The full passage explains that these leaders:
1. Didn’t practise what they preached.
2. Crushed people amongst legalistic demands.
3. Did everything for present together with admiration.
4. Prevented people from knowing together with agreement God.
5. Valued gilt to a greater extent than than God.
They strained their drinks together with then they wouldn’t accidentally swallow ane of the smallest dirty creatures, the gnat. But their conduct was similar swallowing ane of the largest dirty animals, the camel.(1)
If we’re non careful, nosotros tin give the sack create the same.
But inward this passage, Jesus tells us how to avoid camel-swallowing:
“The greatest amid you lot must endure a servant. But those who exalt themselves volition endure humbled, together with those who humble themselves volition endure exalted.” (v.11-12)
When nosotros human activeness humbly, nosotros require non worry virtually swallowing whatever camels (1 Peter 5:6).
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(1) According to Old Testament law, the gnat (Leviticus 11:41) together with the camel (Leviticus 11:4) were dirty together with shouldn't endure eaten.
