Following Jesus: Focus On The Message – Matthew 23
Last Updated on January 20, 2025 by Rocklyn Clarke
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Welcome to Focus On The Message – the first component of our Following Jesus discipleship program. This web page contains the lessons for:
Matthew 23
Purpose
Follow this link for information about these key aspects of our training: Purpose, Goals, Habits, Ministries, and Assignments.
Matthew 23
This chapter has 2 lessons. You should ideally cover one chapter (with all of its lessons) in a week, but please don’t let a week go by without completing at least one lesson.
Lesson 1: A Warning Against Hypocrisy
Main text and related passages:
- Matthew 23:1-12 – Bible Gateway
- Matthew 23:1-12; Mark 12:38-40; Luke 20:45-47
- “Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.” – Deuteronomy 6:4-9
- “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Throughout the generations to come(A) you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments,(B) with a blue cord on each tassel.” – Numbers 15:37-41
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Topics to explore:
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Additional resources to check out:
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- Matthew for Everyone, Part 2 (The New Testament for Everyone) by Tom Wright – Amazon.com
Training assignment (do this yourself, and use it to help train someone else):
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- Read the main passage and related passages above.
Lesson 2: Seven Woes
Main text and related passages:
- Matthew 23:13-39 – Bible Gateway
- Luke 11:37-54
- “Do not swear an oath at all” – Matthew 5:33-37
- tithe – Leviticus 27:30-33
- “strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel” – gnats and camels are both unclean:
- gnat – Leviticus 11:20-25
- camel – Leviticus 11:1-8
- Abel is the first murder victim in the Bible. Zechariah is the last prophet killed in the Hebrew Bible.
- Abel – Genesis 4:1-9
- Zechariah – 2 Chronicles 24:17-22
- “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord” – Psalm 118
Checkout the following:
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- Life Church Discipleship Resources – YouTube
- Hell – Check out videos on Gehenna.
- Life Church – Hell / Gehinnom – YouTube
- Life Church Discipleship Resources – YouTube
Topics to explore:
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Additional resources to check out:
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- Matthew for Everyone, Part 2 (The New Testament for Everyone) by Tom Wright – Amazon.com
Training assignment (do this yourself, and use it to help train someone else):
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- Read the main passage and related passages above.
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