{"id":165,"date":"2016-01-09T10:17:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skygov.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/09\/modern-pharisees-self-righteousness-vs-christ-righteousness\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T03:56:36","slug":"modern-pharisees-self-righteousness-vs-christ-righteousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Modern Pharisees: self-righteousness vs Christ-righteousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Righteousness&quot; is the means by which someone becomes &quot;a good person.&quot;<br \/>\n\t&quot;Self-righteous&quot; is when someone considers himself &quot;a good person&quot; according to a morality system he makes up for himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For being ignorant of God&rsquo;s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn&rsquo;t subject themselves to the righteousness of God. ~ Romans 10:3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We could render it this way in modern English,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Because of ignoring God&rsquo;s morality system, and seeking to establish their own morality system, they didn&rsquo;t subject themselves to the morality system of God. ~ Romans 10:3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many people have come up with many ways to become regarded as &quot;a good person.&quot;  This way,  they can do the bad things they enjoy and still be &#8220;a good person. &#8221;  However, in reality,  whoever teaches a morality system different than Jesus is acting like the Pharisees.<\/p>\n<p>The New Testament describes the Pharisees not simply because they were a real group of people who interacted with Jesus, but because they serve as an example of Christless moralists of every time and place.&nbsp; That is to say, that we can identify Pharisee attitudes and behaviors in Christless moralists of every kind and learn from Jesus how to deal with them.&nbsp; What follows is some of the identifying characteristics of the Pharisees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tthey are opposed to the rule of the Lord Jesus Christ<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tthey tie people up with rules that they invent<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tthey condemn people who disobey their invented rules<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tthey favor people who flatter or support them and their rules<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tthey seek to be in control of others<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tthey are organized into their own group<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tthey portray themselves as deserving of control of things<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tthey are wolves in sheeps&#39; clothing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They love money.<br \/>\nThey set their minds on earthly things.<br \/>\nThey falsely accuse.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We can readily see in our own times groups of people (zealots, activists) who act this way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tnon-Christian religious people<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tEnvironmental activists (people who make a morality system out of their concern for the environment)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tPolitical activists (people who make a morality system out of politics and government rule)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tLGBT activists (people who make a morality system out of their sexual orientation)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tMoney zealots (people who make a morality system out of their control of money)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tRace-activists (Racists, people who make a morality system out of their ideas about race relations)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAcademics (people who make a morality system out of obtaining formal education)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tScience activists (people who make a morality system out of &quot;Science&quot;)<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tMilitary zealots (people who make a morality system out of military service)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Righteousness&quot; is the means by which someone becomes &quot;a good person.&quot; &quot;Self-righteous&quot; is when someone considers himself &quot;a good person&quot; according to a morality system he makes up for himself. 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