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Steps Toward Hypocrisy

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Steps Toward Hypocrisy

I do not like cranberries, I never have, and I never will. If they are offered to me in heaven, I will politely turn them down, because even in my glorified body my taste buds will still be individually mine. My lovely wife has only four words for coffee, “Smells bad, tastes bad.” She will probably not drink coffee in eternity either.

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:2)

The renewing of our mind is the way we think about sin, in ourselves and in others, it is what causes us to understand that those items, those things that we cannot comprehend in others does not mean that we cannot have compassion for them, for they are still of the world, the world we have left behind.

Or at least we are to be attempting to.

To be all things to all men requires certain attributes to be revealed in us by the Holy Spirit, we must be willing to understand as well that many, if not most of them, do not see sin in their lives against the Living God. At least they will not call it that.

The weaker brother, the one we are to forgive seventy times seven times, those that Galatians 6:10 speaks of, “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” we react differently to. If they are sinning, we are to check to see if that particular log is not in our eye, and if it is not, we are to correct and reprove them, no differently than Paul did to, or if you like, for Peter that day.

But the wicked are a different story, and if we are not cautious, we will dive headlong into the pit of vanity, of pride.

An example for you. I know of a God-fearing man, truly born again and serving the Lord, who still smokes cigarettes. When he and one of the local pastors in town would hold conversations and that man lit up a smoke, the pastor would look him in the face, then at the cigarette, then back to his face while still continuing in the conversation. The pastor was attempting to shame that man without actually saying anything.

“Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.” (Matt. 15:11)

“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” (Romans 14:17)

If you are one of those, when you meet others, whether saved, lost or wicked, who attempts to judge them by actions that could not honestly be considered sin in the eyes of the Almighty, then you may be walking too close to that line of hypocrisy.

This short letter to you today concerns this truth, are you quite sure you know what sin is?

How many alcoholic drinks are too many? How much food is too much food? Here is the real question for you, how do you expect people to live their lives? Is the man’s hair too long and the woman’s too short for your taste? There are thousands of examples I could offer you here, but I will let the Scriptures speak for themselves.

“The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.” (Matt. 11:19)

Are those people that you hold something against actually sinning against the Most High, or do they just not fit into your ideology of how they should be?

Those thoughts are something that should be seriously contemplated by all of us who have been saved by grace through faith.

“A Samaritan helped that man in the road! No way! We all know what they’re like!”

Two verses for you then, contemplate them well.

“For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.” (1st Cor. 11:31)

“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” (John 7:24)

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