“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.” (Matt 23 v 27) [NIV]

We are called “as obedient children” to be holy in our behaviour, just like Jesus was holy, because we were redeemed through the blood that was shed on the cross. The religious leaders were not interested in knowing Jesus and constantly looked for ways to have Him arrested, for He “jeopardized their lively hood” through His teachings.

So how do we keep His commandments, by not keeping the law? Firstly, we know it is not possible to uphold the law and for this very reason our sins were atoned for on the cross. Secondly, we cannot do good, for no one is good, not one, and our attempts to do good are like “filthy rags.“

This is the crux. If we say that we love the Lord, we should walk in the same manner He did and adhere to His higher spiritual law, loving one another, as He loves us, willing to lay down our lives for one another. We cannot say we love each other, yet there is hatred and contempt in our hearts.

This was the problem with the pharisees. They considered themselves holier than the people as God’s elect, yet inside they were spiritually dead and their apparent “good works” was nothing more than pretense to gain the favour of the people.

May we not be found guilty of this. Be sober in spirit, with a renewed mind, no longer conforming to the lusts of the flesh as we previously did. Live in obedience and WORK OUT your salvation in “fear and trembling“, for this is our righteousness – Our faith in the saving grace of God, unto salvation, through the death and resurrection of our Messiah, Lord and Saviour, Jesus, Yeshua.

“Scripture quotations taken from the NASB, Life Application Study Bible, unless stated otherwise. Copyright by The Lockman Foundation”

Day 10 [24/06/2020]

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