“The RoseBouquet”

This is a strong, prophetic message addressed to the crowds and His disciples about the sins of their leaders. This chapter has a tone of righteous anger - such as I believe God has toward these sins;

1. Their teachers and Pharisees had Moses’ official position, but they did not do what they preached. They gave burdensome instructions, loved attention, and wanted to be honoured.

2. The teachers and Pharisees did not enter God’s kingdom themselves, and wouldn’t let others who wanted to come in.

3. They traveled and worked hard to win a convert, and then turned him into a twice-as-bad son of hell.

4. Blind guides! They fussed about the more effective oaths in the temple, ignoring what made those things holy in the first place.

5. They tithed their minute spices, and neglected the weightier issues of justice, mercy and faithfulness.

6. They fussed about table cleanliness but inside were spiritually full of greed and self-indulgence.

7. They were dressed beautifully like whitewashed tombs, but spiritually inside, they were full of dead bones and rot.

8.They honoured the dead prophets but said they would never have made the same mistakes as their fathers who killed them, proving they were their father’s descendants.

Jesus cried out in love to Jerusalem, and would have gathered them as a hen her chicks, but they were unwilling. He said their House would become desolate and they wouldn’t see Him again until they could say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.”

PRAYER: Oh Lord, may You find my heart tender and willing to humbly learn from these, to avoid the wrong and to do the right. I want to please and obey You!

+++++Jesus is my King+++++Jesus is my King+++++

Blessings on you Today!
Ruth Marlene Friesen

P.S. I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses, and the voice I hear, falling on my ear…. Ruthe’s Secret Roses, my novel, illustrates that dear song!