Big Idea- Monitor the condition of your own heart more than you monitor the behavior of others.  

Three-part Journey Toward Avoiding Hypocrisy 

1. Embrace your need to be spiritually clean (:1-5)  
2. Behavior modification won’t bring Christ-exalting change to your life (:6-13)   

4 ways behavior modification undermines true spiritual maturity.  

• Behavior modification confuses man-made rules with God’s laws.  
• Behavior modification is always connected to a condemning spirit.  
• Behavior modification doesn’t deal with the source of uncleanness (7:14-16) 
• Behavior modification will leave you exhausted and frustrated.  

 3. A clean heart is the antidote to hypocrisy and the key to an authentic spiritual life (:14-23)  

• The primary role of your heart.  
• Your true struggle with sin is not external but internal.  
• At the cross, Jesus purchased for you a purified heart.  

Discipleship Question: What’s holding me back from looking more like Jesus?  

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