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Matthew 14:34-15:20
Introduction
Nothing in life is more important than worship it is the greatest thing we do.
Unless the heart of the worshiper is cleansed and purified, he cannot worship God acceptably, because he cannot worship God honestly and sincerely.
The person with a sinful heart is opposed to God and it is not possible for him to worship rightly.
In Matthew 14:34-15:20 Jesus preaches the same message as those prophets: Hearts that are not right with God cannot worship Him.
Jesus was still popular with the multitudes of common people, but it was not because they trusted in Him as their Messiah-Savior but because He fed and healed them.
Their interest in Him was selfish and their devotion to Him was superficial.
They had no desire to follow Him as Lord but only to get from Him what they wanted.
T hey did not want to serve Him but rather wanted Him to serve their every whim.
Most of the religious leaders were already openly hostile to Jesus and had been plotting for some time how to kill Him (12:14).
But to keep from antagonizing the common people who still followed Jesus, the leaders tried first to discredit Him before they openly attacked Him.
In the present passage Jesus confronts the Jewish religious system of His day head on, showing, above all, the emptiness and worthlessness of its worship.
In doing so, He further crystallizes the irreconcilable conflict between His gospel and that system.
As the conflict unfolds, Jesus is first seen as the compassionate Healer (14:34-36), then as the condemning Judge (15:1-9), and finally as the correcting Teacher (vv.
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