Amen.

Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast. Alex here and Locke-Lani, and we're at the beach, and we can't wait to get into this episode, part two of our...

Part three of our study through the woes that Jesus gives in Matthew 23. Let's get into it.

Aloha and welcome to Amen podcast, where we believe the gospel changes everything.

Today, my husband Alex, is preaching about the need to watch who we follow and who we are as leaders.

As Alex said, we're getting into our third woe in this chapter of Matthew 2315 is the verse for today and I'll read that

first for us and then he will share his message and we'll come back around for question and answer time

at the end let's read woe to you scribes and Pharise hypocrites, for you travel across sea and land to make a single

proselyte.

And when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Amen.

If you've ever been to the mall, there's these kiosk in the middle of the mall that have these

people who sometimes they shine shoes, sometimes they sell jewelry.

But there was one at the mall in California in the town we used to live in and they would

come up to you and start shining your shoes before you even had an opportunity to say no.

Or they would clean your shoes as you're still walking or they'll take you by the hand and make you sit down and start cleaning

their shoes to push their shoe cleaning product and you know if you give into it and you don't say no

then they end up shining one of your shoes and one shoe is shine and one shoe is clean the other one

looks dirty so now you're kind of like forced into giving into them and one shoe is shine and one shoe is clean the other one looks dirty so now you're

kind of like forced into giving into them and giving them some money and I think about how hard

they work just to get a sell you know how hard they work just to get you to convert and just to

give into their product and that's kind of what Jesus is getting at here, but it's

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