Thoughts on Luke, Luke chapter 11 verse 52. The sixth woe, the sixth of the six woes here. And this 1152 of Luke, I think is the crux of these woes that Christ is issuing against the Pharisees, the experts in the law, the teachers, the rabbis. And this, I think, comes to a punchline. Christ talks here about the key, the key to knowledge, the key to understanding, to realizing what's going on. Now these are the experts of the law. They're the interpreters of the law. They're the exponents of the law. They're the men who make application of the law to the Jews. And they are responsible for administering the scriptures to the Jews, teaching them what it means, pointing them to the doctrine and the practice. They have the key of knowledge, but they have taken away the key, says what Christ says. They couldn't themselves see what the scriptures were teaching, and their administration of the covenant meant that the Jews in general were misled by these professional teachers, by these rabbis, by these scribes, by these experts in the law. They made everything obscure. They themselves didn't understand. They didn't have the key to enter in, and their ignorance was displayed through their preaching and administration of the law, through their teaching in the synagogues and so on. They obscured, they blinded the people. They made it very difficult for them to see. They took away the knowledge. And above all, I think this key refers to Christ in all the scriptures. So by their administration, these experts of the law were, in fact, holding the people back from Christ. What a staggering thing. Well, you know what I'm going to do next. I'm not here to give a history lecture on the Pharisees 2,000 years ago, what the rabbis were like then. What about us? Look at us. The internet, the churches and chapels and meeting houses are full of preaching all the time. We can have preaching on tap. Well, we do have it on tap. We can hear a sermon a minute, if you like. Is all this preaching leading to a tremendous understanding of the gospel? Or is there a lot of obscurity, a lot of blindness, a lot of ignorance of the gospel? are men, professionals, princes in the church, pastors, teachers, experts in the law, experts in the gospel, supposed to be. Are they holding us blind to Christ? Are they obscuring Christ for us? Are we fashioning a Jesus, or are these experts fashioning a Jesus of their own devising, their own way of thinking? Not preaching, not showing, not displaying or pointing to the real Jesus. The teachers who don't know themselves, they're blind leading the blind, and they both fall into the ditch. It's the crowning woe here. Am I as a preacher? Am I as a writer? Am I as a teacher? Am I a help pointing men to Christ? Or am I a hindrance holding men away from Christ, covering Christ with a load of verbiage and tradition and custom so that men don't see the real Jesus? I'll close again with the same as I've said before, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.