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What is your opinion on Abortion! It's a women's Right? If you think so well I've got good News For You! Prepare to meet your Maker!Slave owners felt the same about their slaves and still do. You see, you are just pieces of tissue, some cells accidentally put together by random acts of evolutionary violent processes. You are an accident! Certain people have you listed as a Human Resource, a Slave, They Own You! They Scheduled an Abortion and You are The One Being Aborted!
Their surgical scalpels, knifes are aimed and on you! It's all planned out perfectly. MIC is cutting you into little pieces and using chemicals against your flesh, your body, and they are sucking your brains out!
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The military–industrial complex (MIC) is an informal alliance between a nation's military and the arms industry which supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.

The Guilty

Isaiah 58 Ministries                                                    January 2015

Pastor: Leah Svensson

                                                              The  Guilty

                      

                             "I think it is wrong and I wouldn't do it, but I can tell others what to do." 

       Have you ever heard someone say: "I think it is wrong and I wouldn't do it, but I can tell others what to do." 

Then apply some different words: Hitler murder Jews, People enslaved Africans,  Do we have the right to not do anything?   No!

What kind of person sits by and watches  murders  and slavery with indifference?  We can not agree to disagree.

If you do nothing you are equally guilty.

Our SUVs, Our homes, Our food is made of and filled with infant baby parts.

Nazi Germany was in incredible financial turmoil...people hungry, without jobs...Then suddenly they were giving away bread to people even in Austria. How? They kidnapped, stole from, and murdered others. They took the Jewish people's stuff. You could say the Nazi empire was built of the bones, blood, and teeth of the Jewish people...

                                                                                                                                                                    America... you are no different, just slicker and cleaner. I was walking today and the Lord lewd me to the 1970's...particularly 72' 73'. Those were the years God's heart broke for his children...when murder became legal in this one nation under God.

         

Looking at all the nice homes people live in, the nice cars we drive, all of our modern conveniences...I could see that in the walls, in our tires, are the bones and bodies of millions of innocent babies...forgive me for I know the mental picture is quite graffic, but these were people, with souls...plans of God for those lives snuffed out cruelly and callously...all for the convenience and modernization we have today.

Think about it...without birth control and abortion, for they go hand in hand, you need mom's at home raising children. Abortion was the last straw to break the way we view motherhood. Now, to be a caretaker of your home is just a 'nice option' for the well off, or those willing to make modern sacrifices. It's no longer see as God's gift and mandate for women. Men have free time to play video games or watch football all because of abortion...because most women work outside the home...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/chinese-baby-boy-found-flushed-toilet-article-1.1356167

       Birth control and abortion go hand in hand and you need them both to have the 'prosperity ' we have today...why? Because it's not real wealth...people have to die. God has plans for these dead souls...they have land, rights, goods appointed by God for them at birth...and Americans are stealing from their own children to make America what it is today.

This sounds harsh but it set me free to see. We can't fix something until we know there is a problem.

, God can forgive, restore, heal when we are 

willing to do  Justice!   When we decide to do 

the right thing!

We know you think we're crazy! A conversation:

      All men must look to God

      Jesus their Savior for the

      right  answers and to be right. 

      For only God is right! 

      Do not follow men 

      Each of us must look to God for the right

      answers

   and to know the right way.

Isaiah 58  Ministries                                                                May 10, 2014

Pastor: Leah Svensson

Scriptures: see below

We at Isaiah 58 Ministries love to converse with people.  It brings out the best in all of us.  No comment is rejected.  All comments are received gratefully bad or good. (exception: swearing, cussing, or when the comment is perverted)

A conversation asking us to explain ourselves.

Comment:

         The Constitution was amended after the Fore Fathers were dead.It did not include Africans until 1865. This means that Black, Brown and Red skinned people were not included in the original, signed document. We must always confront the truth in order to separate the falsehood of teachings.

(Men do not die nor their work established by God's hands.) 

