Warnings & Rebukes

invite your attention to Luke chapter 11 tonight. Luke chapter 11 is I think about where we are in this stage of our Lord's life and ministry as we have talked about a good bit we're in the last six-month window of the Lord's life. I was thinking today about the fact that our Lord is approaching everything that is happening with the knowledge of how much time he has left. Just think about that. You know, none of us knows when the end of our life is coming obviously with some rare exceptions people who have terminal illnesses and know just about maybe how much time they have but we live day-to-day without any thought that I have six months left. I have three months left. I have two weeks. I have but Jesus knew exactly when he was going to die. He knew exactly what all was going to happen and yet you do not get the sense that our Lord is stressed or pressured or trying to cram a lot into these last few weeks. He is moving very calmly, deliberately, purposefully according to the Father's timetable. We saw back in Luke chapter 9 when it came to that time for him to go toward Jerusalem and the last six months of his life actually begins. The Bible says he, the King James says it this way, he set his face like a flint. He set out resolutely to go to Jerusalem. He knew he was on a timetable but you don't get the impression that he was pushing a lot of stuff to get it all done. He was just doing what the Lord had before him, what his Father planned out for him each day. And I'm impressed with that. I just there's so many things about our Lord's demeanor about his approach to his life, his ministry that just hold rich lessons for us. If I knew that six months from today I was going to die. If I knew that and I knew the time was the clock was ticking and the fuse was shortening. I knew that six months from today I'm not sure I would be able to have the kind of demeanor I see of our Lord. And so that's a lesson in itself I think. What we are finding is that the Lord is in a combination of dynamics in his life at this time, one of which is the instruction of the twelve teaching and training them, continuing to mold and shape and prepare them for the work they will do when he's gone. And the other dynamic in our Lord's life at this time in his ministry is the conflict that he has with the Pharisees and the religious leaders who are looking for any opportunity they can to trip him up, to trap him in a wrong answer, to put him in an awkward position so that they can discredit him before the people or maybe even have some accusation to lodge against him, maybe even legally to call down the Romans on him and they're looking for anything they can to put him to death. And what we're going to see tonight is some of that conflict with the Pharisees. We started into this story last week in Luke chapter 11, excuse me, verse 14, where Jesus cast out a demon and the demon had caused this man to be mute and Jesus cast him out. There's great rejoicing except the Pharisees sees upon this as an opportunity to criticize him again. Anytime they saw the tide of public opinions shifting Jesus way with a miracle or something like that they would immediately dive in with criticism and that's what they do this time. And remember we talked about last week the fact that they had tried this before, same accusation before, months before, up in Galilee but now they're on their home turf, Judea, Jerusalem area and they're going to try it with a different crowd and they accuse him of doing his miracles in the power of Satan. So Jesus basically issues a series of warnings. With the Pharisees in mind he is warning his hearers and the Pharisees about the dangers of the position they are in. So in a sense he's warning about the dangers of religion and that's what we're talking about tonight, the dangers of religion, the warnings about religion, the first warning we saw last week is the danger of choosing the wrong side. Jesus actually turns the tables on them. They're accusing him of doing his works by Satan's power and Jesus answers them by saying basically your argument is illogical, it is self-incriminating and it is really a demonstration of my own power because it takes someone stronger than Satan to cast out Satan's forces and so really he turned the tables on them and basically indicated you've got a choice to make. Remember he said if if the alternative to what you're saying is true, if I'm doing this with the remember what he talked about, remember the demonstration of the power of God, if I do this by the finger of God, that Old Testament expression for God's creative power, the giving of the law, the plagues, anytime there was amazing demonstration of power in order to highlight how easy that is for God to do, the finger of God is the expression that's used. So Jesus says if I'm really doing this by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come among you. And so basically he's drawing the lines, he's separating the sides and he's challenging his audience and really warning them about the danger of choosing the wrong side and basically the point is if you choose what the Pharisees say you're on the wrong side, you're on the side that is going to lose because I'm doing this by the finger of God and I have more power than Satan does. So the danger of choosing the wrong side, he gives three other warnings about religion, the second one and we'll begin here tonight and that is the danger of self-righteousness. The danger of self-righteousness will pick up in verse 24, Luke 11 verse 24. When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, I will return to the house I left. When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes seven other spirits, more wicked than itself and they go in and live there and the final condition of that man