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Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
(Luke 11:37–54)
1 Then Jesus said to the people and to his disciples:
2 The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;
3 All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.
4 They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them
5 But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,
6 And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,
7 And words of respect in the market-places, and to be named by men, Teacher.
8 But you may not be named Teacher: for one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.
9 And give no man the name of father on earth: because one is your Father, who is in heaven.
10 And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even Christ.
11 But let the greatest among you be your servant.
12 And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.
13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
14-15 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
16 A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.
17 You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?
18 And, Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the offering which is on it, he is responsible.
19 You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy
20 He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.
21 And he who takes an oath by the Temple, takes it by the Temple and by him whose house it is
22 And he who takes an oath by heaven, takes it by the seat of God, and by him who is seated on it.
23 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
24 You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.
25 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.
26 You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.
27 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.
28 Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
29 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,
30 If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.
32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
33 You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
34 For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;
35 So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.
36 Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation
Lament over Jerusalem
(Luke 13:31–35)
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
38 See, your house is made waste
39 For I say to you, You will not see me from this time till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.
— Matthew 23 | Bible in Basic English (BBE)
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Cross References: Genesis 4:8; Exodus 13:9; Exodus 29:37; Exodus 30:29; Deuteronomy 33:3; Ruth 2:12; 1 Kings 8:13; 1 Kings 9:7; 2 Chronicles 24:21; Job 22:29; Psalm 118:26; Proverbs 26:23; Proverbs 26:26; Isaiah 9:16; Isaiah 20:6; Isaiah 28:25; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 66:1; Jeremiah 7:26; Lamentations 4:13; Matthew 3:7; Matthew 5:22; Matthew 6:9; Matthew 10:23; Matthew 11:16; Matthew 14:18; Matthew 15:14; Matthew 20:26; Matthew 26:25; Mark 7:4; Mark 12:38-39; Luke 11:47; Luke 20:47; Romans 2:21; 1 Corinthians 10:18
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"I feel like the vibes of the world have just gotten more off in the past few years, something big is gonna happen bc idk the stars and shit" is just the witchy, uwu hippy version of when Christians say the world is randomly going to shit because it's almost time for the rapture
So they don't have to look at all the very real life problems that are destroying humanity/the world, the patterns that people of power continue to play into for generations that continue to cause more and more problems.
Just so they can play the "omg how could this have happened, well I told you astrology said so" ignorant card when they're no longer struggling with mere first world problems but are actually dealing with the things they choose to ignore on TV and in the news, and no ethereal, otherworldly being has come to save them, fix them, or helped them conquer capitalism and fascism while they sit on their ass eating potato chips and going "yeah, karma and stuff". Bc gods forbid you actually acknowledge why life is ass, you'd rather make the situation worse by playing so far into ignorance that you're fooling and confusing everyone else and now everyone is convinced it's not bc of an imbalance of power, or rich people, it's only goddamn PLUTO.
"Somehow" everything was fine and just had "suspiciously dark vibes" and then "suddenly" it turned to shit. It's not like the people in the world have fucking raised their red flags and screamed what the issues have all been for years and y'all have just been like "life is such a mystery. Everything just FEELS more depressing and bad and awful but I'm not sure why. Anyway let me drink my microplastics in my overpriced house that I always make late payments on bc my job pays me 9 bucks an hour, while I stare across the street at the abandoned buildings that they're going to bulldoze because some homeless kids broke into it for shelter, while I contemplate on why everything is so depressing".
And it doesn't mean you can't spiritually believe in x or y thing, and also that fascism is bad. You can be like "ah yes the Pluto thing is warning us that if we don't fix this situation right now, that I'm aware is an issue, then we're absolutely fucked in the worst possible scenario and it'll up-end our entire life whether we want it to or not, but it'll be even worse for fucking around and finding out". Like spirituality is pretty much a tool to help you understand that if y'all don't figure out how to fix x thing, z thing is going to happen, and it'll be a lot more of a rough lesson than y thing.
