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Marks Of Hypocrites Who Think They Are Saved, Holy And Godly. Series
Contributed by Shaila Touchton on Oct 10, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: A Good tree produces Good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. A Good Tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit. So every Tree that does NOT produce Good Fruit is chopped down and thrown into the Fire.Matt 7:15-20
1. We have to be careful and take heed that no one deceives us.
2. Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
3. We need to Beware of False Prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves.
4. The Hypocrites will act religiously, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!
5. Just there were also False Prophets in Israel, just as there will be False Teachers among us. They will cleverly teach destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them. In this way, they will bring sudden destruction on themselves. Many will follow their evil teaching and shameful immorality. And because of these teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.
6. Do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world.
7. Some ungodly people have wormed their way into your churches, saying that God’s marvelous grace allows us to live immoral lives. The condemnation of such people has been recorded long ago, for they have denied our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
8. We are not to follow a different way that pretends to be the Good News but is not the Good News at all. We are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.
9. For a time has come when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.
10. Even the Priests and Prophets are ungodly, wicked men. I have seen their despicable acts right here in my own Temple,” says the Lord says in Jeremiah 23:11
11. These people are hypocrites and liars, and their consciences are dead acc to 1 Tim 4:2
12. God is sick of their burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened cattle. God has no pleasure from the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. Says the Lord in Isaiah 1:11
13. They like to appear righteous in public, but God knows their hearts. What this world honors is detestable in the sight of God Acc to Luke 16:15.
14. Though they pretend to be kind, their hearts are full of all kinds of evil acc to Proverbs 26:25.
15. These people honor God with their lips, but their hearts are far away. Their worship is a farce, for they replace God’s commands with their own man-made teachings.
16. When they help someone in need they act as hypocrites blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets to call attention to their acts of charity!
17. They don’t recite God's laws anymore; they pretend that they obey God. They refuse God's discipline and treat God's laws as though it's not important and ignore them willingly and they sit around slandering, and gossiping about other Christian brothers and sisters.
