Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Hypocrisy



Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke 12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
Luke 12:3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Hypocrisy or to be a hypocrite, is to be a player, an actor being something you are not; an impersonator, a pretender. Sooner or later a liar will be found out. Beware the leaven of the Pharisees, they pretended to be righteous but Jesus saw through them.

Mat 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Mat 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Mat 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
Mat 23:30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Mat 23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

The Internet has it's share of players. Some have several names but they are known by their fruit. In the early days of witnessing in the chats I heard many stories of peoples broken lives. On occasion I would find that a person was just making up stories and using different names to be different people. It is hard to live a lie, for in time they will be found out. They  were hypocrites, game players. Their secret would be uncovered, what was hidden would be made known. 

Luke 12:3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Honesty and truth need no defense.

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