"How to be a hypocrite"
Romans 2:1-16
How to be a hypocrite…
1. Have a warped view of God's kindness. v 1-4. You have no excuse, all you who pass judgement on others. You are condemning yourself! Paul is probably talking about the Jews.
v 4 Three attributes of God. God's kindness should lead us to repentance, a change of mind and heart. Turning from sin, turning toward God. The prodigal's brother also missed God's heart
2. Think you're better than others v 5-11. The correct posture is to bow to Jesus on the cross, not to tell God who to get. Don't be stubborn and unrepentant. Don't store up for yourself the wrath of God.
v 6 comes from Psalm 62:12 one group serves God, the other group serves themselves…they'll get wrath and indignation. Let scripture interpret scripture. Paul is saying that if you are a child of God you're gonna want to do good things for God, to bear fruit for Him.
Do Christians still sin? Yes. "A lost man leaps into sin and loves it. A saved man laspses into sin and loathes it" - Adrian Rogers, former pastor of Bellvue Baptist Church in Memphis.
Parable the man prays God thank you for not making me like these other people
3. Forget that God knows and sees everything v 12-16. You can fool a lot of people but you can't fool God. God will judge the secrets. If you forget this, you'll start acting like a hypocrite.
What should our response be? Remember the value of regularly confessing our sins. In the following verse, insert your own name...
I John 1:9 "if Dave confesses his sin, God is faithful and righteous so that he will forgive Dave of his sin and cleanse Dave from all unrighteousness
Steps to repentance…
1. Be honest about my need for repentance.
2. Confess my specific sins
3. Express regret for what I have done
4. Ask God for forgiveness
5. Commit to change
6. Accept God's forgiveness and cleanings…I need to forgive myself.
Brian Fox Sunday School
Store up treasure in heaven.
Luke 12:13-21 be generous to God, then don't be anxious about your life. It's your Father's good pleasure to provide for you. We don't know what that will look like.
Luke 4 Jesus reads from Isaiah
2 Cor 8:9
I Tim 17:19
Prov 21:13
Prov 19:17
Lev 22:24 be generous to the poor
V 13 a lesson in greed. In Deuteronomy the story of Jacob and Esau.
As a Christian we should view the immigrant first through the lens of the Gospel. A complex issue, as Jim Denison wrote about last week. (ME: politicians running the US government are supposed to act in the best interests of the US citizens who elected them). Funding was cut off for those already in the US that the World Relief organization has 4000 families they are responsible for. Want to help?
Ronald Reagan's last words as President: "a city set on a hill".
James 5
24 in attendance
Store up treasure in heaven.
Luke 12:13-21 be generous to God, then don't be anxious about your life. It's your Father's good pleasure to provide for you. We don't know what that will look like.
Luke 4 Jesus reads from Isaiah
2 Cor 8:9
I Tim 17:19
Prov 21:13
Prov 19:17
Lev 22:24 be generous to the poor
V 13 a lesson in greed. In Deuteronomy the story of Jacob and Esau.
As a Christian we should view the immigrant first through the lens of the Gospel. A complex issue, as Jim Denison wrote about last week. (ME: politicians running the US government are supposed to act in the best interests of the US citizens who elected them). Funding was cut off for those already in the US that the World Relief organization has 4000 families they are responsible for. Want to help?
Ronald Reagan's last words as President: "a city set on a hill".
James 5
24 in attendance
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