When God’s Word tells us to beware of something or someone, we do well to take heed and to be very cautious. We do well as Christians to beware of that fondness for so-called wise things, that philosophical view of things that can cause us to think that wisdom is spirituality, when God has told us to “be not wise in your own conceits,” since “the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” This is not the humble desire for more knowledge of God and His Son from the Word of God, but rather “after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” Our Lord warned of such men when He said to “beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Peter warns us that “there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you.” We do well to “beware of dogs [unclean false teachers], beware of evil workers [who teach salvation by works], beware of the concision [who teach salvation by ordinances].” So “beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.”
Beware of all that which takes away
Honor and glory from the Lord,
Which exalts man’s wisdom above
What God has told us in His Word.
Rom. 12:16; 1 Cor. 3:19; Matt. 7:15; 2 Peter 2:1; Phil. 3:2; 2 Peter 3:17.