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Good evening, it's good to see 
everyone. 

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All those who have come back to 
this place and we're going to 

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continue our study on building 
true Christian character and 

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discovering the authentic 
Christian Life. 

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We've talked about how that this
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the essence of Christianity to 
change from a self-centered, to 

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a god-centered life. 
It's important that we mature 

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enough to develop an awareness 
or a reality of things. 

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Are important to us a system of 
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fleshly in nature, we must 
mature from being fleshly in our

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priorities to becoming 
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In I priorities we become more 
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takes place in our lives. 
We've talked about the need and 

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the necessity for change because
it is a command of God in Acts 

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17 and verse 30, also, Luke 13 
and 3 and also verse 52. 

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Us that without repentance. 
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One cannot be saved. 
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change from a self-centered 
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Then, why did Jesus come at all?
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who are fleshly minded, those 
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world, why did he ever come and 
command man to have a different 

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perspective? 
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of what we're talking about 
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Is understanding our purpose 
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just of a worldly mindset. 
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17, but to change to repent, as 
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repentance Demands, a change, a 
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loyalty, there are many things 
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but tonight we want to take it 
to some of the primary changes 

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that were We need to focus on in
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changes in character that are 
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Last night I gave you some 
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I asked you to identify some 
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because many of us while 
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humble, are in reality, not very
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Our God, we may recognize, we're
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We don't have the fruits of the 
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We don't have the Christian 
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And and second Peter, the first 
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knowledge virtue. 
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godliness. 
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love in our lives. 
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Christ. 
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nothing or have none of the 
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yet we deceive ourselves into 
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some way, shape, or form, 
possibly, because we live in a 

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Christian country. 
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Christian cultural habits are, 
maybe just because we, Services 

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regularly. 
Well my friends sitting in a 

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church building as with as has 
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Been said before, doesn't make 
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make us any more Christian than 
sitting in a garage, makes us a 

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car. 
It just doesn't happen that way.

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Something within us, it's not 
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where we are in character that 
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And so tonight, we're going to 
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character. 
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during our studies during the 
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We've talked about Matthew 23 
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Jesus, specifically points out. 
Listen, you've got to clean the 

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inside and the outside of the 
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And then you'll know the 
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Basically it's what the text is 
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In that passage, Jesus tells us 
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much important because our 
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whitewash, sup occur. 
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we made, look, there's no mole. 
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It's whitewashed, it looks 
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inwardly, it's full of dead 
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And of all uncleanness, he said 
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important. 
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Jesus whenever he came here, one
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about was the hypocrisy of the 
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want to go to Matthew 23, read 
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It's full of his rebuke to 
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who felt one thing. 
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another. 
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character, we've got to be aware
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We may have everything 
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Everything May seemingly seem as
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But in reality, the character 
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The attitudes have not changed, 
the motives have not changed, we

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find that it just may be easier 
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Christian. 
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within our hearts and Minds 
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of serving God, with all of our 
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We may be serving God only when 
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And so tonight, we want to talk 
about one of the first steps the

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infancy if you will. 
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talk about how to bring about 
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we motivated by the right 
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If you will, please turned in 
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Her. 
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Now, there are many things here 
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chapter 2 that talk about 
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Christian is. 
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just a little review of some of 
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We've looked at before 
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taking upon ourselves. 
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that's what the word Christian 
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A follower of Jesus Christ. 
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verse 40. 
Tells us that a disciple when he

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is fully trained. 
Will be like his teacher will be

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like the teacher. 
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to be doing is learning from 
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Who is the exact representation 
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He is the word expressed. 
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about John 1 and 1. 
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and the Word was with God. 
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But then it says the word became
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beheld Held him, we beheld him, 
my friends, that is the example 

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that is taught to us about. 
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Coming here, is to be an 
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God in our example, form in a 
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distant, say these things, he 
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He left us an example. 
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follow in his steps. 
There are so many passages that 

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come. 
Our Minds tonight, but one is 

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bound. 
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you've opened a Peter, look at 
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21 for you have been called for 
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Also suffered for you leaving 
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in his steps you know, so many I
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something unique in history. 
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where the church is more 
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before? 
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Almost within the last 150 
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people on the Earth did not go 
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And many of us, we don't 
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I'll tell you that for sure. 
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venture to say most of us here 
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Most of us have the ability to 
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the scriptures, maybe multiple 
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blessed church we are, there are
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that would love to have what we 
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to them. 
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Church has not been so blessed 
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the word of God in their home. 
How did they live such holy 

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Fives. 
How did Christianity have such 

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an impact on Western culture and
thinking those of you who have 

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studied Western culture, I want 
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question, how did Christianity 
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basically, a largely illiterate 
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history. 
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They listened to the stories in 
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They got familiar with the 
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described that the gospels 
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even though they might not be 
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might not be literate, even 
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one copy per Congregation of the
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There is something that could be
with them, every moment of their

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life, and that was the example 
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The Bible says, I want you to 
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Jesus, he left you an example 
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and those who followed Christ 
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before they acted and reacted to
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tribulations. 
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would Jesus behave in this 
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They got the main point of the 
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understand Doctrine. 
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They may not be a theological 
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clear? 
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they shouldn't do it. 
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they got. 
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following in this path. 
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I stepping in his steps. 
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Am I behaving as he behaved is 
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desire was to please. 
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He prayed often, I need to do 
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they imitated Jesus as best as 
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We find it in Romans 8:29? 
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this week tells us God 
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are Christians, those of us who 
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would be conformed to the image 
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This was his predestined purpose
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real term. 
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Corinthians 3 and verse 8 where 
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knowledge as well. 
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we could go into but the basic 
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recognize is being a Christian 
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belong to and where a name it 
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Certain kind of relationship to 
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Jesus Christ, it implies that we
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That's what the word implies, 
and we wear his name, we had 

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better been trying to imitate 
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And that doesn't mean as I 
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listened long children, that 
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to try to imitate his miracles. 
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supposed to try to imitate his 
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It means your supposed to try to
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heart. 
That's what we're supposed to be

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trying to imitate. 
So these are the things that the

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Bible says, an example for us. 
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Peter, if you're if you're in 
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chapter 2 verse 1 and here he 
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Christians, telling them some 
specific points that they need 

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to change in that they need to 
change about and if it was good 

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back then it's good for us today
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It's applicable to to us today 
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So let's take the lesson of what
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stages of Christianity. 
Notice in Chapter 2 and verse 1,

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He says, therefore putting aside
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Now let's define some of these 
words, I'm reading from New 

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American Standard and so the 
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are the same in giving the 
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sometimes they're a little bit 
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The word malice, what does the 
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Well, literally when you look it
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But what does that mean? 
Active ill will. 

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It means whenever you don't want
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it means. 
When, you know, No, somebody and

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you really would like to see 
them, hit the pavement, have you

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ever seen skateboarders? 
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some of those things in those 
extreme sports? 

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And you kind of go. 
This is real interesting, but 

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I'd like one just to see him 
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Well, that's not malice when we 
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wanting to see them be human. 
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spiritually about someone, 
that's a whole different thing 

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whenever we have active 
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somebody hurt, spiritually, when
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when we want to see their pride 
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We see their character 
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them disrespected. 
We will see them. 

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In some way hurt. 
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Will that's malice. 
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longer put that into your heart.
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Acts very much? 
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What would the issues were in 
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Wasn't there. 
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and the Gentiles? 
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Wasn't there a big problem? 
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Gentiles wasn't there a problem 
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Yes, there was the book of James
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them. 
Listen, if you say to a 

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portmanteau comes into your 
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footstool, and yet, give 
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you not become Sinners, he tells
them have, you not become judges

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with evil motives, haven't, 
you're not bit done. 

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Don't sense what you're wrong. 
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He died for everybody, you're 
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When you have active ill, will 
toward those who are rich. 

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When you have active ill, will 
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When you have active ill, will 
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When you have, active ill, will 
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Some of those attitudes are 
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Guys, the very attitudes Jesus 

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together rather than we put them
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You see we don't get to pick who
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kind of socio-economic class 
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too. 
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little box. 
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Jesus is speaking and love those
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Those whom Jesus died for and it
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people just like us either. 
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going to be a Christian, if 
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me, you're going to have to view
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you're going to have get rid of 
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You're going to have to get rid 
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Have to get it out because if 
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you're going to have to have my 
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Going to have to have my heart. 
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he goes on to say and all deceit
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means deceivableness, or really 
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the wrong impression with 
someone Whether it's for your 

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benefit or not, you've lit, rid 
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A half Li is nothing more than a
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That's all it is. 
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Jesus. 
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universal throughout the world 
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Nobody anybody in any culture 
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mate or deceive, someone else, 
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business Community. 
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social Community, they get 
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and Jesus, Jesus, even Sinners, 
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So ironic, when Sinners get mad 
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even though they've got no basis
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be upset about that if it's 
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you know? 
Why don't you honor someone that

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lies? 
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See universally everybody. 
Hates the seat, everybody. 

