Matthew 23:1-12 The Beginning of Woes
The close of His ministry is fast approaching and Jesus is done with parables and speaking around issues and is flat out warning others to not be like them. The Pharisees are not all that different from today's self righteous Christians.
All they did they did to be seen and admired by men. He's careful to include the warning to do as they tell others to do. The Pharisees represented themselves as leaders and were in fact the ones in charge of the temple laws and practices.
The Pharisees placed emphasis on the physical acts of religious law rather than the spiritual law that necessitated the physical act being done. As an example we are told in
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 6:6-9
[6] These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. [7] And you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. [8] You shall also tie them as a sign to your hand, and they shall be as frontlets on your forehead. [9] You shall also write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
In this passage, God is telling His people that the words of the Law should be “on your heart” , so evident in your day to day life that your children and those around you know from your conduct how you honor God. Our behavior, our heart is the emphasis here and the act God gives as a physical act to help remember the spiritual Truth.
The people are told to bind God's word to their hands and foreheads. Why? To remember His word and how it's supposed to influence our day to day life. So what did the Pharisees do? They created phylacteries, small boxes into which they placed portions of Scripture to wear around their wrists and on their heads.
They would make them ornate, large and cumbersome because the human response is often “well look at his phylacteries he must be super spiritual” The appearance of the phylacteries often reflected as being the indication of spiritual stature rather than that individuals’ behavior. This is why Jesus condemns the acts of altering robes or tassels because they are doing so rather than actually allowing God's word to affect their lives.
Following this, Jesus gets into the seven woes of the Pharisees and he desperately warns his disciples not to behave as the Pharisees do.
We are not to give them titles that may make us hesitant to question them or their authority. A biblical church leader's authority ends at Scripture. It is in this passage that Jesus says
“And do not call anyone on earth your father; for only One is your Father, He who is in heaven.”
Obviously He isn't saying that we can't call our father, Dad. What He's saying is do not confer to any man the title of “father” granting the man an authority God never gave him. It's almost as if Jesus is warning of a coming pseudo religious group that put more emphasis on titles and fictional authority. A group that calls their religious leaders, “Father” claiming extra-biblical authority.
So Scripture says, call no man father.
Your church is led by Father O'Leary.
Which are you going to trust?
[1] Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, [2] saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses. [3] Therefore, whatever they tell you, do and comply with it all, but do not do as they do; for they say things and do not do them. [4] And they tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as their finger. [5] And they do all their deeds to be noticed by other people; for they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments. [6] And they love the place of honor at banquets, and the seats of honor in the synagogues, [7] and personal greetings in the marketplaces, and being called Rabbi by the people. [8] But as for you, do not be called Rabbi; for only One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers and sisters. [9] And do not call anyone on earth your father; for only One is your Father, He who is in heaven. [10] And do not be called leaders; for only One is your Leader, that is, Christ. [11] But the greatest of you shall be your servant. [12] Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.
The close of His ministry is fast approaching and Jesus is done with parables and speaking around issues and is flat out warning others to not be like them. The Pharisees are not all that different from today's self righteous Christians.
All they did they did to be seen and admired by men. He's careful to include the warning to do as they tell others to do. The Pharisees represented themselves as leaders and were in fact the ones in charge of the temple laws and practices.
The Pharisees placed emphasis on the physical acts of religious law rather than the spiritual law that necessitated the physical act being done. As an example we are told in
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 6:6-9
[6] These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. [7] And you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. [8] You shall also tie them as a sign to your hand, and they shall be as frontlets on your forehead. [9] You shall also write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
In this passage, God is telling His people that the words of the Law should be “on your heart” , so evident in your day to day life that your children and those around you know from your conduct how you honor God. Our behavior, our heart is the emphasis here and the act God gives as a physical act to help remember the spiritual Truth.
The people are told to bind God's word to their hands and foreheads. Why? To remember His word and how it's supposed to influence our day to day life. So what did the Pharisees do? They created phylacteries, small boxes into which they placed portions of Scripture to wear around their wrists and on their heads.
They would make them ornate, large and cumbersome because the human response is often “well look at his phylacteries he must be super spiritual” The appearance of the phylacteries often reflected as being the indication of spiritual stature rather than that individuals’ behavior. This is why Jesus condemns the acts of altering robes or tassels because they are doing so rather than actually allowing God's word to affect their lives.
