1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,160 Well, got 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:03,760 three words for you. 3 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,080 Vote, vote, vote. 4 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,240 Um, it's just a lethargy of the 5 00:00:11,260 --> 00:00:13,740 Conservative Christians that uh 6 00:00:13,900 --> 00:00:15,740 allow things to happen 7 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:16,379 if uh 8 00:00:16,540 --> 00:00:19,660 if they would go out in force, there would be no question. 9 00:00:19,660 --> 00:00:19,980 But 10 00:00:20,420 --> 00:00:23,700 We've got politicians talking about 11 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:28,020 Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong 12 00:00:28,820 --> 00:00:32,260 being some of the best world leaders in history. 13 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:32,800 And 14 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:33,680 when you got 15 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:34,400 politicians 16 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:36,960 staying stuff like that, well 17 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:39,920 you're probably gonna have to strap your gun on. 18 00:00:41,180 --> 00:00:41,900 And uh 19 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:42,460 that 20 00:00:42,620 --> 00:00:42,700 it 21 00:00:42,860 --> 00:00:42,940 it 22 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:43,260 them 23 00:00:43,420 --> 00:00:44,220 could be fighting 24 00:00:44,460 --> 00:00:47,180 words if uh if we're not careful. 25 00:00:47,180 --> 00:00:47,500 So 26 00:00:47,660 --> 00:00:47,980 um 27 00:00:48,380 --> 00:00:48,700 also 28 00:00:49,180 --> 00:00:49,660 the uh 29 00:00:49,820 --> 00:00:50,860 Operation Christmas 30 00:00:51,020 --> 00:00:53,100 Child boxes will be picked up in two weeks. 31 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:55,020 So if you haven't grabbed one of those 32 00:00:54,960 --> 00:01:00,640 Go ahead and get that filled up that the gospel might go out to these little ones around the world. 33 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:01,840 All right, we're in 34 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,080 Luke chapter 20. 35 00:01:03,820 --> 00:01:07,500 Today, we'll be looking at verses 20 through 26 36 00:01:07,900 --> 00:01:08,060 , 37 00:01:08,540 --> 00:01:09,100 just a 38 00:01:09,420 --> 00:01:11,900 little interaction that Jesus had 39 00:01:12,220 --> 00:01:14,460 with the religious leaders. 40 00:01:14,460 --> 00:01:14,780 And 41 00:01:15,340 --> 00:01:17,260 last time we looked at at him 42 00:01:18,220 --> 00:01:20,620 Talking about a stone. 43 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:22,300 Jesus is a rock. 44 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:27,660 I remember when I was a young Christian, there was a song, Jesus is the rock that rolled my blues 45 00:01:27,820 --> 00:01:28,780 away. 46 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:29,600 Right 47 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:30,800 and um 48 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:32,880 and that is that is so 49 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:34,960 so true. 50 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:35,440 But that 51 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:36,560 here he was 52 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:37,360 and this 53 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,440 rock was rejected 54 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,840 It was the perfect cornerstone and yet it was rejected, but ultimately 55 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:46,840 will be accepted 56 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,240 And it talks about falling upon the rock. 57 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,479 Those who fall upon the rock will be broken. 58 00:01:52,479 --> 00:01:54,000 Yes, you will be. 59 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,640 You'll realize that you are a broken 60 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:57,840 sinner 61 00:01:58,980 --> 00:01:59,220 That 62 00:01:59,460 --> 00:01:59,780 needs 63 00:02:00,100 --> 00:02:00,740 saved 64 00:02:01,060 --> 00:02:01,380 by 65 00:02:01,540 --> 00:02:03,460 a perfect savior. 66 00:02:03,460 --> 00:02:06,100 That's what you realize. 67 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:06,420 But 68 00:02:07,220 --> 00:02:15,860 If you don't fall on that rock and it falls on you in judgment, it will grind you to powder. 69 00:02:15,860 --> 00:02:19,380 You have a powder existence for eternity. 70 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:20,360 Um 71 00:02:20,519 --> 00:02:20,680 with 72 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,760 a little heat mixed in. 73 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:25,079 So 74 00:02:27,959 --> 00:02:28,920 These people 75 00:02:29,239 --> 00:02:29,640 were his 76 00:02:29,799 --> 00:02:30,680 enemies. 77 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:32,439 They didn't like him. 78 00:02:32,439 --> 00:02:38,519 Now, verse 19, it says, and they knew that he spoke this against them. 79 00:02:39,700 --> 00:02:42,659 When God speaks something against us 80 00:02:42,819 --> 00:02:47,140 or that convicts us, you have two options, right? 81 00:02:47,379 --> 00:02:51,860 You can harden your heart or you can humble yourself before the Lord. 82 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:52,879 And I don't know where you're at today. 83 00:02:52,879 --> 00:02:53,840 You might be in 84 00:02:55,599 --> 00:02:56,560 decision land 85 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:58,319 where you need to make a decision. 86 00:02:58,319 --> 00:03:00,880 You can either harden your heart. 87 00:03:02,180 --> 00:03:04,340 Or you can humble yourself. 88 00:03:04,340 --> 00:03:06,260 It's so simple. 89 00:03:06,260 --> 00:03:08,740 It's just one or the other. 90 00:03:08,740 --> 00:03:10,260 And so many people 91 00:03:11,379 --> 00:03:13,379 Are not willing to do that. 92 00:03:13,379 --> 00:03:13,620 Oh 93 00:03:13,780 --> 00:03:15,299 Lord, forgive me. 94 00:03:15,299 --> 00:03:16,659 How hard is that? 95 00:03:16,659 --> 00:03:18,659 That's not that hard. 96 00:03:18,659 --> 00:03:20,420 I mean, I'm getting really good at it. 97 00:03:20,579 --> 00:03:21,860 I do it a lot 98 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,280 So right now is my voice very clear? 99 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,120 Can everybody hear me okay? 100 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:29,560 Alright. 