Hypocrisy

HeKkLeR · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 2:00 pm Post subject: Hypocrisy

I am a sinner. Therefore I am a hypocrite.

Anyone else?

Embarassed

Nobby · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 2:33 pm Post subject:

Naw! one's anuff! Wink

We are all sinners Exclamation

But you & I admit it, so how does that make you a hypocrite! Very Happy

I was saved? We're just sinners saved by Grace! Embarassed

Ron · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 6:58 am Post subject:

We are all sinners. Take heart! We are in the company of greatness!
Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, James, Timothy, Peter...

And just as Christ Jesus our Lord has brought them with confidence to the throne of God, so we too may join Him in all His glory.

Act 2:37 ... and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brothers, what shall we do?"
Act 2:38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Act 2:39 "For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."
Acts 2:44 Now all who believed were together, and they had all things in common

FYI- I love language, as you may have deduced from my posts, and the origins of it. Hypocrite refers to an actor in a Greek play. When we xommit the act of hypocracy, we are acting out something that we are not. Kind of interesting I thought. So many times we use words without understanding their depth of meaning.

gswisher · Rabid Pit Bull Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Posts: 421

Hekkler and all,

The longer we identify with the sin, the longer we take on its nature. Ask the spirit to convict you of righteousness, and believe God when he says we are the righteousness of God. DO not focus on appearance, but the faith of what he has declared for you to become. It is not I who sin, but the sin living in me. ROmans 7.