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The Word of Christ To The Scribes And The Pharisees.

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Pretending to do something has led many Christians and others to some situations.
The word from Christ to the Pharisees and the scribes are many but I will share some with you. The book of Moses will help us to understand this article very well.

Jesus Christ described the scribes and the Pharisees to the crowd saying, the scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so on time and observes whatever they tell you, but not what they do.

For they preach but do not practice. They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they will not move them with their fingers.

They do all their deeds to be seen by men. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long and they love the place of honor at the feast and the best seats in the synagogues, and salutation in the marketplaces, and been called rabbi by men.

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one father, who is in heaven. Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ.

He who is greater among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Work to you, blind guides, who say if anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears binge gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath. You blind fools, for which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?
And you say if anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.

You blind men for which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
So he will swear by the altar, swear by it, and by everything on it. And he who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who dwells in it, and he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you tithe mint and dill and cummin and have neglected the weightier matter of the law, justice and mercy, and faith, these you out to have done, without neglecting the others. You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and capacity. You blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and the plate, so that the outside also may be clean.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, 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.

Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then the measure of your fathers. You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are your escape being sentenced to hell?

Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the alter.

Truly, I say to you, all this will come upon this generation.
Beloved are we imitating the followers of Christ or the Pharisees and the scribes?
Let all know our stand to defend ourselves during judgment day.
Let our yes be yes and our no, be no.
May the good lord help us to accomplish our task on earth.
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Thanks for spending your special day with us.


 
Posted : 02/11/2022 3:12 am
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