Nothing Hid

Luke 12:1-3..In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, in so much that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, beware ye of the leaven (teaching) of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed, neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatsoever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light, and that which you have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed up on the house tops.

In Numbers 32, Moses warned the Israelites, “Be sure your sin will find you out.”

Jesus warned to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and he explains that the leaven is hypocrisy. What is hypocrisy?

The Greek word is dissimulation, pretender, actor.

Beware of their teaching, they appear righteous, but within they are full of iniquity.

Jesus didn’t have a problem dealing with sinners and publicans, he could be found eating with them at times. He didn’t partake of their sin, but said “Those that are whole don’t need a physician, but they that are sick.”

Sin is a disease of the soul, heart and mind, that lies at the door of mankind, ready to snare and bring into bondage.

Jesus knew he was their way out of sin, their deliverer, their healer, the Great Physician!

And he still is today!! Him that comes unto me, I will in no wise cast out!

The sinner woman in Luke 7 anointed Jesus’ feet, washed them with her tears, and it didn’t offend Jesus, but he had a problem with the Pharisee who asked him to lunch, and gave him no kiss, no oil to anoint his head, no water for his feet, no hospitality, and showed no compassion to the woman.

The woman caught in adultery and brought to Jesus, probably only had a cloth covering her, and it didn’t throw Jesus in a panic, but he had to reveal the hearts of the accusers that wanted to stone her.

It didn’t seem to bother Jesus that the demon possessed man in the tombs running towards him was naked, dirty, scarred, and maybe bloody from cutting himself, but it grieved Jesus that the religious crowd in the synagogue wanted to throw him over the cliff!

Jesus had no problem with sinners, for he proclaimed himself that “I came to call sinners to repentance.” And “ I come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Jesus had no problem dealing with devils, he knew he had all power and authority over them. All he had to say was “Go.”

But hypocrites bothered him, those who looked righteous, but were full of iniquity. Those who taught one way and did another. Those who showed no mercy, no compassion on the lost, the needy, the hurting and bruised. Those who tried to snare him in his words to bring accusations against him.

Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy, for nothing is covered that shall not be revealed, and nothing hid that shall not be made known.

God bless