Jesus Is Greater Than Religion - Matthew S4E4

Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin

Pastor Joby Martin

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.9 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

What happens when following rules becomes more important than following Jesus? In this conversation through Matthew 12, Pastor Joby Martin and the Deepen team unpack the difference between religion and the gospel. Legalism says God will love you if you change. The gospel says God changes you because He loves you. Jesus confronts the Pharisees for valuing rules over people, sacrifice over mercy, and performance over relationship with God. This episode dives into spiritual pride, fear, control, repentance, and the freedom found in the grace of Jesus. Supplemental Resources From This Week: • Religion Couldn’t Heal What Faith Did - Kerry's Story• Legalism Kills: Where’s Your Faith?- Old to New - Matthew S4E5• Jesus Is Greater Than Religion - Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin: Matthew S4E5• Legalism Kills: Where’s Your Faith?- Old to New - Matthew S4E5 (Full Service)• Matthew Season 4 About The Church of Eleven22 The Church of Eleven22® is a movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ. Eleven22 is led by Pastor Joby Martin and based in Jacksonville, Florida, with multiple campuses throughout Jacksonville and the surrounding areas. To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people all around the world click here: http://coe22.com/donate

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin.
0:03.8	The Church of 1122 is a movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ.
0:10.7	And we're praying this message helps you deepen your relationship with him.
0:15.0	Now let's dive in.
0:16.9	I just want to praise God and thank you, Pastor Joby, for an incredibly powerful night.
0:23.8	I mean, you felt it.
0:25.4	I know you felt it.
0:26.2	Oh, I felt it.
0:27.4	That's awesome, man.
0:28.3	It's like, guys always been doing a unique work here.
0:32.6	And I don't know how you compare that kind of stuff.
0:36.3	But I do know this over the last four to six weeks here,
0:38.9	the outpourg and the Spirit of God's legit. It's legit, man. And God's doing a thing and it's super
0:43.7	humbling to be a part of. And man, I just loved what you said tonight about how our church is not
0:49.9	here so that you have a church to preach at or that we have a church to work at, but that we're
0:54.6	here to serve them. The primary way you do that here is by teaching the Bible and equipping
0:59.5	the saints through the scriptures. And tonight was another masterful job, man. So thanks for being
1:04.4	faithful to the Lord through the text, which is incredible. Well, the most energy we put like into
1:09.0	volunteers and that kind of stuff around here
1:11.0	is, it's not the welcome team. It's not the, it is our care team. Amen. Yeah, it's our largest,
1:18.5	most well-trained, highly funded group of people at our church to take care of people. Yeah.
1:25.8	There was a guy that was sitting next to me.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 4 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pastor Joby Martin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Pastor Joby Martin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.