BY
LUCKY EYIS AMIWERO
GOD BLESSING AND WOES
BY
LUCKY EYIS AMIWERO
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MATTHEW 23:16
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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
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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
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MATTHEW 23:23
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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
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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:
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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
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MATTHEW 23:25-26
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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
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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
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MATTHEW 23:27-28
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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
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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
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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
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24)But woe unto you that
are rich! For ye have
received your consolation
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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
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