Matthew 23New International Version (NIV)
A Warning Against Hypocrisy
23 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. 3 So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. 4 They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5 "Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries[a] wide and the tassels on their garments long; 6 they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; 7 they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called 'Rabbi' by others.
8 "But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees
13 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. [14] [b]
15 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
16 "Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.' 17 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? 18 You also say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.' 19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. 22 And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.
23 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30 And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!
33 "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. 35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.
37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'[c]"On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Ofege Ntemfac <ntemfacnchwete@gmail.com> wrote:
Sam Akale, right?
What gives you the idea, sir, that it takes more than two minutes to caution any of the vast number of hypocrites qua wolves in sheep clothing that infest these set of chambers, pray?
I had asked this question for someone to answer: Is one a dunce before becoming a luminary of the great national party or that sitcom just transforms seemingly respectable folks into dafts?
Your post, I am sorry, sir, emanates from a very unstable mind.
This is hardly FacebookOn Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:41 AM, Ofege Ntemfac <ntemfacnchwete@gmail.com> wrote:Sam Akale, right?
What gives you the idea, sir, that it takes more than two minutes to caution any of the vast number of hypocrites qua wolves in sheep clothing that infest these set of chambers, pray?
I had asked this question for someone to answer: Is one a dunce before becoming a luminary of the great national party or that sitcom just transforms seemingly respectable folks into dafts?
Your post, I am sorry, sir, emanates from a very unstable mind.
This is hardly FacebookOn Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 4:24 AM, 'JusticeMbuh' via ambasbay <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> wrote:--I have resisted of late responding to so many mails on these fora. I am compelled to respond to this because, like those who back home plot to kill us, the latest case against SCNC Chairman Pa Nwancham as a pointer, it is now clear that the killers back home may probably have their sponsors abroad. No doubt those who hatch such plots are the very ones who faked letters and sent to former UN Secretary General claiming that SCNC was negotiating with Biya's Cameroun, so as to circumvent the letter of the ICJ Ruling over Bakassi and continue to hold our masses spellbound in sub-terrainian purgatorious dormancy, amidst pillage, plunder and abandon.Let the predominantly sickening diaspora beware of this: There is a taskforce back home keeping track of those persons and organizations working against the best interest of our masses.Someone must be really sick or an outright betrayal to pretend not to hear the language of liberation since our generation took to the streets in 1983/84 protesting the attempt to dpo away with the GCE to impose the Cameroun Francophone educational system on us; or since The New Social Order was issued in 1985 by the Ambazonia Restoration Council (ARC)!Someone must be an intellectual hypocrit to not see that once lawyers in their totality have joined the fight, there is not turning back the hand of the clock.If the dreams of the so-called PAAWCE Presidency were realizable, I would have long become a Presidential candidate to challenge Paul Biya. But since most of you don't read, you do not know that with the Hand of God we predicted the Bakassi Judgment four years before it came to pass; and that the future of Cameroun-Ambazonia relations is well documented in Inside Contemporary Cameroun Politics (2005); as well as in Ambazonia's Challenge to the United Nations (2007) by this author.Those of you who sacrifice Social Justice and Sovereignty for private gains shall one day pay, come what may!Bottom-line: Ofege is very right and you, very wrong, besides your escapist attitude. Just how important are you that Prophet Nkong Ofege, The Prison Graduate should think of you all night long?You do not even know Ofege, do you?Those of you who keep dreaming horrible dreams are the real ones to blame for Cameroun-Ambazonia current disposition, and probably are responsible for mis-directing Cameroun President Biya and making him to appear so intransigent and arrogant in the last thrity-plus years!Cameroun union with Ambazonia has been long dead and the new/old successor state is about to be put in place! If it were not so, how do you explain the fact that since June 2014 Cameroun PM, Senate President and House Leader all signed a letter demanding