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Doug Batchelor: The most
scathing rebukes that Jesus
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made, it was not against the
publicans and the harlots and
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the sinners.
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It was against false religion.
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How does God see it when we have
the facade of religion, but our
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hearts are corrupt?
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Doug: We're living in
very interesting times.
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I think it's important that we
declare to you the whole counsel
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of God.
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And today would be one of
those subjects that could be
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misunderstood unless I give
a little preface and explain.
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There are some things in
the Bible that are some strong
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statements and we're going
to be sharing today some of the
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strongest statements that Jesus
made that are given to us as
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warnings in love, but I hope
that you'll just take it in the
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spirit that it's given, but it's
something that we think need to
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consider because well,
eternal life depends on it.
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And so our sermon today is based
on an oxymoron and it's called
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"A Sincere Hypocrite."
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Because hypocrisy, of course
is the antithesis of sincerity,
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but, you know, the
Bible has quite a bit to say
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about hypocrisy.
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And it's something we need
to pray that God will help us
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recognize and guard against.
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Now what is hypocrisy?
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Well, hypocrisy comes from
a Greek word that really talks
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about the theatre in ancient
Greece, even before the time of
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Christ, when actors got out
on the stage and they assume
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different parts.
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They had these masks that they
put up and one actor might wear
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several different masks.
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At one point he would come out
and he'd hold his mask and have
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a big happy face on it.
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You've probably seen
some examples of this in art,
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the Greek mask and then when
he was angry, he'd have an angry
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face, and all of sudden if the
devil should appear he'd pick
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up the devil face.
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And then if there was an angel
same actor would then put on the
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angel face.
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And he'd go through his lines,
let everyone know when he held
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the angel face.
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This is the angel speaking.
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And so, the idea of one person
changing among many different
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masks is where you get this
word hypokrites or hypocrite.
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And it's talking about a person
who is able to just sort of
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convey something that isn't
authentic, isn't really them.
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The practice, here's a
hypocrite, the practice of
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professing beliefs, feelings, or
virtues that one does not really
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hold or possess.
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Falseness, being two faced,
play acting, to make a pretense.
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It's found about
40 times in the Bible.
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That's including the word
hypocrite and hypocrisy in case
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you do a search.
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You know, I understand on the
Italian Riviera that it's very
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desirable if you could have a
home facing the Mediterranean.
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Some of the homes are very
old and they were not built with
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balconies and everybody wants
a balcony on their home, but
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because of the ancient
architecture balconies could not
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affordably be added
to some of these homes.
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And so what the creative owners
did is they got artists to paint
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balconies on their house.
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And so--and to make it look
real some of them would even
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paint laundry hanging from
their balcony to give it that
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authenticity, but you could
never stand on that balcony.
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It was a facade.
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Sometimes Christians paint on
our religion and it's not real.
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And we're all at risk,
of sometimes being a little
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bit hypocritical.
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How many of you have heard
someone say I'm not going to
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church because it's
just full of hypocrites.
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You ever heard that before?
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Then you heard it last week.
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And I like to always
say you should still come,
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there's always room for one more
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because let's face
it, we all sometimes deal
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with being
authentic and at the heart of
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what I want to say today,
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in case you miss it or drift
off, it's an appeal that we
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should be genuine.
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That a religion
must be a heart religion.
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The most scathing rebukes that
Jesus made, it was not against
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the publicans and the harlots
and the sinners, it was against
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false religion.
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People who are having a pretense
of being something that they
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really weren't.
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Now some reasons that people get
involved in hypocrisy is they're
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trying to make an impression.
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First of all, it's not wrong to
want to make a good impression.
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A lot of you would never be
married if you didn't know how
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to try to make
a good impression.
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And if people are visiting, we
want to make a good impression.
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You want to be positive.
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Jesus said, "Let your good works
so shine before men that they
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may glorify your
Father in Heaven."
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So why are you making the
good impression is the question.
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Is it you're doing it to glorify
you or is it to glorify your
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Father in Heaven?
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You know, Jesus made
a statement about tombs.
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It was in our Scripture reading.
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It says in Matthew 23, we keep
going back to that passage, "Woe
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to you scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites!
