The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-02-12

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| far short OF what S~> - v
would be acceptable
! to God , y, NIX.
A Iharisee invt
ed Jesus to dine ut his house. Jesus
passed in and sat down without the
Journalism Of washing customary to
the pharsees The host thought OF
Jesus as n holy man. and remarked
| that it was strange that He had not
washed Jesus then pointed out that
much of what even the holiest Jews
practised was merely ceremony, not
| true religion OutWardly they We're
clean. but inwardly their hearts were
uuclean-g given to extortlon spiritual
wickedness In Gods sight the heart
is the important matter The inside of
the cup should first be cennscd.
From our Lords expressions. nppar
emily one Of the Pharisces' great fail
ings was covetousness According to
the Greek. Jesus called them money
lovers. once He told them that this
eovetouAness led them dishonesty to
disregard others rights He said We
dcvour widows houses meaning that
they took advantage Of widows to ac
cunulate property for themselves. Ap
parently many pharisces were rlch
.lcsus pointed ont that With such
wrong heart conditions God conld not
he pleased. even though they ever 50
carefully observed the outward rcgn
lations of the Jewish Law. While they
were particular to 1.-THE even the Nlnal'
seed Of which they grew but a tfiiling
onantity vet they neglected the WclSll
i.r matters Of The laW-to deal insil>
and to love mercy
a Pharisee Invites Jesus to Dine.
Their covetousness tool, the form Of
pride. as well as dishonesty They
wanted to be very prominent in things
religious and to he hailed MS Rabbi
master, learned one Jesus declared
that they were like sepulchreS, ont
wardly clean and whieWashcd buf
inwardly fnll of corruption. TheN
were holiness people merely in the
outward form or ceremonial
Some of the pharisees. especially cd
ucatcd. well-vcrscd IN the Scriptures
were styled lawvers-Doctors OF the
Law. equivalent Of what today are
termed Doctors ~ Divinity Jesus |
upbraidcd them. snyins thar they |
placrd cricvous burdens upon the com |
mon people which they themselves |
would not bear He meant that they /
gave such hard interpretations OF !
Gods Law rs discouraged the people
setting before them standards or per .
fcction which they themselves did NOT
try To live up TO- Apparently they
wished to impress the people with the
sanctitv Of the clergy. They built sep
ulchrrs for the Prophets. forgetful that
fhcir fathers. whose spirit they had.
we're the ones who killed those Prophets
Woel Woe! Woel Woe Woe
We are not to think of Jesus rs con
delnning the l'hnrisees to eternal tor
uIeut. nr Us intuHfing that this would
hr the woe roiuiu. upon them lhe
woe WAS that the Pharisees were
about ~ miss The great blessing which
God had promised lsraei-chief asso
ciatian IN M"sslAl's Kingdom Gcn
rSls ~ iSi llad there been enough "is
iaelites indeed ip complete cod s fore
uirlainrd Elect The Kingdom oifci
,,.,,,lf ,,af hat,. .rnf.. to the Gent lies.
The rhnrisecs were in the most ia
,ored place inr Wialnins ioint-heir-
ship with Messiah tut they recognized
MOI what they wore losing Jesus eX
pression "N lr unto von.' IS therefore
10 be regarded .ympnthetically This
ihoneht g.. b"rne out by the context
which forninlis fle great time of tr0u