Tag: hypocrite
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King for a Common Era Holy Week 5
KING jesus! KING jesus! The Prophet who drove the money changers out of God’s Temple HAS RETURNED! Holy Week in the year of our Lord 30 Without noting several significant private events and conversations of this holy week, including Jesus’ celebration of the Passover meal with the Twelve; let’s look once more at the witness…
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The Christian Hypocrite?
Worship & Hypocrisy? The family rushed into the church building catching the last praise song before the sermon. LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE. They applauded. (In fact, they noted, it was the colorful writing imprinted on the wall of the building that confirmed this love.) He loves us. We love Him. Such a general good feeling…
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What’s a Hypocrite to do?
It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. (It is a Higher calling, though.) It is a higher calling as Jesus pointed out also given to the Pharisees, whose hypocrisy was frequent target of our Lord. We should not think for one instant that we (because we are not Pharisees…
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The Mirror of Hypocrisy
As I left the busy area of the mall wearing my brand new ‘Jesus’ tie I had just purchased as witness to family members far from Christ, I hurried onto the main freeway. Morning traffic was still dense, but I had time to merge; BUT the car in the lane next to the ramp was…
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Hypocrite ‘christian’ & Hypocrite Unbeliever
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye. – Luke 6:42b HARSH words from Jesus! Would you of the church (who call yourself “christian”) deserve the rebuke of the One we call Lord? It so happens…
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Covenant and Truth – 5
I prefer the company of a confessed sinner to that of an unconfessed christian hypocrite. No witness is more damaging to the church than the loud christian proclamation of a hypocrite. The world hates true followers of Christ and the church, but unbelievers use these self-appointed self-righteous spokesmen for the faith as excuse to continue…
