"be not as the hypocrites...they have their reward"

“Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance:
for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.”
‭‭(Matthew‬ ‭6:16‬ ‭KJV‬‬)

So Many professing "Christians"  have not been made free from sin,
and That is why they are not servants to God, but rather servants of sin.
Because they are dead to righteousness and there end is everlasting damnation
unless they become a new creature in Christ by "the grace of God that brings salvation ,
teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts,
to live soberly and godly in this present world."

In Jesus Christ is no sin.
If the righteous sin and repents
"we have and Advocate, Jesus Christ the Righteous,
who is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness".

What God has cleansed call thou not unclean.
True Christians lay aside the besetting sin, looking unto Jesus,
the Author and Finisher of the faith of God.

Be not as the hypocrites who justify sin.

This is where the wheat is separated from the tares.
The wheat is gathered into the ark of safety at the time of the harvest.
While the tares are gathered together into bundles to be burned.
"Where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."

Put your own house in order. Prepare and make ready.
Put away your idols and touch not the unclean thing.
HAVE MERCY UPON ME, O GOD.
BLOT OUT ALL MY SINS.!
Call upon God while he is near,
Lest a worse thing come upon you.

Know this: that EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS SHALL WAX WORSE AND WORSE,
DECEIVING AND BEING DECEIVED.
Only by the grace of God can we endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ,
Who is with us, even to the end of the world. LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS.



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