JudahJackie

Matt 23:2 The scribes and Pharisees sit on Moses' seat [of authority].
Matt 23:3 So observe and practice all they tell you; but do not do what they do, for they preach, but do not practice.
Matt 23:4 They tie up heavy loads, {hard to bear}, and place them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not lift a finger to help bear them.
Matt 23:5 They do all their works to be seen of men; for they make wide their phylacteries (small cases enclosing certain Scripture passages, worn during prayer on the left arm and forehead) and make long their fringes [worn by all male Israelites, according to the command].
Matt 23:6 And they take pleasure in {and} [thus] love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,
Matt 23:7 And to be greeted with honor in the marketplaces and to have people call them rabbi.
Matt 23:8 But you are not to be called rabbi (teacher), for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.
Matt 23:9 And do not call anyone [in the church] on earth father, for you have one Father, Who is in heaven.
Matt 23:10 And you must not be called masters (leaders), for you have one Master (Leader), the Christ.
Matt 23:11 He who is greatest among you shall be your servant.
Matt 23:12 Whoever exalts himself [with haughtiness and empty pride] shall be humbled (brought low), and whoever humbles himself [whoever has a modest opinion of himself and behaves accordingly] shall be raised to honor.
Matt 23:13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are about to go in to do so.
Matt 23:14 {Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you swallow up widows' houses and for a pretense to cover it up make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence.}
Matt 23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes one [a proselyte], you make him doubly as much a child of hell (Gehenna) as you are.
Matt 23:16 Woe to you, blind guides, who say, If anyone swears by the sanctuary of the temple, it is nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the sanctuary, he is a debtor [bound by his oath].
Matt 23:17 You blind fools! For which is greater: the gold, or the sanctuary of the temple that has made the gold sacred?
Matt 23:18 You say too, Whoever swears by the altar is not duty bound; but whoever swears by the offering on the altar, his oath is binding.
Matt 23:19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar which makes the gift sacred?
Matt 23:20 So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
Matt 23:21 And he who swears by the sanctuary of the temple swears by it and by Him Who dwells in it. [I Kings 8:13; Ps. 26:8.]
Matt 23:22 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him Who sits upon it.
Matt 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you give a tenth of your mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected {and} omitted the weightier (more important) matters of the Law--right {and} justice and mercy and fidelity. These you ought [particularly] to have done, without neglecting the others.
Matt 23:24 You blind guides, filtering out a gnat and gulping down a camel!
Matt 23:25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but within they are full of extortion (prey, spoil, plunder) and grasping self-indulgence.
Matt 23:26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may be clean also.
Matt 23:27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you are like tombs that have been whitewashed, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men's bones and everything impure.
Matt 23:28 Just so, you also outwardly seem to people to be just {and} upright but inside you are full of pretense and lawlessness {and} iniquity.
Matt 23:29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,
Many of us are not familiar with the word "woe." We do not look at two homosexuals walking down the street and say "woe be it unto thee if you do not repent.?" Carefully read the words of Jesus. Does He sound as though He has trouble calling a snake a snake? The preachers of old called out the sinner and the fear of God was evident in the words God gave them to say. Today, not so. Now preachers try not to say anything that will cause them to be unpopular especially with members who are wealthy and controlling. Jesus said it like it is all the time. Go through the words in red in any Bible and you will hear exhortation, confrontation, and truth. Today many would say, " truth depends on how you believe truth to be.?" That is one reason why God used a small trusting child, (Samuel) to confront the priest Eli about his sinful sons. That is why God used a young servant girl to go for Elijah and tell the king to go to the muddy waters and dip himself there in order to be healed of his disease. That king wanted a grand public show of his healing. That is why a little baby was born in a manger when God could have shown us nothing but the law of Moses. That is why God uses the simple things on earth to confound the wise. The earth is not going to melt down from this heat of global warming. The earth and the Heavens filled with polutants and gasses is what God will use when He burns it all up. This is a time to face the truth of "how" God uses the child to expose those religious kings of existance to humble them and to bring them to repentence. Eli was a person who when little Samuel told him the truth, he accepted the death of his sons according to God's will to cleanse the sanctuary of their filth. We see what we choose to see, we listen to what we want to listen and we find fault with the truth that enters our spirit person and says, repent. Jesus is alive and not in the manger. Jesus is alive and not on a cross with blood pouring out of him, and that is where many leave him. Jesus is not in a tomb dried up ashes of a teacher. Jesus rose and is seated at the right hand of God interceding for us right now. We are in the days of wickedness increasing toward destruction. Let's say it like it is and speak the truth in love instead of speaking His word how we want it to be accepted by those who fill our lives with too many woe's. Say it once and hear how it sounds. Woe be unto me if I do not do what it is the Lord God would have me do? Are we making a stand when we dare speak with that word? Woe will be understood some day when God makes all things clear to us, but too many woes? I don't think so.