Are you doing the right things just so people see you doing them? We are talking about true honesty, hidden motives, and what it looks like to live straight with God when nobody is watching. Welcome to Part 4 of our new series, Solid Ground. When the world feels shaky, this is how you build a life on a foundation that will never crack.
Refuge Church Byhalia exists to share the hope of Jesus, love our neighbors in Byhalia, Barton, & beyond, & grow together as a family. We meet every Sunday at 11 AM. You can find us at 3964 MS-309 N., Byhalia, MS 38611
Intro
- Alright, Good Morning!
- Welcome to Refuge Church Byhalia!
- My name is Michael and I serve RCB as the planting pastor.
- I’m glad you all are here today and we have been praying that you would connect with God and connect with someone else today and leave ready for the week ahead.
- Now before we get started, Happy Father’s Day to all the Dad’s in the room.
- I hope you have already had a good day and that maybe, just maybe, you get a nap sometime this afternoon.
- Don’t forget to get your treat in the lobby after service. The little cakes look good and we have 1 for every dad here today.
- You know men, we are called to be the head of our households
- To lead well
- in the matters of day to day life
- But even more so, in spiritual things
- There is nothing more manly and fatherly than to point your family to Jesus
- Through consistent focus on Him
- And time in the word, and in prayer, and in musical worship
- Dad’s you want to do well and lead well
- When’s the last time your kid saw you praying apart from a meal and before bed
- Dad’s you want to raise kids who love Jesus & His bride the church
- Does church get priority in your life?
- Dad’s you want to see your kids live a life honoring to God?
- How often do your kids hear you sing out loud praises to your King & Savior?
- Dad’s, we are called to lead
- Let’s do it!
- Now today, we continue our series firm foundation
- Where we are wrapping up Jesus’ sermon on the mount
- And today we are walking through a sermon titled ‘The Motive Check’ and it will be based in Matthew 6:1-4 Page ____.
- And we are going to be looking at something that will be brought up a fairly significant amount throughout the book of Matthew
- And that’s the reality of hypocrisy
- Playing the part of the hypocrite
- The pretender
- So please open your Bibles up to Matthew chapter 6
- Now if you don’t have a Bible with you or one on your device that you like to use
- There are blue Bibles scattered around the room that I would love for you to use so that you can see the Word of God as I read it today.
- Page numbers for those Blue Bibles will be on the screen the entire time.
- Now as you turn there a quick story
- Back in 2008 I started college at the university of Memphis to pursue a degree in Music Education
- My goal in this pursuit was to become a high school band director in Texas, where I graduated High School.
- I was bound and determined to do it.
- And I thought, at the time, I would be pretty good at it.
- I figured, I would coast through getting the degree
- Land a job and work up the ranks to become a director of bands at one of the big school districts in dallas or san antonio
- But as the years went on
- And the classes droned on, sometimes literally
- I began to realize something – I wasn’t doing it for the music, or for the kids
- I wanted to do it, for myself
- And as silly as it may sound, to get my name in lights more or less
- You see in High School I got cross with one of my directors
- And one day he and I got into it and he said well Michael when you become a director you can do it your way and see how it goes, but for now, we are doing things my way.
- And in that room and moment I had decided, fine, i will do it and i will prove I’m right and better.
- You see, I was running after this all for myself.
- And in our passage today, we are going to see our Lord Jesus warn us
- That if we aren’t careful and on purpose
- We can begin to do religious activity
- For ourselves
- For our name in lights
- For the praise of man
- And no longer for the spiritual benefit of doing good things
- And this is a dangerous thing
- Especially for us in a new and growing church plant.
- So please follow along
- As I read Matthew 6:1-4
- Let’s read the Words of our Lourd Jesus
Passage: Matthew 6:1-4 ““Beware of rpracticing your righteousness before other people in order sto be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 2 t“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may ube praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have vreceived their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. wAnd your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
Let’s Pray.
- Help us do righteous good things – for your glory and for the good of our neighbor, not for the praise of man
- Help us to examine ourselves, in order to see if we have right motives
- Or if we have been living as hypocrites.
- Lord help us to learn what it means to live for your Glory & your fame.
- Now I’ve got a few things I think we should walk away with from this passage and supporting cross references.
- First
Point 1 – Hypocrites do churchy things to be seen and complimented.
