Hypocrites

In about 3 weeks I'm going to be teaching my first lesson in front of high school students and, I am honestly distressed at how they will take it, at first I wanted to do a fun message or a message that wasn't too deep and I had a list of topics I could speak on but none of them popped out at me so I e-mailed them to a couple of people I trusted deeply and one of them told me to start out in prayer
and ask GOD what He wants me to share not what I want to share and spend quite a bit of time in prayer while I'm reading His Word He will give me something He wants me to teach. And so I did as he said and the topic I feel God wants me to speak on is a very deep and for me personal level because not too long ago I was doing the exact same thing. The lesson I will be teaching on is all of Matthew 23, And it is all about false teachers and hypocrites. so with that said I should be doing some more studying but I leave you with an excerpt from an article I recently read by an Atheist.

"CHRISTIANS ARE HYPOCRITES"

Christians, they love to talk about how loving, dutiful and compassionate they are, yet I have yet to meet ONE who does not practice hypocrisy to the highest degree. Their willful ignorance of the Bible combined with their two faced idealism to preach it, has made us sick, hasn’t it? For nearly two thousand years Biblicists have been lecturing people on the importance of adhering to the Bible’s teachings on ethics, manners, and morality. They quote Jesus and Paul profusely, with a liberal sprinkling of Old Testament moralism. The problem with their approach lies not only in an oft- noted failure to practice what they preach, but an equally pronounced tendency to ignore what the Bible itself, preaches. Christians practice what can only be described as “selective morality”. What they like, they cling to and shove down other’s throats; what they don’t like, they ignore fervently. That which is palatable and acceptable is supposedly applicable to all; while that which is obnoxious, inconvenient, or self-denying is only applicable to those addressed 2,000 years ago. Their hypocrisy is so rampant that even the validity of calling oneself “Christian” is in question. I see so many people enjoy quoting the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, and some of Paul’s sermons, but don’t even PRETEND to heed other, equally valid, maxims.