101 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,200 We had some complaints last week. 102 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:34,160 So 103 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,120 I entitled this little uh 104 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:39,920 passage of scripture, Hating Jesus. 105 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:40,879 So let's read Shawi 106 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:42,480 starting in verse 20. 107 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:42,880 So 108 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:44,319 they watched him 109 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:45,640 and sent 110 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:46,600 spies 111 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:49,080 who pretended to be righteous 112 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,080 that they might seize on his 113 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:51,720 words 114 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:53,400 in order to deliver him 115 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,200 to the power and the authority of the governor 116 00:03:56,340 --> 00:04:08,660 Then they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that you say and teach rightly, and you do not show personal favoritism, but teach the way of God in truth. 117 00:04:08,620 --> 00:04:09,100 Is it 118 00:04:09,340 --> 00:04:13,660 lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? 119 00:04:13,660 --> 00:04:15,900 But he perceived their craftiness 120 00:04:16,060 --> 00:04:17,500 and said to them, 121 00:04:17,660 --> 00:04:19,019 Why do you test 122 00:04:19,340 --> 00:04:19,660 me 123 00:04:19,660 --> 00:04:20,140 Show me a 124 00:04:20,299 --> 00:04:23,820 denarius, whose image and inscriptions does it have? 125 00:04:23,820 --> 00:04:25,260 And they answered and said, 126 00:04:25,420 --> 00:04:26,460 Caesar's. 127 00:04:26,460 --> 00:04:27,660 And he said to them, 128 00:04:27,820 --> 00:04:30,140 Render therefore to Caesar's 129 00:04:30,300 --> 00:04:32,300 the things that are Caesar's 130 00:04:32,460 --> 00:04:35,500 and to God the things that are God's. 131 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:36,139 But they 132 00:04:36,620 --> 00:04:37,979 could not catch him 133 00:04:38,139 --> 00:04:38,620 in his 134 00:04:38,780 --> 00:04:43,020 words, in the presence of the people, and they marvelled at his 135 00:04:43,259 --> 00:04:45,099 answer and kept silent. 136 00:04:45,099 --> 00:04:47,259 Let's pray. 137 00:04:46,860 --> 00:04:50,460 Lord, there is so much truth in these words. 138 00:04:50,460 --> 00:04:56,300 These words that you spoke, Lord, that really do cut to the heart when we look at them and the 139 00:04:56,539 --> 00:04:57,979 weight of them. 140 00:04:57,920 --> 00:04:58,480 Because your 141 00:04:58,640 --> 00:04:59,360 word is it 142 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,680 is powerful and it is like that sharp sword, Lord, that cuts. 143 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,200 It convicts and it 144 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,800 condemns, Lord, those who will not 145 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:11,600 be brought under its power. 146 00:05:11,100 --> 00:05:14,780 And so, Lord Jesus, we pray that you would speak to our hearts from it. 147 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:14,940 And 148 00:05:15,340 --> 00:05:21,900 God, that you would just take us deeper with yourself, Lord, as we render unto you the thing that is truly yours, our own lives. 149 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:23,180 In Jesus' name. 150 00:05:23,180 --> 00:05:24,460 Amen. 151 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:25,120 And 152 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:25,759 so 153 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:26,160 uh 154 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,440 it starts off there that they watched him. 155 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:34,479 They watched him, they wanted to see what this guy was saying and what he was doing. 156 00:05:34,479 --> 00:05:36,560 And so it is with you and I. 157 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:38,360 As soon as somebody knows that you're a Christian 158 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,720 or you name the name of Christ, they watch you 159 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,040 like a hawk. 160 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:44,680 And um 161 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:50,760 and they wanna they they want to see you stumble, they want to see you fall, they want to see if it's real. 162 00:05:52,180 --> 00:05:52,500 And 163 00:05:53,780 --> 00:05:54,100 is 164 00:05:54,420 --> 00:05:56,500 what you say and what you do 165 00:05:56,660 --> 00:05:58,100 the same thing? 166 00:05:58,100 --> 00:05:58,580 Right? 167 00:05:58,580 --> 00:05:59,540 So they were wanting to what 168 00:05:59,780 --> 00:06:03,220 they were watching Jesus just like the world will watch you and I. 169 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,320 Unless we're one of those closet Christians. 170 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,480 You one of those closet Christians? 171 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,240 You kind of just hide at home. 172 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,600 Oh Jesus, I love you, but out in the world you just act like the world. 173 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:15,720 They don't know 174 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,520 You've kept it a secret. 175 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,400 I don't think Jesus called any secret disciples. 176 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,080 He called them all publicly. 177 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:23,400 Come 178 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,080 follow me and tell everybody about it, would ya? 179 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:28,160 And 180 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,480 so many people don't want to do that, but 181 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:31,040 but 182 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:32,720 when you look at Jesus' 183 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:33,280 life, 184 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:37,040 and how many people have you seen in your life that what they say 185 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:38,880 And what they 186 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:39,520 do 187 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,120 are two totally different things. 