Don't Be A Hypocrite
"One of the major forms of entertainment, back in the days of Jesus and Greek culture, was the theater. Greek and Roman actors would wear large masks and costumes designed to increase the size of their appearance. They would wear platform shoes to make themselves look taller. In other words, they did everything they could to make themselves appear to be something that they really were not.
"They would wear different masks to portray different emotions or different scenes or different parts of the act and that is why they were called "hypocrites." Sometimes, they would wear one type of mask and sometimes they would wear another.
"For the same reason that modern actors today put on heavy makeup and perhaps wear specially designed costumes or will pad their clothes to make them look bigger or stronger; they project an image that appears to be real, but it really is false.
"The word hypocrite soon took on the connotation of someone who treats the world as a stage on which he is just playing a part. He tries to make himself appear to be something that he really is not; his actions really don't match his words.
"There is the person who can quote his Bible from one end to the other, but he never lives it. There is the person who sits in a small group on Sunday morning pretending to be pious and religious, but rents x-rated videos to watch in the privacy of his home on Monday. It is the person who comes to church, never misses and gets all the blessings of the church, but never financially supports the church and helps the church to continue its mission of reaching people for Christ."
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