[Quix]

OR MAYBE . . .

to a Pharisee . . . one might say . . .

A) I might tolerate listening to your personalized self-ego flattering blather but I need to go spin the lint from my drier.

B) Oh, my. Well, look at you. You know, you can have this whole look-out point to yourself for practicing your echo. My bus-load of teens and adults will be leaving immediately.

C) I’d consider doing lunch with you. However, my quota of hour long self-aggrandizement luncheon advertisements by Pharisees is full-up for the millennium.

D) This phone has recently been exorcised. You have exactly 3 microseconds to hang-up before Gabriel smacks you with an extra eternal torture.

E) I’m sure all your very erudite opinions are quite extensively annotated in hell. However, we don’t allow proud, pontifical, phony, plastic, prevaricating plagiarism, here.

[marbren]

Thanks Quix, One time I ran into one of the main Pharisees, sort of the Chiaphas character, in my situation at a store. This is someone I had yucked it up with small talk for about 40 years. He is a very "nice" man. The previous three years I pleaded with him to try to see the thin ice he was on. I prayed, Lord give me the proper response, I acknowledged him when he said my name, he started the usual small talk, all I said was "no comment".

Seems a strange response but it was powerful.

Silence can also be effective at times.

In an earlier email correspondence with him I said, "Your "father" must be proud of you" His earthly father has already passed away.

[marbren]

LOL Thanks again for some wonderful "Quix quotes". They may come in handy someday If the Spirit moves me to use them.

Some think this is judging, It is not. Judging only happens when you think you are better than someone else (You then are a pharisee). We are all in the same boat, a bunch of sinners who need a Savior.

After you are born again you are in God's soup kitchen, humble beggars for grace. With maturity with growth "in" Christ Jesus, as Quix's fruits demonstrate, the log is removed from your eye. This log is actually your judgmental flesh attitude. Then we can see clearly to remove the speck from the weeds and wheat in our local church body.

Meek and mild have their place, silence has a place and "Quix quotes" have a place. The Holy Spirit will decide the proper response for all the people you meet.