False Prophets have Another Gospel Part #2

Posted on January 8, 2026 by DavidCox

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False Prophets have Another Gospel Part #2 examines the Christians built-in defenses against the false prophet.

What are the basic defensive of a Christian against a false christ?

The problem in many people’s cases is how they think. Christ will save them, but they do not understand this salvation, nor the danger that faces them. The actual danger, the evil, that which should be unilaterally hated and avoided is not poverty, it is not sickness, it is not obscurity, it is not loneliness, but this danger is sin. Sin is doing anything that is not God’s will.

So the first element in resisting the false prophet and the sin that he ultimately will cause his followers is strict obedience to God, not to that leader. The only way you can obey God is if you personally study, understand, and can apply God’s Word to the situations in your own life. That is what the false prophet steals from you, your priesthood of every believer. He will discern everything you need to know, and he will make the decisions that need to be made. The false prophet forces the issue of obedience, but not willing and joyful obedience to God, but obedience to him, to his ministry and organization.

The second element that defends our souls from the evil the false prophet seeks to throw upon us is moral integrity. This is simply wholeness. Someone who does not have integrity means that they are split between their loyalties to more than one person (God). The tension between the Christian who is torn between what God says to him through the Holy Spirit using God’s Word and what his local pastor tells him, that is the spiritual tension causes the person to wear down spiritually so that he is apathetic, weak, and uncaring in his Christian life. The example of Jesus also bears on this, because the simple test, what would Jesus do in my situation is usually very clear and easy, but unfortunately, most of the time, what his pastor (a false prophet or a bad pastor) is telling him to do is not what Jesus would do.

The third element that defends our souls from the internal evil that Satan is doing in his soul is humility. Satan can win this spiritual battle in many ways. When tempted, sometimes a Christian gives in to temptation, and other times he resists. Satan turns that defeat for him into sweet victory for Satan in another way, through pride. Pride is just as serious a sin as any other sin. Even in resisting temptation, pride in one’s own self causes Satan to win.

Faithfulness comes into play here also because when battling temptation, we do not count it a real victory to sin only 1 in ten times when others sin 9 in 10 temptations. One sin is still a failure. Faithfulness, having faith, means consistency. That is what spiritual victory is like for the Christian. His faith is seen by its consistent, always the same nature.

The fourth element is perseverance. Even when a Christian falls into sin, his salvation is the force that allows him to continue on fighting. He never gives up this spiritual battle. A lot can be discerned about the maturity or immaturity of a Christian when they do fall into sin. Do they give up, and a cascade of more sins enter into his life because he fell once? Mature Christians do not let failure stop them from continuing on for Christ.

Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

See also Isaiah 43:18-19; Romans 8:1; 2 Corinthians 5:17.

False Prophets have an Ungodly Spirit

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

See Matthew 7 (coming)

Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

What is their gospel?

The concept of one’s “gospel” is that life overwhelming singular thing that transforms and dominates one’s life. A person’s gospel is what that person understands as foundational to his being. In the prosperity gospel heresy, money is that foundational thing. The obtaining and enjoying of wealth, earthly pleasure. A false prophet cannot be satisfied with just having Christ, but he uses Christ as a means to obtain money. The Health Gospel heresy focus on physical health.

Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Galatians 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

A person’s gospel is their good news that holds the understanding of how a person can enter the blessings of God, and avoid the wrath of God. In its essence, this is the gospel of salvation. But the concept of a gospel, or good news, is something that overwhelms their lives. In other words, a person’s gospel is his favorite topic to discuss when interacting with other people. A person meditates and reflects on his gospel, always seeing how it can or should affect and change their life. For example, some people have entered into a personal selling program, like Amway, and Amway teaches their sellers that they should seek to make clients of everybody that they have interaction with in their life. They should also pro-actively go out beyond those known contacts to make as many new contacts as possible in order to “sell their product.” Their sellers love dinner parties, especially when those invited are outside of their own personal circle of friends. They never miss an opportunity to make a new contact or client. That is the concept of a person’s gospel in action.

When a Christian is saved, they encounter the same life consuming element that flows from the person of God, Jesus Christ specifically. True Christians tell everybody that they can about their Savior. Accept to God is obtained through belief in Christ’s work on the cross and his resurrection, and having such a great “product” which is free is a selling point and a personal motivational point that cannot be ignored. To ignore this great important salvation is to despise it.

