You Fools! You Hypocrites! You Snakes 10
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DON’T WASTE GOD’S WORD ON SPIRITUAL DOGS AND PIGS
Remember Jesus only taught in parables. Did Jesus say: "Don't bother teaching the truth to those who don’t want to hear it?" That would have been clear enough. Or, "Don't try to teach the truth to those who do not desire the truth." Simple. Oh No, Jesus would never say it like that. Here is how Jesus would say it:
"Give not that which is holy unto the DOGS, neither cast your pearls before SWINE, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and REND you (‘tear you in pieces’ Goodspeed Translation)" (Matt. 7:6).
I've had this happen to me many times by clergymen of the Church. I give them God’s Pure Word, and they spiritually "trample it under their feet," and then (spiritually) try to "tear me in pieces." Atheists and heathens don’t treat me this way—only professing Christians (I am well aware that missionaries have been virtually torn to pieces by heathens, but thankfully this is not the norm).
JESUS USED SARCASM ON SATAN
Jesus once told Satan to: "Get thee BEHIND ME" (Mark 8:33). Why, "behind" Him? Because it was offensive to Jesus to have Satan in FRONT of Him. Satan has no business IN FRONT of Jesus. Jesus told Satan to: Get out of my FACE, Satan; Get thee behind me!
JESUS WAS NOT COMMISSIONED TO BLESS THE DOGS
Everyone in ancient Judea knew the Jews likened Gentiles to "dogs." When a woman of Canaan asked Jesus for help, Jesus said to her in Matt. 15:26-28):
"It is not meet to take the children’s bread and to cast it to DOGS."
Actually the Greek here is "puppies" (very young dogs), but nonetheless "dogs." Wouldn’t most consider it a little sarcastic to call a woman asking for help, "a dog?"
This woman was pretty sharp. Not to be outdone, she answered Jesus back with a little of her own sarcasm:
"And she said, Truth, Lord; YET the dogs eat of the crumbs (she wasn’t asking for a steak dinner) which fall from their masters’ table!"
Then Jesus, Who always played fair and was a good sport, said back to her: "TOUCH?!"
Okay, maybe Jesus didn’t actually say the word "touch?," but that is exactly what He meant. Tell you what: I’ll put it in italics so everyone knows that I added this word to make the meaning more colloquial and understandable:
"TOUCH?, O woman (Paraphrased: ‘You got Me that time, woman’), GREAT IS YOUR FAITH: BE IT UNTO YOU EVEN AS YOU WILL"!
WHAT AN AMAZING MAN our Lord Jesus Christ is! How can you not appreciate the marvelous personality and character of our God?
TRILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER TO DROWN ONE MAN
"But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones which believe in Me, it were better for Him that a MILLSTONE were hanged about his neck and that he were DROWNED IN THE DEPTH OF THE SEA" (Matt. 18:6).
That’s a little "overkill" wouldn’t you think? Like killing a mosquito with a baseball bat? Jesus could have said it would have been better if he "died," or was "drowned." Why a millstone and drowned in the depth of the sea? A person can drown by holding his face in a small bucket of water. Jesus used POWERFUL, EXAGGERATED, SARCASM to show His UTTER CONTEMPT for such wicked sins as these!
WHEN LIGHT IS DARKNESS
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore, your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light. But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the LIGHT that be in you is DARKNESS, how great is that darkness!" (Matt. 6:22-23).
What? If the LIGHT that be in you is DARKNESS? Isn’t that a little demeaning and sarcastic to say that even our own goodness is evil (dark)? This is not only an exaggeration; this is a physiological IMPOSSIBILITY! Yes, a "physiological" impossibility, but NOT A SPIRITUAL impossibility! Jesus is saying that even the supposed "goodness" (light) in us, is actually "evil." (darkness). How can that be? Because:
"…None is good, save One, that is , GOD" (Luke 18:19).