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This episode of All In with Pastor Jordan Easley has
been made possible by the generous support of viewers like you.
Welcome to All In with Pastor Jordan Easley. Today's message
is about to begin, and we invite you to prepare
your heart and mind to hear an inspiring message from
God's Word. We hope and pray for God to speak
to you today as you seek to live your life
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all in for Jesus Christ. And now from First Baptist
Church in Cleveland, Tennessee, here is Pastor Jordan Easley.
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A couple weeks ago, I was in our community and
I had the opportunity to invite someone to church. And
this time, when I asked this person if they would
be willing to come to church, they looked me in
the eyes and they said no way.
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And it kind of caught me off guard.
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To be honest with you, I normally don't get that response,
and I was a little upset at first. I was like, man,
that was kind of rude. Man, just say no way
and walk away.
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And I said, hold on, before you leave, let me
ask you a question. Why won't you come to church?
This is how they responded.
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They said, because there are far too many hypocrites in
that church.
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And at first I was upset.
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I was like, no, there's not But then I thought
about it and I was like, you know what, you're right.
In fact, not only are you right about this church. Listen,
there are far too many hypocrites in every church. And
that's a fact that goes back thousands and thousands of years.
In fact, in the Bible, you rarely see Jesus get
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fired up. There's only a couple of times in the
scriptures where Jesus gets really really upset, and there's one
particular time where Jesus gets irate. I'm talking blood pressure
through the roof, veins popping out of his necks, that.
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Kind of irate.
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And that's when he was addressing religious hypocrisy in the church.
In fact, if you have your Bible, you can go
ahead and turn to Matthew chapter twenty three.
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That's the message I'm talking about.
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It's a message where Jesus was talking to the croad,
he was talking to his diciple, and he was denouncing
the biggest religious hypocrites of that day.
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There was a group of people known as the.
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Pharisees, and in this message, I counted seven different times
where Jesus said these words. He said, woe to you
scribes and pharisees, hypocrites.
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Check it out.
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Seven different times in Matthew chapter twenty three. That's all
the verses where you see these words, and when you
read that, it has to lead you to ask the question,
what was it about the hypocrites that got Jesus so mad?
What was it about hypocrisy that set Jesus off?
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And the funny thing is you don't have to go
very far before Jesus will answer that question.
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In fact, in that chapter he tells you two different
reasons why hypocrisy made him so mad. First one's in
verse three he says they don't practice what they teach.
And the second reason is in verse five he said
they do everything to be seen by others.
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Jesus said, these pharisaical.
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Hypocrites talk the talk, but man, they do not walk
the walk. They were publicly pretending to be something for
personal gain, and Jesus knew that their public persona didn't match.
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Their private reality.
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By the way, if you're taking notes today, I believe
that's a great definition for hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is when your
public persona doesn't match your private reality.
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And the unfortunate thing is when.
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The lost world around us looks within the walls of
the church and they see people that match that description,
it damages the church.
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Would you agree with that, Hey, when people.
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See us as hypocrites in the church, it does damage
to the church.
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And not only that.
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It also distorts the way some people view the Lord.
I read one skeptic that wrote this. He said, a
Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for
what he did on Saturday and is going to do
again on Monday. Hey, listen, if that's what the lost
world sees when they look at us, it's no wonder
that Jesus was so infuriated. The first thing we're going
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to see is this. He's gonna tell us, be holy
in your private life. Be holy in your private life.
I want to remind you of something that we say
a lot around here. We say this, your being will
determine your doing. I want you to get this today.
Your being will determine your doing. In other words, who
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you are will determine what you do. Now One Peter,
Chapter one talks about that. It says, but as the
one who called you is holy.
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You also are to.
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Be holy in all your conduct, for it is written,
be holy because I am holy. Now, don't miss what
the Word of God just said to us today. The
Lord says, you've got to be holy before you can
live a life of holiness. You have to pursue holiness
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if you're going to without holiness. Now, that doesn't mean
that you're going to live a perfect life. It doesn't
mean that you're never gonna make a mistake. But what
it should mean is that you, as a follower of Jesus,
are waking up every single morning pursuing holiness in your life.
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That you're waking up in the morning longing to be
more like.
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Jesus, craving intimacy in your relationship with Christ.
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And let me just say, if that's true in your.
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Life, there ought to be a pattern of you becoming
more and more like Jesus the longer.
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You walk with Him.
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And I'm not talking about your public life right now.
I'm not talking about the life that other people see.
I'm talking about your private life, your personal life, the
one that God sees. Here's a great question for us
to ask of ourselves today. When God sees us. When
he looks at our life, does he see a person
that is privately pursuing holiness and longing to be more
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like Jesus? What does God say when he looks at us?
Because what God sees is what really matters, and it's
going to determine not only who we are, but what
we do. In fact, when you look at the word
of God, he's going to talk.
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In Matthew chapter six, he's going to give.
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Us three different things that we do in secret, and
he's going to talk about these things and how the
Lord responds to him. And if I read these with me,
if you don't mind Matthew.
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Six, verse three.
