Our paragraph topic is: (Hypocrisy of the Scribes and Pharisees) Part 10.
The hypocrisy of the Scribes and the Pharisees presented an opportunity for Christ to teach the people and his disciples an important lesson. He used the Scribes and the Pharisees as an example to show their pride and arrogance and to teach the people of their hidden nature. They practiced piety on the surface but underneath they did not practice the laws that they enforced upon the people. They were hypocrites.
Christ saw through their false piety and instructed the people to do the same. They wanted all the praise and glory but did not do the work to obtain it. They were not servants of the people but served their own purpose. Christ told the people, the disciples, the Scribes and the Pharisees: "Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled."
We live in a physical world where we see the individual exalted. We are shown on a daily basis all the stars, singers, athletes, business moguls, millionaires and billionaires, that are paraded before us in the media. Everywhere we turn someone is raised up, someone has just become a hero, a star, a person who has achieve something that we all want to become. This is news, worthy of feeding to the people who will buy it so they can read how they did it. Maybe they too can achieve the same success.
We wish, we desire, we dream of being the one. We would do anything to reach a level of importance that we should be in the news, in the media, before the public eye. We don't know the meaning of humility, we only know praise. And most would do anything to achieve that goal.
Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled. We know nothing of ourselves or who we are as a person. We know even less of where we fit in the cosmic scheme of things. We search the heavens in a constant desire to know that we are not alone. We live in our own self awareness of the world knowing nothing of that which is inside of ourselves.
Christ came that we could began to know who we are. He came to teach us how to live in a physical world that fits within the realm of the spiritual world. For there are powers and principalities far beyond our understanding, far greater than ourselves, that we know nothing of and have not understood. Yet we proclaim ourselves masters and lords within the small realm of the world that we live. How little do we know.
His love provides. His love protects. His love fulfills all desires, all passions, all wants. He is forgiving, merciful, patient, all knowing, all seeing, ever living. He is our Father, God.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
The hypocrisy of the Scribes and the Pharisees presented an opportunity for Christ to teach the people and his disciples an important lesson. He used the Scribes and the Pharisees as an example to show their pride and arrogance and to teach the people of their hidden nature. They practiced piety on the surface but underneath they did not practice the laws that they enforced upon the people. They were hypocrites.
Christ saw through their false piety and instructed the people to do the same. They wanted all the praise and glory but did not do the work to obtain it. They were not servants of the people but served their own purpose. Christ told the people, the disciples, the Scribes and the Pharisees: "Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled."
We live in a physical world where we see the individual exalted. We are shown on a daily basis all the stars, singers, athletes, business moguls, millionaires and billionaires, that are paraded before us in the media. Everywhere we turn someone is raised up, someone has just become a hero, a star, a person who has achieve something that we all want to become. This is news, worthy of feeding to the people who will buy it so they can read how they did it. Maybe they too can achieve the same success.
We wish, we desire, we dream of being the one. We would do anything to reach a level of importance that we should be in the news, in the media, before the public eye. We don't know the meaning of humility, we only know praise. And most would do anything to achieve that goal.
Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled. We know nothing of ourselves or who we are as a person. We know even less of where we fit in the cosmic scheme of things. We search the heavens in a constant desire to know that we are not alone. We live in our own self awareness of the world knowing nothing of that which is inside of ourselves.
Christ came that we could began to know who we are. He came to teach us how to live in a physical world that fits within the realm of the spiritual world. For there are powers and principalities far beyond our understanding, far greater than ourselves, that we know nothing of and have not understood. Yet we proclaim ourselves masters and lords within the small realm of the world that we live. How little do we know.
His love provides. His love protects. His love fulfills all desires, all passions, all wants. He is forgiving, merciful, patient, all knowing, all seeing, ever living. He is our Father, God.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
