Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?

Luke 11:37-54

Then the Lord said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.

Woe to you Pharisees, 

1) because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.

2)because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and respectful greetings in the marketplaces.

3) because you are like unmarked graves, which people walk over without knowing it.

Woe to the experts in the law

1) because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.

2)because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them.

3) because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering

When Jesus went outside, the Pharisees and the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions, waiting to catch him in something he might say.

Why?

This is the moment the Pharisees and experts in the law, oppose Jesus and wait to catch him in something he might say.

Jesus said this for Jesus came for this purpose, to preach the gospel and give all of us the chance to be freed from sins.

Most people caring the outside features and ignore the inside justice and love.

Pharisees and experts in the law are proud of what they know but they ignore what they are doing. So Jesus claimed to them that the Lord made a man outside and inside too. If there is a clean inside heart have a clean outside behavior.

How?

How about my daily life, how does my behavior show out?

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