“Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P’rushim! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but inside are full of dead people’s bones and all kinds of rottenness.”
Matthew 23:27 CJB
Understand the point here isn’t just against Pharisees and scribes, who should know better, but any leader, Bible teacher or person of influence! We see this all around us, Bible teachers telling us to live righteously, as they live in sin! World leaders saying how we should be grateful for poverty or just getting by while they live in multiple mansions! This is the hypocrisy Yeshua is speaking of! We need to live for Adonai!
“Likewise, you appear to people from the outside to be good and honest, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and far from Torah.”
Matthew 23:28 CJB
Yeshua is giving strong rebuke here! Why? Because nothing changes, people with power and influence always tell people how to live, but don’t practice what they preach!
“Speak to the entire community of Israel; tell them, ‘You people are to be holy (set apart, special) because I, Adonai your God, am holy.”
Leviticus 19:2 CJB
Today, let’s be very careful about practicing what we preach! It is real easy to point-out the sins of others, before we look in the mirror! Yes, there is a lot of hypocrisy around us that we should be aware of! We just need to be careful and be HOLY (special, not ordinary) just as God tells us to be!
Have a blessed day following Adonai!
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