In the sovereignty of God, we enter Matthew 23 on May 23. This is a difficult and scary text of Scripture. One author phrases it like this: “Out of [Jesus’] mouth on this occasion come the most fearful and dreadful statements that Jesus ever uttered on earth.” This text deals with the subject of hypocrisy and provides no cotton candy or easy to hear statements. In this text, we are simply provided the uncomfortable grace of self-examination with a call to “repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”