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And Jesus had no deceit, Jesus 
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way, he was totally up front 
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getting down to Basics. 
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Jesus. 
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He said, I want you to get rid 
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of Deceit and I want you to get 
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The next word is hypocrisy 
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hypocrisy, and envy, and also, 
Slander come back tomorrow 

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night. 
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a little bit. 
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slander later on in the week, 
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get rid of all of these things, 
get him out of your life. 

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Notice verse to like newborn 
babes desire, the sincere milk 

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of the word or long for the pure
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So that by it, you may grow in 
respect to Salvation. 

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If you have tasted the kindness 
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addressing this to newborn 
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and he says, here's one of the 
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Get at to be a Christian. 
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importance, their issues of 
malice. 

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That is your heart, how you feel
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There's issues of Deceit, that 
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You can no longer be that way in
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hypocrisy, we have the issue of 
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We want to talk about that 
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about change, change is not 
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Change in a hypocrite. 
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looks like on the outside that 
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In other words, outwardly it 
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the right stuff, they're saying 
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hypocrisy has one real problem. 
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The inside is the issue the 
Insight, it's a character issue 

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and that's why it's so important
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Christianity, that we 
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God wants us to understand 
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Is in the club that any 
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you become a Christian, you 
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inner character. 
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brings us to the first real 
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What where did we get the word 
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Well, hypocrisy hypocrisy in the
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really come from a person. 
It comes from a person, you 

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to talk about certain kinds of 
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And I hope there's no postal 
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But what do you mean? 
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postal. 
They went postal. 

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It's in the dictionary. 
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dictionary. 
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postal? 
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postponed men who evidently or 
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it. 
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they just kill people and they 
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that. 
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postal. 
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I'll post office employees are 
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offend anybody here. 
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whenever we say that we're 
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or certain character, everybody 
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Whenever I said that I saw, I 
saw a recognition across the 

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whole crowd tonight whenever we 
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well, hypocracy is that same 
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It comes from a person. 
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He was a man and he was a good 
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of being used, it was use data 
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If somebody was a great actor, 
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are students of hypocrisy and 
they said man he's a great 

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hypocrite. 
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admit that this person is able 
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character but we know he's an 
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We know that's not who he really
is, but he's good at 

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play-acting, he's good at 
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we will give him the honor of 
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Well, it didn't take very long 
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virtuous word to an unvirtuous 
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It didn't take very long at all 
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the word of people. 
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other words they were play 
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They would say one thing or be 
very sarcastic and they would 

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say they these other people who 
played a part but we're exposed 

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as being not really being that 
kind of person they were called 

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hypocrites. 
Hypocrites and that's how this 

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word came into meaning and Jesus
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scribes and Pharisees, they play
A Part outwardly, they appear to

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be beautiful. 
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Here's what they portray, 
whatever. 

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They've been to observe that 
observe and do, but do you not 

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after their work? 
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He often said, listen they 
portray. 

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They say that. 
They're so loving. 

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So prayerful to God, but they do
it all Matthew 23 to be seen of 

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men. 
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It wasn't to please God. 
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what they did it for the same 
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Hypocrisy has got it was for the
Applause, he wanted the part 

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playing. 
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the first character traits of 
Apocrypha. 

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See, we want to identify. 
You may want to know if you're 

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guilty of this thing. 
If the Bible says like newborn 

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babes desire, the sincere milk 
of the word and it tells us 

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putting aside verse 2 2:1. 
They're putting this aside. 

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How do I make sure that I'm 
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I do not want to be a hypocrite,
I don't want to acquire their 

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characteristics of hypocrite. 
So how can I know if I'm a 

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hypocrite or not? 
Well, first of all perception, 

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isn't the criteria? 
Perception isn't the criteria. 

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Like we've said, it has to do 
with additive attitudes. 

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So let's look at the attitudes 
that are portrayed to us in the 

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scriptures. 
First of all, the attitude of a 

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hypocrite, thou hypocrite pays. 
More attention. 

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To reputation. 
Reputation, then character. 

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Hypocrite pays more attention to
his reputation than the 

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character. 
How others perceive a hypocrite 

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or him is the most preeminent 
concern that he has. 

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Let's look at some passages in 
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Matthew 6, and starting reading 
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It says so then when you give to
the poor, do not sound a trumpet

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before you as the Hypocrites do.
Here's a point. 

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He says, listen, don't sound a 
trumpet before you as the 

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Hypocrites. 
Do In the synagogues and in the 

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streets. 
So that they may be honored by 

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men this person's primary motive
is to have the attention of men.

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And so it's men's response that 
they're after its reputation. 

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It's that kind of thing that 
they're really mostly concerned 

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about. 
They want the reward of men. 

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So they may be ordered. 
My men truly I say to you they 

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have their reward in full and 
other words. 

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When a hypocrite gets his His 
human audience to respond. 

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God says they have what they 
went after and that's all the 

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reward. 
They're going to get. 

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When a hypocrite gets the 
Applause. 

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That's all that's being given to
him. 

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That's all that's all an actor 
gets. 

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When the Applause is over. 
It's over, folks. 

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They get no virtue in God's 
eyes. 

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They get no praise in God's 
eyes. 

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They went after the attention of
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that was all that they got and 
notice what he goes on to say. 

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But when you verse 3, give to 
the poor do not let your left 

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hand know what your right hand 
is doing. 

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There you go. 
He says whenever you do good 

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works here's where the Shines is
whenever it's done without the 

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motive of men's approval. 
That ha ha. 

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Now we've got it. 
What are you when nobody's 

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looking? 
Would you do it? 

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If nobody gave you any praise, 
there's the issue. 

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When the only person that knows 
is God, where then is your 

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motive? 
A lot of times. 

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The only motivated whenever 
others are going to know is that

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the only time you're a Christian
when you do Christian service 

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is, when somebody is going to 
notice, or when God asks us to 

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do it, my friends, who's more 
important to us, the Applause of

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men are the approval of God. 
Where is the motivation? 

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There's how to tell there's how 
to tell right there whenever we 

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pay more attention to her. 
Reputation. 

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00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,200
The character when we want to 
know what men think, more 

453
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,000
importantly than what God 
thinks. 

454
00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:53,300
Then that's a sign that we're 
not doing it for the right 

455
00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:55,700
reason. 
And that we may be indeed a 

456
00:26:55,708 --> 00:27:00,500
hypocrite, notice verse 4. 
So that your giving will be in 

457
00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:03,900
secret and your father, who 
sees, what is done in secret 

458
00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:07,300
will reward you, God takes time 
to point out to us. 

459
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:13,500
He says, listen, where's your 
wins for your sales is at the 

460
00:27:13,508 --> 00:27:15,600
approval of men, whether you 
prove it. 

461
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:20,700
God, if it's of God, you'll do 
it in secret window Min know and

462
00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:24,600
whenever you get no approval, 
when you get no applause you 

463
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,000
will still be motivated to do 
Christian service. 

464
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,600
There we go. 
Look. 

465
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,500
Also in verse 5 verse 5, When 
you pray you're not to be like 

466
00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:37,500
the Hypocrites for they love to 
stand and pray in the synagogues

467
00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:41,800
and on the street corners. 
So that they may be seen by men.

468
00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:48,400
Truly, I say to you, they have 
their reward in full but when 

469
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,100
you pray go into your inner 
room, close your door and pray 

470
00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:54,300
to your father, who is in 
secret. 

471
00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:58,400
And your father who sees what is
done in secret will reward you. 

472
00:27:58,900 --> 00:28:03,300
Italy, God is more impressed 
when somebody obeys him without 

473
00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:07,600
an audience. 
Maybe that's a point. 

474
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,800
That's the whole point here. 
He is asking these people when 

475
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,600
they're hearing his message to 
clarify their character? 

476
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:22,400
What are you when nobody's 
looking, That's what you really 

477
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,900
are. 
That's what you really are 

478
00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:30,500
notice when he goes on down to 
verse 16, to say, whenever you 

479
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:36,100
fast do not put on a gloomy face
as the Hypocrites do for they 

480
00:28:36,100 --> 00:28:39,700
neglect their appearance so that
they will be noticed by men when

481
00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:44,200
they are fasting, truly I say to
you, they have their reward in 

482
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,900
full but you when you fast 
anoint your head and wash your 

483
00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:51,100
face so that your fasting will 
not be noticed by men, but in 

484
00:28:51,100 --> 00:28:54,000
your father who sees in secret 
and your father who sees what is

485
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,400
done in secret will reward you, 
you know, one of the things that

486
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:02,100
I wanted to point out in this 
little boat Bulletin. is if 

487
00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:10,200
you'll, Page 2 of the bulletin. 
If you have it, this is a real 

488
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,200
good thing to read every once in
a while. 

