Friday, 31 March 2017

Matthew 23:4 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. Beware of proud Bible teachers. Beware of proud pastors and speakers and authors. Beware of proud saints and their words and example. Arrogant elites, the pure ones. In their teaching they pile on a load of duties, duties which may all be good and righteous, but you are unable to move, dying under the burden and they give you no help. They are obedient in many ways and impressive to everyone around them. They are disciplined. They are sacrificial. They are rigorous. They are proud of their holiness and stand above the herd and common people. They rail against them and criticize them. They don’t actually love them. They don’t kindly and gently help them. They are obedient in many ways and seem like they know all about God, but don’t know God in reality and so they can’t please God. Their impressive obedience is not burning with the fire of love. It is arrogant and prideful. Therefore, dead. They teach obedience to God, but they teach a God who is not a loving Father or a loving Husband to his Church, but a slave master. They teach a lie about God. They teach a God who like them puts burdens on people’s backs and does not help them. They themselves relate to God as slaves, slaving for him. And they expect blessings that they think the ignorant undisciplined masses will never receive. Jesus says to them: v 15 For you travel across sea and land to make a single convert, and when he becomes a convert, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. When they win one person over to their elite pure way the make him as arrogant and devoid of God’s love as they are. Beware of these proud teachers and proud saints. If you follow them, you will end up wrecked in a ditch. In contrast to proud teachers, Jesus says to us, “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Jesus taught the daily forgiveness of God, the mercy of God for those struggling, the grace of God for real sinners. Jesus promised to not leave us alone but to send the Helper, the Comforter. The Holy Spirit. To give us a spring of water within us welling up to eternal life. To pour out love in our hearts. Jesus said “If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.”

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