is worse than the first. What do you think Jesus is describing here? The demon possessed man. The demon is driven out. Everything is nice and tidy and clean inside but empty. So the demon comes back, finds its empty, says, I'm going to go back in but I'm going to take seven others with me. What is Jesus getting at here? What's he talking about? Aha. Yes. You're onto something there. That's a key thought that the demon finds the house empty, swept clean, cleaned up tidy, but empty. What's Jesus is obviously using a metaphor and a word picture in the context of accusing the Pharisees, what do you think he's getting at? Okay. All right. Yes. That's very true. I think that's part of what Jesus is getting at. Steve? Child of God but no fruit. That can certainly happen. And in an Old Testament sense, these were the people of God. They were God's covenant people, but the nation under the leadership of the Pharisees had born no real fruit of being genuine children of God, even though nationally they were God's chosen people. Jesus is to pull together what you've said here and kind of tie it all together. I think Jesus is talking about the condition he finds the nation in under the spiritual leadership of the Pharisees. Remember, he's warning them about the Pharisees because the Pharisees have accused him and he's basically said, okay, we got two sides here. Remember, he's just said in verse 23, he was not with me. He's against me. He does not gather with me scatters. So he's drawn clearly. There are two sides here. You got to make sure which side you're on. And I think what he what he's doing here is he's he's giving a picture of the nation of Israel under the leadership of its religious leaders, the Pharisees. The demon has been driven out and there's a sense in which Jesus may be talking about the fact that the Pharisees did clean up the house real good. In the Old Testament there was a lot of idolatry and open wickedness. You know, the some of the kings of Israel brought in just unbelievable false religions and God sent the people into captivity and one of the things the captivity did for the nation of Israel is it cured them of idolatry. Now, they would come back to the land and they would not go back to idolatry in the sense of worshipping the gods of other nations again. They didn't do that again. So the demon had been cast out in a sense and the Pharisees come in and when the Pharisees started, you may recall 18 months ago when we started into the life of Christ we talked about the different religious parties in the land and remember the Pharisees, the Pharisees were in the beginning very good. They were very zealous for the law of God, the Old Testament, very zealous for righteousness and people who live for God. But then they began to add to the scriptures a lot of their own things and it became very self-righteous and so they cleaned the house up good. Everything is tidy. You can't find any dust or dirt anywhere. A lot of outward righteousness, apparent holiness, but it's all empty. It's empty. And what that what that is a picture of is self-righteous religion which looks good on the outside but doesn't have anything at the heart. It doesn't have like Jean said God in the heart doesn't really have a personal heart relationship with Christ. So it's formally outwardly appearance is great. The house is all clean but there's been nothing really in the heart, nothing on the inside. It's empty and so that gives the demon the opportunity to come back with others of his kind and make the situation worse than it was before. What Jesus basically is saying you're worse off now than you were before under the leadership of the Pharisees. So again he's warning them about the danger of self-righteousness. Self-righteousness, man-made religion makes you worse off than you were when you were living an ungodly immoral wicked life. Now chew on that one for a while. Who's worse off in God's eyes? The immoral pagan or the self-righteous religious person who doesn't have Christ in his heart. What Christ is saying is you're worse off to be that self-righteous hollow-hearted religious person. Worse off than before. That's the condition of the nation under the leadership of the Pharisees. I think that's what Jesus is getting at. He's again saying you got to choose sides. If you choose sides with the Pharisees I'm telling you you're getting yourself into a man-made self-righteous religious system that will make you as he will say later to fold a child of hell than before. That's what he said in Matthew 23. You're worse off than before. So danger of self-righteousness. Now notice what happens next in verse 27. As Jesus was saying these things a woman in the crowd called out blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you. He replied blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it. That's interesting isn't it? The woman evidently is so impressed with Jesus' power with his reasoning with what he's saying and rightly so. She's so impressed with that that she just kind of bursts out in praise but the praise is somewhat misdirected. Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you. Now there's a sense in which she's praising Jesus but Jesus is saying there is something that brings greater blessing and that is anyone who hears the word of God and obeys it. Now here again Jesus is really drawing the distinction between how can I don't say it a superficial human fleshly relationship with Jesus and one who is a follower of Jesus from the heart. You see Jesus is not saying no Mary is not blessed. He's not saying that. He's saying God's blessing does not come on those who are just humanly close to Jesus even if it's his mother. That's not what brings God's blessing. Mary was not blessed simply because she bore the Messiah. That was not what God that was not the reason she was blessed. Remember the angel spoke to her and talked about her being blessed before she'd ever conceived. God came to her because she was already a woman whose heart was obedient to God. Remember we saw that Sunday morning she was careful to obey the law of God in Luke 2. God knew that she had that kind of heart. That's the reason she was blessed because her heart was right with God not just because there is a human tie to Jesus. So again the warning is about self-righteous religion because there are a lot of people in religion who have some tie to Jesus. They may claim the name of Jesus. They may have some kind of outward superficial. They take the name Christian but what Jesus is saying is that doesn't make anyone blessed of God what makes you blessed of God is the heart relationship with him that leads to obedience. That's what makes you blessed. So Jesus will always do away with the superficial in favor of the heart relationship with God and that's what he's getting at again. He's still warning about just an outward connection if you will with Jesus self-righteousness. Again he's not saying Mary was self-righteous or wrong. He's just cautioning this woman about conferring God's blessing simply because there is a human connection to Jesus. That's not where God's blessing lies. God's blessing lies in the one who's obedient from the heart. Okay so there's a warning about the danger of self-righteousness here. Any common or question about that? Okay third warning is warning about the danger of greater judgment versus 29 to 32. Look at what he warns about next. As the crowds increased Jesus said this is a wicked generation it asks for a miraculous sign which they had done back in verse 16. Remember they kept asking for some kind of sign from heaven, some kind of miracle like call down fire from heaven, do something you know lunar eclipse and we do something that we can see. And so he says this is a wicked generation it asks for miraculous sign but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites so also will the Son of Man be to this generation. Now how was Jonah a sign to the Ninevites? What kind of sign was he to the Ninevites? What had God done to get him there? He probably looked yellow and wrinkled and little eaten up didn't he? The very fact that God had spared his life and allowed him to still go to Ninevites was a sign. I mean God miraculously delivered him and put him there for the Ninevites and that was a sign and in the same way he says Jesus will be a sign to this generation. The Son of Man will be to this generation. Now we all know that Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights as Matthew 12 says and Jesus will be in the earth three days and three nights will be dead three days three nights then resurrected. So what is the only sign that he's going to give to the nation of Israel? Death and resurrection. Yeah resurrection. That's the miracle that's going to be the sign. This sign this this generation is asking for a miraculous sign do something really neat like fire from heaven something from heaven and Jesus says the only sign you're going to get the resurrection. Okay now there would be other miracles it would be done. Remember we dealt with this before when we were in Matthew 12 there were other miracles of compassion and miracles designed to teach the disciples but as far as providing credentials for Messiah ship there no more signs the only sign left is the resurrection. That's the only one. So that's what he's talking about here. Then he uses another example verse 31 the Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom and now one greater than Solomon is here the men of men of will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it for they repented at the preaching of Jonah and now one greater than Jonah is here. Now what Jesus is doing here is warning about the danger of greater judgment. It's a warning about religion. If you get religion when you get close to Jesus but you don't really know him you're in big trouble. There's danger of greater judgment and he uses these two old testament examples Jonah preaching to the Ninevites and the Queen of the South or the Queen of Sheba coming to hear Solomon's wisdom and he says those two will stand up and condemn this generation that I'm preaching to in the day of judgment because of the difference in reaction and response to the light. Now obviously there is a contrast here there's contrast between the Ninevites and the Queen of Sheba and the generation of Jesus day. What are the contrasts? What contrasts can you think of that makes the responsibility of Jesus' generation so much greater they'll answer for so much more. What are the differences? Can you think of any? Okay. All right. Solomon was a wise man the wisest man of his day. He can't hold a candle to Jesus. One wiser than Solomon is here. Okay so there's a big difference there. Think about the Ninevites. Who did they hear preach? Who did the Ninevites hear preach? Jonah. Who was this generation hearing preach? Now sure Jonah was a good preacher but I don't think he could match up to Jesus. So there's a contrast. There's a contrast in who they heard. Who the Ninevites heard Jonah but you people get to hear the Son of God. Okay the Queen of Sheba listen to the wisdom of Solomon but you're listening to the wisdom of the sage of eternity you know the the Son of God. There's no there's no comparison so that makes your responsibility huge. Are there other contrasts here? They got to see the miracles yes they saw first-hand evidence of the power of the Son of God is deity for sure. Do the Ninevites and the Queen of Sheba have anything in common? Who said it? Gene you're guilty. You're right. They're Gentiles. There's another contrast. Both the Ninevites and