A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

 

I was asked to preach a message at a local Christian MS/HS chapel service. Below is the outline/framework/idea trail of the message.

Beginning of message

I am sure that you have all heard the phrase “a wolf in sheep’s clothing before, right? Who can tell me what that means? 

My Def: something that looks good on the outside but what is on the inside will hurt you. 

Let me show you a real wolf in sheep’s clothing. This animal that looks like a sheep is named Shelly and on the inside she is a fearsome wolf—squirrels, rabbits, and doves flee at the very sight of her. 

Ok let her loose! (dog in sheep’s clothing) 

So, that was a little demonstration of what a wolf in sheep’s clothing can do, looks harmless on the outside but underneath the disguise lurks an evil attacker. 

In life we will encounter many “wolves in sheep’s clothing;” that is things that appear good on the outside but on the inside, they are dangerous and have the potential to destroy you.

 

Music

 

Did you know that the music you listen to is one of the biggest influences in your life? It can affect your attitudes, your moods, your personality, and spirituality.

Did you know that the vast majority of secular music is authored by the devil. That is right, the majority of modern day secular musicians have sold their soul to the devil and in return the devil gives them catchy tunes, fame and fortune. Let me give you an example; you have heard of Bebopce (Beyonce) right? Do you know that she has admitted publically that when she performs a spirit enters her body and takes over her body. 

When a spirit comes into someone’s body and takes over, what do they call that in the Bible? Demon possession. 

So, why would a Christian want to listen to something authored by the devil. 

Ever hear of the song hotel California—that is a song about the satan church in San Francisco 

Ever hear of the song stairway to heaven—that is about a person’s quest to become a satanic high priest. 

And how about the song highway to hell 

Not only do many of the songs come from the devil but those songs can also hurt you. 

“The Guiding Spirits of Crowley made it quite clear to him that, soon after his death, the world was going to enter the final stage of preparing the hearts and minds of the people to accept the Black Magick attitudes and values of Antichrist. Crowley was told that a very special kind of music was to prepare the hearts and minds of the people for Antichrist. Rock-n-Roll was that music.” 

"My true belief about Rock ‘n’ Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I believe this kind of music is demonic. ... A LOT OF THE BEATS IN MUSIC TODAY ARE TAKEN FROM VOODOO, FROM THE VOODOO DRUMS. If you study music in rhythms, like I have, you’ll see that is true ... I believe that kind of music is driving people from Christ. It is contagious" Little Richard 

“When I was about seven, I became involved in a satanic coven.... I was involved quite heavily in satanic worship for seven years in three different covens.... Satanic worship services are designed to put the worshipers into a mood where spirits can be called to manifest themselves during the service. They always use live music, and the music always has a beat. 

They start with a drummer. The rest of the instruments are geared to the drumming. These people practiced many, many hours for every service we had. It was rock music with a rock beat. We were told that the reason they used the rock beat was because it’s the same beat as your heart. 

Subconsciously, while you listened to the music, it would open you up. People weren’t aware that they were opening up to spirits, because they were concentrating on the music. The music is a great part of the service because it opens you up to spirits without you being aware of it. This music prepared everyone to open themselves up to the forces of darkness.

 

Solution: Stay away from rock and rap music it is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and listen to godly melodious music. 

Ephesians 5:19 

19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

 

Video games; another wolf in sheep’s clothing are V games

 

Now I am not talking about basketball, football, baseball, or animal crossing or games like that but there are some video games that can hurt you, like ones that teach you to kill and steal and do demonic spells. 

Do you know that when you play a game where you kill someone that you actually mentally practicing killing people. We have online math and what we do is practice math problems online which makes you good at doing math. So when you participate in violent vid games, it then you are mentally practicing violence which will tend to cause you to be more violent. 

Do you know that a lot of the school shooters practiced killing on video games and they became so used to it that they did it for real. 

There are also vid games where you engage in casting spells, casting spells is demonic, so why would a Christian want to practice demonic activities 

Solution: don’t turn yourself into a killer or participate in witchcraft. If you are going to play a vid game make sure it is a good one. Good question to ask; would Jesus play this game?

 

Drugs

 

Drugs are bad they are addictive and they have the power to destroy your life. Most of the people in jail have a drug connection, most of the crime in our world is drug related, most of the child abuse is drug related. Drugs are a curse upon our society and are one of the most destructive forces in our world.

Alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, the list goes on and on they all have the potential to destroy your life. Sometime in your life someone is probably going to try to get you to take drugs. They will make it look like it is so cool, but it is a death trap. 

Here is what drugs will do to you.

 

 

How does it start, for a person to end up there? It might go something like this, first it is 

Cigarettes

alcohol

Marijuana

Cocaine

Heroin 

Solution: stay far far away from drugs. If you have a friend doing drugs, counsel him to get help and if he refuses then you need to part ways. 

As God says; Evil company corrupts good morals

 

Movies/TV/Books

 

When you go to church you hopefully hear good preaching from the Word of God. Where does the devil do his preaching? Movies/TV, and books… 

What does he preach, that authorities are bad, that Christians are hypocrites, that it is cool to drink, smoke, do drugs, that it is ok to do sinful things. He glamorizes sin and makes it look good and he makes those who are good look bad. 

Now I am not going to sit here and analyze every book and movie for you and say this one is bad and this one is good. You need to use discernment; will this help me be a better person, does it make sin look good, does it tear down authority, does it promote worldly ideas, would Jesus read this book or watch this movie? 

Solution; realize that what you watch and listen to will effect you, do not watch stuff or read books that promote evil ideologies—they will effect you and turn a persons heart from God to the world

 

People

 

Some people that you know might be a wolf in sheeps clothing. They may be very nice and treat you in ways that make you feel good and make you feel important. But their goal is to involve you in sin. There may even be someone in this room that is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. 