- Jesus says beware
- Be warned
- Be careful
- Don’t do this
- Don’t to righteous things to be seen by others
- This is a bad thing to do!
- But many do this
- Many do righteous things to be seen
- To see how Matthew records this later on in the book
- Turn to Matthew 23:5 Page ____ and see this played out
- “5 tThey do all their deeds zto be seen by others. For they make atheir (Fee-Lack-Tarries) phylacteries broad and btheir fringes long, “
- This (Fee-Lack-Tarries) – it was a set of leather boxes containing scrolls of scripture to be used during prayer
- And the hypocrites
- The self righteous
- The ones doing religions things for the praise of man
- Would make it so their (Fee-Lack-Tarries) had ornate wrapping and strings and tassels
- So everyone could see and be amazed by how righteous and intense they were
- And this showed wrong motive
- Instead of the prayer and prayer tool being reverent and God focused
- It was over the top and man focused
- And this is a big danger for us
- Because we can find ourselves
- Serving well at church
- Everyone has a place to serve here at Refuge
- And there’s always more to do
- And more ministry opportunities
- And it is ncie to belong and have a place to serve
- A place to be known and know others
- And we can get so caught up in doing everything well and in order
- That we forget the reason we do things well and in order isn’t to get the attaboy from someone who knows we were the ones who scrubbed the toilets
- But actually we scrub the toilets for the glory of God
- You see friends
- Our pride, can ruin, and stain, and poison, even our best religious efforts
- Listen to how Paul put it in 1 Corinthians 13:3 Page _____ (Drink) “ 3 cIf I give away all I have, and dif I deliver up my body to be burned,1 but have not love, I gain nothing. “
- Wrong motives ruin right action
- Canadian Theologian, D.A. Carson, has said “The greater the demand for holiness, the greater the danger of hypocrisy.” D.A. Carson
- Friends, we, as members of a church plant
- As regular attenders at a church plant
- Are doing something amazing for the Kingdom of God
- We are taking territory from the enemy
- And while the enemy’s days are numbered, he still will fight back
- And if he can – he will grow our pride and self righteousness as we work hard here at Refuge
- So how can we know if we are being hypocritical
- Or doing religious things for the praise of others – instead of for the glory of God
- Take a look inside
- A deep look inside yourself
- You see friends,
Point 2 – Hypocrites look nice on the outside, but are gross on the inside.
- When we look inside ourselves
- If there are cobwebs
- And mess
- And something different than what everyone actually sees on the outside
- It may be a sign of hypocrisy growing in you
- Dirty Dishes Commercial. – Now I’m somewhat obsessive when it comes to cleaning the dishes. At my house, I’ve got a double sink. And around that sink, there are to green & white libman vegetable brushes. One has a sticker on it and the other doesn’t.
- You see, I was raised that the dishwasher is the finishing touch on doing the dishes.
- Not the entire process.
- And so, when I do the dishes, which is every day. Every bit of grime and crumb and mess has to get scrubbed off by the non sticker scrub brush before that dish is loaded into the dishwasher
- And if anything remains on it, i will have failed miserably and ruined a load of dishes
- So I’m intense about cleaning off the food and grime of the dishes.
- Now note, there is a 2nd Libman vegetable brush. It has a sticker on it. That brush’s job is only to clean the ‘hand wash’ dishes.
- So first the unstickered one – gets all the grime off
- Then for dishwasher safe stuff it goes into the dishwasher
- For non dishwasher stuff it gets soap and blazing hot water from the stickered brush.
- Here’s why i do this.
- I’ve been to homes where they follow a different dishwashing practice.
- And I’ve been handed a clean cup. And taken a peak inside the cup before I filled it with water.
- And in the bottom of that cup, is bits and pieces of every meal that was served up to the dishwasher yesterday.
- Disgusting
- I don’t want bits of mac n cheese and pizza and cereal
- I want water in my cup, only….
- That dish is not clean… it’s only pretending to be clean on the outside
- Blegh
- Nasty.
- Well, for the hypocrite, that’s how it is.
- Hypocrites look nice on the outside, but are gross on the inside.
