Hypocrite?

[Bolzano]

Hi all,

how many of you have ever felt that you maybe simply an hypocrite?
i am at this point now where i keep on rising and then falling into sin. obviously i feel so much guilt when i do sin. this feeling is enhanced by the fact that i feel i made no effort to avoid sin and simply did not try to overcome it. Now, this make me feel i am simply an hypocrite. At the end, i think i dont know who i am simply
i wonder, how much sin, how much shall i rise and fall and God continuing to forgive me?

 

[CORE]

I think if we're honest, everybody is a hypocrite in one way or another whether we're a believer or not.

I think the important part is to not allow those feelings of hypocrisy and failure to cause us to give up. We must persevere.

 

[George Muller]

Hypocrisy comes from "thinking" we are able in the flesh, to keep the righteousness of the law, we are not. Hypocrisy is judging others by a standard that we do not keep ourselves, those who are under the law, are always hypocrites, for they never keep the true standard of the law. They bring to law down to a religious standard of mans carnal mind and ability. If one understands that all righteousness is based upon faith in Christ and "love" fulfills all that is demanded, they will be delivered from hypocrisy in all its forms. When one understands that "nothing good" lives in the flesh of any man, they will not judge others based upon the flesh.

Joh 8:15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

Christ was judged in the flesh, for the sin in our flesh. We who are "righteous" judge no man after the flesh.

 

[handy]

@Bolanzo it seems you have fairly honest opinion about yourself.... and are humble enough to share your struggles with sin with others. This is the opposite of hypocrisy, my friend.

[MENTION=34241]George[/MENTION] said, "Hypocrisy is judging others by a standard that we do not keep ourselves" and this is a very good point (as is the rest of his post). When you start thinking that you're doing a great job as a Christian and everybody else is mired in sin...then that's when hypocrisy is ruling you.

 

[Mike S]

What you're talking about is human weakness and imperfection. I don't think that's the same as hypocrisy. Hypocrisy would be pretending to have moral values when, if fact, you don't. Having moral values and sometimes being unable to live up to them is different, it's human weakness, it's part of our human condition.

It's because we can not stop sinning by our own efforts no matter how much we want to that we need Christ in our lives. The strength to overcome human weakness is in our surrender to Christ's will.

 

[Tony Hyman]

I believe God is not like humans who judge others by the continueous mistakes we make over and over again like using His name in vain almost as an involuntary reflex as in TV "Oh My God" every little time something exiting happens for example.Look at Peter how he made the same mistakes over and over again inspite of his bold promises.Yet the Lord knows we are weak just as Peter was in Matthew 16:22 and 23 in spite of the best and bravest of intentions and the proof in the pudding in ultimate denial when the chips were down in Matthew 26:74 .Yet the Lords love and understanding enabld Peter to put it all behind him and move on step by step towards Christ in his momentous bounce back speech in Acts 2:17 .We as believers are continously tested by God as Peter was ,so never fall for Satan's little mind games and auto suggestive traps .Look to the example Christ showed in teaching us to arm ourselves always with the scriptures on a daily basis as is demontrated in "it is written" everytime Satan tries to conn Christ in Luke 3 :1-13 .Man without the Scriptures and the Word of God is simply easy pickings for the battle hardened Satan as Christ shows us.Just work on those fruits of the Holy Spirit on a daily basis as you grow Gal.5:22

 

[taikina]

consider the two hypocrites, one tries time after time to change into a better more true person, falls and gets back up. the other holds hollow values on the outside and is a true hypocrite on the inside, doing contradictory things secretly, to be pure on the outside and still have freedom to do bad on the inside.

i think if you truly want to better yourself, you simply are on the right path, it just takes time to walk it.

 

[clark thompson]

Hi all,

how many of you have ever felt that you maybe simply an hypocrite?
i am at this point now where i keep on rising and then falling into sin. obviously i feel so much guilt when i do sin. this feeling is enhanced by the fact that i feel i made no effort to avoid sin and simply did not try to overcome it. Now, this make me feel i am simply an hypocrite. At the end, i think i dont know who i am simply
i wonder, how much sin, how much shall i rise and fall and God continuing to forgive me?

I am a working procress for the Lord, I am not a hypocrite.