2819 Church - ENTRY & END TIMES | Woe to You | Matthew 23:13-39 | Philip Anthony Mitchell

Episode Date: May 19, 2025

In Week 13 of “ENTRY & END TIMES,” Pastor Philip brought a weighty warning from Matthew 23:13–39.Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for their hypocrisy—appearing righteous while neglecting mercy, justice, and faithfulness. We were urged not to block the way for others, but to walk in truth, humility, and repentance.

Be seated. If you are guests of 2819, sitting in this room overflow wherever you are We welcome you to our church where we are very serious about the spread of the gospel and the multiplying disciples Because we are socially aware Biblically conscious that time is running out and that this is the hour. This is the moment To be serious about your walk with the Lord Jesus Christ. If you are one of our digital disciples watching me live right now across the nation or around the world, we welcome you to 2019.

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We are in the end or the back half of one of the most important series in our study through the book of Matthew. We are in a series called Entry and End Times in which we are studying together the final words and the final actions of our Lord and Savior, the man Jesus Christ. In this message, our text is coming from Matthew chapter 23 verses 13 through 36. We tag a title to this text that is most appropriate. Woe to you. Spirit of the Living God, you who dwell in eternal light. You who are sovereign and all-knowing and all-powerful, now in this moment I pray an awakening for the sons and daughters.

Trouble the atheist. Trouble the one who is far away from you and draw them to yourself as your holy word is proclaimed I pray in my weakness you give me strength to declare these truths that are forever settled in heaven We want to lean in to see your beauty your brilliance and your majesty Your love and your fury, not for entertainment, not to hear a man, but to behold the beauty of the one you called the Christ. I ask this in the mighty and the majestic and the matchless name of our soon-coming king the Lord Jesus Christ amen and amen and amen

woe to you Our family from the days of the beginning of my Christian walk in November 2003 I have seen two grievous forces that are always at work against those who call themselves followers of Christ and those who may even be seekers of Christ. One of those forces is that I have seen is that those of us who call ourselves followers of Christ will always be the subject of spiritual attacks Because we have a real enemy called Satan that dragon of all Who hates those who bear the image of God and so as long as you and I have breath

And as long as you and I bear the name of Christ, we will always be the subject of spiritual attacks It is that annoyance when all things are going well and then out of nowhere a storm rises up in your life well out of nowhere hell breaks out from every side in your life a Backstabbing a friend abandons you, trouble in the marriage, a doctor's report, an affliction you didn't plan for. Satan now has come against your home, your mind, your heart, your marriage, your children. We know this by the writings of Paul, when he penned the letter to the church at Ephesus. He taught us in chapter 6 that God gave you and I a spiritual armor, We taught us in chapter 6 that God gave you and I a spiritual armor, and that spiritual armor of Ephesians chapter 6 prophesies to you a battle.

So there is no Christianity without a fight. Let me say this to you again. There is no Christianity without a fight. Let me say this one more time. There is no Christianity without warfare. There is no Christianity without warfare There is no Christianity or fight. That's why we must train followers of Christ man to be fit for battle and for warfare Especially when you're going in the right direction sometimes opposition is assigned to you that you're on the right path And of all the pieces the armor fits on there is one place

There is no armor and that is for your back, because there is only one direction in the kingdom, and that is forward. But I have seen in my 21 years of walking with the Lord, another grievous thing that come against those who are followers of Christ or those who are seekers of Christ, and not only spiritual warfare but spiritual deception. This is when the enemy works through those who are false teachers, who have false teachings with false authority coming after the saints of God or the seekers of God to lower them away from Christ, away from the church, away from the Word, away from

truth. Both of them are destructive, but I think, in my estimation, the one that is most damaging is the latter one. Spiritual deception. Because, family, you can go through a spiritual battle and still come out with your faith intact. You can go through a spiritual battle and still come out on the other side. But there are people who have been the victims of spiritual deception, hear me, who has not come out on the other side, but there are people who have been the victims of spiritual deception, hear me, who has not come out on the other side. They have not come out with their faith. They have not come out with their testimony. You see this all the time in the United States. People who went to seminary and say, I don't know if

the Bible can be trusted. People who was once on fire and then another season they're far away from God. Like you and I sat in classes and you've heard your professors say, look left and look right. At the end of the semester, one of those people will not be there. And in the same way as we walking in the kingdom,

man, years go by, you look left and you look right. And people who used to be on fire are no longer on fire. It's the same pattern all the time. You've seen this, right? They come into community and then all of a sudden they start reading things on the internet that has nothing to do with God. They start reading books that have nothing to do with God. They start putting themselves in social media groups that have nothing to do with God. They start putting in their heart the things Jesus said in the book of Revelation,

those deep things of Satan. And now all of a sudden they've grown in self-righteousness. They've grown in bitterness towards pastors and the church and biblical community. Now they're anti-church, anti-community, anti-pastors, anti-shepherds, anti-Bible. And now they have some other doctrine that they try to pass off. This is more damaging family, hear me, because this is happening all around our country. It's happening every place in America. It's happening right now on social media,

TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook. We see people rising up with false authority and leading suspecting sheep, unsuspecting sheep, seekers of Christ, leading them far away. and leading suspecting sheep, unsuspecting sheep, seekers of Christ, leading them far away. This, hear me, is far more destructive because in the end, there are millions, millions of men and women who was this close to salvation

on the doorstep of the kingdom who are gonna be eternally separated from God watch this because of doctrine because of something they believed because the strongholds built up in a mind that they think they were smarter than God smarter than this word and they latched hold of some New Testament apostle, some New Age apostle, some fake phony Facebook prophet who got some 4 a.m. revelation different than the Word of God and because we don't read and because we're biblically illiterate we believe everything preachers say. Where you should stop believing everything that we should say.

You should stop checking behind us and reading the Scriptures for yourselves. Because the more truth you know, the easier it is to discern a lie. But for lack of biblical knowledge, watch, right now as I'm talking to you, there are demons standing in pulpits all across America leading people astray. And right now as I'm talking to you, there are people on a fast track to eternal damnation. Not because they were wicked people, but because they were ignorant people. Doctrine will put people in hell. And the most dangerous threat to the body of Christ is not just Satan himself, but the

ambassadors he works through. To come into churches, start your little small group, start your little unauthorized group and lead people out of the church, out of the gathering, away from God into an eternal fern or waiting for your whole little group. That is the most dangerous thing that we face. This is why the apostle said as soon as we leave, we know ravenous wolves are going wolves are gonna come into the church hear me and they will not spare the flock That the thing you need to look after for more than anything else is your soul And that's why you should not give access to everybody to your soul. Everybody should not have access to your soul

You cheapen your soul when you give everybody access to your soul. You think because you got a big Instagram, I owe you access. Or because you got a platform, I owe you access. Or because you do a conference, I owe you access. Or because you got a book and a podcast, I owe you access. You watch too much, you thumb too much. It's why you got strong thumbs and weak souls. We swipe and listen to too many false prophets.

Your thumb is strong and your soul is weak. This is the seriousness. Hear me at the center of our text. This is not a game. This is the complexities of what we call the last public sermon of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hear me. In his first public sermon, he preaches to the people eight blessings. In his last public sermon, he will preach to people eight woes. They are juxtaposed one another, beginning his ministry with blessings, ending his ministry with woes and damnations and warnings.

Listen, last words are very important. And when somebody's on their deathbed, their words are very important. This is the final public sermon of the Lord Jesus Christ. We should lean into his words. If we are followers, hear me, we should take his words very seriously. You remember the scene. There is your Savior, Eman, in the temple complex surrounded by thousands of people. He has just defeated his enemies, the spiritual leaders of the day, the Pharisees, Sadducees, the Herodians in a theological debate in which there was no match for the King of Glory.

We crowned him in the text. And now the Lord, hear me, looking out over a crowd with all them false, fake religious leaders in the crowd, knowing that in a few days from now he will be crucified and raised to life and gone, knowing these sheep will be left on their own with just the Holy Spirit and the apostles. He does not use his last sermon to talk about love. He does not use his last sermon to talk about blessing He does not use his last sermon to talk about grace. No He uses last sermon like a father would over a child That he uses last sermon hear me to protect

the people that he's leaving behind of the Danger of these ravenous wolves called the Pharisees, the scribes, the Sadducees. Now hear me, as we walk through this text it's gonna be less application and just more information. I don't want to spend so much time talking to you about ancillary things. I want you just leaning to the words of your savior. There must be a time when we grow to a place of maturity where the words of Christ is enough.