Spirituality is NOT "idk, I know X thing is bad but Z thing is also happening and I believe it's because the stars foretold this would happen and- oh NOOOO, you mean Z and X thing were related to each other this whole time, and if I had helped to prevent, repair, or prepare for X, then Y would have happened instead, because Y and Z were both an option based on how there's ALWAYS a difference between letting something happen by choosing to be ignorant to it, and actively working to fix the situation or working around the situation, whaaaaat??"
Y'all just politically lazy and using spirituality as a reason to not care.
(And it's used in the same way for people who are toxic and avoiding self awareness as well. "somehow" the majority of people just don't like x person, for whatever reason, no matter how "nice or funny" they are, it must be written in the stars (or must be God's plan) but realistically it's because they're garbage human beings who treat people like shit every time someone gets close to them so they can't keep friends, and then they pride on scaring everyone else away bc "they hate people" by being nasty, rude, cold, evasive, etc, and their face shows how little they care about anybody around them, but yeah its because they're an Aries with a Scorpio moon that has people not liking their vibes).
Edit: and y'all be saying it to try and be the most woke and high vibrational person ever but it's actually the worst thing to say! "I feel like somehow the world just feels darker and more depressing" well clearly you're so far out of the loop for understanding and listening to the pain of your fellow humans that you genuinely think everything is a fucking mystery! Not to mention the depression of going through shit is something every generation goes through, why the fuck do you think boomers are cranky, bitter, and miserable??? They just lack the awareness to be politically educated and why they chalk everything up to Jesus or Satan- oh yeah, like you do with other things! Bc y'all don't sit with the problems of the world and y'all only feel like fixing it when there's irreparable damage that you can't deny, just like every-fucking-body else!
#toxic spirituality#toxic positivity#astrology#astrology chart#spiritual blindness#toxic#self awareness#avoidance
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Quran (7:193)
اگر تم انہیں سیدھی راہ پر آنے کی دعوت دو تو وہ تمہارے پیچھے نہ آئیں۔ تم خواہ انہیں پکارو یا خاموش رہو ، دونوں صورتوں میں تمہارے لیے یکساں ہی ہے
और यदि तुम उन्हें सीधी राह की ओर बुलाओ, तो तुम्हारे पीछे नहीं चल सकते। तुम्हारे लिए बराबर है, चाहे उन्हें पुकारो अथवा तुम चुप रहो।
Onları doğru yola çağırsanız, size uymazlar. Onları çağırsanız da sussanız da sizin için birdir.
Dan jika kamu (hai orang-orang musyrik) menyerunya (berhala) untuk memberi petunjuk kepadamu, tidaklah berhala-berhala itu dapat memperkenankan seruanmu; sama saja (hasilnya) buat kamu menyeru mereka ataupun kamu berdiam diri.
#islam#islamquotes#quran#quranquotes#قرآن كريم#islamic design#guidance#spiritual blindness#astray#misguided
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Sunday School Live Stream - March 19, 2023
https://www.facebook.com/akronalliancefellowship/videos/1146976302612244
Sunday school session with Asst. Pastor Melvin Gaines.
John 9:26-34
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#blind#curse#God#Jesus#listen#look#Moses#Pharisee#spiritual blindness#synagogue#teach#will#willful#world#worship
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A (Negative) Christian Review of "Terror On The Prairie"
A (Negative) Christian Review of “Terror On The Prairie”
I just finished watching / listening to (most of) Daily Wire’s “Terror on the Prairie“. So I want to do a movie-review, even though that’s not what this page is primarily about, because I think this movie raises several issues that Christians need to think through. So, in this review, I’m going to engage with what I think are the main spiritual issues that need our consideration.
First, let me…
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#Gina Carano#morality#movies#Spiritual Blindness#Spiritual Powers#Spiritual Warfare#Terror on the Prairie#The Daily Wire
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This is the reason, the evidence and great cause of condemnation [for all sin]: that Light is come into the world. Christ is the Light, foretold by the prophet Isaiah. He is styled, in the beginning of [John's] Gospel, the true Light; that is, He has in perfection all the excellent qualities of light: the power to enlighten the minds of men in the knowledge of saving truth, to warm the affections with the love of it, to revive the disconsolate, and to make the heavenly seed of the Word to flourish and fructify in their lives. This Light is come into the world; that signifies not only His Incarnation, but His revealing the merciful counsel of God for our salvation, which the clearest spirits could never have discovered; [Christ alone] has opened the way that leads to eternal life.
