Stop Faking It! - How to Overcome Hypocrisy in Your Public Life, Part 1

Don't you wish there was an antidote for hypocrisy. Knowing the special injection you get from a doctor that would get rid of all the apartments in your life forever will guess what God has designed an antidote for today to tell you what it is and how to get statements. Thanks for joining us for this Monday edition of living on the shipping chip serves as our Bible teacher on this daily international discipleship program debris today. Chip continues a series stop faking it by presenting God specific antidote to hypocrisy after the teaching he'll be with us to share some additional thoughts about how what is about to share is made a difference in his own journey now. Let's join Chip for his message how to overcome hypocrisy in your public life. Ephesians chapter 5 I got sick as a dog I mean I can't remember ever having left the house and then getting so sick.

I turned around, went home literally went bed and just slept all that I got and I got up a glass of water and slept every one of those times where you're sleeping, thinking, praying, dozing, sleeping, thinking, praying doesn't know what I mean and I just had multiple windows of time where I prayed and and over and over and over and over and over one verse Coming to my mind is Isaiah 3015 says, and rest and repentance, you will be saved in quietness and trust is your strength goes on to talk to Israel say they were not willing but in Reston, repentance, Lord, is there is our message here for me and it wasn't like it came to my mind, two, three, 430×40 times in her wake up does then pray for a while to make a long story short, I figured out the rest part was doing what I was doing, but then after about three or four hours of dozing and rolling and praying.

I begin to ask God what about the repentance part I don't get it.

What is it I like and then I said, Lord, is there is there areas of my life are there blind spots that need to be brought into alignment so that my life is in a life of hypocrisy and then I laid there quietly. Now will go into all that it occurred, but I I don't know if I've had a timer got his more lovingly, more gently but more pointedly rebuke me things like motives, things like what you do and why you doing and how you unconsciously view yourself. How do you overcome hypocrisy in your life, and as we go there want you to pull out your teaching hand out to do some real work tonight and pull out a pen. If you have it is when I need to really do some deep thinking is when we can ask and answer the question how to overcome hypocrisy in your life. It raises some pretty fundamental questions we have to do some pretty deep research and so I put for you. What I call a theology of hypocrisy. In other words, if I hate to be a hypocrite, and God doesn't want me to be hypocrite okay got that if God is given me the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling as a believer in the same power that raised Christ from the dead dwells in me then why do I still struggle with sin.

Why do I still do what I don't want to do. Why are there times it before I can even react. I hear stuff coming out of my mouth that makes me look a lot better than his true and that I'll be walking way and just realize why did you say that has this ever happened to anyone else. So what I want to do is only give me some some teaching him to give you a theology you need to understand why that happens because until you do. You won't be able to apply the solution got to give us notice in my theology of hypocrisy. There is number one, a fact the fact is, therefore if any man is in Christ, he's a new creature.

The old things passed away, behold, new things have come when a man or woman places their faith in Jesus Christ. You become a bran new creation. You are a new person got that.

That's a fact. Second, we have the evidence when this actually occurs. Notice what first John five first John one, 5 to 7, says says God is light in him there is no darkness if we claim we have fellowship with him. God yet walk in darkness, we lie, we do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his son, purifies us from all sin.

New life always produces a new lifestyle. People can go to a camp they can read a religious book they can come to this church and I prayed to receive Christ if there's no evidence of any change in their life, what you know is something didn't happen. Bran new creatures in Christ have new lifestyles, but now we got a problem, there's a dilemma.

Many of us have seen God change our lives significantly. I'm a new creature in Christ. I want to walk in the light but I've got this dilemma. How come even as a child of God walking in the light.

I step into the darkness noun notice with the very next verse says in first John. Look at verse eight.

The dilemma if we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us will the new life does not mean that we never sin is not sinless perfection. The new life does mean one.

We have a relationship now with God through Christ. It does mean that our sins are forgiven.

It does mean we have the power not to sin but it doesn't mean that works seamlessly perfect means a radical changes occurred were brand-new creature, but now were living in this fallen world, the spirit of God is come in. We've been pulled out of the kingdom of darkness in the kingdom of his beloved son, the kingdom of light transformation occurs, but now there's a battle going on and you don't live perfectly every day and I don't live perfectly every day and no one dies nor will anyone ever do that but progressively your life will be transformed and ever increasing degrees of Christ likeness and love and kindness and holiness. Where's the battle battle is for the flesh, such as desire against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another so that this you may not do the things that you please the holy spirit produces a holy life, but your flesh, my flesh, those innate desires that are drawn toward a fallen world to lust for greed and to take them to be selfish those two things are always battling one another and so you're this brand-new creature you've been transformed you in a process of being transformed, but you're also in the midst of the battle of the final thing I want to ask and answers so how does a transformation. How do you really change is about trying hard is it going to church is becoming religious.

