God speaks often in His Word about the wolves that attempt to enter our lives disguised as sheep. They come in many forms, in church gatherings as parishioners, as teachers and pastors and as "religious" family members. Their desire is to appear as good people, without ever having a heart change. They display a persona that is righteous and law abiding, but covertly attack those who expose them. Anyone who challenges their attitude or actions in any way, are quickly targeted for all kinds of abuse.
These people use the Bible as a tool to judge others, removing verses from their context to justify all kinds of sin, even negating passages of the Bible to maintain a sense of superiority over those they desire to control. Anyone who will challenge these self proclaimed "Christians" will be a target of emotional and verbal abuse.
These wolves do not judge themselves as the Bible has commanded, but judge others unjustly to negate them. If they negate the one who speaks truth, they can lead others to believe the truth teller is wrong and sinful.
1 Corinthians 11:31 "But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged."
The wolves are divisive, they seek to silence the truth teller, while turning others against the one who desires Biblical evidence for all things. These wolves will refuse to discuss important matters, they love their secrecy, it allows them to feel superior and to maintain their ungodly attitudes and actions without conviction. They do not fight fairly, they lie, they demean and shutdown any attempt at reasonable conversation with the Bible open to seek the standards of God. These wolves refuse to be accountable to anyone, devouring those who show them their sin or error. They are deliberately and covertly divisive, for the purpose of power and control, it means more to them than anything else.
Matthew 7:15 ""Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves."
Deuteronomy 18:20-22 20 But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’
21 You may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’
22 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."
Ecclesiastes 10:14 "A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?"
Romans 16:17-20 "17 "Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.
18 For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
19 For the report of your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil.
20 And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you."
Ephesians 4:11-16 11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;
13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;
15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,
16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love."
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