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XV.
Admonitions and Warnings
Chapter 173
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Hypocrisy
1. OF what sin were the
Pharisees guilty?
"Beware ye of the leaven of the
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy." Luke
12:1.
NOTE.-Hypocrisy is a feigning to be what one
is not; dissimulation; a concealment of
one's real character or motives; especially,
the assuming of a false appearance of virtue
or religion.
2. How did the
Pharisees show themselves to be hypocrites?
"Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias
prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth
nigh unto Me with their mouth, and honoreth Me
with their lips; but their heart is far from
Me." Matt. 15:7,8.
3. How did they make void
one of God's commandments?
"For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and
mother. . . . But ye say, Whosoever shall say to
his father or his mother, It is a gift, by
whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; and
honor not his father or his mother, he shall be
free. Thus have ye made the commandment of
God of none effect by your tradition."
Verses 4-6.
4. How did Christ say
hypocrites pray?
"And when thou prayest, thou shalt
not be as the hypocrites are: for they love
to pray standing in the synagogues and in the
corners of the streets, that they may be seen of
men. Verily I say unto you, They have their
reward." Matt. 6:5.
5. What does Christ
call one who readily sees the faults of others,
but does not see nor correct his own?
"Thou hypocrite, first cast
out the beam out of thine own eye; and then
shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out
of thy brother's eye." Matt. 7:5.
6. How does a hypocrite
treat his neighbor?
"An hypocrite with his mouth
destroyeth his neighbor."
"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:
Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart
is not with thee." Prov. 11:9; 23:7.
7. Which of the
apostles was once guilty of dissimulation?
"And the other Jews dissembled
likewise with him [Peter]; insomuch that
Barnabas also was carried away with their
dissimulation." Gal. 2:13.
8. Why did Paul say he
opposed Peter in this matter?
"But when Peter was come to Antioch,
I withstood him to the face, because he was
to be blamed." Verse 11.
9. What did David say
he would not do?
"I have not sat with vain persons,
neither will I go in with dissemblers." Ps.
26:4.
10. How pure should be
our love?
"Let love be without
dissimulation." Rom. 12:9.
11. What will become of
the hypocrite's hope?
"So are the paths of all that forget
God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish."
Job 8:13.
12. What is to be the
fate of that servant who, while professing to
love the Lord, shows by his actions that he is
worldly, and is not looking nor longing for His
coming?
"The Lord of that servant shall come in a day
when he looketh not for Him, and in an hour that
he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder,
and appoint him his portion with the
hypocrites: there shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth." Matt. 24:50,51. "The sinners
in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised
the hypocrites." Isa. 33:14.
13. What is
characteristic of heavenly wisdom?
"The wisdom that is from above is
first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to
be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits,
without partiality, and without hypocrisy."
James 3:17. |
