“The Emperor shivered, for he suspected they were right. The truth spread like wildfire, and the crowd began to cry out: “The emperor is naked!” “The emperor has no clothes on!” “He’s not wearing anything!”īut did the emperor admit to his foolishness, return to the palace, and get dressed? No. It took the innocent honesty of a simple child to shock the emperor’s subjects back to their senses. “But he hasn’t got anything on!” the boy shouted. Word had spread among the emperor’s subjects about the magical properties of the fabric, and as the royal procession made its way through town, all shouted out praise for the emperor’s fine new clothes. They had the emperor strip down to his skivvies and pretended to help him on with his fine new “garments”. Not wanting word to leak out that he was unfit to serve as emperor, he pretended to examine the cloth and complimented the weavers lavishly on their fine work.įinally, the weavers informed the emperor that the garments were finished. But strangely enough, when the emperor himself looked in on the weavers, they held up the magnificent fabric, and he could not see it. From time to time, the emperor sent various folk to check on the progress the weavers were making, and – though in reality, none of them could see the non-existent fabric – all reported back that the garments were coming along nicely and the cloth was beautiful. The weavers set about pretending to weave. The emperor hastily agreed to pay the “weavers” an exorbitant amount of money to make him such an amazing garment, thinking he would use it to weed out anyone unfit for royal service. Only the wise and worthy would be able to see this fine fabric. One day two swindlers came to his palace and told him they could weave cloth for his royal robes that was magical: to those who were foolish or unfit for their jobs, it would appear invisible. Once upon a time, there lived an emperor. Remember the story, The Emperor’s New Clothes? Despite so much false teaching today, the gospel will prevail.Think back to your childhood. I pray he repents and comes to know the grace of God so that He can preach about the grace of God for sinners like ourselves. Mark and avoid him, Elevation, and Maverick City Music.”Īlly Yarid, who has over 49,000 followers on Twitter, wrote, “Steven Furtick is a false teacher who preaches a false gospel. Just Thinking Podcast’s Public Relations Manager Chris Huff agreed with Strachan’s take on Furtick, saying, “This is 110% antithetical to what the Scriptures teach.” Huff went on to attack the Elevation Worship’s music, saying, “Steven Furtick is a wolf.
Strachan also tweeted those words, echoing Jesus’ words found in Matthew 7:15, where he warns to his disciples to “beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” 5:17).” Strachan then warned his followers to “not come within 50 country miles of this man’s false teaching. In response to Furtick’s words, Strachan’s Facebook post read, “Fact check: truly following Jesus turns you into nothing less than a ‘new creation’ ( 2 Cor.
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