50 Days of Wisdom

What does our Lord have to say about false teachers? Well, in Mark 12:38 Jesus says, "Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes (sound familiar?) and like respectful greetings in the market places, and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets, who devour widows' houses, and for appearance's sake who offer long prayers; these will receive greater condemnation." Listen, there have always been and always will be false teachers. They are lying prophets, religious deceivers, and corrupt preachers who claim to represent God but actually represent Satan; who claim to bring the way of heaven and actually pave the way to hell; who claim to speak divine truth and actually speak satanic lies—doctrines of demons. Scripture warns us about this; Satan is a liar and the father of lies. He told his first lie in the garden, which led to the fall of the human race. He continues to perpetrate lies through demons and his agents—and they are called "hypocritical liars" by Paul, in 1 Timothy chapter 4—because they propagate all that is false. And all that is not true is false, and all that is not of God is of Satan; there is no middle ground. All that is true is true, and all that is not true is false. Therefore, if a religious person is espousing anything that is not true, it's a satanic lie; it's intended to deceive and to damn the souls of its victims. So, there have always been false teachers and always been liars and deceivers—and mark this—they are all hypocrites. They define the very concept of hypocrite; they are fakes. They claim to show the way of truth, and the way of God, and the way to heaven, and the way to well-being, and the way to blessing, but they lie. There is only one way—the true gospel—and every other way is a false way and a damning way, part of the broad way that leads to hell. Now, in the time of our Lord in Israel, the agents of hell were in charge of the religion of Judaism. It was an apostate form of Judaism—as any form of Judaism is today—and that apostate form of Judaism was under the control of Satan and in the hands of hypocrites, who were the pawns of Satan and the human representatives of demonic powers. They were not perceived to be so by the people, however. The people saw the Sadducees, the Pharisees, the scribes, the priests, and the rabbis as the representatives of God, the agents of God, and the divinely appointed and implanted arbiters of divine truth to the people. They were viewed as devout, respected, and responsible. They were the shepherds of Israel from the perspective of the people, and from their perspective they wanted to be sure that the people saw them that way, because it satisfied their cravings for popularity, for power, for prestige, and especially for money—because false teachers always do what they do for money; the Bible says they're in it for filthy lucre's sake. So, you have the leaders of Israel who pretend to worship God, they pretend to serve God, and they pretend to honor God with their lives; they pretend to lead people into the will of God and into the knowledge of God, when actually they are producing sons of hell, because they themselves are sons of hell. And if there's any question about that, then you need only to know that while they are claiming to honor God, they are bent on murdering the Son of God. All false teachers and all purveyors of false religion are the enemies of Christ, the enemies of truth, the enemies of the gospel, and the enemies of souls. Repent and believe! GTY.org (41-65) – Religion and Its Victims –TOC

Today's Wisdom

June 4, 2026

Day: 938

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