Not much really ticked Jesus off, but certainly hypocrisy did. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites,” he said, after which he assailed these so-called leaders for placing stumbling blocks between the people and God.
He called them blind guides who strained at the gnat yet swallowed the camel. He called them whitewashed tombs, which appeared beautiful on the outside but inside were full of dead men’s bones.
They built monuments to the heroes of their people and proclaimed, “O if only we had been around in those days! We would have stood beside them for the cause of justice and liberty!” But Jesus said, “You are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those that murdered the prophets.”
They, through their laws, bound heavy burdens on the people, laying them on the common man’s shoulders, but the leaders wouldn’t move them with even one of their fingers.
They loved the adoring crowds shouting their names, not realizing the adulation they received rightly belongs to God alone. Servants they were not; narcissists they were.
The world has changed in the past 2000 years, but the follies of despotic leadership has not.
The courts in California cut off irrigation to orchards, destroying generations of work, tens of thousands of jobs, and the production of untold tons of fruits and vegetables in order to protect some sub-species of a minnow.
They offer Constitutional rights to Taliban captured on the battlefield, but deny them to a pastor who wants to hold a Bible study in his own home.
They insist on Iran’s right to develop nuclear technology, but oppose the building of nuclear power plants at home.
They’ll wag their fingers and tongues against private citizens for wasting precious fossil fuels, but see no problem jet-setting themselves to shopping sprees and dinner dates in New York or Paris at taxpayer expense.
They demand the right to themselves to determine correct pay based upon performance in the private sector, but would never apply performance based rules to themselves.
Yes, I think Jesus is ticked. And you should be too.
Just read Isaiah 59 and think of our country.
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