Hello folks!😁 I pray your day is well. I would like to share some of Matthew 23 with you. Jesus basically chewed out the Pharisees and Saducees of His time. They only had an outer appearance of religion. They were inwardly corrupt and greedy. Did not truly know God. What amazes me is they mirror our false teachers of today. Same false teachings and all about money. The way Jesus truly exposed them was epic! They were definitely wolves in sheep's clothing.Its an amazing parallel with today's false teachers. Matthew 23:1-7,13-33 TLB Then Jesus said to the crowds, and to his disciples, [2] "You would think these Jewish leaders and these Pharisees were Moses, the way they keep making up so many laws! [3] And of course you should obey their every whim! It may be all right to do what they say, but above anything else, don't follow their example. For they don't do what they tell you to do. [4] They load you with impossible demands that they themselves don't even try to keep. [5] "Everything they do is done for show. They act holy by wearing on their arms little prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and by lengthening the memorial fringes of their robes. [6] And how they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the reserved pews in the synagogue! [7] How they enjoy the deference paid them on the streets and to be called 'Rabbi' and 'Master'! [13-14] "Woe to you, Pharisees, and you other religious leaders. Hypocrites! For you won't let others enter the Kingdom of Heaven and won't go in yourselves. And you pretend to be holy, with all your long, public prayers in the streets, while you are evicting widows from their homes. Hypocrites! [15] Yes, woe upon you hypocrites. For you go to all lengths to make one convert, and then turn him into twice the son of hell you are yourselves. [16] Blind guides! Woe upon you! For your rule is that to swear 'By God's Temple' means nothing-you can break that oath, but to swear 'By the gold in the Temple' is binding! [17] Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold, or the Temple that sanctifies the gold? [18] And you say that to take an oath 'By the altar' can be broken, but to swear 'By the gifts on the altar' is binding! [19] Blind! For which is greater, the gift on the altar, or the altar itself that sanctifies the gift? [20] When you swear 'By the altar,' you are swearing by it and everything on it, [21] and when you swear 'By the Temple,' you are swearing by it and by God who lives in it. [22] And when you swear 'By heavens,' you are swearing by the Throne of God and by God himself. [23] "Yes, woe upon you, Pharisees, and you other religious leaders-hypocrites! For you tithe down to the last mint leaf in your garden, but ignore the important things-justice and mercy and faith. Yes, you should tithe, but you shouldn't leave the more important things undone. [24] Blind guides! You strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. [25] "Woe to you, Pharisees, and you religious leaders-hypocrites! You are so careful to polish the outside of the cup, but the inside is foul with extortion and greed. [26] Blind Pharisees! First cleanse the inside of the cup, and then the whole cup will be clean. [27] "Woe to you, Pharisees, and you religious leaders! You are like beautiful mausoleums-full of dead men's bones, and of foulness and corruption. [28] You try to look like saintly men, but underneath those pious robes of yours are hearts besmirched with every sort of hypocrisy and sin. [29-30] "Yes, woe to you, Pharisees, and you religious leaders-hypocrites! For you build monuments to the prophets killed by your fathers and lay flowers on the graves of the godly men they destroyed, and say, 'We certainly would never have acted as our fathers did.' [31] "In saying that, you are accusing yourselves of being the sons of wicked men. [32] And you are following in their steps, filling up the full measure of their evil. [33] Snakes! Sons of vipers! How shall you escape the judgment of hell?