- Turn again to Matthew 23:23-28 Page ___ “ 23 d“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For eyou tithe mint and dill and fcumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: gjustice and mercy and faithfulness. hThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing ia camel! 25 j“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For kyou clean the outside of lthe cup and the plate, but inside they are full of mgreed and self-indulgence. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of lthe cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean. 27 n“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like owhitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and pall uncleanness. 28 So you also qoutwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of rhypocrisy and lawlessness. “
- That’s some strong imagery
- You wanted no pulp orange juice but forgot to take the camel out of your cup….
- The life of hypocrisy is insanity
- Unless we secretly love the praise and attention of doing religious things for others.
- If that’s the case
- We end up getting really good at being pretty and JEsus-ee on the outside
- While loving and craving our sin on the inside
- Especially the sin of pride and self righteousness.
- Listen to how Charles H. Spurgeon put it, “The hypocrite can speak like an angel… But see him when he comes to actions. What behold you there? The fullest contradiction…” Charles H. Spurgeon
- Right words
- Right sunday morning
- And wrong tuesday afternoon
- It’s like bragging about giving to the poor
- Or praying loudly for all to hear
- And it shows we may be deceived
- And living for ourselves
- Instead of living for God
Point 2.5 – As a church, we, including the leaders, can fall into hypocrisy by loving the attention and growth more than God.
- Luke 12:1 Page ___ “In the meantime, twhen so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, u“Beware of vthe leaven of the Pharisees, wwhich is hypocrisy. “
- You know I love this church
- And I love you all
- And God has been kind to Refuge
- Since her early meetings as Bible studies
- Through the giving of this building to us
- And through our growth!
- We had 92 people at church last week.
- But we need to be warned
- To not love the growth
- And not love the attention of being a leader at a growing church.
- Or being one fo the first ones
- Or being one of the ones who helped move the building from Faith Baptist to Refuge Church
- That can become prideful
- And lead to us acting hypocritical
- John MacArthur said, “The peril of religion, and we all face it, is that we would play the hypocrite.” John MacArthur
- Even worse, it could lead to us to start taking advantage of our church family
- Or even bending the rules – to fuel our wickedness through the church
- Check out this warning farther on in Matthew
- Matthew 24:48-51 Page ___ “48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master zis delayed,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants4 and eats and drinks with adrunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come bon a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know 51 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place cthere will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. “
- There are people
- Who use the church
- And the systems of church
- To get wealthy
- To get pleasure
- And live sinfully
- And they say – well Jesus isn’t coming back for a while – and I’m forgiven
- So let me live like a heathen, thanks to the church
- Oh let that not be our path
- Let us be genuine laborers for the Kingdom of God.
- Charles H. Spurgeon, “This age is full of shams… it is doubly necessary that the minister should cry aloud… against this sin, ‘the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.’” Charles H. Spurgeon
- Let us fight and pray against hypocrisy and self righteousness.
- The next thing we need to realize
- Our secret inner parts
Point 3 – God sees the inside that we think is secret.
- There is no secret that God does not see
- He is omniscient
- Jeremiah 17:10 Page ___ “10 i“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind,2 to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” “
- God knows you
- Knows your deeds
- Knows your flaws
- And knows where you’re hypocritical
- Hebrews 4:13 Page ____ “13 And bno creature is hidden from his sight, but all are cnaked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. “
- We have to stop acting like God isn’t with us and isn’t knowing us all the time
- We can’t hide from him
- Oh you may think you are good at hiding your laziness from your boss
- Or that secret sin from your spouse
- But the all knowing all seeing God of the universe
- He knows your inner parts
- Your biggest secret
- And so I have a challenge for us as we close today.
Conclusion – Get rid of hypocrisy and the pride it feeds on, and boast in Christ & Christ alone!
- Conclusion 1 Peter 2:1 Page ____ “jSo put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. “
- Maybe that means you come get prayer
- Or maybe you write something down on a care card
- Or maybe you go to that trusted friend today
- Or come ot me
- And say I’m done being a hypocrite
- I’m done cleaning the outside of the dish
- While the inside is full of crap.
- What are you waiting for today
- Turn away from your fake living
- Because I have good news for you and for me.
