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Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk about Your Worship

October 14, 2025 | 27:31

Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk about Your Worship
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk about Your Worship | October 14, 2025
  • ♪ music ♪
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  • From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • During his 33 years on earth,
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  • Jesus encountered all kinds of people,
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  • And do you know which ones bothered him the most?
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  • It wasn't the tax collectors,
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  • It wasn't the thieves or adulterers,
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  • It was the religious phonies.
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  • Their contrived devotion to god was so insincere.
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  • Today, we're going to examine jesus' stern warning
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  • About hypocrisy in our worship,
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  • And discover what it means to give with the right heart
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  • And the right motives.
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  • My message is titled "straight talk about your worship"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Jesus, the master teacher,
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  • Delivered very short sermons.
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  • Did you realize his renowned sermon on the mount
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  • Was only 18 minutes long?
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  • Yes, his sermons were short, but they were revolutionary.
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  • In "18 minutes with jesus,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress breaks down the radical teachings
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  • That jesus packed into just 18 minutes about happiness,
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  • Faith, relationships, prayer, money, eternity, and more.
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  • Request "18 minutes with jesus"
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  • Plus the corresponding study guide when you give
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  • A generous gift to "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • A little boy was seated next to his father
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  • During the church service
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  • And the father grumbled incessantly throughout the service.
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  • He grumbled about the temperature
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  • In the sanctuary being too warm,
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  • About the soloist being off key,
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  • About the preacher preaching too long.
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  • They got into the car and went to the restaurant,
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  • And the father continued to complain.
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  • The waiter was too slow when taking the order,
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  • The food when it came was cold,
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  • And then the father said to his son,
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  • "now let's bow together in prayer.
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  • Dear lord, thank you for our church.
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  • Thank you for our pastor
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  • You used so powerfully this morning.
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  • Thank you for the time of worship we had,
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  • And thank you for the food you've prepared
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  • And set before us today
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  • In jesus' name, amen."
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  • Little boy looked up at his dad and said,
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  • "does god hear everything we say?
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  • "well yes, son."
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  • "well did he hear you this morning
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  • When you were fussing about the service?"
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  • "well yes."
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  • "did god hear you when you complained about the food?"
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  • "yes."
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  • "did god hear you when you just prayed?"
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  • "son, god hears everything we say,
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  • Eat your french fries."
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  • And the little boy looked up and said,
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  • "well what part does he really believe?"
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  • You know, there are two people you can never fool.
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  • One is god who sees everything in our heart,
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  • And the other is a child who is quick
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  • To call out hypocrisy when he sees it.
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  • You know, when i think about hypocrisy,
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  • I think about the definition
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  • Ambrose beers, a journalist gave it one time, he said,
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  • "hypocrisy is a person who professes virtues
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  • That he does not respect
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  • And secures the advantage of seeming to be
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  • What he despises."
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  • That's hypocrisy, pretending to be something
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  • In fact that we are not.
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  • Uncovering hypocrisy,
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  • Whether it's in a christian or an un-christian,
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  • Can be troubling at times,
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  • But hypocrisy, especially in the life of a christian,
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  • Has devastating consequences,
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  • And that's what we're going to see this morning.
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  • If you have your bibles, turn to matthew 6
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  • As we continue our study on the most famous sermon of all,
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  • The sermon on the mount,
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  • A series we're calling "18 minutes with jesus."
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  • And when it comes to worship,
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  • Jesus is going to address our attitudes and actions
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  • And three key expressions of worship,
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  • Giving, praying, and fasting.
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  • Today, we're going to look at what jesus says about giving.
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  • First of all, in verse one,
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  • He sounds a general warning against hypocrisy.
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  • He says, "beware."
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  • Let me stop there for a moment.
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  • Beware. that means something big iscoming.
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  • You know when jesus says you better be aware of something,
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  • We need to sit up and take notice.
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  • It's easy to read this section of the sermon on the mount
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  • And think jesus is just talking about sunday school niceties
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  • Rather than absolute necessities.
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  • No, this is not optional, this is essential
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  • If you want to live pleasing to god, beware,
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  • Beware of what?
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  • Of practicing your righteousness
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  • Before men to be noticed by them.
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  • Otherwise, you will have no reward
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  • With your father who's in heaven.
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  • Nothing caused jesus' stomach to churn
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  • Any more than fake believers.
