Tweets & Rants 8 March 2013: Matthew 23:25-39; Romans 6:1-14; Psalm 55; Numbers 18-20
believes that Jesus’ kept His word, Jerusalem was burned to the ground by the Roman in 70AD. Mat 23:36 @WeeManWest
believes the context for Matthew 24 is Matthew 23, Jesus was speaking specifically about that generation of Jerusalemites. @WeeManWest
Matthew 23:25 The Pharisees made an outward show of religion, but on the inside they were a mess. Jesus says they were full of greed and self-indulgence. True religion is free from greed and self-indulgence.
Do we have greed? Are we prone to indulge our own selfish desires at the expense of others? We may very well have a little Pharisee within us as well.
Matthew 23:28 The Pharisees inner problems also consisted of hypocrisy and lawlessness. They were outwardly the keepers and enforcers of the law and yet inwardly they were the hypocrite, breaking the very law they punished others for not keeping.
Churches are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. We ourselves are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. The rules always seem to point and apply to someone other than ourselves.
Matthew 23:32 They did indeed spend the next 40 years filling up the measure of their fathers guilt in their persecution of the church.
Matthew 23:35 The sentence of blood vengeance was soon to come upon Jerusalem. As a matter of fact they would ask for it as Jesus stood before Pilate.
Matthew 23:36 The vengeance of God did come upon that generation as the entire city was burned down in 70AD by the Romans.
Matthew 23:38 Jesus speaks to this city that killed prophets and stones those sent. This same city is the one that Jesus had spoken about in several parables. Jesus now promises that it was going to be left desolate. His word came true in 70AD.
Romans 6:4 We have new life for we have been raised in Christ Jesus’ resurrection. We share in His resurrection just as we share in His death. Sin is inescapable otherwise.
Romans 6:7 We cannot understand Paul’s point unless we grasp the full weight of this statement. We absolutely cannot be set free from our sins unless we die. The law carries weight while we live. So how do we die and find this freedom? We die on the cross in Christ.
However, we were also raised from death in Christ. He is the first resurrection. He is the firstfruits. We share in the first resurrection in Him and as Paul describes in Ephesians, we reign in Him as well.
Romans 6:11 Paul says we must, by faith, consider ourselves to have been dead in Christ and raised from the dead in Christ if we are ever going to have power to be set free from our sin. We share in Christ’s resurrection which Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 15 as the firstfruits and the first resurrection. Please don’t miss the powerful value of the experience you have shared in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:14 Sin only loses dominion when we die as Paul just wrote in verse 7. Sin will have no dominion over us who have escaped from the law through death and resurrection. We are no longer under the law by grace through faith.
Psalm 55:13 One of the most destructive trials we can endure is the trial of betrayal. Betrayal cuts us to our very heart.
Psalm 55:21 This is a fitting description of how the betrayer’s speech is so painful to endure. While they appear to be with you and on your side they are instead drawing a sword against you.
Psalm 55:22 Do we have this assurance today? We must trust that God will keep us as His own, that He will never allow us to be moved away from Him.
Numbers 18:19 All the holy contributions given to the Lord at the Tabernacle belong to the priests and levites for their food.
Numbers 18:20 The priests and Levites are not to own land among Israel for God Himself is their portion. They are His and He is theirs.
Numbers 18:26 The priests and Levites were to present to the Lord a tithe of the tithe, basically, a tenth of the holy gifts.
Numbers 19:9 Here we see that the ashes of a flawless red heifer were required for the water of purification.
Numbers 19:12 If someone became unclean because of a dead body they would have to be washed on the 3rd and the 7th day. We have a picture of the dual resurrection. The first resurrection is Christ and us in Christ by grace through faith, the second is on the last day at His return.
Numbers 20:12 Moses and Aaron are now disqualified and will not lead Israel into the promised land. They honored themselves by saying they would bring water out of the rock and then hitting it rather than speaking to the rock as God had commanded.
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