“Whenever a man is about to stab religion, he usually professes very great reverence for it. Let me beware of the sleek-faced hypocrisy which is armour-bearer to heresy and infidelity.” — Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening
If you have ever, like me, wondered why modern day Diotrephes don't just leave the church instead of sticking around and redefining it, here's why: they like to flatter what they shatter. They pay great reverence to the title of Christian. Not enough, of course, to come in by the narrow gate, but enough to jump the wall and break into the whole business. Thus, instead of acknowledging what Christianity is and what they, by contrast, are not or no longer claim to be, they continue to insist that they are Christians while gutting every and anything remotely Christian from the word.
Hypocrisy holds heresy's war hammer. Two-facedness serves as squire to apostasy's campaigns. Posturing and pretense play sidekick to Pharisaical pageantry. You will often find men complimenting the virility of that which they plan to castrate. They extol the fecundity of those they desire to make eunuchs.
Proverbs 27:6
The kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
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