Through the Bible | Matthew 23 by Brett Meador

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Jesus has some harsh, and even shocking, words for the religious leaders in Matthew 23 that seem to be a striking departure from His regular gracious and kind speech. However, through these stern words of truth, He was actually showing great love and His desire to keep them — and us — away from sinful behaviors that ultimately lead to destruction.

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0:00.0	Well, let's get to it.
0:01.5	Matthew chapter 23.
0:02.9	Would you turn there with me, please?
0:04.3	Matthew 23.
0:11.7	We begin a big section of red letters, which is great.
0:16.9	Jesus is going to give some of the longest sermons or dissertations in all the Bible, as it turns out.
0:24.2	So hang on to your hat.
0:26.1	This is important.
0:26.8	But in some ways, Matthew chapter 23 is his last public sermon.
0:33.5	And it's going to be interesting to see what that has to say.
0:36.4	What do you think Jesus' last public sermon is?
0:39.4	Think about that for a second.
0:41.1	But that's what we're about to read here.
0:43.6	But I love the Bible.
0:45.0	I love hearing words of Jesus, especially in a day where people don't really know what they're talking about.
0:50.8	A lot of the things we hear in the news, the things we hear people say
0:55.5	about our health or what about our future. Like, people just really don't know what they're talking
1:00.3	about. If there's one thing we know from history is people are just kind of dense when it comes
1:05.6	to knowing what the truth is. I love, there's so many examples of that in history.
1:11.1	Some of my favorites,
1:12.4	Thomas J. Watson Jr.,
1:14.4	who was the chairman of the board of IBM in 1943,
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