188 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:43,680 Right? 189 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:44,400 And 190 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,880 you and I, that really kind of doesn't set well with us, does it? 191 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,640 And yet we've all been guilty of it. 192 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,400 What we say and what we do 193 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,360 many times does not agree. 194 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,960 And we call that hypocrisy, and every one of us hates it 195 00:07:00,039 --> 00:07:04,199 And you need to hate it in yourself the most, because that's where 196 00:07:04,919 --> 00:07:06,919 that's usually where it is. 197 00:07:06,919 --> 00:07:07,240 And 198 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,440 we're good at pointing it out in others, but just 199 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:11,240 concentrate 200 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:13,960 on your own hypocrisy, would ya? 201 00:07:13,820 --> 00:07:14,460 Right? 202 00:07:14,460 --> 00:07:15,500 Leave mine alone. 203 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:17,500 I gotta work on mine my by myself. 204 00:07:17,500 --> 00:07:17,740 But 205 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:18,380 you know, you 206 00:07:18,540 --> 00:07:20,700 work on your own hypocrisy, would you? 207 00:07:20,700 --> 00:07:23,260 And uh and we would all we would all do better. 208 00:07:23,260 --> 00:07:26,700 But with Jesus, when you look at Jesus, what he says 209 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:28,840 And what he does 210 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:29,960 is 211 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:31,480 perfect. 212 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:32,200 It's spot 213 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:32,760 on. 214 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:35,000 It's exactly the same 215 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,120 Years ago I heard Chuck Messler say this. 216 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,199 He said, listen, a good definition of truth is when the word 217 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:43,440 and the deed become one. 218 00:07:44,340 --> 00:07:45,460 is when the word 219 00:07:45,700 --> 00:07:48,420 and the deed become one. 220 00:07:48,420 --> 00:07:49,140 And um 221 00:07:50,420 --> 00:07:51,940 and I think that that's just 222 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:53,860 that's just so true. 223 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:56,420 But they hated him. 224 00:07:56,660 --> 00:07:59,140 And they had no cause to. 225 00:07:59,140 --> 00:08:03,620 Because what he was telling them and what he was doing was the same thing. 226 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:05,320 He was lovingly 227 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,120 sharing the truth. 228 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,199 Okay, he got a little hard on the 229 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,840 Sadducees and Pharisees. 230 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:13,240 But 231 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,360 they were claiming to be representatives 232 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:22,840 representatives of God, and Jesus wasn't really like how he was being represented. 233 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:23,599 by 234 00:08:23,759 --> 00:08:25,840 these religious people. 235 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:26,159 John 236 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:31,360 15, 25, he talks about being hated without a cause. 237 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:32,800 And the reason was 238 00:08:36,540 --> 00:08:40,860 He was not fitting their idea of what the Messiah should be. 239 00:08:40,860 --> 00:08:42,860 He wasn't doing it their way. 240 00:08:42,860 --> 00:08:47,740 They had this preconceived idea of what the Messiah was supposed to be 241 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:53,840 And what God was supposed to do. 242 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,160 And it wasn't going the way that they 243 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,400 thought it was going. 244 00:09:01,260 --> 00:09:05,020 He wasn't political enough. 245 00:09:05,020 --> 00:09:06,780 And I know that's not uh 246 00:09:06,940 --> 00:09:09,020 that's not overly popular in the church today 247 00:09:09,340 --> 00:09:10,460 to be political 248 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:13,040 But I think we need to call the political 249 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,720 leaders on the carpet for the way they're living their lives 250 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:17,840 because they are 251 00:09:19,399 --> 00:09:22,600 Defined as a public servant, correct? 252 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:23,240 Aren't they 253 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:25,079 a public servant? 254 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,360 It's of for and by the people 255 00:09:29,340 --> 00:09:29,660 And 256 00:09:29,820 --> 00:09:30,140 um 257 00:09:30,700 --> 00:09:30,860 there 258 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:33,180 I know they're not doing it necessarily the 259 00:09:33,420 --> 00:09:33,580 the 260 00:09:33,740 --> 00:09:34,860 according to 261 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:35,420 uh 262 00:09:36,060 --> 00:09:36,380 my 263 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:37,340 consent 264 00:09:41,220 --> 00:09:41,700 But his 265 00:09:41,860 --> 00:09:44,500 religious power was on display. 266 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:45,140 Jesus' 267 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:48,899 religious power was on display, but he was not 268 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:50,840 doing what they thought he should do 269 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,760 and that he should come and set up 270 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:53,320 shop 271 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:54,600 and overthrow Rome. 272 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,400 They really believed that he should do that. 273 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,920 Therefore, he had to be stopped. 