Amen. You're in Acts chapter 20. There's quite a lot going on in that chapter of
Acts. Acts chapter 20. I'm just going to read a few verses there from verse 26.
So Acts chapter 20 and verse 26. And if you don't have a Bible just listen
clearly. I'll try and read it clearly like Dan did there as well and we'll
just try and just listen to the words which God's got to say to you.
But if you do have a Bible have a look in Acts 20 and from verse 26 where we
see this. Wherefore I take you to record this day that I am pure from the blood
of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over the which the
Holy Ghost have 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 perverse things 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. And the title of my
sermon is from verse 29 the title is grievous wolves shall enter in among
you. Grievous wolves shall enter in among you. Before we carry on I'd like
to pray father thank you for your word thank you for what the many
warnings you give us in your word Lord the warnings that we need to take
heed to Lord help us all here just to just to bear you know just to focus
on what your word saying Lord to focus on the warnings you regularly give
us in your word Lord and to then act upon those warnings to do what you
tell us to do to be able to to be safe to be to be safe from from these
sorts of people from these sorts of attacks Lord help me to preach this
clearly and accurately and boldly and full of your spirit Lord and help
everyone who have attentive ears to the message in Jesus name we pray amen
okay so there's an uncomfortable truth in biblical Christianity okay there's an
uncomfortable truth and it's that we are stalked we are surrounded and we
are regularly attacked by predators okay as Christians as believers we are
regularly attacked by predators keep a finger here and turn to 2nd
Corinthians chapter 11 so if you have a Bible turn to 2nd Corinthians 11 if
you don't just listen to what I've got to say it's it's a constant theme
in the Bible if you think about it the serpent appears as early as Genesis
chapter 3 three chapters into the Bible you've got the creation of the world
the creation of mankind focused in on in chapter 2 then by chapter 3 we've got
a predator straightaway we've got a snake we have a serpent right at the
beginning of the Bible it's a constant theme and it's still you know
it continues with with the serpent going out to deceive the nation's as
late really as any time a thousand years on from now any time over that that
is and you know we're going forward throughout the millennial reign that
is into revelation 20 because that's who's behind it all it is Satan okay so
those these sorts of attacks these sorts of people that we see as a
constant theme through the Bible all the way through to revelation 20 from
Genesis 3 it's all about the devil Satan the enemy of mankind and
particularly the enemy of God's people yet contrary to popular belief and
contrary to probably the popular belief that people are conditioned to believe
did you know that the devil doesn't run around with a pitchfork and with horns
on his head and a ghoulish face that's not the devil in the Bible second
Corinthians 11 says it like this in verse 13 for such a false apostles
deceitful workers transform transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ
so rather than being obvious they were pretending to be apostles they were
pretending to be working for God verse 14 says and no Marvel he said
for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light Satan tries to appear
as a good guy okay he doesn't appear as this evil scary creature he appears
as a good guy as a good version of God through the tons of false religions the
Bible says the devil's behind all of them so behind all these false
religions is the devil and he appears as a good guy he appears even as a
false version of Jesus Christ so the devil is behind all of these fake
Jesus's where your works get you to heaven with this fake Jesus which has
differing depending on which version of the devil's churches you go to a
different line and different level of things you have to do to achieve heaven
they're all fake Jesus's and the devil is behind all of them that that
Catholic Jesus with the long flowing hair and the white skin and the blue
eyes and the dress and and walks around that's a fake Jesus that's the devil
that's the devil the devil comes across as a blue-eyed long flowing locks
looks like a queer that's not Jesus of the Bible that's the devil he said in
verse 15 therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be
according to their work so what he's saying is it shouldn't then surprise us
it shouldn't surprise us that his ministers his workers the devil's
people the people that work for the devil his children the devil's children
children of the devil try to appear as ministers of righteousness so it shouldn't
we shouldn't marvel at that and first thing you've got to understand
about that by the way is that there are people in the world who are
children of the devil there are people of the world in the world that the
Bible says a ministers of the devil they're his ministers they do his work
and they appear like us they appear to be some sort of good person in your
eyes it shouldn't surprise us he said now to some the Muslim imam is what
they consider to be a minister of righteousness so for the many is like
the many Muslims are many Islamists out there in the world the guy in the
dress with the long funny beard and you know usually a magic hat for them
they think this guy is a respectable righteous guy but he's a child of the
devil according to the Bible he's a he's a he's a minister of Satan but for them
they think this is a great guy what a holy guy he wears a dress and he's got
a beard he must be holy for others it's the Catholic priest they consider
the Catholic priest who also wears a dress even though the Bible says
that's a shame unto a man but who also wears a dress and who also usually has a
magic hat and and waves around incense and does a load of stuff that's not in
the Bible but for many they look at that and I think that is a holy man
that's a righteous man don't they he doesn't have pitchfork sorry
doesn't have holes he said he doesn't hold a pitchfork but he's a
minister of the devil turn to Matthew chapter 7 however they're not the only
ones to others who accept the Bible is the Word of God so to those that actually
believe that this is the Word of God the the devil's children the people of
the devil his ministers have to look a little bit more subtle that minister
of righteousness often carries a Bible did you know that just because someone
carries a Bible doesn't mean they're a good person often when they're
carrying a Bible they're still a child of the devil because they're coming as
what as a minister of righteousness they're meant to look like they're
good people they might even claim to believe it they might even claim to
want to win souls they might even go out and even look like they're
preaching the gospel to people to get people to pray with them they might
even claim to be a pastor that's why in Matthew 7 Jesus warned us of the
wolves in sheep's clothing look at verse 15 Matthew 7 verse 15 says
beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly
they are ravening wolves so they come in sheep's clothes they look like
believers they look like Christians but inside they're ravening wolves they
might even act like the sheep by the way at least in public in public they'll
look like sheep in front of other people they'll act like sheep but
inwardly they are ravening wolves what's their goal the ultimate goal is
ravening or devouring that's basically destruction their ultimate goal
is more people going to hell now you might think well wait a second if I'm
saved and I'm going to heaven what can they do to me no they can't make you
go to hell if you're saved if you've put your faith in Christ you're saved
but what they can do is they could destroy your walk with God they could
stop you going on to get other people saved so ultimately they're there
what what's the result more people in hell that's their job they want to
raven they want to destroy okay this is a big warning in the bottom we get
it time and time again I'm only gonna go to a few places today for because
of the time I could do what Paul did in that chapter and preach all night
but I'm not going to the few two mosquitoes at night here but we are
going to finish in good time but I am going to go to some chapters today
just to show you that this is a constant theme in the Bible so they
look like the sheep they act like the sheep what's their goal we saw
ravening and devouring but there are different angles to achieve this okay
so some like the aforementioned teachers of false religion so like I said the
priest the vicar the prophet apostle whatever his name is all the all those
different types for them it's just obvious for us they just teach work
salvation open they say you have to work your way to heaven they're lying
and and they're damning people to hell now that's obvious you say well how
can they affect someone who saved you'd be amazed there are saved people out
there who have got saved who right now Sunday have probably spent some time in
a Catholic Church in a Pentecostal Church in a Apostle of Christ whatever
Church give us all your money Church whatever type of Church and they're
there they know they probably deep down they know they're wrong but
they're like when my family go there my friends go there the music sounds
nice I might as well carry on going there what are those people doing for
God nothing what are they learning every single week lies what happens their
faith they have doubt in themselves doubt in the Word of God doubt in their
faith they go on to be basically lousy Christians useless Christians now
others it's more subtle they claim it's not of works so there will be
ones that these are funny these guys yeah we talked to you know we're so
winning Church we talk to people a lot and we talk to false prophets a lot
sadly and they'll say something like oh yeah yeah yeah it's face alone and go
to heaven oh it's not of works but if you do a bad sin then you go to hell
that's works that's work salvation that's working your way to heaven you
can't say it's not of works then tell someone they got to do works and
expect them to believe well just cuz he said it's not a works sadly though
how many people go well I don't think he believes it I don't think he
believes you got to work you at every just says repent of your sins to get to
heaven what does that mean that means give up your sins that means turn
away for your sins that's works that's hard work in fact it's impossible
because if you say you have if you say there's no sin within you that
you're a liar you're a liar if you say you have not sinned and you make
him a liar too well often like a wolf shall tell you what they also do
they target the young before they become a fully grown sheep so this is
another worry another risk that that that's out there is is they target the
lambs like what does a wolf do when a war for a pack of wolves often they
work in teams when wolves try to take sheep they don't usually go for the
big sheep they usually go for the young they go for the lambs or they go
for those that are weak those that are maybe crippled those that maybe can't
run away so quickly they go for the easy targets and the easy targets in
Christianity aren't just children but also babes in Christ new believers
wolves go for new believers because they're basically spiritual babies
they're not able they're not strong enough they don't know the word enough
to defend themselves from the attacks of false doctrine now some how do they do
that well sometimes they'll weaken you through bad teaching just teaching you
a load of lies bad teaching that just maybe gets you into different types of
sin maybe the bad teaching just you know gets you into flesh one maybe the
bad teaching is just a basically weaken your your will for soul winning they'll
tell you no no no people can get safe from just reading a tract no they
can't the Bible says faith cometh by hearing here and by the Word of God
it doesn't come by looking at Bible verses yet they'll maybe promote that
or they'll promote other things they'll put a doubt on soul winning to
try and stop you going out and getting other people saved put doubt in your
mind make your question make you wonder make you worry that I don't know
if I could prove this cuz that false prophet told me a verse that seems
like you could lose your salvation but the verse had nothing to do with
salvation but they will target the weak who don't know the Bible maybe
it's bad soul winning there are those out there we've had this before in our
church where they'll come in they'll claim to be like us but then they'll
become this big personality in our church and everyone wants to listen and
look what they do and they do bad useless soul winning so people aren't
getting saved they're just giving them a quick few verse and telling them
to pray and it's a waste of time the result with these people whether it's
coming into churches or whether it's less direct for example like promoting
sin like causing division in churches this is another goal another way they do
they come into a church and they try and pull their own group after them
try and cause division slander the man of God slander other people in the
church try and make division in a church all of it what's the goal it's
destruction it's more people going to hell and this can be both from behind
the pulpit these people come in behind pulpits obviously whether it's a
legitimate church or a false church and outside of it from some form of leader
to some form of church member they're everywhere with the result being less
soul winning and more destruction now how do we spot them then so all that
by way of introduction how do we spot a wolf do there is just pop out of the
outfit not always now like I said some are obvious hopefully if you've just got
saved it should start to twig in your mind that all those churches are all
setting up all behind here over here over here all of those different people
are not teaching what the Bible says to get you to heaven every single
one is teaching you that you've got to do some sort of works to get to
heaven now they might claim the name of Christ they might say oh yeah yeah
you've got to believe and be good you've got to believe and follow its
commandments you've got to believe and give up your sins you've got to
believe and never do this sin in the future you've got to believe and get
