You can do the right thing just to impress others OR for the right reason by faith having the Christ as your teacher and guide.
Look for the distortions in your own life knowing that God will not be mocked. Love (the God kind) covers a multitude of sins!
Judge yourself and leave others for God. He sees the heart of a man.
The scribes and Pharisees were meticulous about tithing tiny seeds, but they failed to be obedient in more significant matters such as ensuring that all their actions were governed by justice and mercy and faith.
We can become so preoccupied with external rules and regulations in the church that we forget the principles behind them.
Matthew 23:23-24
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. 24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
42 “But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass by justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
Luke 11:42
6For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Hosea 6:6
8He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8
13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Matthew 9:13
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