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Detectando a los hipócritas: El castigo severo, el carácter y la incapacidad de los hipócritas (Serie de escritos puritanos nº 12)
Detectando a los hipócritas
Thomas Brooks
La hipocresía, un tema del que nadie quiere, desea y anhela escuchar; una cuestión que en su esencia es duro, difícil y fuerte de recibir y digerir; algo de lo que nadie ha escapado de caer, pero del casi nadie está dispuesto a aceptar.
La hipocresía, un mal que agobia a nuestra sociedad en todos los diferentes á gobiernos hipócritas, habitantes hipócritas, familias hipócritas, etc.; e incluso más triste un mal que se ha inmiscuido en la iglesia de pastores hipócritas, diáconos hipócritas, miembros hipócritas y, al final, congregaciones enteras hipócritas.
Existen males que pueden ser aborrecibles para unos pero agradables para otros. Uno aborrecerá la lujuria, pero otro amará y se deleitará en esta. Pero la hipocresía es uno de esos males que para todos es aborrecible. Entre los impíos la hipocresía es aborrecible, entre los cristianos la hipocresía es abominable, tanto los buenos como los malos concuerdan en su desprecio a este mal. Y esto no más muestra el carácter terrible de este mal.
Pero ¿cómo ve Dios este pecado? Su aborrecimiento por este pecado se ve en Su Palabra de manera muy elevada. Por la hipocresía, ha traído juicios terribles a los hombres tanto terrenales como espirituales. Y, por la hipocresía, Dios da como recompensa justa a los hombres un lugar más profundo en los tormentos del infierno. ¡Qué terrible es estar en este pecado!
Por lo tanto, qué necesario es tocar este tema, para que seamos advertidos, seamos reprendidos, seamos llevados al arrepentimiento, seamos instados a buscar la sinceridad cristiana, seamos instados a batallar contra este pecado. Curiosamente, entre los puritanos este es un tema del cual sus congregaciones no escapaban, predicando y escribiendo en contra de este pecado, Gurnall, Sedgwick, Baxter, Bolton, Adams, etc., son solo algunos de los muchos autores que hablaron sobre este tema. Y acá tenemos a Brooks, uno de los puritanos más queridos, tratándolo de la manera más clara, concisa, fuerte, convincente y tajante posible.
En este tratado se nos expone las razones por las cuales la severidad de Dios recae sobre los impíos, se nos habla sobre cuáles son las características de aquellos que son hipócritas y, en último lugar, se nos declara hasta dónde los hipócritas no pueden llegar, diferenciándolos de aquellos que son sinceros. La utilidad de este tratado es indescriptible, nos sirve para descubrir a aquellos que son hipócritas, nos sirve para llevarnos al arrepentimiento por nuestra hipocresía, nos sirve para llevarnos a Cristo por salvación, nos sirve para humillarnos en gran medida por este pecado, nos sirve para ejercitar nuestro deber de autoexaminación con más ahínco, nos sirve para aborrecer este pecado con todavía más furia, siendo conscientes de cuánto contamina este pecado. Por lo tanto, es nuestro ruego y deseo que estas utilidades puedan ser una realidad para aquellos que no son creyentes como para aquellos que sí lo son al leer este escrito. Es un libro duro, fuerte y amargo, pero el beneficio espiritual que trae consigo es algo dichoso, agradable y dulce.
Thomas Brooks
La hipocresía, un tema del que nadie quiere, desea y anhela escuchar; una cuestión que en su esencia es duro, difícil y fuerte de recibir y digerir; algo de lo que nadie ha escapado de caer, pero del casi nadie está dispuesto a aceptar.
La hipocresía, un mal que agobia a nuestra sociedad en todos los diferentes á gobiernos hipócritas, habitantes hipócritas, familias hipócritas, etc.; e incluso más triste un mal que se ha inmiscuido en la iglesia de pastores hipócritas, diáconos hipócritas, miembros hipócritas y, al final, congregaciones enteras hipócritas.