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But when you give to the poor, don't let your
left hand know what your right hand is doing, so
that your giving may be in secret, and your father,
who sees in secret, will reward you verse six. But
when you pray, go into your private room, shut your
door and pray to your father, who is in secret,
and your father, who sees in secret, will reward you
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verse seventeen. But when you fast, put oil on your
head and wash your face so that you're fasting isn't
obvious to others, but to your father, who is in secret,
and the Father who sees in secret.
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Will reward you.
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Pattern there, listen, He tells us, if you're doing something
on the outside to be seen by others, to be
applauded by others, to be acknowledged by others.
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Then you have received your reward. You say, well, what
is the reward? Well, I just told you it's to
be seen. You were applauded, you were acknowledged before others.
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But on the other hand, he tells you, if your
generosity in giving or your persistence in praying is motivated
by your desire to please the Lord, or to draw
close to the Lord, or to put a spotlight on
the Lord, get this today, The father who sees in
secret will reward you.
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That's the word of God.
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Hey, this tells us Christianity doesn't begin with your doing.
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It begins with your being.
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And the Bible tells us, if you're being doesn't match
your doing, you're a hypocrite. But if you're being matches
you're doing, And both of those things are pursuing holy
and pressing into Jesus. The Bible says, once again, your
father who sees in.
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Secret will reward you.
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So Jesus begins this passage, and he tells us, hey,
be holy in your private life.
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Point your life to Jesus.
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Personally and privately, and pursue him first and foremost. Secondly,
he tells us not only be holy in your private life,
but be humble in your public life. Be humble, Jesus
tells us in verse one, be careful not to practice
your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them.
Otherwise you have no reward with your father in heaven.
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When he talks about being seen by others, that word
seen also comes from the Greek. It's a Greek term
meaning theater. It literally means something to be stared at.
So right here Jesus is referring to those same Pharisees
that he was talking about in Matthew chapter twenty three,
and he was saying, hey, we should all be righteous,
we should all live a life of godliness, but we
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shouldn't put on a show for the people around us.
And John chapter twelve, verse forty three, Jesus talks about
these Pharisees again, and this is what he said about him.
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He said, for they loved human praise more than praise
from God. You've got to understand the Pharisees.
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The Pharisees had a reputation for knowing the word of God,
which is awesome, for teaching the Word of God, which
is commendable. But these guys also had a reputation for
praying these elaborate prayers with flowery language, and the purpose
of those prayers were meant to impress the people who
heard them.
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These guys were putting on religious shows, and these.
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Prayers were like spectacles that put a spotlight on these men,
and people would hear him praying. The man that dude
can pray, right, I mean, that guy, he must be.
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Really close to the Lord. And here's what Jesus says.
He said that right there infuriates me and.
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Matthew sixty five. Jesus said, whenever you pray, you must
not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray
standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to
be seen by people. Truly, I tell you they have
their reward. That's what Jesus says about that. Hey, some
of you hear that. You're like, does that mean we
shouldn't pray in church? I mean, I don't want to
pray too good? Right, and be that guy. But here's
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what I want you to say. It's not condemning public prayer.
What this is condemning is an unrighteous motivation in prayer.
It's not about what you do, It's about your heart.
Jesus is looking at your heart and he's saying, hey,
an unrighteous motivation in prayer is dangerous. In other words, hey,
I pray in public all the time. But if I
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ever pray in public for the sole purpose of impressing you,
the Lord tells me, hey, Jordan, you have your reward.
You have your reward, and you won't be rewarded from
your Father in heaven.
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And guess what.
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I take that very seriously. I believe all of us
should take that very serious. Listen, I've been in churches.
I grew up in a church where men would stand
up on platforms and they'd raise their hand and look
super spiritual, and they would pray the most poetic prayers
from the King James that you have ever heard.
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And I'm looking at these guys and be like, dude
has practiced that all week long in the mirror. He
had to. It was that good.
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But you walk away and you're like, I'll never be
that religious I'll never be that godly.
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And you're like so impressed with these prayers.
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But when I was about nine years old, I was
also at the driving range and I saw that same
guy with a beer in a hand and a dip
of Copenhagen in his lip, and he's cursing like a sailor.
That was super confusing for me as a child. And
some of you have experienced similar things. You're like, how
in the world can that be that guy? And that
be that guy.
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Here's what Jesus said. If you are that guy, you
better be careful.
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He said, don't pray like a hypocrite and put on
a show. Make sure your prayer is an extension of
your life. Verse six goes on to say, but when
you pray, go into your private room, shut your duels,
and pray to your father who is in secret. And
your father, who sees in secret, will reward you. That
word reward if you write in your Bible, go ahead
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and circle that word.
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That word reward, it literally means to be paid in full.
You will be rewarded right by your fault. You have
been paid in full. If your life is lived as
a hypocrite, if you're pretending to be something that you're not.
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If you're portraying yourself to be godlier than you really are,
you may receive the applause and the approval of men,
but in doing so you forfeit your opportunity to receive
the glory of God and the blessings of God.
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And who wants that? Who wants to forfeit that right?
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But he tells us clearly, if you live to impress people,
their admiration is your full payment.
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But on the other side, if.
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You live your life to impress God, he will reward
you in.
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Ways that people simply cannot.
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Is it?
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In this passage Jesus gets very practical.
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You got to remember that he's primarily speaking to a
Jewish audience in the Sermon on the Mount.
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And what you may not realize.