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For you are like whitewashed
tombs, which indeed appear
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beautiful on the outside
but inside they're full of dead
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men's bones, and all
manner of uncleanness.
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Even so outwardly you appear
righteous to men, but inwardly
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you're full of
hypocrisy and lawlessness."
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How does God see it when we have
the facade of religion but our
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hearts are corrupt?
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Now I should pause, explain
when the children of Israel were
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carried off to Babylon because
of their idolatry and their
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unfaithfulness, 70 years later,
they were able to come back.
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When they came back some of
the religious leaders said, "We
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don't want to ever make that
mistake again, so God withdraws
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his blessing and
we are carried away."
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And so they became very
regimented in their religion to
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compel everybody to make sure
that they're faithful not only
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was idolatry never a problem
again, they had laws about how
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to keep the Sabbath
with great precision.
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They had laws about washing
before you eat and all the
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ceremonies and the
rigors of religion.
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And they kept adding laws.
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And they got to where some of
the religious leaders were proud
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of that they were more religious
than the other religious leaders
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and it became an
Olympic competition.
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And this happened over a couple
of hundred years, where they
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developed a sect
called the Sadducees.
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Talking about the purified ones.
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And they just took religion
to a whole new level and it all
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became external to advertise
how pious and holy they were.
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And so, Jesus he spoke
out against the scribes and
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the Pharisees.
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And you can read in the first
few verses, "Jesus spoke to the
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multitudes and the disciples and
he said, 'The scribes and the
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Pharisees sit in Moses' seat,'"
they were the religious leaders,
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"therefore, whatever they
tell you observe and do but not
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according to their works;
for they say and they do not.
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For they bind heavy burdens on
men on their shoulders; but they
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themselves will not lift
them with one of their fingers.
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All their works they
do to be seen by men."
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That pretty much sums.
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It up if your religion is
for demonstration of what others
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think it's vain.
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"Woe to you scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites!"
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Verse 14, "Woe to you scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites!"
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Verse 15, "Woe to you scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites!"
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Verse 16, he just says,
"Woe to you blind guides."
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You go on to verse 23,
"Woe to you scribes and
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Pharisees, hypocrites!"
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Verse 25, "Woe to you scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites."
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Verse 27, "Woe
to you hypocrites."
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Verse 29, "Woe
to you hypocrites."
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Word hypocrite I think is found
seven times in this chapter,
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interesting number, and
he says, "Woe to you" I think
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eight times.
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This is the strongest language
that Jesus speaks even in the
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Sermon on the Mount when he
begins preaching, he addresses
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the problem with hypocrisy among
the scribes and the Pharisees.
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And so you're going to hear a
little bit about the Pharisees
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in the message today.
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If you look in Matthew 23 verse
4 not only does it say, "They
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bind heavy burdens on man."
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It says, "all their works
they do to be seen of men.
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They make broad
their phylacteries."
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Now the phylactery, if you hear
that word, what's a phylactery?
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Moses said, "These words I
command you today shall be in
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your heart.
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You shall bind them for a
sign on your hand, they will be
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frontlets between your eyes."
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And so, you've
probably seen pictures before.
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I think we've got one
we're going to put up on
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the screen here.
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You can see around their wrists
they'd wrap these leather tongs
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and there would be a piece
of Scripture on a box on their
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right hand, and then the on
their forehead they'd have a
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little box that
had scripture in it.
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No Moses didn't mean and God
did not mean for them to take
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elements of Scripture and tie it
to their forehead or tie it to
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their hand.
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He meant have it in your head,
have it in your actions, and
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have it in your heart.
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Obviously in the heart was a
figure of speech, but they took
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it literally.
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And they put these phylacteries.
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They still wear them today, the
Orthodox Jews, on their hands
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and on their heads.
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And he said they'd make wide the
borders of their garments 'cause
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the priest was told to have
a border of blue to show his
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loyalty to the law.
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And so, the priests all
have, you will see it in
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illustrations, they
had a border of blue.
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Well, if someone had a little
border of blue, one priest would
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say his border is
wider than my border.
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Well, I'm going to make my wide,
my border of blue wider than
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his border.
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And pretty soon they were
wearing these dragging around
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long boarders of blue to show
I'm more loyal than they are.