489
00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:15,900
And that's why I send it to Bob.
It's really helpful sometimes to

490
00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:18,400
get a handle on, listen to this.
The difference between 

491
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,800
self-righteous service and 
really serving God. 

492
00:29:21,900 --> 00:29:24,800
He says, listen let me share 
some thoughts that contrast 

493
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,700
self-righteous service with true
service. 

494
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,900
This is from a book called 
celebration of discipline by 

495
00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:32,700
Richard Foster, listen 
self-righteous. 

496
00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:36,000
Service comes through effort for
Glory true service. 

497
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,400
Comes from realizing our 
abilities are from God. 

498
00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:43,000
Self-righteous service is 
impressed with the big deal. 

499
00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:45,700
True service finds. 
It almost impossible to his 

500
00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:49,900
distinguish, the small service 
from the large service. 

501
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,500
Self-righteous service requires 
external reward. 

502
00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:57,900
True service, rests content and 
anonymity. 

503
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,100
Self-righteous service is highly
concerned about results. 

504
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,000
True service is free from the 
need to calculate resistance. 

505
00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:10,300
Results self-righteous service 
picks and chooses whom to serve.

506
00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:13,900
True service is indiscriminate 
in its Ministry. 

507
00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:19,200
Self-righteous service is 
affected by moods and whims true

508
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:24,200
service Minister simply and 
Faithfully because there is a 

509
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:33,400
need I want you to know if 
you're not reading that Bible. 

510
00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:38,700
Then it's not worth very much to
you and going to church. 

511
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,200
Isn't all it's cracked up to be 
if you're not going there for 

512
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:47,900
the right reasons either. 
You see there's so many things 

513
00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:58,100
that are symbols but that aren't
the reality. and we think, if we

514
00:30:58,100 --> 00:31:02,800
have enough symbols, We will 
have the reality. 

515
00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:07,400
But how many of us serve, how 
many of us pray? 

516
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:12,600
How many of us confess Christ? 
How many of us live the life? 

517
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,800
What would we be without the 
symbols? 

518
00:31:14,900 --> 00:31:17,200
What have we were persecuted for
in the assembly? 

519
00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:20,100
What if we were in prison? 
Would we be singing hymns? 

520
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,300
How about that? 
Have you ever thought about 

521
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:28,100
that? 
What if I was in prison? 

522
00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:31,600
What I like Peter and Paul be 
singing hymns? 

523
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,300
Oh, it'll be hundred humming the
country tunes that are on the 

524
00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:38,200
music. 
What is it? 

525
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,600
What do we think about? 
You see, what are we all? 

526
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,700
What are we without all of the 
trappings? 

527
00:31:45,900 --> 00:31:48,000
What if it was against the law 
to be a Christian? 

528
00:31:48,100 --> 00:31:49,500
What if we couldn't assemble 
here? 

529
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,100
What if we couldn't have a copy 
of the scriptures? 

530
00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:54,100
What will we be? 
Then that's the issue. 

531
00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:58,800
And so Paul says, excuse me, 
Jesus often challenged his 

532
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,200
audiences upon these occasions 
to make sure that they 

533
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,600
understood the issue is 
character and not symbols not 

534
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,500
pretense. 
Not something that was not the 

535
00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:13,100
true thing that binds goes on to
define a Prakriti is pretending 

536
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,400
to be something you're not and 
have no intention of being. 

537
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,800
We're going to make a better 
definition of that in just a 

538
00:32:18,808 --> 00:32:25,600
moment but stay with us 
hypocrisy is pretended motives. 

539
00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:29,900
Notice acting spiritual in order
to cover up sins in Matthew the 

540
00:32:29,900 --> 00:32:34,700
23rd chapter going on. 
Down to verse 27, notice woe to 

541
00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:36,500
you scribes Pharisees 
Hypocrites, for your like 

542
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:38,200
whitewashed tombs, which on the 
outside. 

543
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,300
A beautiful banana wired 
earlier, full of dead, men's 

544
00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:43,100
bones, and of all uncleanness, 
We've quoted that he says so 

545
00:32:43,100 --> 00:32:45,500
too. 
So you to outwardly appear 

546
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:49,900
righteous to men but inward to 
your full of hypocrisy and 

547
00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:53,300
lawlessness inwardly. 
You're full of hypocrisy and 

548
00:32:53,300 --> 00:32:56,600
lawlessness. 
Lawlessness means unprincipled 

549
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,400
that you are not governed. 
You have no boundaries in your 

550
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,800
heart and in your life. 
Do you have boundaries that keep

551
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,200
you from behaving certain ways? 
Oh, Glenn. 

552
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,300
I just lost it. 
That Temptation was too much to 

553
00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:12,200
bear. 
God says, listen that 

554
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,300
lawlessness is a sign of the 
real thing. 

555
00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:19,500
The real authentic Christianity.
A Christian is somebody who has 

556
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:24,300
inner boundaries, Who practices 
in her boundaries who won't 

557
00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:28,400
allow themselves to lose it, 
don't allow environment to cause

558
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,000
them to lose. 
It will not find excuses for 

559
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,700
them to lose it to go beyond the
boundaries of which they have 

560
00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:39,200
allowed the Lord to place in 
their hearts and in their minds 

561
00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:42,700
with their angry with their 
anger, with their lust. 

562
00:33:43,900 --> 00:33:47,700
What boundaries do you have? 
When nobody in the church is 

563
00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:49,900
going to catch you. 
The Brethren aren't the 

564
00:33:49,908 --> 00:33:52,900
boundary? 
Your character needs to be the 

565
00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:55,500
boundary. 
You should be more afraid of God

566
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:59,500
than you are the brethren. 
That's my point. 

567
00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:03,500
That's where a Christian is, is 
what he's concerned. 

568
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:07,500
Not about the cops, not about 
spiritual and moral cops. 

569
00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:12,800
He's afraid about displeasing. 
God, that is the sign of 

570
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,100
authentic Christianity. 
Notice. 

571
00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:21,900
Oh well there's so much the 
Romans 12. 

572
00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:24,100
Let's just read this one and 
we'll go on to the next Point. 

573
00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:25,900
Romans 12 chapter. 
Hmm. 

574
00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:31,800
Romans 12 chapter, we're going 
to start reading verse 9 and 

575
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,800
verse 10. 
Notice what he says here. 

576
00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:41,500
Let love be without hypocrisy. 
Abhor, what is evil cling to 

577
00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:44,000
what is good? 
Be devoted to one another in 

578
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,699
brotherly love. 
Giving preference to one another

579
00:34:46,699 --> 00:34:51,000
in honor, not lagging behind a 
diligence, fervent in spirit 

580
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,500
serving the lord rejoicing in 
Hope persevering in Tribulation 

581
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,900
devoted to prayer contributing 
to the needs of the Saints. 

582
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:03,400
Practicing, Hospitality bless 
those who persecute you all. 

583
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,200
Listen! 
He describes the Christians 

584
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,600
character. 
Here in this passage he says 

585
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,000
here's the attitudes of 
Christian has in these 

586
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,000
circumstances. 
They Rejoice. 

587
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,600
They blessed their enemies. 
Do you bless your enemies or do 

588
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,200
you curse your enemies? 
What kind of response do you 

589
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,500
have two people who disagree 
with you? 

590
00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:22,900
What kind of problems do you 
have? 

591
00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:25,000
Are you these kinds of person? 
Do you bless them? 

592
00:35:25,100 --> 00:35:27,000
Do you rejoice with those who 
Rejoice Do? 

593
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,700
You Weep with those who weep 
notice? 

594
00:35:28,700 --> 00:35:34,800
Let love be without hypocrisy. 
It's so easy to say that we love

595
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,500
when in reality we don't the 
Will says let love be without 

596
00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:40,700
hypocrisy. 
My friends, there is the true 

597
00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:45,500
test of character love. 
Love has a certain kind of 

598
00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:49,600
response to others. 
The Bible describes it in First 

599
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,000
Corinthians 13. 
It says love is patient. 

600
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,900
Stop saying you love someone. 
If you're not patient with them,

601
00:35:56,300 --> 00:35:59,500
love is kind. 
If you're not kind to them, stop

602
00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:02,700
deceiving yourself into thinking
that you love them if you are 

603
00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:06,000
unkind with your children and by
friends, here's the point about 

604
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,600
child abuse. 
And I want to get very clear 

605
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,600
about this. 
I'm not had that much. 

606
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,000
I are excuse me. 
I don't know that much about 

607
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,900
this area, but I do know in 
different areas of countries. 

608
00:36:14,900 --> 00:36:18,100
It seems that different problems
are predominant in the culture. 

