Matthew 23:13-22: Daily Gospel XXIII

This Gospel passage  is a bit confusing, and I ended up looking up a study on it just to get a little context. Simply, this is directed at false teachers. Perhaps the equivalent I automatically thought of are media sources today, shouting at us about what they consider good and evil, which can be a twisted truth more often than not. Take the treatment of the ALS ice water challenge. It's for a good cause, it's lighthearted, why would you not support this, you heartless person? Perhaps we listeners can learn a lesson as well of standing back and awaiting for the truth to arise. I stood back and neither got involved nor condemned, and then suddenly the whole revelation of the embryonic stem cell research came out. We need to be discerning listeners in a world full of false teachers. We need to be informed and prepared before we try to educate others so as not to lead astray.