Beware of Hypocrisy
By Ps. Lee Shaw Ming

In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
(Luk 12:1-3)

Jesus condemns most about hypocrisy, which he says is a leaven, that is, it spreads! Hypocrisy is not just about not being true outside as per our inside, but it is also denying and/or not seeing the evil of our inside and projecting a false righteousness outside. Hypocrisy causes blindness and hardness, as seen in the Pharisees. Hypocrisy causes us to resist God's truth that discerns our inward condition, resulting in sins not being dealt with. Thus, hypocrisy can lead to disqualification from the kingdom of God if not dealt with. Jesus says that everything about us, hidden or otherwise, will be revealed one day, and therefore, judged. Therefore, this means that we not only need to be outside what we are in the inside, but that we also need to be acceptable to God. We can be transparently unrighteous, which is no credit to anyone, but God wants us to be transparently righteous!