Pharisees

 


I am a sinner and so are you. When I sin, I need to confess it before God to be clean and be back to fellowship. You should do the same. Problems happen when instead of confessing my own sins, I am bothered with your sins. 

It is easy to be a Pharisee when our sins are more respectable than others. It is easy to judge others for having sins that are "grosser" than our own.

As far God is concerned, sins separate the believer from fellowship, whether gross or respectable. And since we sin against God, it is Him that will evaluate which one is gross and which one is respectable (all sins are gross and not respectable by the way).

So it is not our business to judge others. Our business is to keep short account with God.

This does not mean we won't encourage our sinning brother to return to God. It means we have to tell him it is sin, that he needs to confess it but it is not our prerogative to mete judgment. Our job is to point Him to Christ and not to our own standards of righteousness.

If we're bothered with others' sins and not our own, that means we're looking at the wrong place. We should focus on God and our relationship to Him not on how He works with other people's lives. 

It takes wisdom to distinguish between Phariseeism and confronting a brother for his need to confess. 

May we have that wisdom.

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