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And so all of it began to be
sort of a show of who could be
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the most religious.
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"They enlarge the
borders of their garments.
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They love the uppermost seats
and the feasts, and the chief
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seats in the synagogues, and the
greetings in the markets, and to
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be call of men,
'Rabbi Rabbi Phd.'"
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And it was all
about your position.
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I think it was Spurgeon said,
"We should not be proud of face
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or place or race."
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And it was all about their
office and they wanted that.
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They're worried about what
everyone else thought of them.
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And so it was
all outward religion.
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Man looks on the outside.
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God looks on the inside.
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We often live because we're
worried about what man sees.
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And we forget about
what really matters.
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What does God see?
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Are we genuine?
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I catch myself
being a hypocrite.
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I'm just telling
you right up front.
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But I'm not terribly ashamed
to say that publicly because
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whether you know it or
not you are too sometimes.
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But we got to get
the victory over that.
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I'm not saying it
and saying, "Oh well.
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We're all hypocrites."
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No, we've got really evaluate
are we doing things for the
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glory of God?
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Are we worried about
what everyone thinks?
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Do we ever put on our religion
to try to do is look good?
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Hypocrisy is one of the
most dangerous attitudes for
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a Christian.
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Jesus spoke the
strongest against it.
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We all sometimes wear masks.
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Somebody once said hypocrisy
is the homage that vice pays
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to virtue.
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That's pretty profound
when you think about that.
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Oswald Chambers said, "The world
is glad for an excuse to ignore
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the gospel message and the
hypocrisy of Christians is their
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favorite excuse."
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Now hypocrisy does not just
appear in the New Testament,
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because it's a Greek word.
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Hypocrisy is
addressed in the Old Testament.
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Look real quick if you
will, first chapter of Isaiah.
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He dives right in.
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Isaiah sort of like the Old
Testament gospel and he doesn't
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spare any punches.
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Go to verse 12, okay?
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"When you come to appear before
Me, Who has required this from
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your hand to trample My courts?
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To bring no more futile
sacrifices; incense is an
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abomination to Me.
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The New Moons, the Sabbaths, the
calling of assemblies I cannot
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endure iniquity," so as you're
going through the religious
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things, but it's
coming from iniquity, "and the
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sacred meeting.
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Your New Moons, your appointed
feasts, My soul hates; They are
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troubled to Me.
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I am weary of bearing them.
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When you spread out your hands,
I will hide--" that means when
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they would pray and
they'd spread out their hands.
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"I will hide My eyes from
you, even though you make many
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prayers, I will not hear.
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Your hands are full of blood."
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And he says here's the solution.
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"Wash yourselves, make
yourselves clean; Put away the
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evil of your doings
from before My eyes.
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Cease to do evil, Learn
to do good; Seek justice.
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Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the
fatherless, Plead for the widow.
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'Come now, let us reason
together,' says the Lord,
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'Though your sins are like
scarlet, They'll be white as
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snow; though they are red like
crimson, They will be like wool.
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If you are willing and obedient,
You'll eat the good of the land;
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But if you refuse and
rebel, You'll be devoured by
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the sword.'"
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And the understanding here is
no matter how many prayers you
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pray, no matter how many
offerings you sacrifice, no
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matter how many time you show
up in the temple for the various
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feasts and sabbaths, if
your hearts aren't cleansed by
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the Gospel.
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It's smoke in his nose
is what the Bible says.
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The Lord wants us
to be real Christians.
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As I quoted a minute ago, Oswald
Chambers said, "The world is
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always--" doesn't the media love
to find a hypocrite Christian?
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They'll hold that forth and say,
you know, if this is how the
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Christians were acting then I am
still safe not going to church
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'cause they're
just all hypocrites.
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The devil is scared of nothing
more than genuine Christians
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that are really
changed from the inside out.
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Doug: What does God want?
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Psalm 51 verse 6, "Behold," here
it is, "You desire truth in the
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inward parts.
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And in the hidden part You
will make me to know wisdom."
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God wants us to be
honest and true on the inside.
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And years ago went to Egypt, and
I saw King Tut's treasures, and
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when Howard Carter first
discovered King Tut's tomb, I
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think it was 1921 that they
unsealed the first tomb, they
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went in this great stone
cut room and then there was this
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big coffin.
