This week we are continuing with our short teachings about the “woes” of Matthew 23. This one was pretty harsh, harsher than it seems without context. So why were the tombs whitewashed in the first place? And when? And what did it mean to this Passover audience?
This week we are continuing with our series on the Matthew 23 “woe to you Scribes and Pharisees” verses. It’s pretty tough to teach our kids the difference between just rebuking people willy nilly and doing it with a pure heart and motives and with knowledge like our Messiah. This week, He gave them credit where credit was due before telling them how they were missing the point of tithing altogether!
This week I did a short video about something very frustrating that the first century Pharisees were doing. You see, they had some special rules for oaths and vows (types of promises) that allowed them to get away with not doing what they promised to do if they changed their mind later. Yeshua/Jesus was so angry about it that He told them they were dishonoring God and shouldn’t swear oaths at all–because God told them to swear all their oaths in His Name and they weren’t doing it. We’re going to talk about what this means for us as believers, because this is still a problem with people in general today.
The extended version of this teaching is available for download as a podcast here:
So what was Moses’s seat that Yeshua/Jesus was talking about in Matthew 23? Did someone save Moses’s chair from when he was alive? Was it even a chair at all? Was it just a figure of speech? We’re going to look at an archaeological find from the synagogue in Chorazin and talk about what it might be.