Sermons About Hypocrisy
True Fellowship, Hypocrisy and God's Glory
The Dangers of living a lie. How Hypocrisy destroys you and the Fellowship.
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Expectation of Repentance, pt. 1 (Matthew 3:8)
Many in the church today are presented with a gospel that simply calls people to “Receive Jesus as your Savior,†sign a card, look back on that date, and never doubt again. No call to be willing to forsake all and follow Him. No call to self-examination. No call to repentance as the testimony to the reality of faith. We have a whole culture of people who identify themselves as “Christians†and yet have lives and beliefs that are not submitted to the Word of God and are little different than those of confessed unbelieving people - and yet feel absolutely confident they are going to heaven. Thus, because of a failure to proclaim the full gospel the professing church of Jesus Christ is providing the many will stand before the living and exalted Christ to hear the most frightening words every uttered from His lips, “Depart from Me into the eternal lake of fire, I never knew you.†The Church, as Christ’s slaves and ambassadors have been entrusted with a message in which God’s glory and a sinner’s salvation hangs. John the Baptist was a faithful servant. It is this very deception of false faith that he will deal with this morning. He will do it by confronting a false view of religious confidence that fails to understand the nature of true repentance toward God.
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Exposure of Religious Hypocrisy (Matthew 3:7)
“Evangelicals generally and the coming generation particularly have adopted to various degrees an ethical code of political civility. This compels them not only to be tolerant of others’ beliefs, opinions, and lifestyles, but more importantly , to be tolerable to others. The critical dogma is not to offend but to be genteel and civil in social relations … [Such[ a religious style … entails a de-emphasis of Evangelicalism's more offensive aspects, such as accusations of heresy, sin immortality, and paganism, and themes of judgment, divine wrath, damnation, and hell.†John insist on true repentance by exposing its counterfeit - religious hypocrisy and warning of its consequences. We will break down 3:7-12 into three main sections and then deal with each one on its own. 1) Exposure of Religious Hypocrisy (7) 2) Expectation of Genuine Repentance (8-9) 3) Execution of Divine Judgment (10-12) This morning we will look at verse 7 and the Exposure of Religious Hypocrisy. What do I mean by Religious Hypocrisy? Those who have a form of religion and religious commitments - even the right religion - but do not know its internal transforming power: “form of godliness, although they have denied its power†(2 Tim. 3:5); “[broad way] that leads to destruction†(Matt. 7:13) - They have a form of obedience, but the wrong heart. They have religion, but they don’t internally hate sin and love righteousness; they lack true humility before God; their religion is more about what they do than who they are; they feel secure in the externals of religion but are ignorant of its internal realities. This morning we will look at John’s Exposure this Religious Hypocrisy and note two dominate aspects of John’s rebuke: 1) Religious Hypocrisy Blinds a person to their true condition. 2) Religious Hypocrisy Puts one in Great Danger of Judgement.
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5 Fruits of yielding to God's Word (Ps. 119:105-112)
God's Word is a precious treasure given to His people, it is a communication of Himself to guide, strengthen, and provide for all the spiritual needs of those who yield to Him. In this passage the psalmist displays for us 5 fruits, or outcomes for the one who yields their life to God by loving and yielding to His Word.
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Community in the Midst of Conflict
Jesus is challenged by the religious leaders of his day, “Who do you think you are?†As Jesus answers this question, he creates both conflict and community. His answer gets to our hearts—where do we really stand? His answer creates both conflict with hypocritical leadership and community among those who have experienced the indescribable grace that he offers to all.
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Community in the Midst of Conflict
Jesus is challenged by the religious leaders of his day, “Who do you think you are?†As Jesus answers this question, he creates both conflict and community. His answer gets to our hearts—where do we really stand? His answer creates both conflict with hypocritical leadership and community among those who have experienced the indescribable grace that he offers to all.
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