In our last message, we started the beginning of his sermon, verse one through 12, where he exposed the character, the deeds of the Pharisees and the scribes, and now he will finish his last public address with eight woes, eight warnings of divine judgment, giving one last opportunity for any of those Pharisees to repent. Some did like Nicodemus

and for the people to hear, listen, these are the kind of men we need to stay away from. Now, family, look, I'm about to read these to you. And as I read them to you, I want you to get in your heart that the things that Jesus says, you need to avoid this when you see it in America. When you hear teaching like this, when you see people like this on social media, it's for you to run in the opposite direction. Hear me. Woe? I don't want no parts of that. That whatever God hates, I want to run from. That you don't want to be on the other side of a woe from God. So wherever we see woe pop up in the Scriptures, we know this is something God hates and this

is something we need to run from. Side note, you need to not enjoy anything that God hates. Like, God says he hates those who sow discord amongst brothers. People who tear up a church with gossip. He said he hates that in Proverbs chapter 6, but you better watch your mouth in these private chats. We need to be careful about not indulging in things that God said I hate. Things he calls an abomination.

Trying to change the definition of marriage. We run from things God says I hate. I don't even know how you call yourself a Christian and you indulge in things that God says I hate. 1 through 12, the character of the Pharisees. 13 through 36, my issues with them, said the Lord. Matthew, who was there that day, an eyewitness to what Jesus has right here in the text, he says in verse 23, he says this, no, verse 13, I'm sorry, Matthew chapter 23, verse 13, Matthew recorded these final words of the Savior.

He says to the Pharisees, watch, he preached to his followers and to the crowds, warning them about the character of the Pharisees. He talked to his disciples in the first half of the message, then he pivots and he talks directly to the Pharisees and the scribes that are in the crowd He confronts them watch this word in public Now before I read I just want to parenthetically insert this the Lord is not some soft

cotton candy European floating on crowds Just playing harps punk. No He confronted these men watch this word in Public and that every time we do this you cry judgmental Anytime a real man of God or real woman of God say anything about a false preacher or about a wolf You know what y'all cry? Judgmental. And because you keep telling us we're judgmental, you let the false prophets run free in America.

They got a market in the country because we can't say nothing about it without y'all attacking us. God forbid any real pastor calls out a false prophet. You're all you're posting, how could you be so judgmental? You talk like that because you have not read. Some of y'all be condemning real preachers for things Jesus did first. We just trying to follow him.

We're just trying to be his model. We're just trying to take up his cause and all you cry is be judgmental. So if you keep attacking real prophets to protect fake prophets, you keep a market for fake prophets to keep deceiving you who keep crying judgment against the false prophets. How do you protect your abuser? That's what you have to do in America. You protect it. We tell you, this is a wolf in stay away. You're judgmental.

This person is an anti-Christ, you're judgmental. You shouldn't talk like that. You should just pray for them. The Lord didn't pray for these Pharisees. I never see him pray for a Pharisee. What we see him doing is exposing those who were sons of the devil. Watch this, watch.

To protect you. Verse 13, whoa, to you he talks to them directly in public, scribes and Pharisees, he calls them what they are, hypocrites. For you shut the kingdom of heaven and people's faces for you need to enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in so first the word whoa which is a word of divine judgment and sorrow the Lord is not just angry his heart is broken he calls themrites, an ancient word that came out of theater,

that in the ancient world people would placate in theaters. They would wear a mask in the theater and there would be one thing on the outside and something else on the inside. They call it hypocrites. And over time it became synonymous with people who live a duplicitous life. You are one thing on the outside. You are another thing on the inside. There is inconsistency between what you say and how you live. Inconsistency between how you post and how you live. Inconsistency between what you write and how you live.

You are a hypocrite. This is not a person who makes mistakes. This is a person who lives an inconsistent life. He says, because of you, you shut the doors of the kingdom. I want to draw your attention to the word kingdom. It was Christ who emerged in the first century AD preaching the gospel of the kingdom. He came saying, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He came preaching a message come from heaven for eternity. Now watch, in the first century when Jesus came preaching that message and his cousin

John the Baptist came preaching that message there was watch this word revival People are coming to the faith by the thousands They're turning to Christ by the thousands the scripture tells us early in Matthew that great Crowds started following Christ from everywhere He traveled as he preached taught and healed, the Pharisees, they see this happening. And in this moment, they have to make a decision. They could assist him in his ministry, help him in his ministry,

pray for him since they were looking for the Messiah, and he bared all the testimonies of the Messiah. He's preaching healing, talking like the Messiah. He must be the Messiah. They have a decision. Let's help him. They don't take that decision. They take the latter. Let's attack him. Now watch carefully. The Pharisees begin to attack the Lord Jesus. They do everything they can to discredit his ministry. Watch. As they are doing that, you create emotional conflict in the hearts of people in the first century

Do we listen to our spiritual teachers? Do we listen to this man called the Christ? There is an incongruence between our spiritual teachers and this man called the Christ now I'm betwixt in my heart and Because I have an affinity for wolves I side with the Pharisees in the moment wolves, I side with the Pharisees. In the moment people kept siding with the Pharisees, they were shutting the doors of the kingdom. Why?