Following this, Jesus gets into the seven woes of the Pharisees and he desperately warns his disciples not to behave as the Pharisees do.
We are not to give them titles that may make us hesitant to question them or their authority. A biblical church leader's authority ends at Scripture. It is in this passage that Jesus says
“And do not call anyone on earth your father; for only One is your Father, He who is in heaven.”
Obviously He isn't saying that we can't call our father, Dad. What He's saying is do not confer to any man the title of “father” granting the man an authority God never gave him. It's almost as if Jesus is warning of a coming pseudo religious group that put more emphasis on titles and fictional authority. A group that calls their religious leaders, “Father” claiming extra-biblical authority.
So Scripture says, call no man father.
Your church is led by Father O'Leary.
Which are you going to trust?
[1] Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, [2] saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses. [3] Therefore, whatever they tell you, do and comply with it all, but do not do as they do; for they say things and do not do them. [4] And they tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as their finger. [5] And they do all their deeds to be noticed by other people; for they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments. [6] And they love the place of honor at banquets, and the seats of honor in the synagogues, [7] and personal greetings in the marketplaces, and being called Rabbi by the people. [8] But as for you, do not be called Rabbi; for only One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers and sisters. [9] And do not call anyone on earth your father; for only One is your Father, He who is in heaven. [10] And do not be called leaders; for only One is your Leader, that is, Christ. [11] But the greatest of you shall be your servant. [12] Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.
Matthew 23:1-12 The Beginning of Woes
The close of His ministry is fast approaching and Jesus is done with parables and speaking around issues and is flat out warning others to not be like them. The Pharisees are not all that different from today's self righteous Christians.
All they did they did to be seen and admired by men. He's careful to include the warning to do as they tell others to do. The Pharisees represented themselves as leaders and were in fact the ones in charge of the temple laws and practices.
The Pharisees placed emphasis on the physical acts of religious law rather than the spiritual law that necessitated the physical act being done. As an example we are told in
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 6:6-9
[6] These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. [7] And you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. [8] You shall also tie them as a sign to your hand, and they shall be as frontlets on your forehead. [9] You shall also write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
In this passage, God is telling His people that the words of the Law should be “on your heart” , so evident in your day to day life that your children and those around you know from your conduct how you honor God. Our behavior, our heart is the emphasis here and the act God gives as a physical act to help remember the spiritual Truth.
The people are told to bind God's word to their hands and foreheads. Why? To remember His word and how it's supposed to influence our day to day life. So what did the Pharisees do? They created phylacteries, small boxes into which they placed portions of Scripture to wear around their wrists and on their heads.
They would make them ornate, large and cumbersome because the human response is often “well look at his phylacteries he must be super spiritual” The appearance of the phylacteries often reflected as being the indication of spiritual stature rather than that individuals’ behavior. This is why Jesus condemns the acts of altering robes or tassels because they are doing so rather than actually allowing God's word to affect their lives.
Following this, Jesus gets into the seven woes of the Pharisees and he desperately warns his disciples not to behave as the Pharisees do.
We are not to give them titles that may make us hesitant to question them or their authority. A biblical church leader's authority ends at Scripture. It is in this passage that Jesus says
“And do not call anyone on earth your father; for only One is your Father, He who is in heaven.”
Obviously He isn't saying that we can't call our father, Dad. What He's saying is do not confer to any man the title of “father” granting the man an authority God never gave him. It's almost as if Jesus is warning of a coming pseudo religious group that put more emphasis on titles and fictional authority. A group that calls their religious leaders, “Father” claiming extra-biblical authority.
So Scripture says, call no man father.
Your church is led by Father O'Leary.
Which are you going to trust?
[1] Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, [2] saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses. [3] Therefore, whatever they tell you, do and comply with it all, but do not do as they do; for they say things and do not do them. [4] And they tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as their finger. [5] And they do all their deeds to be noticed by other people; for they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments. [6] And they love the place of honor at banquets, and the seats of honor in the synagogues, [7] and personal greetings in the marketplaces, and being called Rabbi by the people. [8] But as for you, do not be called Rabbi; for only One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers and sisters. [9] And do not call anyone on earth your father; for only One is your Father, He who is in heaven. [10] And do not be called leaders; for only One is your Leader, that is, Christ. [11] But the greatest of you shall be your servant. [12] Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.
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