Matthew 23:2-4 records some words of our Lord Jesus Christ about the scribes and Pharisees of his day. He said this:
The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ chair. Therefore, do and observe whatsoever they tell you, but do not do according to their deeds for they say but do not do. They bind heavy and grievous burdens and place them on the shoulders of people, but they themselves are not willing to move these things with their finger.
In those days, when someone was going to teach, he sat down. The scribes and Pharisees were teachers of the Law of Moses. They sat (taught) in Moses’ chair. Our Lord Jesus tells us that these teachers, as they spoke the words of Moses, spoke correctly. But even while they accurately related the truths of the Law, they were not themselves followers of Moses. They did not feel the weight of what they taught. As teachers of the law, they did not think that the weight of the law would fall on them. This, I think, was one of the reasons why the religious leaders hated our Lord Jesus Christ. He exposed their lawlessness, their sinfulness. Jesus had been sent to save sinners; he came to die in the place of the lawless and to rise again for their justification, yet the religious leaders did not and would not regard themselves as needing repentance or faith in Christ. They were the righteous ones.
It is important to note that these accurate Bible teachers were nevertheless unbelievers. They said all the right words, even the words of Moses that pertained to the forgiveness of sins on the basis of an acceptable sacrifice. But they did not believe that the words applied to them.
I am reading at the moment many sermons by Presbyterian ministers from the 18th Century. These men were learned, very orthodox, but were essentially moral preachers. Many of them were not believers. In a printed sermon of 123 pages about the Spirit of the Gospel, no more than 10 lines had anything to say about the Gospel itself. The sermon was wholly about how ‘Christians’ ought to live. It said very little about the sinners’ guilt before God and what God had done to save the ungodly, and how one may obtain an interest in the salvation that Christ has won.
A sermon may be true in all that is said but it may yet fail to say what is most important. For a year and a half, the apostle Paul determined to know nothing among the Corinthian church but Christ and him crucified. This apostle then wrote two letters to that same church urging it to hold fast to the gospel that he had preached, least they had believed in vain. We all must be careful how we hear the Word, and to assess our own response to it.
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