But men loved darkness rather than light; because their deeds were evil: they preferred, chose, and adhered to their ignorance and errors, [choosing these over] the light of life, the saving knowledge of the gospel. Their ignorance is affected and voluntary, and no colour of excuse can be alleged for it; no, it is very culpable and guilty, by neglecting to receive instruction from the Son of God. The vices and lusts of men are the works of darkness, the fruits of their ignorance and errors; and they are so pleasant to the carnal corrupt nature, that to enjoy them securely, they obstinately reject the light of the gospel. This aggravates their sin and sentence.
Matthew Poole; Commentary on John 3:19
#this is actually terrifying#the terror of sin#spiritual blindness#obstinacy#sin#willful ignorance#all sin is rebellion against god#a vital warning#biblical commentary#matthew poole#christ is the light of the world#god is truth#the mystery of the incarnation#i am tragically guilty of this#repent and believe in the gospel#jesus is the only way#john 3:19
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The Irony of Christ's Followers (Mark 10:32-34, 46-52)
The people following Jesus with 20/20 vision were spiritually blind.
A 10th century depiction of Christ healing a blind man
The disciples were confused as Jesus led them toward Jerusalem, and his other followers were afraid. Once again, Jesus took the twelve disciples aside and told them what was going to happen to him. He said:
We are now on our way to Jerusalem where the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses.…
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#bartimaeus#christian commitment#christian discipleship#christian life#christian ministry#christianity#following jesus#gospel of mark#healing#irony#jesus christ#listening#mark 10#relational connection#spiritual blindness#spiritual life#spiritual vision#the crowd
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Night Blindness Parallell
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#A Godward Heart#Blindness#Books#John Piper#Luke 11:33-36#Luke 6:39#Revelation 3:17#Spiritual Blindness
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#church#holy spirit#jesus#pastor#sermons#god#holy bible#spiritual blindness#depression#isolation#anger#fear#loneliness#Elijah#prophet
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Illuminate from Within: Stimulate Your Pineal Gland in 3 Steps!
Everyday life is becoming increasingly hectic, leaving little room for our spiritual life. Discover how you can safeguard your inner world and stimulate your third eye's power.
-Step 1: "Morning Mindfulness:" Start your day with a few minutes of focused breathing and meditation, calming the mind and aligning your intentions for the day ahead. This primes the canvas for pineal gland activation.
-Step 2: "Sunlit Serenade:" Bask in the gentle morning sun, allowing its golden rays to cascade over your face. The sunlight stimulates your pineal gland and initiates the release of melatonin, essential for a healthy sleep-wake cycle and heightened spiritual awareness.
-Step 3: "Nourishing Nectar:" Incorporate natural, nutrient-rich foods like leafy greens, nuts, and fruits into your daily diet. These nourishments assist in decalcifying the pineal gland and supporting its optimal functioning, aiding your spiritual journey.
To always keep the pineal gland efficient and healthy, it's also essential to maintain a high level of energy efficiency and well-balanced chakras.
If you want to know your energy efficiency level and your chakras status feel free to contact me directly in the Tumblr Chat or click HERE
Thanks for your attention,
Blessings!
#energy#spells#chakras#spiritual#third eye#pineal gland#third eye blind#third eye open#third eye chakra#third eye activation#synchronicity#higher self#energy healing#energia#spiritual journey#spirituality#spiritual awakening#spiritual development#spiritualgrowth#meditation#spiritualpath#7 chakras#healing and balance of the chakras#crystals#balance chakras#spiritual growth#heal chakras#self healing
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The simple and external demonstration of the Word of God ought, indeed, to suffice fully for the production of faith, did not our blindness and perversity interfere. But such is the propensity of our minds to vanity that they can never adhere to the truth of God, and such is their dullness that they are always blind even to his light. Hence, without the illumination of the Holy Spirit the Word has no effect.
