It would make a great idea for a Country-Western song: "When your lips are one place, but your heart is somewhere else." If someone has a steel guitar or a fiddle, maybe we can work on the lyrics after the service. "When your lips are one place, but your heart is somewhere else." Jesus doesn't claim the title as his own; he attributes it to the prophet Isaiah. "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites," said Jesus to the Pharisees. "As it is written: "˜These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.'" (NIV) 

I hope you understand that the Pharisees were really not as bad as they are sometimes portrayed in the New Testament. Sure, Jesus had controversies with them. They were the keepers of the religion of their day. Like all bureaucrats they were we…