Bud-and-Flourish

Has your walk with the LORD become gilded? Gilded- having a pleasing or showy appearance that conceals something of little worth. Based on pretense, deceptively pleasing 1 of 4 link   Deception Proverbs 26:23  KJV Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. Burning Lips; fervent lips in some translations Potsherd- broken earthen vessel;  broken piece of pottery Dross- impurities, waste, worthless matter, scum or from the melting process of metals Likened to a piece of pottery covered with silver to mask the brokenness and impurities by which it is truly covered. Part 2 -Hypocrisy  Hypocrisy- pretense of piety, insincerity; a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue; a pretender : pretending, masquerading, and acting like something you are not.  It’s being two-faced, putting on a show.  Hypocrisy and deception go hand in hand and it is an   act  that always displeases God. In Matthew 23 Jesus confront...

Jesus Cleanses the Temple (John 2:13-17) 13  Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  14  And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers  [ b ] doing business.  15  When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.  16  And He said to those who sold doves,  “Take these things away! Do not make   My Father’s house a house of merchandise!”   17  Then His disciples remembered that it was written,  “Zeal for Your house   [ c ] has eaten Me up.”