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10 22 2026 False Prophets in the New Testament · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Thursday, October 22, 2026. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is L. David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your daily portion, where we give you
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series, The Gift
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  Speaker 2: of Prophecy, and our caption for today is False Prophets
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  Speaker 2: in the New Testament. False prophets in the New Testament.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this day
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  Speaker 2: and for the love that you have shown us. Will
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  Speaker 2: you help us to listen to the voice of Christ
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  Speaker 2: as he spoke to his disciples, how the last days
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  Speaker 2: would be? Help us to think with the mindset of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name I pray. Amen and amen again. False prophets, yes,
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  Speaker 2: in the New Testament. And so Jesus warned that false
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  Speaker 2: Christs and false prophets were going to come. When his
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  Speaker 2: disciples were listening to all of the things that are
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  Speaker 2: going to go what people would consider to be wrong,
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  Speaker 2: he said, they were like, Jesus, tell us some more. Like,
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  Speaker 2: we're really needing some understanding here. When shall these things be?
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  Speaker 2: What shall be the sign of thy coming and of
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  Speaker 2: the end of the world? And before he spoke about
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  Speaker 2: the gospel of Jesus Christ being preached into all the
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  Speaker 2: world for a witness, he also talked about, well, I
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't say before, but he also talked about how there
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  Speaker 2: would be false Christs. There would be false prophets. And, like,
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  Speaker 2: don't be deceived. Don't listen to them. Be surrendered to
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. He had been teaching them for all
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  Speaker 2: of those years that they were together to receive the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. And indeed, they would in the future. Well,
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  Speaker 2: except Judas. But that's a different discussion. And so the
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  Speaker 2: false prophets are on the horizon. Jesus warns his children
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  Speaker 2: about them, but he also equips them. He knows that
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  Speaker 2: they are going to— potentially people can be led astray, that
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  Speaker 2: people can be wanderers away from the truth. And so
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  Speaker 2: Jesus warned that even signs and wonders can be used—
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  Speaker 2: to lead people astray. Even signs and wonders, even miracles
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  Speaker 2: can lead people astray or what look like miracles. So
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  Speaker 2: miracles alone are not proof of God. So we have
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  Speaker 2: to weigh everything against God's words. Do you remember back
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  Speaker 2: in the day when Moses was doing miracles and then
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  Speaker 2: the magicians would counterfeit many of those miracles or signs
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  Speaker 2: from God? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: there will be false Christs, there will be false prophets,
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  Speaker 2: and shall show great signs and wonders in so much
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  Speaker 2: that if it were possible— it says, if it were possible.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people are mixing that up. If it
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  Speaker 2: were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. So, God
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  Speaker 2: is saying to us, you don't have to be deceived.
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  Speaker 2: You can be full of the Holy Ghost and you
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  Speaker 2: can listen to what God said, but just know that
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  Speaker 2: there will be false Christs. There will be false prophets. Now,
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  Speaker 2: in another place, in Matthew chapter 7, Jesus warned his
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  Speaker 2: disciples another way, verses 15 and 16. Beware or be aware.
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  Speaker 2: Watch out for false prophets. What will they do? Which
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  Speaker 2: come in to you with sheep's clothing. Hold on. So
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that makes these false prophets so
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  Speaker 2: insidious and subtle is that they look like the real
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  Speaker 2: many times, not all the time, but many times they
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  Speaker 2: they look like the real like those Gucci belts that
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  Speaker 2: y'all bought off of the Internet for like 22 US dollars. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the ones that look real. I'm saying like those shoes
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  Speaker 2: that you bought that you were wondering, like, how did
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  Speaker 2: I get 400 U.S. dollars off on this deal? Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's because they looked real. They looked like they were
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  Speaker 2: coming from the designer, but they were not. And if
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  Speaker 2: you get caught with that stuff in your luggage going
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  Speaker 2: in and out of certain countries, they're going to get
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  Speaker 2: you for counterfeit goods. You understand? And so that is
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  Speaker 2: the reality here. They look like sheep. They look like
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  Speaker 2: followers of God. Some of their words will sound like
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  Speaker 2: the words of God, just like the devil did in
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  Speaker 2: the temptations of Christ, just like he did in Eden.
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  Speaker 2: He tweaked some of what he said for the purpose
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  Speaker 2: of deceiving, huh? But inwardly, the Bible says, they are
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  Speaker 2: ravening wolves. That means they will bite your face off,
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  Speaker 2: like I know what I just said. They will eat
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  Speaker 2: your face right off your body. They will destroy your
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  Speaker 2: life if you allow them. And so ye shall know
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  Speaker 2: them by their fruits. You shall know them by their fruits.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes people throw around this passage. But the fact is,
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  Speaker 2: if you're picking up something that looks like an apple,
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  Speaker 2: it's an apple. You can inspect it. But if you're
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  Speaker 2: picking up an apple, whatever an apple is in your country,
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  Speaker 2: you're picking that up. Is it a sugar apple? Is
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  Speaker 2: it an OTT apple? Is it an American apple? Is
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  Speaker 2: it some other custard apple? Some kind of other star apple?
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  Speaker 2: Whatever it is, you know it's not a grape. It's
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  Speaker 2: as simple as that. You know it's not a ripe banana.
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  Speaker 2: If you pick up an apple, you know it's not
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  Speaker 2: a dragon fruit. It is not a mango. No matter
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  Speaker 2: what variety of apple, it's not a mango. All you
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  Speaker 2: have to do is look at it. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to be super intelligent. With what God has given you,
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  Speaker 2: you have the tools now to discern what the source
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  Speaker 2: is based on the fruit, okay? So, it's the visible
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  Speaker 2: result now. It's an outcome of a life. So false
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  Speaker 2: teachers may look harmless sometimes, but their fruit reveals what
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  Speaker 2: they truly are. God gives us discernment to look past
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  Speaker 2: appearances to the fruit of a life and a message. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so the fruit, the fruit of the Spirit is what?
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  Speaker 2: I want you to look that up if you don't recall.
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  Speaker 2: The fruit of the Spirit is, yes, and then there
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  Speaker 2: is a way to see that fruit in action. The
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  Speaker 2: fruit of the Spirit is love. I'll just pause right there,
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  Speaker 2: and then you look at the rest of them in
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  Speaker 2: your own spare time to see, well, what does love
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  Speaker 2: look like? How does love manifest in the faith community? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so examine the fruit of the voices you are following today,
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  Speaker 2: the ones you're listening to, including mine, like you listen
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  Speaker 2: to me every single day. 200 radio stations. You're here
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  Speaker 2: on the Internet with me. You're on podcasts. Examine the
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  Speaker 2: fruit of the voices you are listening to today and
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  Speaker 2: hold on to only what bears the fruit of Christ. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me read from the book, The Great Controversy, page 539.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, 593 and 594. Let me paraphrase some of it.
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  Speaker 2: None but those who are fortified in the mind with
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  Speaker 2: the truths of the Bible, will stand through the last conflict.
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  Speaker 2: I'll read it again. None but those who have fortified
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  Speaker 2: the mind with the truths of the Bible will stand
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  Speaker 2: through the last great conflict. Are we seeking to fit
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  Speaker 2: them for the conflict? God's Word is to be our guide.
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  Speaker 2: God's Word is to be our guide. I'm grateful that
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  Speaker 2: even though there are false prophets and false Christ, the
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  Speaker 2: true Christ has stood up and told us how to
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  Speaker 2: not be deceived. Make it a great day.
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