Those Hypocrites!

I apologize for not posting last week. I was out of town and thought I would get home by Sunday, but that was obviously not the case. So I, forgot everything last week. I guess you just can’t take me anywhere, without me forgetting my head.

Well I finally have an answer to a question that’s been bugging me for a long time. I heard the answer in church today. The question is, “Why should I become a Christian when I see Christians as nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.” I never knew what to say to that when I heard people ask that question. I had to agree with them. I know a number of Christians who are hypocrites. I would cringe when someone did say that, because it was so true. I would cringe and then stand there with my teeth in my mouth, realizing I had no answer. Nada. Zilch. The church is full of hypocrites. I would be lying if I said there weren’t.

But today the pastor gave me the answer for that question. Now I didn’t come up with the answer myself. This came from my pastor. Should I tell you who my pastor is? He’s very famous. Well, okay, you dragged it out of me. My pastor is Greg Laurie. How’s that for name dropping? I digress. So what is the answer to that question. It’s gotta be good. That’s a tough question. That’s one of those “gotcha” questions those heathens throw at you, when they don’t want to accept the gospel. It is a “gotcha” question. What can you say to that? No, Christians aren’t hypocrites. Then you’re lying. Well, yeah, you should just accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and ignore the hypocrites. But those heathens are crafty people. Once, they know they’ve got you, they can see the panic in your eyes, they keep hammering at it. Like a mosquito in your ear, they just won’t let up. Hypocrites. They’re all hypocrites! Well…yes…but… And that’s as far as I got.

So do you want to know the answer to this most difficult “gotcha” question? It was like a revelation when I heard pastor Greg say it today. (See, I’m giving him all the credit here, so no one can accuse me of plagiarism. Don’t want to be one of those hypocritical Christians now!). The answer is this: You aren’t putting your faith and trust into people (who can be hypocritical). You are putting your faith and trust in perfection which is Jesus Christ. Eureka! I struck gold! That’s brilliant! We’re not supposed to put our faith in people, ever. We are putting our faith into a non-hypocritical God. Isn’t that brilliant? Well, some of you probably already knew that.

And that is the distinction. We aren’t supposed to trust in man. Man will always let you down. We are all sinners in need of a Savior. We must put our faith and trust in the perfect Man, Jesus Christ. He is never hypocritical. He will never let you down. He is the same today, yesterday and forever. He can be counted on. He doesn’t lie. He was sinless when He went to the cross. He was sinless, as he died an agonizing death. He was still sinless when He rose from the dead. Now that Is Someone you can trust and believe in. Yes, there are hypocritical Christians. But they are not who God is asking for you to trust. He’s asking you to trust God, Jesus Christ, the sinless One, who gave His life that we might have eternal life.

So, I hope I answered a question for some of you. This really has bothered me for awhile. Hopefully, it helped some of you too. We’re not asking people to trust hypocritical people. We’re asking people to trust in a perfect, sinless God. There! Put that in the bank! I was going to say “put that in your pipe and smoke it,” but that just doesn’t seem to fit on a Christian blog.