What Jesus would like to heal in us
Hypocrisy
The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform.
To be a hypocrite is to give others the impression that we are holier than we are. It is the same as false or telling a lie. Jesus pronounced a curse on hypocrites seven times: see (Matthew 23:13-29; Mark 12:15; Luke 12:1; 1 Timothy 4:2; 1 Peter 2:1)
Spiritual Pride
Pride refers to an unwarranted attitude of confidence. While pride can have a positive connotation of self-worth or boasting, it is often used in Scripture to refer to an unhealthy elevated view of oneself, abilities, or possessions.
Spiritual pride is the most common sin to be found among those who pursue holiness. We all know the parable of the self-righteous Pharisee who despised others even in his prayer see: (Proverb 16:18; Matthew 23:12; Luke 18:9-14).
Impurity
The quality or condition of being impure: a struggle to rid the soul of sin and impurity.
Jesus hated impurity so much that He told His disciples that they should be willing to pluck out their right eye and cut off their right hand rather than sin with those members (Matthew 5:27-29). Jesus speaks about adultery and goes further than what the law originally stated. He said that if you look with lust in your heart, you commit adultery, and then Jesus talks about the eye causing one to stumble: He is thinking of adultery here and He goes on to say if the eye causes you to stumble pluck it out. Jesus is not saying to gouge out you eye in a literal sense. This allegory or hyperbole is a deliberate attempt at saying that we should be vigilant in avoiding sin.
Indifference To Human Need
Jesus was angry when the leaders of the synagogue did not want Him to heal a man, because it was the Sabbath day “He was deeply moved by their indifference to human need” see (Matthew 12:9-13; Mark 3:5; Luke 6:6-10).
Unbelief
Expressed by two Gk. words in the NT, apistia and apeitheia. According to MM, the word apeitheia, together with apeitheō and apeithēs, ‘connotes invariably disobedience, rebellion, contumacy’.
But the Bible speaks of an unbelieving heart as an EVIL heart (Hebrews 3: 12) Jesus rebuked His disciples seven times for unbelief. It is that He almost never rebuked His disciples for anything else. (See Matthew 6:30; Matthew 8:26; Matthew 14:31; Matthew 16:8; Matthew 17:17-20; Mark 16:14; Luke 24:25).
Mike Kovach
30 September 2021
TheChristianUndergroundJournal@gmail.com
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