Post by jazzlover on Apr 6, 2007 9:04:25 GMT -5
If Jesus Christ were to enter a convening of pastors who teach that people on DISABILITY are to TITHE (10%) of their disability checks to these pastors, you wouldn't want to be in the same room with them! If you think Jesus berated the hypocritical Pharisees in Matthew 23, I don't think you would have seen anything yet!
Listen to Jesus' own words:
"WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! For you tithe of mint and anise and cummin [little herbs of the garden], and have OMITTED the weightier matters of the law, JUDGMENT, MERCY, AND FAITH..." (Mat. 23:23).
WOW! There it is, saints! Tithing was NOTHING to Jesus compared to properly judging [taking care of], MERCY [where is the mercy in taking WIDOW'S MITES?], and FAITH [these hypocrites don't HAVE ANY FAITH, or they would trust God for their ministries and NOT WIDOWS WHO ARE DISABLED]..."
Read Verse 14:
"WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! For you DEVOUR WIDOWS' HOUSES..."!!!
It is UNSCRIPTURAL EVIL to place these burdens on the shoulders of fragile widows!! Verse 4:
"For they bind HEAVY BURDENS and GRIEVOUS to be born, and lay them on men's [AND WIDOW'S] shoulders; but THEY themselves will NOT move them with one of their fingers."
Exodus 22:22 "Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless
child." Exodus 22:23 "If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry
at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;" Exodus 22:24 "And my
wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your
wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless."
God's protection of widows is throughout the Bible. It was a
widow named Anna, a prophetess eighty-four years old, who was one of
the two witnesses recognizing Jesus as the Saviour of the world at His
dedication, when He was forty days old. It was a widow Elijah
stayed with during a terrible famine, and God miraculously fed them.
What this was really saying, was that God, Himself, protects those who
cannot help themselves. If you do wrong to those who cannot protect
themselves, you have God to deal with. He fights their battles for
them. He will punish according to the sin. He would make
your wives widows, and your children orphans, because He would kill you.
Listen to Jesus' own words:
"WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! For you tithe of mint and anise and cummin [little herbs of the garden], and have OMITTED the weightier matters of the law, JUDGMENT, MERCY, AND FAITH..." (Mat. 23:23).
WOW! There it is, saints! Tithing was NOTHING to Jesus compared to properly judging [taking care of], MERCY [where is the mercy in taking WIDOW'S MITES?], and FAITH [these hypocrites don't HAVE ANY FAITH, or they would trust God for their ministries and NOT WIDOWS WHO ARE DISABLED]..."
Read Verse 14:
"WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! For you DEVOUR WIDOWS' HOUSES..."!!!
It is UNSCRIPTURAL EVIL to place these burdens on the shoulders of fragile widows!! Verse 4:
"For they bind HEAVY BURDENS and GRIEVOUS to be born, and lay them on men's [AND WIDOW'S] shoulders; but THEY themselves will NOT move them with one of their fingers."
Exodus 22:22 "Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless
child." Exodus 22:23 "If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry
at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;" Exodus 22:24 "And my
wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your
wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless."
God's protection of widows is throughout the Bible. It was a
widow named Anna, a prophetess eighty-four years old, who was one of
the two witnesses recognizing Jesus as the Saviour of the world at His
dedication, when He was forty days old. It was a widow Elijah
stayed with during a terrible famine, and God miraculously fed them.
What this was really saying, was that God, Himself, protects those who
cannot help themselves. If you do wrong to those who cannot protect
themselves, you have God to deal with. He fights their battles for
them. He will punish according to the sin. He would make
your wives widows, and your children orphans, because He would kill you.