Worship Reflections from October 2023
29 October 2023
Text: Matthew 22:34 – 46 Title: Putting Love Before Everything Else Introduction The Pharisees and the Sadducees have been taking turns, as if by design, trying to trap Jesus. Last Sunday in Matthew 22:15-22We have the Pharisees and the Herodians ganging up to entrap Jesus: “Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no one, for you do not regard people with partiality. 17 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it…
22 October 2023
REFLECTION What is God’s? CONTEXT The drama in Matthew’s Jerusalem is getting more serious. The Pharisees sensed that what Jesus stood for ran directly against what they stood for. The Pharisees derived their power and authority from demanding slavish adherence to the Jewish laws. Jesus threatened their authority. Who was to be followed? The religious leaders or this upstart carpenter – this Jesus who seemed to claim authority for himself, even above the law. In Matthew 21, Jesus had entered Jerusalem as if he…