Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Beware of False Prophets -- Part 1\n Jeremiah 23:16-17\n 07\/22\/2024\n\n\n 16 Thus says the LORD of hosts: ``Do not listen to\n the words of the prophets who prophesy to you,\n filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of\n their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.\n 17 They say continually to those who despise the word\n of the LORD, `It shall be well with you'; and to\n everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart,\n they say, `No disaster shall come upon you.'''\n (ESV)\n\n For the past few weeks our readings in Church have focused\n on what it means to be a faithful follower of the Triune God. We\n have confessed that God is of one Essence, yet Three Persons, who\n reveals Himself in the words of the Bible. We also confess that\n the Holy Spirit creates and sustains our faith through the\n sacraments of baptism, the Lord's Supper, and absolution. As\n Martin Luther frequently says in the Small Catechism, ``This is\n most certainly true.''\n\n But not all churches, not all pastors, agree about the Word\n of God. Jeremiah the prophet warned his listeners:\n Thus says the LORD of hosts: ``Do not listen to the\n words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you\n with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds,\n not from the mouth of the LORD. They say continually\n to those who despise the word of the LORD, `It shall be\n well with you'; and to everyone who stubbornly follows\n his own heart, they say, `No disaster shall come upon\n you.'''\n\n\n Six hundred years before the birth of Jesus, the people were\n complacent even as false teachers promised peace and prosperity.\n Within Jeremiah's lifetime the children of Israel were led into a\n seventy year captivity in Babylon. Jeremiah's warning was\n unheeded.\n\n May our Lord grant us the wisdom to hear His Word, to listen\n to His warnings about sin, and to hear of His love and mercy\n shown through Jesus Christ. Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 22, 2024 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}