Because Christ came preaching a message that led people into the kingdom, into eternity, into salvation, into life. The Pharisees preaching against them led people away from Christ, away from the word, away from the kingdom into a false religion.

They through their attacks of Christ inadvertently shut the kingdom in the face of people. They slammed the door shut by blocking people from seeing the truth with their false accusations. People do this all the time now, where God raises up a real man of God, a real woman of God with the message of the kingdom, but then you got heresy hunters and people on YouTube and people on social media who don't like you, don't like your haircut, your dress, they don't like where you came from.

So they make all of these comments, all of these content, all of these videos about real men and women of God. You turn people away from that voice and what you're inadvertently doing is shutting the doors of the kingdom. You are turning people away from gospel truth and that blood is going to be on your hands when you die. If you don't like the vessel, pray for the vessel, especially if God sent the vessel. This is why you and I should not be like the Pharisees. Hear me.

We should be people who opens the door and not people who shuts the door. I.E. we should be people that do everything we can to spread the truth, spread the gospel, be involved in making Christ known. The more we make Christ known in our lives, in our witness, in our posts, in our podcasts, in our sermons, in our books, the more we make Christ known, the more we open the doors of the kingdom for people to run in and be saved. Do you want to be a door opener or a door closer? Because your personal life can close doors, your witness close doors.

You got people who's watching you all the time. You call yourself a Christian, they see how you live, they turn away from God. They don't want nothing to do with the God you serve. Why? The Pharisees are not entering themselves. They don't let nobody. That's one thing to reject God for yourself is another thing to be the person that calls others to reject God. That's why one of the best things you can do when you find yourself on a mess is get

low. Don't parade sin all over social do when you find yourself on a mess is get low. Don't parade sin all over social media. When you've got unbelievers watching you, why are you parading sin? I was about to say something. I don't want to get in trouble. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no We're Christian in your profile. We're turning people away from the God we serve, slamming the doors of the kingdom in their face. Why don't you deal with your sin in private with your community group instead of parading all your sin on social media? Come on, man.

You're not going to be able to do that. You're not going to be able to do that. Why don't you deal with your sin in private with your community group instead of parading all your sin on social media? Come on, man. I ain't coming back there next week. You're gonna go find your little soft, whack church that's gonna keep you comfortable in sin while blood is piling up on your hands.

I would anybody will be thankful that you're hearing gospel truth Come on man Come on We got to stop slamming this door on the faces of people who are watching our lives and listening to our doctrine Like these Pharisees because of their false religion was a hindrance to people being saved. I'm trying to, sister. Verse 15. Now, verse 14 is missing. This would be one of the woes. Verse 14 is missing in Matthew because it was not there in the original manuscripts one of the woes. Verse 14 is missing in Matthew because it was not there in the original manuscripts. But the woe that would be in

verse 14, you could find it in Mark's writing, you could find it in Luke's writing, when the Lord said, woe for the what they did. They took advantage of widows, people who was insecure, people who was emotionally distressed. They took advantage of widows, these false teachers, they took advantage of their emotions, and they prayed big prayers in public to make a show of themselves. Then in verse 15, he says to them, woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, you travel across the sea and land to make a single prostolite, which is a convert to Phariseeism, and when he becomes a follower or proselyte you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. So he says, Woe to you scribes and Pharisees

watch, you travel far distances, you go through great lengths on social media post-conference to convert people to your false religion and when you convert people to your false religion you make them twice the son of hell. Why? Because oftentimes new converts have more zeal than their teachers, and so now they are spreading your lies more aggressively on social media. He says, woe to anybody who makes a convert into a false religion. The Lord says, woe to you. convert into a false religion. The Lord says, woe to you. This is what happened to Paul before he was saved. He was under a man named Gamaliel because Paul was a Pharisee, and he was more zealous than Gamaliel. That's why he was killing Christians in the first century AD. He was twice the son of hell before God got a hold of his heart. You better be

