Majoring in Minors | Matthew 23:23-24

[00:00:00] We'll truth, Daily This is Daily Truths with Dave Ahlman Everybody welcome back to Daily Truths. Do we sometimes in our everyday life and also in church focus on minor things at the expense of focusing on major things?

[00:00:21] You know I gotta say as I'm walking you through the New Testament especially here in Matthew chapter 23 there's a lot of Pharisee in every one of us. I know that Jesus directed these words towards Pharisees but there's life application in every

[00:00:35] one of these verses because there's a little bit of Pharisee in all of us and is result of that. Sometimes we have to take our medicine as Jesus distributes it in these texts. So today we talk about Matthew chapter 23 verses 23 and 24.

[00:00:51] Woe to You, Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you. Ty the Mint and Dylan Kumme, we talk about that yesterday and have neglected the way to your matters. The law, justice and mercy and faithfulness. Now again we said that Jesus wasn't dismissing, but they were tithing at the expense

[00:01:10] of focusing on things that matter even more regarding the kingdom of God. These you ought to have done without neglecting the others. Jesus said now verse 24, you blind guides. We talked about that a couple days ago. You blind guides straining out a net and swallowing a camel.

[00:01:28] So in their ceremonial eating, if there was a net in the wine that they were drinking, they would get a strainer and take it out. Meanwhile Jesus was saying you can swallow a camel and not notice it at all. What's he saying? You're majoring in minors.

[00:01:48] Do we do that sometimes? Let's think about the church. Do we sometimes argue in churches at the expense of the great commission? That the expense of Jesus last will in testament to the church, which was basically

[00:02:00] to make Jesus known, that preach the gospel, to get the gospel out. But do we sometimes spend more time on things that really from any eternal perspective, really don't matter? And then kind of dismiss the great commission. You're probably thinking, well like what? Like screens or no screens?

[00:02:20] Robes or no robes? Contemporary worship or liturgical worship? Who's or chairs? The praise band being in the front of the church or in the back of the church? All these different kind of things.

[00:02:33] We sometimes spend so much time on at the expense of telling our neighbor about the Lord Jesus or think about this in our own individual lives. I've known people who emphasize dress, so we dress in church more than having a willingness

[00:02:50] to reach out to their neighbor and show kindness to them in a time of need. We're doing we sometimes say, hey, I read the scriptures every day, but we're unwilling to forgive someone who's wrongness.

[00:03:01] Or we might say, oh, I go to Bible study consistently, but rarely take ownership for how we've offended other people. You get what I'm saying. We can oftentimes focus on minor things at the expense of major things.

[00:03:15] Now as I say all these things, I know these words are convicting to me because oftentimes I do the things that I'm talking about today. I major in minors, but here's the marvelous thing.

[00:03:27] When we bring that before the Lord, when we confess our sins, when we acknowledge it sometimes, yes, that's me. I major in minors at the expense of things that are really important regarding the kingdom of God. If we admit that and confess that, guess what?

[00:03:43] God comes to us. He's faithful and just. He forgives our sins. He cleans us from all and righteousness. As he heard me say so many times, he allowed his son to go to the cross to die for all

[00:03:55] our wrongs, including majoring in minors and kind of eliminating major things that really we should be more concerned about instead of things that Satan will oftentimes occupy our mind and our churches on, hey, we all do that.

[00:04:10] And so we need to humbly go before God and say, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. And when we say that, when we know that we've messed up, we've broken God's commands. We've majored in minors.

[00:04:21] God comes to us with an open, transparent loving, forgiving, compassionate heart and says, you're a sins or forgiven, go and sin no more. So my friends, that's what we need to do. Are you in your life majoring in minors?

[00:04:37] Do things consume your mind, your thought, and attention at the expense of doing what is really godly, right pure on us faithful and all the different things that we talk about today. Remember, the Pharisees were saying, oh, tithing is so important, especially as we raise

[00:04:54] these vegetables and these herbs, we need to tie them on that mean while justice, mercy, faithfulness was being ignored. They were majoring in minors. May we not do that in our own walk with the Lord Jesus.

[00:05:06] And when we find ourselves doing that, go before the Lord, receive us forgiveness and turn about face, right? Walking a different direction, go 180 degrees, the opposite way, amend your sinful life. And that is today's daily truth. Have a great day in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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