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And they open up the coffin,
there was a gold box, and then
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it was another gold box, and
another gold box, and there was
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like a nest of seven
coffins, and then they had this
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beautiful, it's a masterpiece,
as one coffin's got 240 pounds
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of gold studded with gems.
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And then they lift that off,
they get this priceless, you've
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seen the face mask of King Tut.
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Considered one of the most
priceless artwork, its almost
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perfect gold.
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And then they took
that off the mummy.
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And it was wrapped in some
cloth that had some gold in it.
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And then finally, they took that
off and you know what they found
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underneath it all.
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Here's a picture of King Tut.
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So all that gold, this
around, and he was a young
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king actually.
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He doesn't look
very young right now.
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He died at about 19 years of
age, but all that gold, and all
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that beauty, and all that
art is surrounding a rotten,
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withered mummy.
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This is what
Jesus is talking about.
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If we've got all the beauty
in our religion and we don't
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have the heart change.
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This is what I see he
says what does he want?
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Christ said Pharisee, you clean
the outside of the cup and you
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don't clean the inside.
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Now if you are going to go
to someone's house and they tell
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you, you know, I've got a
problem, I'm a little bit, I'm a
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little bit conflicted.
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I can't ever make up my mind,
whether to wash the inside or
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the outside of my dishes.
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What are you
going to want to hear?
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That they wash the
outside or the inside?
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If you're going to be drinking
from their cup, you just want
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the outside clean or
do you especially want the
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inside clean?
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Well, this is how the Lord is.
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He says look if you got to
choose between the two, I don't
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care about the
outside as much as the inside.
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That's okay for you to be good
on the outside too but start
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with the inside, because if the
heart is changed, the words are
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changed, the life is changed,
it all changes when they get
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the gospel.
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It's got to start on the inside.
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So why do people--why do we
sometimes pretend to be what
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we're not?
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Well like Jesus said sometimes
we're trying to make a big
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impression or worried
about what people think.
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You know oftentimes, it's fear.
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People do hypocritical
things because they're afraid.
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Two examples, David, 1
Samuel 21, he heard that Achish
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realized who he was.
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It says, "When David heard these
words he was very much afraid of
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Achish, king of Gath."
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He was a philistine king.
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So he changed his behavior.
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He pretended he was crazy.
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He scratched on the doors.
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He led his spit
go down his beard.
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Now what's--he was pretending
to be something he wasn't, why?
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Because he was afraid.
00:18:07.25\00:18:08.62
Why did Abraham pretend
that Sarah was just his sister?
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He was afraid.
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Said she's so
beautiful they might kill me.
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So I tell you what,
let's make a deal, wink wink.
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He tells Sarah, "Let's just
say, it's the brother-sister.
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I mean, after all we do have the
same father, different mothers,
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but let's not make
a big deal out of the
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husband-wife relationship.
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Let's pretend."
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It's even just
partial hypocrisy.
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You've heard of a
half truth before.
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If you've got a half
truth, what's the other half?
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And so why?
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He was afraid.
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God says to Sarah, "You laughed
when you heard My prophecy and
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My promise."
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She said, "I didn't
laugh," because she was afraid.
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She did laugh.
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Why did Isaac say
that Rebecca was a sister?
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He was afraid
of the Philistines.
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Peter, Jesus said, Peter said
I'll not deny you even though
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all of these deny you.
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I'll never deny you.
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And he may even mentored
them, but why did he end up
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denying Jesus?
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He was afraid.
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What was he afraid of?
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Did he--was he afraid that
servant girl was going to beat
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him up.
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No, he was afraid
of what they thought.
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He was afraid, all of the
sudden that Jesus had become
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very unpopular.
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Peter had a problem
with wanting to be popular.
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You know it even says in
Galatians chapter 2 verse 11,
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even after Peter was converted,
he backslid a little bit.
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Just to give you the story.
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The Jews were very careful
about obeying in certain laws.
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They didn't like the
association with the Gentiles.
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God told Peter, "Look do not
call the Gentiles unclean, I've
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cleansed them.