How does real change occur from the inside out authentically so that what you say in your motives and how you act and how you be behave line up significantly perfectly note. Not till Jesus comes back where you go get to see him, but not a life where you say I love God I care for people and you cheat in your why and you do things you know are wrong and you project something that's this, but it's really that notice. The final part of our theology of hypocrisy is the process. First John 32 very interesting passage. It says, beloved, we are now children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be K week we've been born again into God's family, and we don't know is no one none of us is made the heaven we don't know what were to be, but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him.

Why, because we shall see him just as he is theologian sometimes call this the beatific vision what they mean is the moment that you see Christ face-to-face in that instant will be transformed to be like. Notice how the process occurs. Second Corinthians chapter 3 verses 17 and 18 now the Lord is the spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord. Notice it's a process, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, justice from the Lord, the spirit and wish we had time to study that you can do it on your own personal check market sector themes three. It's the contrast between the old covenant or the old arrangement and the new covenant and the old covenant, Moses member, he would meet God face-to-face. What happened to Moses when it got face-to-face.

His face, it was shine because it was in the presence of God. Anytime you get in here and you meet God authentically whatever he's like begins to transform and make you like him so Moses would come down and he would blow people away and I go well and so he put this little veil over his face so that he would talk to. Now here's what he did.

He became hypocrite after period of time out of the presence of God. The glow would start to go away and Moses would go out and talk to people. So guess what he did.

He put the veil up to pretend that he was still glowing underneath you what that's called hypocrisy.

Now the New Testament writer says but we New Testament saints, because the Spirit of God lives within us, but we with unveiled faces beholding as in a mirror not perfectly that as a mere glory of the Lord who he really is, are being transformed out from glimpse to glimpse from glory to glory, justice from the Lord, the spirit that is the theology of hypocrisy and so what you understand is the fact is your new creature.

If you're in Christ. The evidence is a is a lifestyle of change. The dilemma is you still sin. The battle was the flesh against the spirit and the process is a ready for this.

The process is by whatever means God has ordained.

The more you get to see him engage him experience him for who he really is, to that degree you will be transformed and conformed to the image of Christ. Do you know what God's means and plan for you to CMS well and turn the page and nothing worship is God's antidote for hypocrisy. What happens when you worship you encounter God.

Christ is lifted up you sing songs that have content to talk about his character and his love and his holiness and about his program redemption and love and reconciliation. When you worship. Whether it's corporately or whether it's privately whether to moment by moment driving the car. When you worship and encounter God and see him for who he is, to the life of the person through reading his word by singing songs of praise or by meditating on truth when you see God you will become like him.

And when you become like him from the inside out. Guess what happens to hypocrisy fades away less with our cortex. Ephesians chapter 5 verses 15 to 21. Let me read it in the context so that we remember this whole passage is about how we live.

How we walk our behavior our lifestyle. Verse 15 says will be very careful then how you live or walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity. Why, because the days are evil. Children of light, need to live like light and salt in the evil day.

Therefore, don't be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will will what's as well to verbs are both commands negatively.

The Lord's will is don't get drunk on wine wide and leads to debauchery leads to a lifestyle that's ungodly painful brings her to you and runs God's reputation second verb. It's a command will what is God's will for us not to get drunk on wine instead be filled with the spirit.

What's that mean to be filled means to be controlled right. He has control over your life to commands to verbs than for participles member and English participles are ING words and they coordinate with the main verbs. So if you are filled with the spirit you get to be speaking, singing, giving thanks and submitting speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus submit are literally at submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Worship is God's primary means of allowing us to see him significantly but not perfectly. You know anybody that significantly but not perfectly.

When you worship God because you are fallen weird in a CNN eight in a mirror or darkly, but we can see them significantly and accurately.

