You Might Be A Pharisee if

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You Might Be A Pharisee if

• you consider the church roll the Lambs book of
  Life
• you're disgusted by the moral filth that is
  playing out of your own VCR/DVD player
• you come on Wednesday night only if is your turn
  to give the invitation

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Pharisees (101 ref. in 95 verses)

• Not all Pharisees were bad
• Not all practices of the Pharisees were bad.
  They tried to . . .
• subject every area of life to the Law, Mt.2323
• prepare nation for coming Messiah by teaching
  others to live holy lives, Mt.2315

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I. Bad Features Of Pharisees

1. Self-satisfaction, Mt.37
2. Insufficient righteousness, Mt.520
3. Holier than thou, Mt.911-12
4. Hatred, murder, Mt.1214
5. Loose morals, Mt.193
6. Hypocrisy, Mt.232-3
7. Oppression, Mt.234

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• 8. Pride, Mt.235
• 9. False teaching, Mt.2313, 15
• 10. Disobedience, Mt.2323
• 11. Cruel covetousness, Mk.1240
• 12. False accusations, Lk.67
• 13. False holiness, Lk.739
• 14. Dishonesty, Lk.1614
• 15. Intimidation, Jn.1242

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II. Pharisees Are Popular

• Pharisaism Hypocritically self-righteous and
  condemnatory
• Some use the word to brand anyone who condemns
  unscrip-tural doctrines and practices
• Youre a Pharisee

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How to escape the brand?

• Allow anything and everything
• The church should give up moralizing on sexual
  issues Gregory Boyd
• Preach Jesusignore His teachings!
• Mt.532 1518-19

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You may be a Pharisee if you believe one must

• 1. Be baptized to be saved
• Max Lucado Lk.729-30
• 2. Adhere to teaching of Scripture 2 Jn.9
• Pharisees elders tradition, Mt.153-4
• 2 Th.215 36
• R. Shelly gospel Mt.-Jn.
• Ac.15

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3. Worship God in spirit and truth Pharisees
did not, Mt.15

• 4. Love in context of obeying God, Jn.1415
• Never you obey too much!
• 5. Avoid beginnings of sin. E.g. Dn.18
• Mt.522-23, 27-28, 29-30
• 1 Co.618 8-10
• Hb.121-2

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Taking precautions is not Pharisaical

• Dangers and digressions begin w. baby steps
• This is where we must resist
• Marriage partner
• Children
• Health
• VFW hall...
• Pitch
• Pool for baptisms

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Worship, not entertain

• Largest Church in America
• Meets at 500 p.m. Sat. for L.S.
• Mechanical music
• On Sunday, acappella

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Gender roles

• Carrol Osburn (ACU) For men whose gender
  identity and social domination were at stake due
  to these major upheavals that threatened
  patriarch-alism, religion was seen as a useful
  tool...men now held that women were not to
  exercise authority...
• Texts such as I Cor. 1434-35 and I Tim. 211-15
  were stressed to for-bid women teaching and
  preaching in the presence of men

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Gender roles (contd.)

• Such fundamentalist views on women in the church
  are pri-marily the result of reaction against
  cultural changes and only secondarily the result
  of biblical proof-texting. This, basically, is
  our legacy (Women In The Church Reclaiming the
  Ideal, 8-9, 17)
• Baby steps let women pass L.S.

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Morals

• Clothing (how long is long?)
• Fitting in vs standing out
• Ro.121-2
• Romans 14 allows us to differ in ethical
  questions like drinking alcohol, dancing and
  immodest dress (David Chadwell, Beware of the
  Leaven of the Pharisees