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Is Jewish people had three primary ways of practicing religion
and pursuing righteousness.
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Those three ways are simple.
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It's by giving and by praying, and by fasting, giving, praying, fasting.
It has been that way for a long time. There's
nothing wrong with any of those three things. By the way,
Jesus fully expected his disciples to practice all three of
those things.
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Not only did he expect it. Then I believe he
expects it now.
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He expects us to practice giving in generous ways. He
wants us praying, and he also wants us fasting. And
that's why he warns us in the scriptures to practice
these things with a pure heart and with proper motivation,
and to avoid putting on a show.
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He tells us, hey, when you.
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Give, and if you give for the wrong reasons, if
you give with the wrong motivation, God writes down a
zero when it comes to your reward forgiving. He says,
when you pray, if you're praying in the wrong posture,
if you're praying and your heart is in the wrong position,
that God basically shuts his ears and says, I'm not
going to listen to your prayer until your heart is right.
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He says the same thing about fasting.
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Hey, if you're going to fast for the sole purpose
of bragging about fasting.
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To all your Christian friends.
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If you're going to fast and be like, I'm not
gonna eat food for ten days and I'm going to
tell all my buddies that I'm doing this, he says, man,
you're wasting your time, You're starving yourself. You might as
well get a pizza and some ice cream on the
way home. But it's not about it's not about your doing,
it's about your being. God's looking at your heart and
he's saying, what's the motivation here? He said, Hey, be
holy in your private life, be humble in your public life,
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and thirdly, be honorable in your personal life.
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Be honorable. As a Christian, we have to understand the
way the world works, especially when when it comes to
lost people. Hey, let me tell you. Non believers don't
read their Bibles. They read us.
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Your non believing friends are not at home right now
digging into the Word of God to try to get
some truth. They're not reading their Bibles. They're reading to you. Therefore,
your life and my life should be lived in a
way that makes non believers question their disbelief about God.
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I asked yourself that question.
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Hey, does my life lead my non believing friends to
a point of them questioning their disbelief about God?
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Here's the thing.
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If you're the real deal, if you're living your life
for the Lord, people can tell, people can tell, and God.
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Will use you. You say, how do I know if
somebody is the real deal or not?
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How can I tell if they're real or if they're fake. Well,
Jesus answers that question in Matthew chapter seven, verse sixteen.
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You know what he said. You will recognize them by
their fruit.
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Listen, If you have a real relationship with God God,
and you're living in the spirit of God, and He's
redeemed you, and he's restored you, and he's forgiven you,
and he's made.
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You brand new. If your life is being.
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Lived in the light, then that ought to be a
testimony of the transformation of God that you've experienced. Your
life ought to be a living testimony that shows the
goodness and the glory and the miracle of God what
he can do with somebody if he gets a hold
of their life. Let me ask you, is your life
real or is it fake? Does your doing match your being?
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What does the fruit say about your life? Because the
truth is the fruit reveals the truth, and people can
tell if you're real or if you're fake. How many
of you have ever heard of the United States Secret Service?
Raise your hand if you've heard of that before. Many
of us have heard of the Secret Service. If I
were to ask you what you believe the purpose of
the Secret Service is today, what would you say, say
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it out loud, to protect the president.
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How many of you say to protect the president? Yeah,
most of us would say that.
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I learned something new this week about the US Secret Service.
Come to find out, the Secret Service was created way
back in the year eighteen sixty five, and it was
created in sixty five as a branch of the US
Treasury Department Treasury Department for the sole purpose of what
of combating the counterfeiting of US currency, Which tells you
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I mean the original Secret Service agents.
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They didn't look like men in black.
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They weren't wearing the suit with the earpiece and the sunglasses.
Secret Service agents going all the way back to the
eighteen hundreds were men and women wearing lab coats, inspecting
twenty dollars bills ten to twelve hours a day, trying
to see if these bills were real or if these
bills were fake. I believe it or not, the Secret
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Service is still who's in charge of that today? I
read one author that was talking about the training these
agents received in order to perform their jobs, and I
found this to be interesting. He said, federal agents don't
learn to spot counterfeit money by studying the counterfeits they
study genuine bills until they master the look and the feel.
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Of the real thing.
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Then when they come across bogus money, they recognize it.
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I thought that was pretty interesting.
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If you're learning to spot a counterfeit or a phony,
you don't study other phonies.
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You study the real thing, And.
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The closer you get to the real thing, the easier
it is to spot the phony. I've heard many skeptics
of Christianity make comments over the years claiming things like
this God isn't real, claiming things like Christianity is fake,
claiming that real Christians don't exist simply because they know
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there are hypocrites in the church.
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Well, let me address that real quick.
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Let me just take a second to say a word
to those of you who are still trying to use
holy hypocrisy as an excuse to reject the church or
to reject Christianity. I just want to make this abundantly clear,
and first, I want to admit that you're right on something.
There are hypocrites in every single church.
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I'm not going to argue that, but I want you
to keep this in mind.
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All hypocrites are sinners, but not all sinners are hypocrites.
Can I get an amen from somebody who's not a hypocrite. Amen,
I want to try to draw a line of distinction
and show you the difference between sin and hypocrisy for
just a second. The Bible says, from the very beginning
that we are all sinners.