00:19:45.68\00:19:47.02
They can all be
saved just like you."
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But when Jews came to visit
Peter up in Asia, and Peter had
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been living with the Gentiles,
eating with the Gentiles,
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hangin' out with the Gentiles
just like it should be, but when
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the Jews came he thought
what will they think of me?
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And he started to withdraw
from them and just hang out with
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the Jews.
00:20:03.77\00:20:05.07
And it was basically was
discrimination, a little racism,
00:20:05.10\00:20:06.80
you might say.
00:20:06.84\00:20:08.20
Now listen to what Paul says.
00:20:08.44\00:20:09.80
Paul, Galatians 2:11, "Now when
Peter had come to Antioch, I
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withstood him to his face,
because he was to be blamed; for
00:20:13.64\00:20:17.31
before certain men came from
James, down in Jerusalem, he was
00:20:17.35\00:20:21.18
eating with the Gentiles;
but when they came, he withdrew
00:20:21.22\00:20:23.59
himself and separated himself,
fearing those," there you got it
00:20:23.62\00:20:26.79
again, why did he do it?
00:20:26.82\00:20:28.22
Afraid.
00:20:28.96\00:20:30.26
"Fearing those who were of the
circumcision, the Jews, and the
00:20:30.29\00:20:32.93
rest of the Jews, who had
already been up there with
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Peter, they joined
him in his hypocrisy.
00:20:34.93\00:20:37.00
Even Barnabas got carried
away with their hypocrisy."
00:20:37.40\00:20:39.97
Good news in the hope that
if Jesus can convert fishermen.
00:20:42.94\00:20:46.57
He can convert us.
00:20:47.08\00:20:48.41
So does it bother you
that there's hypocrites in
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the church?
00:20:52.81\00:20:54.18
I'm more concerned
about hypocrisy in me.
00:20:55.15\00:20:57.45
Sort of human nature
sometimes to put on a show.
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Christians need to get
the victory over that but it
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shouldn't bother you in that
do you counterfeit a nickel?
00:21:04.76\00:21:09.46
Have you heard of
counterfeit 20 dollar bills?
00:21:11.03\00:21:13.13
You'll find
counterfeit $100 bills.
00:21:14.57\00:21:16.34
I've never seen a
counterfeit nickel.
00:21:17.41\00:21:18.97
Do you know why?
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It's not worth it.
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What do you counterfeit?
00:21:24.78\00:21:26.15
You counterfeit
things that are valuable.
00:21:26.75\00:21:29.55
Why does the devil have so
many counterfeit Christians?
00:21:30.12\00:21:33.36
Because nothing is more
valuable in the world than a
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real Christian.
00:21:36.39\00:21:37.79
That's why you've
got so many counterfeits.
00:21:37.83\00:21:39.73
And so it shouldn't surprise us.
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Don't be discouraged.
00:21:42.60\00:21:43.93
Now why is it so important that
we understand what it means to
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be a hypocrite?
00:21:49.80\00:21:51.17
Hypocrites
aren't going to make it.
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Job 8:13, "So the path, so is
the path of all who forget God;
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And the hope of the
hypocrite shall perish."
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Now there's hope for you and
me right now but someday, in the
00:22:03.55\00:22:07.19
end when the Lord comes, Job 20,
verse 5, "The triumphing of the
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wicked is short, the joy of the
hypocrite is just for a moment?"
00:22:10.89\00:22:14.30
It's the praise of men.
00:22:14.36\00:22:15.66
Job 34:30, "The hypocrite should
not reign," we will not live and
00:22:16.10\00:22:20.00
reign with Christ and
find, listen to what Jesus said,
00:22:20.04\00:22:22.14
Matthew 24:51.
00:22:22.17\00:22:23.54
"The master of that servant will
come on a day he's not looking
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for him and an hour he's not
aware of, will cut him in two
00:22:28.34\00:22:32.45
and appoint him his
portion with the hypocrites.
00:22:32.48\00:22:35.62
And there'll be
weeping and gnashing of teeth."
00:22:35.95\00:22:38.05
Is that pretty clear where the
hypocrites are going to end up?
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That's why it's important that
we talk about this because Jesus
00:22:41.22\00:22:43.83
talks about it but
there is hope for us.