274 00:10:09,140 --> 00:10:10,820 That takes us to 275 00:10:11,380 --> 00:10:11,700 John 276 00:10:11,860 --> 00:10:13,540 chapter 11. 277 00:10:13,540 --> 00:10:15,940 And where they begin to plot 278 00:10:16,620 --> 00:10:16,940 And 279 00:10:17,260 --> 00:10:17,580 I 280 00:10:17,740 --> 00:10:20,620 didn't mark it in my Bible, but I'm going to turn there real quick. 281 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:21,500 John chapter 11. 282 00:10:21,580 --> 00:10:23,180 You have a Bible, go ahead and turn there. 283 00:10:23,180 --> 00:10:25,580 We're going to read a few verses. 284 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:25,560 in John 285 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:26,600 chapter 11. 286 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:27,400 You know, that's the 287 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:32,120 that's that really good chapter about the resurrection and the life. 288 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:32,440 And 289 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:33,160 oh 290 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:34,920 John's on the other side of Luke. 291 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:36,440 I was lost. 292 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:43,320 And starting in verse 293 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,680 Starting in verse forty 294 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,880 three, I believe, 295 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:50,760 in John 296 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,760 chapter. 297 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:58,640 Eleven. 298 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:00,080 No, it's not forty three. 299 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,920 Let me check that again. 300 00:11:01,860 --> 00:11:02,500 45. 301 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:04,420 45, there we go. 302 00:11:04,420 --> 00:11:04,740 And 303 00:11:04,980 --> 00:11:06,420 so this is coming off the heels 304 00:11:06,580 --> 00:11:08,020 of just let me set this up real quick. 305 00:11:08,020 --> 00:11:08,900 This is coming off the heels 306 00:11:09,060 --> 00:11:10,980 of raising Lazarus from the dead. 307 00:11:10,980 --> 00:11:13,060 Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. 308 00:11:13,060 --> 00:11:16,500 Well it wasn't every day that somebody rose from the dead. 309 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:17,960 Right? 310 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,120 This was not a common thing. 311 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:24,040 Reading through the Old Testament, these last few weeks, we see where Elisha 312 00:11:24,540 --> 00:11:24,700 uh 313 00:11:24,860 --> 00:11:27,500 brought a dead person back and Elijah 314 00:11:27,660 --> 00:11:29,100 brought a dead person back. 315 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:34,380 But other than that, though, it wasn't a very common thing that dead people just came back to life. 316 00:11:34,779 --> 00:11:37,580 It's a pretty big deal. 317 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:46,360 And we know that when the lit religious leaders heard about it, they started getting all fuzzed up and they thought, well, we need to kill Lazarus again. 318 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:46,600 Well 319 00:11:46,759 --> 00:11:48,600 the first time wasn't good enough. 320 00:11:51,180 --> 00:11:51,980 I I w 321 00:11:52,460 --> 00:11:52,700 my 322 00:11:52,940 --> 00:11:53,180 my 323 00:11:53,340 --> 00:11:53,980 one of my 324 00:11:54,780 --> 00:11:55,980 one of my um 325 00:11:56,220 --> 00:11:57,820 Easter traditions has bec 326 00:11:58,060 --> 00:11:59,420 in the last few years has 327 00:11:59,580 --> 00:12:00,700 has been to watch the 328 00:12:00,860 --> 00:12:01,660 the the movie 329 00:12:01,820 --> 00:12:04,140 Risen. 330 00:12:04,339 --> 00:12:05,459 And and it's a 331 00:12:05,620 --> 00:12:06,500 it's about 332 00:12:06,660 --> 00:12:06,980 uh 333 00:12:07,140 --> 00:12:09,380 Jesus when he resurrects and and a 334 00:12:09,540 --> 00:12:09,700 so 335 00:12:09,860 --> 00:12:11,220 certain soldier that witnesses 336 00:12:11,459 --> 00:12:12,019 and everything. 337 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:12,520 And uh 338 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:13,960 anyway, it's pretty powerful. 339 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:21,000 But one of the things that Pilate says in the movie, if you find that dead carpenter alive, I'll kill him again 340 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:25,100 Now 341 00:12:25,660 --> 00:12:27,260 there's one thing 342 00:12:27,580 --> 00:12:32,300 to just kind of be misinformed and make some bad decisions, but that's just pump 343 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:33,580 stupid. 344 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,520 He rose from the dead and you're going to kill him again? 345 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:38,920 But that's mankind's mentality. 346 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:40,680 That's how stupid we are 347 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:41,640 as people 348 00:12:42,860 --> 00:12:47,180 And and how hard heart how hard-hearted we can be can become. 349 00:12:47,180 --> 00:12:49,180 And it says after this, it says, 350 00:12:49,420 --> 00:12:53,980 then many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things Jesus did 351 00:12:54,140 --> 00:12:55,980 believed in him. 352 00:12:55,620 --> 00:12:58,820 I would say, yeah, that would be a good thing to believe in. 353 00:12:58,820 --> 00:13:01,540 Somebody had the power to raise somebody out of the grave. 354 00:13:01,540 --> 00:13:08,339 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them, little snitches, the things Jesus did 355 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:13,680 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a counsel and said, What shall we do? 356 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:16,320 For this man works many signs. 357 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,880 If we let him alone like this, everyone will believe in him. 358 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:22,320 Duh. 359 00:13:22,460 --> 00:13:23,340 Right? 