Chapter 23 ⁽²⁰⁾

Passage Read: Exodus 23-26 Meditation Verses: 23:24-26 There was to be no preservation of ancient artifacts, no protection of cultural artifacts. There was nothing of value in these sacred places or sacred stones; the Israelites were to demolish them and wipe them from memory. Today…

Passage Read: Acts 22-23 Meditation Verse: 23:16 God had already promised to Paul that he would testify for Christ in Rome. Though Paul was willing to die for Christ in Jerusalem, the Lord had other plans, such that He had Paul's nephew in the right…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 21-24 Meditation Verses: 23:28-29 God is against all the prophets who speak out of their own ideas and dreams, who do not speak the Word of the Lord, but speak their own ideas and call them "the Word of the Lord." Yet…

Jesus is fully aware of the hypocrisy of the teachers of the Law and Pharisees, yet He expects His disciples to obey them! How unfair is that? What is He thinking? Won't His disciples have to suffer under the rule of uncaring leaders? What about…

At the beginning of Matthew 23, Jesus tells the crowds and His disciples that they need to do everything the teachers of the law and the Pharisees tell them to do. Even though He knows and says they're hypocrites! As if that wasn't insulting enough,…