Matthew 23: “Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses. So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach. They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden. “Everything they do is for show. On their arms they wear extra wide prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and they wear robes with extra long tassels. And they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the seats of honor in the synagogues. They love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi.’ “Don’t let anyone call you ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one teacher, and all of you are equal as brothers and sisters. And don’t address anyone here on earth as ‘Father,’ for only God in heaven is your Father. And don’t let anyone call you ‘Teacher,’ for you have only one teacher, the Messiah. The greatest among you must be a servant. But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either. “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are! “Blind guides! What sorrow awaits you! For you say that it means nothing to swear ‘by God’s Temple,’ but that it is binding to swear ‘by the gold in the Temple.’ Blind fools! Which is more important—the gold or the Temple that makes the gold sacred? And you say that to swear ‘by the altar’ is not binding, but to swear ‘by the gifts on the altar’ is binding. How blind! For which is more important—the gift on the altar or the altar that makes the gift sacred? When you swear ‘by the altar,’ you are swearing by it and by everything on it. And when you swear ‘by the Temple,’ you are swearing by it and by God, who lives in it. And when you swear ‘by heaven,’ you are swearing by the throne of God and by God, who sits on the throne. “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things. Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel! “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside will become clean, too. “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness. “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed, and you decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors destroyed. Then you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would never have joined them in killing the prophets.’ “But in saying that, you testify against yourselves that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started. Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell? “Therefore, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers of religious law. But you will kill some by crucifixion, and you will flog others with whips in your synagogues, chasing them from city to city. As a result, you will be held responsible for the murder of all godly people of all time—from the murder of righteous Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you killed in the Temple between the sanctuary and the altar. I tell you the truth, this judgment will fall on this very generation.”
October 24, 2026. Today I woke up prayed and listened to the Holy Spirit, and then went to read the Bible with the wife, reading what the Holy Spirit lead to read with her and then made breakfast. I was led to follow up with the man whom I heard to go to and he asked for reference and covering. The Holy Spirit has led me understand that the “covering” is not of his, as when we are filled with the Holy Spirit as we read in Acts 2 they were commissioned after being filled with the Holy Spirit. The teachers of the law need physical things to know that someone sent the person, they don’t have the Holy Spirit and everything is done thru people, they discipline people themselves, they put people in places, they have to say the name of the “pastor” and the church when introducing themselves. I am reminded of Matthew 23 and when the Holy Spirit said thru Paul that why do they say I am of this person or the other when the one that died for us is Christ, so much idolatry, it’s sad, very sad. But the woman who I was connected with in Monte plata was not like that, neither is the couple where the Holy Spirit has me here in Higuey. The Holy Spirit also told one of the apostles from their group who I am to the Holy Spirit. It’s amazing how the Holy Spirit works. Please Lord don’t let me get distracted or discouraged because of what people do, specially the teachers of the law. That group is so deeply rooted in the Dominican Republic, when I was sent here for the first time I was sent to a town filled with them and they are so condemning and so much judgment.
The Holy Spirit did manifest in mighty ways while here in Higuey, Dominican Republic, these three days, for those who were meant to understand. The money to the man in Cotui, Dominican Republic was received as the Holy Spirit said, and $3,000 Dominican Pesos were sent to the man to get his passport to go to the nations as the Holy Spirit told me to do, as the Holy Spirit led to do with another man in Barahona, Dominican Republic. The Good News of Jesus was given in a hospital, healing, people coming to Jesus, and the anointing of the Holy Spirit in mighty ways. I am hearing the name of a town from the Holy Spirit to go to next, that I was sent recently. I cried and cried for the evil of the teachers of the law, so much evil and how they try to limit the Holy Spirit with their demonic human laws. I felt so much heaviness and the wife sensed praying with me and I felt the heaviness lifting, before going to sleep, as I cried and cried for the evil of the Teachers of the law. Then I went to sleep, and kept hearing from the Holy Spirit: Evil, so much evil.