360 00:13:23,340 --> 00:13:23,820 And now 361 00:13:23,980 --> 00:13:28,140 why doesn't everybody believe in Jesus? 362 00:13:28,460 --> 00:13:28,860 Because 363 00:13:29,740 --> 00:13:34,380 they don't want to humble themselves and put their faith and trust in something bigger than themselves. 364 00:13:34,380 --> 00:13:36,860 They want to just hang on to themselves. 365 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:41,079 I don't know about you, but self hasn't gotten me very far 366 00:13:41,399 --> 00:13:42,680 in my life. 367 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:44,839 It's gotten me in a lot of trouble 368 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,920 because I am so selfish. 369 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:49,240 But 370 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:53,680 Everyone will believe in him. 371 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:55,040 And the Romans will come. 372 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:56,000 This is the biggie. 373 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,600 This is the kicker right here. 374 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,520 And the Romans will come and take away both our place 375 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:03,760 and our nation. 376 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:04,760 Our place 377 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:05,400 , 378 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,800 obviously they didn't want to lose their place because 379 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:09,800 they had some clout. 380 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,600 They had political clout, they had religious clout, 381 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:14,440 they were all that 382 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:17,160 And they didn't want to lose that. 383 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:18,920 They would lose their power 384 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,440 and their and their influence. 385 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:23,960 And 386 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,080 afraid that they would lose their nation. 387 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,080 Well, we know they're not gonna lose their nation. 388 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,000 All you have to do is read the Torah. 389 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 They were students of the Torah, the 390 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:34,360 the Old Testament. 391 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,800 They knew they should have known you're not gonna lose your nation. 392 00:14:37,300 --> 00:14:44,339 You're going to get your hind end whooped because you've forsaken God, but you're not going to, it's not going to disappear forever. 393 00:14:44,339 --> 00:14:46,420 God's going to keep it in the hollow of his 394 00:14:46,660 --> 00:14:47,140 hand. 395 00:14:47,140 --> 00:14:48,580 And in fact, he did 396 00:14:49,120 --> 00:15:00,080 But this is interesting here in verse 49, and it says, and then one of them, Caiaphas, being the high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all. 397 00:15:00,420 --> 00:15:01,699 Nor do you consider 398 00:15:01,940 --> 00:15:04,500 that it is expedient for us 399 00:15:04,740 --> 00:15:05,699 that one man 400 00:15:05,860 --> 00:15:06,660 should die 401 00:15:06,899 --> 00:15:09,620 for the people, and not that he 402 00:15:09,940 --> 00:15:13,459 and not that the whole nation should perish. 403 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:14,720 So Caiphas 404 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,760 goes, no, this guy's gonna die. 405 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:19,040 He's gonna die 406 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,160 so that we don't lose our nation 407 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,120 He's going to die to 408 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:29,519 save our nation. 409 00:15:29,519 --> 00:15:29,600 And 410 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,680 notice what 51 says. 411 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:31,920 Now 412 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,040 this he did not say of his own authority. 413 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:37,800 But 414 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,800 being the high priest that year, he prophesied 415 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,320 that Jesus would die for the nation. 416 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:45,960 and not 417 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:49,560 for the nation only, but also that he 418 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:50,120 would 419 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:55,160 gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad 420 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:58,680 This is a prophetic word 421 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,360 coming from a guy that hates Jesus 422 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:10,080 Like I said, the older I get in the Lord, the 423 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:14,160 more I try to draw close to the Lord, the more I don't know. 424 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,480 I don't totally understand this. 425 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:18,200 But he had a position 426 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:19,080 that God 427 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:20,360 set up. 428 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:20,680 God 429 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,960 established the position of the high priest 430 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:24,720 Right? 431 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,600 And whoever was in that position had 432 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:28,320 authority 433 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:32,400 no matter what, no matter if he was good or evil. 434 00:16:32,620 --> 00:16:39,100 And you remember that when when Jesus is on trial, he says, I adjure you by the Most High, tell me. 435 00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:42,140 And Jesus was under that authority. 436 00:16:42,220 --> 00:16:43,980 He told them. 437 00:16:43,980 --> 00:16:48,860 He honored the authority that God had given the high priest. 