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Would you agree with that? Shake your head, every single
one of us.
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I've never met somebody that says I'm not a sinner,
I've never sinned. All of us are are sinners. And
that goes back to Roman chapter three, verse twenty three.
The Bible says, for all of sin and fallen short.
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Of the glory of God.
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So the Bible says, we're all messed up, we've all sinned,
and we're all in the same place.
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We start in the same place.
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Now, how we respond to our sin will determine what side.
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We land on here. It'll determine if we are.
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Sinners saved by the grace of God, or if we're
hypocrites that are actually separated from God. And let me
explain the way that this works. The Bible says once
again that all of us experience moments of hypocrisy.
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I have all of us.
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Have Going back to Romans three, we all sin, We
all fall short, we make mistakes, we stray. All of
us know what it's like to fall away.
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But in those moments, God sins conviction to our heart.
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That's when you feel bad. You feel like, oh no,
I know that I've made a mistake. And when we
feel conviction, we have the opportunity to respond to our sin.
We have the opportunity to respond in repentance, where we
turn away from our sin and turn to Jesus and
turn to the Lord. Or we can keep living in sin.
But when we turn away from our sin and turn
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to Christ, now we wake up in the morning and
we're living our life pursuing God and not pursuing sin.
Now we wake up in the morning and we're turning
away from the things that we in the flesh want
to do, and we're turning to Jesus understanding that he's
called us to a different way of life. And now
our lives are being lived not according to our feelings,
they're being lived according to the word of God. You
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get it, hey, Repentance makes us right with God. Repentance
turning from our sin. That choice of turning away from
our sin and turning to God. Repentance makes us right
with God. Here's what I want to be clear. All
of us experience moments of hypocrisy, and some of us
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choose to turn from that hypocrisy and turn to Jesus.
But the truth is, not all people choose to repent.
So we all have moments of hypocrisy, but some of
us choose to live a life of hypocrisy, a life
of hypocrisy, which is completely different than having just moments.
You see, a life of hypocrisy is where we choose
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to remain in our sin and we refuse to repent
from our sin. This is where we say my way
is better than God's way. And the truth is, there
are a lot of people that claim that they love God,
people that he and show up for church on a
Sunday morning, that say, you know what, I'm refusing to
turn away from sin. I'll be a good person, but
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I'm not going to be a God person.
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And you know it's true.
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Listen, there are people in just about every church in
the country that want the benefits of God. We want
the blessings of God, but we refuse to repent and
to surrender to God. And that mindset might seem reasonable
to some of us here today, but let me just
tell you that mindset will get you absolutely nowhere with the.
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Lord and one John three nine.
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He says this, everyone who has been born of God
does not sin because his seed remains in him.
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He is not able to sin.
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Because he has been born of God. One of the
scariest verses you've ever read. If you don't know what
he's talking about. Because you read that, you're like, oh, dude,
I'm in trouble because I sin pulling into the church
parking lot when that guy cut me off.
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Right, So some of us are like, oh, no, I'm sinning.
What in the world.
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It's not talking about your momentary sin and he says
you're unable to sin. He's talking about a lifestyle sin.
The Lord tells us this, when you are saved by God,
you are fully surrendered to God. And if you are
surrendered to God, you cannot live a life that's in
opposition to God. You see, if you're living a life
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in opposition to God, then that means you're not surrendered
to God.
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And if you're not surrendered to God, that means you
were never saved by God.
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You can find people in every church who are living
a lifestyle that is an opposition to God, a lifestyle
of hypocrisy, and the skeptic says, aha, I told you.
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There's hypocrites in the church. Let me ask you a question.
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Just because there's a hypocrite in the church, does that
mean that all of this is fake? Does it negate
the fact that there are other sinners like us who
have repented from their sin and been saved and who
are following the Lord today is born again believers.
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Absolutely not. That doesn't mean that all this is fake,
just means that some people are missing it.
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Hey, let me ask you why would someone want to
counterfeit a twenty dollars bill?
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Three reasons. Number one, because a twenty dollars.
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Bill has value, Number two because a twenty dollars bill
is real, And thirdly, because a twenty dollars bill is recognizable.
We all know what it looks like. Let me ask
you this, how many times have you heard of someone
counterfeiting a thirty dollar bill?
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Anybody? Hey, why wouldn't you counterfeit a thirty dollars bill?
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Let me tell you because it has no value, because
it isn't real and it isn't recognizable.
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In the same way, to say that.
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Christianity isn't real, or that Christ doesn't save, or that
sinners can't be changed simply because there are some in
the Church who are hypocrites. If you think about it,
that argument doesn't even make sense. The presence of a
counterfeit doesn't negate the reality.
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Of the real.
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It proves that there is a real because you don't
counterfeit something that doesn't exist.
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Think about that.
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And in the same way, the very fact that there
are hypocrites in the church pretending to be Christians and
portraying themselves to be something that they're not, that one
simple fact doesn't disprove Christianity. It proves Christianity. Listen, I'm
glad they're hypocrites in the church. I wake up every
Sunday begging God to send hypocrites to the church. You
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know why, because the church is exactly where hypocrites need
to be. Listen, you got to hear the truth if
you're going to respond.
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To the truth. And let me just tell you something.
If you're not the real deal right now, if your walk.
