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Profile Of Hypocritical Religious Pharisees Series
Contributed by Shaila Touchton on Sep 15, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: Religious Hypocrites are compared to whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.
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Religious Hypocrites are compared to whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.
Religious People should keep themselves unstained from the world but rather they take part in the unfruitful works of darkness
If any Religious Person does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
A Religious Hypocrite shuts the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For neither, they enter themselves nor permit the people who might enter to go in.
A Religious Hypocrite pretends to love his brother on the outside but truly does not love his brother whom he has seen, then how can he Love God whom he has not seen?
They love to practice their righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, but then they will not have any reward from Father who is in heaven.
They honor God with their lips, but their heart is far from him and their fear of God is a commandment taught by men and they do all their deeds just to be seen by others.
In vain do they worship God, teaching the doctrines and commandments of men?
They boast about the sacrifices they have made for the Lord and trust in their own righteousness.
They are the type of people that see the speck that is in their brother’s eye, but does not notice the log that is in their own eyes!
They claim to prophesy in God’s name, cast out demons in God’s name and do many mighty works in God’s Name
Then God will say to them that He never knew them and He will command them to depart from Him, for they are the workers of lawlessness.
Not everyone who says, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of Father who is in heaven will enter.
These religious Pharisees do not keep God's commandments, they are liars and there is no truth in them.
And when they fast, they look gloomy like hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so that their fasting may be seen by others and they don’t get a reward from God.
For they love to preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their fingers.
They do all their deeds to be seen by others and to impress others for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long.
God calls this type of religious Pharisees as hypocrites and they outwardly appear righteous to others, but within them are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
They have a form of appearance of godliness but denying its power and they are more interested in their own reputation than in saving people from sin and hell.
These Religious hypocrites love to judge others who practice sins and yet don’t judge themselves for their own sins and how can they escape the judgment of God?
With their mouth, they would destroy their neighbor, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness.
The Religious Hypocrites who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Walking around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows’ houses and for they pretend to make long prayers but God says they will receive the greater condemnation.”
because of their hard and impenitent heart, they are storing up wrath for themselves on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
For they are the fool’s speaking folly, and their heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
Their speech was smooth as butter, yet war is in their heart; their words are softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
They claim to be Holy and not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers or even like the tax collector. They claim to fast twice a week and give tithes of all that they get.
They use their freedom and legalistic attitude to justify themselves to cover up for evil, but living as servants of God walking with carnal human nature and not a divine nature.
They preach very strict rules to others but modify those rules when it comes to them and their own family members and they would accuse those who are walking in the path of truth and Godliness just as Satan the “Accuser of the brethren” accusing people “day and night” continually in Revelation 12:10.
God calls them as serpents, a brood of vipers, how can they escape being sentenced to hell?