Existen males que pueden ser aborrecibles para unos pero agradables para otros. Uno aborrecerá la lujuria, pero otro amará y se deleitará en esta. Pero la hipocresía es uno de esos males que para todos es aborrecible. Entre los impíos la hipocresía es aborrecible, entre los cristianos la hipocresía es abominable, tanto los buenos como los malos concuerdan en su desprecio a este mal. Y esto no más muestra el carácter terrible de este mal.
Pero ¿cómo ve Dios este pecado? Su aborrecimiento por este pecado se ve en Su Palabra de manera muy elevada. Por la hipocresía, ha traído juicios terribles a los hombres tanto terrenales como espirituales. Y, por la hipocresía, Dios da como recompensa justa a los hombres un lugar más profundo en los tormentos del infierno. ¡Qué terrible es estar en este pecado!
Por lo tanto, qué necesario es tocar este tema, para que seamos advertidos, seamos reprendidos, seamos llevados al arrepentimiento, seamos instados a buscar la sinceridad cristiana, seamos instados a batallar contra este pecado. Curiosamente, entre los puritanos este es un tema del cual sus congregaciones no escapaban, predicando y escribiendo en contra de este pecado, Gurnall, Sedgwick, Baxter, Bolton, Adams, etc., son solo algunos de los muchos autores que hablaron sobre este tema. Y acá tenemos a Brooks, uno de los puritanos más queridos, tratándolo de la manera más clara, concisa, fuerte, convincente y tajante posible.
En este tratado se nos expone las razones por las cuales la severidad de Dios recae sobre los impíos, se nos habla sobre cuáles son las características de aquellos que son hipócritas y, en último lugar, se nos declara hasta dónde los hipócritas no pueden llegar, diferenciándolos de aquellos que son sinceros. La utilidad de este tratado es indescriptible, nos sirve para descubrir a aquellos que son hipócritas, nos sirve para llevarnos al arrepentimiento por nuestra hipocresía, nos sirve para llevarnos a Cristo por salvación, nos sirve para humillarnos en gran medida por este pecado, nos sirve para ejercitar nuestro deber de autoexaminación con más ahínco, nos sirve para aborrecer este pecado con todavía más furia, siendo conscientes de cuánto contamina este pecado. Por lo tanto, es nuestro ruego y deseo que estas utilidades puedan ser una realidad para aquellos que no son creyentes como para aquellos que sí lo son al leer este escrito. Es un libro duro, fuerte y amargo, pero el beneficio espiritual que trae consigo es algo dichoso, agradable y dulce.
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Published April 27, 2023
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About the author
Thomas Brooks
245 books11 followersThomas Brooks earned his B.S. Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and his MBA from the University of Maryland. The award-winning author has published several articles, and has been featured frequently on the radio and on television. In 1998, Brooks won a national award from the Career Communications Group in the category of Technical Sales and Marketing for his work in corporate America.
Brooks was formerly a Director of Marketing at Lucent Technologies. Since 2002 the entrepreneur has served as the Founder and Managing Director of Alpha Multimedia, Inc., a marketing, public relations and publishing firm. His bestselling book, A Wealth of Family: An Adopted Son's International Quest for Heritage, Reunion, and Enrichment, was named a Best Books Award Winner by USA Book News.
Brooks is a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and also the National Black MBA Association. He enjoys public speaking, snow skiing, and running. He lives with his wife and children near Houston, Texas, USA.
A Wealth of Family Book Description: Heartwarming and Inspirational True Story Shows the Power of Love
This compelling, bestselling account of adoption, reunion and heritage provides a timely and provocative perspective on multicultural families and powerful insights on overcoming racism and poverty.
Brooks grew up as the only child of a struggling single mother in inner-city Pittsburgh. He was battling racial stereotypes at school and searching for a place among his peers. Then he was told at age eleven that he had been adopted as an infant. He did not know it at the time, but Brooks had actually been born to a white biological mother who descended from Lithuanian Jews and a black Kenyan foreign student father.
Years after that stunning revelation, Brooks escaped the ghetto and traveled to search for his heritage. He found his biological mother in London with his previously unknown British siblings. He then located his biological father and extended family in Nairobi. His international search and the resulting reunions have profoundly affected three families in the United States, England, and Kenya.
