SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/11/2020 10:06 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “The
Danger of False Righteousness”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew 6:1
Message of the
verse: “1
"Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them;
otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.”
We
continue to write about hypocrisy in this SD as it is never treated lightly in
the Scriptures. Let us look at what the
prophet Amos said in 5:21-24 “21 "I hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do
I delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 "Even though you offer up to Me burnt
offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; And I will
not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings. 23 “Take away
from Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your
harps. 24 “But let justice
roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” We can see here that God was not pleased with
the things that they were doing, as they were only doing them to kind of check
things off of a list, as their hearts were not really in it and God knew this
and that is why Amos gave this message to them, and to us also. It is hard sometimes to keep your heart in
your worship as you fall into things like the Pharisees did and could be seen
in the pages of the New Testament, things that Jesus would come down hard on
them calling them hypocrites on many occasions.
It is my desire not to do things to just check them off of a list, even
though there are things that I try and doe each day as I desire to learn from
the Lord. It is my desire never to be
like the Pharisees were like, as what I do I want it to bring glory to the
Lord.
Now
outside of idolatry, we find that the greatest sin in Judah and also Israel was
hypocritical religion. I have to say
that I believe that pride had a lot to do with that as the Pharisees were a
very proud lot. Now we read in the OT
that the very reason that both Israel and Judah were concurred was because of
the sin of idolatry. Joshua warned them
not to get involved with those who were still in the land, but to conquer them
so that they would not turn to the worship of idols that they worshiped, but
they did not listen. In the same way
after one becomes a believer they have to fight against the sins that they
struggle with and conquer them through the power of the Holy Spirit. Caleb conquered the evil people in the land
that was given to him by the Lord and in the same way we must conquer the sins
that cause us to fall out of fellowship with the Lord through the power of the
Holy Spirit.
Now
because of this being Sunday I have to make this a very short SD, but I believe
that there are things in this that I need to focus on even though it is short.
10/11/2020 10:21 AM
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