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Doesn't really match your talk, if the fruit of your
life doesn't match the testimony of your lips, Jesus Christ
can change you.
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Welcome to All In with Pastor Jordan Easley. Today's message
is about to begin, and we invite you to prepare
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all in for Jesus Christ. And now from First Baptist
Church in Cleveland, Tennessee, here is Pastor Jordan Easley.
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A couple weeks ago, I was in our community and
I had the opportunity to invite someone to church. And
this time, when I asked this person if they would
be willing to come to church, they looked me in
the eyes and they said no way.
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And it kind of caught me off guard.
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To be honest with you, I normally don't get that response,
and I was a little upset at first. I was like, man,
that was kind of rude. Man, just say no way
and walk away.
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And I said, hold on, before you leave, let me
ask you a question. Why won't you come to church?
This is how they responded.
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They said, because there are far too many hypocrites in
that church.
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And at first I was upset.
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I was like, no, there's not But then I thought
about it and I was like, you know what, you're right.
In fact, not only are you right about this church. Listen,
there are far too many hypocrites in every church. And
that's a fact that goes back thousands and thousands of years.
In fact, in the Bible, you rarely see Jesus get
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fired up. There's only a couple of times in the
scriptures where Jesus gets really really upset, and there's one
particular time where Jesus gets irate. I'm talking blood pressure
through the roof, veins popping out of his necks, that.
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Kind of irate.
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And that's when he was addressing religious hypocrisy in the church.
In fact, if you have your Bible, you can go
ahead and turn to Matthew chapter twenty three.
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That's the message I'm talking about.
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It's a message where Jesus was talking to the croad,
he was talking to his diciple, and he was denouncing
the biggest religious hypocrites of that day.
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There was a group of people known as the.
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Pharisees, and in this message, I counted seven different times
where Jesus said these words. He said, woe to you
scribes and pharisees, hypocrites.
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Check it out.
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Seven different times in Matthew chapter twenty three. That's all
the verses where you see these words, and when you
read that, it has to lead you to ask the question,
what was it about the hypocrites that got Jesus so mad?
What was it about hypocrisy that set Jesus off?
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And the funny thing is you don't have to go
very far before Jesus will answer that question.
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In fact, in that chapter he tells you two different
reasons why hypocrisy made him so mad. First one's in
verse three he says they don't practice what they teach.
And the second reason is in verse five he said
they do everything to be seen by others.
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Jesus said, these pharisaical.
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Hypocrites talk the talk, but man, they do not walk
the walk. They were publicly pretending to be something for
personal gain, and Jesus knew that their public persona didn't match.
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Their private reality.
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By the way, if you're taking notes today, I believe
that's a great definition for hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is when your
public persona doesn't match your private reality.
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And the unfortunate thing is when.
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The lost world around us looks within the walls of
the church and they see people that match that description,
it damages the church.
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Would you agree with that, Hey, when people.
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See us as hypocrites in the church, it does damage
to the church.
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And not only that.
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It also distorts the way some people view the Lord.
I read one skeptic that wrote this. He said, a
Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for
what he did on Saturday and is going to do
again on Monday. Hey, listen, if that's what the lost
world sees when they look at us, it's no wonder
that Jesus was so infuriated. The first thing we're going
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to see is this. He's gonna tell us, be holy
in your private life. Be holy in your private life.
I want to remind you of something that we say
a lot around here. We say this, your being will
determine your doing. I want you to get this today.
Your being will determine your doing. In other words, who
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you are will determine what you do. Now One Peter,
Chapter one talks about that. It says, but as the
one who called you is holy.
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You also are to.
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Be holy in all your conduct, for it is written,
be holy because I am holy. Now, don't miss what
the Word of God just said to us today. The
Lord says, you've got to be holy before you can
live a life of holiness. You have to pursue holiness
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if you're going to without holiness. Now, that doesn't mean
that you're going to live a perfect life. It doesn't
mean that you're never gonna make a mistake. But what
it should mean is that you, as a follower of Jesus,
are waking up every single morning pursuing holiness in your life.
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That you're waking up in the morning longing to be
more like.
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Jesus, craving intimacy in your relationship with Christ.
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And let me just say, if that's true in your.
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Life, there ought to be a pattern of you becoming
more and more like Jesus the longer.
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You walk with Him.
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And I'm not talking about your public life right now.
I'm not talking about the life that other people see.
I'm talking about your private life, your personal life, the
one that God sees. Here's a great question for us
to ask of ourselves today. When God sees us. When
he looks at our life, does he see a person
that is privately pursuing holiness and longing to be more
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like Jesus? What does God say when he looks at us?
Because what God sees is what really matters, and it's
going to determine not only who we are, but what
we do. In fact, when you look at the word
of God, he's going to talk.
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In Matthew chapter six, he's going to give.
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Us three different things that we do in secret, and
he's going to talk about these things and how the
Lord responds to him. And if I read these with me,
if you don't mind Matthew.
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Six, verse three.
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But when you give to the poor, don't let your
left hand know what your right hand is doing, so
that your giving may be in secret, and your father,
who sees in secret, will reward you verse six. But
when you pray, go into your private room, shut your
door and pray to your father, who is in secret,
and your father, who sees in secret, will reward you
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verse seventeen. But when you fast, put oil on your
head and wash your face so that you're fasting isn't
obvious to others, but to your father, who is in secret,
and the Father who sees in secret.
