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 If you are a hypocrite, please stand up
 Please share with us why you are a hypocrite Definitions (Merriam‐Webster)
 Hypocrite
1.a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2.a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings Definitions (Merriam‐Webster)
 Hypocrite
 Church:
1.a building for public and especially Christian worship 2.the clergy or officialdom of a religious body 3.often capitalized: a body or organization of religious believers: as the whole body of Christians, denomination <the Presbyterian church> or a congregation
Statement 1
 The whole body of Christians is full of people who put on a false appearances of virtue or religion
Statement 2
 The whole body of Christians is full of people who act in contradiction to their stated beliefs or feelings Intensity of convictions…
 So when you give to the needy, Jesus on do not announce it with Religious trumpets, as the hypocrites do Hypocrites –
in the synagogues and on the Matthew 6
streets, to be honored by others.
 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.
 When you fast, do not look Jesus on somber as the hypocrites do, Religious for they disfigure their faces to Hypocrites –
show others they are fasting.
Matthew 6
Jesus confronting the Religious Elite –
Matthew 23
 Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
 You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.  You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
Jesus confronting the Religious Elite –
not done just yet!
 You give a tenth of your spices... But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness.  You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self‐indulgence.
 You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.
Living a Life of Hope vs Living a Life of Hypocrisy
Statement 1
 The whole body of Christians is full of people who put on a false appearance of virtue or religion
..but it DOES HAPPEN so be careful and look out for deception!
Statement 2
 The whole body of Christians is full of people who act in contradiction to their stated beliefs or feelings Romans 7
 I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
MYTHBUSTERS
• Live in
brokenness
and
vulnerability
Vulnerability – TED2012
Brené Brown
The Emotionally Healthy
Church
- Scazzero
Statement 2
 The whole body of Christians is full of people who act in contradiction to their stated beliefs or feelings ..yet are forgiven and free through Jesus Christ, and relentlessly give themselves to a lifestyle of repentance and powerful surrender to God
Our calling to a Life of Integrity
Repent and confess
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9
..what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
Obey and follow
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