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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » False profession
So My people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don't obey them. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue unjust gain. Yes, to them you are like a singer of love songs who has a beautiful voice and plays skillfully on an instrument. They hear your words, but they don't obey them.
They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified for any good work.
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are like glaze on an earthen vessel.
Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action.
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They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their Redeemer. But they deceived Him with their mouths, they lied to Him with their tongues,
those who are called by the name Israel
and have descended from
who swear by the name of Yahweh
and declare the God of Israel,
but not in truth or righteousness.
He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:
These people honor Me with their lips,
but their heart is far from Me.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Legalism
He continued, “I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and educated according to the strict view of our patriarchal law. Being zealous for God, just as all of you are today,
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Paul wanted Timothy to go with him, so he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was a Greek.
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When they heard it, they glorified God and said, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
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But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”
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I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
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But some of the believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses!”
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The Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”
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But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”
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so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”
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I can testify about them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Ceremonialism
But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and bankrupt elemental forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
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When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they have washed. And there are many other customs they have received and keep, like the washing of cups, jugs, copper utensils, and dining couches.)
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Now then, why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the disciples’ necks that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?
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Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.
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If you died with the Messiah to the elemental forces of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:
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They are physical regulations and only deal with food, drink, and various washings imposed until the time of restoration.
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