Matthew 23

So you are essentially saying that everything that God promised to Israel was fulfilled in Christ and that the nation of Israel ceases to exist at that point.

The nation of Israel ceased to exist in 70 AD and Matthew 23, 41 says that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation producing the fruits thereof.

Who do you think that nation is in that verse?

um yeah i mean the church but

Their fathers before them killed the prophets, and they stoned those who were sent to them.

And Jesus finally comes down in Matthew 23, and he looks at them, and here's meek Jesus.

He's been gentle and humble with them, even with them, because he would take their questions, and he would just turn them around with a question, and they didn't have anything to say, and then he'd go back to teaching the people.

But from about Matthew 20 on, he just lays into them and he does not take a breath.

Woe to you.

Woe to you.

All through Matthew 23.

In fact, let's slide over here.

Okay.

It's one of the chapters that – Matthew 23 is one of the chapters, and it's quite scary.

If I listen to the audio Bible sometimes in the car, and I was listening to Matthew 23, and it is so scary to hear how many times Jesus says hypocrites.

Do you know how many times he says it in Matthew?

I don't.

I thought that was like seven.

All right.

Matthew 23, and we'll read from 30 to 35.

Okay.

Matthew 23, it's one of the chapters that, Matthew 23 is one of the chapters, and it's quite scary.

If I listen to the audio Bible, sometimes in the car, and I was listening to Matthew 23, and it is so scary to hear how many times Jesus says hypocrites.

Do you know how many times he says it in Matthew? I

don't.

I thought that.

I was like, seven? All right.

Matthew 23, and we'll read from 30 to 35.

Then fright shall banish idle mirth and flames on flame shall ravage earth as scripture long has warned us.

So what is the Christian's disposition as we look to our Lord's second coming? And there's no middle ground we either belong to the Lord and we are looking forward to his second coming as a bride looks forward to her bridegroom that was last Sunday's Gospel from Matthew 25 so we're either eagerly anticipating the Lord's coming and living in his gospel in his sweet forgiveness or We're indifferent, or we don't care, and we've rejected the gospel.

So for this particular Sunday, what do you do with the gospel of Jesus Christ? Do you receive it, this extremely priceless treasure? a talent beyond compare and you receive it and you live in it and you draw strength from it and you're saved by it and, or do you reject it? And so that's kind of what we're gonna be talking about today.

You know, in that hymn of the day, It says, my savior paid the debt I owe and for my sin was smitten.

Within the book of life, I know my name has now been written.

I will not doubt for I am free and Satan cannot threaten me.

There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

So for the Christian, for the church that lives from the treasure of the gospel and that has her eyes singularly focused upon the Lord Jesus, the day of the Lord is not to be feared.

Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

That's Matthew chapter 3 verse 2.

And the people wondered, could this be the Elijah promised by the prophet Malachi? Who would come...

who would come before the coming of the Messiah.

Well, John even said, there cometh one after me that is mightier than I, and he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.

That's Matthew 3, verse 11.

Then Jesus came preaching and he healed the sick.

He even raised the dead.

I always remember this verse because Michael Jordan is the best basketball player to ever live.

Matthew 23, 23.

I have weird ways to remember things in my brain.

And the things that I do remember are not the things that I always want to remember.

You can ask Lindsay.

I should remember some things, but I just remember lots of other random things for different reasons.

Matthew 23, 23.

For you are careful to tithe even...

You see, there's a cup of wrath that fills up.

Jesus said to the Pharisees in his day, if you read Matthew 23, he said, fill ye up the cup of indignation.

Fill the cup.

They're about to do something that was going to fill the cup of God's wrath to where it's going to overflow and he was going to destroy them.