- God knows you
- Even the yucky parts of you
- And He still has His arms wide open saying come find rest in me
- Come find peace in mea
- Come find joy in me
- Come get to knwo me
- And tell others about me
- I’ve got more grace then you got sin
- Whether its been a bad week of faking it
- A bad year of faking it
- Or a bad life of faking it
- Jesus is ready to welcome you home prodigal
- And when you come home
- Know this
- Conclusion Ephesians 2:8-9 Page ___ “8 For zby grace you have been saved athrough faith. And this is bnot your own doing; cit is the gift of God, 9 dnot a result of works, eso that no one may boast. “
- God’s ready to save you
- And welcome you home
- And wipe every tear
- And remember your sin no more
- You’ve just got to take a step of faith
- Believe in Jesus & choose to follow Him
- Ready to do that? Not sure what it means? Mark salvation or come see me!
- And then, together
- As we stumble toward glory
- We can do things the way Matthew Henry, puts it… “What we do, must be done from an inward principle, that we may be approved of God, not that we may be praised of men.” Matthew Henry
- That’s the life of the non-hypocrite
- To be approved of God
- And it starts at the foot of the cross
- Come to it for the first time today
- Or turn to it anew – after a season of hypocricy!
Notes:
Matthew Henry
- What we do, must be done from an inward principle, that we may be approved of God, not that we may be praised of men.
- Take heed of it. It is a subtle sin; and vain-glory creeps into what we do, before we are aware. But the duty is not the less necessary and excellent for being abused by hypocrites to serve their pride.
- When we take least notice of our good deeds ourselves, God takes most notice of them. He will reward thee; not as a master who gives his servant what he earns, and no more, but as a Father who gives abundantly to his son that serves him.
Warren Wiersbe
- The true righteousness of the kingdom must be applied in the everyday activities of life.
- Jesus also warned about the danger of hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16), the sin of using religion to cover up sin.
- A hypocrite deliberately uses religion to cover up his sins and promote his own gains.
- We should test ourselves to see whether we are sincere and honest in our Christian commitment.
- Giving alms to the poor, praying, and fasting were important disciplines in the religion of the Pharisees.
- make sure that our hearts are right as we practice them.
- No amount of giving can purchase salvation, for salvation is the gift of God (Eph. 2:8-9). And to live for the praise of men is a foolish thing because the glory of man does not last (1 Peter 1:24).
- Our sinful nature is so subtle that it can defile even a good thing like sharing with the poor.
- we will give our gifts without calling attention to them. As a result, we will grow spiritually; God will be glorified; and others will be helped. But if we give with the wrong motive, we rob ourselves of blessing and reward and rob God of glory, even though the money we share might help a needy person.
- The difference, of course, was in the motive and manner in which it was done.
John MacArthur
- righteousness was deficient by exposing their hypocrisy in the matters of giving to the poor (6:1-4);
- Greek theater, describing a character who wore a mask. The term, as used in the NT, normally described an unregenerate person who was self-deceived.
- sees in secret. Cf. w. 6, 18; Jer. 17:10; Heb. 4:13 God is omniscient.
General
- Thomas Brooks, “Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.” Thomas Brooks
- Thomas Brooks, “There is never an hypocrite in the world that makes God, or Christ, or holiness… his grand end, his highest end, his ultimate end of living in the world.” Thomas Brooks
- Thomas Brooks, “An hypocrite will seem to be very godly when he can make a gain of godliness… But his religious wickedness will double-damn the hypocrite at last.” Thomas Brooks
- Thomas Brooks, “The hypocritical scribes and Pharisees prayed, fasted, and kept the Sabbath and gave alms; and in this legal righteousness they rested and trusted… An hypocrite rests upon what he doth and never looks so high as the righteousness of Christ.” Thomas Brooks
- Charles H. Spurgeon, “Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.” Charles H. Spurgeon
- Charles H. Spurgeon, “This age is full of shams… it is doubly necessary that the minister should cry aloud… against this sin, ‘the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.’” Charles H. Spurgeon
- Charles H. Spurgeon, “The hypocrite can speak like an angel… But see him when he comes to actions. What behold you there? The fullest contradiction…” Charles H. Spurgeon
- John MacArthur, “Beware that you do not your righteousness before men to be seen by them.” John MacArthur
- John MacArthur, “The peril of religion, and we all face it, is that we would play the hypocrite.” John MacArthur
- John MacArthur, “Your giving is phony, your praying is phony and your fasting is phony. And so, He really unmasks hypocrisy.” John MacArthur
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones, “It is possible for a man to say right things, to be very busy and active, to achieve apparently wonderful results, and yet not to give himself to the Lord. He may be doing it all for himself…” Martyn Lloyd-Jones
- D.A. Carson, “The greater the demand for holiness, the greater the danger of hypocrisy. Therefore, Jesus begins the next chapter, ‘Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before men to be seen by them.’” D.A. Carson
Cross References
- 1 John 2:29 “ 29 If you know that whe is righteous, you may be sure that xeveryone who practices righteousness has been born of him. “