At the center of this salvation is the person, character, and actions of the Savior Jesus Christ. A true Christian defends himself from Satan and Satan’s false prophets by simply having the true Jesus Christ and the true gospel of Christ. But this has to be understood and put into active play in the Christian’s life. Once saved by the Savior, he emulates or imitates the moral character of Christ, i.e. practices “Christlikeness.” He rules his own life by the moral principles that God commands in Scripture, and the personal example of these moral principles is Jesus Christ.

Moreover, the Christian discerns good from bad when he seeks breaks from the moral example of Christ in what he is taught in formal religious contexts, i.e. some kind of church, or by personal example. He immediately suspects or doubts the “Christian” label on any person preaching something foreign, contrary, or with different emphases and priorities than what he sees in his Bible. That goes for the religious leaders, preachers, and teachers, as well as people identifying in being “brothers and sisters in Christ.” That is our defense system.

False Prophets disable our Spiritual Defense System

The false prophet uses many methods to disengage this spiritual defense of a true Christian. Instead of the meat of the Word of God, they teach and preach fluff, things that do not produce the fruit of piety. This “other gospel” is always attractive it seems. Thus we have false prophets who build tremendous “ministries” based on health and wealth issues. People follow anything that gives them an advantage, luxury, or pleasure in life.

Luke 8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

Note that one of the tools of Satan in distracting and disabling the spiritual defenses of a person is a life focus on cares, or riches, or the pleasures of this life. Cares are obligations that a person feels that he has which can easily become a higher priority that the eternal state of his own soul. Riches are an easy distraction, and basically, that covetousness, that intense unhealthy desire for riches, possessions, materialism, is the downfall of many. But also pleasure. People who are not focused on the true gospel and the true Christ like to enjoy the pleasures of this life. A Christian can enjoy the pleasures of life, but that is not his gospel. That is not his main focus. His main focus is eternity, pleasing God with his own life, and entering into the favor of God. This demands sacrifices.

2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Once again we look to our supreme moral example, Jesus Christ, and we see that he enjoyed fellowshipping with his disciples and other good things in life. But he never hesitated to sacrifice his own well-being or pleasure for pain in order to live daily in God the Father’s will.

Like every good pastor, he sacrificed his own welfare and lived in the field with his charge, his sheep, in order to be a blessing to them, even though that cost him personally. That distinguishes the man of God from the false prophet. From this point we now understand Paul’s warning about not receiving “a different spirit.”

2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

See 2 Corinthians 11_4 Another Christ, Another Spirit (coming)

The Spirit of God is the Spirit of Truth (John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13). There is a contrast, a great difference between what is of God, the Spirit of God, and what is of the world, which is under Satan’s control and tainted with Satan’s errors and failures. The Apostle John referred to this wrong spirit as the “spirit of error” (1 John 4:6).

Paul teaches us to “test all things” and ‘hold fast to what is good’ (1 Thessalonians 5:21). So we see that discerning being what is good and evil is a job, it is hard work. It is work for an adult, somebody who is serious about life and about eternity. (Hebrews 5:14)

John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Here is the crux of a false prophet. He does not understand Scripture. He is not save, therefore his understanding is one of imitating the truth in order to get accepted and then do whatever he wants, which is always something not pleasing to God.

The spiritual principles of God are not “in him,” i.e. he neither understands them, nor does he actually practice consistently those principles, nor does he hold high those principles for himself and for others in his ministry. He wants to be seen by his followers as being very holy, spiritual, and a spiritual person that nobody in their right mind would question him, but in actuality he fails on this point. That is how a Christian can discern who he is. Unfortunately, many church members see constant signs that their spiritual leaders are “out of sync” with Christ, poor examples of Christ, (a “Christian” is not somebody who calls himself that, but somebody who lives in the moral image of Christ), and yet seeing these spiritual problems in their spiritual leader, they somehow stay under his ministry when they should leave.

Also many Christians visit a good man of God’s ministry, and because of some unimportant issue, the facilities are not the best that any church in area has, or they don’t have a program for some group, children, babies, youth, aged, divorced, etc., they won’t consider joining that work. What they are really seeking in a spiritual ministry for themselves is a ministry focused on pleasure and luxury, i.e. other people serving them, and not they serving the body of Christ. Therein lies a great explanation of why Christianity is in the problems we see today.

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