Take Solomon for example; the wisest man in the world, he married idol worshipers and they turned his heart away from God and into sin where Solomon allowed idol worship to be practiced in Israel and even himself participated in it. 

Solution: be very careful who you hang around with, who you text, email, befriend on the net. You must realize that there are predators out there. 

As the Bible says evil company corrupts good morals

 

Pornography

 

The internet is filled with pornography, it is another wolf in sheep’s clothing and has the potential to destroy you. Many lives have been destroyed by pornography. It is an evil poison. 

Solution: never view porn, flee from it, in the Bible it comes under the term of fornication. 

Pornography would be included under the term of fornication, and listen to what God says about that. 

1 Corinthians 6:18

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

 

False religions

 

There are a lot of religions out there all telling people a different way to reach God. Jehovah’s witnesses, Mormons, Catholic, Presbyterian, Hindu, Buddhists, spirit and ancestor worship, etc 

All these different religions teach a way to get to God and all are wolves in sheep’s clothing except one. How do we know what is the right religion. All the false religions have a  few things in common; they are man’s attempt to reach God, and according to them you have to do certain works to be able to make it heaven and they all fall short because man can never reach God on His own. 

The one true religion is God reaching down to man—Christianity. 

Jesus is God reaching down to man and showing us the way to reach Him and He proved He was God when He rose from the dead. All the other religious leaders are still in their graves. 

John 14:6

6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

 

Ourselves

 

Did you know that you can deceive yourself into believing a lie. And that believing a lie can destroy your life and even cause you to end up in hell forever. 

I have met plenty of people who believe that they in themselves are good enough to get to heaven on their own. They say to themselves I don’t lie I don’t steal I don’t hurt others so I am a good person so since my good outweighs my bad I will make it to heaven. Well guess what, hell is filled with people like that. 

There are other people that think that once you die there is nothing after that, you just go to sleep, so they say let me just live life to the fullest, there are no rules I will do whatever makes me feel good, hell is filled with people like that too.

Hell is filled with people who are deceived and believe lies 

You must realize that there is only one way to heaven. 

John 14:6

6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 

The way to heaven is through Jesus, first you must realize

 

1. We are sinners.

 

As the Bible says, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). 

Sin is falling short of God’s perfection. Everyone has sinned many times in life. We have all lied, or stolen, or cheated, or done something wrong at some time in our lives. 

“As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one” (Romans 3:10). 

We are all sinners.

 

2. We deserve Hell.

 

Realize that there is a punishment for being a sinner, and that punishment is death. “For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). 

Not only a physical death, but also a spiritual death. The place of spiritual death is called Hell. 

“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death” (Revelation 21:8). 

There is probably no person alive who can say that they never told a lie. We have all sinned and we all deserve the punishment of Hell for our sin. 

 

3.  Jesus loves us and died for our sins.

 

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). 

Jesus willingly went to the cross, shed His blood, and died for our sins. He paid the price for our sins. He suffered the punishment that we deserve. When He was on the cross, Jesus suffered Hell for us. Hell is a place of total separation from God. When Jesus was on the cross, God the Father separated Himself from God the Son. That is why Jesus cried out “with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” 

Jesus was experiencing separation from God the Father. He was suffering the Hell that we deserve. He was paying for our sins. 

 

4.  We must receive Christ by faith through prayer.

 

In order to receive the forgiveness of our sins, it is not enough to know that we are sinners, that we deserve Hell, and that Christ died for our sins, but we must receive Christ by faith. 

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8,9). 

Notice that verse tells us that we cannot earn our way to heaven. We obtain salvation through faith, not by works. Faith basically means to place your trust in something or someone. If you are sitting down while reading this, you are placing your faith or trust in the chair that you are sitting upon. Faith requires more than just an intellectual belief; it involves an action of your will. 

For example, if there were a pond covered with ice, and there were people standing around saying that the ice could hold them up, but they were not willing to walk on the ice, then they would only be demonstrating an intellectual belief and not demonstrating faith. However, if they stepped out onto the ice, then they would be demonstrating faith. 

 

Placing our faith in Christ

 

One can place their faith in Jesus Christ by simply calling out to Him in prayer, for the Bible says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” I expressed faith in Jesus Christ by sincerely praying a prayer like this: 

“Dear Jesus, I am a sinner. I deserve Hell. Thank you for dying for my sins. Save me. Come into my life. Make me the kind of person that you want me to be. I thank you that you have and that you will take me to heaven when I die. Amen.” 

If you sincerely pray that prayer to God with all your heart, then the Lord Jesus will come into your life and forgive your sins and save you from an eternity of Hell. And if you were to die tomorrow, you would go to heaven. Not because you are good enough to get there, but because you have received the payment of your sins. It is that simple as the following verses tell us. 

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 

He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. (1 John 5:11-13) 

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24) 

Jesus loves you and wants to save you, call out to the Lord and be saved today. 

In conclusion there are a lot of wolves in sheep’s clothing out there bad music, drugs, bad people, video games, books, TV, movies, pornography, false religions, and even yourself if you are thinking wrong. Stay away from the wolves that are trying to destroy you, flee from them, draw close to God, spend time with Him, and obey His commandments. 

Remember Solomon who allowed himself to be deceived by his wives. At the end of his life he realized the error of his ways and this is what he said 

13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 

14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

End of message

BTW: I led the kids in prayer and about 4 or 5 of them raised their hand that they prayed to be saved. Also there are a lot of syncs lining up for 3/22/2022. 

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