thankful that God got a hold of your heart. You better be thankful that God got a hold of your heart. This is us. It's one thing to not believe we're being a false religion. It's another thing to convert others to a false religion. That's why we need to pray for the millions of people that are in false religions and spreading false religions. They show up at your door with their bow ties and their ties religions and spreading false religions. They show up at your door with their bow ties and their ties trying to spread false religion. They're traveling far distance to make people sons of hell. They're standing in the grocery store,

they're standing in the airport, they're standing at the bus station with their little magazines trying to make people twice the son of hell. We need to be praying for all these people who are in false religions, fake Christian religions, and trying to spread that fake doctrine in society. This is the problem when we have bad exegesis,

bad hermeneutics, and we're spreading that false doctrine in society. The Lord says, woe. Verse 16, for us, the third world, woe to you you blind guides who say if anyone swears by the temple it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the goal in the temple he is bound by his oath. You blind fools, for which is greater, the goal or the temple that has made the goal sacred?

And you say if one swears by the altar it is nothing But if anyone swears by the gift or the altar he is bound by his oath you blind men For which is greater the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred So watch God so whoever swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and him who dwells in it and whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and him who sits upon it She calls them blind fools blind men blind guides because that's what false teachers are They are blind fools blind men black guys blind guys leading people to hell These Pharisees had a law called Corbin.

The things of God, not important to them. The temple, the altar, means nothing. The gold, the gift, the materialism, that means something. Bring those things to the temple. We're going to keep those for ourselves. We're going to keep those for ourselves. That's what they were doing. Watch.

That is what they were doing. They lived in a time in a culture where everybody was lying. Lying abound. And for people to have trust in what you say, they were making all these oaths. This is why Jesus came along and said, family, stop making all these oaths. Stop swearing by your mama. We're in the South, right? I swear by my mama. I'm making all these oaths. Stop swearing by your mama. We in the south, right? I swear by my mama.

I'm telling the truth. No, don't swear by your mama. And don't swear by your father. Don't swear by nothing. As soon as you swear, you're bound by God. This is why God taught you and I, let your yes be yes and your no be no. Watch. Let your character be so strong we believe what you say.

You want character so strong that when you speak people believe what you say. We want to trust what you say without a contract. I want to trust what you say not because you swore. I want to trust what you say because your character is strong. Strong character makes strong words. We character makes weak words. Why are you begging me for trust when you're inconsistent? You can't trust inconsistent people.

Husbands, you want your wife to trust you? Be consistent. Ministers, you want people to trust you? Be consistent. I'm trying to. Verse 23, the fourth woe. We remove verse 14. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,

for you tithe, mint and dill and cumin. This is monumental, and you have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, all of them, without neglecting one, others, you blind guides straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel. Watch. Tithing was an Old Testament principle that showed up in the life of Abraham. He came back from war and tied the tenth of everything he got from war to a man named Melchizedek who had no parents,

a type of Christ. Then in the law, God gives his people tithing in the law so that they would put aside 10% of everything that came in from their harvest to help the foreigner, to help build the temple and the church. Although tithing is not structured to be bound in the New Testament, Paul wrote to the church at Corinth, we give out of the generosity of our heart. The principle was give 10%. Now these Pharisees, watch this, they were so legalistic, pay attention, they are tithing from the seasonings in their cabinet. But neglecting justice, mercy, and faithfulness, preacher, I don't get it.

I don't understand, Phillip. You are majoring on minors and ignoring the more important things. You are majoring on these tiny things because you're legalistic, but the other things you're not missing. This is like people that like to fight those who said, why are y'all worshiping? It's not the Sabbath. It's not the Sabbath. It's not the Sabbath. Every time we say we're going to take a Sabbath, people come on our count, they fight.

Oh, you know Sunday's not the Sabbath. Give me the camera. We know that Sunday is not the Jewish Sabbath. We know that Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath. We worship Christ on Sunday because he was resurrected on Sunday. And instead of fighting us about the Sabbath, man, you should love people that may not agree with what you have to say. We got to stop majoring on minors. You can worship Jesus any day of the week. If he told us to enter into him and he is rest, he is a type of Sabbath for me.

