Be Still And Know

Ezekiel 3:10-11 This is a crucial point for every Christian teacher and minister to hear. Before you dare to tell other people about God, you need to make sure that you have first received the message for yourself. This was precisely where the Pharisees and Sadducees fell down. On the surface, they appeared to be impressive adverts for the Jewish faith. There is no question that they were deeply committed to their religion, and were meticulous in the way that they followed the requirements of the law. But they missed the point. On one occasion, the Sadducees posed a legal puzzle to Jesus. They believed in the resurrection, but they wanted to know who a woman would be married to in the afterlife if all seven of her husbands died. It was a crazy question and Jesus didn’t even attempt to answer it. Jesus said: “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God” (Matthew 22:29). The Sadducees were very bright people who knew a great deal about their faith, but the le