You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! — Matt. 23:24
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean. — Matt. 23:25-26
They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. — Matt. 23:4
From the workbook:
- What reasons for listening to Jesus does Piper list? Can you think of any others that Jesus said?
- How do Jesus’ words lead to eternal life?
- What hinders so many people from being willing to listen to Jesus and truly hearing him and believing the truth of his words?
- Explain what Piper means by a “non-listener” by describing what it means to have “no place” for Jesus’ word, to not be “of the truth,” and to not be “of God.”
- How do you listen to Jesus? How much do you listen to Jesus? How much do you listen to Jesus compared to how much you listen to other competing “voices”?
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