Judging the Fruits of False Prophets

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Judging the Fruits of False Prophets

• Matthew 713-29

Presented by Bob DeWaay June 4, 2006
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At Issue To Whom We Listen

• Deuteronomy 1814, 15
• For those nations, which you shall dispossess,
  listen to those who practice witchcraft and to
  diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has
  not allowed you to do so. The Lord your God will
  raise up for you a prophet like me from among
  you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to
  him.

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Gods Ordained Mediator is Necessary or We will
Die In Gods Presence

• Deuteronomy 1816, 17
• This is according to all that you asked of the
  Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the
  assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the
  voice of the Lord my God, let me not see this
  great fire anymore, lest I die. And the Lord
  said to me, They have spoken well.

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The Prophet Will Speak Gods Words

• Deuteronomy 1818, 19
• I will raise up a prophet from among their
  countrymen like you, and I will put My words in
  his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I
  command him. And it shall come about that whoever
  will not listen to My words which he shall speak
  in My name, I Myself will require it of him.

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Jesus is the Prophet Predicted In Deut.18 Who
Speaks Gods Words

• John 1248
• He who rejects Me, and does not receive My
  sayings, has one who judges him the word I spoke
  is what will judge him at the last day.

• Jesus Christ Came in the Flesh and Spoke Gods
  Authoritative Words

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How False Prophets are Identified

• Deuteronomy 1821, 22
• And you may say in your heart, How shall we
  know the word which the Lord has not spoken?
  When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if
  the thing does not come about or come true, that
  is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The
  prophet has spoken it presumptuously you shall
  not be afraid of him.

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A Doctrinal Test As Well

• Deuteronomy 131-3
• If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among
  you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the
  sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which
  he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other
  gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve
  them, you shall not listen to the words of that
  prophet or that dreamer of dreams for the Lord
  your God is testing you to find out if you love
  the Lord your God with all your heart and with
  all your soul.

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Peter Wants Three Tents of Meeting

• Mark 94, 5
• And Elijah appeared to them along with Moses
  and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter
  answered and said to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good
  for us to be here and let us make three
  tabernacles, one for You, and one for Moses, and
  one for Elijah.

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Listen to Him (Deut. 1815)

• Mark 96 - 8
• For he did not know what to answer for they
  became terrified. Then a cloud formed,
  overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the
  cloud, This is My beloved Son, listen to Him!
  And all at once they looked around and saw no one
  with them anymore, except Jesus alone.

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Jesus Words are Authoritative

• John 545 - 47
• Do not think that I will accuse you before the
  Father the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom
  you have set your hope. For if you believed
  Moses, you would believe Me for he wrote of Me.
  But if you do not believe his writings, how will
  you believe My words?

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Gods Full and Final Revelation is in Christ

• Hebrews 11, 2
• God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in
  the prophets in many portions and in many ways,
  in these last days has spoken to us in His Son,
  whom He appointed heir of all things, through
  whom also He made the world.

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We Neglect our Salvation if we Fail to Listen to
Jesus Words

• Hebrews 21-3
• For this reason we must pay much closer
  attention to what we have heard, lest we drift
  away from it. For if the word spoken through
  angels proved unalterable, and every
  transgression and disobedience received a just
  recompense, how shall we escape if we neglect so
  great a salvation? After it was at the first
  spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us
  by those who heard,

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A Solemn Warning It is Worse to Fail to Listen
to Jesus Than it was to Fail to Listen to Moses

• Hebrews 1225
• See to it that you do not refuse Him who is
  speaking. For if those did not escape when they
  refused him who warned them on earth, much less
  shall we escape who turn away from Him who warns
  from heaven.

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To Fail to Hear and Obey Christs Words is
Lawlessness

• Matthew 723
• And then I will declare to them, I never knew
  you depart from Me, you who practice
  lawlessness.
• 1John 34
• Everyone who practices sin also practices
  lawlessness and sin is lawlessness.

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To Fail to Hear and Obey Christs Words is
Lawlessness

• Matthew 1341
• The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and
  they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling
  blocks, and those who commit lawlessness,
• 2Thessalonians 23
• Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will
  not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the
  man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of
  destruction,

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The Way of Salvation or the Way of Lawlessness

• Matthew 713, 14
• Enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide,
  and the way is broad that leads to destruction,
  and many are those who enter by it. For the gate
  is small, and the way is narrow that leads to
  life, and few are those who find it.

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False Prophets Look Like Sheep

• Matthew 715
• Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in
  sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous
  wolves.
• Matthew 2328
• Even so you too outwardly appear righteous to
  men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and
  lawlessness.

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Knowing Their Fruits

• Matthew 716-20
• You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are
  not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from
  thistles, are they? Even so, every good tree
  bears good fruit but the bad tree bears bad
  fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor
  can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree
  that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
  thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them
  by their fruits.

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Workers of Miracles but Lawless

• Matthew 721-23
• Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will
  enter the kingdom of heaven but he who does the
  will of My Father who is in heaven. Many will say
  to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not
  prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out
  demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?
  And then I will declare to them, I never knew
  you depart from Me, you who practice
  lawlessness.

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Workers of Miracles but Lawless

• Having Many Followers is Not Fruit
• The path is narrow and few walk on it.
• Being a Nice Person is Not Fruit
• They come to you in sheeps clothing.
• Miracles are Not Fruit
• We did many miracles I never knew you

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Obeying Christs Words Is Fruit

• Matthew 724-25
• Therefore everyone who hears these words of
  Mine, and acts upon them, may be compared to a
  wise man, who built his house upon the rock. And
  the rain descended, and the floods came, and the
  winds blew, and burst against that house and yet
  it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the
  rock.

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Lawlessness is Disobedience to Christs
Authoritative Teachings

• Matthew 726-27
• And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and
  does not act upon them, will be like a foolish
  man, who built his house upon the sand. And the
  rain descended, and the floods came, and the
  winds blew, and burst against that house and it
  fell, and great was its fall.

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The Scribes can only Legitimately Interpret
Moses, Jesus is the Greater Moses Who Speaks for
God

• Matthew 728-29
• The result was that when Jesus had finished
  these words, the multitudes were amazed at His
  teaching for He was teaching them as one having
  authority, and not as their scribes.

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The Scribes Authority Came From Gods Words
Given to Moses

• Matthew 232-3
• saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have
  seated themselves in the chair of Moses
  therefore all that they tell you, do and observe,
  but do not do according to their deeds for they
  say things, and do not do them.

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Jesus Authority is Greater Than Moses, He Is God
and Speaks Gods Words

• John 117
• For the Law was given through Moses grace and
  truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

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Jesus Authority is Greater Than Moses, He Is God
and Speaks Gods Words

• Hebrews 1028, 29
• Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies
  without mercy on the testimony of two or three
  witnesses. How much severer punishment do you
  think he will deserve who has trampled under foot
  the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the
  blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified,
  and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

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Application Listen Only to Christs Words and
Reject All Who Refuse to Stay Within the
Boundaries He Set

• 2John 19
• Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in
  the teaching of Christ, does not have God the
  one who abides in the teaching, he has both the
  Father and the Son.

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Application Listen Only to Christs Words and
Reject All Who Refuse to Stay Within the
Boundaries He Set

• 2John 110, 11
• If anyone comes to you and does not bring this
  teaching, do not receive him into your house, and
  do not give him a greeting for the one who gives
  him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.

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