John UK wrote:
Are you a member of this Crossroads Church, j?
Having celebrated 45 years of ministry under the leadership of six Pastors, Crossroads Church represents a mature congregation at the center of the Pentecostal - Charismatic tradition.

In our passage, the "woe" is given to Ephraim. You remember him, he was Joseph's younger son who received a favored blessing from Jacob before he died.

35A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

36But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

This is usually interpreted to mean that life is like that - when constructing a house you put "brick upon brick" until the building is up; in writing a book you put "sentence upon sentence" until the book is finished. In fact I just heard this expression used recently in relation to my wife's painting. She was explaining that a painting of beautiful flowers has layer upon layer of paint - someone responded with, "That's just like is says in the Bible, 'line upon line.'"

The message conveyed by this is, "Be patient, after all 'Rome wasn't built in a day.'" "A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." Little by little, step by step, mile by mile, progress is made for those who can tolerate the pace, for those who can't, the message is, "haste makes waste."