Response in order of importance to the reader: 

           Amen! Only through Christ are we free! If you understand the Declaration of Independence in the light of Christ's Freedom and the Constitution in the light of Christ's Freedom it changes your perspective about everything. President George Washington, John Adam, etc. declared that this country was founded on the "fact" that all men must submit to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and acknowledge Jesus and the Supreme Being- God Almighty- who is the Creator of All Men and That all men are equal before God. When you mediate on gold and silver being used as currency you will find that your whole mind, the state of your mind changes, to know God is the Creator of all and that all men are created equal. Lies blind and bind our minds to see what evil men would have us see. Illusions, we lose the power of God, the Holy Spirit which liberates all men. All your great schools like Harvard, in it's conception, stated that all men must know the Bible backwards and forwards (in several languages), before they could qualify to even put an application in to attend the universities. John Adams stated that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are the embodiment, the expression of men, of their faith in God and the power of Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

         Look around today, did Martin Luther and his scarifies or did JFK's sacrifices bring men closer to God?

NO! Absolutely not! People are immoral- more corrupt- today than in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah! Vile, Vile, Vile! Americans today are the most perverted, vilest people on the face of the earth! 

         The Founding Fathers bring men closer to God- to Jesus Christ- not to love them,(men worship),- but God! We are not allowed to worship men but God only!!! The Congress in the 1700's had Bibles printed and gave them out throughout the land! They wanted everyone to know their Savior and Lord to know his word, his will, which is to love one another, to treat everyone with the highest of respect, that all men are eternal beings, live forever and will judge them when they sin. They wanted Justice for everyone! You will not find better men than the founding Fathers, or their supporters like John Locke- preachers who were filled with the fire of God Almighty! JKF, Martin Luther... fought for paper money but it has no value, doesn't even exist except in the mind, in the imagination. We have to overthrow FDR before any of us are free from the tyranny of the "State". Social Security insults all men and takes our freedom to farm and own land from us. He stole all our gold! He was a very evil man! Look to God- for the "root" of all problems is the "love of money".

Isaiah 58:

      Isaiah 58: hey there! I beg to differ. I think you may have been brainwashed by the very same secular/revisionist theory that you really do abhor!

 

Isaiah 58: 

      Indulge me but for a moment. If, perchance, the Constitution was written by men of God who truly got on their knees and prayed holy and righteous prayers so that they would be directed by God to "form a more perfect union," what would the devil want to do?- he would DEMONIZE THOSE MEN- he would twist the truth- the easiest way to do this is to take a small portion of truth- in this case, slavery in the United States, and twist and construe it in such a way that the very issue 

obliterates all the wonderful things God HAD DONE!

Isaiah 58:

Now, let's take Abraham Lincoln who did NOT BELIEVE THAT THE CONSTITUTION CONDONED SLAVERY. He said that the words "slavery, slave, African, or Negro" were no where mentioned in the Constitution and that in and of itself was a very very powerful admission that the Founders were ashamed of it's existence- and remember, it only came into existence because the EVIL king of England they wanted to get rid of! And also remember, there would be no slavery if evil Africans had not been keeping slaves themselves and joined with evil men to capture people of their own country. The whole institution was evil, evil, evil. But the Constitution is good!

Don't take my word for it- Fredrick Douglas also emphasized that "NOT ONE WORD WOULD HAVE TO BE CHANGED in the Constitution if ONLY the states would follow George Washington's example and voluntarily give up slavery!" 

James Madison said that there was no mention of slavery in the Constitution precisely because the framers would not admit in a federal charter that there could be property in men.

The devil, through evil people has been doing his best to try to

rip apart the holiest governmental document  ever 

created- the Constitution.

Most of the framers were anti Slave Trade. I have read countless Jefferson writings and he ABHORS SLAVERY TO IT''S CORE AND denounces it's 'execrable traffic" in his first draft of the Declaration of Independence. But South Carolina and Georgia would not go along!!!!!

But they WERE able to get into the original Constitution a provision which allowed Congress to ban the Slave Trade in 20 yrs!!! As President, Thomas Jefferson urged Congress to act BEFORE Jan 1, 1808, and he denounced slavery in his strongest language yet!!! He called it a 'violation of the humans rights of unoffending Africans" William Wilberforce would NEVER HAVE been able to get his banning of slavery through had not America been acting in tandem!

