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Pharisees do not practise what they preach - Are you a Pharisee? Characteristic 18

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Pharisees do not practise what they preach

“Pharisees say things and do not do them” (Matt.23:3).

This verse is the opposite of Acts 1:1 where it is written about Jesus that He “did (first) and (then) taught”. ThePharisees taught but did not do. They did not practise what they preached. Jesus however did first and then preached only what He had already done!! These are two opposite spirits. Those with the spirit of the Pharisees will build the harlot church Babylon. And those with the Spirit of Christ will build the bridal church Jerusalem.

Jesus never preached what he had not first done. How long do you think Jesus took to prepare the Sermon onthe Mount – (Matthew Chapters 5, 6 and 7) – the finest sermon that anyone has ever preached? It took Him 30 years to prepare that sermon. It came out of His life and not just from His mind.

When pastors preach a sermon that they heard from someone else, or that they got from SermonCentral, that only comes out of their head. It is mere knowledge. There is neither life nor anointing in it. If you want to preach as Jesus preached, then you must first live the Word and then preach it. NOT go to school for it. What spiritual knowledge can you give another Christian sitting at a desk? Some people have asked me if it’s ok to preach someone else’s sermon if they didn’t have time to write one. And I have said, “Yes, if you live it out first” God says, “Have any of these preachers bothered to meet with Me and listened to Me and then lived out myWord?… I never sent these preachers, I never spoke to them, but they preached anyway” (Jer.23:17, 18, 21 -Message).

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When you preach someone else’s sermon, without living it out yourself, you are just seeking honor for yourself. That is a dangerous habit and can result in spiritual death for you, because God has said, “I am against the preachers who get all their sermons secondhand from others and who say, ‘This message is from God’” (Jer.23:30, 31 – Message).

Don’t ever talk about anything authoritavely that you have not done yourself. Don’t try to advise parents who have teenage children how to bring them up their teenagers, if you yourself have never brought up teenage children that are living for Jesus now. You can give them advice on what you’ve seen other good parents do. Many a time, we can bless others by just praying for them and keeping our mouths shut as far as any advice is concerned if we really have no idea.