Thomas Brooks earned his B.S. Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and his MBA from the University of Maryland. The award-winning author has published several articles, and has been featured frequently on the radio and on television. In 1998, Brooks won a national award from the Career Communications Group in the category of Technical Sales and Marketing for his work in corporate America.
Brooks was formerly a Director of Marketing at Lucent Technologies. Since 2002 the entrepreneur has served as the Founder and Managing Director of Alpha Multimedia, Inc., a marketing, public relations and publishing firm. His bestselling book, A Wealth of Family: An Adopted Son's International Quest for Heritage, Reunion, and Enrichment, was named a Best Books Award Winner by USA Book News.
Brooks is a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and also the National Black MBA Association. He enjoys public speaking, snow skiing, and running. He lives with his wife and children near Houston, Texas, USA.
A Wealth of Family Book Description: Heartwarming and Inspirational True Story Shows the Power of Love
This compelling, bestselling account of adoption, reunion and heritage provides a timely and provocative perspective on multicultural families and powerful insights on overcoming racism and poverty.
Brooks grew up as the only child of a struggling single mother in inner-city Pittsburgh. He was battling racial stereotypes at school and searching for a place among his peers. Then he was told at age eleven that he had been adopted as an infant. He did not know it at the time, but Brooks had actually been born to a white biological mother who descended from Lithuanian Jews and a black Kenyan foreign student father.
Years after that stunning revelation, Brooks escaped the ghetto and traveled to s
Brooks was formerly a Director of Marketing at Lucent Technologies. Since 2002 the entrepreneur has served as the Founder and Managing Director of Alpha Multimedia, Inc., a marketing, public relations and publishing firm. His bestselling book, A Wealth of Family: An Adopted Son's International Quest for Heritage, Reunion, and Enrichment, was named a Best Books Award Winner by USA Book News.
Brooks is a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and also the National Black MBA Association. He enjoys public speaking, snow skiing, and running. He lives with his wife and children near Houston, Texas, USA.
A Wealth of Family Book Description: Heartwarming and Inspirational True Story Shows the Power of Love
This compelling, bestselling account of adoption, reunion and heritage provides a timely and provocative perspective on multicultural families and powerful insights on overcoming racism and poverty.
Brooks grew up as the only child of a struggling single mother in inner-city Pittsburgh. He was battling racial stereotypes at school and searching for a place among his peers. Then he was told at age eleven that he had been adopted as an infant. He did not know it at the time, but Brooks had actually been born to a white biological mother who descended from Lithuanian Jews and a black Kenyan foreign student father.
Years after that stunning revelation, Brooks escaped the ghetto and traveled to search for his heritage. He found his biological mother in London with his previously unknown British siblings. He then located his biological father and extended family in Nairobi. His international search and the resulting reunions have profoundly affected three families in the United States, England, and Kenya.
Thomas Brooks earned his B.S. Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and his MBA from the University of Maryland. The award-winning author has published several articles, and has been featured frequently on the radio and on television. In 1998, Brooks won a national award from the Career Communications Group in the category of Technical Sales and Marketing for his work in corporate America.
Brooks was formerly a Director of Marketing at Lucent Technologies. Since 2002 the entrepreneur has served as the Founder and Managing Director of Alpha Multimedia, Inc., a marketing, public relations and publishing firm. His bestselling book, A Wealth of Family: An Adopted Son's International Quest for Heritage, Reunion, and Enrichment, was named a Best Books Award Winner by USA Book News.
Brooks is a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and also the National Black MBA Association. He enjoys public speaking, snow skiing, and running. He lives with his wife and children near Houston, Texas, USA.
A Wealth of Family Book Description: Heartwarming and Inspirational True Story Shows the Power of Love
This compelling, bestselling account of adoption, reunion and heritage provides a timely and provocative perspective on multicultural families and powerful insights on overcoming racism and poverty.
Brooks grew up as the only child of a struggling single mother in inner-city Pittsburgh. He was battling racial stereotypes at school and searching for a place among his peers. Then he was told at age eleven that he had been adopted as an infant. He did not know it at the time, but Brooks had actually been born to a white biological mother who descended from Lithuanian Jews and a black Kenyan foreign student father.
Years after that stunning revelation, Brooks escaped the ghetto and traveled to s
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