Now, remember, the way people settled America- those coming for religious freedom- the Puritans, Pilgrims, Quakers, etc. who loved God and all of their fellow mankind, landed in the northern states- the "kings'men" of England landed in the southern states. Money and power took root and began to corrupt evil men just like today. McDonald's, Walmart, grocery chains- they all employ slaves- sure they can go and come as they please...or can they? I have to fight for my right to even hold chickens so I am SLAVE to the grocery store- with evil laws outlawing true freedom. I cannot have a cow on my land- I HAVE to go to the grocery store. I cannot buy regular, raw milk in 10 of the 50 states- how is this even possible. It certainly was never the founder's intention!

Evil men have done much to malign our founders!

I have so much more to say on this but need to go to Teen Challenge to help set free some young men who are held slaves to heroine, cocaine, meth, and pot! I leave you with these words from and ex slave named Phillis Wheatley On Being Brought from Africa to America," she wrote:

'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Savior too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our fable race with scornful eye, "Their color is a diabolic dye." Remember, Christians, Negroes black as Cain, May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.

In 1775, when she had traveled to England, and while the siege of Boston was underway in America, Phillis wrote a letter to the new Commander-in-Chief, General Washington, containing a special poem she had written for him:. . . 

His Excellency George Washington…….

Thee, first in place and honors, - we demand The grace and glory of thy martial band 

Fam'd for thy valor, for thy virtues more, Here every tongue thy guardian aid implore! . . .

Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, 

Thy every action let the goddess guide.

A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine, 

With gold unfading, Washington, be thine. . . .

Washington was touched by the poem; and when Phillis returned to America, Washington invited her to his military camp at Cambridge to honor her before his staff.

I am saddened by slavery but God has used this horrid thing to bring so many wonderful friends- black people, Africans- to America, to make this country great!! I think of the Jewish people who have been held slaves numerous times through history but as they turned back to God the power of God set them free!!!  

{Side Note: My Mom has been treated as a slave by her very own family her entire life.

And so was Matt, we understand slavery, yes we have live in horrid places without food, without any rights, with no justice,

battered torn apart mentally, forced to say master, jump when someone told us to jump, laugh when being beaten, say it all our own fault, I know girls who's fathers and other relatives raped them their entire childhood, we've been lied about, maligned. Not just black people have been slaves. Saints and Sinners are black and white, all colors]

One more interesting tid bit just to show that our founders did NOT want slavery in the documents of this country and wanted to be rid of it:

Comment:

       Douglas was pointing out the fact that the Constitution did not need to specify race if the Statesman (government) included non whites in perspective. But since they didn't then change it. God fearing men stand in jeopardy without concession, as did MLK, sacrificing his own life, wealth, position and future. Nonetheless, it was 80yrs after the signing that slavery was abolished. The Constitution was written to expressly unite the states, and was so established in the midst of slavery Regardless of those peoples who were undeniably excluded. Any God established thing needs no amendment.

Isaiah 58: 

       without the Constitution we are all slaves...so in essence, you believe in slavery...you don't have a government without the Constitution, we can't have rights without government. side note: How long will we let the "the catastrophe" of abortion go on it's been 41 years! 50 Millions lives hung by the neck, by the hands of vigilantes! KKK members, people who murder the innocent drag them out of the safety of their mothers womb in the middle of the night?

Comment: 

      " Without the constitution we are all slaves." ? Starting from the GARDEN we travel into the temporal for a season until the spirit is poured from on high and the vessel is cleansed whereby the spirit rest inside.... Forever! Only without God are we slaves.

Comment:

      Declaration I bow to! Amen. Constitution I stand reserved.

Locke, I consign. All others were wishful until John Kennedy.

Kennedy didn't want paper currency it was his avenue to reverse the concept of value from material to creature, ie, living beings.

I truley Love you and Michelle. As long as I live I will place you two as God sent. Hear me!

               

   Insert not a part of the conversation:  men will say anything to manuplate and get a vote: Kennedy's Vice President : Lyndon B. Johnson    

http://allenbwest.com/2014/05/facebook-hypocritical-agenda/

                 They quoted Lyndon B. Johnson to show the evil of the Democratic Party against black people. (slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, lynchings, literacy test, etc.) The page was blocked by Facebook. This is the quote with the offensive word removed. “I'll have those “n……”, (n……:using the derogatory Spanish word for black, meaning African Americans), voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One]” 

Isaiah 58 is not politically affiliated with any party.

