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WHY ARE CHRISTIANS SUCH HYPOCRITES?

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WHY ARE CHRISTIANS SUCH HYPOCRITES?

If You Could Ask God Anything - Part 8 | July 28, 2024 

Gabe Kolstad | @gabekolstad

Hypocrite: An ACTOR

Two Kinds of Hypocrisy

1. LEGALISM (Faith in my works)

2 The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses. 3 So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach. 4 They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden. 5 Everything they do is for show. On their arms they wear extra wide prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and they wear robes with extra long tassels. 6 And they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the seats of honor in the synagogues.    -Matthew 23:2-6


2. LICENSE (Faith without works)

14 What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone? 15 Suppose you see a brother or sister who has no food or clothing, 16 and you say, “Good-bye and have a good day; stay warm and eat well”—but then you don’t give that person any food or clothing. What good does that do? 17 So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.    -James 2:14-17


A Better Way: LIBERTY 

(Faith in Jesus at work in me)

For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.    -1 Peter 2:16

22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!    -Galatians 5:22-23

And this is the secret: Christ lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing his glory.    -Colossians 1:27

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