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Matthew 23:15 · BSB
23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
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…were a lot of them that really looked the part. They looked the part. They spoke the right words but Jesus called them out pretty harshly here inMatthew chapter 23. And we're just reading a couple of little verses here but that might be good homework for you this week if you want to go through and read all of…
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…Everything they did was all about form and no substance, how it looks on the outside. But that's not how they were on the inside. You know, inMatthew chapter 23, it was the last sermon the Lord ever preached. And you want to talk about a scathing rebuke? You know, people talk about Jesus love and yes He is.…
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…all these different things that people might swear by? Well, there's a passage a little later in Matthew's gospel that sheds some light on this. InMatthew chapter 23, Jesus in that chapter is speaking out against the Pharisees, and he's condemning their hypocrisy and their self-righteousness. And in the middle…
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…damaging to have knowledge without love. Jesus issues all of these woes in the book of Matthew 22. And this one is particularly striking to me.Matthew chapter 23in verse 15. He says, Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. So these are the religious people of his day. For you travel across sea and…
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…told, is a Pharisee. That's a word we see sometimes in the New Testament. Pharisees were really religious people. If you go back and you read inMatthew chapter 23, you're going to see that Jesus, it's pretty hard on these type of people because oftentimes these Pharisees were very religious, but they weren't…
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…6. God comes to his people and says, I will not accept your burnt offerings because you practice injustice. What did Brit read from us? FromMatthew chapter 23, Jesus comes and condemns the religious leaders. He says, look, you worry about tithing on your herbs and mint and cumin. You know what? That's…
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Go toMatthew chapter 23. Matthew chapter 23. We've been away from Matthew for a little while. We've had our Easter service a couple weeks ago, and last week we had our…
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That's beautiful. Well, I invite you to take your Bible and turn with me over to the Gospel of Matthew. We're going to be in chapter 23,Matthew chapter 23. Wasn't too many weeks ago we were in chapter 21, which is where you might find the triumphal entry of Christ. We've been going as a church through…
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…Christians let us down. If you've been confused or hurt or disappointed or disillusioned by this, you're not alone. Even Jesus talked about this inMatthew, chapter 23. He talked in other places about how there's this disconnect between what Christians say and the way Christians live. In fact, in Matthew 23, verse…
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…thought to trick him, to accuse him, to destroy him, to destroy him. Jesus gave one of his sharpest and most stern rebukes to the Pharisees andMatthew chapter 23, where he would tell him, woe you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs. That's pretty blunt. I don't know if I could…
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…meaning you're not getting anything from God, whatever pat on the back man, gave you, that's all you're going to get when the motive is wrong, inMatthew chapter 23, I don't have time to go into that, we study this in the past but very briefly, The scribes and Pharisees were all about going about keeping the…
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…was tied around your throat and you were pushed into the sea. The agony of drowning would be better than what is about to happen to you. And inMatthew, chapter 23, Jesus spoke to Guys Like Me. He preached to the Pharisees and told them, if you use the people of God, if you twist the name of God to get things…
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…never gentle with hypocrisy. We would deem his words about hypocrisy as harsh, as unnecessary even, and abrupt. And so as we read this morning inMatthew chapter 23, beginning in verse 13, we might get a little uncomfortable and start to shift around in our seats. Get used to that for a little bit. It's going…
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…weep. We must unite and grief with those urinated and grief because the Savior wept at the tomb of Lazarus that he not weep, the city of Jerusalem.Matthew chapter 23and verse 37, o Jerusalem who Juris he was thinking of the desolation of the Temple. You think of today's cities are United Kingdom, the life of…
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…what actually is, Justice, mercy, and faith. And what are those things look like in our life? Was it something brand-new that Jesus came? With inMatthew chapter 23or has it always existed, did it go back all the way back to the very beginning under the law of Moses? What was Jesus say? Why did he say it in…
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…single-minded devotion to God, to his plan, to his will, on his terms, to conforming to his righteousness. But in the Seven Woes Discourse inMatthew chapter 23, we see false conversion and religiosity in full. And it is interesting to note that before the Seven Woes Discourse begins, Jesus reaffirms his…
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…people call people to. In the Bible, there's these guys if you ever want to see Jesus just kind of being a little um little different. Direct, readMatthew chapter 23. And there's these people called the scribes and Pharisees, the religious leaders of the day. And in Matthew 23, Jesus just takes the top off and…
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…He's saying you need to surpass it. In other words, you need a righteousness that is something altogether different. Have a look with me please toMatthew chapter 23. 23. Go to Matthew 23. Here Jesus confronts these very Pharisees over their understanding of what it is to be righteous. Because they're all…
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…to be brought to God in Christ. And be assured, if you are not humble now, you will one day be humbled. Jesus, in speaking of the final judgment inMatthew chapter 23, says, whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Beloved, those of us who know the Lord have all the…
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…says, don't be angry that it causes you to sin now. Is it possible to be angry and not sin? Absolutely. How do I know that the Lord was angry inMatthew chapter 23, as we look back in Our Minds Eye as he's preaching to those Pharisees, as he's preaching to the Hypocrites, he was angry. When the Lord came into…
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