baptized whatever it is that adding works to self to faith alone in Christ
like which means it's not faith only Christ alone they're adding works of
salvation they're damning people to help so hopefully if you're saved
you're starting to realize wow there's a lot of lies out there there's a
lot of false prophets out there they're everywhere we've just been
watching them go in and out of here all day pastors prophets whatever they
call themselves some of them even call themselves apostles they're so
stupid they don't even realize that there is no apostle after after that
generation that had seen the risen Christ but people get conned by him
people get tricked by these people they're charismatic they're very good
with their words a lot of the time they make you want to listen to him
they tickle your ears but they're wicked lying devils and they're
ministers of the devil how do we spot them there verse 16 where you are
Matthew 7 says ye shall know them by their fruits do men gather grapes of
thorns or figs of thistles even so every good tree 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 a cast into
the fire wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them so the fruits are what
comes out of our mouths with the fruit of the righteous resulting in
Salvations you don't have to turn there but Proverbs 11 30 says the fruit
of the righteous is a tree of life and he that win of souls is wise so
save people have the ability to get other other people saved wolves in
sheep's clothing don't they cannot get people saved they cannot result in
someone who's received eternal life because a corrupt tree cannot bring
forth good fruit what they say what comes out of their mouth cannot
get people say now they could copy us they could say the same things as
us they can look like us they can act like us they could go out and
attempt to preach the gospel like us they could even get people to pray
with them like us but it doesn't mean that those people are saved they
cannot get someone saved the fruit of their mouths will not result in a tree
of life the best will say what we say though they will bleat like a sheep
but the result isn't genuine salvation's okay however with that
eventually I believe the fruit will show in Luke 6 45 and you don't have
to turn only gonna quote the one verse in looks 40 looks 645 talking of
fruits Jesus said a good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth
forth that which is good and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his
heart bringeth forth that which is evil for of the abundance of the heart
his mouth speaketh eventually these people will reveal sometimes subtly
sometimes it's pretty subtle what they really believe okay sometimes it
just comes out sometimes it will be just in a conversation something
something will blurt out they'll say something which shows that really they're
trusting in their works he said in verse 21 not everyone that saith unto
me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth
the will of my father which is in heaven now the will of the father
being stated in John 6 40 is that someone gets saved that's the will of
the father John 6 40 says and this is the will of him that sent me that
everyone which saith the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting
life and I will raise him up at the last day the will of the father is
that we'll put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and get saved that's his
will now although this passage is a proof text for those out there
calling Jesus Lord but trusting in their works ultimately it's talking
about false prophets this passage here really is talking about false prophets
it says in verse 22 many will say to me in that day Lord Lord have we not what
prophesied they've preached their prophets they're claiming to be prophets
of God they're claiming to preach the Word of God they're saying Lord Lord
have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name of cast out devils and
in thy name have done many wonderful works what are they trusting in their
works they're trusting in their works to get them to heaven what does Jesus
say to these people verse 23 and then will I profess unto them I never knew
you depart from me ye that work iniquity so workers of iniquity being
another name for wicked people for children of the devil for sons of
Belial is another name reprobates false prophets wolves in sheep's
clothing false brethren etcetera these are all types of children of the devil
the ministers of the devil these people are trusting in their works and
eventually like I said these people reveal that it will come out in one
way or another I've noticed this with time with people it could take some
time though you say but what kind of people sneak around pretending that they
believe like us you might be sitting there thinking what on earth this
sounds a bit far but I didn't know the Bible said this I thought the Bible
just said love thy neighbor and then pat each other on the back and sing
some songs what what on earth there are actually people people that will
sneak around pretending they believe like us but waiting for a chance to
raven to devour believers well I'll tell you what types of people these
are they're the worst types of psychopath out there these people are
wicked they're vile they're disgusting they're completely crazy that's what the
Bible says that they're such their conscience is seared they have no
conscience they have no empathy they're worse than the serial killer that
kills dozens of people worse than the person that spends his life sneaking up
on people and killing them for fun is the false prophet who spends their
life trying to damn people to hell one way or another they're worse what they
do is affecting people's eternities and that's a hell of a lot longer than
the short life we have here do you know what they're even worse than the
child abuser that destroys dozens of lives a lot of the time they are child
abusers well in fact child abusers it's a it's a form of reprobate psychopath
it's a form of psychopath but the ones that are sneaking into churches
pretending to be churches pretending to be pastors prophets priests all that's
different type of stuff those people are worse because they're damning people
by the droves to hell they're wicked people false brethren and false
prophets are responsible for droves droves of people massive amounts of
people going to hell how wicked is that to think there are people like
that all over the place they're called children of the devil their
sons of Satan and there are loads of them first you have to know first
John 4 one says beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits
whether they were of God because many false prophets are gone out into the
world the Bible says many many are gone out there are many false prophets
they're people that have rejected the truth of God and purposely changed it
into a lie and they're beyond hope they can't be saved they've rejected
God they've chosen basically the way of the devil they change the truth of
God into a lie they're done the Bible calls them reprobates or rejected
of God twice dead okay they're dangerous and guess what they're very
real they're dangerous and they're real they're everywhere like I said
we've been surrounded by them all day today in every other one of those
