Sermons About False-piety
Fellowship of Joy: A Study in Philippians, 3:1-11
In our passage today, Paul begins to show that the suffering can, and will come in the form of false teaching. False teaching is a joy robber, especially if it is weighed down with legalistic “Self-saving” mechanisms. Paul, like Jesus, seems to leave his harshest criticism for the religious people. I think the reason they do is that religion offers the subtlest, and therefore, the most delusional and dangerous forms of rebellion against God. When we substitute religion, ritual and personal piety for faith, and the grace of God, we delude ourselves into believing that we are good with God, we become self-righteous, and ultimately frustrated with the fact that our formulas haven’t worked.
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