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  • People who pretended to be something they really weren't.
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  • People who had only a veneer, a facade of christianity,
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  • That wasn't backed up by reality.
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  • You know, when i think about facades,
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  • I remember something that happened to me many years ago
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  • When i was youth minister here.
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  • Every year, we used to have a big halloween celebration.
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  • We'd have a haunted house
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  • Down in ennis, texas on the farm of one of our members,
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  • And we made it in an elaborate production.
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  • And so on the saturday before halloween one year,
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  • I was down there
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  • In ennis working on this haunted house,
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  • And it was taking longer to get the cow guts
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  • And the cow head, everything where it needed to be,
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  • And i knew i was running late,
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  • So i needed to call amy
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  • To tell her i was going to be late coming home.
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  • Well this was in the day before cell phones.
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  • So i looked around and i noticed, we were in a vacant lot,
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  • I noticed across the road,
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  • There was a motel and there was a phone booth standing out
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  • In front of the motel.
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  • So i went over there to call amy.
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  • Remember phone booths?
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  • I went into the phone booth, put my quarter in,
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  • Waited for the dial tone, nothing.
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  • It was absolutely dead.
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  • I was kind of disturbed about that,
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  • So i decided to go over to the office of the motel
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  • To see if i could use the phone.
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  • There was a door that said office.
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  • I knocked on the door, nothing.
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  • Knocked on the door again, nothing.
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  • Finally, i opened the door and it opened into nothing,
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  • A blank field.
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  • I mean when i walked through the door,
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  • It was just an empty field.
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  • I thought, what is this?
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  • Is this the twilight zone, or where am i?
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  • I had stumbled on a movie set
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  • That was being prepared to film that movie
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  • With robert duvall, "tender mercies."
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  • It was all a fake. i didn't know it at the time.
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  • It was just a fake, it was a facade.
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  • It looked real,
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  • But when i made a telephone call, the phone was helpless,
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  • It couldn't help me connect with anybody.
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  • When i looked for somebody in the motel,
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  • There was nobody there because in fact, it was a fake.
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  • Now that's what jesus is talking about here,
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  • Facade christianity.
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  • Looks real until you open it up
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  • And find there is absolutely nothing there whatsoever.
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  • Jesus said beware of that kind of fake christianity.
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  • Beware of people who practice their faith
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  • In order to be seen by others.
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  • Jesus described these people this way in matthew 15:8.
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  • "this people honors me with their lips,
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  • But their heart is far from me."
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  • My mom used to say,
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  • "the one thing people will never forgive you for
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  • Is being able to see through them."
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  • That was jesus.
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  • He was able to see through the pharisees,
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  • And that's why they hated him.
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  • That's why they ended up crucifying him.
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  • Did you know jesus' most scathing indictments
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  • Were not against adulterers
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  • Or murderers or drunkards?
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  • It was against religious hypocrites.
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  • In fact, the most scathing of these denunciations
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  • Is found in matthew 23,
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  • In which jesus pronounced eight woes,
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  • Woes, w-o-e.
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  • Those were divine judgments against hypocrites.
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  • Listen to some of them, matthew 23 beginning with verse 13.
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  • "but woe to you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites,
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  • Because you shut off the kingdom from people."
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  • Verse 14, "woe to you scribes and pharisees,
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  • Hypocrites, because you devour widows' houses."
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  • Verse 15, "woe to you scribes and pharisees,
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  • Hypocrites, because you travel around on the sea
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  • And land to make proselytes.
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  • And when one becomes a proselyte,
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  • You make him twice as much a son of hell."
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  • Verse 33, "you serpents, you brood of vipers,
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  • How will you escape the sentence of hell?"
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  • I found out something interesting this week in my study.
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  • The word hypocrite is used 17 times in the new testament,
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  • And the only person who used that word was jesus.
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  • He was the one who was a specialist on hypocrites.
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  • He denounced hypocrisy. what does hypocrite mean?
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  • Hupokrites is the greek word.
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  • It literally means one who wears a mask.
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  • I didn't know this until this week.
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  • Back in 1990,
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  • There was a large city
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  • That was discovered in northern israel, sepphoris,
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  • And it was right near the little village of nazareth
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  • Where jesus grew up.
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  • In fact, on the hillside where nazareth was located,
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  • Jesus could have looked over as a boy and seen sepphoris.
