Our paragraph topic is: (Their distorted religion) Part 9.
We grew up signing the nursery rhyme three blind mice not knowing its meaning. Christ calls the Scribes and the Pharisees blind fools, blind guides, hypocrites because they have created a distorted religion that they teach the people. He even tells them that they are making converts to their religion that are becoming sons of hell.
They hound him. They dog him constantly thinking that they might catch him in some trick to accuse him of some transgression of the Law so that they might punish him and silence him of his teachings to the people. They refuse to see. They refuse to hear. They refuse to understand who they are dealing with. In their minds they believe that Christ is an ordinary man attempting to lead the people away from the rulers of the temple. Yet this is the one belief that keeps them from seeing the truth that is before their eyes. And this is why Christ calls them:
"Blind ones!"
They could not see. They were blind to the truth that was right before their eyes. Many people are that way today. Rather than admit an error or their wrong they rather deny the truth knowing that they were wrong. They create a false lie in their minds in an attempt to make themselves believe that the lie is the truth. Then there are those who just are not able to accept the truth that is presented to them right before their eyes. Their minds break down and do not accept what they see.
We cling to what we know, what we can feel and see. For many everything else is make believe. Yet the physical and spiritual nature of who we are is a fact, we are one person in two bodies, physical body and spiritual body. Christ came that our spiritual body would not die. He came to pay the price for our sins. Now we have a choice. We can live in the physical body and die in the spiritual or we can die in the physical and live in the spiritual. The choice is ours. The belief is ours. The asking is ours. The love of our Lord and Savior is ours to believe. He came for us. He died for all of us. He awaits our call. Call his name!
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.
We grew up signing the nursery rhyme three blind mice not knowing its meaning. Christ calls the Scribes and the Pharisees blind fools, blind guides, hypocrites because they have created a distorted religion that they teach the people. He even tells them that they are making converts to their religion that are becoming sons of hell.
They hound him. They dog him constantly thinking that they might catch him in some trick to accuse him of some transgression of the Law so that they might punish him and silence him of his teachings to the people. They refuse to see. They refuse to hear. They refuse to understand who they are dealing with. In their minds they believe that Christ is an ordinary man attempting to lead the people away from the rulers of the temple. Yet this is the one belief that keeps them from seeing the truth that is before their eyes. And this is why Christ calls them:
"Blind ones!"
They could not see. They were blind to the truth that was right before their eyes. Many people are that way today. Rather than admit an error or their wrong they rather deny the truth knowing that they were wrong. They create a false lie in their minds in an attempt to make themselves believe that the lie is the truth. Then there are those who just are not able to accept the truth that is presented to them right before their eyes. Their minds break down and do not accept what they see.
We cling to what we know, what we can feel and see. For many everything else is make believe. Yet the physical and spiritual nature of who we are is a fact, we are one person in two bodies, physical body and spiritual body. Christ came that our spiritual body would not die. He came to pay the price for our sins. Now we have a choice. We can live in the physical body and die in the spiritual or we can die in the physical and live in the spiritual. The choice is ours. The belief is ours. The asking is ours. The love of our Lord and Savior is ours to believe. He came for us. He died for all of us. He awaits our call. Call his name!
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.