Worship is God's primary means of allowing us to see him for who he is and thus be progressively transformed into his likeness. After were told to be filled with the spirit those for participles. Three of the four are going to talk about what worship it's can talk about speaking at when you speak. Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, like when you do that when you worship when you sing and was like really hot today. I mean, this is usually very intellectual group is really savvy in you give me that you know I'm not even talking as fast as normal when you sing and make melody in your heart toward the Lord.

When you very good okay what's what's occurring whether your privately in your devotions or whether it's in a worship service or whether you're singing a song, a thanks. Whether you're driving in the car or whether you're reacting, even to a difficult situation when under your breath.

You are saying thank you Lord in things and for everything we really doing your worshiping. I want to suggest this passage gives us three modes to see God through worship three specific ways. The first real look at its corporate worship. The second were to look at his personal worship and the third thing we to look at is what I call practicing the presence of God worship so let's begin less, let's talk about corporate worship here. Corporate worship comes out of verse 19, the first portion where we speak. There's fellowship songs, hymns and spiritual songs.

My definition for corporate worship is the regular gathering of God's people to meet and powerfully experience God in order to ascribe to him the glory of focus in the rightful place in their hearts that he holds in the universe and it's come along so let me say again and just it really was long wasn't corporate worship. Now think about this though corporate worship is the regular gathering of God's people to meet and experience God. Why so that we can ascribe to him the glory and the focus and the rightful place in our hearts that he already holds in all the universe to get you think it's a priority you think corporate worship is just something it's kinda nice. A suggestion thrown in their how important you think corporate worship is to God. Notice the text here. Hebrews 1024 and 25 it says and let us consider how to spur one another on toward love and good deeds and less.

Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as is the habit of some, but let us encourage one another, all the more as we see the day approaching. We are commanded in Scripture as believers to gather and come together to spur it's a very strong word to spur to ignite to challenge, to inspire, to instruct, to engage one another to love and good works coming together as the body of Christ to worship God very high priority to God. Notice Psalm 27 four Old Testament picture of this think of David. One of the wealthiest men in the world he had he had an all powerful warrior musician and if you asked David and a personal unit like 60 minute interview David what's the one thing that is most important to you.

Is it all your armies.

It is all your wives are your concubines all your treasures. And David would say one thing one thing I've asked of Lord this is what I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. Why, what's David want to do when it comes to the house of the Lord. The synagogue in those days when he draws near, with God's people. What does he want to do and why what's it say to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. I started get this idea see unveiled faces. Behold, gaze. The beauty of the Lord by starting to get what corporate worship is all about. It's God's people coming together regularly, systematically, to meet God to see them for who he is and then to ascribe the glory and the focus in the rightful place in your heart that he already holds in the universe right to talk more strategic today, but if you're just joining us here listening to Living on the Edge with shipping from chips message how to overcome hypocrisy in your public life is from his four-part series stop faking it. It's true. No one likes a hypocrite. Opus aspires to become a hypocrite, but we all know there are certain levels of hypocrisy, we turn to allowing our lives so is it really possible to live without hypocrisy. Absolutely in this series stop faking it.

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The main point of today's broadcast is that worship is God's antidote for hypocrisy.

That's right, gathering together with a group of believers and meeting God, seeing him for who he really is, is the antidote for you and me living a double life. In fact, we said worship is God's primary means of allowing us to see him for who he is and then be progressively transformed into his likeness and with that said, can I ask you a couple questions I mean just the two of us a couple questions about how you think about corporate worship in your own life. First of all, when you think about going to church and going to the church service is a priority and is it something that you say are weak, revolves around this most important corporate meeting or is it something you kinda get to when you can do you go regularly. I don't mean this legalistic Lee. I mean, because it matters because it's important how you prepare for it. You get there on time and again I'm not poking around to try to make you feel guilty on talking about.

If God is gonna show up and if this is the key to seeing him how you prepare your mind and your heart and your soul is going to be critical to what you experience if I put about your attitude.

Do you go to get something or do you go to give something will let me cut to the chase, here's what I'd like you to do as an experiment this week I want to encourage you to prepare your heart and your soul in your mind and your schedule and view for the next three weeks. Your church service like you've never viewed it before as an opportunity to go and behold God and in our next broadcast him give you a number of very specific ways to enrich this experience. Give it a try and then let us know by email or letter. How does just before we close. I would think those of you who make this broadcast possible through your generous giving Living on the Edge invests those dollars to purchase airtime, create programs and provide resources to help Christians live like Christians, if Living on the Edge is been a blessing to you. Would you prayerfully consider sending a gift today.

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