Pharisee

Connections List
 * Legalism
 * Pharisitical Law

Scope
 * Anything related to the religious elite during the time of Jesus

Topics
 * Stucture
 * Primary sins
 * Heart progression
 * Nicodemus, good things

Structure* (entities may overlap, this is just a list right now)
 * Pharisees
 * Sadducees - no resurrection (Matt 22:23) or spirits (Acts 23:8)
 * Scribes
 * Sanhedrin - general court? includes both Pharisee and Sadducee (Acts 23:6)
 * High Priest - Caiaphas
 * Elders
 * Herodians - we should follow current Gov
 * Teachers of the law

Primary sins
 * Vanity, look down - public prayer and fasting, tithe, sermon on the mount, testing Jesus, plot to kill, outward clean

Heart progression, largely taken from Matt 23 7 woes
 * Desire to not be punished (misses the point of want a rel? initial desire for physical rather than god?)
 * Let us follow the law hardcore
 * Rely on following law for salv (legalism)
 * 1) Following law is power
 * Can use law to be better than others, increase chance of salv
 * Make specific laws no one knows how to follow?
 * Violate law secretly and make law difficult so no one else
 * 2) Begrudge the duites of the law
 * Define very specifically what is needed to be done
 * Rulemonger
 * Impose law on others out of bitterness
 * Secretly don't follow the law, hypocrisy
 * End results: hypocrisy, oppression, bitterness, legalism...

Nicodemus John 3
 * Note that at least one Pharisee recognized JC, sought him out, learned... Not sure if got saved. I would assume.
 * John 3:2 Nick says that in general, the Pharisees see that JC is from God due to miracles.