Hypocrisy! The extent it can go to! As a hypocrite you can keep some aspects of your faith, maybe as in his case five percent, and abandon ninety five percent. So let us always be terrified of hypocrisy. Don't let it even begin to form, so that you ignore five percent of your faith, and you hold onto ninety five percent. If you make that mistake, very soon it will swing completely and you will only be left with five percent, and the devil will have ninety five percent, and you will be a complete hypocrite. This all started with Judah going down to a Canaanite settlement and making a very good friend out of one of their leading men. In no time he belongs there and he lives there, and he conducts himself according to their ways and their culture. He has gone; he has fallen completely.
Is there a bit of hypocrisy in your life? Young man, do you have a worldly girlfriend? Young woman, do you have a worldly boyfriend? You don't tell your Christian friends. You worship, you may even teach Sunday school. You may do all manner things, but hypocrisy has taken hold of you. You will get worse, if you don't give it up; in a year’s time, you will be much worse. There will be more dishonesty and deceitfulness and deviousness in you, and more hypocrisy. That is what happened to Judah. What a beginning he had! He had a godly father, grandfather, great-grandfather, exhibitions and demonstrations of the power of God and of faith, but now he is just a total hypocrite, hanging onto one shred of his faith – ‘we must protect the godly seed’ – never holding onto anything else. So beware of hypocrisy and what it can do to you.