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Will reward you.
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Pattern there, listen, He tells us, if you're doing something
on the outside to be seen by others, to be
applauded by others, to be acknowledged by others.
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Then you have received your reward. You say, well, what
is the reward? Well, I just told you it's to
be seen. You were applauded, you were acknowledged before others.
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But on the other hand, he tells you, if your
generosity in giving or your persistence in praying is motivated
by your desire to please the Lord, or to draw
close to the Lord, or to put a spotlight on
the Lord, get this today, The father who sees in
secret will reward you.
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That's the word of God.
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Hey, this tells us Christianity doesn't begin with your doing.
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It begins with your being.
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And the Bible tells us, if you're being doesn't match
your doing, you're a hypocrite. But if you're being matches
you're doing, And both of those things are pursuing holy
and pressing into Jesus. The Bible says, once again, your
father who sees in.
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Secret will reward you.
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So Jesus begins this passage, and he tells us, hey,
be holy in your private life.
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Point your life to Jesus.
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Personally and privately, and pursue him first and foremost. Secondly,
he tells us not only be holy in your private life,
but be humble in your public life. Be humble, Jesus
tells us in verse one, be careful not to practice
your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them.
Otherwise you have no reward with your father in heaven.
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When he talks about being seen by others, that word
seen also comes from the Greek. It's a Greek term
meaning theater. It literally means something to be stared at.
So right here Jesus is referring to those same Pharisees
that he was talking about in Matthew chapter twenty three,
and he was saying, hey, we should all be righteous,
we should all live a life of godliness, but we
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shouldn't put on a show for the people around us.
And John chapter twelve, verse forty three, Jesus talks about
these Pharisees again, and this is what he said about him.
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He said, for they loved human praise more than praise
from God. You've got to understand the Pharisees.
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The Pharisees had a reputation for knowing the word of God,
which is awesome, for teaching the Word of God, which
is commendable. But these guys also had a reputation for
praying these elaborate prayers with flowery language, and the purpose
of those prayers were meant to impress the people who
heard them.
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These guys were putting on religious shows, and these.
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Prayers were like spectacles that put a spotlight on these men,
and people would hear him praying. The man that dude
can pray, right, I mean, that guy, he must be.
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Really close to the Lord. And here's what Jesus says.
He said that right there infuriates me and.
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Matthew sixty five. Jesus said, whenever you pray, you must
not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray
standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to
be seen by people. Truly, I tell you they have
their reward. That's what Jesus says about that. Hey, some
of you hear that. You're like, does that mean we
shouldn't pray in church? I mean, I don't want to
pray too good? Right, and be that guy. But here's
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what I want you to say. It's not condemning public prayer.
What this is condemning is an unrighteous motivation in prayer.
It's not about what you do, It's about your heart.
Jesus is looking at your heart and he's saying, hey,
an unrighteous motivation in prayer is dangerous. In other words, hey,
I pray in public all the time. But if I
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ever pray in public for the sole purpose of impressing you,
the Lord tells me, hey, Jordan, you have your reward.
You have your reward, and you won't be rewarded from
your Father in heaven.
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And guess what.
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I take that very seriously. I believe all of us
should take that very serious. Listen, I've been in churches.
I grew up in a church where men would stand
up on platforms and they'd raise their hand and look
super spiritual, and they would pray the most poetic prayers
from the King James that you have ever heard.
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And I'm looking at these guys and be like, dude
has practiced that all week long in the mirror. He
had to. It was that good.
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But you walk away and you're like, I'll never be
that religious I'll never be that godly.
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And you're like so impressed with these prayers.
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But when I was about nine years old, I was
also at the driving range and I saw that same
guy with a beer in a hand and a dip
of Copenhagen in his lip, and he's cursing like a sailor.
That was super confusing for me as a child. And
some of you have experienced similar things. You're like, how
in the world can that be that guy? And that
be that guy.
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Here's what Jesus said. If you are that guy, you
better be careful.
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He said, don't pray like a hypocrite and put on
a show. Make sure your prayer is an extension of
your life. Verse six goes on to say, but when
you pray, go into your private room, shut your duels,
and pray to your father who is in secret. And
your father, who sees in secret, will reward you. That
word reward if you write in your Bible, go ahead
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and circle that word.
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That word reward, it literally means to be paid in full.
You will be rewarded right by your fault. You have
been paid in full. If your life is lived as
a hypocrite, if you're pretending to be something that you're not.
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If you're portraying yourself to be godlier than you really are,
you may receive the applause and the approval of men,
but in doing so you forfeit your opportunity to receive
the glory of God and the blessings of God.
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And who wants that? Who wants to forfeit that right?
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But he tells us clearly, if you live to impress people,
their admiration is your full payment.
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But on the other side, if.
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You live your life to impress God, he will reward
you in.
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Ways that people simply cannot.
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Is it?
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In this passage Jesus gets very practical.
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You got to remember that he's primarily speaking to a
Jewish audience in the Sermon on the Mount.
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And what you may not realize.
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Is Jewish people had three primary ways of practicing religion
and pursuing righteousness.
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Those three ways are simple.
