation
that we find, or one of the exhortations that we find at the end of 1
Thessalonians. Chapter 5 contains many words
of exhortation. Pray without ceasing says Paul.
But amongst those exhortations he says prove all things. Prove all things. We need that
spirit of the Bereans, not just to accept the word of a man who
stands and preaches, but we We must try these things and test
these things by the word of God. It's to the law and to the testament.
And again John reminds us himself how we need to try the Spirit. Writing there, if I can find the passage, In 1 John chapter 4, Beloved, believe not every spirit,
but try the spirits, whether they are of God's, because many
false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the
Spirit of God. Every spirit that confesseth
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God and every
spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh
is not of God and this is our spirit of Antichrist. We have
heard that it should come and even now already is it in the
world. Christ has come, Christ has appeared
as a real man, Christ has accomplished all that is necessary to the
salvation of his people. Oh, we are then to try to try
the Spirit, but not in some censorious fashion, because we have to understand
John's words there concerning the necessity of trying the Spirit,
we have to understand them in the light of what Christ is saying
in this chapter. Judge not, he says, that ye be
not judged, for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged,
and with what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye,
but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother,
Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye, and behold, a beam
is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out
the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou seek clearly
to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. oh yes we are
to try the spirits and we are to make judgement but we are
not to judge according to the appearance we are to judge righteous
judgement says Christ we are to judge righteous judgement
and we are to examine ourselves and we are to prove ourselves
and we are to know ourselves if Jesus Christ be in us otherwise
we are reprobate There is then the need for us
to test and to prove and to try, but not in some censorious fashion. We have to look to ourselves,
and we have to appeal ultimately to the Word of God. It's always
after the law and to the testimony. We try everything by this Word,
the Word of God, and we try Every teacher and every preacher by
this great standard. Paul writes to the Galatians
and how grieved he was when he considered what they'd come to.
He says, I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that
called you unto the grace of God, the grace of Christ, unto
another gospel, which is not another. but there be some that
trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though
we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than
that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I know
again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that
you have received, let him be accursed. All friends, we are
to be those who would contend then earnestly for the faith
once delivered unto the sons. The faith, that's that great
body of truth, this gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, this great
message of salvation that centres only in Him, in His person, in
His work, in all those offices. We considered, as I said, something
of His prophetic office this morning. Oh, let us look to Him
and let us reject every false word. Beware of false prophets which come to
you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are raveling wolves. Wherefore, by their fruits ye
shall know them. Amen.