by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 17, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 23:15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.” When you have invested so much in bringing someone to faith, what do they...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 16, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 23:14 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.” There is some strange breed of people who claim to be spiritual men and women, and...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 23:13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.” In this chapter, we see the fierce anger of the Lord against...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 14, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 23:12 “And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” We know that pride goes before a fall and that God resists the proud, yet we are still so proud. The problem is not the lack of but the inability to do what we know...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 13, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 23:8 “But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren.” By this one statement, Jesus pulls the rug from under a vast majority of churches and ministries who have built their brand around the “teaching anointing”...