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  • It was built by herod when jesus was a little boy,
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  • And it's been uncovered
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  • And there's a huge amphitheater in the middle of the town.
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  • Some people actually speculate jesus
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  • When he was a young man may have helped construct
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  • That amphitheater under roman rule,
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  • But in that amphitheater,
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  • Plays would be produced and seen by many people,
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  • And the actors who acted on the stage
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  • Were called hupokrites,
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  • Hypocrites because they wore a mask.
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  • That's what a hypocrite was.
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  • It was an actor who, pretending to be another character,
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  • Would wear a mask
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  • To make people think he was that character.
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  • And at the end of the play, the hupokrites,
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  • The hypocrites would remove their mask to reveal
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  • Who they really were to the applause of people.
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  • Now, jesus with that background
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  • Uses this phrase hupokrites to describe the pharisees.
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  • They are wearing a mask.
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  • They're pretending to be somebody they weren't.
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  • John ortberg the writer notes
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  • That this was an especially stinging indictment
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  • To the pharisees
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  • Because the pharisees prided themselves on the fact
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  • That they never went to the theater.
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  • They never engaged in watching a play.
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  • Kind of like christians today who think they're so spiritual
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  • Because they don't go to a movie,
  • 00:11:17.133 --> 00:11:19.034
  • They watch dvds and streaming on amazon prime,
  • 00:11:19.034 --> 00:11:22.037
  • But they make people think they're spiritual
  • 00:11:22.037 --> 00:11:24.306
  • Because they don't go to a movie,
  • 00:11:24.306 --> 00:11:25.241
  • That was the pharisees.
  • 00:11:25.241 --> 00:11:26.776
  • And for jesus to call these religious leaders hupokrites,
  • 00:11:26.776 --> 00:11:31.380
  • Hypocrites, actors, that was a stinging indictment.
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  • What was the problem?
  • 00:11:35.651 --> 00:11:37.453
  • They performed their good deeds
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  • In order to be seen by men.
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  • That's what jesus is condemning.
  • 00:11:43.092 --> 00:11:45.227
  • Now, if you remember the sermon on the mount,
  • 00:11:45.227 --> 00:11:47.296
  • You may be a little bit confused
  • 00:11:47.296 --> 00:11:49.532
  • Because jesus in matthew 5:16
  • 00:11:49.532 --> 00:11:52.234
  • Just a little bit earlier said,
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  • "you are the salt of the earth.
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  • You are the light of the world.
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  • Let your good works be seen before men
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  • That they may glorify your father in heaven."
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  • Wait a minute, jesus,
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  • You just got through saying
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  • Let people see your good works,
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  • And now you're condemning those
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  • Who practice their righteous acts before god?
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  • Which way is it? which is it, jesus?
  • 00:12:13.589 --> 00:12:15.925
  • It's all in the motive.
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  • Jesus was saying in matthew 5:16, yes,
  • 00:12:18.194 --> 00:12:21.430
  • Practice your good works not so that people will say
  • 00:12:21.430 --> 00:12:24.500
  • What a glorious person you are,
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  • But what a wonderful person god is for the glory of god.
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  • If that is your motive, it's a good thing,
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  • But if you are practicing your worship,
  • 00:12:32.808 --> 00:12:35.377
  • Your righteous acts in order to be seen by other people,
  • 00:12:35.377 --> 00:12:39.415
  • That's a bad thing.
  • 00:12:39.415 --> 00:12:41.150
  • Now before we get into the specific examples
  • 00:12:41.150 --> 00:12:43.652
  • Of this in worship,
  • 00:12:43.652 --> 00:12:45.020
  • Let me just say a word about the causes of hypocrisy.
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  • Why is it some people appear to be
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  • What in fact they aren't?
  • 00:12:51.660 --> 00:12:53.462
  • Sometimes it's because the person is unsaved.
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  • There's nothing inside of them
  • 00:12:57.299 --> 00:12:58.901
  • Because there's nothing inside of them.
  • 00:12:58.901 --> 00:12:59.009
  • Because there's nothing inside of them.
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  • They really aren't saved.
  • 00:13:00.970 --> 00:13:02.872
  • Jesus addressed this issue of fake christians,
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  • People who appear to be christians in his famous parable
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  • Of the wheat and the tares in matthew 13:24-30.
