In verse 8, God says to believers that their light shall break forth like the dawn. Some of you can remember that once you were in darkness, but God in His grace brought light to shine. It may have been a gradual thing. It may have been sudden. But Jesus, the Light of the world, is the opposite of all […]

These people are diligent to go through all the forms of religion correctly. They assume, of course, that this is what pleases God and that they can commend themselves to God in this way. And then nothing happens like they expect. What they’re trying to do is sway God’s favour with outward religious forms. God sees the motivation, He knows […]

We’re going to look at, in the first couple of verses here, dead religion in the professed people of God. Now, were these religious people that God is addressing? Yes. There are many religious people out in the world who, spiritually speaking, are dead. It’s what sometimes people call formalism. It’s when you are acting like the godly, but you […]