Insane Additions to the Law

Hi Pastor John,

After you talked about the law today, and about the many Jews who are bound under the insanities that their rabbis have added to the law, and about that insanity being their curse from God for rejecting Jesus, I wondered if God allowed Moses to set men to help so that Pharisees and that curse would be put into place? 

I thought today of the time I was in a Catholic mass, and I felt something that touched me.  It brought tears to my eyes, and I hurried to wipe those tears away and shut down feeling so I wouldn’t cry.  It was unspoken but very known, that we were not to show emotion.  It would have meant being unstable or overly emotional to feel anything.

To have the Catholics’ kind of communion, one must stand in a line, fold one hand over the other, and make the sign of the cross, then quietly file back to the pew.  To pray was only to chant lifeless words given by them, repeated at certain times, and say a scheduled, “Amen”, for one hour, one day a week! 

Now, I have real communion.  I can cry when Jesus touches me, and I feel his love.  I can pray to him from my heart, laugh and clap, or praise him when my heart swells and I want to raise my hands and say “thank you, Jesus.”  I can feel him. Oh, to live and not be under that curse! 

I wanted to weep when you were reading about the rules for the Sabbath that rabbis have made up.  The Jews under them cannot know God’s love; that curse does not let them know God’s love.

Beth D.