Modern day Pharisees operate in character assignation and slander to discredit and marginalize those whom they deem less spiritual than they or those whom they feel threatened by. They operate from rule and law rather than mercy and love. Blind guides that deceive those who’s continued support lends false credibility to their positions of leadership. All believers should study the actions of the Pharisees in the four gospels and the response Jesus exhibited towards them. These Pharisees were not content to allow Jesus to challenge their rule or position of leadership. They actively sought to destroy Jesus. They plotted and conspired to remove His influence less the people see and choose what Jesus represented in contrast to the bondage the Pharisees represented.
Having grew up in a large local Charismatic church and eventually into leadership of said church, I can attest that Pharisees still exist as modern day Pharisees forcing their ideology upon the unsuspecting. Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear are aware of such false leaders with their religious entrapments. Read Matthew chapter 23. True leaders are servants and NOT rulers. You will know them by their fruit. Once my eyes were open and I saw the Pharisaical fruit being produced around me I left those whose house has been left desolate. If you are or have been threatened with spiritual abuse, slander, gossip by those in leadership, don’t continue there. Leave and let the dead bury the dead. There is life other than the bondage of modern day Pharisaism.
~ Michael Smith
And a part of that new life to be found is a letting go of the past, which includes forgiving those who hurt and abused us along the way.
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