By making people think that they are incapable of understanding the Bible and need an interpreter we hinder them from taking in the only knowledge that offers them salvation and transformation. We are all priests under the tutoring of the Holy Spirit. We must allow our spirit to convene with His in order to fully understand His Scriptures.
We can hear without hearing and see without seeing without Him to guide us.
The letter of the law kills the desire to learn and produces guilt and foreboding leaving others to fill defeated before they even start. Knowledge on the other hand opens the eyes of the spirit and allows change to happen. He will take the tiniest seed planted and nurture it to maturity if we spend time in His word and make Him a priority in our life.
Once we understand the meaning of the Scriptures, written to protect us from ourselves, we desire to please God, our Creator, who loved us first.
Christ preaches to his apostles to avoid hypocrisy, and fearfulness in publishing his doctrine.
Reflecting the light and darkness imagery of the previous passage, Jesus’ remarks here highlight the importance of sincere obedience over religious pretense. Faithlife Bible.
Jesus charged the lawyers with doing the opposite of what they claimed their calling to be. Rather than bringing people nearer to God, they had removed the possibility of their entering into that knowledge, and had prevented others from understanding as well. NKJ Bible.
Luke 11:52 (NKJV)52 “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.”
Matthew 23:13 (NKJV)13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
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