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NASB | Psalm 119:80 May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, So that I will not be ashamed. Kaph. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 119:80 May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, So that I will not be ashamed. |
Subject: Thomas Watson on Hypocrisy |
Bible Note: Excerpt from "A Reproof to Such as are Only Pretenders to Godliness" by Thomas Watson (1603-1684) Question: When is a man under the dominion and power of hypocrisy? Answer: There are two signs of its predominance: (i) A squint eye, when one serves God for sinister ends. (ii) A good eye, when there is some sin dear to a man, which he cannot part with. These two are as clear signs of a hypocrite as any I know. Oh, let us take David's candle and lantern, and search for this leaven, and burn it before the Lord. Christian, if you mourn for hypocrisy, yet find this sin so potent that you cannot get the mastery of it, go to Christ. Beg of Him that He would exercise His kingly office in your soul, that He would subdue this sin, and put it under the yoke. Beg of Christ to exercise His spiritual surgery upon you. Desire Him to lance your heart and cut out the rotten flesh, and that He would apply the medicine of his blood to heal you of your hypocrisy. Say that prayer of David often: 'Let my heart be sound in thy statutes.' 'Lord, let me be anything rather than a hypocrite.' Two hearts will exclude from one heaven. |