“What comes to mind when we think of the word hypocrisy? I go to the dentist once or twice a year, and there is one part of that visit that I really dislike.: that’s when my dentist starts asking me pointed questions about my flossing habits. I can see him typing on his keyboard, so he remembers what I said last time. I try to tell him that I’m doing my best, and he’s like ‘I don’t think you’re doing your best. I think you can do better’…and so we have this exchange every time. No imagine, after all these visits, if I found out that my dentist never flosses. I’d be like ‘You, hypocrite!’. Right? This is what we think about hypocrisy. Someone who is teaching but then isn’t doing it…Believe it or not that’s not what Jesus is talking about. He is using this word a little bit different this morning. When Jesus is talking about a hypocrite in Matthew 6, he’s talking about someone who is doing ‘the stuff’, he’s doing all the right things, but they’re doing those things for the wrong reasons. They have bad motives…”
