Thoughts From the Bible

Read Matthew 23: 13- 14-   Jesus begins to call out the religious leaders through a series of "woes". Why be confrontational? Jesus is  wanting the religious leaders to truly be spiritual leaders for the people and to focus on God and God’s principles. Verse 13 says, “ But woe to you, scribes an d Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.”  The thought that strikes me today is that I nee d to be responsible to myself to allow Jesus to be my spiritual leader. I need to be disciplined enough spiritually to know I need to take what Jesus has said and follow what He has said. I do not need to  focus on another person and what they do to know what I should do. I need to be focused on how Jesus lived and what the priorities were while He walked the earth and follow Him. The Bible is full of  examples of how to live a Godly life and examples of what is not acce...

Read Matthew 22: 22- 33-   Even though the  Sadducees  were working to trap Jesus, Jesus used the situation  as a teaching moment. When they asked the theoretical question about marriage in heaven, Jesus answered them in verses 30 through 32,  ‘F or in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in  marriage but  are like angels in heaven. And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob”?  He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”’   Jesus is  wanting people to look at their spiritual lives, not the religious rules that were in place. He was working to make people spiritually alive and to see their lives through a spiritual lens. I need to do  that  too .  There is much talk about a Biblical worldview. This is simply applying God’s spiritual principle s to every aspect of our lives and how our lives ...