609
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:26,300
And I have had Christian parents
justify child abuse under 

610
00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:30,600
somehow saying, it's Godly and 
Its Behavior whenever really 

611
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,400
questioned about this, now my, 
if there's anybody, I thought 

612
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:39,300
I'd hear an Amen on that one. 
But I'll tell you what, my dad 

613
00:36:39,300 --> 00:36:43,200
did before he spanked us, there 
was only one time that I know of

614
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,300
that, I'm conscious of, I'll put
it that way and my life, where 

615
00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:52,000
my dad Hit me before he thought 
first or slap me and it was 

616
00:36:52,008 --> 00:36:53,700
because he thought I'd injured 
my mother. 

617
00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:57,400
More often than not, here's the 
process. 

618
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,600
There was the confrontation, the
lecture, then the punishment. 

619
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,500
My dad was very clear, you know,
the rules, you violated the 

620
00:37:07,508 --> 00:37:09,400
rules? 
Here's the consequences. 

621
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,900
Yeah, yeah. 
Just get it over with what was 

622
00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:14,400
coming. 
The whole point, none of us 

623
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,200
ever. 
Questioned the love of our 

624
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,600
father. 
You can ass out of all of us 

625
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,400
kids and we got spankings 
regular with meals. 

626
00:37:20,900 --> 00:37:25,300
We thought that was why the, we 
did it, you know, some of us 

627
00:37:25,308 --> 00:37:29,000
here know too much, but the 
whole point is sometimes we did.

628
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,200
Most of the time we deserved it,
that's the whole point. 

629
00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:34,800
But the whole point we never 
questioned that never questioned

630
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,300
it. 
His love was without hypocrisy. 

631
00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:41,800
But I'll tell you what, whenever
you beat your kids to make 

632
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:47,200
yourself feel better and there's
no edifying for the child, it's 

633
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:51,900
wrong. 
They believed in spankings, it 

634
00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:58,300
was my dad. when you do it for 
your reasons rather than for 

635
00:37:58,300 --> 00:38:02,400
their welfare, Then it's abuse 
real. 

636
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,300
Good way to test to see if 
you've gone over the line. 

637
00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:08,600
Real good way to test. 
And that's what I'm talking 

638
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,800
about here. 
Don't say you love somebody and 

639
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:16,400
then justify it. 
If I love them, I'm gonna treat 

640
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,500
him mean. 
I'm going to be unjust, don't 

641
00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:26,100
you dare justify satanic 
behavior in the name of my God, 

642
00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:30,400
my father. 
Don't you dare do that, don't 

643
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:35,400
you, dare abuse your children, 
your husband, your wife in the 

644
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:40,400
name of God. 
Don't you dare do it. 

645
00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:47,000
Love does not think of self 
whenever it acts love thinks of 

646
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,300
the object, the good of the 
object. 

647
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:54,100
Remember, Philippians 2 3 
through 5, the Bible says, have 

648
00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:56,000
this attitude in yourself, which
was also in Christ. 

649
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,000
Jesus, what is that? 
Look out for one another's 

650
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:04,200
interest above your own. 
That's why parents discipline 

651
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,200
their children. 
That's why they instruct them is

652
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,500
for the child's welfare and 
benefit when it's for your 

653
00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:13,000
benefit instead. 
There's it's wrong. 

654
00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:19,200
It's a real good way to test it.
God didn't give you the ability 

655
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,800
to spank your children to help 
you, relieve stress. 

656
00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:26,700
It isn't a good stress, really 
Pro boy. 

657
00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:30,600
I feel better. 
My friends, it's not for you 

658
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,500
feeling better. 
It's to train the children. 

659
00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:38,100
So anyway, I want to get off of 
that but perhaps that's here, I 

660
00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:40,200
don't know. 
Nobody by the way, nobody's told

661
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:41,700
me that there's a problem about 
that here. 

662
00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:45,200
So I don't want to say anything,
you know, you know, within your 

663
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,500
heart whenever you chastise your
children, whether it's for their

664
00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:55,200
benefit or for yours. 
Yeah, you know, and that's what 

665
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,800
I'm saying here, let love be 
without hypocrisy. 

666
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,300
When you correct, Brothers and 
Sisters in Christ, you know, 

667
00:40:01,300 --> 00:40:03,700
whether it's for their welfare 
or for yours. 

668
00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:06,200
You know, for whether you're 
trying to put them down so that 

669
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,300
your light will shine brighter, 
or if it really is because 

670
00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:12,900
you're concerned about their 
soul, you know what the motive 

671
00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:18,600
really is on in this passage? 
Well there's so many more but 

672
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,600
we're going to have to get to 
the second trait right quick. 

673
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,300
We're going to have to skip on. 
Notice the second trait of 

674
00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:27,600
hypocrisy is really career, 
clear a hypocrite. 

675
00:40:29,500 --> 00:40:36,000
Carefully practices carefully. 
Practices. 

676
00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:40,600
Religious Acts. 
I'll have time to bring it up 

677
00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:45,200
while it's heart remains distant
from God, heart distant. 

678
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,900
Now we've already emphasized 
this and so we're not going to 

679
00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:54,000
spend an awful lot of time on 
it, but just suffice it to say 

680
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,400
that one of the definitions of a
hypocrite that vine says, was 

681
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:02,400
such a hypocrite. 
Is somebody who plays a part but

682
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:06,300
never intends on being really 
what that part suggests. 

683
00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:10,100
And other words there are some 
people who practice form of 

684
00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:13,600
godliness but denying its power 
really in their life. 

685
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:18,200
This is the hypocrite, a 
hypocrite DIA has Tails, without

686
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:23,000
depth details without depth. 
They tithe mint Herb's as we've 

687
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,700
noticed last night herbs, but 
ignored Justice and mercy and 

688
00:41:26,700 --> 00:41:29,000
Faith. 
They strain at a gnat and 

689
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,300
swallow. 
A camel, all my friends, they 

690
00:41:31,300 --> 00:41:37,600
are into details their details 
and and their biases are vital 

691
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,000
to them. 
Notice. 

692
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,100
And we want to notice this verse
doesn't talk about Justice. 

693
00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:46,600
And by the way, Just because 
we're talking about something 

694
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,600
that is a shortcoming in 
someone's life. 

695
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,400
Doesn't mean they're necessarily
hypocrite, just because somebody

696
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,500
is disobedient, doesn't mean 
they're a hypocrite. 

697
00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:57,600
This may be a revelation to some
because oftentimes we want to 

698
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,800
point to somebody who's being 
disobedient, we say they're 

699
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,400
hypocrite. 
When in reality, they're not 

700
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:06,400
Hypocrites their disobedient and
maybe they'd fallen short, but 

701
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,200
my friends, they are not part 
playing. 

702
00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:10,700
They are wrestling with 
temptation and sometimes they 

703
00:42:10,700 --> 00:42:16,000
lose, but God tells us that a 
hypocrite Truly is distant from 

704
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,400
God. 
In other words, they are really 

705
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:25,800
not into the motives at all. 
In Psalms 85, verse 10, Psalm 85

706
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:33,700
verse 10. 
Loving and kindness and Truth 

707
00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:37,100
have met together righteousness,
and peace have kissed. 

708
00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:39,900
Each other truth Springs from 
the earth and righteous looks 

709
00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:42,600
looks down from heaven. 
Indeed, the Lord will give what 

710
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,600
is good in our land. 
Will you just yield us produce 

711
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,500
righteousness? 
Will go before him and will make

712
00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:52,300
his footsteps into a way? 
The Bible here says 

713
00:42:52,300 --> 00:42:55,700
loving-kindness and Truth have 
met together righteousness and 

714
00:42:55,700 --> 00:42:58,400
peace have kissed. 
Each other. 

715
00:42:58,700 --> 00:43:00,800
This is the reality of 
Christianity. 

716
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:06,200
Ever, we come whenever we come 
to work with one another within 

717
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,500
a congregation. 
If God is there. 

718
00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:13,900
There is peace. 
If God is there loving kindness 

719
00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:15,800
and all of these things work 
together. 

720
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,200
That's what a man who pleases 
the Lord will make even his 

721
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:23,400
enemies to be at peace with him.
How do we do this? 

722
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,400
How do we do this? 
It's because we don't, you know,

723
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,200
whenever we're really are 
concerned about somebody. 

724
00:43:29,500 --> 00:43:31,800
They know that. 
That's what we call money in the

725
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,900
bank money in the bank, whenever
we really try to encourage 

726
00:43:35,900 --> 00:43:39,900
someone when we show them loving
favor, when we have served them,

727
00:43:39,900 --> 00:43:43,700
when we have given them cups of 
cold water when we have shown 

728
00:43:43,900 --> 00:43:47,500
our improved, our love for them 
by going. 

729
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,100
Going to miles with them and not
just one whenever we've been 

730
00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:54,500
there in the good times, then 
whenever it comes time for 

731
00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:57,100
correction, we've got money in 
the bank. 

