The Antidote to Hypocrisy | The Gospel of Mark: No Match for Jesus | Week 21
Big Idea- Monitor the condition of your own heart more than you monitor the behavior of others.
Three-part Journey Toward Avoiding Hypocrisy
- Embrace your need to be spiritually clean (:1-5)
- Behavior modification won’t bring Christ-exalting change to your life (:6-13)
4 ways behavior modification undermines true spiritual maturity.
- Behavior modification confuses man-made rules with God’s laws.
- Behavior modification is always connected to a condemning spirit.
- Behavior modification doesn’t deal with the source of uncleanness (7:14-16)
- Behavior modification will leave you exhausted and frustrated.
3. A clean heart is the antidote to hypocrisy and the key to an authentic spiritual life (:14-23)
- The primary role of your heart.
- Your true struggle with sin is not external but internal.
- At the cross, Jesus purchased for you a purified heart.
Discipleship Question: What’s holding me back from looking more like Jesus?
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