John Calvin
#Holy Spirit#Bible (interpretation)#faith#truth of God#spiritual blindness#illumination#John Calvin#Christian Quotes
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I need to know why I have such a spiritual blockage that I don't understand the subconscious and universal warnings being presented to me until after the thing has already happened.
Or it lines up perfectly to let me know I'm on the right track, but only after the damage has been done. Not before.
Why I get sick vibes from a cursed gift I wore and still only feel like taking it off right before everything fell apart. Yes my mind had been cleared the second i took it off, but the damage had been done because I was too late in realizing things and suffered too much as a result.
Or why I can conveniently forget I have a fortune cookie until after the issue I'm going through blows over. (and it says I will have the courage to speak up for myself. The problem was my lack of courage).
The songs I vibed to the most for months are suddenly actually making 10x more sense after something happens. I thought it was just the vibe, but now the lyrics hit a different way.
Why I got a specific memory of 7 years ago on social media from my younger self about not tolerating the exact same, word for word situation that I ended up being in (with people I've known for like 4 months) because I tolerated it, knowing I shouldn't have.
Or why I can have dreams of bugs climbing all over me, smothering me, choking me, spilling out of my mouth, right before getting into an altercation; but I don't understand until afterward.
Or why my dog, who may be loud and annoying, was especially aggressive towards people who turned out to be disrespectful and with poor intentions.
It's like I'm so hyper focused on why I don't feel well and why I have so many bad vibes from a situation that I ignore the literal signs pointing me to the truth. And if that's not enough, I ignore the direct signs of a bad situation, the paranoia and hurt when people cause drama in my space, the actual disrespect that I DO notice, etc, all for some sort of temporary validation. I shut everything out when I need to learn to stop ignoring the signs and actually notice the real signs for what they are. Both spiritually and the ones right in my face.
#spiritual signs#spiritualguidance#spiritual knowledge#spiritual awakening#spiritual blindness#spiritual block#signs of the universe#guidance#dream interpretation#spirituality#grey witch
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Quran (7:186)
Allah kimi saptırırsa, ona hidayet edecek yoktur. Onları azgınlıkları içerisinde şaşkın bir halde bırakır.
جس کو اللہ رہنمائی سے محروم کردے اس کے لیے پھر کوئی رہنما نہیں ہے ، اور اللہ انہیں ان کی سرکشی ہی میں بھٹکتا ہوا چھوڑ دیتا ہے
जिसे अल्लाह कुपथ कर दे, उसका कोई पथपर्दर्शक नहीं और उन्हें उनके कुकर्मों में बहकते हुए छोड़ देता है।
Barang siapa yang Allah sesatkan maka baginya tak ada orang yang akan memberi petunjuk. Dan Allah membiarkan mereka terombang-ambing dalam kesesatan.
Quiconque Allah égare, pas de guide pour lui. Et Il les laisse dans leur transgression, errants et hésitants.
#islam#islamquotes#quran#quranquotes#قرآن كريم#spiritual blindness#misguided#astray#transgression#ex muslim
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Live Stream Sunday School - March 26, 2023
https://www.facebook.com/gaines.melvin/videos/749428700147458
Sunday school session for Akron Alliance Fellowship Church, Akron OH.
John 9:35-41
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#blind from birth#blind man#blindness#Jesus#John#John 9#Messiah#Pharisee#prophet#reveal#see#spiritual blindness
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Are saint's eyes naturally Heterochromic or is that just when Ascension Mode is on
Bold of you to assume there's anything natural about Saint actually..
#ask#anonymous#hes a cursed undead spiritually enlightened old lesbian#theres nothing normal or natural about that creature#anyway saint doesnt open his eyes unless doing the ascension so i actually dont know#hes not blind he sees somehow as a weird echo creature does#cartoon logic also works#i like his cryptid energy...
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People are legit surprised to find out I'm a Christian when I criticize Christianity, as if critically thinking for myself isn't what I'm supposed to do with that brain inside my cranium.
Yeah, I'm critical of every religion I practice. It's called not being a brainwashed fanatic.
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