This series is about things Jesus is FOR. Today’s sermon was that Jesus is FOR authenticity.
Matthew 23
Don’t let hypocrites be your excuse not to experience a relationship with Christ. You may not like how someone else is acting but doesn’t mean you shouldn’t live an authentic life.
There are indicators that you are hypocritical and care too much about exterior such as what you wear, where you go and who sees you, what you are called (title).
Jesus corrected religious more than he corrected the sinful. The condemned are already condemned but redeemed should act like it.
There are consequences to our hypocrisy:
v. 13 – We keep people out of heaven. Your faith is not real and not showing others how to have real faith.
v. 15 – You reproduce who you are not what you know
v.16-22 – If you say you’re going to do it, do it. No need to make promises and not keep them.
Work on the internal reality not the external show.
If you change your heart, your actions will follow. When we live out our faith, we open up the gates of Heaven and show people who God is.
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