Describe in a post the two pictures Jesus used to describe the Pharisees in the following Scripture.
Matthew 23:25-28 (New International Version)
25 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.Does either of the descriptions remind you of your thought closet?
- Yes
- No
- Why or why not?
Dishes or vessels that appear to others to be clean, but are dirty on the inside.
ReplyDeleteTombs that appear to be clean on the outside, but are full of stinking thinking, rotting corpses of hypocrisy and wickedness.
Yes, because more often than not I am more concerned with what others think of me, than I am with my own thoughts. That is beginning to change with this study...praise God!
The outside of their cup was clean but the inside filthy...full of greed and self-indulgence.
ReplyDeleteThey were beautiful on the outside but inside they were filled with dead man's bones and all sorts of impurity
Oh yes...more often than I like to admit, I take better care of my outside then my inside. I feel that I have to be a certain way sometimes, and not allow the "real me" show. It can be mighty ugly!