Are there areas of legalism or hypocrisy in your life?

Geoff Botkin explains in this video that from reading Scripture, it is clear that Christ hates hypocrisy and legalism. A father ought to be concerned about what his children and family believe to be pious conduct. What they may think is pious conduct may not actually be biblical. We can be guilty of following traditions of disobedience by becoming pharisaical in our conduct. We would then be teaching as doctrine the commands of men and thereby worship in vain.

Many Christians are guilty of having forms of pietism where they believe that the sum of our Christianity is comprised of the quality of our quiet times that we have or how close we feel we are to Christ. We must realize that we must take his standards of holiness as they are laid out in Scripture and not simply base our actions on how it makes us feel.

Matthew 15:9 (NKJV) – “And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”

When Christians look back into history and they know that the Lord Jesus Christ really hates hypocrisy and he really hates Phariseeism and he really hates legalism in the way that we would take his law and we would take traditions and we would abuse it. It's happened again and again. But my biggest concern of all is in what ways are my own children and my own family picking up attitudes of what is called pietism. What they may think is pious conduct or a pious way of thinking or acting or dressing that is not biblical just because they've inherited something that they don't own and they don't understand. And so we can be guilty of following these same traditions of disobedience by becoming pharisaical.

And where we don't truly worship the Lord in spirit and in truth, we're teaching as doctrines the commandments of men, and we're worshiping in vain. And this is what concerns me about my own generation, and I think we're quite guilty all across the evangelical Protestant Bible Belt in the United States of having forms of pietism, where we think the sum total of our Christianity is the quality of the quiet times that we may be having, or how close we think we feel to our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. When if we would understand his assignment to us as his ambassadors and representatives, we would begin to see that we need to take His standards of holiness and there's nothing pietistic about it.