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  • We don't have time to look at it in depth,
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  • But you remember the story.
  • 00:13:15.217 --> 00:13:17.152
  • Jesus talked about a man who had a field
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  • And he planted wheat in it, but at night,
  • 00:13:19.388 --> 00:13:21.490
  • His enemies came in and planted tares, fake wheat,
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  • The darnel seed that at first looks like wheat
  • 00:13:25.794 --> 00:13:28.731
  • When it sprouts up,
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  • But it bears no fruit and it strangles out the real wheat.
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  • The bible says in the world today,
  • 00:13:34.103 --> 00:13:36.739
  • There are genuine christians and fake christians.
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  • Billy graham said one time,
  • 00:13:41.410 --> 00:13:42.645
  • He estimated that 50%
  • 00:13:42.645 --> 00:13:44.013
  • Of the people sitting in pews are fake christians,
  • 00:13:44.013 --> 00:13:47.049
  • Are not truly saved.
  • 00:13:47.049 --> 00:13:48.717
  • The person next to you, no, i won't go there,
  • 00:13:49.652 --> 00:13:51.387
  • But you may be sitting next to a fake christian.
  • 00:13:51.387 --> 00:13:54.957
  • You may be living with a fake christian.
  • 00:13:54.957 --> 00:13:57.593
  • They appear real in what they say,
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  • But there's nothing there on the inside.
  • 00:14:00.429 --> 00:14:02.932
  • A second reason somebody may engage into hypocrisy
  • 00:14:02.932 --> 00:14:05.935
  • Is that they are a spiritually immature person.
  • 00:14:05.935 --> 00:14:09.004
  • They're spiritually immature.
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  • Yes, they're saved,
  • 00:14:10.439 --> 00:14:12.174
  • But they're stunted in their spiritual growth
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  • Because they haven't practiced the truth.
  • 00:14:15.044 --> 00:14:17.947
  • Paul addressed that spiritual immaturity
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  • In 1 corinthians 3.
  • 00:14:19.915 --> 00:14:21.216
  • Remember, he visited the church at corinth,
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  • And then five years later,
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  • He wrote what we call 1 corinthians,
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  • And in writing to them, he said in 1 corinthians 3:1,
  • 00:14:28.023 --> 00:14:30.793
  • "i, paul, could not speak to you as spiritual men,
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  • But as men of the flesh as to infants in christ."
  • 00:14:34.863 --> 00:14:39.335
  • When he came, these were baby christians he said.
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  • I gave you milk to drink,
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  • Not solid food for you weren't able to receive it.
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  • Indeed, even now, you are not able,
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  • For you are still fleshly.
  • 00:14:49.311 --> 00:14:51.580
  • He said, "five years have passed since i was first with you.
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  • You weren't mature then, you're still not mature."
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  • We can't use the word today, it's politically incorrect.
  • 00:14:58.620 --> 00:15:01.657
  • But when an adult acts like a child,
  • 00:15:01.657 --> 00:15:04.526
  • We say that person is mentally challenged, okay?
  • 00:15:04.526 --> 00:15:09.465
  • That's what we say today, but it's a tragedy, isn't it,
  • 00:15:10.599 --> 00:15:13.102
  • When somebody who is 40 years old chronologically
  • 00:15:13.102 --> 00:15:16.839
  • Acts like a 3-year-old?
  • 00:15:16.839 --> 00:15:18.207
  • It's a tragic thing.
  • 00:15:18.207 --> 00:15:19.842
  • The only thing more tragic is when you have somebody
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  • Who should be a mature christian
  • 00:15:22.411 --> 00:15:24.413
  • Acts like a baby christian,
  • 00:15:24.413 --> 00:15:26.749
  • And he said that's the problem
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  • With you corinthian christians.
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  • How did they become spiritually challenged?
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  • Why didn't they grow?
  • 00:15:32.855 --> 00:15:34.256
  • The writer of hebrews answers that in hebrews 5,
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  • Beginning in verse 12,
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  • For though by this time you ought to be teachers,
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  • You have need for somebody
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  • To teach you the elementary principles
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  • Of the oracles of god,
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  • And you've come to need milk, not solid food.
