TITLE: Religious, but not Righteous
TEXT: Matthew 5:3-9
PROPOSITION: There are hypocrites in the church.
QUESTION: How?
KEY WORD: Particulars
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
Focus on one verse tonight – Matthew 5:6
Focus on one word in this verse – RIGHTEOUS
Jesus did not say – Religious – but RIGHTEOUS
Hypocrisy = symptom – We must treat the disease, symptom will go
RELIGIOUS RIGHTEOUS
I did not get a
divorce 1. Work at having a good marriage.
Ephesians 5:25 Love your wives
Colossians 3:21 Provoke children to wrath
I have not
killed anyone 2. Not hate, hold grudges, bitterness, anger
1 John 3:15 Hate brother = murderer
Ephesians 4:31 Bitterness, wrath, anger
I am in the
church directory 3. Worked, involved, served, visited, etc.
James 1:27 pure religion = Visit
I will argue
with anyone about who is right 4. Teach people WHAT is right.
and who is wrong. Avoid personalities. Teach Bible.
Attend most of
the time. 5. Classes, Meetings, Wed. night
Wed. nights don’t count!
Give. 1
Corinthians 16:1-2 6. With joy, love, sacrifice
2 Corinthians 8:12; 9:7
I am saved – repented, was baptized. 7. Converted – Luke 22:31-32
Problem is not that people are too far from the building.
They are too far from God.
Many are “religious” but they are not hungry to be “righteous.”