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Hypocrisy. No one wants to be called a hypocrite.
ILLUS - A funeral fit for a king
2. A lot of people don’t even like talking about hypocrisy.
3. And often you will hear people say that they don’t want to go to church because it is “filled with hypocrites”.
4. Tonight, we’re going to talk about hypocrisy in order to discover what it really means to be a hypocrite.
5. But more importantly, we will learn God’s cure for hypocrisy along the way.
Matthew 23:1-12
Context
1. In Matthew 23, Jesus was teaching in the Temple. It was just days before He was arrested, beaten, crucified, and resurrected from the grave.
2. In Matthew 21-22, the Jewish leaders challenged Jesus with questions in order to trip Him up so that they had grounds to accuse Him and ultimately reject Him.
3. But Jesus knew what they were up to and gave them answers which revealed His wisdom and the foolishness of their rebellious, stubborn hearts.
4. In Matthew 23, Jesus turned to the multitudes and His disciples to warn them about the hypocrisy of the Jewish leaders.
5. Since the word hypocrite is used many times in this chapter, it is important for us to understand what the word means.
6. The word hypocrite comes directly out of the Greek language and into our English language. It literally means “to be an actor.”
7. So, a hypocrite is one who pretends to have beliefs, opinions, virtues, or standards that they really don’t have.
a. Hypocrisy is not simply failing to fully practice those virtues that one preaches or believes in.
b. If that were the case, everyone would be rightly accused of being a hypocrite.
ILLUS - For example, do you truly believe that we should…
Ephesians 4:29, “Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification”
APPL - Now, do you consistently do this?
• If you’re like me, you strongly believe this principle and truly want to master it, but you haven’t fully obtained it yet.
• Is that hypocrisy? No.
• There is some inconsistency in everyone’s life, including mine.
8. True hypocrisy is the deliberate putting on of a mask, to make it appear that you are one thing when you are really something else.
ILLUS - Eddie Haskell in Leave it to Beaver.
9. As I said earlier, it’s common to hear people say, “I don’t want to go to church because it’s filled with hypocrites.”
a. But the church has never claimed to be an association of “perfect people”.
b. Rather, the church is filled with sinners who walk in the forgiveness of their Savior, Jesus Christ, and are seeking to have Him transform their lives.
Quote - Billy Graham once said, “If you find a perfect church don’t join it: you’d spoil it!”
10. Though the church is not filled with hypocrites, it’s not empty of them either; so these are great words for us to receive and apply to our lives.
I. Fix Your Eyes on Jesus (1-10)
• The root of hypocrisy is pride.
o Pride is the fixing of one’s eyes on self.
o Pride seeks to glorify or deify self.
o Pride also seeks to gratify self.
• So, God’s cure for pride and the hypocrisy that follows is for us to fix our eyes on Jesus.
Hebrews 12:1-2, … let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith
A. Then you will practice what you preach
1. Jesus began by saying that the Jewish leaders had “seated themselves” in the chair of Moses. (2)
a. Notice God did not elevate them to this position.
b. The scribes and Pharisees promoted themselves to this position of authority.
2. The final authority is the Word of God. So, when they spoke the Word of God, then Jesus said the people should follow what they said. (3)
3. The problem was they did not do what they told others to do. Or to put it another way, “they did not practice what they preached.” (3)
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