Matthew 23:29-36, CEV
“You Pharisees and teachers are nothing but show-offs, and you're in for trouble! You build monuments for the prophets and decorate the tombs of good people. And you claim you would not have taken part with your ancestors in killing the prophets. But you prove you really are the relatives of the ones who killed the prophets. So keep on doing everything they did. You are nothing but snakes and the children of snakes! How can you escape going to hell? I will send to you prophets and wise people and experts in the Law of Moses. You will kill them or nail them to a cross or beat them in your synagogues or chase them from town to town. That's why you will be held guilty for the murder of every good person, beginning with the good man Abel. This also includes Barachiah's son Zechariah, the man you murdered between the temple and the altar. I can promise that you people living today will be punished for all these things!”
HYPOCRITE:
“a person who pretends to have beliefs or practices which he or she doesn’t actually possess."
3 Characteristics of Genuine Christians:
1. Real Christians Are Forgiven Sinners.
Romans 3:23, NCV
“Everyone has sinned and fallen short of God’s glorious standard.”
1 John 1:9, NOG
“God is faithful and reliable. If we confess our sins, he forgives them and cleanses us from everything we’ve done wrong.”
1 John 1:8, MEV
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
1 Timothy 1:15, NCV
‘What I say is true, and you should fully accept it: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.”
3 Characteristics of Genuine Christians:
1. Real Christians Are Forgiven Sinners.
2. Real Christians Are Not What They
Used To Be.
1 John 3:6, NLV
“The person who lives by the help of Christ does not keep on sinning. The person who keeps on sinning has not seen Him or has not known Him.”
2 Corinthians 5:17, TLB
“When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same anymore. A new life has begun!”
3 Characteristics of Genuine Christians:
1. Real Christians Are Forgiven Sinners.
2. Real Christians Are Not What They
Used To Be.
3. Real Christians Are Becoming What
They Will Be.
Philippians 1:6, ERV
“I am sure that the good work God began in you will continue until he completes it on the day when Jesus Christ comes again.”
James 5:16, NLV
“Tell your sins to each other. And pray for each other so you may be healed. The prayer from the heart of a man right with God has much power.”
John 3:17, EASY
“God did not send his Son into the world because he wanted to punish people. He sent his Son to save the people in the world from punishment.”
