Castaway Series: Dealing First With Your Own Logs (Part 2) by Dr. Rod Mattoon

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Matthew 7:2-5... For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. What causes a person to ignore or to be blind to his own faults and focus on those problems in others? We examine six different reasons. We also address the issue of hypocrisy that is seen in this passage. When Howard Carter and his associates found the tomb of King Tutankhamen, they opened up his casket and found another one within it. They opened up the second casket, which was covered with gold leaf, and found a third casket within. Inside the third casket was a fourth made of pure gold. The Pharaoh's body was in this fourth casket, wrapped in gold cloth, with a gold face mask. When the body was unwrapped, however, it was leathery and shriveled. Beloved, whether we are trying to hypocritically cloak a dead spiritual life, or something else in caskets of gold to impress others, the beauty of the exterior does not change the corruption on the interior. God is not fooled by our glitter, glamour, or gold. This message was preached on Wednesday night, April 27, 2022 at Lincoln Land Baptist Church.