732
00:43:58,100 --> 00:44:02,600
We've proven our love and a 
congregation, it doesn't just 

733
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,000
because they have peace, doesn't
mean everybody's Mentor. 

734
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:09,200
Often in a growing congregation.
There's mature people, in a 

735
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,300
mature people, there people are 
good examples of people who are 

736
00:44:11,308 --> 00:44:14,000
bad examples, but there's no 
arrogance. 

737
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,300
There's no sysm between the 
good, the, the mature, and the 

738
00:44:17,300 --> 00:44:18,200
immature. 
There's no. 

739
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,200
Why? 
Because the younger are trying 

740
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,700
to help those who are young, the
older, if I can get it right, 

741
00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:26,300
the older, or trying to help 
those who are younger, that's 

742
00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:29,500
what it is. 
Whenever In our family, whenever

743
00:44:29,500 --> 00:44:32,700
we're trying to teach our 
children to to ride a bike where

744
00:44:32,700 --> 00:44:35,600
they're going along with them. 
Hopefully, we're trying to help 

745
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,800
them grow discover their talents
and rejoice with them whenever 

746
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:42,600
they learn to do new things. 
We're not threatened by them 

747
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:44,700
whenever they learn to do new 
things. 

748
00:44:45,700 --> 00:44:49,600
But sometimes in church trouble,
there is envy and strife and 

749
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,200
division because people are 
threatened when other other 

750
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,900
people grow in abilities and 
talents and maybe become a more 

751
00:44:55,900 --> 00:44:57,700
popular teacher than someone 
else. 

752
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,200
And I've seen the differences 
like that divide congregations 

753
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,200
and that's a shame. 
It's a sign of hypocrisy being 

754
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:08,100
there because whenever the kind,
whenever all of these things 

755
00:45:08,100 --> 00:45:10,800
come together, everybody's 
really working together for 

756
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:15,900
everyone else's welfare. 
So let's be careful to not be 

757
00:45:15,900 --> 00:45:20,200
overly picky. 
Let's not and I don't mean not 

758
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,300
concerned about someone else's 
welfare. 

759
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:26,000
I'm just trying to say overly 
critical, you know, the Bible 

760
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,000
says, in the Book of Proverbs 
Oops. 

761
00:45:34,500 --> 00:45:37,400
I always miss quote, this point 
are where it is. 

762
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,100
So I have to find it right 
quick. 

763
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,100
There it is. 
Proverbs 17 and verse 20. 

764
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:51,000
The Bible says, he who has a 
crooked mind finds no good. 

765
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,700
Do people cringe? 
When they see you coming, 

766
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,700
because you never give 
compliments but every time you 

767
00:45:57,700 --> 00:45:59,600
open up your mouth, it's a 
criticism. 

768
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,200
It's been said between husbands 
and wives that a lot of times, 

769
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,600
the men are surprised that their
wives are so depressed. 

770
00:46:06,700 --> 00:46:09,000
Why the social breath? 
Well, I don't know, I just try 

771
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,200
to help her to be a good wife. 
I tried to help her all the 

772
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:12,500
time. 
I give her list of everything 

773
00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:15,100
that she's falling short of. 
I, you know, I just have. 

774
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:19,400
I try to be so helpful to him. 
I point out everything that he's

775
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,500
finally coming short in and I 
don't know why he doesn't 

776
00:46:22,500 --> 00:46:29,000
appreciate me. 
I just don't know why, you know,

777
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,700
it's really for his good. 
All of my, you know, 

778
00:46:33,700 --> 00:46:36,600
fault-finding, all of my 
criticism, they just don't 

779
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,600
appreciate me. 
Well, really maybe you have not 

780
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:44,500
earned the right to criticize. 
It's been said for everyone 

781
00:46:44,500 --> 00:46:48,200
criticism you need to have seven
compliments or at least that's 

782
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:53,400
what my wife tells me. 
The whole point here, is there 

783
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,600
something real about that? 
There's something very real 

784
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,700
about that. 
If you ever thought about that, 

785
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,900
I'm serious. 
With your children, is the only 

786
00:47:02,900 --> 00:47:05,600
time you communicate with them 
is when they've done something 

787
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,300
wrong. 
No wonder, they don't want to 

788
00:47:07,300 --> 00:47:17,100
talk to you. 
No wonder, make sure in our 

789
00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:21,300
Christianity if you're going to 
try to be qualified to hand out 

790
00:47:21,300 --> 00:47:23,700
a criticism. 
Make sure you've qualified 

791
00:47:23,700 --> 00:47:26,100
Yourself by handing out, some 
compliments and some 

792
00:47:26,100 --> 00:47:29,800
encouragement. 
Some encouragement. 

793
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,300
Along the way and then you 
learn, you'll have money in the 

794
00:47:33,300 --> 00:47:37,800
bank, whenever it comes your 
time to correct those who are 

795
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,200
wrong. 
You know, there's some people 

796
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,300
that can say it and get away 
with it and some people that 

797
00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:44,400
could say the very same thing 
and not get away with it. 

798
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:48,800
I wonder what it is perhaps. 
It's because you know that, 

799
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,700
whenever somebody criticizes 
you, if they love you, you know 

800
00:47:51,700 --> 00:47:57,800
it and you know it when they're 
just being critical you know it 

801
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,300
so brother in the church don't 
just justify Yourself by saying 

802
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:04,800
it's true and it's right and I 
don't know why the Brethren 

803
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,400
don't appreciate all the 
criticism I give Perhaps, 

804
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,300
because you're not looking for 
your perhaps, you're disobeying.

805
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:15,800
Philippians 4:8, one of the most
disobeyed passages in the Bible.

806
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:18,400
Whatsoever. 
Things are good. 

807
00:48:18,500 --> 00:48:22,300
Virtuous praiseworthy think on 
these things whenever you do 

808
00:48:22,300 --> 00:48:26,000
that, you'll earn the right to 
be in a concern whenever it 

809
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,900
comes your lat. 
Okay? 

810
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,500
Let me give you one example of 
this. 

811
00:48:38,100 --> 00:48:41,500
In Luke, the 13th chapter, we 
find that there were some people

812
00:48:41,500 --> 00:48:44,800
who were critical of what Jesus 
did on the Sabbath day. 

813
00:48:45,300 --> 00:48:53,000
In Luke 13, chapter verse 10. 
And he was teaching in one of 

814
00:48:53,008 --> 00:48:55,900
the synagogue's on the Sabbath. 
And there was a woman who for 

815
00:48:55,900 --> 00:48:59,200
eighteen years, had a sickness 
caused by spirit and she was bit

816
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,000
double and could not straighten 
up at all. 

817
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,900
And Jesus saw her. 
He called over her over and said

818
00:49:03,900 --> 00:49:07,100
to her woman, you are freed from
your sickness and he laid his 

819
00:49:07,100 --> 00:49:09,300
hands on her and immediately. 
She was made erect again and 

820
00:49:09,300 --> 00:49:13,000
began glorifying God. 
But the synagogue, official was 

821
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:17,000
a dignity because Jesus had 
healed on the Sabbath and began 

822
00:49:17,300 --> 00:49:20,500
saying to a crowd and response. 
There are 6 days in with the 

823
00:49:20,500 --> 00:49:23,800
work, can be done. 
Calm during them and get healed.

824
00:49:23,900 --> 00:49:28,300
Not on the Sabbath day but the 
Lord answered him and said, you 

825
00:49:28,300 --> 00:49:31,200
hypocrite does not each one of 
you on the Sabbath untie. 

826
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,000
His donkey are his ox or his 
Donkey from the stall and lead 

827
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:38,400
him away to water him and this 
woman a daughter of Abraham as 

828
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:41,300
she is, whom Satan has Bound for
eighteen long years. 

829
00:49:41,300 --> 00:49:44,500
Should she not have been 
released from his bond on the 

830
00:49:44,500 --> 00:49:48,100
Sabbath day? 
And he said all this, all his 

831
00:49:48,100 --> 00:49:51,500
opponents being humiliated and 
the entire crowd was rejoicing 

832
00:49:51,700 --> 00:49:53,700
The Glorious things being done 
by him. 

833
00:49:53,700 --> 00:49:57,300
Now, my friends, Jesus didn't 
violate the Sabbath and he was 

834
00:49:57,300 --> 00:49:59,900
not justifying himself by his 
statement. 

835
00:50:01,300 --> 00:50:06,300
You can never violate the word 
of God justly and Jesus wasn't 

836
00:50:06,300 --> 00:50:08,700
doing that. 
Here he said they were violating

837
00:50:08,700 --> 00:50:10,800
some of their human traditions 
and customs. 

838
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:16,000
By healing her on the Sabbath 
but they had got forgotten. 

839
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:20,600
The whole point that the Sabbath
was so that men could focus on 

840
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,700
the proper and spiritual things.
And they had failed to do that 

841
00:50:23,700 --> 00:50:26,800
at this occasion, this woman was
healed and they were looking in 

842
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,700
the face of a miracle and 
accusing Jesus of violating the 

843
00:50:29,700 --> 00:50:33,200
will of God. 
How did they get so messed up? 

