Damola

Told you already and I won’t stop saying it, you are a crook. Matthew 23 is literally a 39-verse barrage of divine fury where Jesus systematically annihilates the moral authority of the religious elite. He acknowledges their temporary administrative role in reading the Law ("Moses' seat"), and then immediately commands the crowd: "Do not do what they do." He spends the rest of the chapter calling them snakes, vipers, whitewashed tombs, and children of hell. To read the single most devastating condemnation of rabbinic hypocrisy in the biblical canon as a blanket divine endorsement of their wicked, extra-biblical cultural practices requires a level of exegetical blindness that borders on the deliberate. Saying it would only take 3 secs to condemn slavery is exactly how a 21st-century secular politician thinks, not the Creator of the cosmos. A three-second soundbite does absolutely nothing to cure a globally depraved species. Jesus didn't waste three seconds offering a superficial civic critique cos He spent three years marching toward a cross to violently execute the absolute rot of the human heart that actually builds the auction block. Of course you go on to mock the fact that He found the time to speak to Satan and demons instead of issuing your preferred political edict. What exactly do you think He was doing with those demons? Having tea? He was violently casting them out. He was asserting absolute, cosmic dominion over the very spiritual forces of darkness that animate human depravity. You are demanding a Messiah who acts like a temporal social justice activist negotiating the external symptoms of human misery. I am pointing you to the eternal Son of God who stepped into history to crush the head of the serpent. Your worldview is so entirely suffocated by superficial, legalistic frameworks that you cannot even comprehend a Savior who actually cures the terminal disease of the soul instead of just slapping a three-second band-aid on it.

The fear of hell and death consumed much of my childhood and young adult life. I spent far more time dreading damnation than meditating on God’s love. It occurred to me yesterday that I am finally free of that shadow. I wrote in my journal that it has been ages since I last thought of hell. I still fall short like anyone else, but that lingering sense of jeopardy is gone. His love brings me to repentance, and I am assured that He holds me, keeps me, and will carry me all the way into His presence. Amen 🙏🏾