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Matthew 23:4 · BSB
23:4 They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
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…deal with this humility. And Jesus spoke of this very same principle. If you have your Bibles and you want to follow along with me, you can go toMatthew, chapter 23. Matthew, chapter 23, verse 12. Lest you think that this is just a doctrine that Paul is teaching about humbling yourself so that other people are…
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…but they should be influencing them to Jesus. Okay? Making disciples of Jesus. Disciples of the Lord, as it says in Acts chapter 9, verse 1. InMatthew chapter 23, Jesus was rebuking the Pharisees. So again, they had these disciples that were their disciples. And Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,…
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…the inner circle of Jesus, I might say, man, we got a good one. We got somebody that was in opposition to Jesus, somebody that Jesus described inMatthew chapter 23. You know what he calls them? He calls them hypocrites. He calls them pretenders, He calls them fakes, He calls them egoists. But you know, there's…
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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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…emphasize being clean on the outside, of having a righteousness that everybody can see. Let me just read to you what Jesus has to say to them inMatthew chapter 23. This is verses 25 through 27. Jesus says this. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate,…
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…or whether you're a worker of lawlessness. That's what defines those who are part of Jesus' kingdom. And flip way over in Matthew to chapter 23. InMatthew chapter 23, Jesus is giving some anti-beatitudes, woes. A woe is like a cross between a warning and a curse. And he's giving these woes to the scribes and the…
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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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…really good. Jesus, in talking about humility, said, Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, whoever humbles himself will be exalted. That from uhMatthew chapter 23. So what so what is this thing? And we've kind of described it a little bit in some of these proverbs. Sometimes we gain insight, though, I think…
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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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