Are YOU a pharisee? Take the test!

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
B

bikerchaz

Guest
#21
#21
Ariel82 said:
God is still working on me.
Click to expand...
Love it, me too, and I won't be ready until I stand before Him, even then He will have to change me, can't wait.
 
Grace777x70

Grace777x70

Banned
#22
Nov 22, 2015
20,436
1,430
0
#22
Willie-T said:
The Apostle who wrote 3/4 of the NT was a Pharisee. It is sometimes hard for us to remember that the honest intent of most of the Pharisees was to be pleasing to God. Some (usually the most prominent) fell victim to the same pride and vanity many of our Big Name preachers, today, succumb to. (Both Grace Followers AND Law Bulldogs)
Click to expand...
Amen..I agree Willie!

I wonder if we can really judge if they have pride or not?...or what if they were in pride and vanity but have been shown this by the Holy Spirit and have repented of it ( changed the way they think ) and are now not that way.

Then people like me can come along and still judge them from past behaviors when in fact in the Lord's mind and heart - that person is completely free of that very thing I still accuse them of.

Just thinkin' out loud here on this subject.
 
Rjones

Rjones

Banned
#23
Apr 22, 2016
103
0
0
#23
[h=2]Are YOU a pharisee? Take the test![/h]
Matthew 5:20
For I say unto you,
That except your righteousness shall exceed
the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees,
ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Does your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees?

Which of you can claim it?

 
Willie-T

Willie-T

Banned
#24
Feb 7, 2015
22,418
413
0
#24
Luke 13:31:

Just at that time some Pharisees approached, saying to Him, (to Jesus) "Go away, leave here, for Herod wants to kill You."
 
Willie-T

Willie-T

Banned
#25
Feb 7, 2015
22,418
413
0
#25
Rjones said:
[h=2]Are YOU a pharisee? Take the test![/h]
Matthew 5:20
For I say unto you,
That except your righteousness shall exceed
the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees,
ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Does your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees?

Which of you can claim it?
Click to expand...
Every Christian can claim that. Because, as Jesus was talking about, our righteousness in not of ourselves and the good things we do or the laws we keep (as was the righteousness of the Pharisees), but rather, our righteousness is in being one of Christ's children.
 
G

Grandpa

Senior Member
#26
Jun 24, 2011
11,551
3,189
113
#26
I answered yes to #3.


Who doesn't like the surprised look on peoples faces when you know they are thinking "No Way...!"...???
 
G

Grandpa

Senior Member
#27
Jun 24, 2011
11,551
3,189
113
#27
Rjones said:
Are YOU a pharisee? Take the test!


Matthew 5:20
For I say unto you,
That except your righteousness shall exceed
the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees,
ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Does your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees?

Which of you can claim it?
Click to expand...
I suppose we are all too busy asking for mercy to worry too much about who is most righteous...
 
Rjones

Rjones

Banned
#29
Apr 22, 2016
103
0
0
#29
Willie-T said:
Every Christian can claim that. Because, as Jesus was talking about, our righteousness in not of ourselves and the good things we do or the laws we keep (as was the righteousness of the Pharisees), but rather, our righteousness is in being one of Christ's children.
Click to expand...
Do you believe God is a respecter of persons?
 
Rjones

Rjones

Banned
#33
Apr 22, 2016
103
0
0
#33
Grandpa said:
Because I acknowledge that my personal righteousness is as dirty rags before a Perfect God.
Click to expand...
Do you believe God expects you to be a righteous as Him?
 
E

ember

Guest
#35
#35
isn't this the guy from the I am the Holy Spirit thread?

yeah it is

nothing will make any sense here
 
Rjones

Rjones

Banned
#36
Apr 22, 2016
103
0
0
#36
Grandpa said:
He's wondering why the Lord would give you Righteousness but not the Pharisees...
Click to expand...
No I am wondering why He believe He has the righteousness of Christ
when he sins all day long?
 
Rjones

Rjones

Banned
#37
Apr 22, 2016
103
0
0
#37
ember said:
isn't this the guy from the I am the Holy Spirit thread?

yeah it is

nothing will make any sense here
Click to expand...
Then I expect this will
be the last time you read this thread.
 
E

ember

Guest
#39
#39
Rjones said:
Then I expect this will
be the last time you read this thread.
Click to expand...
really?

well you are not a prophet either then

backwards...forwards...sideways
 
G

Grandpa

Senior Member
#40
Jun 24, 2011
11,551
3,189
113
#40
Rjones said:
Do you believe God expects you to be a righteous as Him?
Click to expand...
I believe a man can receive nothing unless it is given him from heaven.

I am exactly what God expects me to be.

He is the Author and Finisher of my Salvation and my Righteousness.

I don't know what His Plan is. I just know that I trust in Him.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.