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Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Neither can you care of world things, the deceitfulness and lusts of world riches, and the word of God be fruitful in you. And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. Frankly speaking, you cannot love the world and the things in the world and you inherit the kingdom of heaven.
He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you. We live on earth laying our treasures in heaven.
A wolf in sheep's clothing is an idiom of Biblical origin used to describe those playing a role contrary to their real character with whom contact is dangerous. "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves." Matthew
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. They preach that the kingdom of heaven has come yet we know truly that the kingdom of heaven will come when Jesus Christ rules the world from Jerusalem. They preach prosperity gospel , a gospel from the kingdom of darkness.
They are instead drowning millions to hell and even others deny the existence of hell. See salvation is by grace through faith. They have placed barriers to salvation some claiming you have to sow a seed, buy oil, take sacrament, tithe, etc to be saved. They counter the Bible gospel, that salvation is by grace through faith and that the grace the finished work of the cross is sufficient. Jesus Christ grace is sufficient for your salvation.
Nothing you have to do to be saved except believe and accept the begotten son of God who died on the cross and paid the price once and for all for me and you to be saved. They preach a gospel of tithing to receive because they want to receive from you and enrich themselves. See should Christians tithe.
They do not preach the true Jesus Christ gospel that all was finished on the cross. That you do not have to tithe, sacrifice a bull, buy oil, etc to receive God blessings and riches but we receive God blessings and riches at the expense of Jesus Christ. Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
It adds nothing to the discussion and only causes strife. Below is a list of ways I've learned to tell the difference:. Do not question why someone comes to this website just because they disagree with you or the content of the article. This is the nature of the spirit they are operating in. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Beware of false Prophets who come to you in lambs' clothing, but from within they are plundering wolves.
Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: The gospel from the kingdom of darkness does not rebuke and condemn sin because they do not want people to repent. It is Satan agenda to humanity. The church today just prophecies blessings, promotes only the sweet gospel, the gospel that the congregation wants to hear only about. That is not word of God. It is from the dark kingdom propagated by these wolves.
I tell you, Nay: Ravening wolves false gospel does not have Jesus Christ righteousness and they neither talk nor practice righteousness. Therefore be you also ready: They will never preach of the return of Jesus Christ. It is Satan agenda to blind many for many to perish with him since he knows hell and the lake of fire is his destiny. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming.
And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken. The story entered the English canon under the title "The wolf turned shepherd" in Roger L'Estrange 's fable collection [10] and in verse as "The Wolf in Disguise" in Robert Dodsley's Select fables of Esop and other fabulists Earlier illustrations of the fable concentrated on the hanging of the wolf.
More recently the emphasis has been on the disguise. A number of recent CDs are titled A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing , although most are references to the idiom and the fable is not mentioned in the words of any of the songs. The same is true of many songs that have the phrase as their title.
One exception is the lyric by Tackhead on their CD Strange Things , which uses the fable for a satirical attack on Capitalist entrepreneurs. Zoologists have repeatedly compared predatory animals which make use of aggressive mimicry to a wolf in sheep's clothing, including jumping spiders , [15] [16] lacewings , [17] ant-mimicking aphids , [18] hemipteran bugs mimicking chrysomelid beetles , [19] bird-dropping spiders , [20] orchid mantises , [20] cichlid fish , [21] [22] and the zone-tailed hawk which flies with and attacks vultures ; [23] these animals have evolved to deceive their prey by appearing as other prey, or like angler fish [23] and snapping turtles [23] lure the prey by appearing as the prey's prey.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Wolf in Sheep's Clothing disambiguation. Adtendite a falsis prophetis qui veniunt ad vos in vestimentis ovium intrinsecus autem sunt lupi rapaces. Rhetores Graeci , London, , Myth 4, p. Cosmophasis bitaeniata , like comparable examples from insects Eisner et al. These predators practise aggressive mimicry by making it easy for prey to misidentify the predator as just another member of a prey group, as though lulling the prey into a false sense of security.
The description of a fly resembling jumping spider of the genus Scoturius Simon, Araneae: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The dual strategy developed by the aphid P. On the one hand, the round morph and the ants, engaged in a trophobiotic relationship, should be subjected to the conflicts of interest typical of mutualism, with selection driving each partner to maximize its benefit by giving the least of its own energy and resources.
On the other hand, the flat morph and the ants can be expected to be engaged in an arms race, with selection favoring improved deceiving abilities in the aphid and increasingly finer discrimination abilities to detect noncolony members in the ants. In aggressive mimicry, the predator is 'a wolf in sheep's clothing'.
Mimicry is used to appear harmless or even attractive to lure its prey. Retrieved 2 February The results reveal the complexity of this so-called 'aggressive mimicry': The leader of the study, Prof. The Bible warns us to "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves" Matt. Yet it also tells us that false prophets will increase in the last days see Matt This tells me that we must learn to identify a wolf in sheep clothing or a false prophet. It's not so that we can become judgmental or jaded, but it's so we can protect ourselves and other sheep around us.
We must guard the sheep in our churches. We must protect the young believers. We must do what God commands us in Matthew I'm not encouraging people to believe the worst of others, but I do encourage people to be wise. The problem with wolves in sheep's clothing is that from afar, they look like sheep. It isn't until you get close that you can recognize they are a wolf and not a sheep. Therein lies the danger of getting hurt and falling into a trap of the enemy. But because I've wrangled with a few wolves, I've learned to spot them more quickly than I used to.
Below is a list of ways I've learned to tell the difference:. Wolves will have an issue with spiritual authority. Jesus knew authority and knew what it meant to be under authority. Real prophets are not rebellious people. In my wolf encounters, the people in question had issues with spiritual authority. Get Spirit-filled content delivered right to your inbox! Click here to subscribe to our newsletter.
Wolves will tell you they don't have such an issue, but watch them carefully. Do they have a spiritual covering? In one of my WISC wolf in sheep clothing encounters, this individual pretended to have a covering, but after I learned he was a WISC, his pastor who was supposed to be his covering contacted me. It came to find out that this WISC had issues for a long time. Had it been a one-time thing, then maybe the person just isn't mature.
But in these situations, it was a pattern that happened over and over again. Wolves will try to manipulate and control you. WISCs can be some of the sweetest of people as long as they think you can be controlled.
They will operate under tactful intimidation and often, you don't realize what's happening right away. This is not from God. God doesn't manipulate and control, and anyone who says they're sent by God cannot operate under this spirit either.
When wolves are in a fight, they will go for blood. We all go through situations where we will act less than perfect in conflict, but wolves take that a step further. Once they get a taste for blood, they will attempt to go for it in arguments. They will suddenly turn vicious. They will justify their actions covered in a cloud of fake Christian cliches. I once talked with a WISC who thought it was his job to destroy anyone who remotely conflicted with him.