Pastor Leighton teaches us this morning about the dangerous allure of being a modern-day Pharisee:
“A Pharisee in the first century was not scorned as a legalist. No, he was looked up to as a model citizen and a person of piety and religion. Unfortunately, Pharisees had (as Paul says) a ‘zeal for God, but not according to knowledge’ (Romans 10). Amazingly we can have a passion for God and yet not know God. We can be deceived, captured and enslaved to the deadly allure of legalism. And tragically those who have been raised in the church are the most susceptible to this deception…”