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Oliver Burke-man Fri 10 Feb 2017 15.00 GMT

Nobody likes a hypocrite.

And in our culture especially Religious hypococy.

A Story about Hypocrisy - I wonder have any of you read the book Chocola or perhaps seen the film by Jonny Depp.

Nobody likes a religious hypocrite.

The priest is exposed for the phoney, vengeful spiteful, vindictively gluttonous man that he really is and chocolate wins the day!

Gardian Article (Why do people hate hypocrites?” - Oliver Burke-man Fri 10 Feb 2017

“No one likes a hypocrite – but when you stop to think about it, it’s strange how much we despise them.......

We Don’t like being deceived - Yale psychologist Jillian Jordan and her colleagues made a persuasive case for a better one: we hate hypocrites because they’re guilty of “false signalling”.

Signals, in evolutionary theory, are how we communicate, to get what we want from others; they include everything from peacocks’ mating dances to a lizard’s camouflage.

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The person who loudly condemns other people for condoning cruel farming implies that he or she refrains from such behaviour.

It’s a signal.

And it works: moral condemnation, the Yale psychologists show, boosts your reputation even more effectively than bragging about how moral you are.

It’s a shortcut to high status.

No wonder we’ve evolved, or been socialised, to respond so angrily when we discover it was unearned.

( “No one likes a hypocrite – but when you stop to think about it, it’s strange how much we despise them..........

Context

Jesus after examining the motivations of our hearts in retaliation continues to challenge our hearts when discussing religious observances and our ambitions which brings us to our text this evening on Mathew 6

This evening we are continuing our series going through Matthews Gospel and we come to chapter six.

After examining the motivations of our hearts in chapter five in matters pertaining to murder, adultery, flippant oath taking, divorce and retaliation, Jesus continues to challenge our hearts over issues of public religious observances and religious hypocrisy.

Big Idea: Religious Hypocrisy, The cause, the Consequences and the Cure.

Why you need to Tune in

Why you need to Tune in

Why you need to Tune in

We are all affected and implicated in Hypocrisy wether yours or someone eases.

Religious Hypocrisy can cause great harm to ourselves and to others, and because of the decietfulness of the human heart We are all susceptible to religious hypocrisy,

no one likes a hypocrite and Jesus reserves some of his harshest criticism towards those who are religiously hypocritical,

One of the biggest accusations against Christianity is that its full of hypocrites, It important because hypocrisy undermines the percieved trustworthiness of the Gospel.

God hates Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is a major problem (Gods Reputation on the line)

If you are someone who struggles with hypocrisy, There is a cure, and God wants you to have that cure.

Hypocrisy is deadly

Big Idea: Religious Hypocrisy, The Cause, the Consequences and the Cure.

The Cause - What causes Hypocrisy and what does it look like.

The Cause

What does religious hypocrisy look like?

What Causes Religious Hypocrisy and What does hypocrisy look like

The cause of religious hypocrisy is an idolatrous heart.

(Explain idol)

How

The Praises of Men - To be seen by others, a heart that desires to be highly esteemed in their eyes.

Religious Hypocrisy reveals an idolatrous heart in the following ways.

1) It takes observances that are intended for God’s Glory and says that there is someone and something who’s approval I must have or win with Gods observances more than God’s.

Thats an idol.

What do religious Hypocrite Do

Drawing excessive attention to good deeds carried out, with bad or impure motives The honour of men over God.

“anouncing with trumpets” A desire to be seen by everyone.

A constant desire to be honoured by men.

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A Love for titles and Honours based on falsity that elevates self before men.

They dont do what they say

They Play act.

- put on a theatrical show, a pretense, Falsity and deception for the purpose of self glorification.

Hypokritēs (the word originally meant a theatrical “actor”) is used by Matthew not only here in vv. 2, 5, 16 but also for a critic who does not criticize himself (7:5) and as a general term for those subject to ultimate judgment (24:51; inthe LXX hypocritēs is used for the godless)

They do not practice what they preach.

( a discordance, a disconnect)

Falsity and deception for the purpose of self glorification.

They Play acts.

- Hypokritēs (the word originally meant a theatrical “actor”) is used by Matthew not only here in vv. 2, 5, 16 but also for a critic who does not criticize himself (7:5) and as a general term for those subject to ultimate judgment (24:51; in the LXX hypocritēs is used for the godless)

The Consequences

For their Acting they receive an immediate reward.

(There is an immediate payoff) Check Reciept, Invice paid in full.

They become self deceived.Self deception is ultimately self destructive.

(Satan loves a religious hypocrite because he does not need to deceive them, they deicieve themselves!

Self deception is ultimately self destructive.

The Praises of Men

Illustration 1 - Lance Armstrong.

- In 2001, Lance Armstrong made an anti-doping commercial for Nike in which he strongly disavowed using illegal drugs.

In the commercial, Armstrong boldly states, "This is my body, and I can do whatever I want to it.

I can push it.

Study it.

Tweak it.

Listen to it.

Everybody wants to know what I'm on.

What am I on?

I'm on my bike busting my [butt] six hours a day.

What are you on?"

In 2006, during sworn testimony in a dispute over his $5 million bonus, Armstrong said he wouldn't take drugs because he had too much to lose.

"(The) faith of all the cancer survivors around the world.

Everything I do off the bike would go away, too ….

It's not about money for me ….

It's also about the faith that people have put in me over the years.

So all of that would be erased."

In October 2012, Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tours de France victories and permanently banned from cycling and any World Anti-Doping Agency sanctioned events.

Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, claimed that Armstrong's USPS team "ran the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."

This illustration is not intended to bash Lance Armstrong.

Instead, it should cause all of us to reflect on our own integrity—the gap between what we say and how we actually live our lives.

Armstong was stripped of all his Titels

In an interview with Dan Patrick last year, Armstrong, who has been banned from professional cycling for life, said he still considered himself a seven-time Tour de France champion.