buildings surrounding us is a false prophet is a wicked vile child of the
devil teaching lies they're everywhere and you know what they're all over
Malawi all over the long way just driving around the long grid all I see
is false Church fake Church false Church fake Church and who's leading
those false churches false prophets liars damning people to hell so what do
you do what you do well go back to Acts chapter 20 and we're going to make
an action plan a way of not letting this work that we've started in Malawi
get destroyed those people that are here today not to be destroyed the
people that may be listened to this off the groups of the people's numbers we've
taken off the people we're trying to disciple from afar for them not to be
destroyed so in Acts chapter 20 the Apostle Paul has called the pastors of
what was probably a big Ephesian Church okay it's a day's journey to
Miletus okay so he's got them a day's journey they've got a day's
journey to meet him in Miletus he'd previously done a great work in
Ephesus resulting in loads of salvations at a church so in
Ephesus at this point they've got a church they've got multiple pastors
they've probably got assistant pastors there's a there's a lot going on there
it's probably a big church at this point verse 26 says wherefore I take
you to record this day acts 20 verse 26 wherefore I take you to record this
day that I'm pure from the blood of all men for I have not shunned to
declare unto you all the counsel of God take heed therefore unto yourselves
and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers
to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood so
the title is grievous wolves shall enter in among you and point number one
or solution number one is so get fed so get fed Paul said that it's not his
fault if they allow the wolves in because he's declared unto them all the
counsel of God he said he said I'm not guilty anymore I've declared unto
you all the counts of God he said I preached a whole lot he's preached
them all of it he didn't avoid this part of it and just focus on the nicer
parts he didn't go well we don't want to preach this part of it because it's
a bit uncomfortable this isn't very nice people aren't gonna go away feeling
good about themselves so let's swerve all of that stuff I'll just preach
the nice rosy bits though he preached all the counts of God he preached a
whole Bible he didn't avoid doctrine and just focused on encouragement now
people need encouragement Christians need encouragement they need exhortation but
you know what he preached doctrine I'll tell you why he preached doctrine
because that's how they attack you is with false doctrine you need to know
doctrine teachings from the Bible true teachings of the Bible you don't
worry about offending people he didn't not preach the doctrine he didn't not
preach once saved always saved in case half of the people left because
they didn't believe no he preached it and I bet he preached it hard as well
because you need to hear the doctrine you need reminding time and time
again because the false the false messages the false gospels are
everywhere and they're there to put doubt in your mind to put doubt in you
to make you turn your head a little bit and not be so sure and not be so
confident to preach to other people and he's saying to those that are left
in charge to take heed by continuing to feed them he's saying to feed God's
people turn to Psalm 91 because that's what the word of God is okay the
word of God is spiritual food turn to Psalm 91 it's spiritual food and if you
want to be strong enough to take on wolves then you need feeding wolves
are scary animals if you imagine being a sheep and being surrounded by
wolves you need some feeding don't you you need to be strong enough to
battle the wolves you're turning to Psalm 91 and it's not just one two or
three meals that you may have got this week if you've lived listened or
come to any of our services you need constant food sheets need to constantly
graze don't they sheep need to graze they need to be constantly eating the
pasture they don't you can't just feed a sheep a little bit of grass and
then expect to have some nice lamb chops at the end can you you can't give
that lamb just a little bit of its mother's milk and as it gets a little
bit older a little bit of pasture right you've had your one one bit of
pasture a week off into the shed with you you're gonna have a pretty
skinny nasty bit of bit of lamb there aren't you you want good lamb you need
to feed it in these regular grazing to be strong to get fat for that soul to
get fat and strong it needs regular feeding but this pasture this pasture
this feed turns sheep into super sheep this this this pasture makes them
into turbocharged sheep Psalm 91 says it like this because it turns you into a
spiritual warrior Psalm 91 says in verse 9 because thou has made the Lord
which is my refuge even the most high thy habitation well how do you do
that how do you make the Lord your refuge or your home or the place that
you could be safe this is word it's his statutes it's his commandments it's
reading the word he said because you've done that because you've drawn nigh unto
him and by the way we do that by reading his word firstly but also by
hearing preaching by reading the word by hearing the preaching and not
just being a hero of the word but being a doer he doesn't just say just
read my Bible read my Bible and carry on living a wicked life no he said
read my Bible don't just be a hero but be a doer as well change your life
live for God read the word listen to the preacher you might be able to deal
with the wolves and when we do that verse 10 in Psalm 91 says there shall
no evil before thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling for
he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways
they shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against the
stone now look at verse 13 thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder the young
lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet he said that when you make
God your refuge when you make God your habitation when you draw close to
him through his word through prayer through doing what he asked you to do
through listening to preaching for doing the things that God wants you
doing he said when you do all of that you could trample on these scumbags
because that's what they are they're scum they're pure scum and they're
everywhere false prophets everywhere they're scum and you could trample on
them with your feet once you make God your habitation you'll see through
their false doctrine you'll see through their lies give me wait a second
the Bible doesn't say that the Bible doesn't say what that stupid banner on
the front says in 1st John 4 10 it didn't say that what are you talking
about you liars what does the Bible say you'll see through their lies you'll
see through their fake exteriors you'll see through the fakeness because
you'll start to say wait a second that big smile and that oh yeah we
just love you so much that doesn't add up that's not what you're really
doing you just want my money that's what most of it is isn't it it's
money money money money that's what all these churches want they want your money
you'll resist their attempts to destroy your walk if you actually are in
