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So let me take you for a walk through the Bible and point out verses where Jesus spoke out against them, how he pin pointed them so that you will know who they are, because they are still very much around today! Just as times have changed, so too, has the name of a pharissee or sadducee, so maybe first up we will look at the Greek word that explains them, then look at how Jesus revealed them for who they are. After that, you make your own conclusions in prayer and asking God to reveal them to you. PHAR’ISEE, n. [Heb. to separate.] One of a sect among the Jews, whose religion consisted in a strict observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders,and whose pretended holiness led them to separate themselves as a sect, considering themselves as more righteous than other Jews. Wow, I gathered together a heap of commentaires and dictionaries and got quite a surprise myself, so instead of my words let me use what I read, I have highlited in bold the main points.......... The scribes and Pharisees were enemies to the gospel of Christ, and therefore to the salvation of the souls of men. It is bad to keep away from Christ ourselves, but worse also to keep others from him. Yet it is no new thing for the show and form of godliness to be made a cloak to the greatest enormities. But dissembled piety will be reckoned double iniquity. They were very busy to turn souls to be of their party. Not for the glory of God and the good of souls, but that they might have the credit and advantage of making converts. Gain being their godliness, by a thousand devices they made religion give way to their worldly interests. They were very strict and precise in smaller matters of the law, but careless and loose in weightier matters. It is not the scrupling a little sin that Christ here reproves; if it be a sin, though but a gnat, it must be strained out; but the doing that, and then swallowing a camel, or, committing a greater sin. While they would seem to be godly, they were neither sober nor righteous. We are really, what we are inwardly. Outward motives may keep the outside clean, while the inside is filthy; but if the heart and spirit be made new, there will be newness of life; here we must begin with ourselves. The righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees was like the ornaments of a grave, or dressing up a dead body, only for show. The deceitfulness of sinners’ hearts appears in that they go down the streams of the sins of their own day, while they fancy that they should have opposed the sins of former days. We sometimes think, if we had lived when Christ was upon earth, that we should not have despised and rejected him, as men then did; yet Christ in his Spirit, in his word, in his ministers, is still no better treated. And it is just with God to give those up to their hearts’ lusts, who obstinately persist in gratifying them. Christ gives men their true characters. Sadducees - A sect who denied the existence of angels and spirits, consequently all Divine influence and inspiration, and also the resurrection of the dead. The Sadducees of that time were the Materialists and Deists of the Jewish nation. Not strictly a sect, but rather those amongst the Jews who denied the existence of angels or other spirits, and all miracles, especially the resurrection. They were the religious rationalists of the time and strongly entrenched in the Sanhedrin and priesthood; They are identified with no affirmative doctrine, but were mere deniers of the supernatural. So basically there we have it, there was also a group called the Essenes, but that is for another time.Maybe you may need to read the previous page a few times, think about the people of today that preach and ask yourself are they preaching Christ crucified or something else? There are a lot of preachers out there, sucking millions of dollars out of naive good God abiding Christians, and they don’t even know it! What did Jesus call them, Vipers, heretics, whitewashed walls, sons of the evil one, and many more full on names. How do we know them? Like Jesus said you shall know a tree by its fruit, fruit of the Spirit that is. Their love, Joy, Peace, patience etc found in Galatains 5v22. Bascially we can ask the question, are they in it for themself or do they truly love peole and want to see a dying world live again? I was going to drop some names here but I won’t, look at the preachers life, do they honestly feel for those around them or is it all a false mask to get your money, don’t get me wrong, I support ministries and churches financially, but just be careful, is it through their clever teaching or preaching that you “feel” that you have to give, if so I suggest you read 1Peter 5 here we see Peter tells the oversight “feed the flock” not fleece the flock! Even Paul said in Acts once a week when you come together give what God would have you give and keep it aside for when I come, so giving is NOT wrong, but giving because the preacher tells you to or says you will be cursed IS WRONG! We need to listen to God more, give what he says give and give it where he tells you to give it, not when, where and how man tells you, what has this got to do with Pharisees and Sadduccees you ask? Simple, these two types of people in the church (they are there) will tell you to jump through hoops, and do stuff to be accepted, they will lay laws, rules, regualtions, and say trust me after it all, but they WILL NOT lift a hand to help YOU! They will tell you to go away and trust God, or where is your faith, or there is sin in your life get it right etc etc........ just like the days of Jesus, they will lay heavy burdens upon your life, but will not lift a finger to help you when you need it. They are religious RULERS they rule your life with an iron fist, you feel guilty if you miss church for one week, you feel all full of sin if you slip up and feel you are no good becasue your bills are laregr than your income and you have to miss out on tithing for one week. Jesus came to set us FREE not bind us up! Pharissees and Sadduccees will bind you up with religious rules and regualtions! Am I against the church? NO! I am sick and tired of seeing preachers line their own pockets and lie from the pulpit and fleece the flock of God, and meanwhile, God is trying to use you and me for a better good, but we can’t because we HAVE to go to the prayer meeting, or church meeting, we have no time for our neighbour as the church takes up all out time, I am tired of seeing a “feel good Gospel” and a “bless me club sermon” being preached while people are sick and dying and going to a lost eternity out there and the preachers don’t give a stuff! Most of them are preaching to the converted anyway! What good is that? White Washed tombs is all they are, full of dead mens bones! Go and read what Jesus thought about them in the following verses! Mat 3:7 Mat 5:20 Mat 12:24 Mat 16:6 Mat 23:13-15 Mat 23:23-29 Mar 2:16 Luk 5:21 Luk 7:30 Joh 7:32 Joh 9:16 Joh 12:42 These are just a few scriptures, read them, study them, you make your decision with God, you follow God not man, come on wake up Australia, what happened to the things Jesus told us to do, clothe ya neighbour, feed the hungry, visit the widows, look after the orphans, don’t “Pay” someone else to do it, YOU do it! Jesus will one day ask what you did for him, you can not bribe your way into eternity!   ѕ і  5 Ы ћ ™БЭ)fwƒŽ­Охќ!KMhRЛKqs€‹ЕЗш,Mў.h™l{;?qzSWАШKSil‚‰˜  !!ъ!я!я#i$Ю$в$š%ž%ћ%этлЭтлтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтЭтУлУлУлУлУлУлУлУлУлУлУлУлУлУлhd=hd=5\hd=hd=5B*\ph hd=hd=hd=hd=B*ph#hd=hd=5>*B*CJaJphK 1 і sХwў №#ќ%ѓччтччтчччччgdd= $7$8$H$a$gdd= $7$8$H$a$gdd= ќ%ўћ%ќ%ю!hd=hd=B* OJQJ^Jph€€21h:pd=А‚. 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