Man, I can worship it at Tuesday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon in the park in my neighborhood. This is why we give grace for non-essentials and we go ten toes down for essentials. Let's talk about the deity of Christ, no grace. Let's talk about the triune God, no grace. Let's talk about the infallibility of the word of God, no grace. What do y'all worship on? Grace. This is you fighting people about the Sabbath, but you don't love people in your heart. This is why we as believers should stop having fights on social media around doctrine when you don't have love in your heart. The Lord says do both. Tithe and love. Tithe and care about people. Do both. You're straining out a gnat. A gnat, the smallest creature in Israel that was considered unholy. Swallowing a camel, the largest creature in Israel considered considered unholy. You focus so much on this knot, but you're not seeing all the

false doctrine you're swallowing. Woe six, woe five, woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, verse 25, for you clean the outside of the cup and the plate inside, they are full of greed and selfish indulgence. You blind Pharisees, first clean the outside of the cup and the plate and the outside may also be clean. This is like you ain't never gone to nobody's house

and asked them for a drink of water. They go in, they sink to the dirty dishes pull out a cup They wash the outside of the cup they leave all the mildew on the inside of the cup Pouring water and hand it to you and say drink you're gonna take that cup. You're gonna sit it down You're not gonna drink from a perverted cup What the lord is saying that we need to stop come on purifying our external Christianity fixing your clothes fixing you here trying to look holy on the outside We need to stop, come on, purifying our external Christianity. Fixing your clothes, fixing your hair, trying to look holy on the outside.

You clean up everything on the inside, but you don't deal with the sinfulness of your heart. This is the Lord saying about the Pharisees and me saying to you, you need to care about more than just coming to church, more than just being on a team. You need to be wringing out the sin from your heart and dealing with the inside of your heart. Hear me? This is why I pray over you every day of my life except Friday.

Lord, I pray you will create in my family clean hearts every day except Friday. Lord, I pray you will create in my family pure hearts. Hear me? I want you to have a desire for a consecrated interior life. Don't nobody care about your books, your posting, your ministry, your conference, when your inside is dark, nasty, and rotten. I'm talking to us, American Christians, we spend all this time trying to look holy and pious on the outside and you do nothing about the darkness of your heart on the inside. No, you need to shed tears and wring out the sin that's in your heart. We're racists, we're idolatrous, we treat our

skin color like an idol, we got all of this evil in our heart and you're preaching, you're trying to be holy You say it bless the Lord, but you got all of that nastiness in your heart. No Lord give us a concentrated Interior life we want to be pure on the inside Because you think a man with a suit is holy But a dude with a chain around his neck is not holy man get in my prayer my prayer room. Get in his prayer room. Let's talk about who's doing this real work off the platform. Y'all think a big following and a big Instagram and you think people are holy because they

got a big ministry or a big church or they wear a suit every week and they all that outside is clean and inside they filthy and disgusting and nasty. That's why I keep trying to tell you a hundred times a year be more impressed with character than oratory. Come on man. Woe six. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees. It continues the same argument. Hypocrites for your like whitewashed tombs which outwardly appear beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness so also outwardly appear righteous to others but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness he's saying this in public in the first century during times of feast like Passover they had outside tombs they

would wash it to making clean so nobody won't touch it and be unclean but inside those tombs are dead bodies corpses he, why do you make the interior clean and inside you are like a corpse? And then the last woe, he says to them, woe seven for us, the final one, verse 29. Now this one right here is serious. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of righteousness saying, if we had only lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets. We're doing monuments to prophets and then we say stuff like, man,

if I was alive when they was alive, I would never have done what they have done. That's called self-righteousness. Some of us do that right now. We say, man, if I was alive in the first century, I would have followed Jesus with my whole heart. I would have been eating breakfast with Jesus. Man, you have Jesus right here, you don't follow him. You have Jesus in your heart through the personal Holy Spirit, you don't follow him. You have Jesus in your heart through the personal Holy Spirit, you don't follow him. You think if you would have been with him physically, you would have followed him? No, you would have been with him physically and still disobedient.

You got Christ right here. You got Christ in Genesis to Revelation. You got all of Christ right here and you still don't listen to him. We still don't listen. You got his voice right here and we still don't listen. We still don't obey. We still argue and fight and push back. But okay. Verse 31, watch what he says. Thus you witness against your own selves that you are sons of those who have murdered the prophets. You testify also.

Verse 32, because Jesus is gangster like that. Fill up then the measure of your fathers, i.e. Y'all talking about honoring prophets and in your heart you're plotting the death of the greatest prophet the world has ever known. Come on, man. Y'all are decorating the tombs of prophets, and before you is the Son of God. As I'm talking to you, you're plotting my death in just three days from now. So watch with the Lord, son.

Fill up then the measure of your father's, i.e. go ahead and do what you plan to do. And people think Jesus has solved this soft little European Jesus floating around, no, Jesus was gangster a little bit. He turned to their face, since you plotted my death, watch, go ahead and do what you got to do then. Go ahead and finish your evil. Gosh, that's so gangster. Watch.

