(5) A family previously studying the Bible with two 'sisters', but who had had a recent bereavement, told them of their wish to miss their study for that week because of their sadness. These two female 'tutors' told them: 'If you do not have your study now, your study will be stopped completely'. It was stopped. Firstly, as women they have no right to teach. Secondly, and for this reason, they should have passed the responsibility of this family Bible study to a brother in the faith.

(6) A so-called 'elder' had to be told of his neglect in not speaking to, and of being evasive toward, a husband and wife who had been attending the congregation for many months. They felt they were perhaps guilty of something in his regard. His reply was, "Oh, is it that important?"

(7) Many so-called 'elders' when corrected scripturally have replied in word and/or attitude: 'You are telling ME?' By their unapproachable self-exalted attitude they only prove they have a form of knowledge of benefit to no one.

Men and women who have to their account deeds of this kind, expressed from their hearts, have no shame, nor do they know how to feel humiliated. The reason for relating these bad examples is not to keep account of the injuries, but for you to separate yourselves from them. For they will fall with their kind who are already falling, when Jehovah holds His accounting with these sons and daughters of their "Mother".

Jeremiah 6:17: ""And I raised up over you people watchmen, 'Pay attention to the sound of the horn!'" But they kept saying: "We are not going to pay attention.""

V.14: "And they try to heal the breakdown of (My) people lightly saying, 'There is peace! There is peace!' when there is no peace".

V.15: "Did they feel shame because it was something detestable that they had done? For one thing, they positively do not feel any shame; for another thing, they have not come to know even how to feel humiliated. Therefore they will fall among those who are falling; in the time that I must hold an accounting with them they will stumble," Jehovah has said.

As servants of Jehovah, we have seen the pain in your contorted countenances (the faces of false witnesses) because of what you have become. You pass us by, looking down, and you turn around from our faces in your guilt. Oh, that we might see the acknowledgement of your shame on your faces, that we may begin to rejoice in hope for you. The period for treacherous ones to be torn away arrives. For you are not blameless but have become worshippers of men, and cramped within your own tender affections.

2 Corinthians 6:11: "Our mouth has been opened to you… our heart has widened out. You are not cramped for room within us, but you are cramped for room in your own tender affections. So, as a recompense in return I speak as to children -- you, too, widen out".

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