the word if you've made God your habitation you don't have to fear
them though okay just to make it clear you don't have to fear them
turn to John 14 1st John 4 4 says it like this 1st John 4 4 says ye are of
God little children and have overcome them because greater is he that is in
you than he that is in the world he said greater is he in you that's the
Holy Spirit that's God indwelling you if you're saved than he that is in the
world that's greater than the devil greater than all those false prophets
all those wicked people is the Holy Spirit is God Almighty if you're saved
you have the Holy Spirit and he is greater than the devil there's no
competition God could kill the devil like that the only reason he doesn't is
because the devil presents an option he presents a choice he presents a choice
to people to choose the false prophets to choose the false religions
or to actively choose God and you need to choose God because we all have
free will but for that indwelling Holy Spirit to be most effective he
wants feeding did you know that the Holy Spirit wants feeding inside you
John 14 26 says but the comforter which is the Holy Ghost John 14 26 whom the
Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all
things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you do now you deal
with these people do you know how the Holy Spirit is most effective is if
you read the Bible if you read the word if you listen to the preaching
but proper preaching not preaching when they don't use the Bible preaching where
you're going to verses where you're where the word of God is the sense is
being given to you it's been explained it's been preached from the
Bible he said whatsoever I have said unto you that's the Word of God okay
but for it to be brought into remembrance it needs to be read it
needs to be heard preached so get fed you need to get fed how read the
Bible morning and evening like I just did with a guy earlier just show just
downloaded the Bible app just download it onto his phone King James Bible on
your phone you got the whole Bible there and if you don't have a phone
maybe a family member will let you do that if you don't have that then
maybe we can find a way of getting you a Bible but you need to read the
Bible it needs to be read morning and evening meditate there in day and
night like we said this morning and get involved with our online preaching we
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believe a series you can look at the what we believe series I look at the
doctrines we believe and why why we believe from the Word of God what we
believe not because well someone else believes it someone told me to believe
it but what does the Bible say that's what matters that's our final
authority the Word of God go back to Acts chapter 20 and verse 26 says
wherefore I take you to record this day or take you to record this day
that I am pure from the blood of all men for I have not shunned to declare
unto you all the counsel of God take heed therefore unto yourselves and
to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseas 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 the title is grievous wolves shall enter in among
you number one so get fed number two so expect them to enter expect them to
enter he said he's sure of it in verse 29 he said for I know this that
after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing
the flock what does it mean to be grievous it's hurtful it's
destructive but of course they won't look like wolves they will smile they
will claim to want to do good they will claim to love you they'll claim
they have all this love for you they just want to help you they just
want to do good things for you but they want to destroy all of you they
don't want anyone to escape every single one of you everyone every person
that's got saved over the last week or two here the grievous wolves want to
destroy you they want to destroy your Christian walk destroy your Christian
life in one way or another stop you serving God and it's easier to do that
before it even starts but on the flip side okay we do want to welcome in
you believers don't we so as and when you find people that seem to be
saved you want to welcome them you want to love you don't want to just be
everyone you think must be a wolf so we have to get a balance with it we
don't want to treat new people as if they're likely wolves we want to
encourage people to want to work for the Lord we want to try and draw
people in and get them working for God we don't want to treat these new
people badly but let me tell you what to watch out for these are some
obvious ones okay so-called pastors evangelists missionaries leaders trying
to entice you to them okay whatever they whatever flavor whether they
call themselves an independent fundamental Baptist or not whatever
flavor if people come in and try and pull you towards them in one way or
another believe me they're likely a problem turn to 1st Corinthians 4 I
don't care whether they're from Malawi or whether they're from the USA
whether they claim to believe the Bible or not don't let them come in
and destroy you and destroy the work that we're doing here don't let them do
it they'll try and pull you what every which way they can pull you
into their little groups pull you into their little that's that their
churches and whatever else pull you away from learning and listening and
getting involved with a proper church that's what these people do in 1st
Corinthians 4 Paul said this to those in Corinth of which so many he had
personally one to Christ Paul had personally won many to Christ there he
said I write not these things to shame you but as my beloved sons I warn you
now why sons why sons why do you call them sons some of these men were
probably older than him why sons he said for though you have 10,000
instructors in Christ yeah there's a lot of people that want to instruct
you in Christ or claim to yeah have you not many fathers for in Christ
Jesus I have forgotten you through the gospel he said there are thousands of
people who want to instruct you but he said who got you saved who got you
saved and if you're here and you're saved you know who got you saved if
you're here and someone's preached to you this week or if you're listening
online and you you've been preached to in one of the schools and you've got
saved you know who got you saved so straight away if you believe in your
heart you believe that you're that you're a sinner that was on the way to
hell and you've put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and you know there's
no way I can lose that salvation whatever happens I'm saved if you know
that in your heart then you know who preached and you know preach that to
you then you know that that person is saved and they cannot therefore be a
wolf so do you know what you could do is trust that person trust that person
who got you saved I trust them above anyone else if you're saved the person
got you so you can trust above anyone else before you'd start doing fruit
inspections straight away you know that person's safe because a corrupt
tree cannot bring forth good fruit so be very careful of people that are
coming in you don't even know them oh well no no no because they preach
exactly the same thing over in Texas they preach exactly the same thing over