- Matthew 6:16 “16 “And twhen you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. uTruly, I say to you, they have received their reward. “
- Matthew 23:5 “5 tThey do all their deeds zto be seen by others. For they make atheir phylacteries broad and btheir fringes long, “
- 1 Corinthians 13:3 “ 3 cIf I give away all I have, and dif I deliver up my body to be burned,1 but have not love, I gain nothing. “
- John 5:44 “44 How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and edo not seek the glory that comes from fthe only God? “
- Luke 6:24 “24 k“But woe to you who are rich, lfor you mhave received your consolation. “
- Matthew 6:6 “6 But when you pray, zgo into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. aAnd your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “
- Matthew 6:18 “18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. wAnd your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “
- Jeremiah 17:10 “10 i“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind,2 to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” “
- Hebrews 4:13 “13 And bno creature is hidden from his sight, but all are cnaked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. “
- Conclusion Ephesians 2:8-9 “8 For zby grace you have been saved athrough faith. And this is bnot your own doing; cit is the gift of God, 9 dnot a result of works, eso that no one may boast. “
- Matthew 6:5 “ 5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love xto stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. yTruly, I say to you, they have received their reward. “
- Matthew 6:16 “16 “And twhen you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. uTruly, I say to you, they have received their reward. “
- Matthew 7:5 “ 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. “
- Matthew 15:7 “7 nYou hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 8 o“‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 9 in vain do they worship me, teaching as pdoctrines the commandments of men.’” “
- Matthew 22:18 “18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why pput me to the test, you hypocrites? “
- Matthew 23:13 “13 “But woe nto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you oshut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you pneither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.4 “
- Matthew 23:14 “ “ (in some manuscripts)
- Matthew 23:15 “15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single qproselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a rchild of shell5 as yourselves. “
- Matthew 23:23 “ 23 d“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For eyou tithe mint and dill and fcumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: gjustice and mercy and faithfulness. hThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. “
- Matthew 23:25 “ 25 j“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For kyou clean the outside of lthe cup and the plate, but inside they are full of mgreed and self-indulgence. “
- Matthew 23:27 “ 27 n“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like owhitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and pall uncleanness. “
- Matthew 23:29 “29 s“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, 30 saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are tsons of those who murdered the prophets. “
- Matthew 24:51 “48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master zis delayed,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants4 and eats and drinks with adrunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come bon a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know 51 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place cthere will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. “
- Mark 7:6 “ 6 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you xhypocrites, as it is written, y“‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me, teaching as zdoctrines the commandments of men.’ “
- Luke 6:42 “2 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye. “
- Luke 12:56 “56 You hypocrites! jYou know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time? “
- Luke 13:15 “ 15 Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! cDoes not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it?“
- Matthew 23:28 “28 So you also qoutwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of rhypocrisy and lawlessness. “
- Mark 12:15 “ 15 But, knowing gtheir hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why hput me to the test? Bring me ia denarius4 and let me look at it.” “
- Luke 12:1 “In the meantime, twhen so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, u“Beware of vthe leaven of the Pharisees, wwhich is hypocrisy. “
- Galatians 2:13 “13 And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. “
- 1 Timothy 4:2 “ Now xthe Spirit expressly says that yin later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to zdeceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 2 through the insincerity of aliars whose consciences are seared, 3 bwho forbid marriage and crequire abstinence from foods dthat God created eto be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For feverything created by God is good, and gnothing is to be rejected if it is ereceived with thanksgiving, 5 for it is made holy hby the word of God and prayer. “
- Conclusion 1 Peter 2:1 “jSo put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. “
- Luke 20:20 “20 iSo they jwatched him and sent spies, who kpretended to be sincere, that they might lcatch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of mthe governor. “