PREACH TRUTH TO YOURSELF ON SOUL-WINNING

 James 3:1 “My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation”

 

ü  No one is more influential in your life than you are. Because no one talks to you more than you do.

ü  Watch for the dangerous false gospel of this last day that will lure our lives away from what we say we believe. Check your defensive and offensive gospel that justify self to the detriment of our eternal destiny.

Hypocrisy – presenting ourselves as something that we know we are not – is one of the most subtle and dangerous of sins. Seven times Jesus thundered against the religious leaders of His day, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites” (Matt. 23)

It is a perpetual danger for the religious, and especially for religious leaders. It is the root of sin.

Hypocrisy deceives the hypocrite, damages unbelievers, and dishonors God. (Rom. 2)

At the heart of this process is this basic principle:

1.       Hypocrisy deceives the hypocrite because he knows the truth but doesn’t obey it.

2.       The hypocrite is deceived because he knows God’s commandments, but does not obey them on the heart level.

3.       The hypocrite is deceived because he boasts in God, not to honor God, but to honor himself.

4.       The hypocrite is deceived because he knows theological fine points, not for the purpose of obedience, but to impress others.

5.       The hypocrite is deceived because he confidently teaches others, but does not apply the Word to himself.