We posted this awhile back. But first I hope you don't mind if I leave your name off of it. I am doing a blog using this conversation. People don't seem to comment much for fear we might get angry. Actually we love corrective criticism, you can not grow without it. So some republicans were saying that the Republican Party was started by black people and white people to end slavery. The first black congressmen and Senators were republicans. They quoted Lyndon B. Johnson to show the evil of the Democratic Party against black people. (slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, lynchings, literacy test, etc.) The page was blocked by Facebook. This is the quote with the offensive word removed. “I'll have those “n……”, (n……:using the derogatory Spanish word for black, meaning African Americans), voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One]” While Christian hate speech by democrats and atheists is not removed even though in contains very foul language. Watch out your speech is being censured.

Isaiah 58 Ministries:

Kennedy's father was a very sinful, womanizing man. One of the men who caused the great depression and put FDR in power to steal the gold system from the people. The Father Kennedy helped destroy the family, Christianity, and the family farm, men's independence. All of the Kennedy money was illegally gotten through corruption. I need to explain when I talk about money with JFK or Martin Luther. Men need farms to provide for their families, not jobs, not dependency on government to fix things, for only God and men turning towards faith in God can heal any problem. Men are happiest working for themselves. Men do not like having a "boss". God gave this country to men who would ""take dominion" and subdue the earth by farming. People came to this country for land, they didn't want others to provide for them. Men want to provide for themselves. Healthy healed men are very "independent". God commands men not to be dependent on others! What if the person you work for sins  and loses everything? You lose everything also. Corporation corrupt the law, they steal, lie, etc. so if you work for them their sins become your sins because you are helping them sin by working for them. No one can work for someone else unless they have the highest of piety and moral standards!1 Thessalonians 4: 9 Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. 10 And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, 11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, 12 so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

1Ti 2:1 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. 1Ti 2:2 Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity. 1Ti 2:1 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. 1Ti 2:2 Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity. Love you, we listen diligently to your very passionate, and well thought out words knowing you desire as we do, the truth in all things for Jesus is the truth. We desire Christ to be glorified in the hearts and minds of all men that we all may live in Christ peace, and prosperity with one another.

Isaiah 58: Why haven't good men like yourself, and the church, myself included, ended the slavery and holocaust of infants to the abortion? It is clear in the Constitution that it is illegal! We need God! We can not judge the founding fathers for not stopping slavery sooner, until we have done a better job ourselves. We are far more sinful than the Founding fathers ever thought could happen. 50 million Americans murdered! Targeted mostly at black girls! Margaret Sanger who started Planned Parenthood and hated black people. She was a follower of Hitler, an carried out his plans here in America.

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  1Ti 2:1 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. 1Ti 2:2 Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity. Love you, we listen diligently to your very passionate, and well thought out words knowing you desire as we do, the truth in all things for Jesus is the truth. We desire Christ to be glorified in the hearts and minds of all men that we all may live in Christ peace, and prosperity with one another.

Communion! “in an unworthy manner”? What?

                                              

Communion! “in an unworthy manner”? What?

Isaiah 58 Ministries                                              December, 2013

Pastor: Leah Svensson

Scriptures: Romans 8:37, Luke 22:24-30,  Matthew 23:1, Luke 16:1-8, 1 Corinthians 11:23-32 

Song: American Patriot Girlhttp://isaiah58ministries.blogspot.com/2013/12/american-patriot-girl.html

                                                                   Theme

1 Corinthians 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.”25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup.29 For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves. 30 That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. 31 But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment. 32 Nevertheless, when we are judged in this way by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned with the world.

                                                      Sermon

             Communion! “in an unworthy manner”? What?

As a follower and disciple of Jesus Christ we do not enslave people but set them free.   We are more than a conquer.  When “The Gospel” is preached people are delivered from oppression, healed, provided for by God! Not Christians. Jesus is our Savior from suffering!

To understand what it is to partake of the Lord Supper unworthily we need to learn something from the  worldly people around us.  (Luke 16:1-8)  People in the world “conquer” to provide for themselves.  

I use to wonder why my brother and sisters in the flesh would say things like “I work hard for what I have!”  I never saw them do any work. They wouldn't help their mother or father or anyone else for that matter, they wouldn't even clean their own rooms.  So how are they working hard for what they have?  

