Hey guys, welcome back. We are in Matthew 23 today, and we are beginning a series for the next

day or two, maybe three, on what makes Jesus really, really mad. Jesus had some things to say

in anger to some religious people. What were those things? And what can we learn from them?

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episode. Hey, friends, Matthew 23 today. We are in verse 13. And I promised you that we would

come to this section in Matthew 23 where Jesus really just kind of lays it on the line to the

religious leaders of the day. He's been talking

about them, but now he wants to talk right to them, and he does not mince words. Understand the

principle that those that would use religion or use religious things like the temple and the word of God, the law of God, for their own

nefarious purposes, boy, they are inviting to themselves a pretty stiff judgment.

I think about the passage in Galatians 1 where the Apostle Paul said, if people mess with

the truth of the gospel, let them be accursed.

That's a very heavy language.

Or the language of James 3, where James said, don't, be not many masters.

Don't aspire to positions of teaching and authority unless you're

willing to understand that you will be held to a higher level of accountability.

So here in Matthew 23, Jesus is holding these religious leaders to a very high level of

accountability and he is pronouncing a series of woes on them,

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