(Tim Taylor - October 19, 2020) Do you strain at a gnat and swallow a camel? Then you might be a modern-day Pharisee!
You see, we’ve entered into a period of time where the Church, nations and the world have been brought into a valley of decision. A valley is a low point, and the analogy in Joel 3 speaks of a moral low point where PEOPLE’s decisions reveal the true condition of their heart.
Hebrews 5:12-14 2 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Can you discern? Can you decide? Can you recognize good and evil?
Or will you find yourself in Isaiah 5:20 where you become one of the ones who call evil good and good evil? Or will you find yourself in the camp of the Pharisees, you know, the ones who Jesus accused in Matthew 23:24 of straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel because their attention to personal details in people’s lives blinded them to the weightier matters of justice, mercy and truth.
True mercy can never exist without justice and justice can never really exist without truth.
In my last video I inserted a Pharisee detector. I used a phrase to check to see if you were one who strained at a gnat while swallowing a camel. I wanted to see if you were more offended by my phrase, “what the hell,”, or, if you were more offended because of laws which originated in hell were passed that encouraged the people to commit and abominations, which are acts which trigger a spiritual law that causes the very land to vomit the inhabitants out.
In my lifetime I have never seen lying, hypocrisy and the incredible lack of judgment revealed in the pulpit as I have today.
Matthew 23:23-24 says:
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
Today, many are hyper focused on President Trump’s personal behavior while they are blind to the “weightier matters” like Justice. Justice cannot exist without truth. True mercy cannot exist without true justice. So, if you find yourself hyper focused on President Trumps personal behavior or focused on his behavior from 20 years before he received Christ, and you neglect facts like:
You see, we’ve entered into a period of time where the Church, nations and the world have been brought into a valley of decision. A valley is a low point, and the analogy in Joel 3 speaks of a moral low point where PEOPLE’s decisions reveal the true condition of their heart.
Hebrews 5:12-14 2 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Can you discern? Can you decide? Can you recognize good and evil?
Or will you find yourself in Isaiah 5:20 where you become one of the ones who call evil good and good evil? Or will you find yourself in the camp of the Pharisees, you know, the ones who Jesus accused in Matthew 23:24 of straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel because their attention to personal details in people’s lives blinded them to the weightier matters of justice, mercy and truth.
True mercy can never exist without justice and justice can never really exist without truth.
In my last video I inserted a Pharisee detector. I used a phrase to check to see if you were one who strained at a gnat while swallowing a camel. I wanted to see if you were more offended by my phrase, “what the hell,”, or, if you were more offended because of laws which originated in hell were passed that encouraged the people to commit and abominations, which are acts which trigger a spiritual law that causes the very land to vomit the inhabitants out.
In my lifetime I have never seen lying, hypocrisy and the incredible lack of judgment revealed in the pulpit as I have today.
Matthew 23:23-24 says:
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
Today, many are hyper focused on President Trump’s personal behavior while they are blind to the “weightier matters” like Justice. Justice cannot exist without truth. True mercy cannot exist without true justice. So, if you find yourself hyper focused on President Trumps personal behavior or focused on his behavior from 20 years before he received Christ, and you neglect facts like:
- His actions, his policies, and laws he supports and advocates for, his decisions to stop giving tax payer dollars to the number one leader of the worst holocaust in history…… Planned Parenthood, ….. His actions testify he is the most pro-life president in our nation’s history...
- Then you may be a practicing Pharisee
- Or you ignore his decisions such as moving our Embassy to Jerusalem, which testifies he has become one of the greatest allies and defenders of Israel, and you forget the blessing, the covenant promise that comes upon people who are a friend to Israel in Genesis 12:1-3....
- Then you may be a blind Pharisee
- Or, if you fail to acknowledge the award Rev. Jesse Jackson gave him in 1999, an ignore the fact that before COVID his policies led to our nation’s greatest economic recovery, far exceeding what former President Obama even acknowledged was possible, and in the process led to the lowest unemployment in history for Hispanics and Blacks….
