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madewithonerib · 4 years

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Matthew 23:23 | ²³ Woe to you, scribes & Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, & cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, & faithfulness.

You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

Matthew Henry, Nonconformist [1662-1714] | Matthew 23:23

23:13-33 The scribes & Pharisees were enemies to the GOSPEL of CHRIST, & therefore to the salvation of the souls of men.

It is bad to keep away from CHRIST ourselves, but worse also to keep others from HIM.

Yet it is no new thing for the show & form of godliness to be made a cloak to the greatest normities.

But dissembled piety will be reckoned double iniquity.

They were very busy to turn souls to be of their party.

Not for the glory of GOD & the good of souls, but that they might have the credit & advantage of making converts.

Gain being their godliness, by a thousand devices they made religion give way to their worldly interests.

They were very strict & precise in smaller matters of the law, but careless & loose in weightier matters.

It is not the scrupling a little sin that CHRIST here reproves; if it be a sin, though but a gnat, it must be strained out; but the doing that, & then swallowing a camel, or, committing a greater sin.

While they would seem to be godly, they were neither sober nor righteous.

We are really, what we are inwardly.

Outward motives may keep the outside clean, while the inside is filthy; but if the heart & spirit be made new, there will be newness of life; here we must begin with ourselves.

The righteousness of the scribes & Pharisees was like the ornaments of a grave, or dressing up a dead body, only for show.

The deceitfulness of sinners' hearts appears in that they go down the streams of the sins of their own day, while they fancy that they should have opposed the sins of former days.

We sometimes think, if we had lived when CHRIST was upon earth, that we should not have despised & rejected HIM, as men then did; yet CHRIST in HIS SPIRIT, in HIS WORD, in HIS ministers, is still no better treated.

And it is just with GOD to give those up to their hearts' lusts, who obstinately persist in gratifying them.

CHRIST gives men their true characters.

Charles John Ellicott, Theologian [1749–1905] | Matthew 23:23

[23] Ye pay tithe of mint & anise & cumin—The language of Deuteronomy 12:17 seems to recognize only corn, wine, & oil, among the produce of the earth as subject to the law of tithes.

The Pharisee, in his minute scrupulosity [based, it may be, on the more general language of Leviticus 27:30], made a point of gathering the 10th sprig of every garden herb, & presenting it to the priest.

So far as this was done at the bidding of an imperfectly illumined conscience our LORD does not blame it.

It was not, like the teaching as to oaths & the Corban, a direct perversion of the Law.

What HE did censure was the substitution of the lower for the higher. With the 3 examples of the “infinitely little” HE contrasts the 3 ethical obligations that were infinitely great, “judgment, mercy, & faith.”

The word translated “mint” means literally the “sweet-smelling,” the “fragrant.”

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madewithonerib · 5 years

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What does the BIBLE say about surrender?

Not only are we told in SCRIPTURE to surrender our lives in order to accept the free gift of salvation, but to pursue daily surrender of our sinful, prideful nature.

As Christians, we are to submit to the will of GOD, that which pleases HIM, & pursue truth & righteousness above all else.

In this pursuit, we may also cast our distress upon GOD as we trust in HIM in complete surrender.

Discover how & why we should surrender to GOD from this collection of inspiring BIBLE verses!

[2 Timothy 1:7; Galatians 2:20; James 1:22; James 4:7-10; Jeremiah 10:23; Matthew 6:33; Matthew 7:21; Matthew 11:28; Matthew 26:39; Proverbs 23:26; Psalm 9:10; Psalm 46:10; Psalm 50:15; Romans 12:1-2; Proverbs 3:5-6; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Luke 9:23-24; Mark 8:34-35; Mark 14:35-36; John 4:23-24; Philippians 2:5-8; 1 Peter 5:6-10; John 15:1-7;]

Surrender Verses:

● 2 Timothy 1:7 | ⁷ For GOD has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power, love, & self-control.

● Galatians 2:20 | ²⁰ I have been crucified with CHRIST, & I no longer live, but CHRIST lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the SON of GOD, who loved me & gave HIMSELF up for me.

● James 1:22 | ²² Be doers of the word, & not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

● James 4:7-10 | ⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to GOD. Resist the devil, & he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to GOD, & HE will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, & purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹ Grieve, mourn, & weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, & your joy to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the LORD, & HE will exalt you.

● Jeremiah 10:23 | ²³ I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

● Matthew 6:33 | ³³ But seek 1st the kingdom of GOD & HIS righteousness, & all these things will be added unto you.

● Matthew 7:21 | ²¹ Not everyone who says to ME, ‘LORD, LORD,’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of MY FATHER in Heaven.

● Matthew 11:28 | ²⁸ Come to ME, all you who are weary & burdened, & I will give you rest.

● Matthew 26:39 | ³⁹ Going a little farther, HE fell facedown & prayed, “MY FATHER, if it is possible, let this cup pass from ME. Yet not as I will, but as YOU will.”

● Proverbs 23:26 | ²⁶ MY son, give me your heart, & let your eyes delight in my ways.

● Psalm 9:10 | ¹⁰ Those who know YOUR name trust in YOU, for YOU, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek YOU.

● Psalm 46:10 | ¹⁰ “Be still & know that I am GOD; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”

● Psalm 50:15 | ¹⁵ Call upon ME in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, & you will honor ME.”

● Romans 12:1-2 | ¹ Therefore I urge you, believers, on account of GOD’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy & pleasing to GOD, which is your spiritual service of worship.

² Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test & approve what is the good, pleasing, & perfect will of GOD.

● Proverbs 3:5-6 | ⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart, & lean not on your own understanding; ⁶ in all your ways acknowledge HIM, & HE will make your paths straight.

● 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 | ¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a temple of the HOLY SPIRIT who is in you, whom you have received from GOD? YOU are not your own;

²⁰ you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify GOD with your body.

● Luke 9:23-24 | ²³ Then JESUS said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after ME, he must deny himself & take up his cross daily & follow ME.

²⁴ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for MY sake will save it.

● Mark 8:34-35 | ³⁴ Then JESUS called the crowd to HIM along with HIS disciples, & HE told them, “If anyone wants to come after ME, he must deny himself & take up his cross & follow ME.

³⁵ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for MY sake & for the GOSPEL will save it.

● Mark 14:35-36 | ³⁵ Going a little farther, HE fell to the ground & prayed that, if it were possible, the hour would pass from HIM.

³⁶ “ABBA, FATHER,” HE said, “all things are possible for YOU. Take this cup from ME. Yet not what I will, but what YOU will.”

● John 4:23-24 | ²³ But a time is coming & has now come when the true worshipers will worship the FATHER in spirit & in truth, for the FATHER is seeking such as these to worship HIM.

²⁴ GOD is SPIRIT, & HIS worshipers must worship HIM in spirit & in truth.”

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