Woe to hypocrites

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Woe to hypocrites

• Matthew 23

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Showy Worship 231-6

• Chief Seats
• Broad phylacteries
• Long Tassels
• Pretentious Doctrine
• Imposing heavy burdens
• Not lifting a finger themselves
• Do as they say and not as they do.

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Inside Phylacteries Exod. 13

• 1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
• 2"Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the first
  offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel,
  both of man and beast it belongs to Me."
• . . . .
• 7"Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the
  seven days and nothing leavened shall be seen
  among you, nor shall any leaven be seen among you
  in all your borders.
• 8"You shall tell your son on that day, saying,
  'It is because of what the LORD did for me when I
  came out of Egypt.'
• 9"And it shall serve as a sign to you on your
  hand, and as a reminder on your forehead, that
  the law of the LORD may be in your mouth for
  with a powerful hand the LORD brought you out of
  Egypt.
• 10"Therefore, you shall keep this ordinance at
  its appointed time from year to year.

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Inside Phylacteries Deut. 6

• 4"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD
  is one!
• 5"You shall love the LORD your God with all your
  heart and with all your soul and with all your
  might.
• 6"These words, which I am commanding you today,
  shall be on your heart.
• 7"You shall teach them diligently to your sons
  and shall talk of them when you sit in your house
  and when you walk by the way and when you lie
  down and when you rise up.
• 8"You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and
  they shall be as frontals on your forehead.
• 9"You shall write them on the doorposts of your
  house and on your gates.

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Inside Phylacteries Deut. 11

• 13"It shall come about, if you listen obediently
  to my commandments which I am commanding you
  today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him
  with all your heart and all your soul,
• 14that He will give . . . .
• 18"You shall therefore impress these words of
  mine on your heart and on your soul and you
  shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they
  shall be as frontals on your forehead.
• 19"You shall teach them to your sons, talking of
  them when you sit in your house and when you walk
  along the road and when you lie down and when you
  rise up.
• 20"You shall write them on the doorposts of your
  house and on your gates,
• 21so that your days and the days of your sons
  may be multiplied on the land which the LORD
  swore to your fathers to give them, as long as
  the heavens remain above the earth.

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Tassels
"Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them
that they make them fringes in the borders of
their garments throughout their generationsand
it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may
look upon it, and remember all the commandments
of the Lord." Deuteronomy 1112 and Num.
1537-40
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Religious Snobbery 236-12

• Honored seats at banquets and in synagogues
• Respectful greetings in public
• Rabbi
• Father
• Leader (Master)
• Servant

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Eight Woes to Pharisees 2313-36

• Excluding self and others from kingdom
• Devouring widows houses while making long
  street-corner prayers
• World-wide proselytizing to make worse sons of
  hell
• Making meticulous exceptions for oaths
• Neglecting weightier measures justice, mercy,
  faithfulness - to tithe spices. (strain out a
  gnat and swallow a camel)
• Cleaning outsides of dishes with robbery,
  self-indulgence, inside.
• White-washed sepulchers full of dead mens
  bones outwardly beautiful, unclean inside.
• Building monuments to prophets and killing
  prophets.

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem 2337-39

• I wanted to gather your children like a hen
  gathers her chicks.
• You were unwilling
• Your house is being left desolate
• You wont see me till my return.