  • 00:15:46.101 --> 00:15:49.338
  • For everyone who protects only of milk is not accustomed
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  • To the word of righteousness, for he is still an infant,
  • 00:15:52.207 --> 00:15:55.310
  • But solid food is for the mature who,
  • 00:15:55.310 --> 00:15:58.580
  • Because of practice,
  • 00:15:58.580 --> 00:16:02.518
  • Have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
  • 00:16:02.518 --> 00:16:05.754
  • Of course, one of the greatest dangers of hypocrisy
  • 00:16:06.822 --> 00:16:10.426
  • Is what it does to unbelievers who look at us.
  • 00:16:10.426 --> 00:16:13.562
  • Christian writer brennan manning said
  • 00:16:13.562 --> 00:16:15.998
  • "the greatest single cause of atheism today
  • 00:16:15.998 --> 00:16:19.968
  • Is christians who acknowledge jesus with their lips
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  • And then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle."
  • 00:16:23.705 --> 00:16:29.011
  • Now, i realize, i mean people can misuse that.
  • 00:16:29.912 --> 00:16:34.917
  • If you're not a believer in christ today, believe me,
  • 00:16:36.018 --> 00:16:37.486
  • Complaining about hypocrites in the church
  • 00:16:37.486 --> 00:16:39.455
  • Is not going to get you into heaven one day.
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  • God's not going to be impressed by your complaint.
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  • When anybody complains to me
  • 00:16:45.327 --> 00:16:46.895
  • When i invite them to church and they say,
  • 00:16:46.895 --> 00:16:48.397
  • "oh, i can't go to church,
  • 00:16:48.397 --> 00:16:49.998
  • There are too many hypocrites in the church,"
  • 00:16:49.998 --> 00:16:52.201
  • My first instinct is just say,
  • 00:16:52.201 --> 00:16:54.036
  • "well come on, you'll feel right at home."
  • 00:16:54.036 --> 00:16:57.339
  • I mean, the church isn't a museum for saints,
  • 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:00.776
  • It's a hospital for sinners.
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  • None of us is perfect.
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  • We go to the grocery store in spite of hypocrites
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  • Because we need the food.
  • 00:17:06.815 --> 00:17:08.283
  • You know, nevertheless,
  • 00:17:08.283 --> 00:17:11.153
  • Many christians who act one way
  • 00:17:11.153 --> 00:17:13.021
  • And profess another way of living are a detour
  • 00:17:13.021 --> 00:17:16.458
  • For some people into heaven.
  • 00:17:16.458 --> 00:17:18.961
  • Now after denouncing hypocrisy in verse one,
  • 00:17:18.961 --> 00:17:22.364
  • He gives us an example of hypocrisy in worship.
  • 00:17:22.364 --> 00:17:25.901
  • Remember, hypocrisy is either
  • 00:17:25.901 --> 00:17:27.870
  • Pretending to be something you're not
  • 00:17:27.870 --> 00:17:29.972
  • Or practicing your righteousness for the wrong motive
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  • To be seen by others.
  • 00:17:33.342 --> 00:17:35.110
  • Now, look at what jesus says.
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  • He's going to talk about giving,
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  • Everybody hold onto your wallets, verse two,
  • 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.950
  • So when you give to the poor,
  • 00:17:42.584 --> 00:17:44.653
  • Don't sound a trumpet before you
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  • As the hypocrites do in the synagogues
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  • And in the streets,
  • 00:17:49.591 --> 00:17:51.527
  • So that they may be honored by men.
  • 00:17:51.527 --> 00:17:53.595
  • Truly, i say to you, they have their reward in full.
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  • First of all, there's a wrong way to give.
  • 00:17:57.833 --> 00:18:00.135
  • When you give to god,
  • 00:18:00.135 --> 00:18:02.271
  • Don't sound the trumpet, verse two.
  • 00:18:02.271 --> 00:18:05.841
  • Now, after explaining the wrong way to give,
  • 00:18:05.841 --> 00:18:08.010
  • To be noticed by others, he explains the right way to give.
  • 00:18:08.010 --> 00:18:11.547
  • Look at verses three and four,
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  • But when you do give, give to the poor.
  • 00:18:13.215 --> 00:18:15.918
  • Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing
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  • So that your giving will be in secret
  • 00:18:20.589 --> 00:18:22.724
  • And your father who sees
  • 00:18:22.724 --> 00:18:24.059
  • What is done in secret will reward you.