438 00:16:48,860 --> 00:16:49,900 Crazy stuff. 439 00:16:49,900 --> 00:16:52,620 But he did not do this of his own accord. 440 00:16:52,620 --> 00:16:55,660 He was pointing to something much bigger. 441 00:16:58,839 --> 00:16:59,480 And so 442 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,000 it's a done deal. 443 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,120 We're killing him. 444 00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:05,160 That's it. 445 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:06,120 He's dead. 446 00:17:06,120 --> 00:17:08,199 We're gonna kill him. 447 00:17:08,700 --> 00:17:16,860 Now, this is interesting because Jesus says, right, here's another one of them 448 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,360 I don't totally get it, things. 449 00:17:20,360 --> 00:17:24,040 Jesus says, no man takes my life from me. 450 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:29,080 I choose the moment I choose to lay it down and I choose to take it up again. 451 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:30,720 And so this is just 452 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,840 kind of biblical gymnastics here going, what, huh? 453 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:36,320 How? 454 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:38,400 They're going to kill him. 455 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:39,520 They know he's going to die. 456 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:41,040 He's going to die for the nation. 457 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,040 The high priest prophesied it. 458 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,080 But Jesus says, nobody takes my life from me, but I lay it down. 459 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,440 But it's when those two things come together and they agree, actually 460 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,320 Jesus agrees with what is going on here. 461 00:17:52,799 --> 00:17:58,240 He's came to set the captives free, a ransom for many. 462 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,600 They just were looking at it from totally different angles. 463 00:18:05,380 --> 00:18:06,660 And then he sent 464 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:07,860 people to him 465 00:18:08,100 --> 00:18:09,620 to be pretenders 466 00:18:10,460 --> 00:18:10,940 Right? 467 00:18:10,940 --> 00:18:13,020 These guys really seem quite 468 00:18:13,180 --> 00:18:15,020 quite spiritual, don't they? 469 00:18:15,020 --> 00:18:16,460 They come to him. 470 00:18:16,860 --> 00:18:18,620 They're pretending to be 471 00:18:18,940 --> 00:18:22,620 righteous, hired hypocrites. 472 00:18:23,179 --> 00:18:25,019 Anybody need a job? 473 00:18:27,340 --> 00:18:29,179 I don't think any of us need to be hired. 474 00:18:29,179 --> 00:18:31,980 I think we do that well enough on our own without pay 475 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:33,200 But 476 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:34,800 they want to catch him in his 477 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:36,320 words. 478 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,240 Think about this. 479 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,120 People are wanting to find fault 480 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:42,320 with the word 481 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:43,520 of God. 482 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:45,120 Right? 483 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:47,679 They want to find fault with the word 484 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:51,039 of God, thinking that they could catch him in 485 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:51,600 a 486 00:18:51,919 --> 00:18:53,200 a lie? 487 00:18:55,660 --> 00:18:56,780 Doesn't the Bible says 488 00:18:56,940 --> 00:18:57,100 your 489 00:18:57,260 --> 00:18:57,420 word 490 00:18:57,660 --> 00:18:58,460 is truth? 491 00:18:58,460 --> 00:18:59,580 Jesus says that. 492 00:18:59,580 --> 00:19:02,220 About the word of the Lord, right? 493 00:19:01,900 --> 00:19:02,780 And Hebrews four 494 00:19:02,940 --> 00:19:04,620 twelve, we know it, for the word 495 00:19:04,780 --> 00:19:06,380 of God is living 496 00:19:06,620 --> 00:19:07,580 and powerful 497 00:19:07,740 --> 00:19:14,780 and sharper than any two edged sword, pissing even to division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow 498 00:19:14,779 --> 00:19:21,100 And as a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart, you can't catch the word 499 00:19:21,260 --> 00:19:22,220 of God in his 500 00:19:22,380 --> 00:19:23,340 words. 501 00:19:24,340 --> 00:19:24,820 You're gonna 502 00:19:25,460 --> 00:19:25,940 catch him in 503 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:27,700 there is no lies there. 504 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:29,460 There's nothing to catch 505 00:19:31,919 --> 00:19:32,240 But 506 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:32,640 they 507 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:33,520 in their 508 00:19:33,679 --> 00:19:38,720 their stupor, their hard-heartedness, and their hatred toward him 509 00:19:39,039 --> 00:19:40,880 was believing they could catch him 510 00:19:41,039 --> 00:19:41,520 and didn't 511 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:43,679 have ammo. 512 00:19:49,659 --> 00:19:51,340 When it came to 513 00:19:51,580 --> 00:19:56,940 searching for things to accuse Jesus of, they always came up empty-handed. 514 00:19:56,660 --> 00:20:04,020 The sad thing is, is when they search us to come up with something, some ammo, they usually get quite a bit. 515 00:20:04,020 --> 00:20:05,780 I think it was Mahatma Gandhi 516 00:20:05,940 --> 00:20:08,660 said, I don't have a problem with Jesus. 517 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:09,400 I have 518 00:20:09,559 --> 00:20:12,760 a problem with his followers. 519 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:13,320 Why? 520 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,240 Because we're all flawed. 521 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:15,880 Right? 522 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,280 We're all flawed, sinful 523 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:19,240 people. 