When Religion Kills

Amen Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jesus's confrontation with the religious leaders in Matthew 23 represents one of His most direct and severe rebukes in Scripture. These final "woes" reveal the depth of religious hypocrisy and its consequences. This passage shows both God's judgment against hypocrisy and His heart of compassion for His people.

- Key question: Are we cultivating authentic righteousness or merely maintaining religious appearances?

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0:00.0	What's going on everybody, Alex and Lockelaani here. Welcome back to the podcast. We are doing two
0:06.6	woes today. So we've been in a series looking at the eight different woes. Some commentators think
0:12.4	it's seven. Charles Spurgeon thinks it's eight. So we're going to do the last two woes, woe seven and
0:20.4	and we're going to do the last two woes, wo seven and woe eight. And we're going to finish
0:22.6	off chapter 23 of Matthew today. We're talking about when religion kills. And Lockelaena will
0:29.5	give you more of an introduction. But yeah, after this, we're going to be doing Song of Solomon
0:33.2	here. So if you've been following along with House Church, we just finished a little short series
0:38.8	on building the church. And then I promise some of the young people at our church who are probably
0:42.9	your age as well, that we would do Song of Solomon because they really want to know about dating.
0:47.5	They want to know about marriage. You want to know about how Song of Solomon is a picture of our
0:51.7	relationship with Jesus. And so we're going to do that here on the podcast
0:55.7	and House Church will be hearing it second. So we'll do it here Sunday morning episode. And then
1:03.2	that Sunday House Church will be hearing that same message live and in person. But we're not
1:07.1	going to record those messages at House Church anymore. It's just becoming too much editing, too much work for me as a father of six and a pastor of a small church.
1:16.7	I have to really pull back.
1:18.3	So everything you hear on Aeman Podcasts, we're going to also do at House Church after the fact.
1:23.5	So they'll be hearing it second.
1:25.0	We'd started off like this, but then I just bit off more than I could chew by trying to do different series at sermon series at House Church.
1:33.1	And so we're realizing that it's time to slow down, simplify, delegate, eliminate, all that kind of stuff.
1:39.1	So yeah, really good stuff.
1:41.1	So be excited.
1:42.2	And then we'll come back to Matthew after we finish Song of Solomon. And then we'll finish out the rest of Corinthians after Matthew. So be excited. And then we'll come back to Matthew after we finish
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