The elders
have rejected Jesus’ authority but no-one dares ask Him any more questions. He
hasn’t finished though - not by any means!.... (Matt 23)
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| 'Hypocrites' (actors) |
He warns the
people about ‘talk and walk’: do what the scribes and Pharisees say but not
what they do. After all...“One
is your Master, even Christ”
Next, He has a final serve for those hypocrites, blind guides - rubbing it
in 7 times with a groan of grief - "OUAI!"
- You shut up the kingdom of heaven (Satanic)
- You devour widows’ houses (greed)
- You recruit proselytes then teach them too dishonour God (blasphemous, so double woe!)
- Pay tithes...but omit judgment, mercy and faith. You blind guides strain out the gnat but swallow the camel (legalistic)
- You clean the outside of the cup and plate but inside...(fake)
- You’re like white sepulchres full of dead bones (iniquitous)
- You decorate the sepulchres pretending you’re innocent of the blood of the prophets (self-righteous)
You serpents! You
family of vipers!
How
can you escape the damnation of hell?
Phew!! So who gets that last word in??
“O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto
you, how often I would have gathered thy children together, even as a hen
gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold your house is
left unto you desolate....Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say:
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord” 
As for
you...
Do
you just ‘talk the talk’ or do you really ‘walk the walk’?
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