Matthew 20-23

Jesus entered the temple area and rove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changes and the benches of those selling doves. -21:12

I love what my Pastor pointed out one time, emotions comes from combining e, which means out, and motion, so emotions are supposed to make us go out and do something. Therefore, a righteous anger is one that will make us do something to fix the problem. Angry with the state of the world? Do something about it.


"What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went ot the first and said, 'Son, go and work today in the vineyard.'
'I will not,' he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go."
     -21:28-30
Too many of us are the second son, we can talk the talk so well, but we're not walking the walk. I'll write more on that later..


" 'Love the Lord your God will all your heart and will all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." -22:37-40

Pretty straightforward.. but think about this. One of my favorite songs right now, "Awaken my Soul" sung by Mumford & Sons says, where you invest your love, you invest your life. Want to give your life to Christ? Give your love to Christ.


"But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach." -23:3

When we talk the talk without walking the walk, we're Pharisees; plain and simple.


"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness." -23:25-28

And again.. talking the talk. Another verse to think about..
"All a man's ways seem right to him, but the LORD weights the heart." -Proverbs 21:2