Costly Obedience (Matthew 23:23)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Matthew 23:23, David Platt teaches the importance of neglecting comfort for the sake of God-exalting obedience.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource for Radical.net.
0:04.0	Matthew chapter 23, verse 23,
0:06.8	woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
0:10.6	for you tithe, mint and dill and cumin,
0:14.0	and have neglected the weightier matters of the law,
0:17.5	justice and mercy and faithfulness.
0:20.7	These you ought to have done without neglecting the others.
0:24.4	What a statement.
0:25.8	Jesus starts with a woe, woe to you.
0:29.6	Condemnation upon you.
0:31.2	This is a strong rebuke to scribes and Pharisees,
0:34.8	whom he calls hypocrites.
0:36.4	Why?
0:37.0	Because they tithe, mint and dill and cumin,
0:40.4	they do these minor matters of the law,
0:44.7	but they neglect the weightier matters of the law,
0:48.8	justice and mercy and faithfulness.
0:52.0	And Jesus isn't saying that minor matters of the law
0:54.9	aren't important.
0:56.0	He says these you ought to have done
0:58.2	without neglecting the others.
1:00.6	And if we're not careful,
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