Our paragraph topic is: (Their distorted religion) Part 7.
He called them blind guides, fools, they did not know what they were doing. They believed in themselves. They believed that they had the authority to know, the authority to declare, the authority to be right in their decisions. But Christ called them fools, blind guides that did not know where they were going.
They called themselves leading the people. They called themselves religious leaders, yet Christ said that their religion was distorted, made up, not true, contrived. They were blind and could not see the truth in their own beliefs that they taught the people. They told the people that if they swear by the alter it is nothing: "But whoever swears by the gift that is upon it, he is bound."
Christ called them hypocrites, fools, blind guides, because they walked in the dark not knowing where they were going and they led the people in that same darkness. But these were the Pharisees and the Scribes, the rulers of the day. They were the ones that walked the streets who enforced the rules of the Law to the people. They saw to it that the people kept the Law or they paid the fines for breaking it.
And then out of the blue came this stranger that no one knew called Christ who taught the people a different way to live, a different way to love, a different way to know their God in heaven. He walked with them, talked with them, eat with them, drank with them, danced with them, did all the things that a normal person would do even though he was the Son of God. He heard their cries and their sorrows, and the moans, and the groans of those who were suffering from affliction and he cured them all. He opened the eyes, and the mouths, and the ears, and healed the wounds of the lepers and raised the dead that all would know that he was sent from the Father from above.
And they still would not believe. They still hated him. They still could not see the truth of who he was. What do you do with a person who faced with all the evidence but still will not accept the truth? You can not force them to change. You can not beat the change into them. What do you do? You can only love them for who they are and accept that they are not able to change. God is a god of love. He loves the good and the bad. He makes the sun shine and the rain fall on both until that day comes when his judgment takes place. Where will you be?
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.
He called them blind guides, fools, they did not know what they were doing. They believed in themselves. They believed that they had the authority to know, the authority to declare, the authority to be right in their decisions. But Christ called them fools, blind guides that did not know where they were going.
They called themselves leading the people. They called themselves religious leaders, yet Christ said that their religion was distorted, made up, not true, contrived. They were blind and could not see the truth in their own beliefs that they taught the people. They told the people that if they swear by the alter it is nothing: "But whoever swears by the gift that is upon it, he is bound."
Christ called them hypocrites, fools, blind guides, because they walked in the dark not knowing where they were going and they led the people in that same darkness. But these were the Pharisees and the Scribes, the rulers of the day. They were the ones that walked the streets who enforced the rules of the Law to the people. They saw to it that the people kept the Law or they paid the fines for breaking it.
And then out of the blue came this stranger that no one knew called Christ who taught the people a different way to live, a different way to love, a different way to know their God in heaven. He walked with them, talked with them, eat with them, drank with them, danced with them, did all the things that a normal person would do even though he was the Son of God. He heard their cries and their sorrows, and the moans, and the groans of those who were suffering from affliction and he cured them all. He opened the eyes, and the mouths, and the ears, and healed the wounds of the lepers and raised the dead that all would know that he was sent from the Father from above.
And they still would not believe. They still hated him. They still could not see the truth of who he was. What do you do with a person who faced with all the evidence but still will not accept the truth? You can not force them to change. You can not beat the change into them. What do you do? You can only love them for who they are and accept that they are not able to change. God is a god of love. He loves the good and the bad. He makes the sun shine and the rain fall on both until that day comes when his judgment takes place. Where will you be?
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.
