Woe to You

Woe to you, IF...
You accumulate wealth and property by monopolizing business and driving out or holding out others from making a living or from getting what they need in life (like Department stores and large corporations do, and anyone who would begrudge someone else their needed healthcare).
Woe to you, IF...
You have a life of ease and self-indulgence, and are independently wealthy.  It will be taken from you.
GOD IS EXALTED when we LIVE IN JUSTICE!
Woe to you, IF...
You make sinning against humanity a way of life-engaging in falsehood for personal gain - always expecting more and greater blessings in a sense of entitlement, while considering what is evil in the eyes of God to be good, and what is good in the eyes of God to be evil (like politicians, corporate executives, lobbyists working to ship jobs overseas while laying off our workers, and exploiting foreign nations for more profit as a result of it).
Woe to you, IF...
You are among the self-indulgent who use bribes to benefit the guilty and hurt the innocent (voter suppression, re-districting, buy Supreme Court votes).
God will turn it around and drop you on your head.
Isaiah 5 and Luke 6:20-26

Woe to you, WHO...
Desire the day of The Lord, because it won't go as well for you as you think (Matthew 25:31-46).
Woe to you, WHO...
Think that God likes your Worship while you lack Justice and Righteousness in how you treat others in the world around you (Mark 7:1-13).
Woe to you, WHO...
Live at ease and are no better than others but think you are superior (Luke 18:9-14).
Woe to you, WHO...
Live in luxury and have a life of ease, and who ignore the plight of the poor and add to it (Luke 16:19-31).
Woe to you, WHO...
Turn Justice into poison and rejoice in things that don't matter, as if they do.  (Luke 18:18-30)
Woe to you, WHO...
Think you are self made and therefore better than others, or should be more entitled than they should be (Luke 12:13-21).
God is going to turn things upside down on you!  (Luke 6:20-26)
Amos 5:18 - 6:14

Woe to you...
Religious leaders who preach and teach a strict adherence to The Law but make exceptions for yourselves, and who like power, prestige and position with the wealth that comes with it.  You will be humbled.
Woe to you...
Church leaders who keep people from God like you do yourselves, insisting that they go YOUR way which is not God's Way, collecting "saved" people who are not, really.
Woe to you...
Blind guides who are instructed NOT to swear at all, but who swear on monetary value above what comes from out of the heart.
Woe to you...
Hypocrites who make it all about tithing ostentatiously of your showy abundance, while ignoring the more important matters of justice, mercy and faith. (see also Luke 11:37-52)
Woe to you...
Hypocrites who make a show of your piety and self-righteousness, giving the right appearances and postures, but inside are filled with greed, self-indulgence and lust for power and control.  Clean what is INSIDE of you.
Woe to you...
Who look spiritually alive on the outside, but are dead to God on the inside.
Woe to you...
Religious leaders who look and act the part, but only like the power, prestige, position and wealth, and who use them to exploit the most vulnerable in the world around them (Mark 20:45-47)
Woe to you...
Who claim to be unlike past sinners, as if you are more faithful, but you do the same things that destroy the faithful in God.
Jesus laments over you, because you have walked away from Him.  It breaks His heart.  (Lk. 13:34,35)
Jesus
Matthew 23:1-39


I just thought you should know.  God loves you.  Stop hurting yourself by hurting God's other children.  "Christian" Politicians who make laws that hurt the most vulnerable for the sake of the wealthy and powerful, Clergy who turn a blind eye and deaf ear or who support their efforts, Business Leaders who ignore what Jesus taught about treating others well, Lobbyists who will hurt anyone to benefit their employers for personal gain, Voters who vote only for their self interests at the expense of others, and Citizens who operate out of selfish greed and get mean-spirited and ruthless with others all need to know.  Please tell them that God is not pleased and that they do these things to their own destruction, along with the destruction of the whole nation.  For their sake, and for ours...
Pastor Jamie