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Jeremiah chapter 23, verses 16 through 18,

Thus says the Lord of hosts,

Do not listen to the words the prophets who prophesied to you,

filling you with vain hopes.

They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.

They say continually to those who despise the word of the

Lord, it shall be well with you, and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say,

no disaster shall come upon you, for who among them has stood in the counsel of the Lord to see

and to hear his word, or who has paid attention to his word, and listened. What a warning

from God to his people, telling them not to listen to the prophets who are

claiming to speak God's Word when they've not stood in the Council of the Lord to see

and to hear His Word, when they've not paid attention to His Word and listened.

Instead, they're going out and speaking

visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord, saying to those who are disobeying God

and despising His Word, saying, it'll be good for you. And saying to people who are stubbornly

following their own hearts, nothing bad is going to happen to you.

We see the same picture in the New Testament as over and over again were warned against

teachers in the church who will pull people away by spreading their thoughts, not by proclaiming

God's word.

Oh, make sure that when you are with the church on a Sunday and you are

hearing someone teach, that you are seeing where they are getting this from the word, that you

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