in somewhere in England or over who are they ask us we'll tell you and you
know what considering many false prophets are gone out into the world
considering there are grievous wolves everywhere the sad likely truth is
they're probably going to be the same but we can tell you if you want if you
want to be safe for starters just don't just let them pull you out stay in
contact let us help you we want to build up people to serve God in Malawi
but we can't do that if you let just any any Tom Dick and Harry come in
and pull you one way or another oh well they seem okay well they've got
a King James Bible they said they're Baptists yeah do you know what
there's a lot of Baptists that are wicked Ravanee wolves look at verse 16 he
said wherefore I beseech you be ye followers of me now because none of us
are perfect and that includes the Apostle Paul you know what he said in
first Corinthians 11 1 he said be followers of me even as I also am of
Christ so sure follow the person that got you saved to a degree but as he is
following Christ so not if he starts like look we're all we're all sinful
flesh we can all get things wrong even say people get into bad things even
right how do you get that right how do you know whether or not you're
following them as they follow Christ well back to point one get fed read
your Bible read it read it read it read it and don't just trust some
random people coming in and telling you oh well you know we believe like you
do that why you come and join us and if we if before we could get out here
there's someone that we consider legitimate we'll let you know if you
stay in contact with us and someone legitimate look we look it's not that
we've got a monopoly on people that gets that got saved in the last two
weeks if someone legitimate came to Malawi and planted a church here did
some work here we'd be get involved get involved we want you involved great
you can start meeting learning listen to preaching being involved with other
believers but not just anyone it's actually when it comes to to the
Christian world it's quite a small world where it is quite easy to spot
fakes when you've been in it a while and we know who's legitimate and
who's not but you need to learn you need to grow and in the meantime we'll
help you we want what's better we just want you guys to learn and grow as
well go back to Acts 20 and verse 26 acts 20 26 says wherefore I take you
to record this day that I am pure from the blood of all men for I have not
shunned to declare unto you all the counts of God take heed therefore unto
yourselves and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost had made you
overseers to feed the Church of God which he had purchased with his own
blood for I know this after my deport departing shall grievous wolves enter
in among you not sparing the flock also of your own self shall men arise
speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them the title is
grievous will shall enter in among you point number one is so get fed number
two so expect them to enter in number three so expect them to arise
so expect them to arise Paul said that of your own selves shall men arise
did he say they might arise or did he say they shall arise he said they
shall arise he said of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things
he said it's a sad truth that there are wicked people that pretend to get
saved they pretend to want to serve God now there are some people I believe
that hear the gospel and maybe they're just kind of hanging around but they
don't get saved then they choose in their hearts to change the truth that
got into a lie they choose basically the other path and they become
reprobate whilst being amongst but many will just come in many from the
beginning are just planted there by the devil right at the beginning they
pretend to get say they pretend they want to serve God but they're
not genuine their fakes their false brethren that latch on early at the
beginning we've experienced this over many many years fakes false
brethren's coming in amongst us coming in from early and eventually being
exposed why well aside from the devil's in them often their flesh craves the
following they crave people to follow them to need them to want them they
need it for their flesh for their pride for their ego that they they
want that following they want to be teachers themselves they they they
crave their own position of leadership he said in verse 30 also of your own
selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples
after them how do you spot them well they speak perverse things perverse
here isn't talking about sexual things necessarily yes of course they
can yes of course some of them do but it's first used in numbers in the
book of Numbers when the angel of the Lord is talking to the false prophet
Balaam and how his way is perverse and perverse here means literally
turned aside hence distorted from the right or obstinate in the wrong
disposed to be contrary stubborn untractable cross petulant peevish
disposed to cross effects so it could be false doctrine okay that's
kind of some of the obvious stuff it'll just be things opposite to what
the Bible teaches or even just things to the contrary things that are
opposite things that are just slightly different to what's being taught how
you're meant to behave for example in the church things that the pastor wants
you to do and not to do as part of a church we've noticed these people are
just trying to get people doing the opposite might not be clear doctrine
for the Bible it's just trying to do everything contrary and he's got to be
different they've always got to find a way of getting a one-up on you
winning somehow getting something so they're not following they can feel
good about themselves that really they're doing it their own way
causing trouble causing problems perverse things different things so it
could be like I said it could be things country could be subtle ways to
turn you against our church so there'll be people that do that
they'll start trying to turn you against our church against what we
preach what we teach and everything else again just to cause the vision to
draw you away after them why well because they just want to destroy they
want to devour turn of Romans 16 division causing is a big weapon of the
enemy as unity is important when doing such an important work such a big work
unity is needed so it's something to keep an eye out for isn't it division
causing trying to cause a problem trying to divide the body of Christ the
local New Testament Church Romans 16 and verse 17 and that's even before
somewhere becomes a church it's easier to divide somewhere before it becomes a
church it's much easier to destroy early Romans 16 of verse 17 says now I
beseech you brethren he's saying I'm pleading with you please he said I
beseech you brethren mark them which caused divisions and offenses
contrary to the doctrine which he have learned and avoid them causing
division is done in various ways okay but it's something to watch for he
said for they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own
belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the heart of the simple
look some are very clever with it did you know that they sound so wise they
sound so sensible so serene so calm with the way they say it so so so
wise he said with good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the
