Jesus Warns

Summary

Being Christians in the world is not an easy task. The Christian life forces us to be discerning; we have to not just be reactionary, but wise. Too often Christians are known for being gullible: connect the name of Jesus to it, put a cross on it and you can sell it to the church. Jesus reminds His disciples that we need to be prudent. We must know what we believe, use this to test and measure the multitude of other things that are sold to us as truth. In the same way that sailors learn how to read the sky for signs, we must use our knowledge of God and His Word to read the world. We must be ready for people, even (especially) religious people to be leading us astray. Not necessarily because they mean to, but because bad theology destroys. False things create problems. Like leaven, false ideas spread through and affect everything. Our role in all of this is to know what is right and to be prepared to fight for it.