Christ's Teachings-Pharisees' View Luke 11: 37-54

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                To the Pharisee:

v.37, 1. Life is only measured externally.

   39 (And as He spoke, a certain Pharisee besought Him to dine with him: and He

went in, and sat down to meat.)

(And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the

cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.)

v.34, 2. Attitudes of the heart are not seen as influential to action.

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v.40 3. A very incomplete view of life is held, a sense life revolves around touch, see,

hear, feel ….

(Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within

also?)

v.41 4. Cleanness is an expression first of the heart; thus, it requires a clean heart-

cleaned by God.

(But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean

unto you.)

v.42 5. Great attention to religious details and no attention to God’s name nor

accountability to God lead to vain and irresponsible conclusions about life.

(But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs,

and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and

not to leave the other undone.)

v.43 6. Exaltation of man can never lead to Christ.

(Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues,

and  greetings in the markets,)

v.44 7. Man’s inherently held goodness is a lie, unacceptable to God.

(Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which

appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.)

v.44 8. True hypocrisy is to believe God will accept any uncleanness, unholiness

v.44 9. Such views are held by a dead man who denies he is already dead in his

trespass and sin.

v.44 10. That man may appear alive (men walk over them not aware) but is dead already.

v.52 11. They strip away truth by misrepresentation of man’s understanding.

(Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye 

entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.)

v.52 12. There is a direct hindrance to those interested in finding truth.

v.53 13. Their manner is to provoke truth, to bring it into question, to misrepresent truth

and bring an evil report regarding it.

(And as He said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge Him vehemently, and to provoke Him to speak of many things:)

v.54 14. They lurk ready to spring a trap and pounce on the victim of their false claim.

(Laying wait for Him, and seeking to catch something out of His mouth, that they

might accuse Him.)

v.54 15. They twist meaning of words (to catch something out of His mouth)

v.54 16. They are armed with false accusations.

17. They ever fail in their attempt to wrong truth.