Hypocrites

Hypocrites (1)

Hypocrites strictly observe many things

according to tradition and honor God with their lips,

but their hearts are far from God

(Mark 7:3-6).

Hypocrites opposed Jesus, who freed Abraham's daughter,

who had been bound by Satan for 18 years, from her bondage on the Sabbath,

even though he freed oxen and donkeys from the barn on the Sabbath

and led them out to give them water

(Luke 13:14-17).

Rather than freeing God's children

who were bound by Satan and the world on Sunday in the name of Jesus,

hypocrites make them become more and more bound by legalistic words,

while they free themselves from their bonds and live only for themselves.

Hypocrites cannot discern this age

and cannot judge for themselves what is right

(Luke 12:56-57).

Doing good things to help poor people on purpose to be seen by people

and receive praise from them is what hypocrites blow their trumpets

(Matthew 6:1-2).

The Lord silences the hypocritical church members

who have cunning thoughts and test His servants with their words

(Matthew 22:15, 18, 22).

What hypocrites keep well are not God's commandments,

but traditions and man-made laws

(Mark 7:7-8).

The great mistake made by hypocrites in the church

who do not know the Bible and the power of God

is that they think that God is the God of dead people

(Mark 12:24, 27).

What comes from the heart of a hypocrite

who honors God with his lips but whose heart is far from Him defiles a person.

However, hypocrites are keeping laws made by people

who, on the surface, have nothing to do with God's commandments

(Mark 7:6-8, 15, 20).