844
00:50:35,500 --> 00:50:40,000
Because they were so careful. 
They forgot to go, they forgot 

845
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:44,600
to get the spirit, the spirit of
what God's law was trying to 

846
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:46,100
reveal. 
And that was the heart. 

847
00:50:46,100 --> 00:50:50,900
And the mind of God, I'll have 
to be careful and you have to be

848
00:50:50,900 --> 00:50:53,200
careful when you're explaining 
these passages. 

849
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,300
Not the Bible. 
Never justifies Disobedience, 

850
00:50:56,300 --> 00:50:58,600
but I want to point out. 
Jesus wasn't disobeying here 

851
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,600
again. 
It's just that he had disobeyed 

852
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:05,200
their interpretation of the law 
and they had made it of none 

853
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,700
effect like they did other 
things as well. 

854
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,300
But thirdly, let's get to the 
third point right here. 

855
00:51:12,100 --> 00:51:16,200
Third point. 
And I don't have place to ride 

856
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:17,900
it. 
So I know some of the kids are 

857
00:51:17,900 --> 00:51:20,100
taking notes tonight and that's 
why I want to try to ride up 

858
00:51:20,100 --> 00:51:21,900
here. 
But I'll just try it, put the 

859
00:51:21,900 --> 00:51:38,200
word emphasize here. 
Emphasize their own virtues and 

860
00:51:38,300 --> 00:51:43,500
others sin. 
That's what that is there. 

861
00:51:46,300 --> 00:51:50,500
A hypocrite emphasizes their own
virtue and other sins often in 

862
00:51:50,500 --> 00:51:54,500
hypocrisy, you're going to find 
someone who he finds it to be 

863
00:51:54,500 --> 00:51:56,700
clear, cut it. 
They look at others with a black

864
00:51:56,700 --> 00:51:59,800
and white glasses. 
They can see clearly other 

865
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,600
people's sins but themselves 
their own sins. 

866
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,700
They don't even call them sins 
for themselves. 

867
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:09,300
They call them weaknesses. 
Yeah, I have a weakness. 

868
00:52:09,300 --> 00:52:12,500
Its genetic my mother was that 
way, you know I'm that way too. 

869
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:14,700
We were raised that way in the 
South. 

870
00:52:14,700 --> 00:52:16,600
We were raised to have these 
attitudes. 

871
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,300
We were raised to have that 
attitude. 

872
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,700
We were raised. 
I don't care how we were raised.

873
00:52:20,700 --> 00:52:22,800
Jesus. 
Has now you're a son or daughter

874
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,200
of God your ass will still 
reflect his fatherhood. 

875
00:52:26,700 --> 00:52:28,300
That's a matter how you were 
raised. 

876
00:52:28,500 --> 00:52:30,800
I know some kids who are raised 
horribly that are great, 

877
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,900
Christians and I know some kids 
of great Christians that hacked 

878
00:52:33,900 --> 00:52:37,100
horribly genetics doesn't have 
anything to do with it. 

879
00:52:37,900 --> 00:52:40,300
Being raised, doesn't have 
anything to do with it either. 

880
00:52:40,900 --> 00:52:42,300
Not that. 
That's what the happens. 

881
00:52:42,300 --> 00:52:45,700
Sometimes you can't pass on 
morality, whether it be sin. 

882
00:52:45,700 --> 00:52:48,100
You can't inherit sending, you 
can't in their righteousness. 

883
00:52:48,300 --> 00:52:51,600
I don't care how virtuous your 
mother or your father is that 

884
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,200
doesn't make you virtuous or 
horrible. 

885
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:58,100
He has a crooked. 
Mine finds. 

886
00:52:58,100 --> 00:53:03,700
No good. 
The whole point is, is how do 

887
00:53:03,700 --> 00:53:06,700
you behave in? 
Your right, humility before God,

888
00:53:07,100 --> 00:53:09,700
are you finding yourself? 
Always emphasizing your own 

889
00:53:09,700 --> 00:53:13,700
virtue? 
And somebody else's sinfulness 

890
00:53:14,100 --> 00:53:17,100
because, you know what, if you 
can find somebody else worse 

891
00:53:17,100 --> 00:53:19,200
than you that must mean you're 
good. 

892
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:24,800
Right. 
No, you see that's the whole 

893
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:28,200
point. 
It, that's the whole point it 

894
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:31,000
doesn't matter how how many 
times have you talked to 

895
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,400
somebody and they said well, 
Glen if I believe that that 

896
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:38,700
would send my mother to hell. 
Believing something is going to 

897
00:53:38,700 --> 00:53:41,900
send your mother to help or send
your father to Heaven. 

898
00:53:42,300 --> 00:53:44,400
Guess what? 
What you believe doesn't have 

899
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,100
any impact on their Eternal 
Destiny? 

900
00:53:46,100 --> 00:53:54,600
One way or another. and 
regardless of how many millions 

901
00:53:54,600 --> 00:54:01,600
you're better than that doesn't 
make you good. 

902
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,500
By default. 
That doesn't make your character

903
00:54:08,500 --> 00:54:11,300
good. 
You know, you can find a whole 

904
00:54:11,300 --> 00:54:12,900
lot of people that are worse 
than you. 

905
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:23,100
So what It's a real sign of 
immaturity whenever you go 

906
00:54:23,100 --> 00:54:25,400
comparing yourself, always to 
other people. 

907
00:54:26,100 --> 00:54:28,600
That's a real sign that you 
haven't got a clue about what 

908
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,700
Christianity is about. 
It's a real sign of hypocrisy. 

909
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,600
When you're always comparing 
yourself to other people and not

910
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,700
to Jesus because Jesus is the 
one you're following. 

911
00:54:37,900 --> 00:54:42,100
Notice in Romans the second 
chapter In Romans the second 

912
00:54:42,100 --> 00:54:46,300
chapter verse 1 and 2, therefore
you have no excuse, every one of

913
00:54:46,300 --> 00:54:49,300
you who passes judgment for in 
that, which you judge another, 

914
00:54:49,300 --> 00:54:52,900
you condemn yourself for you who
judge practice the same things. 

915
00:54:52,900 --> 00:54:56,000
And we know the Judgment of, God
rightly falls upon those who 

916
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,800
practice such things. 
But do you suppose this? 

917
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:01,200
Oh, man, when you pass judgment 
on those who practice such 

918
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,900
things, and do the same yourself
that you will escape the 

919
00:55:03,900 --> 00:55:11,700
Judgment of God, you know, it's 
been so sad to me whenever I 

920
00:55:11,700 --> 00:55:16,100
notice people especially on 
certain websites and and I've 

921
00:55:16,100 --> 00:55:20,200
studied with people through the 
age that are always there, 

922
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,900
really upset about the church 
and they left the church over, 

923
00:55:22,900 --> 00:55:26,300
what some hypocrite did. 
Now I've had brother tell me, I 

924
00:55:26,308 --> 00:55:29,000
went down to Texas and study 
with a preacher who fell away. 

925
00:55:29,300 --> 00:55:31,500
And you know what, he all he 
could preach about was how 

926
00:55:31,500 --> 00:55:33,800
unloving the Brotherhood was 
have you ever met those people? 

927
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:37,500
Oh Glenn, the Brotherhood so 
unloving there. 

928
00:55:37,500 --> 00:55:40,900
So unkind all they can all they 
talk about. 

929
00:55:40,900 --> 00:55:42,700
They just a gossip emit about 
the people. 

930
00:55:42,700 --> 00:55:44,700
They just badmouth everybody and
everything else. 

931
00:55:44,900 --> 00:55:50,000
I just held up a mirror and I go
You want to look all you preach 

932
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:53,700
about is how bad the Brotherhood
is, that's all you can preach 

933
00:55:53,700 --> 00:55:59,100
about. 
You who condemn another, and 

934
00:55:59,100 --> 00:56:01,200
practice, the very same thing 
yourself. 

935
00:56:01,700 --> 00:56:03,000
That's all they could think 
about all. 

936
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:06,000
They could say was how bad 
everybody in the Brotherhood was

937
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:13,700
So, what? 
That's the whole point. 

938
00:56:14,900 --> 00:56:16,800
Are you praising them? 
Are you going to church to 

939
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,200
worship them or worship him? 
You know? 

940
00:56:19,207 --> 00:56:21,300
It doesn't matter to me. 
If the whole crowd is a bunch of

941
00:56:21,300 --> 00:56:24,000
Hypocrites, I didn't come to 
worship them. 

942
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:28,300
The reason why I go to churches 
because God deserves My Worship.

