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For Wednesday evening services, the Lord has lead me to do a Bible study for practical Bible verses in Matthew. Please come back to these Bible lessons in order to review them and learn them. Whenever we have learned the meaning of Bible verses and think about them throughout each day, we will be in perfect peace (Isaiah 26:3). Not only that, but when we are in a situation in our daily lives and are tempted to sin, we can think back to what we have learned from the Bible and say to ourselves, "The Bible says to not do what I am tempted to say, think, do, and/or desire right now, so I am going to refuse to give in to this temptation." This is what Romans 12:2 means, and it says, "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." This is also the pattern that Jesus used when the devil tempted Him to sin in Matthew 4:1-11.
Chapter 23
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
Matthew 23:25-36
25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess (taking something from someone physically or by an illegal use of power and spending more of your time and effort on pleasing yourself and doing what you want instead of helping others. With the scribes and Pharisees, they would do things that seemed righteous, but they had selfish intentions and did things to show off.). 26Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
(The scribes and Pharisees looked like they were holy and righteous, but their hearts were evil. Nearly everything the scribes and Pharisees did was to show off so people would think they were excellent. They did a lot of things that people would consider good: they gave a lot of money, fasted often, prayed long drawn out prayers in public, taught in the synagogues, and did good works. Nevertheless, they did these things to get people's attention and get them to praise them. If you are really a Christian, you will do things to serve God and others in order to make Him look good and not yourself. You should tell people how to become Christians because you don't want them to go to hell, and you should do good works because you really want to help the person who is having problems or is in need. Also, you shouldn’t be proud of your accomplishments because you’re simply Jesus’ servant, and you’re on the earth to try to make God look good in front of people so they will think good thoughts about God and want to become Christians too (Matthew 5:16).)
If you have asked Jesus into your heart, believed that Jesus is your Savior, or trusted Jesus' death on the cross and His shed blood to erase your sins and let you into heaven, etc., but you have not been living this way, please follow chapter 10 of this book - www.areyousureyouaresaved.com
29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, 30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: 35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. 36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
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