Zechariah 4: 6 So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power,but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.
October 25, 2026. Today I turned the alarm off and went back to sleep as I heard to do, to leave tomorrow to the town I am hearing from the Holy Spirit to go to. I cried again because of the evil and demonic doctrine of the teachers of the law, as we read in Psalms 23, then had some breakfast and still felt the heaviness, as the family has been indoctrinated by the teachers of the law, who insist that people have to have a “pastor and a congregation” their whole lives, they do not evangelize to gain souls, they do it to gain members for the building and gain. I was led to help sweep the floor and wait for lunch. In the settings of the council (the same ones that told the king to bring Barrabás down and would persecute the Lord when HE was here as a man) of the teachers of the law there is a certain look otherwise they don’t consider the person christian and reject them, are very condemning and judgmental, from time to time the Holy Spirit does like with Nicodemos who was a teacher of the law, in John 3 so that those who are meant to understand do. Then after lunch I was led to take a nap, as the news was put on the tv very loud, conversions about Haiti were had, as the teachers of the law want to pray and be attentive to everything to “pray’ but do not know how to evangelize or build disciples, there is no Holy Spirit. The wife even mentioned a couple of times how she was so surprised that the husband invited me to come rest when I look the way I look, meaning I have short hair and wear accessories. Jesus, Holy Spirit.
Then one of their sons and his wife came over with their kids and sat me down to tell me that the Holy Spirit had convicted him last night of how I have to have a pastor and a congregation/covering, as in the Bible it says to not stop coming together as many do. I listened and spoke as the Holy Spirit led me, but in the council such as them they have been so indoctrinated of that being the only way that the one who has to convince is the Holy Spirit. The son mentioned some scriptures and even said that Jesus would go to the synagogue every Saturday and that Paul too, that is nowhere in the Bible, they were where the Holy Spirit sent them, but is the argument of the teachers of the law. I was led to tell them that there are different parts of the body and as we read in 1 Corinthians 12 and that in my case I was called to be where the Holy Spirit tells me to be just as he did with the first disciples and that if the Holy Spirit tells me that someone is my pastor and a church I would submit, but HE has not told me. I also mentioned that I tell people to go to a church where the Holy Spirit is, where the Great Commission is being answered and disciples are being made, as we read in Matthew 28:16-20. It’s a conversation only had with those with NO HOLY SPIRIT, the teachers of the law, who do not have discernment of spirits, because of the lack of the Holy Spirit, it’s very sad and Biblical as the Lord had to go thru the same when HE was here as a man, they were the ones questioning HIM all the time. In this country Dominican Republic, as in many countries, to do the Great Commission we have to deal with the demons, the teachers of the law, idolatry, unbelief, false doctrines. Jesus, Holy Spirit, all for the souls in the Great Commission. Then a woman who came over was led to pray for me and give words of encouragement, it’s like we are attacked and the Holy Spirit sends people to speak from HIM and never leave us in shame. Thanking the Lord for giving a clear and unshakable faith and identity, as well as the Bible so that we can relate to what HE and those that came before us went thru.
Matthew 5: One day as he saw the crowds gathering, Jesus went up on the mountainside and sat down. His disciples gathered around him, 2 and he began to teach them. The Beatitudes 3 “God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
4 God blesses those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
5 God blesses those who are humble,
for they will inherit the whole earth.
6 God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice,[b]
for they will be satisfied.
7 God blesses those who are merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
8 God blesses those whose hearts are pure,
for they will see God.
9 God blesses those who work for peace,
for they will be called the children of God.
10 God blesses those who are persecuted for doing right,
for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.11 “God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers. 12 Be happy about it! Be very glad! For a great reward awaits you in heaven. And remember, the ancient prophets were persecuted in the same way.
Teaching about Salt and Light
13 “You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.
14 “You are the light of the world—like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. 15 No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.
Link to a reflexion, as led by the Holy Spirit: https://less-of-me-more-of-you.com/2023/07/28/membership-vs-discipleship/
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