the Queen of Sheba are Gentiles who especially in the Old Testament we would not expect to respond so well even though God wanted the Gentiles to Israel was supposed to be a light to the Gentiles you're talking about people who had very little to work with as far as the law of God opportunity to hear what God is doing. They had very little opportunity. Ninevites, Queen of Sheba, you people are Jews in listening to Jesus. You have the Old Testament law you have the privilege of the very Son of God in your presence in your midst and I think that leads to another contrast. Jonah came from a long distance to bring the message to the Ninevites. Queen of Sheba came from a long distance to hear Solomon. You have the privilege of not having to travel anywhere. He's right here with you. Right in your midst the Son of God has come to you. So all of those contrasts I think lead Jesus to say you you're gonna have it rough in the judgment. I mean the men of Ninevites and the Queen of Sheba are gonna get up and condemn you because they had very little light but they responded to it. You've got a great light and you're rejecting it and the same thing can be said of religion today. Much of what goes under the name of Christianity has tremendous responsibility because of being so close to the light you take in comparison to other people in other parts of the world who do not have that kind of opportunity but people who have been close to the light but have chosen a form of religion and dead works over the light. Wow what you have to answer for if you've done that is is pretty awesome. So the danger of religion is the danger of greater judgment. I definitely do. That's why you see on many mission fields where the the gospel is making inroads you see great results people being saved because people who have a form of religion are deceived. People who don't can more easily see their need. I've often said it this way the difficulty in America is you got to get people lost first and that's the hard thing. You got to get them lost before you can get them saved and in other parts of the world people pretty easily see their need and when they hear the gospel they recognize that's the answer in America people think well I don't need that I already got what I need and so it's hard to get people you have to take an extra step you have to get them lost first you have to convince them that their centers and that's the hard part that's the reason why it's so much difference. So the danger of greater judgment and then quickly verses 31 to 33 to 36 the danger of rejecting the light this is another danger of religion the danger of rejecting the light. Verse 33 Jesus says no one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden or under a bowl instead he puts it on on its stand so that those who come in may see the light. Let me show you a picture of a typical light in Bible times it would be a small lamp like this. I have an example that I bought in Israel when I was over there I should have brought it with me show you the size of it. It's only about the size of your hand or a little smaller just a little a little lamp that has oil in it and a wick coming out the scooped in they're made out of clay and that end is kind of pinched and scooped there's a wick that sticks up out of that you like that wick it draws the oil from that little basin in the lamp and that's the light that would be talked about in Bible times so that's why you can see talks about putting it up on a stand you don't hide it you don't put it down where it can't be seen you put it up on a stand where it'll give light to the room. Many makes an interesting parallel verse 34 your eye is the lamp of your body when your eyes are good your whole body is also full of light but when they are bad your body is also full of darkness. See to it then that the light within you is not darkness therefore if your whole body is full of light and no part of it is dark it will be completely lighted as when the light of a lamp shines on you. Makes an interesting comparison here and that is okay he's put the image in our mind of a lamp that is put up where it gives light to the whole room it illuminates and they says your eye is the lamp of your body. The eye is the lamp of the body in the sense that it lets the light in. The eye is like the window or the door of your soul it lets the light in. Whatever comes through your eye and by extension your other senses your ears and so forth whatever you allow into your lamp or your door the entrance way into your mind is what either brings darkness or light. So there's a sense in which Jesus is saying it's all in how you see things and the Pharisees have chosen to see things wrongly and so they have let darkness into their soul. Be careful Jesus says that you don't let darkness in through your eyes in the window and door of your soul and so that everything in you is darkness. Okay it's basically Jesus is saying it's all in how you receive the information you've been given. Some people saw Jesus and they allowed that information to be taken in in a way that the Pharisees taught them he's doing his miracles by the power of Satan and when they let that in through the eyes through the lamp of their body when they let that in through their senses then everything's dark but he says if you see it correctly if you let the light in through your eyes into your soul then you have life you have light. I think that's that's probably the idea here it's a little obscure in our culture to grasp all that Jesus is talking about here but I think that's the idea. Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it sounds like beating around the bush doesn't it? Well he's gonna quit beating around the bush here in just a little bit. We're gonna we're gonna get some really tough and straight talk here in just a minute. You brought up an interesting point though Jean and that it remember Jesus describes in Matthew 13 why he uses parables. He uses illustrations like this for two reasons. One is to make the truth clearer to those who have a heart to receive it who are the ones to whom the father has revealed him and their heart is right with him and and they get it and so they get these analogies and it becomes like a picture for them but it also hardens and closes the heart of those who've already rejected him. They don't get it. They don't see what he's talking about. There was two fold reason for the the parables or the the kinds of word pictures and illustrations Jesus used. For those who were not spiritually entuned as Paul would say later in 1 Corinthians who had not the spirit it was all foolishness to them. What's he talking about? But for those who had the spirit for those whose whose hearts were open by the Lord they got it. They saw what he was picturing. So it does it does it times seem kind of obscure and why is he dealing with all these pictures and we have to interpret them but that's that's part of the reason at least. We're going to see in just a moment that Jesus drops all of that and just goes straight for the jugular with the Pharisees. Oh man does he ever? Okay any other question about this interaction here with the warnings about the dangers of religion? Okay the writer the gospel writer Luke moves to the next occasion. We don't know how much time had elapsed here but it seems to seems to happen pretty quickly. According to verse 37 when Jesus had finished speaking a Pharisee invited him to eat with him. Now what we're going to find here is the rebukes about hypocrisy. Jesus is going to be invited to a dinner and at this dinner Jesus is going to dive in to some very clear unmistakable no word picture well there are word pictures here but it's clear what he's saying. Rebuke about the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. He's going to make it very plain but let's look first at the issue which drew the rebukes in verses 37 to 41. Jesus has finished speaking a Pharisee invited him to eat with him so he went in and reclined at the table. Why do you think Pharisee invites Jesus to lunch? You think it's he wants to enjoy the pleasure of his company? Do you think he wants to share the riches of scripture with Jesus around the table? Do you think he's wanting to learn the concerns of Jesus' heart so that he can share those? I don't think that's going on. We're going to find out later in the story that there are scribes also there. scribes remember the Old Testament scholars they were the ones that were trying to trick Jesus into some controversy about the law some maybe mistaken statement about the law they will do this continually now till he dies. The scribes are there they're planted they're planted so there's a there's a there's an agenda for having Jesus over for dinner. Jesus is going to be the main course but you know what happens this is this is the way the Lord operates from now on and it just it's beautiful if Jesus is going to be the main course and he knows what's going on he knows why he's there he's going to give them a case of indigestion they'll never forget and he does I mean it it gets rough look at what happens here's here's the occasion verse 38 but the Pharisee noticing that Jesus did not first wash before the meal was surprised. Here's the scene all the Pharisees and scribes and all the people who've been invited this meal are lined up at the basin to go through this ceremonial cleansing before the meal Jesus squeezes through goes on and sits down is he being uncivilized is he being rude for not washing his hands what do you think the Pharisees surprised that Jesus would do that is it because he's an uncivilized hick from Galilee they know how to wash up before dinner is that it is very important to them okay okay let me read you a quote and I'll reason to it here I think and the rest of you are I think with her we read you a quote from William Barclay William Barclay was a writer on the Gospels he almost focused entirely on the Gospels and he he had such a wonderful grasp of the background the culture the history the geography and he always brought that into his writings listen to what he says says the hand washing was not in the interests of hygienic purity it was ceremonial cleanness which was at stake and he describes it from the from the cultural background before every meal and between each of the courses the hands had to be washed and they had to be washed in a certain way the hands to begin with had to be free of any coding of sand or mortar or gravel or any such substance the water for washing had to be kept in special large stone jars so that it itself was clean in the ceremonial sense it had not come into contact with anything that would render it religiously unclean in the sense of the mosaic law so that it was clean and ceremonial sense and so that it might be certain that it had been used for no other purposes and that nothing had fallen into it or it had been mixed or had been mixed with it okay here's how it was done here's how the washing was done first the hands were held with the fingertips pointing upwards water was poured over them and had to run at least down to the wrist the minimum amount of water was one quarter of a log that not the log you're thinking about which is equal to one and a half egg shells full of water while the hands were still wet each hand had to be cleaned with the fist of the other while the water is running down toward the wrist you clean this hand with the fist of the other at this stage the hands were wet with water but that water was now unclean because it had touched unclean hands so next the hands had to be held with the fingertips