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Matthew 23:13 meaningOctober 16, 2022
Jesus speaks the first of eight woes to the scribes and Pharisees. It is issued because they refuse to enter God’s kingdom or to allow anyone else to enter it.
Matthew 23:11-12 meaningOctober 16, 2022
Jesus teaches that the remedies for Bad Religion is humility before God and others, as well as contentment in serving regardless of earthly recognition. These are the practices that will make one great in His kingdom.
Matthew 23:8-10 meaningOctober 16, 2022
Jesus forbids His disciples from challenging God’s position as Rabbi and Leader. And He forbids them to follow anyone other than God the Father. He does these things while alluding to the Trinity.
Matthew 23:6-7 meaningOctober 16, 2022
Jesus teaches that the heart of Bad Religion craves honor from men and power to lord over others. This is what motivates the scribes and Pharisees to act as they do. (Do not be like them).
Matthew 23:5 meaningOctober 16, 2022
Jesus teaches that Bad Religion is a performance to be noticed by men. He illustrates that the scribes and Pharisees display their (fake) righteousness with what they wear. Their morality is merely a show.
Matthew 23:4 meaningOctober 16, 2022
Jesus teaches that Bad Religion puts others down in a moral game. He exposes how the Pharisees impose suffocating rules upon people to watch them suffer and bask in their own moral superiority without showing an ounce of pity.
Matthew 23:2-3 meaningOctober 16, 2022
Jesus tells His disciples to listen to and obey what the scribes and Pharisees say, because they sit in the seat of Moses. But He warns them not to emulate their behavior and lived example. They practice Bad Religion.
Matthew 23:1 meaningOctober 16, 2022
After the religious leaders stop debating with Jesus, He begins to address His disciples, as the crowds listen on.
Deuteronomy 31:30 meaningOctober 13, 2022
Moses speaks the words of the song in the hearing of all Israel from beginning to end.
Deuteronomy 31:24-29 meaningOctober 13, 2022
After writing down the LORD’s covenant law, Moses commands the Levites to place the scrolls of the law next to the ark of the covenant so that it may serve as a witness against Israel in the LORD’s presence when they fall into idolatry.
Deuteronomy 31:14-23 meaningOctober 13, 2022
The LORD summoned Moses and Joshua to the tent of meeting in order to commission Joshua as Israel’s new leader. He also asked them to write a song that will serve as a witness against Israel when they turn from the LORD to other gods and break God’s covenant.
Deuteronomy 31:9-13 meaningOctober 13, 2022
Moses then instructed the priests and the elders of Israel to perform a covenant renewal ceremony every seven years. They were to read the law in front of all of Israel in their hearing
Deuteronomy 31:7-8 meaningOctober 13, 2022
In the presence of all the Israelites, Moses presented Joshua as his successor and commands him to be strong and courageous because the LORD promised to be with him and support him.
Deuteronomy 31:1-6 meaningOctober 13, 2022
Moses addressed all Israel to tell them that his time leading them was coming to an end and that Joshua would succeed him and lead them into the Promised Land. He encouraged them to be strong and courageous because the Suzerain God (the LORD) will accompany them and will not fail them.
Obadiah 1:17-21 meaningOctober 10, 2022
While Edom will be crushed by God’s judgment on the day of the LORD, Israel and Judah will be restored.
Obadiah 1:15-16 meaningOctober 10, 2022
Obadiah announces the day of the LORD, the time when God will intervene in human affairs to judge the nations. Edom's judgment serves as an illustration of the judgments that will fall on all the nations that rebel against God.
Obadiah 1:10-14 meaningOctober 10, 2022
The LORD will judge Edom because she gloated over the destruction of Judah and actively engaged in her destruction.
Obadiah 1:8-9 meaningOctober 10, 2022
The LORD declares that He will destroy the wise men of Edom. Every citizen of Edom will be slaughtered.
Obadiah 1:5-7 meaningOctober 10, 2022
The LORD will use foreign nations to pillage Edom’s resources and remove her from her land.
Obadiah 1:2-4 meaningOctober 10, 2022
Though Edom prides herself in her great wealth and impregnable rocky highlands, the LORD will bring her down and cut her off forever.
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