Hypocrites Abound in Our Culture Today

It is important that we do not become hypocrites. A hypocrite is one who judges others for doing what the hypocrite is doing themselves but those they judge are not doing it.

 
Our modern world calls this projection; when someone accuses us of what they are doing and we are not.

 
A woman found out that I corrected a sinning brother in Christ and told me that I should not correct others as she was correcting me for correcting others.
Not only was it not Biblical to pressure others to never correct our siblings in Christ, it was hypocritical because she was doing what she told me not to do.
There are many such ideas floating around in the churches that are not Biblical but are commonly repeated as though they were straight from God.

The hard part is when we correct someone Biblically who claims to be a Christian and they refuse to hear God's Word because they like the unscriptural concept everyone else is repeating.

 
The modern church is full of stubborn hearts who refuse to be taught or listen to Biblical instruction except when they like what is being said.

 
2 Timothy 4:2-4
"…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4. So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."

The modern church has been tainted severely with the problem of "people pleasing" having changed the word of God, adding to it and subtracting from it to justify keeping people happy, in the pews and the money rolling in to pay the pastor's salary.

It is a conflict of interest in my opinion, that the pastor is paid a salary while protecting that salary by carefully crafting their words and personality to please the people in the pews. Many pastors have become actors entertaining the flock while also robbing them, not only of the truth but of their money too.

 
Many Scriptures have been misunderstood because of the problem of snatching one sentence out of its passage to make it say whatever the reader desires to believe. This is so common now that very few people understand the Bible correctly concerning any principle of God.

1 Timothy 4:1-2
"Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, / influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron."

When we discover someone is not interested in what God has to say in His word then is the time to walk away and leave them to God.

Acts 20:29-30
"I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. / Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them."

God instructs us to test all things for this very reason.