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Monday, August 25, 2014

An Angel On The Outside And A Devil Within

Mat 23:25  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. 

Hypocrites! You are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish; but inside you are filthy  full of greed and self-indulgence!

A hypocrite's outside never corresponds with his inside.
A hypocrite's outside is one thing and his inside another.
A hypocrite's outside is religious but his inside is wicked.

 

Hypocrites are like the Egyptian temples, which were beautiful
outside but within there was nothing to be found but serpents
and crocodiles, and other venomous creatures. 


They are like white silver but they draw black lines.

They have a seeming sanctified outside but are stuffed within with malice, pride, worldliness, envy, etc. They are like window cushions, made up of velvet and richly embroidered but stuffed within with hay.
 

A hypocrite. . .may offer sacrifice with Cain, and fast with Jezebel, and humble himself with Ahab, and lament with the tears of Esau, and kiss Christ with Judas, and follow Christ with Demas, and be baptized with Simon Magus; and yet for all this, his inside is as bad as any of theirs!
 

A hypocrite is. . .a Jacob on the outside and an Esau within; a David on the outside and a Saul within; a John on the outside and a Judas within; a saint on the outside and a Satan within;
an angel on the outside and a devil within.

 

But let all such hypocrites know, that pretend sanctity is double iniquity and accordingly at last they shall be dealt with. "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?"

Mat 23:33  Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

~Thomas Brooks~

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