7 Woes

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7 Woes

November 24, 2019 • Mike Osthimer • Matthew 23:13–39

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Here in Matthew 23 Jesus gives His last public sermon before going to the Cross. It’s a scathing rebuke of the religious leaders of His day, the Scribes and the Pharisee’s who taught about God but did not love God – they did not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves, nor did they let others enter. They preached God but converted people to dead religion, thus making those converts twice as much sons of hell as they themselves were.

Filled with intense righteous anger, Jesus had perfect anger wrapped in loving compassion. I can read it but its not in me. Jesus alone can hate and love perfectly…

Betrayed

March 8, 2020 • Mike Osthimer • Matthew 26:31–75

What did Jesus say? “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me...” It would have been better for all the disciples to agree with Jesus than to think they could alter the course of human history. Everything we do in this life fulfills the Word of God one way or another. Instead of fighting God’s Word, we need to learn to surrender to it, to accept and understand Father knows best. No one has ever proven God wrong. Ever.

Remember Me

March 1, 2020 • Mike Osthimer • Matthew 26

Jesus Christ is transforming an ancient “Seder” meal into a different meaning. No longer does this speak up the temporary physical bondage out of Egypt but the permanent spiritual deliverance from sin. It's my blood. It's my body that is broken. And Jesus said, "You will do this often and you will do it in remembrance of me.

Undenying Love

February 23, 2020 • Mike Osthimer • Matthew 26:14–35

14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests Judas as one of the 12 Only 12 people in human history had the privilege Judas had. Judas proved to be a bad man. English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon once said, "A bad man is worst when he pretends to be a saint." 15 and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?" And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver. What will you give me? What they offered Judas says everything about the worth the chief priests and elders placed on Jesus. 30 pieces of silver for a slave that was gored to death by an ox of a neighbor. Exodus 21:32 “If the ox gores a male or female servant, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned” Judas Iscariot put the value of Jesus equal to that of a gored slave. Wow! The sin of covetous. The ungodly desire for more. “When I want something more than I want God” All sin leads to death. First its spiritual death and then ultimately its physical death. The first thing that goes with the sin of covetousness is my personal relationship with Jesus. It no longer brings me pleasure, its no longer enough. I begin to compromise my relationship with Jesus for more of something else. The pursuit of wealth, the pursuit of a relationship, the pursuit of anything that causes willful disobedience to the Word and will of God for my life.