MATTHEW - Traditions of Men

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MATTHEW – Traditions of Men by Bro H

Verse 1 You draw near with your lips and your words sound clean and true But your heart is far from Me in the things you say and do You teach the laws of men as if they came from Heaven’s hand While the weight of what was written you refuse to understand Verse 2 You bind the heavy burdens and you lay them on the weak But you will not lift a finger for the mercy that they seek Blind guides leading blinded souls down roads you cannot see You honor forms and shadows but reject reality Chorus Woe to you, you hypocrites You cleanse the outward frame But inwardly you’re filled with all That brings a man to shame You shut the door before the flock You neither go in yourself nor see You make void the Law of God Through your traditions and decrees Verse 3 It’s not what enters into man that makes his spirit unclean But what proceeds out from the heart reveals what lies unseen From within come all the things that corrupt and lead astray Not the bread upon the table, but the words you choose to say Verse 4 You travel land and sea to win a follower to your side Then make him twice the child of what you carry deep inside You build the tombs of prophets that your fathers put to death Yet walk the same path blindly with the same corrupted breath Bridge They sit in Moses’ seat and speak but do not walk the way The Shepherd calls His people out to hear and to obey Not bound by chains of men’s commands or systems built on sand But grounded in the truth that stood before the works of man