They disobey all Ten Commandments. They worked hard mentally, using all the sin they had in them! Always accusing people of some kind of terrible sin! Which the person was innocent of! This is hard work in the 50’s and 60’s because everyone else is trying to obey the Ten Commandments, not break them.  Most people were looking towards heaven not hell.  

But there were those breaking free from the principles of Christianity especially in the media, entertainment industry government, and business.  These people were violently, “conquering”, taking, (over throwing, insurrection,)   over the country.  

During this time, small groups of people and individuals were gaining power by falsely accusing innocent people; enticing the people to judge others without a trail; legalizing murder; abortion; dishonoring parents, hating God; lying constantly,  stealing, coveting, wanting what others have and cheating to take it from them, etc.  (Roe vs Wade, rebellious Rock and Roll are examples).

Now Jesus delivered us from these people when we remember Jesus and receive nourishment from him worthily.  Right now we have to learn from the oppressors. 

     

These people drain others of Life, Liberty and happiness. They suck the life out of people; they take from others to “nourish” themselves.  An example is when a bully puts down a good clean person to “make themselves feel” better, stronger, not the inadequate person they really are.  Sinners sin makes them very weak.  

A Christian who takes of the body and blood of Jesus takes God’s “strength inside themselves”.  A Christian, a saint is good because Jesus died on the cross and “willingly” gave and gives his life for us to gain strength from.

Every human being is born with a vessel “empty” needing someone else to fill it.  A Mother breast feeds her child, dresses them, cleans them.  We are all naked before God and need him to feed us, dress us, put a roof over our heads.  

The world meets their needs from taking “life” from their “victims”, innocent people.  The world conquers then: Matthew 23:4 They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.   The world: Luke 22:25 “In this world the kings and great men lord it over their people, yet they are called ‘friends of the people.’

Jesus came to set us free from these cannibals.  A lot of people have cancers, diabetes, other sufferings because their life is constantly being drained from them by cannibals!  Your body and blood have nourishment in them.  Nourishment that comes from “someone else”, just like your mother's breast! The world knows it needs the life of others. A person one time yelled at me, “You need people!”  This person was a very manipulative, cunning, crafty, deceitful, spoiled child since birth always sucking the life out of everyone around her.  This is why lawyers are called “blood suckers”.  They really are!  You cannot blame a child for what they are unless you have another way to meet these needs.

The is a natural law.  Science

Jesus laid his life down for us freely.  We need him.  As much as the world needs people they can suck the life out of, we need Jesus' Life!  How?  The Gospel.  The Gospel!  The very words are the power of God to save, heal, deliver, set free.  We have to turn our back on everything that “sucks” the ‘life”, “strength”, out of us!  Turn to God, “the Gospel”, Keep Gospel! in your mind constantly, it will heal, mend, restore, release hope within your being. You will feel strong!  Hope that isn't from a sinful dying world, but a hope that comes from purity, holiness, clean honest thoughts that come from the written word in your being! 

The kingdom of God is within.  Where the Holy Spirit resides, deep within you.  God has written his word in you.  When you draw from it they you are able to take communion worthily.  You have ceased from drawing life, (sinning: breaking the Ten Commandments), from others

                                    Conclusion                          
  I have always wanted God to give me understanding about this. So he did. A pure heart, thoroughly examined by the person, sinless, only following the leading of the Holy Spirit, a person who is holy before God and man is worthy. You are right. Most people in America, even if they call themselves Christian, should probably not take communion. American Christians are not holy. I've seen some orthodox people in other countries close to being holy.

                                      References 

Romans 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

The Parable of the Unjust Steward

Luke 16:1 He also said to His disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. 2 So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’

3 “Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg. 4 I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.’

5 “So he called every one of his master’s debtors to him, and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 And he said, ‘A hundred measures  of oil.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ 7 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ So he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ 8 So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.

 Luke 22:24 A dispute also arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. 25 Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. 26 But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. 27 For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. 28 You are those who have stood by me in my trials.29 And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, 30 so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

A Warning Against Hypocrisy

Matthew 23:1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.4 They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

5  “Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; 6  they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; 7  they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others.

8  “But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9  And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 10  Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. 11  The greatest among you will be your servant. 12  For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

13  “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.  14 

15  “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.

16  “Woe to you, blind guides!