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PRIORITIES:
The
Worse Hypocrisy
What
was so bad about [the Pharisees'] hypocrisy? If we think of it as consisting
merely in their teaching or pretending one thing while in fact practicing
something contradictory, we will miss Jesus' main point. What He nailed
them for was that they were using God and the things of God as a means
to some other end. That's what was insidious about the Pharisees' example.
"They do all their deeds to be noticed by men" (Matt. 23:5). ... Theirs
was a problem of priorities: their first priority was social status, to
which end God was but a means. What greater affront to God could there
be? Better to ignore Him altogether than to exploit Him as a means to something
else you value more highly.
-- John
Boykin in The Gospel of Coincidence. Christianity Today, Vol. 39,
no. 5.
See: Ps 50:16; Mt
3:7; Lk 6:46.
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