Hypocrisy and Blasphemy

Hypocrisy and Blasphemy

          Hypocrisy is pretending to be something that you’re not or to believe something you don’t really believe. Hypocrisy is a sin, but not every sin is hypocrisy. Any Christian worth his salt will tell you that he is a sinner saved by the grace of God. He has not earned his new standing with God. It was given to him by God as a gift. He is not worthy of it, nor does he pretend to be worthy. He has found a treasure and sets out to tell other sinners what he has found. The carnal minds he encounters don’t see it that way. They see his effort to share as boasting.  

Sooner or later that Christians will stumble at sin. When he does sin, he may be rightly called many things, but hypocrite is not one of them. He wants to be holy in word and deed; he’s trying to be holy; however he is not pretending to be holy. He is weak trying to become strong and sometimes failing at it. When a Christian sins; no one feels worse about it than he does. He repents; he takes his case to God in hopes of forgiveness.

Hypocrites do not repent. They blow off their sins or shift the blame to something or someone else while pretending they have done no wrong. To hear hypocrites tell it, they are incapable of doing wrong. They are certainly incapable of admitting it. You don’t have to go to church to be a hypocrite and you cannot avoid hypocrites by avoiding church. Hypocrisy is the sin of this present age where image is king.

Hypocrisy is a sin, but it can be forgiven. There is a sin without forgiveness. “Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: but he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.” There is forgiveness if you insult the Father or the Son, but do not insult the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of God as a defenseless dove inhabits the children of God. Defame a Christian if you will, but do not slander the Spirit within him. Blasphemy of the Holy Ghost is not something one can do by accident. He stays in the back ground; moving through men; inhabiting their praise for God. He attacks no one and offers no defense of His own person. It is for this reason that insult of the Spirit carries such a harsh penalty.