Hypocrisy-C.H. Spurgeon

Saints,

I listened to this last night on the recommendation of Christian(HmmHmm). It was very convicting.

Hypocrisy C.H. Spurgeon

Murray

Hypocrisy? what the heck, I thought this was another one of those edifying Harry Potter threads.

Just kidding, I just thought I would send this back around since only 12 people looked at it the first time around.

Murray

yes brother, you know if 4000 people where to listen to this we might have a revival on our hands. If this dont bring conviction or at least a more holy fear of walking as one should in the normal christian life. I think somethings wrong with you...

Any one who has an hour over should listen to this,

Maybe we should make this into a calvanism thread? :-P i bet they would be all over this then ;-)

here is a "short" article with the same name

Hypocrite by Spurgeon

O hypocrite, you think that you shall excel, because the minister has been duped, and gives you credit for a deep experience; because the deacons have been entrapped and think you to be eminently godly; because the church members receive you to their houses, and think you a dear child of God too! Poor soul! Perhaps you may go to your grave with the delusion in your brain that all is right with you; but remember, though like a sheep you are laid in your grave, Death will find you out. He will say to you, off with your mask, man! Away with all your robes! Up with that whitewashed sepulcher! Take off that green turf; let the worms be seen. Out with the body; let us see the reeking corruption! And what will you say when your abominably corrupt and filthy heart shall be opened before the sun, and men and angels hear your lies and hypocrisies laid bare before them? Will you play the hypocrite then? Soul, come and sing God's praises in the Day of Judgment with false lips! Tell him now, while a widow's house is in your throat, tell him that you love him! Come, now, you that devour the fatherless, you that rob, you that do uncleanness! Tell him now that you make your boast in the Lord! Tell him that you preach his word; tell him that you walk in his streets; tell him you make it known that you were one of the excellent of the earth! What! Man, is your babbling tongue silent for once? What is the matter with you? You were never slow to talk of your godliness. Speak out, and say "I took the sacramental cup; I was a professor." Oh how changed! The whitewashed sepulcher has become white in another sense; he is white with horror. See now; the talkative one has become dumb; the boaster is silent; the formalist's garb is torn to rags, the moth has devoured their beauty; their gold and their silver has become tarnished. Ah! it must be with every man who has thus lied to God and to his own conscience.

This was a strong, convicting word. Definitely worth the listen. My thoughts after listening.....

Let all my life be motivated
By the love You demonstrated
And oh Lord let it never be
Desire for my works to be seen
That provokes me to perform
What should be the Christian norm
Of acts of love and charity
That really are hypocrisy
That spring not from a love of God
But rather seeking men’s applause
For You Lord know the heart of man
Before You no dead work will stand
Observing rites of piety
But careless towards humanity
The outside of my cup is clean
But You know what remains within
Let Your truth destroy deception
That has escaped my perception
For to myself I seem upright
But You see what eludes my sight
So make me true outside and in
Remove from me my hidden sin
And Lord please let it never be
That I live in hypocrisy

Danielle

Dear Murdog,

I can't get this message to come up ...I looked under the "S" for Spurgeon and can't find him ....maybe I'm missing something and you or someone else can help me out....

Thank you,
Your Sister in Jesus,
Coffee

Try this

[url=https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=46&min=60&orderby=titleA&show=20]Hypocrisy[/url]

Dear BrokenOne,

Thank you for the link...I was looking under Audio Sermons... This one works...

Again Thank You,
Your Sister in Jesus,
Coffee

Members,

I took my link off my original post, must have done something wrong. Thanks Danielle for supplying a link that works!

Murray

Hi Danielle,

Thank you for the convicting poem.

This scripture verse also came to mind after reading it.

Psalm 19:12-14

Who can understand his errors?
cleanse thou
me
from secrets faults.

Keep back
thy servant also
from presumptous sins;
let them not have dominion
over me:
then
shall I be upright, and
I shall be innocent
from the great transgression.

Let the words of my mouth, and
the meditation of my heart,
be acceptable
in thy sight,
O LORD,
my strength, and
my redeemer.

Excellent Scripture!! Truly we don’t know our own heart.

The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9

Haven’t all of us at one time or another been able to recognize ourselves in these verses:

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. Luke 18:11

And so this is my prayer:

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24