  • 00:18:24.059 --> 00:18:28.330
  • Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.
  • 00:18:28.330 --> 00:18:31.300
  • He's talking here about a magician's sleight of hand.
  • 00:18:31.300 --> 00:18:36.305
  • You know, every good magician is really a master
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  • At distraction.
  • 00:18:39.141 --> 00:18:40.742
  • He's able to get your attention with one hand over here
  • 00:18:40.742 --> 00:18:44.513
  • To distract you from seeing
  • 00:18:44.513 --> 00:18:46.248
  • What he's doing really in secret with the other hand.
  • 00:18:46.248 --> 00:18:49.351
  • And jesus is using that imagery here.
  • 00:18:49.351 --> 00:18:51.920
  • He's saying when you give, with one hand,
  • 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:55.791
  • Focus people to god,
  • 00:18:55.791 --> 00:18:57.893
  • Have them focus on the great god you serve
  • 00:18:57.893 --> 00:19:01.296
  • So that they won't even notice what you're doing
  • 00:19:01.296 --> 00:19:03.265
  • With your other hand, which is giving.
  • 00:19:03.265 --> 00:19:05.567
  • Make the focus the glory of god.
  • 00:19:05.567 --> 00:19:08.403
  • And if you do that, if your giving is in secret,
  • 00:19:08.403 --> 00:19:11.406
  • Your father will reward you.
  • 00:19:11.406 --> 00:19:14.543
  • No, in hypocritical giving,
  • 00:19:14.543 --> 00:19:16.211
  • You can either pretend to give
  • 00:19:16.211 --> 00:19:18.280
  • What you really haven't given,
  • 00:19:18.280 --> 00:19:19.548
  • That's one way to be hypocritical.
  • 00:19:19.548 --> 00:19:21.383
  • The other is to do it for the praise of others.
  • 00:19:21.383 --> 00:19:24.019
  • I think about that couple ananias and sapphira,
  • 00:19:24.019 --> 00:19:27.256
  • They illustrate both those aspects
  • 00:19:27.256 --> 00:19:29.191
  • Of hypocritical giving.
  • 00:19:29.191 --> 00:19:30.826
  • Remember, they pledged to give money
  • 00:19:30.826 --> 00:19:33.028
  • They didn't actually give.
  • 00:19:33.028 --> 00:19:34.296
  • They said "we're going to sell this real estate
  • 00:19:34.296 --> 00:19:36.131
  • And give it all to the church," but they didn't give it all.
  • 00:19:36.131 --> 00:19:39.668
  • They lied about what they were giving, and secondly,
  • 00:19:39.668 --> 00:19:42.704
  • They did it for the wrong reason
  • 00:19:42.704 --> 00:19:44.239
  • To be praised by others.
  • 00:19:44.239 --> 00:19:45.641
  • One commentator put it this way,
  • 00:19:45.641 --> 00:19:47.242
  • They were not giving, but buying.
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  • They wanted the praise of men, and they paid for it.
  • 00:19:50.612 --> 00:19:54.983
  • If you want men's praise for your giving,
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  • You can get it.
  • 00:19:59.755 --> 00:20:00.989
  • Just make it public.
  • 00:20:00.989 --> 00:20:02.324
  • Let everybody know what a generous person you are.
  • 00:20:02.324 --> 00:20:05.394
  • But remember, once you've received that praise,
  • 00:20:05.394 --> 00:20:08.797
  • You've been paid in full.
  • 00:20:08.797 --> 00:20:11.767
  • On the other hand,
  • 00:20:11.767 --> 00:20:13.235
  • If you give for the right reasons and give in secret,
  • 00:20:13.235 --> 00:20:15.504
  • Your father will reward you.
  • 00:20:15.504 --> 00:20:18.874
  • How does he reward you?
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  • There are a lot of different ways god can reward you.
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  • Cs lewis said one time,
  • 00:20:23.845 --> 00:20:25.781
  • "whatever gift we give to god
  • 00:20:25.781 --> 00:20:27.616
  • Is immediately touched with immortality."
  • 00:20:27.616 --> 00:20:31.953
  • Isn't that an interesting thing
  • 00:20:31.953 --> 00:20:33.055
  • That what we do here in the few years
  • 00:20:33.055 --> 00:20:35.457
  • God gives us on earth reverberates
  • 00:20:35.457 --> 00:20:37.726
  • In the halls of heaven forever and ever?