- Then you maybe a hypocritical Pharisee
- Or, if you hyper focus on his Twitter feed and fact checkers who pander to the Democrat socialist party platform which:
- Advocates for the murder of the unborn and even the survivors of abortion,
- Whose VP candidate, Kamala Harris, while serving at the AG in California ended up receiving campaign donations from Planned Parenthood and then when investigative reporter David Daleiden exposed Planned Murderhood’s selling of baby body parts….. she prosecutes the investigative reporter…. she used her elected position to favor a donor and pervert justice…. Did you hear me… they were/are/ selling baby body parts. Talk about an idea out of the pit of hell.
- And you are more offended by Trump’s tweet that this barbarity,……
- Then, you may be a blind Pharisee who strains at a gnat and swallows a camel.
- Or if you align yourself with the Democrat socialist party who has become the home of witches and Satanists who for the 1st time in history, have corporately sought to coordinate their efforts to curse a president on a regular basis and how cursed a Supreme Court nominee…… and you forget 2 Corinthians 6:14-15 which says…… Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
- Then you may be a Pharisee
- Of if you oppose President Trump because he seeks to enforce the Constitution, has seated more judges since President Washington who seek to honor the Law and the Constitution instead of acting like activist judges who seek to make laws with their decisions and you support and advocate the lawlessness and hypocrisy of BLM, which by the way whose founders are Marxists and one even practices divination, and you defend Antifa and the lawless violence and destruction they’ve wrought….. and ignore God’s word which reveals in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 that lawlessness is a sign that Satan is at work…..
- Then you may be a blind Pharisee who neglects the weighter matters of the law.
- Or if you oppose Trump and you advocate for the Democrat Party position on marriage, and transgender issues, then you reveal the depth of your lying deception for, the Democrat Party position on marriage is directly contrary to God’s word, and the position on transgender issues reveals that scientific truth, moral truth, fundamental truth…… common sense escapes them as they now advocate for up to 100 genders, which is 98 beyond male and female, see Genesis Chapter 1, whom former VP Biden advocates a policy that would allow 8 year olds to choose their gender…… you do realize that an 8 year old doesn’t have all their adult teeth yet. You talk about destroying lives and destinies, based upon feelings contrary to truth.
- That is an example, another example of a modern doctrine of demons.
- Then you may be a decietful Pharisee
- Of if you are offended by the way Trump fights and ignore the corruption of the last administration which used it’s power and 3 letter agencies like the DOJ, FBI, CIA etc…. to persecute and prosecute it’s political opposition, while ignoring justice, creating a double standard such that former Sec of State Clinton violated security protocols which others who violated the same went to prison, who the FBI director violated the law and not prosecuting over 100+ confidential, secret or top secret emails which were exposed, which she tried to cover up, wiping hard drives, destroying phones, and yet no charges were brought, followed by her campaign paying millions for the false Steele dossier which the former administration to spy on Trump’s campaign and level false charges and the Muller Report which exonerated President Trump, which during that time frame, accused Trump and his family of what then VP Biden and his son Hunter were doing…… Biden used his influence to fire a prosecutor by withhold aid which he brags about while Hunter gets paid millions for something he does not do nor know by Burisma and he gets a similar situation in China.
- Then you may be a Pharisee who strains at a gnat and swallows a camel!
These are just a few examples of weightier matters.
If you sit under a minister of pastor who focuses more on Trump’s past, or his personal habits while ignoring the weightier matters of justice, or who ignore scripture and don’t recognize that God has always used and worked through flawed human beings like Samson, a judge who had a lust problem, King David who murdered and had a lust issue, or King Nebuchadnezzar who was a heathen or King Cyrus who was in the same boat.
Then you need to find yourself another minister, another pastor who is bold, courageous, whose actions and words DO NOT DENY our faith!
Father I pray, deliver us from evil. I pray for a great awakening. I pray for ministers, shepherds after your own heart who will love you and the people enough to speak the truth. In Jesus name.
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