Since I already know what you plotting, go ahead and do what you got to do. I'm going to come out anyway. I'm going to be raised in three days anyway. I'm coming out that tomb anyway. Go ahead and do what you got to do. I'm coming out anyway. Yeah, tell the devil, go ahead and take your best shot. I'm coming out anyway.

Go ahead and take your best shot. I'm coming out anyway. Won't shut me up, won't shut me down, won't rob me of praise. I'm gonna praise God no matter what shot you take. Somebody give him praise right now. He told his enemies, take your best shot. Verse 33, you serpents, watch how he closes his last sermon, you serpents, you know who else he called a serpent? Satan.

He's attaching them to the identity of the devil. You brood of vipers. You know what's a brood of vipers? A cluster of snakes. He's condemning the whole order of the Pharisees. How are you going to escape being sentenced to hell? He testifies of the existence of hell. You don't want to believe in that because you think God would never send nobody there.

The Lord would never allow human beings to be known. Hell is the place that exists. It's a prison cell like Riker's Island. People are there right now begging for water, begging for air, begging for sight, begging for life, begging for light. They'll get nothing until they're tossed into the lake of fire. Ain't no purgatory, false doctrine. Ain't no praying people out of hell false Doctrine when you get clipped wherever you did with Jesus is where you end up for the rest of eternity That's why today is the day of salvation not next week As the rain is falling on Atlanta I pray rain down revelation on your heart right now rain down repentance on your heart right now. Rain down repentance on your heart right now.

Now watch. The Lord knew what they was about to do. He knew they was gonna engineer his death. He knew that in a few days, they would engineer his execution. So then in these last verses, he gives them the final judgment. He says to them in verse 34, final verses, therefore.

You know what therefore is? That's a transition. It connects everything he said before to everything he's about to say. Because you have closed the door of the kingdom because You have been my enemy because you have turned people away because you have lied because you have a false religion Because you have rejected the Messiah Because people in society are rejecting the Christ therefore because of your rejection I'm gonna send you prophets

to Christ, therefore, because of your rejection, I'm gonna send you prophets, preachers, wise men and scribes, writers, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute them from town to town. Now watch, he's not sending these men to win them. He's sending these men to fill up the wrath of God against them. I'm going to send you more people after me when I'm done knowing you're going to reject

them. That's why they killed Stephen, knowing you're going to persecute them, knowing you're going to do this. Watch, I'm going to make sure when I'm done with you, I'm going to fill up the wrath of God's cup all the way to the brim. I'm going to make sure you can't escape this wrath. I'm gonna make sure I fill up this wrath so much grace won't be able to Get you out This is why it's dangerous to hear truth and keep rejecting it

Every time you hear truth and reject it. You're just filling up wrath for the day of judgment How many conferences how many books how many sermons How many Sunday mornings? We're just filling up wrath. So then when we die, you try to give God all these excuses. How many Sundays you've been to church? How many VBS you've been to? How many camps? How many Bible studies? How many sermons? How many podcasts? You heard all of that and you still rejected me. No, the cup is full now. The more truth you know, the more you're responsible for. It'd be better for you to not hear truth at all than to hear truth and reject it. The more truth you hear, the more you're responsible

for. There's going to be no excuses on the day of judgment. Oh my God, I ain't coming there next week. You need to hear this so you don't die and blame God. You can't tell God. You was going to that whack church for 30 years't die and blame God. You can't tell God. You was going to that whack church for 30 years that never preached the truth. You're going to die and say, God, I went to service. No, he's going to say to me, many of you will come to me and say, Lord, Lord, did we not do all this stuff in your name? He's going to say, depart from me, you workers of iniquity.

Yo, you've been in, I never knew you. The atheist is not going gonna call him Lord. He's talking to people who think they're Christians. I'm gonna send you these people, y'all gonna kill them. That's why they kill Stephen. That's why they flog Christians. And here is the reason verse 35, so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barakiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. You killed a prophet in the temple.

Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. Notice the word this generation. The Lord said to these Pharisees, because y'all are about to commit the ultimate sin, you about to kill the Son of God, I'm gonna fill up the wrath of God against you and all the blood from the first martyr in the Old Testament to the last martyr of the Old Testament,

I'm gonna put all that blood on you. Abel, the first martyr in the Old Testament killed in Genesis Zachariah killed in second Chronicles, which we believe was the final book of the Jewish Old Testament He said all of these people you killed in between I'm gonna charge all that blood to you So that this generation will not escape and the generation he was talking about was the generation of people. The most unique generation in the history of the world.

