Have you ever experienced one of those social situations and maybe at the holidays or somewhere

else a meltdown at a party or something that just happens really, really public and everything

is fine or like fine and the way we do fine where we just keep it together and avoid confrontation

and then somebody just says some stuff maybe the stuff made sense maybe it doesn't make sense

but there's like boom here it is both barrels here's everything this is how I'm feeling about

the stuff we're just watching Spider-Man 2 last night and where Harry James Franco's character

is real mad at Toby McGuire's Spider-Man character but he doesn't know these Spider-Man yet

and there's this party and Harry gets all licked up and he just starts slapping him like a dude

just slapping another dude a fancy party for fancy socialites and everyone's gasping and quiet

clutching their drinks because it's so awkward and there's just no pretending it didn't happen

I think that's the kind of situation we're running into here at the end of Matthew chapter 23

this is so public there's no going back on this everybody's listening to it

I'm guessing there were literally gasps and gaffas at Jesus remarks maybe as he's going along

and these woes that he's proclaiming at the religious leaders Pharisees to teach us a law

maybe in people's brains they're like well you know if you interpreted it this way

they could still move forward together like when you're a football fan and you're down 38 points

with 13 minutes to go in the fourth you're like okay it picks six here and then an on-site

kick and then if you and it's just at some point you have to admit this is a fantasy this is not

going to work out and I think the crowd probably along the way was thinking I don't know that there's

a road map for really putting this back together but then when Jesus finishes the last of his

seven woes after home stretching it with you guys are vessels for consuming food or beverage that

look good on the outside but inside it's filthy and disgusting you guys are white wash tombs

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