524 00:20:19,419 --> 00:20:19,740 uh 525 00:20:20,059 --> 00:20:23,500 trying to take care of this desperately wicked heart that we have 526 00:20:23,740 --> 00:20:23,900 that 527 00:20:24,140 --> 00:20:26,220 doesn't seem to sleep much 528 00:20:26,620 --> 00:20:27,260 and um 529 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:31,240 And it's just 530 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:38,680 it's part of this human experience, this human existence that we have. 531 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,960 We're fallen, but not the Lord. 532 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,240 They want him to turn him over to the government. 533 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,840 They want Jesus dead, but they don't want to do it. 534 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,160 They want the Romans to do it. 535 00:20:51,220 --> 00:20:53,460 They don't want to kill him. 536 00:20:53,460 --> 00:20:56,980 Wouldn't they be guilty of murder? 537 00:20:56,980 --> 00:20:58,900 Is murder against the law 538 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:01,720 Yeah, but 539 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:06,360 when you listen to Jesus when he talks about it, right? 540 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:10,120 Back in Matthew, he gives his little dissertation on the law. 541 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:11,480 He says, listen 542 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:12,120 , 543 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:20,600 If you're angry with your brother in your heart, you've murdered him in your heart. 544 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,880 You're in danger of hellfire. 545 00:21:25,980 --> 00:21:27,980 And we do that all the time. 546 00:21:27,980 --> 00:21:33,419 I was thinking this week as I was looking through this, I'm just thinking, why is there so much hatred? 547 00:21:34,620 --> 00:21:36,700 There's hatred in families. 548 00:21:38,260 --> 00:21:41,540 We hate each other. 549 00:21:41,540 --> 00:21:43,220 Now, a lot of family members 550 00:21:43,380 --> 00:21:45,860 are kind of the love-hate thing is going on, but 551 00:21:46,260 --> 00:21:46,900 but still 552 00:21:47,060 --> 00:21:47,460 why 553 00:21:47,620 --> 00:21:49,220 why do we hate 554 00:21:50,140 --> 00:21:52,060 It just seems to be so 555 00:21:55,340 --> 00:21:57,740 unproductive. 556 00:21:57,740 --> 00:21:59,660 Just hating one another. 557 00:21:59,660 --> 00:21:59,900 Let 558 00:22:00,060 --> 00:22:01,740 each other get under our skin 559 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:02,220 and 560 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:04,320 It 561 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:09,200 festers, don't know how to deal with it, don't know how to give it to the Lord. 562 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:12,799 And it's just 563 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:14,399 so 564 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:15,039 much 565 00:22:16,260 --> 00:22:22,899 More peaceful when we can just let those things go and not let it happen. 566 00:22:22,899 --> 00:22:24,419 When we come into 567 00:22:24,580 --> 00:22:29,220 line with the will of God and we seek Him and ask Him to change our hearts. 568 00:22:29,019 --> 00:22:31,820 Because it seems that we don't have this capacity 569 00:22:32,139 --> 00:22:35,019 to change our hearts. 570 00:22:35,019 --> 00:22:35,980 They want him 571 00:22:36,220 --> 00:22:37,500 dead. 572 00:22:39,820 --> 00:22:40,940 And they wanted to wait till 573 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:41,980 after Passover. 574 00:22:41,980 --> 00:22:43,500 God wouldn't let them. 575 00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:44,300 Right? 576 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:47,020 God forced their hand. 577 00:22:47,020 --> 00:22:48,380 And they in fact 578 00:22:48,620 --> 00:22:51,100 convinced the Romans to do it. 579 00:22:51,460 --> 00:22:54,100 So verse 21 says, whoop, I 580 00:22:54,260 --> 00:22:57,220 gotta get back there, sorry. 581 00:22:57,220 --> 00:23:00,740 Verse 21, it says, Then they ask 582 00:23:00,900 --> 00:23:05,140 him, saying, Teacher, we know that you say and teach rightly. 583 00:23:06,260 --> 00:23:08,340 I don't think they believe this. 584 00:23:08,340 --> 00:23:09,380 But what are they doing? 585 00:23:09,380 --> 00:23:11,380 They're speaking truth, right? 586 00:23:11,700 --> 00:23:13,620 Because he does. 587 00:23:13,620 --> 00:23:13,940 You 588 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:16,500 do not show personal favoritism. 589 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:18,260 God's not partial. 590 00:23:18,780 --> 00:23:21,500 But teach the way of God in truth. 591 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:23,900 They're right on here. 592 00:23:24,140 --> 00:23:25,660 Have you been around people like that? 593 00:23:25,660 --> 00:23:26,460 They're right on. 594 00:23:26,460 --> 00:23:28,220 They know exactly what to say 595 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:31,800 It's like what Titus 596 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:32,680 talks about. 597 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:33,320 They they 598 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,880 they honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 599 00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:38,360 They 600 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,560 honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 601 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,640 Where's your heart with the Lord today? 602 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,039 Is it full of angst and disdain and 603 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:51,080 hatred 604 00:23:51,639 --> 00:23:52,840 toward people? 605 00:23:54,279 --> 00:23:56,279 I don't think God allows that 606 00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:58,280 You 607 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,040 better do something with that. 608 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,440 Give it to him. 609 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:02,520 I 610 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,520 say, Lord, I know this ain't you. 611 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,440 To think this way about that person 612 00:24:07,220 --> 00:24:08,980 I know that's not of you. 613 00:24:08,980 --> 00:24:10,660 You've got to help me with this 614 00:24:10,900 --> 00:24:13,300 this heart of mine. 615 00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:13,620 I mean 616 00:24:13,940 --> 00:24:18,500 the Lord nailed me about thinking about my wife that way. 617 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:20,340 I wanted to kill her. 618 00:24:22,620 --> 00:24:24,139 Honey, are you here? 619 00:24:25,580 --> 00:24:26,539 My wife would say 620 00:24:26,700 --> 00:24:28,220 right back at you, buddy 621 00:24:33,019 --> 00:24:33,980 Right? 