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Today’s Manna

Daily Reading for Friday, April 26, 2024
Scripture: Proverbs 19:27
"Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge."
Meditation:

"Teachers of falsehood will arise to draw you away from the narrow path and the strait gate. Beware of them; though concealed in sheepÕs clothing, inwardly they are ravening wolves. Jesus gives a test by which false teachers may be distinguished from the true. 'Ye shall know them by their fruits,' He says. 'Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?'

"We are not bidden to prove them by their fair speeches and exalted professions. They are to be judged by the word of God. . . . What message do these teachers bring? Does it lead you to reverence and fear God? Does it lead you to manifest your love for Him by loyalty to His commandments? If men do not feel the weight of the moral law; if they make light of God's precepts; if they break one of the least of His commandments, and teach men so, they shall be of no esteem in the sight of heaven. We may know that their claims are without foundation. They are doing the very work that originated with the prince of darkness, the enemy of God.

"Not all who profess His name and wear His badge are Christ's. Many who have taught in My name, said Jesus, will be found wanting at last." 1

Reference(s):

1 Thoughts from the Mount of Blessings, p. 145.