Three things Jesus hates;
At the top of my list would be fear because it is the exact opposite of faith as a matter of fact it is faith perverted. It is faith in satans ability to harm you. As you read through the Word notice how many times you hear the words “fear not”or “be not afraid”. It appears over 200 times in the kjv do you think the Lord is trying to tell us something?
2 Tim 1: 7For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.
1 John 4: 18There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love [g]turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear [h]brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love's complete perfection].
I think most people will agree with me today that fear and stress is one of the major causes of the health crisis our nation is in today but listen to what Solomon said;
Prov 4: 20My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings 21 Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart.22 For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh.23 Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.
Anything that is not of faith is sin (Rom 14:23) and Jesus hates sin not because He doesn’t want us to have any fun but because sin kills us.
What do you think would cause Love to form a rope into a whip, go to the church and drive out the “money changers”? How about unjust weights and balances. Jesus hates dishonesty in business. It was not that the money changers were in the courtyard of the temple it was because they were cheating the worshipers.
Imagine if you had saved for months or even years to be able to take your family and go to Jerusalem and offer your spotless lamb as a Passover offering. This was one of three times a year every male was supposed to go to Jerusalem to worship, but it must have been difficult especially at this time, with Rome in charge, you could not bring a lamb form home because it was too far so you brought money to purchase your lamb,. First you must exchange your currency for the temple sheckle and they use unjust weights.
You must know that the only place a true jew can worship is in Jerusalem, that is where God commanded them to worship Him. So the people who are stolen from are those who are following the Torah and coming to worship the only way they can.
During this time Ananias and Kafaias were the High Priest in charge of all of these scams and Josephus said they made close to 3 million dollars a year in these frauds.
No wonder Jesus drove them out with such fury and authority that even the temple guards didn’t try to stop Him.
Just a note of interest these same temple guards world come to the garden in just a few days to rrest Him and ther was probably 400 of them with swords and torches to capture one man.
The last thing I will mention that He hates is religious tradition, for it can make His word ineffective. The word that produced all thigs and that holds all things together is made null and void by the religious traditions of man.
Matt 15: 1 THEN FROM Jerusalem came scribes and Pharisees and said,2 Why do Your disciples transgress and violate the rules handed down by the elders of the past? For they do not practice [ceremonially] washing their hands before they eat. 3 He replied to them, And why also do you transgress and violate the commandment of God for the sake of the rules handed down to you by your forefathers (the elders)?4 For God commanded, Honor your father and your mother, and, He who curses or reviles or speaks evil of or abuses or treats improperly his father or mother, let him surely come to his end by death.(A)5 But you say, If anyone tells his father or mother, What you would have gained from me [that is, the money and whatever I have that might be used for helping you] is already dedicated as a gift to God, then he is exempt and no longer under obligation to honor and help his father or his mother.6 So for the sake of your tradition (the rules handed down by your forefathers), you have set aside the Word of God [depriving it of force and authority and making it of no effect].7 You pretenders (hypocrites)! Admirably and truly did Isaiah prophesy of you when he said: 8 These people draw near Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far away from Me.9 Uselessly do they worship Me, for they teach as doctrines the commands of men.10 And Jesus called the people to Him and said to them, Listen and grasp and comprehend this: 11 It is not what goes into the mouth of a man that makes him unclean and defiled, but what comes out of the mouth; this makes a man unclean and defiles [him].
I heard a teacher say that the blood running out of the mouth of the whore of Babylon was the blood of the saints that were destroyed because of religious tradition. Lord deliver us from our traditions and help us to understand that this is the reason we must search the scriptures for ourselves to prove what we hear.
In His dust,
Lois
At the top of my list would be fear because it is the exact opposite of faith as a matter of fact it is faith perverted. It is faith in satans ability to harm you. As you read through the Word notice how many times you hear the words “fear not”or “be not afraid”. It appears over 200 times in the kjv do you think the Lord is trying to tell us something?
2 Tim 1: 7For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.
1 John 4: 18There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love [g]turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear [h]brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love's complete perfection].
I think most people will agree with me today that fear and stress is one of the major causes of the health crisis our nation is in today but listen to what Solomon said;
Prov 4: 20My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings 21 Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart.22 For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh.23 Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.
Anything that is not of faith is sin (Rom 14:23) and Jesus hates sin not because He doesn’t want us to have any fun but because sin kills us.
What do you think would cause Love to form a rope into a whip, go to the church and drive out the “money changers”? How about unjust weights and balances. Jesus hates dishonesty in business. It was not that the money changers were in the courtyard of the temple it was because they were cheating the worshipers.
Imagine if you had saved for months or even years to be able to take your family and go to Jerusalem and offer your spotless lamb as a Passover offering. This was one of three times a year every male was supposed to go to Jerusalem to worship, but it must have been difficult especially at this time, with Rome in charge, you could not bring a lamb form home because it was too far so you brought money to purchase your lamb,. First you must exchange your currency for the temple sheckle and they use unjust weights.
You must know that the only place a true jew can worship is in Jerusalem, that is where God commanded them to worship Him. So the people who are stolen from are those who are following the Torah and coming to worship the only way they can.
During this time Ananias and Kafaias were the High Priest in charge of all of these scams and Josephus said they made close to 3 million dollars a year in these frauds.
No wonder Jesus drove them out with such fury and authority that even the temple guards didn’t try to stop Him.
Just a note of interest these same temple guards world come to the garden in just a few days to rrest Him and ther was probably 400 of them with swords and torches to capture one man.
The last thing I will mention that He hates is religious tradition, for it can make His word ineffective. The word that produced all thigs and that holds all things together is made null and void by the religious traditions of man.
Matt 15: 1 THEN FROM Jerusalem came scribes and Pharisees and said,2 Why do Your disciples transgress and violate the rules handed down by the elders of the past? For they do not practice [ceremonially] washing their hands before they eat. 3 He replied to them, And why also do you transgress and violate the commandment of God for the sake of the rules handed down to you by your forefathers (the elders)?4 For God commanded, Honor your father and your mother, and, He who curses or reviles or speaks evil of or abuses or treats improperly his father or mother, let him surely come to his end by death.(A)5 But you say, If anyone tells his father or mother, What you would have gained from me [that is, the money and whatever I have that might be used for helping you] is already dedicated as a gift to God, then he is exempt and no longer under obligation to honor and help his father or his mother.6 So for the sake of your tradition (the rules handed down by your forefathers), you have set aside the Word of God [depriving it of force and authority and making it of no effect].7 You pretenders (hypocrites)! Admirably and truly did Isaiah prophesy of you when he said: 8 These people draw near Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far away from Me.9 Uselessly do they worship Me, for they teach as doctrines the commands of men.10 And Jesus called the people to Him and said to them, Listen and grasp and comprehend this: 11 It is not what goes into the mouth of a man that makes him unclean and defiled, but what comes out of the mouth; this makes a man unclean and defiles [him].
I heard a teacher say that the blood running out of the mouth of the whore of Babylon was the blood of the saints that were destroyed because of religious tradition. Lord deliver us from our traditions and help us to understand that this is the reason we must search the scriptures for ourselves to prove what we hear.
In His dust,
Lois
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