How To Deal With Christian Pharisees | Jonathan Cahn Sermon

Jonathan Cahn shares who were the first Pharisees in the Bible and what were the first church controversies and how the church handled them.

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You can use any day you like to glorify God.
And so if that’s gonna bring people to come to hear the gospel because we’re talking about his birth, then so be it.
We’ll do it every time. It’s about Jesus.
It’s a worship him any day of the week and don’t judge other people for what they do.
The first of all church councils is the council of Jerusalem, which ultimately is gonna lead to the opening up of the Gospel to the world, to the nations.
Paul and Barnabas are appointed to go there from Antioch, kind of representing Antioch.
Paul, when he speaks is not gonna speak so much about theology although he was a brilliant theologian.
But he basically, and so and Peter, they’re basically gonna say what God has done. Look guys.
Look at what God is doing. God is saving the Gentiles. It’s bigger than what you imagine.
It’s interesting because, because it goes on when, when Paul, Paul, you know when he wrote Galatians, it might have been written before this council.
So when he’s talking about the law, you guys are back on the law.
It may have been one of the things that were leading up to the council because he doesn’t mention the council in Galatians.
Verse 3. Therefore being sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles that were bringing great joy to the book, to the believers, the brethren.
So they’re coming down. They’re basically, they’re basically they’re kinda up north of Israel where Antioch is.
They’re coming down through where Lebanon is.
They’re coming down down south and as they come, they’re meeting believers, the other believers congregations that have started and they’re telling them all what God was doing and people are re They’re rejoicing but it’s it’s Jerusalem that’s gonna count.
Verse 4. When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the leaders and they reported to them all that God had done with them.
But certain ones of the sect of the Pharisees ones of Moses.
Interesting thing there. Notice what it says. Certain of them who were Pharisees. What’s it saying?
Some of the first believers were Pharisees.
You know, we think always Pharisee bad, you know and that you know, and they’re they’re always bad. Hypocrites, no.
No. A lot of them were.
But there were some here, the believers here, they they went off but they were actually Christian believers, Pharisees.
Pharisee doesn’t When we say Pharisee today it means, oh you Pharisee, you’re saying you hypocrite, you know.
But Pharisee originally the real, the real word for is the word Perushim triad.
That’s a Hebrew word, Perushim. You know what I mean? It means the separated ones.
Because the Pharisees started out by they were seeing sin all around them, compromised worldliness, uh, believers or Jewish people apostasizing with the Greeks and they said no, we’re separating.
That was good. The problem is that you know, what happens is you might do something good but then it’s easy to get prideful about what you just did.
In other words some people for instance I would say well I, I couldn’t understand that.
It happens in the kingdom all the time.
People start getting into prayer and they make, they’re getting into the spirit and all of a sudden they’re judging everybody else as not being as spirit filled as they are.
Or somebody gets into a certain doctrine, they judge everybody else as not being as grounded in the word as they are.
That’s that’s human nature. That’s pride, has nothing to do with God. They’re just using the things of God.
Well that’s what happened with the Pharisees. Not all of them but all of them.
Nicodemus was a Pharisee, he was good, you know. There were Joseph of Arimathea. All of them, you know.
In fact, in fact Paul was a Pharisee and he got saved but God used all that Paul had, all that knowledge, all that rabbinical knowledge to bless you in the letters and the epistles and the teachings.
He blessed you. See the Pharisees were those who actually believed the Bible. The problem is they added to it.
The Sadducees didn’t believe a lot of the Bible.
So the Pharisees were the closest to what would become Christians in that sense, if they got saved.
So there was to what would become Christians in that sense if they got saved.
So there was a real link there.
So the Pharisees, the, the, the quote believing Pharisees, well they were believing, they they now are saying okay, yeah.
Believe in Jesus but you have to still observe the law.
Uh, and, and you know it’s understandable guys, speaking, you know we can judge them but they’ve been going for 1000 of years basically and but God gave them the law, the Torah.
There, it’s a very big thing to say okay, we’re not doing that anymore.
Because Jesus didn’t say just stop doing that. So it’s a very big thing.
You got to understand and say wait a minute, is this right to just throw away all that?
But here it is. You know, you’ve got people go off at the same time they have lost their focus.
Still the focus should be, they should be rejoicing that the Gentiles are coming in, that the world is coming in.
They should be rejoicing about that.
People tend to go off and people tend to have their own pet doctrinal axes to grind and issues.
And it’s so easy cause that’s the nature of man to go off the track.
And it happens in the Lord all the time.
There are times I’ve had people saying how come you worship on Sundays? You shouldn’t be worshiping on Sundays.
Well some, sometimes that comes from messianic things. Well because Sunday wasn’t that day.
Or some others say well Sunday is the, Sunday is the mark of the beast.
You know, I said, guys really. Shouldn’t be Why do you worship on Sunday?
Well for 1, Messiah rose on Sunday so he must have been okay with it.
Secondly, the first believers worship the Lord on the Sabbath, Friday night, like tonight.
They also did Saturday and they did Sunday because it was the day He rose the Lord’s day. Both.
But since when did Sunday become not Jewish?
Sunday’s the first day mentioned in the Bible, in the Hebrew Scriptures.
In the beginning, day 1 that was Sunday. And I never get that.
We shouldn’t be worshipping the Lord. I don’t care if it’s Wednesday morning, you worship the Lord every day.
Who are you to tell somebody not to worship the Lord? We shouldn’t glorify him.
What should you be doing? Sinning? Don’t do anything holy on Sunday. That’s crazy. And it’s just about as crazy.
Listen, I understand some people where there are about, you know, we don’t, we certainly say it is not historical.
There’s nothing pointing that Jesus actually was born on December 25th. Fine.
You’re free to do or not do what you want. Uh, and and the world has gone off.
We know all that. But you can use any day you like to glorify God.
And so if that’s gonna bring people to come to hear the Gospel, because we’re talking about his birth, then so be it.
We’ll do it every time. It’s about Jesus.
It’s a Worship him any day of the week and don’t judge other people for what they do.
How could we ever be against somebody worshiping on any day of the week?
But it shows you how easy people get off.
Sometimes people say why don’t you wear a yarmulke? Really? Because so it’ll be Jewish. Really?
Did Messiah Did Jesus wear yarmulke?
If he needs our help to be Jewish then, then he’s not the Messiah. It doesn’t matter.
Do what you want. The debate Here’s the debate here, you know.
There are a number of things here that are happening.
You know, I remember a lot of the believers, you know, they’re they’re, they’re taking for granted that the law is from God.
Well it is from God. But they’re taking for granted that this is gonna be part of the rest of the time because God gave it to them.
It’s a heavy thing to step out you know.
And thus God used Paul to say something that was so radical back then.
There, there are those today, the issue of the law, it comes up today, there in, in messianic circles and beyond that among many non Jewish people that listen, you have to You’re on You have to be under the law, you got to keep the law.
Well well, listen. There there’s 2 extremes here.
1 is if you tell people they have to be under the law that’s an extreme and that’s not of God.
If you tell On the other hand if you tell people that they can’t do things like observe the Sabbath, that’s fine.
Or do anything that is in, that is in does not go against the new covenant that is in the Spirit.
That’s fine. We are, we have this thing called freedom. You’re free to do and you’re free not to do.
But whatever you do as Paul said do it to the Lord.
You want to keep one day above the rest? Do it to the Lord.
You want to keep no day, any, any holiday? You do it to the Lord.
Don’t judge each over over these things. God’s not looking at the day of the Lord.
He’s looking at your heart with the Lord. Hi.
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