pointing downwards and water had to be poured over them in such a way that it began at the wrist and ran off at the fingertips after all that had been done the hands were considered clean to fail to do this was in Jewish eyes not to be guilty of bad manners but to be dirty not to be dirty in the health sense but to be unclean in the side of God okay now that is probably the foremost authority on the cultural background of the gospels William Barclay he describes the the custom of the day which was involved in this Pharisees ritual now this was not taught in the Old Testament not not that level of complexity and detail so they had added all that and basically it said before you eat a meal you must be ceremonially clean in God's eyes and this is how it happens and so they're all lining up to do this this bit you know you know that that kind of stuff and now I'm clean before God and Jesus just kind of nudges his way in goes in sits down who that didn't go over well it did not go over well at all but Jesus rather than being on the defensive starts on the offensive and reams them up one side and down the other rakes them over the coals for their hypocrisy now I want you to really get a feel for this we're not going to be able to get too far into it tonight but I want you to feel for this because every once in a while in the gospels you see this Jesus unleashes his anger and lets it roar I think this was an occasion where his eyes flashed his voice boomed and his holy wrath lashed out at that which angered him most and when you find the anger of Jesus in the gospels it is always at the self-righteous hypocrisy of the Pharisees that's what it was in the temple that's what it was in Mark 3 when they setting up by having the man with the withered hand there and Jesus looks around and sees the hypocrisy of their hearts and he's filled with anger it's always itself righteous hypocrisy and it flared here and I do think his eyes were flashing I think they were set I think his voice was booming and he let them have it by the way this reveals what anger is the heart of God what anger is the heart of God more than anything else and you'll find that several times in the gospels is self-righteousness and hypocrisy that ticks God off it does and so here's what here's what Jesus does Jesus starts in in verse 39 the Lord said to him now then you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup in the dish but inside you're full of greed and wickedness you foolish people did not the one who who made the outside make the inside also but give what is inside the dish to the poor and everything will be clean for you see Jesus is saying you put the emphasis on the outside for cleansing God puts it on the inside now where did the Pharisees get all of these rules mark tells us mark tells us very plainly in his account in Mark chapter 7 verses 3 and 4 the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing according to the Old Testament according to the law of Moses no according to the tradition of the elders that's the traditions that the religious leaders had added on to the law of Moses when they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash and they observe many other traditions such as the washing of cups pictures and kettles so that's why Jesus is weighing in on this that's why when everybody lined up at the basin Jesus says excuse me excuse me muscle this way in and sat down didn't even wash his hands that's why because he's going to use this as an opportunity to show them they are wicked on the inside they are dirty and unclean on the inside but oh everything on the outside looks great they've done the ceremonial washings and so he begins with this idea of the outside of the cup being clean because see you know Matthew set or Mark 7 says it went further than just the hands it also included the cups and the pictures and the kettles I mean the dishes too everything on the outside looks great but he says the inside is dirty okay now what Jesus is going to do next is give them six rebukes six woes woe unto you woe unto you woe and six times he's going to say that and those six times the word woe is always a message of judgment in other words you are condemned by God and here are six reasons why boy this is really this is really hard stuff and we don't have time to get into it tonight we'll have to we'll have to get to it next week but there are what he does is he gives them six signs of their hypocrisy and says here's the reason you're going to be judged the the basic principle is you've got to clean outside and a dirty inside you look good outside and that's the way you want it you want to look good to everybody out but your inside is dirty and he's going to give him six evidences of that okay we'll take a look at it next week you might want to read him this week and just see how penetrating and how straightforward this is and at the end they're going to want to kill him worse they really are they're going to want to they're going to they want to kill him bad now so this is the this is a kind of conflict Jesus is in all right time's up let's pray father help us to learn from our Savior even as we just watch and observe him as he interacts with religious people who are leading others astray pray father that you would help us to learn from the compassion and tenderness of Jesus but help us also to learn Lord from the times when his eyes flashed and his voice boomed and he was angry help us to to learn why he was angry and what he was angry at and and Lord help us to be angry at the evidences of that in our own lives angry enough to do something about it to get rid of it to go deeper to really make sure our hearts are where they need to be so help us to learn from our Lord what really matters to you and what makes you angry in Jesus name amen