Why Philip? Why? Why? Because that generation had the Old Testament. That generation had the prophets. That generation, watch this, they had God in the flesh walking around. And y'all still rejected him. The most unique generation in the history of the world.

You've got the Old Testament. You've got the prophets. You have Christ in a physical body walking around and y'all still rejected it. So on that generation… I'm going to fill up the cup and watch how he closes out his sermon. Verse 37. He looks out over Jerusalem, those Pharisees, those Sadducees. He looks out over the city that rejected him, and he says, Jerusalem, Jerusalem. The city that kills the prophets Stones those who are sent to you all often I would have gathered you

Your children together as a hen gathers watch her brood under her wings You know what a mother puts her wings over her hands. You know what she does with she gives them protection She gives them nourishment. He said I wanted to protect you. I wanted to nourish you. I wanted to be a God to you But you were not willing they Resisted his grace. It wasn't irresistible right there. They resisted his grace. See your house is left to you watch Right there they resisted his grace see your house is left to you watch Desolate you know that is empty. You won't have the Messiah. I take my hand off. You won't have my protection It's left to you empty desolate for I tell you you will not see me again

Until you said blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord watch the Lord prophesied to them the nation of Israel is going to left desolate. I'm going to remove my wing from over you. The evidence that Jesus can be trusted, because this is around AD 33, maybe around 30 something years later from this, about 40 years later, there is an uprising in Jerusalem. A leader called Titus rolls into the city, sacks the city, burns the temple, kills the Jews, hundreds of thousands of millions of Jews. Their bodies are dead in the street. He ransacked Jerusalem, and for 2,000 years the nation of Israel has removed… They've lost the wing of God because they've rejected them. They're still waiting for the one who came 2,000 years ago. This is why this people has suffered. They've gone through great hardship and trial. Watch, because God has left them desolate, but watch, He gives them hope in the end that a day is coming. Man, you're going to say to me, blessed is the

one who comes in the name of the Lord. In that great tribulation, in that great millennial kingdom, when he deals with the Jews at the end, they're going to realize he was the Messiah, and they will repent. This is me now saying to you, be careful with false prophets. Be careful with false teachings. Be careful about all the books you're reading, the podcast you're listening to, the churches you're going to. Be careful about those who prop up themselves higher than God. You need to guard your soul from these kind of men everywhere. The Bible says the false prophets have gone out into the whole world. Be careful about heresy hunters that keep persecuting voices men and women that God has established

Be careful about being a kind of person who shuts the doors of the kingdom with your words your post your testimony your witness We want to avoid the walls that Jesus gave to these Pharisees We want to remember that it was Christ who came lived died was raised To lead you into the kingdom that you may have life and life More abundantly. This is the season to be right with Christ be serious with Christ Read that Bible for yourself. Pray fast go after Jesus with your whole heart, man This is the season to be a person who opens the doors of the kingdom through your prayer, through your witness, through your sacrifice, and not be a person who closes the door of

the kingdom. You are anointed. You have been chosen. God is with you. Your name is recorded in the book of life. Man, be a person who opens the door. Be a woman who opens the door. Be a man who opens the door.

Open the door with your prayers. Open the door with your posts. Open the door with your books, open the door with your preaching, open the doors with your life, open the doors with your witness, open the doors of the kingdom for people to run in and run from every woe. This is my prayer for you. Sovereign Lord, I pray for everyone under the sound of my voice, all of us who are living in these last days full of wolves and false prophets with false authority and false ministries. I am asking you that you would pour out upon us like it's raining outside. Pour out upon us discernment. Make us more sensitive to your spirit. Open our blinded eyes that we would see and our ears that we would discern lies in our society. Let us not be afraid to take a stand

against false prophets, false teaching, false religions, false ministries. Let us be those who open the doors of the kingdom and run from every woe. I pray that over my brothers and sisters and pray that you would save the person who's far away from you right now. Save them. Deliver us from our antics, our foolishness, our wasting of time. Let us give you a whole yes. Burn us in our hearts. Let us see the world as you see it. Anoint our lips to speak truth. Let us stand against the evil in this generation. Set this church on fire. Bring revival in this nation. Expose the false prophets.

Pull up their skirts. Empty their churches. Deliver those who are under the tyranny of false prophets. Bring a revival of repentance, awareness, and gospel seriousness. I ask this in the mighty and the majestic and the matchless name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.