False Prophets have Another Gospel Part #3

Posted on January 15, 2026 by DavidCox

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False Prophets have Another Gospel Part #3 compares the differences in their gospel and the fruit of that gospel in the ministers personal life.

They have a different Gospel

Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Galatians 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

What made Paul wonder is that having heard and understood the true gospel, these supposed converts broke and abandoned the very gospel that they supposedly believe to save them. Those who provoke this among us are perverts of the gospel of Christ.

Christ came with the mindset of serving God and sacrificing in the process. It is illogical that a person can see their own sin of selfishness and accept Christ as their Savior, and none of Christ’s moral personality “sticks” to that person. They are totally different from what Christ was, and they think that is okay, acceptable. They were nominally Christians under the Apostle’s ministry, yet they knew nothing of Christ although their proud heads were filled with excellent teaching on Christ. The problem is not just with their head (understanding) but with their heart, which was not penetrated with these moral principles, i.e. they knew a lot but that knowledge did not change them morally. Preachers who preach pretty little sermons that do not address moral change as an ever constant theme and element, making practical application of the moral principles that they espouse are lining themselves up perfectly as false prophets, not true men of God. Judge your pastor by how many times in the past year you heard a sermon or Sunday School class that morally urged you to change somehow for the better, somehow to be more like Christ. That is how you discern what kind of church, ministry, and pastor you have.

The Priority and Place of Repentance

**Matthew 3:1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, Matthew 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 10:7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Repentance is moral change. Without that change of a person’s essential spiritual nature, there is no salvation. We must insist that we are not saved by our good works, but by the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. While salvation is all of God, we do not have that salvation if we do not believe in it. That belief is actual evidence in our lives of what we say we believe in. So while procuring salvation, we have to insist that it is all of Christ, of God. But God never gives something that “doesn’t work.” Salvation is “from our sins.” So if we have that salvation of God, and our lives are not examples of the righteousness of Christ but rather of the carnality of Satan, then how is it that we have that salvation of God that always works? There is exactly the issue, salvation truly works righteousness in the life of the saved. You can see it openly and easily, i.e. it is an evidence or work of that salvation.

But God doesn’t leave us halfway there. God enters for a threefold “power play.” Jesus Christ is the Savior, and if he saves us, we imitate him. But then God sends the Holy Spirit to physically dwell in our bodies and lives at the moment of salvation. All of this is set under the plan of God the Father, or to use the phraseology of Scripture, under the will of God.

Variations from this good will of God is how Satan works. God does not work that way. When a person submits to God and obeys his will, that person morally acts like Jesus did, and that is because Jesus is a perfect image of God.

A Different Gospel will be seen by Different Fruits

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Galatians 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Salvation is really a function of the person and moral character of God. Salvation is not a simple not going to hell, but going to heaven. That is salvation, but that is doesn’t represent the many elements of salvation. The danger has to always be seen as sin, that which is outside of God’s will, even seemingly good alternatives to God’s will. But to focus deeply on this subject, all ways and moral qualities that are in God are good, and those outside of God are bad. Being “good” here minimizes the real nature though. God’s way is the only and best superior way. If you can think of it this way, “God owns all blessings.” Anything outside of God is cursed, evil, and causing suffering and harm.

So to understand salvation correctly, salvation is a change from the moral quality of sin as dominating the life, thinking, motives, speech, etc. of a person, and moving the entirety of a person’s life to those principles that are essentially what we can replicate from God. Salvation is much more than just a few words said in a prayer after an evangelistic meeting. It is a total moral change of the person’s life. That is the real meaning of accepting Jesus as your Savior, John 1:12.

You accept Jesus also as your moral pattern. While this is the essence of salvation, and salvation is instantons when you receive Christ as Saviour, God let’s the reality of that salvation “play out” throughout the rest of your life and into eternity. Salvation is living WITH GOD IN HIS HOUSE, i.e. heaven. Once in heaven, i.e. you are saved, what do you bring and present to your King and Saviour? Those are the preparations of eternity that every Christian is preparing for their graduation day, when they enter heaven and physically are in the presence of God.

So we can understand that salvation is a miracle that God does in each saved person’s life, and that miracle has the power, the genius, the foreknowledge, the grace of God behind it. But God is not the type of person that does senseless, silly, impotent things. When He saves a person, that person will be changed. There is no other option. God ensures that this moral change happens by sending the Holy Spirit into that person’s physical body, his mind, his conscience, his soul, and the Holy Spirit is constantly working to make the Christian into the moral image of God.

For a normal Christian, there is either obedience to the will of God or sin. Not caring, or even not knowing because little effort to learn from Scripture is also sin. The solution is always confession of wrongdoing, repentance (which has to have action and will applied to effect change) and moral change, spiritual fruit becoming present. But for the false prophet, his motives and methods are starkly different from the character of God.

God’s Ministers are Examples of the Moral Character of God in them

Hebrews 13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

One of the requirements for a minister of God, actually this is an overview of all of them, is that they are truly saved. More than just saved, they have the actual results of an obedient life to God’s will actually seen in their personal lives. Our spiritual leaders on a local level where everybody can see and examine (and meditate on what they see) are there for the purposes of God, one of those purposes is that they show the brethren that it is possible to live a godly life. The use of a godly example in the work of God is very valuable. Jesus came as a godly example to all believers.

But on the flip side of things, the false prophet does not fight spiritually for holiness. His mindset and heart are set on different things. He is not saved, so he is a worldly minded person. He does not believe in spiritual working through the Word of God. He only considers the church and preachers as motivating and manipulating simple minded people by human persuasion.

Prayer enters here as the primary force behind moral change for the man of God, but prayer is useless to the false prophet. He only really engages in prayer as a show before others. He doesn’t believe in prayer as a factor to effect change because he himself has not changed, i.e. he is not saved.

Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Matthew 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. Matthew 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Matthew 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Matthew 7:20 *Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

On a ministry basis, can you get figs from a thorn bush? No. Obviously, the nature of the tree determines the fruit that it produces. But the false prophet cannot produce good fruit. Those who sit under his ministry to learn will end up being like the false prophet. There is no other options. If the individual student is morally different from the false prophet, at some point he will break out from following that ministry.

So the wise Christian can discern the false prophet by the fruits of his personal life and ministry. These fruits are not in the same image, form, and substance as the person of God.

When the false prophet varies from the Bible’s teaching on Christ, he shows he is a false prophet.

Jeremiah 5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

So how does a false prophet ministry function? Very simply “by their means.” Literally, this means “by their hands.” In other words, these false prophets were very “hands on” people, micromanaging the lives of those under their influence. Again the priesthood of every believer means that God’s will is that general spiritual principles are taught, and each believer is to apply those principles to their own lives and service to God, WITHOUT MICROMANAGEMENT FROM THE LEADERSHIP. Cults are generally identified as micromanaging the lives of their followers.

This goes hand in hand with prophesying falsely. God’s plan for spiritual leaders is that they lead by love and from a personal relationship with God. Jeremiah 5:31’s rebuke is that they ruled by their own power.

False Prophets have Another Gospel Part #3 compares the differences in their gospel and the fruit of that gospel in the ministers personal life.

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