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  • I don't say this this morning,
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  • I'm not preaching on this to get you to give any money.
  • 00:20:43.465 --> 00:20:46.101
  • I'm saying to those of you who have given,
  • 00:20:46.101 --> 00:20:48.470
  • And so many of you have given so generously
  • 00:20:48.470 --> 00:20:50.839
  • Through the years,
  • 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:52.107
  • You can rejoice in what you see happening.
  • 00:20:52.107 --> 00:20:54.943
  • I think when jesus said "your father will reward you,"
  • 00:20:54.943 --> 00:20:59.014
  • He wasn't primarily speaking materially.
  • 00:20:59.014 --> 00:21:01.750
  • He was talking about the joy we receive
  • 00:21:01.750 --> 00:21:04.119
  • From being a part of god's kingdom's purpose.
  • 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:06.822
  • And you know the best thing about god's gifts?
  • 00:21:06.822 --> 00:21:09.658
  • They're not one time gifts.
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  • When god rewards us,
  • 00:21:11.860 --> 00:21:13.495
  • It's a gift that pays dividends year after year,
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  • Day after day for all eternity.
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  • That's what paul had in mind i think when he wrote
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  • In 2 corinthians 5:10,
  • 00:21:24.706 --> 00:21:26.575
  • "for we must all appear
  • 00:21:26.575 --> 00:21:28.543
  • Before the judgment seat of christ,
  • 00:21:28.543 --> 00:21:30.812
  • That each one of us may be rewarded
  • 00:21:30.812 --> 00:21:34.816
  • For what we've done in this life, in this body,
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  • Whether it be good or worthless."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • It's such a joy to be joined together
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  • As ambassadors for jesus christ.
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  • God has given us the privilege of representing his cause
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  • To the world in an all out effort to expand his kingdom.
  • 00:21:55.303 --> 00:21:59.775
  • In that spirit, i want to share a story
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  • Of how god is using "pathway to victory"
  • 00:22:01.977 --> 00:22:03.945
  • To make an eternal difference.
  • 00:22:03.945 --> 00:22:05.847
  • A viewer in wisconsin wrote,
  • 00:22:05.847 --> 00:22:07.816
  • "i'm a backsliding christian
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  • And i've really struggled
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  • In my battle with sexual immorality.
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  • But listening to the biblical truths
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  • You shared about temptation and how
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  • To stand against satan's attacks
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  • Have been really helpful for me
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  • To gain victory by god's power over my desires."
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  • What an encouraging testimony about the power of god's word
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  • To transform lives.
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  • And to our faithful supporters,
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  • Especially our pathway partners,
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  • Testimonies like this one
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  • Remind us why this ministry exists.
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  • Through your faithful partnership,
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  • We're piercing the darkness with the light of god's word.
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  • Now please stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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  • In just a moment.
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  • When jesus spoke,
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  • He wasted no time in getting straight
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  • To the heart of what matters most.
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  • Did you realize that his famous sermon on the mount
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  • Can be read in only 18 minutes?
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  • And now in my book called "18 minutes with jesus,"
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  • I'll unpack the radical teaching that jesus shared
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  • With his followers and the famous sermon on the mount.
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  • In his sermon on the mount,
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  • Jesus delivers straight talk about the issues
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  • That matter to you most,
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  • Things like your happiness, faith,
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  • This sermon is more of a constitution
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  • For life in the kingdom of god,
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  • Not something that happens after you die.
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  • So please keep standing with us that we might reach
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  • As many people as possible with the truth of god's word.
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  • Jesus made it very clear,
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  • Our charity is not a platform for pride.
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  • When we give, it should come from a heart
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  • Of worship and praise.
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  • Well, the bible describes another essential part
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  • Of our worship.
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  • It's prayer, but how do we pray in such a way
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  • That god hears us and unleashes his power upon us?
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  • Next time, we're going to see
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  • What jesus said about prayer
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  • In his famous sermon on the mount.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of what's coming up next in our series,
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  • "18 minutes with jesus."
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  • You and i have the ability to talk to the creator
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  • Of the universe anytime we want to.
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  • And by what we say,
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  • We can actually move him into action.
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  • How do we know if we're praying correctly?
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  • How do we pray in such a way that god hears us
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  • And unleashes his power?
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