As parents we have the awesome and sober responsibility of equipping our children to know God in a personally relational way and to be loving responsible family members, neighbors, community members, and patriotic Americans. My dad taught that to me when he said, “you’re not raising babies… you’re raising future adults who will be workers, spouses, citizens.” Most of these lessons are taught by the way we live, and since the beginning of covid, one word has become predominant in everyone’s mind and mouth about what is universally abhorrent – HYPOCRISY! ! It didn’t start with covid, but covid sure did catapult it front and center.
I grew up where I witnessed hypocrisy front and center – welcome to the hard lessons of life. It was infuriating to watch then just as much as it is now, but the point of hypocrisy isn’t the anger we feel, it’s what we learn from it. Jesus very pointedly said, (paraphrase) “you’re pointing out the speck of dust in my eye when you have a beam sticking out of yours?” In other words – dude… go look in the mirror and fix your own issues before you start pointing out anyone else’s. Jesus also called the most learned religious teachers, possibly in the world at that time, hypocrites.
Have you ever thought of the word hypocrite? I learned this on a trip to Greece. From Merriam-Webster: “The word hypocrite ultimately came into English from the Greek word hypokrites, which means “an actor” or “a stage player.” The Greek word itself is a compound noun: it’s made up of two Greek words that literally translate as “an interpreter from underneath.” They’re professional FAKERS. A hypocrite doesn’t believe what they’re dishing out. Exaples: Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins who paid for the pandemic with our tax dollars and then locked us down and intentionally lied about the progress. EVERY SINGLE LITERAL ACTOR or “celebrity” everyone seems to put on a pedestal. Disney once about sweet fairy tales, now pushing a narrative that represents only 1% of the population. Pro ball players telling you to bend the knee to marxism. John Kerry, married to a billionaire, having NEVER worked a real job tells us to live on wind and sun when he killed a wind project off of Nantucket because it would ruin the view. Katanji Brown Jackson who is supposed to interpret the nuances of our Constitution FOR LIFE but can’t, or WON’T define what is a woman because she is tied to radical leftists. FAKERS.
So what do we do? How do we respond to hypocrites – fakers? Do we bow down? Do we bend our knee to them? I would pray we would take the supreme example and emulate it – Jesus. He called them out every single time he discussed them. He drove the money changers out of the Temple. He rebuked them. He made His stand and He stood firm. He was right. We HAVE to stand up for what is RIGHT. We HAVE to make known evil hypocrisy will NOT be tolerated. Just like Ronald Reagan said: “They counted on America to be passive; they counted wrong!” To let them win is wrong!
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