Hypocrisy, Part 5 Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Hypocrisy, Part 5 ------------------- Date: 12/18/2001 Keyword: "hypocrisy" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Matthew 23:27-28* 27. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. 28. "So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Questions 1. How is a hypocrite like a whitewashed tomb?   2. Are there parts about your personality that feel "dead" to you and others?   Practical help Christians who dabble in pornography suffer from a spiritual deadness, and like a dead corpse they can begin to corrupt those around them. On the outside they look like good people, but they are full of corruption on the inside. Does this describe you? If so, you are a hypocrite. The apostle Paul describes people who have a "form of godliness" but lack a power for good. If you feel spiritually weak and you are playing around with smut on your computer, read where it can lead: For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; avoid such men as these. — 2 Timothy 3:2-5 If you want to make a difference in the world for Jesus Christ, then listen to what Paul says to Timothy in the very next chapter,. Here you will see that to fight for what is good, you must oppose what is corrupt and not become corrupt yourself. I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. — 2 Timothy 4:1-5 eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2001 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission." -