SEVENTH WOE

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
Because you build the tombs of the prophets
and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our
fathers, we would not have been partakers
with them in the blood of the prophets.’
Therefore you are witnesses against your
selves that you are sons of those who mur-
dered the prophets” Matthew 23: 29-31).

These religious leaders pretended to be kind
toward the departed prophets, while they
persecuted those of the present day.

Notice the mode , of the Lord’s expression:
“Fill ye up the measure of your fathers.”
Paraphrased: “Go on, complete the evil work;
finish what your fathers began.”

How often today we hear praise for a preacher
of past days or maybe one somewhere else, and
hear nothing of appreciation or sincere thank-
fulness for those that are here. The Lord knows
our motives. He knows just why we say and do
the things we do. We may claim other reasons,
but the Lord knows!