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Matthew 16:1-12 sermon

Matthew 16:1-12 sermon

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Matthew 16:1-12 sermon

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  1. Bread & corruption Matthew 16:1-12

  2. Introduction With Coffee • Pharisees and Sadducees debate with Jesus With Dessert • A lot of the ideas Jesus preached were views of the Pharisees With Qualities With Taste

  3. Held government power from the Persian period through the Roman period • Sect formed by the wealthy and priestly classes • They were not nationalists • Did not believe in the resurrection • Satisfied with Roman control • Sadducees

  4. They started in 168 B.C.E. • They were separatists • They disdained Hellenistic Jews • They wanted to restore Torah study developed during the Ezra Nehemiah time • They believed one should help their enemy • They believed anger blinds a person to reality • They believe that love opens the eye so one can improve one situation • They believed in a resurrection • They started as a noble cause to maintain God worship • They could predict the weather, but not the future and they wanted to sign about the future from Jesus • Pharisees

  5. When the bread was made a handful was placed into a large wooden basin • Hot water was added • The dough dissolved to create a solution • The solution would rise because of fermentation • The solution was used the next day with new flower and the process repeated • The solution of bread and water was called the leaven of the house • People blessed each other’s leaven • When men fought, they would curse the leaven of the other man • Leaven was considered sacred because it had a hidden blessing from God • The leaven then was mixed with the new flower thus being spread into the new bread Culture

  6. Teaching is like leaven because it permeates the entire person • Jesus equates the leaven with teaching • Pharisees and Sadducees believed that their beliefs took precedence over the Torah • Pharisees teaching fermented the Jewish mind which caused the people to lose their spiritual understanding of God Teaching

  7. For Us Today • The Pharisees original intent was honorable and noble • Corruption is when a person discovers their power over another person and uses it to benefit themselves • Jesus tells us to watch out for corruption because corruption is not a part of the kingdom of heaven • Recognizing corruption is a way how Jesus saves us from sin

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