The children get together and decide to give their father a history of the family, drawn up by a professional, for his 75th birthday. But they warn this man about the family’s black sheep, the skeleton in the closet, Great-Uncle George. He went over to the states after the war and ended up being executed in the electric chair for murder. “It’s all right,” said the biographer. “I can handle that. I’ll say that Great-Uncle George occupied a chair of applied electronics at an important government institution in America. He was attached to his position by the strongest of ties and his death came as a terrible shock.”
– Author unknown
Perfect example of giving a message to an audience that, on face value, is truthful but leading one away from honesty. This is how false teachers in the Word were described.
This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
When listening to the modern preacher, perhaps we need to check a little deeper than the surface.
Give it some thought.
Gary