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It's by giving and by praying, and by fasting, giving, praying, fasting.
It has been that way for a long time. There's
nothing wrong with any of those three things. By the way,
Jesus fully expected his disciples to practice all three of
those things.
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Not only did he expect it. Then I believe he
expects it now.
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He expects us to practice giving in generous ways. He
wants us praying, and he also wants us fasting. And
that's why he warns us in the scriptures to practice
these things with a pure heart and with proper motivation,
and to avoid putting on a show.
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He tells us, hey, when you.
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Give, and if you give for the wrong reasons, if
you give with the wrong motivation, God writes down a
zero when it comes to your reward forgiving. He says,
when you pray, if you're praying in the wrong posture,
if you're praying and your heart is in the wrong position,
that God basically shuts his ears and says, I'm not
going to listen to your prayer until your heart is right.
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He says the same thing about fasting.
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Hey, if you're going to fast for the sole purpose
of bragging about fasting.
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To all your Christian friends.
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If you're going to fast and be like, I'm not
gonna eat food for ten days and I'm going to
tell all my buddies that I'm doing this, he says, man,
you're wasting your time, You're starving yourself. You might as
well get a pizza and some ice cream on the
way home. But it's not about it's not about your doing,
it's about your being. God's looking at your heart and
he's saying, what's the motivation here? He said, Hey, be
holy in your private life, be humble in your public life,
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and thirdly, be honorable in your personal life.
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Be honorable. As a Christian, we have to understand the
way the world works, especially when when it comes to
lost people. Hey, let me tell you. Non believers don't
read their Bibles. They read us.
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Your non believing friends are not at home right now
digging into the Word of God to try to get
some truth. They're not reading their Bibles. They're reading to you. Therefore,
your life and my life should be lived in a
way that makes non believers question their disbelief about God.
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I asked yourself that question.
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Hey, does my life lead my non believing friends to
a point of them questioning their disbelief about God?
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Here's the thing.
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If you're the real deal, if you're living your life
for the Lord, people can tell, people can tell, and God.
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Will use you. You say, how do I know if
somebody is the real deal or not?
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How can I tell if they're real or if they're fake. Well,
Jesus answers that question in Matthew chapter seven, verse sixteen.
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You know what he said. You will recognize them by
their fruit.
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Listen, If you have a real relationship with God God,
and you're living in the spirit of God, and He's
redeemed you, and he's restored you, and he's forgiven you,
and he's made.
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You brand new. If your life is being.
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Lived in the light, then that ought to be a
testimony of the transformation of God that you've experienced. Your
life ought to be a living testimony that shows the
goodness and the glory and the miracle of God what
he can do with somebody if he gets a hold
of their life. Let me ask you, is your life
real or is it fake? Does your doing match your being?
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What does the fruit say about your life? Because the
truth is the fruit reveals the truth, and people can
tell if you're real or if you're fake. How many
of you have ever heard of the United States Secret Service?
Raise your hand if you've heard of that before. Many
of us have heard of the Secret Service. If I
were to ask you what you believe the purpose of
the Secret Service is today, what would you say, say
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it out loud, to protect the president.
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How many of you say to protect the president? Yeah,
most of us would say that.
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I learned something new this week about the US Secret Service.
Come to find out, the Secret Service was created way
back in the year eighteen sixty five, and it was
created in sixty five as a branch of the US
Treasury Department Treasury Department for the sole purpose of what
of combating the counterfeiting of US currency, Which tells you
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I mean the original Secret Service agents.
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They didn't look like men in black.
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They weren't wearing the suit with the earpiece and the sunglasses.
Secret Service agents going all the way back to the
eighteen hundreds were men and women wearing lab coats, inspecting
twenty dollars bills ten to twelve hours a day, trying
to see if these bills were real or if these
bills were fake. I believe it or not, the Secret
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Service is still who's in charge of that today? I
read one author that was talking about the training these
agents received in order to perform their jobs, and I
found this to be interesting. He said, federal agents don't
learn to spot counterfeit money by studying the counterfeits they
study genuine bills until they master the look and the feel.
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Of the real thing.
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Then when they come across bogus money, they recognize it.
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I thought that was pretty interesting.
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If you're learning to spot a counterfeit or a phony,
you don't study other phonies.
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You study the real thing, And.
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The closer you get to the real thing, the easier
it is to spot the phony. I've heard many skeptics
of Christianity make comments over the years claiming things like
this God isn't real, claiming things like Christianity is fake,
claiming that real Christians don't exist simply because they know
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there are hypocrites in the church.
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Well, let me address that real quick.
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Let me just take a second to say a word
to those of you who are still trying to use
holy hypocrisy as an excuse to reject the church or
to reject Christianity. I just want to make this abundantly clear,
and first, I want to admit that you're right on something.
There are hypocrites in every single church.
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I'm not going to argue that, but I want you
to keep this in mind.
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All hypocrites are sinners, but not all sinners are hypocrites.
Can I get an amen from somebody who's not a hypocrite. Amen,
I want to try to draw a line of distinction
and show you the difference between sin and hypocrisy for
just a second. The Bible says, from the very beginning
that we are all sinners.
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Would you agree with that? Shake your head, every single
one of us.
