Matthew 23:13 “But woe to you, scribes and 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.(ESV)
If you missed this weekend’s messages, I encourage you to go back and read them. Today’s thought builds on those ideas.
Over the weekend we talked about the knife that never cuts and the things God has already placed in our hands. Both messages centered on the same question: What are we doing with what God has entrusted to us?
The Pharisees provide a sobering answer.
They knew Scripture. They studied diligently. They preserved God’s Law.
Yet somewhere along the way many became curators instead of stewards.
Jesus said: “But woe to you”.
The problem wasn’t that they cared too much about God’s Word. The problem was that they became more concerned with guarding it than living it.
Knowledge became status. Truth became a possession. Stewardship became gatekeeping.
That danger still exists today.
We can collect sermons, books, studies, podcasts, and Bible knowledge while neglecting the very obedience those things were meant to produce.
The purpose of truth isn’t admiration. The purpose of truth is transformation.
A knife was made to cut. A gift was given to be used. And faith was never meant to sit safely on a shelf.
Walking With Christ 
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