Jeff Foxworthy has made famous "You Might Be A Redneck if..." jokes (Have a laugh at lunch today with them, it's clean comedy). Today our Gospel reading is Jesus, having dinner with a Pharisee and teaching him a lesson about true purity, Jesus loved this man enough to go to his home for dinner and to attempt to redeem him from the attitudes of his sect. But how many of us as Christians harbor Pharisee attitudes, we need to know the signs to watch out for to not be Pharisee's. Today I give you 7 signs for, "You might be a Pharisee if..":

1. You might be a Pharisee if....Your life appears all clean and righteous on the outside but you know the inside is unclean. You talk a good talk but secretly your mind is filthy. You live different on a Sunday Morning than you do the rest of the week.
2. You might be a Pharisee if....you sin in Private, sins that only God knows about.
3. You might be a Pharisee if....you are rebellious and critical, with a wicked heart and lying spirit but fool others into thinking you are a good person.
4. You might be a Pharisee if....you tithe, but you ignore love and justice, and care more about keeping the written law than the spirit of the law.
5. You might be a Pharisee if....you crave recognition, popularity and honor.
6. You might be a Pharisee if....you constantly preach riches and wealth from following Jesus and that if you are not wealthy you are not walking in his will. Jesus lived as a nomad and had to be laid in a borrowed tomb, and preached not to worry about money but to seek the Kingdom.
7. You might be a Pharisee if....you burden others with rules and regulations when what is important is relationship with Jesus. We are saved by GRACE not by following rules and regulations.

Are you doing a spiritual inventory each day or do you just see everyone else's faults? Are you trying to pull the splinter from another's eye, while there is a log in your own?....We are all sinners and I include myself in that, and we all might see ourselves in one or two of these signs....if you do then you have recognized the issue you should be praying about in your life and working on with Jesus help....if you don't then possibly you have a problem with self-righteousness which is maybe an even bigger sign than the 7 above.