Twice As Much A Son Of Hell
Guest Editorial: LuJack Martinez – Evangelist

Written by LuJack Martinez on May 10, 2009 – 12:00 pm -

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!  You shut the Kingdom of heaven in men’s faces.  You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.  Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!  You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.” Matthew 23:13-15

Matthew 23 is perhaps the most scathing rebuke recorded in the New Testament.  It was given by none other than Jesus, Himself.  In this chapter, He vehemently – and specifically – goes after the leaders of God’s people, who were supposed to be leading the people of God to their God, both by their example and by their doctrine. (1 Timothy 4:16)  It seems – from this severe reprimand – that they were doing neither.  In fact, the very “missionary work” they boasted about was exposed as the work of Satan!

How do you feel about false doctrine, brothers and sisters?  Are you as indignant about it as Jesus was?  Do you hate false doctrine as much as you hate racism or child molestation or cruelty in the treatment of the weak?  In my own life, I have always been a defender of the weak and outcast.  I’m not sure why.  And when I became a disciple, my convictions ran deep about what it meant to be a Christian, according to the Scriptures.  I believed from the Bible – with all my heart – that, to be saved and become a member of God’s church universal, one needed to believe Jesus died for our sins and rose from the dead, repent of those sins, become a disciple, and then be baptized for the remission of our sins to receive the Holy Spirit. (Acts 2:36-42; Matthew 28:19-20)
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