Beware of False Prophets and Know the True Lord!

Matthew 7 is jam-packed with some serious truth spoken by Jesus. Jesus starts by telling us not to judge, lest we also be judged. How we must be reminded constantly that we are not all-knowing like Christ and that sometimes we are not aware of that plank in our own eye. Then He goes on to tell to ask, seek, and knock, and He will provide. Right after that, there's these two verses that trip up many people.

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." Are you travelling on the broad or narrow road?

Then Jesus warns us, "Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits." Some people have a problem with truth and what to believe because there's just too many "truths". We have hundreds if not thousands of religions and denominations galore which add to the confusion. How are we to know who is telling the truth? Jesus offers this simple test and observation: You will know them by their fruits. By observing their fruit, we can weed out many self-professing prophets. One of the greatest self-professing prophets is a man by the name of Muhammad, whom many believe to be the true prophet and a man of peace. Dr. Labib Mikhail, a Biblical and Islamic scholar, wrote a book called Islam: Muhammad and the Quran in which he investigates the character of Muhammad and the teachings of the Quran.


Click here for the online version. Take a look at the end of chapter 2 and examine for yourself whether he is a true prophet. If you want to do further study of the Quran, click here for an English translation. Be informed!

Ravi Zacharias explains the Quran



John Piper responds to a document called "A Common Word Between Us and You" in which Muslim clerics extended a right hand in an attempt to unify the Christian and Muslim faith.


In the next part of Matthew 7, Jesus utters something which is, in my opinion, the saddest and most hopeless statement that anyone will ever hear, "I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!" He warns us, just because we claim to be Christian, just because we pray and say, "Lord, Lord," just because we do good things in His name, does not mean we will enter the kingdom of heaven. What is the key? "I never knew you." Do we know Him? Can we with confidence say that we've dined with our Saviour King? Have we spent much time with Him? Have we sat by His feet, in His presence, reading His Word and listening to His voice? Oh, that we're not deceived by the tide of this world. May we know our Lord passionately and intimately!