BEAUTIFUL OUTWARD

SCRIBES, PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES

Matthew 23:25-28
King James Version (KJV)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

TODAY'S FOCUS:  YOUR OUTSIDE REFLECTS THE INSIDE

If Jesus came visiting us after He resurrected what would He say to this generation?
Would a modern version read like this: 
WOE UNTO YOU....

• You have cleaned up your act of your past and may have changed your hair style, clothing, dialect and voice, your old profession, bad habits and make a good impression and comeback in society, but your speech betrays who your really are, the practices and forceful behavior and underlying motives is just a show to seduce and influence others with bribes and threats but you have not been changed from within.
• Your make up, expensive cologne and well put together design ensemble make up an impressive profile but you have not cleaned behind your ears, scrubbed your heels, cleaned your ears, brushed your teeth, taken the yampee out your eyes or not even literally taken a bath. 
• You are a very pretty face individual but you are very loose, and prostitute your body and life for excessive wants and material wealth. 
• You may be beautiful or tall, dark and handsome but nothing but profanity, criticism, lies, manipulative and enticing words come out of your mouth.
• Your church buildings are large, great architectural structure and design on the outside, but the anointing is missing; there's no order, love or compassion for the loss, sinful, wrongful doings and self centered pleasures are happening on the inside. 
• Agencies, companies and other organizations that are abusing consumers, taking bribes, exhorting excessive charges and exacting resources of others for services that should be fair or perhaps free. 
• You are born again professed Christians, pastors, ministers and others who are dressed up in godly facade but are filled with hypocrisy, hatred, envy, malice, very judgmental, impartial, disobedient, greed, jealously, faithless, prayer-less, powerless, loveless, unforgiveness and other fleshly and deadly poisons.
• Professionals, skilled or other regular individuals who are selfish, lack humanitarian consideration, negative mind set, evil thoughts, wickedness and other unpleasant provocative imaginations and motives even when wearing and masking a smile

I am sure you can add more to the list, but all these examples are like what the word said can be compared to a well structured, painted and designed sepulchers, (tomb), but the inside is dead rotten stench. 

Like the latest model or a brand new computer which cannot be used efficiently because of a virus that causes it to freeze and sometimes make it ineffective, we must get rid of all these viruses (things) out of our lives that affects us from being effective children of God and as individuals of light and purpose. 

Make this a self examination,  reflection and application and ask.......

• DOES MY OUTSIDE MASK MY INSIDE?
• WHAT AM I MASKING?

Let me remind you that it is not a self effort or something your can buy,  but it can only be done with the already purchased blood and power of Jesus Christ. HALLELUJAH


GOD BLESS and KEEP THE FAITH!

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