simple and being simple is not a good thing how do we get unsimple how do we
get how do we stop being simple by reading the word by learning by growing
in the things of God and that's how they draw away their own following okay
by doing that but if you expect it if you remember they're gonna do it if you
expect it's that much easier to spot if you just said no no no I know it says
it all over the Bible but can't be true can't be true I know better
everyone is nice really well you're gonna get deceived and you're gonna
get pulled away you're gonna get destroyed but before you ever get a
chance to actually do something for God who died for you and went to hell
for you and he's trying to warn you throughout the Bible go back to Acts
chapter 20 Acts chapter Acts chapter 20 again in verse 26 he said
wherefore I take you to record this day that I'm pure from the blood of all
men for I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God take
heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock of the which the Holy
Ghost hath made you overseas to feed the church of God which he has
purchased with his own blood for for I know this after my deport
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 the
title is grievous wolves shall enter in among you number one to get fed
number two so expect them to enter number three so expect them to arise
and number four so watch and remember watch and remember Paul said to watch
and remember he said to remember that he preached this stuff for three years
he preached it in morning sermons he preached in evening sermons you say why
have I not heard this in other churches but I tell you what because
they're not preaching aliment to because they're not declaring unto you
the whole counsel of God the Apostle Paul the Apostle Paul preached this
stuff for three years day and night
and with tears he cared a lot about it because he knew it would happen he said
you're gonna get torn apart you're gonna get destroyed straight away now
you look at this stuff would think well then of course they will
remember don't you so you're looking at that and you're thinking he preached
by the space of three years he ceased not to warn everyone night and day
with tears they must therefore remember this three years the Apostle Paul anyone
think the Apostle Paul could preach or not I bet he could preach that was a
spirit-filled man of God preaching the Word of God for three years he
preached this night and day then he said watch and remember because you
think they'll remember but don't be so sure people quickly forget they
quickly get deceived it never ceases to amaze me you preach this stuff and
you just see it happening throughout church life you just see it happening
time and time again you're like I've warned you so many times how
many times you have to preach this stuff they quickly get deceived they
quickly forget all of those sermons and they get manipulated he said watch
and remember watch and remember Turner Jude the book of Jude it's towards the
end of your Bible just before the book of Revelation the book of Jude why was
Paul crying do you know why because he knew how much would get destroyed
that's why he's crying cuz he knew how how destructive wolves are whether
they come in amongst you whether they rise up from you he just knew that
they would just destroy it all so quickly he knew how weak people are to
this stuff and you know why a lot of the time we're weak to this stuff it's
not because everyone's a bad person it just lets it happen a lot of the time
it's because really as a Christian as a believer you want to think the best
of people don't you you don't want to think everyone is bad I mean often
I'm kind of like you know I give people benefits of the doubt a lot and
then it's like the next thing in the next thing in the next thing it's
just like man you just don't want it to be true you don't want it to be
the case you want it to just all be sunshine and flowers and skipping
around just going this is such a lovely Christian life but that's not the
Christian life it's hard work but it's rewarding work it's fulfilling work if
God wants you to do that way he commands you to do the work but he
knows he's warning you you will get destroyed if you don't listen to him
the work will be destroyed before it even starts I'm looking at a small group
here that have got saved there may be a minute maybe more from the schools
that aren't so local and from people where we've sold win a bit further from
here that maybe say maybe we'll listen to this online where we upload
it maybe we'll encourage them to do a bit but you know what like Paul said
there I know that grievous wolves shall enter in among you I know that
wolf shall rise up amongst you and I know that they will not spare the flock
and I know they want to devour you and whether they come from Malawi or
whether they come from the USA whether they come from England or wherever that
will happen and you have to watch and you have to remember remember this
sermon rewatch it listen to every day maybe not every day get a bit
depressing but listen to it listen to it because it's worth it because we
want you to live for God we want you to be able to serve God not to get
destroyed before it gets going he knew how effective they were he said in
verse 4 there he said in in Jude and verse 4 for there are certain men crept
in that means they creep in unawares no one spots them who were before of old
ordained to this condemnation ungodly men turning the grace of our God into
lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ he
then said in verse 8 about these types of people that creep in he said
likewise also these filthy dreamers verse 8 defile the flesh despise
dominion and speak evil of dignities they hate the leadership why do they
hate the leadership because they want to draw everyone away as their own
disciples they can't stand it they hate it they constantly wanting to to
somehow get some one-upmanship something over on the leadership they
can't stand cuz they want they want the sheep for themselves they crave it
they desire it he said in verse 12 these are spots in your feasts of
charity when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear clouds they
are they are without water carried about of winds trees whose fruit
withers without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots they're
twice dead they're done they can't be saved they've already rejected they're
done they're done they've chosen the devil the Bible says they're reprobate
concern the faith they cannot believe but they partake in everything like one
of you he said they're in your feasts of charity they're feasting
with you when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear they're
amused by it he said in verse 16 these are murmurers complainers
walking off their own lusts they always have some vile lusts and they always are
being led by by their cravings for more their pride all these things and
their mouth speakers great swelling words we've just read about these
people haven't we we've just read how they that these people it's not just
that they deceive them again with with the words of their mouth with fair
speeches we saw in Romans 16 here it says with great swelling words
having men's persons in admiration because of advantage so they the
