Unmasking Religious Hypocrisy: Bearing Fruit Through Faith

``it's not us that's doing the winning, and we'll cover that this afternoon as well. I'm getting ahead of myself into this this afternoon, but I think it's so important that we understand because it is really understanding what it means to depend upon God. Depend upon him and then do it and then follow through with it. And that's where I'm I'm growing in my understanding of that because it went from a self dependent works. Well, I gotta just gotta try harder, work harder, do it. Then it can swing over to the other side. Well, I'm just gonna stay back here and sit here and do nothing until God, you're need that clear clear guidance and then I'll just do it. Somewhere in the middle is what it means to walk in the spirit. [00:29:11] (42 seconds)  #WalkInTheSpirit

One that would be set up here and now. Of course, Christ with his foreknowledge knew what was coming. His kingdom was a kingdom that is eternal. He says it's not a temporal. If it were, it'd be absinched. It'd be easy. Father could call I could, in a word, cast out all the enemies. And a thought, overcome all the those that would oppose. But it wasn't about that. This was about setting up his eternal kingdom by paying for the sacrifice for our sins, giving the ultimate sacrifice of his life for us. [00:39:41] (36 seconds)  #EternalKingdom

That's the point as we come to it. I know I read through that, but I wanted to get back on the idea that we have here is the impurity is found when we mix our flesh efforts, our own flesh, and we mix it with the work of God. And we say, we're doing the work of God. I'm doing all these things. I'm laboring in it. But we've mixed it with our flesh. And it's whether it's self glory, it's self dependence, whatever it may be, the flesh is involved and it becomes impure. [00:49:04] (32 seconds)  #NoMixedMotives

He said there's a hypocrisy that's going on here. There's something here. It's promising fruit. It's promising it's promising to be basically that tree of life. It's giving you something that's going sustain you spiritually and help you to as in a direction towards god, and yet when you come to it, there is no fruit. It's empty. And how often have you been there where you you go to god and you're going in this flesh, and you're going trying to please God in the flesh, in our own efforts, our own self will, and you come up empty. [00:53:15] (34 seconds)  #FruitlessFaith

It was the spirit and the attitude and the whole thing behind it. The whole spirit that the pharisees had behind it was just like that tree. It was an outward show of religion, but no spiritual fruit. No spiritual fruit. The problem that he had with it was the impurities that were mixed in the it was taking the pure and bringing in the greed and bringing in the self glorying and bringing in their own ideas and their own man made philosophies into it. [00:46:19] (37 seconds)  #HypocriticalReligion

Boy, the more he unmasked it and revealed it, the more they hated him. What should they have done? How should they have responded? You're right. You're right. I am empty on the inside. You're right. It is all vain. There's something missing, and you have the words of life. And we're going to submit to you and your teaching, Jesus. But instead, what did the religious people do? Silence and more. Time after time, the evidence of the power of God upon his life. Time after time, he he quieted them. Time after he he shut them up because he spoke such in such wisdom, they had no response. But instead of humbling themselves, they proudly resisted because they wanted their power. They wanted their prestige. They wanted their self righteousness. They wanted to be content in their way. [01:04:55] (61 seconds)  #PrideResistsTruth

It's sad when we when we fail, But what do we do? When we fail, we turn back to him. We get back and say, I'm I'm sorry. Lord, please help me. And sometimes it takes us failing. Sometimes it truly is a blessing to fail. You say, never a blessing. Why is it a blessing to fail? Because it makes us it opens our eyes to our understanding that we need him. And when we can recognize that and see it, then we're starting back on that right path again. We're back walking in the spirit again. [01:09:21] (31 seconds)  #FailureTurnsToFaith

There's a tree of life that God offers. Of course, we've heard of the fountain of youth and the tree of life, you know, these the idea that you can live forever and it's in a in a temporal terms, you know, the idea it's a myth It's a mythology that's there. The idea that you can find this fountain of youth where you continually stay young. Well, what he's talking here is referring to the soul of man. The soul that God wants to connect, the spirit of man that connects with our heavenly father. When we leave this temporal body, when we leave this behind us, this this shell, the spirit continues, the soul continues. It'll continue either in a place called heaven or a place called hell. [00:27:53] (47 seconds)  #SoulConnection