Cameroun President recognize an independent Ambazonia?The Rebirth of British Cameroons aka Ambazonia is a reality! Stop distorting history and the cause of the future New Jerusalem and New Israel (Ambazonia) with bad dreams: PAAWCE Presidency is pure dudu, or in the words of Rodcot Gobata, the Son of Gobata, "The Past Tense of Shit!"Justice M. Mbuh (Ph.D.)PT Senior Lecturer, BUST, PAID-WA, UBa.THE LEGACY OF AMBAZONIA (UN Trust Territory of British Cameroons): The Parliamentary Opposition, ...forged for itself a new role noteworthy for its dignity; and the government,..never attempted to withdraw...the legal recognition that was its due. Thanks to this...West Cameroon has won for itself the prestige of being the one place in West Africa (if not all of Africa) where democracy, in the British style, has lasted longest in its genuine form. --Prof. Bernard Nsukika Fonlon, The Task of Today, p. 9
From: Sam <invictusam.leadershipro@gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [camnetwork] Re: [amacam] About The PAAWCE Presidency - PRESIDENCE ANGLOPHONE
--Prophet Ofege,Thank you for thinking about me all night, last night.I understand exactly what you're doing with this rendition. You are daring me to order your public execution. I won't go that far because it's above my pay grade and any such recommendation from me would only play in your favor. Your seek martyrdom.Hanging Prophet Ofege in public for treason and feeding his corpse to wolves, would only turn the you into a martyr. Then your followers on Facebook including Saint Rita, will go chasing your ghost, while expecting your second coming. I don't want to be a part of that travesty. I'd rather have the prophet wallow in the misery of living in exile, on the "Isles of Diaspora."May God be with your soul.Love,Your friend,SamSent from my iPhone
On Mar 11, 2016, at 7:17 AM, Ofege Ntemfac ntemfacnchwete@gmail.com [camnetwork] <camnetwork@yahoogroups.com> wrote:In fine, Reverend, you are in cahoots with a colonial master.While I do understand that they that aide and abet this crime against humanity do so for various reasons it is unbecoming of a reverend and a gentleman to aide and abet a crime against a people.Colonization is a supreme case of injustice and even considered a crime against humanity.Reverend Sam,With all due respect it is a vista of bad faith, false pretense, dissimulation, sophism and mortal sins of omission and commission to indulge in a monologue about language and languages when the subject at table is colonization and the vile occupation of a state.On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:51 AM, PAAWCE PaFruNdeh@YAHOO.COM [amacam] <amacam@yahoogroups.com> wrote:PAAWCE stands for Patriotic Aboriginal Anglophone of West Cameroon Extraction, a movement that appeals to the consciences of all persons of Cameroon origin,for the next President of Cameroon after de facto President Paul Biya, to come from the English Speaking region of Cameroon. The English Speaking region of Cameroonis the territory formerly known as Southern Cameroons and later West Cameroon after the 1961 plebiscite. The vast majority of persons from this region are Patriotic tothe nation state of Cameroon. Cameroon has had two Presidents in the last 50 years from the French Speaking region.The Spokes PersonPAAWCE Presidency
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Sent: Monday, March 7, 2016 9:22 PM
Subject: PAAWCE Presidency: Statement on March 2016 Legislature
The Patriotic Aboriginal Anglophone of West Cameroon Extraction - PAAWCE - Movementpatiently awaits the March 2016 Parliamentary session in the Cameroon Republic.The PAAWCE reminds all persons of Cameroon origin that a private members billhas never been tabled in this bi-cameral House of Assembly, since independence,that is 1960; in well over 55 years. A private members bill is a bill thatdoes not originate from the Executive branch of Government, that is the Presidency.All bills that have sailed through the parliament of Cameroon since independencehave come from the Government.The PAAWCE stands firm in its assertion that the incumbent President Paul Biyapass the baton of power to a PAAWCE when the time is ripe to do so. The PAAWCEreminds all persons of Cameroon origin both at home and abroad that PresidentAhmadou Ahidjo ruled Cameroon for 22 years and President Paul Biya has ruledCameroon for 33 years and counting. Both Presidents Ahmadou Ahidjo and PaulBiya are of East Cameroon Extraction and French Speaking, with a combined 55+years of the Presidency. The Cameroon Republic has never been ruled by anan English Speaking Cameroonian, one whose origins are from the territoryformerly known as the British Cameroons. Ahmadou Ahidjo & Paul Biya are ofEast Cameroon Extraction, the territory formerly known as the French Cameroons.The PAAWCE appeals to the consciences of all persons of Cameroon originwho are clamoring for change to be patient as we prepare for a peacefultransition of power to a PAAWCE.The PAAWCE would like to draw the attention to all and sundry that thePAAWCE Presidency, shall seek to regain all Kamerunian territory lost toOubangui-Chari, Nigeria, Chad, Gabon and Congo.The Spokes PersonPAAWCE PresidencyWashington DCMarch 7, 2016
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