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- Scribes have taken the Word of God
- turned it upside down and replaced it.
- Always worshiping Him with their lips
- but keeping their heart far from Him.
- They seek to lay the burdens of the Law
- back on us, though Christ freed us.
- turned it upside down and replaced it.
- Pharisees thank God they are not like us,
- teach hate and bias in the name of God.
- Miss the weightier matters of the Law
- but strain after details as if that were it.
- And boast they would not have killed Him
- and so are condemned with their own lips.
- teach hate and bias in the name of God.
- Judge the show and pretense of the lips,
- not whether the heart is good in us.
- Regularly pick what they want of Him
- and tell us they know better than God
- and the Bible what was meant by it.
- If custom does not warrant the Law
- not whether the heart is good in us.
- they preach: making themselves the Law,
- proving their word good with their lips.
- Crying, they are sent of God so believe it,
- while making the Law of no effect to us.
- Saying, their exceptions are made of God,
- for they know through study of Him;
- proving their word good with their lips.
- study them to know what is of Him.
- Don't seek the spirit of the Law:
- take here and there of the Word of God.
- Speak some of His words with your lips:
- it is proof you are of God and us.
- What is the Word? What we speak is it.
- Don't seek the spirit of the Law:
- Do we need it? It is literal, and so be it.
- If we conflict then it isn't sent from Him
- but history, so we will decide which for us.
- Can you know without studying the Law
- and learning to interpret with lying lips?
- No, we have the degrees to know God.
- If we conflict then it isn't sent from Him
- Yes, it is the Bible that says of the Law
- but to keep Him with love on your lips
- for He seeks peace for us through God.
- but to keep Him with love on your lips
This poem references many scriptures. Perhaps we will list them for you sometime in the future. But for now, see if you can locate them all yourself.
The poem is from 1988 and is a Sestina.
Poem reprinted from The Seventh Way: How to Live Beyond Self-Concepts by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice. © 1990. Reprinted by permission of PalmTree Publishers. Order "The Seventh Way"
See also the page Christianity: What is it?.
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