 Good afternoon, pastor and to you John. Thank you. Welcome everybody to unfiltered a random moment with pastor David Pastor wanted to ask you a couple of weeks ago. We spoke spoke about the social media profit Yeah, and how they use their platforms to push an agenda and they're really bold along those lines I wanted have you ever heard of the term accidental Pharisee? I've heard it. I've heard yeah Somebody who's Wanting to do the right thing but begins to judge other people for not doing the right thing that he thinks they're supposed to do and they Accidentally slip into a phariseic mentality if that's what you're yes Well, I mean what's interesting is that exactly what you're saying There's this overzealous model of faith that sabotages the work of the Lord You know back in even looked in the Old Testament if there were Pharisees in the Old Testament. It wasn't a bad thing I mean people were modeling at one time the Pharisee was Considered a holy person or Pharisee during the time of Christ was a separated one, you know Pharisees and the Sadducees are the two main groups we see in the New Testament that seem to have a Well, they do they have theological differences the Sadducees were the Jews who had been Influenced by the Greek way of thinking and their philosophy and so they began to deny them some essential things within the faith, you know, they didn't believe in angels for example and They didn't believe in the resurrection. And so the Pharisees believed in both And so there were there were arguments between the two Sadducees coming up right around the time that Antiochus epiphanies was in was in Israel and And all of that and he had left the Greek culture and so the Pharisees rose up in in response to them and so they were regarded as the holy ones But unfortunately sometimes when you want to pursue the things of the Lord you can begin to Give yourself over to a Mindset that if people don't do things the way you think they should be done that they're not doing them the right way And so I believe that Christians can slip into a Pharisee kind of attitude because well because we look around and we see that the world itself is spinning out of control But many Christians seem to lack personal holiness and pursuit of godliness and Have yielded themselves over to the temptations of the flesh at the point where they're making Carnal behavior Acceptable in the church and so I think it's possible for somebody who really wants to do right To begin to notice the things that are being done wrong and they can slip into that and so we see a lot of that in Being exposed in social media today Where somebody will write some angry thing a diatribe against something they've seen or are concerned about and before you know what the The the argument begins and people jump in and They may want to argue in favor of something and the other person furiously is pounding their keyboard To to battle that legalist and yeah, we see a lot of that today. How dangerous is that? Are the accidental Pharisees to the church in terms of undermining the gospel message? I think that that Phariseeism is is dangerous and so is a liberalism a liberal Mentality is dangerous also because it doesn't strike a balance, you know The restrictive ones become harsh unloving and overly critical the other ones lack discernment and so where anything goes because God is the God of grace and love and mercy and So it's kind of like the twelve blind men trying to describe an elephant, you know One touches his knee and says it's like a tree the other touches his is trunk and says those OICs like a snake You know and someone grabs the tail and says OIC. It's like a rope, you know grab the ear It's like a fan. You only see one thing about the elephant and then they make that the truth about the whole thing So I think that people do that today with their Their theology and their walks with God is they find one aspect and they hold fast to it But sometimes it's to the exclusion of the more full counsel of God And so it's a dangerous thing to not take in the whole counsel and seek the Lord for the balance that you find in scripture and To learn to do things according to what scripture says not according to our our own prejudices or biases And that's where the importance of an exegetical study We're taking the whole counsel of God versus Isolating a passage or scripture to try to make it fit to us Absolutely, and they take that and they run then yeah, and it comes down to keeping our eyes on Jesus talks about it comes down to loving Loving God loving people it talks about walking in faith and living in grace It's the doing unto others that Jesus said that we would have them the way that we would have them Treat us and things like that is putting into the balance of the scripture Into our life, and it takes a while for us because like pendulums We may swing one way or the other for a while, but what we're looking for is balance And so you know we should avoid those things that are evil, but we shouldn't ever we shouldn't ever condemn those who are You know are basically trapped by them and help them How are we going to help somebody if we don't love them and encourage them and tell them the truth and things of that Nature so Christianity is a balanced life Pastor, thank you so much for giving us insight on this and we look forward to all we have a once a night service And we have a guest speaker coming. Yeah, Brennan. We'll be with us on Wednesday. Yeah, we're excited We're always want you there, but sure sure But we still want to invite your church family come on out Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. We look having that we look forward to having you and pastor Thank you for your time. Of course. I bless you