Thank you for getting dinner, and I'll be right up in a minute.

I have to talk to the internet about Philactories.

Hey, everybody, it's me, Matt, it's the 10 minute Bible hour podcast to hope you're having

a beautiful day.

We need to talk about Philactories today because that is a word that happens in the Bible,

particularly, it happens in Matthew 23, verse 5, and then there's other stuff related

to that that goes on through 6 and 7.

And yesterday, we were talking about this part of the Bible where Jesus is calling out

the version of religion that the Pharisees are putting forward to the people, and Jesus

is holding Himself out, is doing a very different version of this whole thing, the right

one, the more meaningful one.

And in doing so, the criticism is getting enormously specific.

Yesterday, we talked about the big picture, the theological, contextual, motif, completing

business surrounding this little passage, but today we're going to talk about some

of the specifics.

And look more closely, what is Jesus actually criticizing here?

And is he criticizing all the Pharisees for getting this wrong or something broader?

So this is a passage we're looking at, Matthew 23, starting in verse 1, we'll just rewind

to there.

Then Jesus said to the crowd and to the disciples, the teachers of the law and the Pharisees

sit in Moses' seat, so you must obey and do everything they tell you to, but don't

do what they do for they don't practice what they preach.

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