You may be
able to hide from man, but you can hide from God. The Pharisees and the
Sadducees were rebuked several times by Jesus. Are lesson here is not to be
like them.
As Jesus
watched the huge crowds waiting to hear him, he warned his disciples against
hypocrisy-trying to appear good when one's heart is far from God. The Pharisees
could not keep their attitudes hidden forever. Their selfishness would grow
like yeast, and soon they would expose themselves for what they really
were-power hungry impostors, not devoted religious leaders. It is easy to be
angry at the blatant hypocrisy of the Pharisees, but each of us must resist the
temptation to settle for the appearance of respectability when our hearts are
far from God.
Luke 12:1-3 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. 2
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid,
that shall not be known. 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.
The Lord's
prayer
Matthew 16:5-6
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they
love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that
they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 6 But
thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy
door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in
secret shall reward thee openly.
Here are scriptures
that God see all things. The bible tells us that if you would judge yourself we
should not be judged of what we say is good before God, when in fact, we are true hypocrites.
1
Corinthians 11:32 But
when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be
condemned with the world.
Jeremiah
16:17 For mine eyes are upon all
their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from
mine eyes.
Luke 8:17 For
nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid,
that shall not be known and come abroad.
Hebrews 4:13
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things
are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
When sin
entered the world it become uncovered of its shame of sin. We need to cover ourselves
with the true Holy Spirit of God, and the blood that has cleansed us of the
displeasing shame of sin before God.
Hebrew 13:12
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood,
suffered without the gate.
Pastor
Rolando Ramos
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