07/30/2024
Holier than thou?
A common reoccurring theme within the so-called “Modern American church” or “Modern church” is nitpicking, ridiculing, being petty over the small things as opposed to providing correction in love to someone who is or was stumbling over the big things. We are still to hold each other accountable to what the word says but also not being critical over every single thing that matters very little. Matthew 23:24-34 (24) Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. (25) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. (26) Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. (27) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness (28) Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (29) Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, (30) and say if had been in the days of our father, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. (31) Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. (32) Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers (33) Ye serpents, ye generation of Vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
If you see this and it stings a little bit when you’re reading it then maybe you’re part of the problem and you need to look at yourself and allow the Holy Spirit to makes corrections where He knows they need to be made. In the verses above in Matthew to act like and to pretend you’re “Holier than thou” then you’re fooling yourself and as well you need to get rid of that pride. Pride comes before the fall which is exactly why HaSatan (Satan) was kicked out of Heaven. Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. If we claim to be righteous but are not adhering to that of the word then we are proclaiming our own righteousness which without the Lord does not exist and in its place is filthiness. It’s detestable to the Lord. However, we were all born sinners and we were all abominable in the eyes of the Lord before we came to accept Yeshua (Jesus) as our Lord and savior. Once we are saved all past things even though they’re remembered by man are not remembered by the Lord. The Lord got rid of all the past mistakes and forgives you. If you keep making the same mistakes then how do you expect for things to change and the Lord to bless you.
Just as Our Lord is merciful we too need to be merciful. Of course correcting in love when needed and not in hate, not to break someone down but to correct in love in order to build up. There’s a big difference, if you don’t know what the biblical definition of love is then let me introduce you to Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah). If you say you are a believer and part of the body of Christ but don’t love then you’re not a true and real believer. 1 Corinthians 13:1-2 (1) Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. (2) And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love I am nothing.
So are you “holier than thou?” Are you the reincarnation of the Son of God Himself thinking you can and are justified by nitpicking every little thing you think is wrong according to the senseless doctrine that you verbally vomit or have been indoctrinated to believe? (Sorry not sorry you are not the reincarnation of the Son of God) Or are you letting the Holy Spirit be your guide, and having love for one another being in the body of Messiah. Correcting when need be in love and not in hate, not in pride, but in humbleness. Choose ye this day whom you serve.