Do You Practice What You Preach? | New Testament | Matthew 23

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

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Do you care if your life doesn't match biblical truth? Do you want to appear holy and religious, but fail to accept sin? You might be in danger of the sin patterns that Jesus condemns in Matthew 23. Listen as Jensen shares our only hope. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Join the TMBT community in reading the entire New Testament in 2023. Get your FREE reading plan here. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Matthew 23

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Jensen Holt McNair.
0:18.0	From a young age I read about the Pharisees in the Bible and every time I heard them mentioned I put them in my bad guy category. We probably all have this tendency. When we hear a story, we
0:26.5	tend to put ourselves to imagine ourselves as part of the story. And as I read the Gospels growing up, I always imagined myself as a disciple,
0:36.4	giving up everything to follow Jesus. Of course I would be one of them, not a Roman soldier or a passing doubter, and definitely, definitely, not a Pharisee.
0:47.6	Why would I want to be one of them?
0:49.5	They aren't the good guys.
0:52.1	But as I've gotten older, slowly I've begun to recognize the sin of the
0:56.0	Pharisees in my own heart. I recently watched the TV series The
1:00.9	Chosen and they present an excellent portrayal of Nicodemus, a Pharisee. the
1:05.0	the chosen and they present an excellent portrayal of Nicodemus, a Pharise, who, when played out on screen, is easy to empathize with and understand.
1:10.0	See in the end, when Jesus calls Nicodemus to join and follow him.
1:15.0	Nicodemus is torn between the life he has built and the person he thinks may be the Messiah.
1:22.0	Nicodemus ends up sending money to help out rather than actually
1:26.2	following Jesus. He's unable to give up everything but offers a smaller gift instead.
1:33.9	And at the end of the first season, it was his life
1:37.9	that I saw reflected in mine the most clearly.
1:41.8	Comfortable in the faith, maybe even complacent,
1:45.0	giving bits and pieces of my life,
1:48.0	but hesitant to risk giving up everything I've built to go out and follow Jesus. You see it's easy to put the Pharisees as
1:55.9	other to judge and point the finger because that is what Jesus often does. But
2:01.8	Jesus was and is the perfect judge. And we are not. We are just as
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