Luke 12:3- What Is Said in the Dark

What Is Said in the Dark...

Have you ever heard of the saying "what's done in the dark will come to light?" What does that mean? I have always understood it to mean that what you do in secret will eventually get out and will no longer be a secret.

It is actually a quote from Jesus regarding hypocrisy. Men who hide truth from other men may be successful in that context, but what about hiding something from God. Can you actually hide something from God? What would you even want to hide from God? Shame for our sins makes us try to hide from God. Remember Adam and Eve when they hid from God after eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil? They hid because they were ashamed.

Jesus is saying that whatever we do to try to hide from man will still be seen by God. God can see all. So, even if you commit a crime and try to cover it up, God knows. God knows everything. What we do in darkness (distance from God) shall be heard by God's all knowing ears. God wants us to not hide from Him but connect to Him and His will as we see in Romans 8:29. God wants us to be like His son, Jesus. The more we are like hima nd seek to be like Him by remaining in God's will, the less we will feel the desire to hide from our shame.

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Matthew 23:3- Hyposcrisy

Matthew 23:3 "...But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach..” commentary- Once again Jesus talks about the The Pharisees and called out their hypocrisy. Jesus tells people to follow what the Pharisees say, but do not do what they do. The Pharisees were known for saying one thing and doing the opposite.

The Pharisees were not seeing that they just were telling people what to do and not actually focusing on love. They didn't love people, they were lording over people. The same could be said today about religious leaders who speak about sin and then indulge in that sin. I often say, it is one thing to make a mistake, it is another to live a lifestyle.

Matthew 15:6- Gods Way

Matthew 15:6 "...So for the sake of your tradition you have made void  the word of God." commentary- The Pharisees were always trying to trip up Jesus's teachings with their ways. There was a ceremony of hand washing before eating made by elders not by scripture. These Pharisees thought that Jesus's  disciples were not being respectful to the elders because they didn't do what was the tradition. The Pharisees thought if you did not wash your hands before you ate then you were defiled from the inside. Yet, Jesus calls out their sin and hypocrisy with them not honoring their father & mother (verses 4-9). The Pharisees thought that their laws, traditions and ways were more honorable than those that God already had established.

In verse 10 Jesus explains that it is not about what someone eats that defiles them, but what comes out of someone's mouth. What someone eats is passed through their body (verse 17), but what comes out of the mouth is in the heart (verse 18).

Jesus is not saying don't wash your hands if they are dirty before you eat, but what he is saying is that what is most important about you is what is in your heart. That is what will corrupt you, not what you eat, but what you think and feel. When you read verse 19 you see it says "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander." Many of these people may feel are acceptable, but according to Jesus, they are not. Many have placed man's laws above God's.

Where do you see that happening today?