• Currently viewing: Page 2

  GOD BLESSING AND WOES

  BY

  LUCKY EYIS AMIWERO

  08033068549

  BIBLE CHAPTERS/VERSE	BIBLE REFERENCE	PRACTICAL APPLICATION
  MATTHEW 23:16	16)Woe unto you blind guides, which say, whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosever by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor	False religionist mislead others; CHRIST said they are blind guides ; they misled people, they stress the secondary over the primary, they took the least important and made it more meaningful than essential, stressed that the gold of the temple over the temple itself, that anyone who swore by the temple did not have to keep his commitment, it constitutes no obligation to tell the truth or to perform one’s oath, nor was he held responsible for his oath, but if he swore by the gold that is the treasure kept their of the temple, he was held responsible , he is a debtor and obliged to perform his oath and have to keep his commitment, they stress the gift over the alter upon which the gift lay, making a commitment or swearing by the alter was not binding, whereas a commitment or swearing by the gift was binding, their sin of covetousness, by stressing the gold over the temple, they were centering the people’s minds upon the gold, the wealth, and gift instead of upon the GOD who dwelt in the temple, the sin of self-righteousness, by stressing man’s gift over alter, they were saying in essence that man’s gift was more important than GOD’S alter which sanctify the gift, that is GOD stood behind the alter, and no gift is ever greater than GOD This showed the covetous disposition of these men, who made nothing of oaths that were swore by the temple; but those that were made by the “Coban” or gift of it, were binding, because of their interest was in it, it was for their gain
  MATTHEW 23:23	23)Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin , and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; these ought, ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone	HAVE OMITTED THE WEIGHTHIER MATTER OF THE LAW Ye pat tithe: They observed the ceremonial precepts of the law with all possible exactness, while they utterly neglected the eternal, incontrovertible, rules of righteousness, which confirmed by the instances of their  conduct and their practice, which abundantly shows their hypocrisy and deceit; since they were very strict in observing some outward things, which gave them credit with people False religionist stress pick and choose what they want and are willing to do and omit the rest, they stress outward duties such as tithing, observance of rituals, ceremonies and works they reject the need to change and inward duties of the heart, CHRIST mention there duties of human hearts that are omitted: JUDGMENT That is justice to others, treating our neighbor as we should, putting in execution good judgment, righteous laws; protecting and relieving the injured and oppressed as magistrate, neighbors, citizen, giving to all their 45just dues, doing what is right and equitable between man and man, but on the contrary, these men devoured widows houses, and oppressed the poor and fatherless MERCY Including all act of Compassion and kindness show care and concern towards the poor , the distressed, miserable and afflicted, relieving the needy, distributing to their wants and showing all kindness and beneficence to the poor and needy, which was never practice by the religionist, being a set of cruel, hard hearted, and covetous persons FAITH Faithfulness toward GOD: confidence in Him, Faith in GOD in keeping His words and promise to trust and reposed in him; worshipping Him CHRIST said that the more important matters of the law are these: 4647 Justice , Mercy and Faith, which is the weightier matter of the law, but the religionist omit the weightier matter, they talk and stress outward and less matter to be seen by men, such as tithing, rituals, ceremonies, they sin by neglecting the more important matters
  MATTHEW 23:25-26	25)Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess 26)thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess, are full of extortion and excess	YOU MAKE CLEAN THE OUTSIDE OF THE CUP Woe to you, self- righteous scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites for you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, thus the LORD JESUS normally means, that the Pharisees, are more concern with external ceremonies, ritual, rules regulation ,they were at great pains to appear good, for you make the outside clean of the cup and plate and to have decent external conduct , pretending to much outward cleanness, but had no regard to inwardpurity , the LORD said that they take much pains, and were very careful, that the cup they drank out of, and the plate, or dish they ate out of, should be very clean; maintaining hypocrisy and pretended saintship by out ward religious show, false religionist are blind to the real cleanness, JESUS use an illustration to show Just how blind a religionist can be, religionist are like Cups and wishes which have been washed on the outside but left dirty on the inside, the outside of the , for it was the outside that is seen, so they clean and wash the outside cup and dish appears clean,, it is the outside that concerned them. But inside the cup and dish is dirty, the inside is not seen by man, so they pay little or no attention to it, they took what they wanted and lived as they wished, the religionist was 48dirty represents a person’s character secretly guilty of those sin themselves, the inward man is the true holiness, and a conformity to the divine goodness, or with the grace of GOD’S, Holy Spirit. They are full of extortion, from the poor by their wicked acts, oppression, robbery and self- indulgence unrestraint greed ,lusting and selfishness , such is what is on the inside of the Religionist: a selfishness, and greed for a following, for security, position, influence, attention, recognition, they only hold and live a self-centered live THAT THE OUTSIDE OF THEM MAY BE CLEAN ALSO Cleans first that which is within the cup and platter, which is inside of their hears, since the inside was clean, then the outside would be automatically clean, if their Spirit were clean, their out side would be automatically clean, if the Spirit were clean, their outside behavior would be clean, a clean heart will lead to a clean life, CHRIST teaches that it is the inside of a man that determines his behavior, it is the heart that determines what a mans does, JESUS CHRIST point out that all of the above are determined by man’s heart, let GOD change the heart: then a man will be clean on the outside, he will live justly and mercifully to ward all men, doing all he can to build the right environment and live as a light
