Trinity Missionary Church Podcast

Jesus was the master at speaking the truth in love, and He set an incredible example for us to follow.  As Jesus loved the sinner, He never tolerated the sin.  In calling out their sin, Jesus call the Pharisees snakes, vipers, dirty dishes, white-washed tombs amongst other things.  What was Jesus so adamantly against in the Pharisees lives?  One word: hypocrisy!  Jesus hates hypocrisy as much today as He did when He walked on the earth.  It is easy for people to become "religious" and suddenly they think they are more spiritual than everyone else.  Jesus says in Matthew 15:17-18, "Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?  But, what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person."  It is easy to say the right words to appease a situation/person, but much more difficult to be genuine and mean what you say.  Hypocrisy seeks to build a facade or false narrative, but authenticity shows an i