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I've never met somebody that says I'm not a sinner,
I've never sinned. All of us are are sinners. And
that goes back to Roman chapter three, verse twenty three.
The Bible says, for all of sin and fallen short.
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Of the glory of God.
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So the Bible says, we're all messed up, we've all sinned,
and we're all in the same place.
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We start in the same place.
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Now, how we respond to our sin will determine what side.
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We land on here. It'll determine if we are.
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Sinners saved by the grace of God, or if we're
hypocrites that are actually separated from God. And let me
explain the way that this works. The Bible says once
again that all of us experience moments of hypocrisy.
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I have all of us.
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Have Going back to Romans three, we all sin, We
all fall short, we make mistakes, we stray. All of
us know what it's like to fall away.
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But in those moments, God sins conviction to our heart.
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That's when you feel bad. You feel like, oh no,
I know that I've made a mistake. And when we
feel conviction, we have the opportunity to respond to our sin.
We have the opportunity to respond in repentance, where we
turn away from our sin and turn to Jesus and
turn to the Lord. Or we can keep living in sin.
But when we turn away from our sin and turn
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to Christ, now we wake up in the morning and
we're living our life pursuing God and not pursuing sin.
Now we wake up in the morning and we're turning
away from the things that we in the flesh want
to do, and we're turning to Jesus understanding that he's
called us to a different way of life. And now
our lives are being lived not according to our feelings,
they're being lived according to the word of God. You
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get it, hey, Repentance makes us right with God. Repentance
turning from our sin. That choice of turning away from
our sin and turning to God. Repentance makes us right
with God. Here's what I want to be clear. All
of us experience moments of hypocrisy, and some of us
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choose to turn from that hypocrisy and turn to Jesus.
But the truth is, not all people choose to repent.
So we all have moments of hypocrisy, but some of
us choose to live a life of hypocrisy, a life
of hypocrisy, which is completely different than having just moments.
You see, a life of hypocrisy is where we choose
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to remain in our sin and we refuse to repent
from our sin. This is where we say my way
is better than God's way. And the truth is, there
are a lot of people that claim that they love God,
people that he and show up for church on a
Sunday morning, that say, you know what, I'm refusing to
turn away from sin. I'll be a good person, but
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I'm not going to be a God person.
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And you know it's true.
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Listen, there are people in just about every church in
the country that want the benefits of God. We want
the blessings of God, but we refuse to repent and
to surrender to God. And that mindset might seem reasonable
to some of us here today, but let me just
tell you that mindset will get you absolutely nowhere with the.
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Lord and one John three nine.
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He says this, everyone who has been born of God
does not sin because his seed remains in him.
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He is not able to sin.
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Because he has been born of God. One of the
scariest verses you've ever read. If you don't know what
he's talking about. Because you read that, you're like, oh, dude,
I'm in trouble because I sin pulling into the church
parking lot when that guy cut me off.
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Right, So some of us are like, oh, no, I'm sinning.
What in the world.
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It's not talking about your momentary sin and he says
you're unable to sin. He's talking about a lifestyle sin.
The Lord tells us this, when you are saved by God,
you are fully surrendered to God. And if you are
surrendered to God, you cannot live a life that's in
opposition to God. You see, if you're living a life
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in opposition to God, then that means you're not surrendered
to God.
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And if you're not surrendered to God, that means you
were never saved by God.
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You can find people in every church who are living
a lifestyle that is an opposition to God, a lifestyle
of hypocrisy, and the skeptic says, aha, I told you.
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There's hypocrites in the church. Let me ask you a question.
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Just because there's a hypocrite in the church, does that
mean that all of this is fake? Does it negate
the fact that there are other sinners like us who
have repented from their sin and been saved and who
are following the Lord today is born again believers.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Absolutely not. That doesn't mean that all this is fake,
just means that some people are missing it.
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Hey, let me ask you why would someone want to
counterfeit a twenty dollars bill?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Three reasons. Number one, because a twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Bill has value, Number two because a twenty dollars bill
is real, And thirdly, because a twenty dollars bill is recognizable.
We all know what it looks like. Let me ask
you this, how many times have you heard of someone
counterfeiting a thirty dollar bill?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Anybody? Hey, why wouldn't you counterfeit a thirty dollars bill?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Let me tell you because it has no value, because
it isn't real and it isn't recognizable.
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In the same way, to say that.
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Christianity isn't real, or that Christ doesn't save, or that
sinners can't be changed simply because there are some in
the Church who are hypocrites. If you think about it,
that argument doesn't even make sense. The presence of a
counterfeit doesn't negate the reality.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Of the real.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
It proves that there is a real because you don't
counterfeit something that doesn't exist.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Think about that.
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And in the same way, the very fact that there
are hypocrites in the church pretending to be Christians and
portraying themselves to be something that they're not, that one
simple fact doesn't disprove Christianity. It proves Christianity. Listen, I'm
glad they're hypocrites in the church. I wake up every
Sunday begging God to send hypocrites to the church. You
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know why, because the church is exactly where hypocrites need
to be. Listen, you got to hear the truth if
you're going to respond.
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To the truth. And let me just tell you something.
If you're not the real deal right now, if your walk.
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Doesn't really match your talk, if the fruit of your
life doesn't match the testimony of your lips, Jesus Christ
can change you.
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