  MATTHEW 23:27-28	27)Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all  uncleanness 28)Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity	LIKE WHITED SEPULCHERS FULL OF DEAD MEN’S BONES The Scribe and Pharisees are like fine whited sepulchers, those Tombs were annually whitewashed to prevent the people from accidently coming in contact with them, looked very beautiful, looked very beautiful without, but within were full of all uncleanness, and defiled everyone who touch them , this is the behavior of the Scribe and Pharisees who will not keep company with publicans and sinners for fear they should pollute them The LORD JESUS CHRIST picturing the great wrong with false Religionist, who outwardly appear righteous by attending church regularly, outwardly he may profess religion, CHRIST preach against out ward sins of passion which society often consider the sin of pride and greed, Sinner and harlots enter heaven much quickly than religionist, who do not surrender their lives to CHRIST False religion is the most beautiful and deadly tomb among men, it leads to eternal death of men’s Spirit, makes him insensitive to the danger of eternal death by introducing a sense of confidence in being religious, of acceptably religious, of pride being religious , of righteousness of being religious CHRIST say the False religionist id full of dead mans bones, which is referred to Spiritual death, the false religionist goes through living acceptable in the eyes of men, but he is spiritually dead to GOD, his act are man made morality and religion, not the true religion revealed by GOD in CHRIST EVEN YOU APPEAR TO BE RIGHTEOUS Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous by making broad their phylacteries, enlarging the borders of their garment, praying lang prayers, going to church regularly compassing sea and land to make a convert, paying tithe od all manners of herbs, JESUS said about religionist, whose public conduct appeared righteous but whose heart were full hypocrisy, pride, lust and wickedness, they appear, outwardly seem to be just and righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy , full of corruption hidden inside
  LUKE 6:24 RELATED CHAPTERS  MATTHEW 19:19-20  MATTHEW 19:21  EPHESIANS 4:28  1 TIMOTHY 6:7  1 TIMOTHY 6:9  JAMES 5:3  PSALM 39:6  PSALM 49:10  PSALM 62:10  PROVERBS 23:4-5  PROVERBS 27:24  PROVERB 28:20  JEREMIAH 17:11	24)But woe unto you that are rich! For ye have received your consolation	MATERILISIM /JUDGMENT Woe unto you that are rich in this world goods, they love them, they sought for them, they find their consolation in them, they would not seek or receive consolation from the Gospel, they are proud, and would not seek it, they are satisfy with the pleasure of the world, filled with cares of the deceitful riches  PROVERBS 27:24  PROVERB 28:20  JEREMIAH 17:11   The warning is strong to the rich, that is to those who are rich, the rich man is warned because wealth remove a person from the kingdom of heaven, it is very difficult for a rich man to enter heaven, CHRIST explain clearly of the rich young ruler what pull him from the kingdom of heaven, there is a lure, an attraction, a force, a power, a pull that reaches out and draws any person who look at or possess wealth, there are pull so forceful that will enslave any rich man who fails to turn to GOD, The wealth are usually cherished, honored , and envied, wealth bring position, power, and recognition, it boots ego, making a person self- sufficient and independent in this world, which makes the rich man to feel that he is truly independent and self- sufficient that he neednothing and GOD is forgotten, he forgets that there are things money cannot buy , and that money cannot save and money cannot give real peace, joy, love and all other matter within the Spirit of man, neither can money save one from disaster, disease, accident and death. Riches tend to make man selfish, for some unexplainable reason, the more we get, the more we want, JESUS said who hard it is for the rich man to enter the kingdom of GOD LUKE 18:24, If we do not have compassion/mercy and take care of our fellowmen when they are in desperate need, the ravaged poor and needy how can we expect GOD to have compassion and take care of us, when we face the desperate need for heaven? It is foolish for us to think that a loving and just GOD will meet our needs for eternal life when we would not meet the need of our fellow man for earthly life, wealth attach one to the world, if a man centers his life upon the things of the world, his attention is on the world not GOD, he become interested in securing more and more and in protecting what he has The judgment of the rich man is their wealth on earth, their only comfort, help, aid, encouragement is to be on this earth they focus on their wealth, idolized is, and serve it , as we cannot serve two masters MATTHEW 6:24 there will be no consolation after this life no help, aid from GOD they are paid in full in this world, they choose this life and reject heaven

  Previous

Join the Discussion