00:22:43.86\00:22:46.53
Can a Pharisee be saved?
00:22:49.20\00:22:50.53
Did Jesus save any Pharisees?
00:22:52.37\00:22:54.10
Do you know why Nicodemus
met with Jesus at night?
00:22:55.57\00:22:58.44
He was a pharisee.
00:22:58.47\00:22:59.77
He was afraid of what the
other Pharisees would think.
00:22:59.81\00:23:01.98
But when Jesus finally died on
the cross, he got over his fear,
00:23:04.01\00:23:06.38
and he came to
take care of the body.
00:23:06.68\00:23:09.85
Joseph of Arimathea, you
don't ever hear about him until
00:23:10.59\00:23:13.09
Jesus dies.
00:23:13.12\00:23:14.46
He was more worried about what
God thought than what the other
00:23:14.49\00:23:16.69
Pharisees thought that
had just condemned Jesus.
00:23:16.73\00:23:19.39
And it says Joseph went
boldly to Pilate and asked for
00:23:19.73\00:23:22.70
his body.
00:23:22.73\00:23:24.07
Pilate thought I thought
you Pharisees wanted him dead.
00:23:24.10\00:23:25.47
Now you want to honor him?
00:23:25.87\00:23:27.17
I don't understand.
00:23:27.20\00:23:28.50
Joseph was bold.
00:23:28.54\00:23:29.87
And then you know another famous
Pharisee, his name is Saul
00:23:29.90\00:23:32.94
of Tarsus.
00:23:32.97\00:23:34.31
Later called Paul.
00:23:34.74\00:23:36.08
Let me read this to you, Acts
23:6, "But Paul perceived that
00:23:36.95\00:23:40.72
one part was Sadducees
and the other were Pharisees.
00:23:40.75\00:23:42.88
He cried out in the council,
'Men and brethren, I am a
00:23:42.92\00:23:45.92
Pharisee, the
son of a Pharisee."'
00:23:45.95\00:23:48.22
Acts 26:5, "They knew me from
the first, if they were willing
00:23:49.46\00:23:53.73
to testify, that according
to the strictest sect of our
00:23:53.76\00:23:57.40
religion I lived a Pharisee."
00:23:57.43\00:23:59.93
Now you know what that means?
00:24:00.67\00:24:02.04
That half of the New Testament
was written by a Pharisee that
00:24:04.04\00:24:08.71
was converted.
00:24:08.74\00:24:10.25
So is there
hope for a hypocrite?
00:24:10.28\00:24:11.95
What happened to Paul?
00:24:13.25\00:24:14.58
Paul ran into Jesus on the
road to Damascus and his heart
00:24:15.38\00:24:19.22
was changed.
00:24:19.25\00:24:20.56
He was thoroughly converted.
00:24:20.59\00:24:21.96
He spent a lot of time on his
knees--he fasted and prayed for
00:24:22.52\00:24:25.93
three days.
00:24:25.96\00:24:27.30
And once he really got ahold of
the real thing, well you know,
00:24:27.36\00:24:30.73
this you've got to understand
that even those who are a little
00:24:31.33\00:24:35.54
hypocritical, they know there's
value in the real thing and
00:24:35.57\00:24:38.04
they're trying for the real
thing, but instead of worried
00:24:38.07\00:24:40.88
first about what God thinks,
they're worried about what
00:24:40.91\00:24:42.84
men think.
00:24:42.88\00:24:44.18
Now Gospel summed up in two
things: love for God and love
00:24:44.21\00:24:49.95
for your neighbor.
00:24:49.98\00:24:51.29
What comes first?
00:24:51.32\00:24:52.69
First, come unto me, Matthew
11, comes before Matthew 28.
00:24:53.39\00:24:58.43
It's first this
love relationship.
00:24:59.43\00:25:01.00
If we will start with what does
God think of me and then when we
00:25:01.03\00:25:04.73
get that right.
00:25:04.77\00:25:06.07
Then we live
before other people.
00:25:06.10\00:25:08.34
So they'll glorify our Father
in Heaven, we want to be good
00:25:08.37\00:25:10.71
examples, but it's got to start
with is God the most important?
00:25:10.74\00:25:14.08
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