advantage of their swelling words of their charm of their charisma of them
having no conscience so unlike normal people they will happily flatter to
deceive they'll flatter you they'll coerce you they have a goal they
have an endgame to what they say so it's an advantage because we don't spot
it we don't see it because they're very clever with it normal people
don't behave like that they have men's persons in admiration because of that
advantage they get sucked in by their holier-than-thou nonsense like this
just so holy it can't be a wolf it can't be a wolf because he just looks
so holy he does all these holy things he says holy words he just seems so
sinless by their words for show their subtle boasting their so-called knowledge
that they're constantly trying to just slip in here slip in there their
so-called holiness that they're trying to slip in here slip in there
but beloved remember ye the words which were spoken before of the
Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ what he say said remember he said
remember he said remember just remember this sermon if you're saved and
you're sitting here today and you want to go on to serve the Lord and I hope
you all want to go and serve the Lord please just remember this sermon
if you didn't if you forget the one in the morning that the one in
morning is important as well but this is one to remember because you
will be pulled away it will happen they will rise up you'll be shocked if
you don't remember when the next person you just start to think what on earth
they claim they believe they claim they were safe they claim to go and try and
preach the gospel they were getting people to pray with them and now
they're come what I can't believe it no I just don't know what to do I
don't know who to believe why I'm out of here no no remember remember
how that they told you that there should be mockers verse 18 and the
last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts these be they who
separate themselves sensual having not the spit so they're led by the flesh
they're not saying they don't have the Holy Spirit but ye beloved building up
yourselves on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost so remember
you're saved pray in the Holy Ghost he said get fed keep yourselves in the
love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life
stay in the faith don't be led off into error stay close to God stay in
the fight stay in the fight don't ruin your Christian life don't waste it if
you're saved you're going to heaven great but you could do so much while
you're here you could do so much or you could just let yourself get
destroyed he said watch and remember watch and remember last bit and I'm
gonna read it one more time so you can't not remember it Acts chapter 20
verse 26 says wherefore I take you to record this day that I'm pure from the
blood of all men for I have not shunned to declare unto you all the
counsel of God take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock
over the which the Holy Ghost of major overseers to feed the Church of
God which is purchased with his own blood for I know this after my
departing shall grievous walls entering among you not sparing the
flock also of your own self shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw
away disciples after them therefore watch and remember that by the space
of three years I cease not to warn every one night and day with tears the
title was grievous wolves shall entering among you number one so get
fed get fed by the Word of God read the Word of God listen to the
preaching learn from it grow in it do it as well do what you're being
told to do by the Word of God number two so expect them to enter they
will come in they will come in one way or another and don't don't let them come
in it don't let them come in by by just turning up at the look at the
nearest false Church don't just look around and go well you know they seem
to have a nice bit of music going on let's turn up there no look you could
go to them but but here he's warning he's warning people that hopefully have
enough savvy that are sensible enough to not go there but know that they will
come in to you they will come in one way or another he said number three so
expect them to arise expect them to come up from sadly amongst yourselves
amongst people that seem to have got saved recently that seemed to have
done over the last couple of weeks and he said so watch and remember he
said watch keep an eye you go well how do I watch I'm new to this I
don't know what I'll tell you what you need to do you need to get in the
Bible you need to start reading the Word of God and I tell you what else you
could do is you can learn from some of our past preaching as well look I
preached loads of messages on this type of thing because well I'm trying to look
I can't even get close to your possible I'm not doing it day and night
for three years with tears okay but I know it's such a risk you see it
going on so much that you have to regularly preach it all over our YouTube
channel over our website different messages on this we I've got a whole
series on on on the book of Proverbs which is just all about wisdom so much
wisdom and so much of the book of Proverbs is actually trying to get you
to be wise to spot these types of people so watch watch firm learn how
to watch and remember always remember that there are wicked people
everywhere do you know that that look people have gone on missions trips all
over the world they've gone and got loads of people saved sometimes
thousands of people save but you know what usually happens grievous wolves
come in among them and destroy them let's not let's let's make sure that
doesn't happen in Malawi and make sure we can keep a remnant of believers
of strong people of disciples here ready ready to carry on a work here so
when we come back there's still some people going right who haven't been
pulled left right and center and devoured and destroyed so watch and
remember and on that we're going to finish in a prayer heavenly father thank
you for your word thank you for the warnings in your word Lord thank you
for everything that you warned us about in in the word of God and
especially the subject of predators of wolves of these you know the these
children of the devil that seem to be everywhere Lord and and they're
trying to pull your people left right and center they're damning the
unbelievers to hell they're trying to trying to destroy your people so we
don't go and get other people saved ultimately just damning people to
hell in one way or another please just help us Lord to spot them help
everyone here to be strong help them all to now want to grow to want to
learn to want to be strong to be a part of your army Lord to be a part of
your people your your children here to go out and battle spiritually to get
people saved and to destroy the work of the devil Lord help everyone here
to understand that and also not be scared by this message to hopefully be
strengthened by this message and to know that they have the power to tread
upon these people they have the power to stamp them under feet they just
need to grow in the word and and be willing to serve you Lord help everyone
to do that and not to be destroyed help us to all get home safe for sound
tonight Lord and in Jesus name pray all of this amen