943
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:32,600
He needs deserve my loyalty, he 
deserves my obedience and I'm 

944
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,400
going because he's who he is, 
and that's why we need to do 

945
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,200
what we need to do. 
It doesn't matter if your 

946
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,000
mother's hypocrite. 
It doesn't matter if your 

947
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,200
father's hypocrite. 
It doesn't matter if the leaders

948
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,100
in the church are hypocrites, 
who don't behave, like they 

949
00:56:44,100 --> 00:56:45,600
should behave. 
It doesn't matter. 

950
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:50,100
That's the whole point you need 
to do things because it's the 

951
00:56:50,100 --> 00:56:53,800
right thing to do and you need 
to put yourself under the same 

952
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,900
scrutiny that you put others 
under in Matthew the 7th chapter

953
00:56:57,900 --> 00:57:03,900
verse 1 through 5 Matthew 7, 
verse 1 through 5 going just a 

954
00:57:03,900 --> 00:57:06,800
little bit longer tonight but I 
got to finish this up. 

955
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:13,600
Matthew 7, verse 1 through 5. 
Do not judge that you be not 

956
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:14,900
judged for, in the way you 
judge. 

957
00:57:14,900 --> 00:57:17,400
Do, you will be judging your 
standard or measure it will be 

958
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:19,300
measured to you. 
There's no telling how many 

959
00:57:19,300 --> 00:57:22,800
times I've had that verse read 
to me and you know what, it's 

960
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,500
really ironic that the person 
who's reading it to me is 

961
00:57:26,500 --> 00:57:31,500
violating the very verse that 
the reading to me Isn't that 

962
00:57:31,500 --> 00:57:33,900
ironic? 
What are they doing? 

963
00:57:35,300 --> 00:57:36,700
They're saying now, listen, 
good. 

964
00:57:36,700 --> 00:57:39,100
You know, the Bible says not to 
judge, the Bible says right 

965
00:57:39,100 --> 00:57:41,600
there, don't you judge? 
And I say, and you're judging 

966
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:47,900
that I'm violating that Passage 
aren't you doing the very thing 

967
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:55,000
that you say that versus 
teaching against Yes. but my 

968
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,800
friends, whenever God's word is 
used, it's not us, that's 

969
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:01,900
judging Jesus said, my words 
will judge you in that day. 

970
00:58:02,100 --> 00:58:04,500
And whenever you share with 
somebody, the word of God did, 

971
00:58:04,500 --> 00:58:05,900
you know, you're not judging at 
all. 

972
00:58:06,100 --> 00:58:09,200
You're a bigoted church. 
You can demo saying no, you know

973
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:10,900
what, it doesn't have anything 
to do. 

974
00:58:10,900 --> 00:58:13,800
I didn't vote on homosexuality. 
Is whether it should be in the 

975
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:15,200
church or out of church? 
Did you? 

976
00:58:16,300 --> 00:58:19,700
If you had a vote on it, then 
you may or may not be a bigot, 

977
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,400
but guess what? 
I didn't have a vote. 

978
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:25,100
God told me in Romans, the first
chapter in The First Corinthians

979
00:58:25,100 --> 00:58:28,500
6, the homosexuality is a sin 
and he didn't ask me to vote on 

980
00:58:28,500 --> 00:58:32,800
it. 
This is his word, he will judge 

981
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:34,500
his word will judge in the last 
day. 

982
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:36,500
Don't condemn, the Church of 
being a bunch of bigots. 

983
00:58:36,700 --> 00:58:39,000
Whenever the real problem you're
having is with the author of the

984
00:58:39,008 --> 00:58:42,300
book. 
You take it up with him, not 

985
00:58:42,300 --> 00:58:45,300
with the church. 
You don't accuse the Church of 

986
00:58:45,300 --> 00:58:47,800
that we done, the churches not 
judging. 

987
00:58:47,900 --> 00:58:49,600
When it preaches, the word of 
God. 

988
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:53,900
The words, tell us, what is 
right? 

989
00:58:53,900 --> 00:58:56,900
And what is wrong and tell us 
what righteousness is and isn't 

990
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:01,200
And I didn't get a vote, this 
isn't my church. 

991
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:05,600
This is not your church. 
This is the Lord's Church. 

992
00:59:07,900 --> 00:59:10,700
And if the Lord isn't the head 
of this church, we need not be 

993
00:59:10,700 --> 00:59:13,500
here. 
But the Lord is a head of the 

994
00:59:13,500 --> 00:59:15,200
church. 
It's his church. 

995
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,000
If you got a problem with what 
this church believes, take it up

996
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:22,200
with the head of the church. 
Jesus Christ, because he is the 

997
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:26,100
head of his church Ephesians. 
That's right. 

998
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:33,200
So a hypocrite tears down others
in other to build up himself. 

999
00:59:33,500 --> 00:59:37,600
Jesus calls us to use righteous 
discernment in our judgments. 

1000
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,600
We need, we need not to become 
insensitive to the plight of 

1001
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:43,700
others. 
Oh, and I just want and then I'm

1002
00:59:43,700 --> 00:59:46,100
going to wrap it up here, I've 
got to wrap it up. 

1003
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:53,600
I want to say these last few 
things and it will bring it to a

1004
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:55,700
close. 
If you've got your Bibles, I 

1005
00:59:55,707 --> 00:59:58,600
want you to turn to passage in 
Thessalonians right quick and 

1006
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:03,700
then we'll just wrap it up. 
I thought it was right here. 

1007
01:00:03,700 --> 01:00:07,900
First, that's funny. 
It's right here. 

1008
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:22,500
Well. 
Ah, there it is, first 

1009
01:00:22,500 --> 01:00:26,300
Thessalonians 5 and verse 14 for
in 1st. 

1010
01:00:26,300 --> 01:00:28,500
Thessalonians 5, no matter what 
translation you reading. 

1011
01:00:28,500 --> 01:00:30,400
Let's turn to look at this 
passage for just a moment. 

1012
01:00:30,700 --> 01:00:33,800
Notice how he tells us that 
there's three different problems

1013
01:00:33,900 --> 01:00:36,200
and their to be handled in three
different ways. 

1014
01:00:36,900 --> 01:00:41,500
So let's read the passage the 
way we often apply it notice and

1015
01:00:41,500 --> 01:00:45,300
we are jewe verse 14 and we urge
you Brethren admonish the 

1016
01:00:45,300 --> 01:00:47,600
unruly. 
Admonished the faint-hearted, 

1017
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:53,600
admonished the week, No, it's 
not what it says notice. 

1018
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:58,900
What it says, admonish the 
unruly encourage the 

1019
01:00:58,900 --> 01:01:03,300
faint-hearted. 
Help the weak. 

1020
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:08,900
Be patient with all men. 
Now, my friends are maybe send 

1021
01:01:08,900 --> 01:01:12,000
problems in someone's life and 
the Bible doesn't tell him that 

1022
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:13,800
you handle all of them with a 
stick. 

1023
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:17,100
If you're that kind of parent 
where you handle every problem 

1024
01:01:17,100 --> 01:01:19,800
with your children, with a 
stick, you're not doing it 

1025
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:21,800
right? 
Because our heavenly father 

1026
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:25,700
doesn't do it that way. 
He saves the stick for the 

1027
01:01:25,700 --> 01:01:30,900
unruly admonish the unruly but 
he says help the weak encourage 

1028
01:01:30,900 --> 01:01:33,000
the faint-hearted, maybe 
somebody sent him because they 

1029
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,700
need encouragement. 
Maybe somebody's needing help. 

1030
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:42,000
Be patient with all men. 
We have to determine why 

1031
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:45,700
somebody is at where they're at.
God tells us to use that wisdom 

1032
01:01:45,700 --> 01:01:48,000
or these words have no 
instructive purpose whatsoever. 

1033
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:52,300
If you go to help other people 
you have to help by determining 

1034
01:01:52,300 --> 01:01:55,300
why they have seen problems in 
their life and then apply these 

1035
01:01:55,300 --> 01:01:59,100
prescriptions to the problem and
if you don't, you don't need to 

1036
01:01:59,100 --> 01:02:04,100
be there. 
This is God's wisdom and he 

1037
01:02:04,100 --> 01:02:06,500
says, handle different problems 
in different ways. 

1038
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:11,500
So we have to put on ourselves a
heart of compassion, whenever we

1039
01:02:11,500 --> 01:02:14,500
go to people and sin. 
We have to figure out, we have 

1040
01:02:14,500 --> 01:02:18,200
to help them figure out why 
they're at where they're at, and

1041
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:21,500
then prescribe and then help 
them develop what they need in 

1042
01:02:21,500 --> 01:02:24,200
order to survive spiritually, 
because we're not there, just 

1043
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:27,000
tell him off, we're there to 
help them survive. 

