“Now will I arise, says The LORD, because the poor are oppressed, because of the groans of the needy; I will set him in safety and in the salvation for which he pants.” Psalm 12:5 AMPC

“When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, [even then] in this will I be confident. One thing have I asked of The LORD, that will I seek, inquire for, and [insistently] require: that I may dwell in the house of The LORD [in His presence] all the days of my life, to behold and gaze upon the beauty [the sweet attractiveness and the delightful loveliness] of The LORD and to meditate, consider, and inquire in His temple.” Psalm 27:2-4 AMPC

“But nothing that defiles or profanes or is unwashed shall ever enter it, nor anyone who commits abominations (unclean, detestable, morally repugnant things) or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are recorded in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” Revelation 21:27 AMPC

Repugnant:
1 : incompatible, inconsistent
2 : archaic : hostile
3 : exciting distaste or aversion
repugnant language
a morally repugnant practice
synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, disgusting, distasteful, dreadful, evil, foul, fulsome, gross, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, rancid repellent, repellant, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, shocking, sickening, ugly.

Repugnance 1
a : the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent
b : an instance of such contradiction or inconsistency
2: strong dislike, distaste, or antagonism

“Can that which has no taste to it be eaten without salt? Or is there any flavor in the white of an egg? [These afflictions] my soul refuses to touch! Such things are like diseased food to me [sickening and repugnant]! Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!” Job 6:6-8 AMPC

“There is a class of people whose teeth are as swords and whose fangs as knives, to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among men.” Proverbs 30:14 AMPC

True Fasting
“Cry aloud, spare not. Lift up your voice like a trumpet and declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins! Yet they seek, inquire for, and require Me daily and delight [externally] to know My ways, as [if they were in reality] a nation that did righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God [in visible ways].
Why have we fasted, they say, and You do not see it? Why have we afflicted ourselves, and You take no knowledge [of it]? Behold [O Israel], on the day of your fast [when you should be grieving for your sins], you find profit in your business, and [instead of stopping all work, as the law implies you and your workmen should do] you extort from your hired servants a full amount of labor.
[The facts are that] you fast only for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Fasting as you do today will not cause your voice to be heard on high. Is such a fast as yours what I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself with sorrow in his soul? [Is true fasting merely mechanical?]Is it only to bow down his head like a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him [to indicate a condition of heart that he does not have]? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to The LORD?
[Rather] is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every [enslaving] yoke? Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house — when you see the naked, that you cover him, and that you hide not yourself from [the needs of] your own flesh and blood?
Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of a new life) shall spring forth speedily; your righteousness (your rightness, your justice, and your right relationship with God) shall go before you [conducting you to peace and prosperity], and the glory of The LORD shall be your rear guard.
Then you shall call, and The LORD will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, Here I am. If you take away from your midst yokes of oppression [wherever you find them], the finger pointed in scorn [toward the oppressed or the godly], and every form of false, harsh, unjust, and wicked speaking,
And if you pour out that with which you sustain your own life for the hungry and satisfy the need of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity and gloom become like the noonday. And The LORD shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of [buildings that have laid waste for] many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
If you turn away your foot from [traveling unduly on] the Sabbath, from doing your own pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a [spiritual] delight, the holy day of The LORD honorable, and honor Him and it, not going your own way or seeking or finding your own pleasure or speaking with your own [idle] words, Then will you delight yourself in The LORD, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage [promised for you] of Jacob your father; for the mouth of The LORD has spoken it.” Isaiah 58:1-14 AMPC

From an article regarding True and False Authority:

“As we see here in Luke 13, Jesus often mixed it up with Pharisees and teachers of the law, who loved to pull the religion card in their futile attempts to prove Jesus wrong. Here they accuse The LORD of the Sabbath of violating the Sabbath! These men posed as keepers of the word and the Law of God, yet they bitterly criticized …God! This was authority turned upside down, a blatant manifestation of religious arrogance.
Throughout history many religious men have pompously presumed to be the keepers of God. No sooner had the Church been established in the first century than imposters began arriving to “straighten out” its faith, practice and theology. Despite repeated attempts by the Church to turn back heresies, false teachers continued to deny the deity, humanity, and authority of Christ along with the truth and authority of Scripture.
Over a period of several centuries, the Church came to believe that the Bible derived its authority from the Church, rather than the reverse. Large segments of Christendom have persisted in just such an attitude. According to the current Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church, “The task of interpreting the Word of God authentically has been entrusted solely to the Magisterium of the Church, that is, to the Pope and to the bishops.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed. 1997, pt. 1, sect. 1, ch. 2, art. 2, III [#100])
What a statement! The claim is that no other church — and no part of the Church outside the leadership hierarchy of Roman Catholicism — has any legitimate right to claim “authentic” interpretation of the word of God.
The main idea is that only certain religious leaders will tell ordinary believers how to understand Scripture, and there is therefore no logical reason for laypeople to dig into the Word of God in order to discover its meaning and wonder. Largely due to such arrogance and false authority, the Protestant Reformation took place in the 16th century. With the Reformation, God’s supreme authority was reaffirmed and Biblical authority was, for the most part, restored to its rightful place, at least for awhile.”
+++Continued: © “Understanding: “Luke 13: True & False Authority”“