1044
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:32,000
Where to help them overcome. 
We're part of the support group,

1045
01:02:32,100 --> 01:02:38,600
not part of the problem. 
How sad it is, when people fear 

1046
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:42,800
Christians, more than they fear.
God, sometimes my friends, we 

1047
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:46,400
need to be able to be helpful to
each other, to know, beyond a 

1048
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:49,600
shadow of a doubt that some 
people are looking out for us 

1049
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,500
spiritually. 
So let's look at the way the 

1050
01:02:52,500 --> 01:02:55,000
difference between a genuine. 
Somebody who has the character 

1051
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:58,800
in the mind of Christ behaves. 
And the way a hypocrite behaves 

1052
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,900
hypocrite pays more attention to
reputation than character. 

1053
01:03:03,900 --> 01:03:06,500
Whenever they get their 
Applause, my friends, it's God 

1054
01:03:06,500 --> 01:03:08,800
says they got their reward. 
You got what you were after. 

1055
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:14,100
But a true servant a true 
authentic Christian serves when 

1056
01:03:14,100 --> 01:03:20,600
nobody's watching, now careful a
hypocrite, makes pays careful 

1057
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:27,000
attention to often times to acts
of religion to the symbols, but 

1058
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:30,600
their heart remains a distant, 
distant from God, not even 

1059
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:33,500
understanding of the 
requirements, and why God put 

1060
01:03:33,500 --> 01:03:37,400
them I'm in there. 
Thirdly a hypocrite emphasizes 

1061
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:40,100
their own virtues and other 
sinfulness. 

1062
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:43,700
And there are many examples of 
that there was the one in Luke. 

1063
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,800
Where one went before God he 
obviously was a good guy. 

1064
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:50,900
God, I fast twice daily. 
I give gifts to the poor. 

1065
01:03:50,900 --> 01:03:53,600
I do this that and the other. 
In other words, he's basically 

1066
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:56,200
take God, you got a great guy 
down here. 

1067
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:01,000
And I'm thankful, I'm not like 
this Publican. 

1068
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:07,900
Oh, that betrayed his character.
All right there, there's the 

1069
01:04:07,900 --> 01:04:10,900
rift. 
There's the rift that attitude 

1070
01:04:10,900 --> 01:04:12,900
never crosses the mind of our 
god. 

1071
01:04:13,300 --> 01:04:17,200
It never crossed the mind of 
Jesus, to put somebody down and 

1072
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:19,200
to build up and puff up his own 
character. 

1073
01:04:19,300 --> 01:04:23,900
Jesus had no Pride. 
No, self-righteous Pride. 

1074
01:04:24,700 --> 01:04:28,900
He didn't find any Delight. 
He didn't find any comfort in 

1075
01:04:29,100 --> 01:04:34,400
recognizing the other people 
were inferior to him at all. 

1076
01:04:38,300 --> 01:04:43,300
I'm thankful, I'm not like him. 
The other man smote his breast 

1077
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:47,600
and said God be merciful to me a
sinner which men would down to 

1078
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:52,900
his house Justified. 
One of them was a hypocrite when

1079
01:04:52,900 --> 01:04:57,600
I'm wasn't. 
What kind are we, what kind are 

1080
01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:00,300
we here today? 
You know, please don't get 

1081
01:05:00,300 --> 01:05:03,700
offended at this parallel, but 
this is a sinner's Anonymous 

1082
01:05:03,700 --> 01:05:06,300
meeting. 
This is not a club for Perfect 

1083
01:05:06,300 --> 01:05:08,900
People. 
We're not here because we're 

1084
01:05:08,900 --> 01:05:12,600
better than somebody else. 
We're here acknowledging. 

1085
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:15,500
The fact that we need to be 
instructed in knowledge in the 

1086
01:05:15,500 --> 01:05:17,700
fact that we need to be 
encouraged to do better 

1087
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:21,300
encourage notice, we're here 
because we need to be encouraged

1088
01:05:21,300 --> 01:05:24,700
to love and good works. 
We know that we fall short And 

1089
01:05:24,700 --> 01:05:28,700
that's why we're here. 
We're here to acknowledge the 

1090
01:05:28,700 --> 01:05:32,000
fact that we're human and we 
need to grow and become more 

1091
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:35,200
spiritually. 
Minded that we need to make any 

1092
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:38,800
difference between the character
of Christ and our character, any

1093
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:40,900
distinction, we need to close 
that Gap. 

1094
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:43,000
And we're here to try and do 
that. 

1095
01:05:43,500 --> 01:05:46,400
And my friends that something 
far different than Pride. 

1096
01:05:47,500 --> 01:05:49,700
We're here basically 
acknowledging. 

1097
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:53,100
I'm here to learn to do better. 
I'm here to do better, and to 

1098
01:05:53,100 --> 01:05:54,800
courage other people to do 
better. 

1099
01:05:55,600 --> 01:06:01,000
That's what I'm here for. 
That's what this is all about 

1100
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:02,500
tonight. 
And you know what, if you're 

1101
01:06:02,500 --> 01:06:04,800
here in a visitor tonight? 
I want you to know something. 

1102
01:06:05,100 --> 01:06:07,300
I think I know most of these 
Brethren pretty well. 

1103
01:06:07,500 --> 01:06:09,800
I don't know everybody. 
But I know one thing that's 

1104
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:11,900
probably because I've been 
around most of them, most of my 

1105
01:06:11,900 --> 01:06:15,200
life, most of you and one way or
another, you know what? 

1106
01:06:15,300 --> 01:06:18,700
I think everybody here is trying
to do better, I think. 

1107
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:19,800
I think you're going to find 
here. 

1108
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:23,400
If your visitor here, you're not
gonna have to worry about being 

1109
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:24,900
here. 
These Brethren have your 

1110
01:06:24,900 --> 01:06:27,800
interest at heart and they're 
wanting you to succeed 

1111
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:30,900
spiritually and won't You come 
and join with us on our journey.

1112
01:06:30,900 --> 01:06:33,800
We need your help. 
We need your Insight. 

1113
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:35,900
We need your knowledge of the 
word of God. 

1114
01:06:35,900 --> 01:06:38,800
And my friends, we will share 
our knowledge with you but my 

1115
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:41,700
friends, we need all the help we
can get on that journey and we 

1116
01:06:41,700 --> 01:06:46,500
would love to have you join with
us in the quest of being more 

1117
01:06:46,500 --> 01:06:49,400
pure dark character than we've 
ever been preferred before. 

1118
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:53,100
We want to have a better, we 
want to honor God and all that. 

1119
01:06:53,100 --> 01:06:57,100
That's way we're not asking you 
to feel inferior tonight and be 

1120
01:06:57,100 --> 01:06:59,900
judged by a bunch of perfect 
people as to You're worthy to 

1121
01:06:59,900 --> 01:07:02,100
join this group. 
That's not what it's about, 

1122
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:04,600
everybody here has a humble 
heart. 

1123
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:09,500
I'm sure and is willing to 
welcome you into the Journey of 

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striving to do those things 
which please God. 

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So tonight you don't have to 
worry. 

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You're going to find a helpful 
bunch here that are dedicated to

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helping you survive. 
Spiritually, dr. 

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Paul, Faulkner in commenting on 
hypocrisy and I want to read 

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this last thing I want to make 
it very clear. 

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What I just said about the 
church and I want he clarifies 

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it. 
Very good in this quote he said 

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hip Secrecy is pretending to be 
something. 

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You never intend to become or 
another way around. 

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He said, if we are sincerely 
trying to become something 

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better, More christ-like. even 
though we're far from doing it 

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perfectly, it is not being phony
to make the effort, it's not 

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being phony to make the effort. 
there's a difference between 

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somebody who's trying, And 
somebody who's a crit. 

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Just because somebody sins 
doesn't automatically make them 

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Everett. 
And just because somebody has 

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all the trappings of perfection 
doesn't make them a Christian 

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either. 
Point is. 

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What are we trying to do? 
Where are we headed? 

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What's our motive? 
Where are we going? 

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But trying doesn't make you 
phony. 

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So tonight, come and join us. 
Won't you in your faith? 

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Repent, of your sins confess. 
His sweet name before men, 

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Matthew 10:32 and be baptized 
for the remission of sins. 

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Join us on that Journey. 
If you haven't before, if you're

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a Christian, perhaps somebody's 
hypocrisy has caused you to be 

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disheartened. 
Perhaps you focused on them, 

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instead of on the Lord tonight. 
Refocus fix your eyes on Jesus 

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wrote, Hebrews chapter 12, 
instead of on people. 

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Get your pride, get get the 
person, you're worshiping 

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downright get the person you're 
following in their steps down, 

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right? 
Even Paul said be ye followers 

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of me as I am of Christ. 
He was following Jesus. 

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My friends. 
So let's get who were following 

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downright tonight. 
Won't you come and join us in 

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our effort to follow Jesus? 
We may not be perfect, but we're

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trying Why don't you try to? 
We thank you for listening to 

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our podcast, put on by the 
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