622 00:24:34,299 --> 00:24:36,460 It's just true. 623 00:24:36,460 --> 00:24:37,340 Our spouses 624 00:24:37,580 --> 00:24:40,380 can get our s get us so enraged we're just like, oh 625 00:24:41,620 --> 00:24:46,260 I remember about seven, eight years into marriage, I'm looking in the mirror going, why'd you do this? 626 00:24:46,260 --> 00:24:49,220 Why did you, why did you get married? 627 00:24:55,299 --> 00:24:55,620 But 628 00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:59,140 me and the Lord had a conversation about it. 629 00:24:59,140 --> 00:25:00,580 He checked me 630 00:25:00,820 --> 00:25:01,140 uh 631 00:25:01,380 --> 00:25:02,820 pretty severely 632 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:05,880 And it changed me. 633 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:06,760 I looked at her 634 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,720 in a whole different light after that. 635 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,360 That she's truly the greatest treasure I have 636 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,840 this side of heaven is my bride. 637 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,160 That's my greatest treasure. 638 00:25:17,540 --> 00:25:17,860 And 639 00:25:18,020 --> 00:25:18,340 um 640 00:25:19,780 --> 00:25:23,540 how I need to treat her, how do I need to think of her, right? 641 00:25:23,540 --> 00:25:24,180 The Bible says 642 00:25:24,340 --> 00:25:29,700 whatever's lovely, whatever's noble, you know, whatever's excellent, think on these things. 643 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:31,220 That's how you think. 644 00:25:31,340 --> 00:25:34,460 You take your thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ, and do you 645 00:25:35,100 --> 00:25:36,299 think in a different way? 646 00:25:36,299 --> 00:25:38,380 He truly transforms your mind 647 00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:40,780 when you give it to him. 648 00:25:40,820 --> 00:25:41,140 But 649 00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:45,860 when we're just left to our own devices, we gravitate to that lowest level. 650 00:25:45,860 --> 00:25:48,420 And it's hatred and bitterness and angst 651 00:25:48,660 --> 00:25:48,980 and 652 00:25:49,540 --> 00:25:50,820 darkness. 653 00:25:55,460 --> 00:25:55,780 So 654 00:25:56,100 --> 00:26:03,700 really, these guys here, when they say these things to Jesus, they're buttering each piece of bread. 655 00:26:03,519 --> 00:26:06,320 For a, you know, sandwich of deceit. 656 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,880 They're just lying through their teeth. 657 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,120 And then they lower the boom 658 00:26:13,419 --> 00:26:14,860 Verse 22. 659 00:26:14,860 --> 00:26:18,059 Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar 660 00:26:18,220 --> 00:26:18,940 or not? 661 00:26:19,179 --> 00:26:22,860 They really thought they had Jesus in a catch 22. 662 00:26:27,340 --> 00:26:34,380 And at this point, can't you just see Jesus shaking his head and going, You 663 00:26:34,620 --> 00:26:35,260 guys 664 00:26:37,639 --> 00:26:44,039 Really they're they're sparring with the the god of the universe. 665 00:26:44,039 --> 00:26:47,960 And they think they got a chance. 666 00:26:49,660 --> 00:26:51,100 Kind of like Pee-Wee Herman 667 00:26:51,260 --> 00:26:53,420 with Muhammad Ali, I mean 668 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:09,920 At the just the persistent rejection that they had of being so bent on doing their own thing. 669 00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:12,060 And so he 670 00:27:13,660 --> 00:27:15,340 meets the challenge 671 00:27:15,820 --> 00:27:16,140 with 672 00:27:18,380 --> 00:27:18,620 just 673 00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:19,260 how 674 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:21,980 wise he is 675 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:22,620 and 676 00:27:22,940 --> 00:27:23,260 how 677 00:27:23,580 --> 00:27:25,580 you're not gonna outmaneuver God. 678 00:27:25,580 --> 00:27:28,780 I don't care who you are or who you think you are. 679 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,320 Verse 23, but he perceived their craftiness 680 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:33,600 and said to them, 681 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,520 Why do you test me? 682 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,200 Show me a denarius 683 00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:40,960 whose image and inscription does it have? 684 00:27:42,980 --> 00:27:43,460 This is 685 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:44,019 just 686 00:27:44,340 --> 00:27:49,139 this is just classic Jesus. 687 00:27:49,139 --> 00:27:51,700 Bring me coin, he says. 688 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:52,320 Right? 689 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:53,679 They really think they're 690 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,840 they've got a weapon here 691 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:56,799 that that 692 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,080 there's no way he can answer this and not be in trouble 693 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:05,200 Because if he says no, he's in trouble with the Romans. 694 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:06,880 If he says, if 695 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,240 he says yes 696 00:28:10,540 --> 00:28:12,300 That he's in trouble with God 697 00:28:13,420 --> 00:28:15,580 or with the religious leaders. 698 00:28:15,580 --> 00:28:15,740 So 699 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:17,900 he's really in a catch 22 700 00:28:18,060 --> 00:28:18,380 there 701 00:28:18,380 --> 00:28:19,900 Now Isaiah 54 17 702 00:28:20,140 --> 00:28:20,620 says, 703 00:28:20,780 --> 00:28:20,940 No 704 00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:26,540 weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment 705 00:28:27,140 --> 00:28:28,580 You shall condemn. 706 00:28:28,580 --> 00:28:35,300 This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from me, says the Lord. 707 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,840 Paying taxes. 708 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,040 I don't like paying taxes. 709 00:28:47,059 --> 00:28:49,140 But we're commanded, right? 710 00:28:49,140 --> 00:28:50,900 We're commanded to do it 711 00:28:56,460 --> 00:28:59,340 We're to pay Caesar our revenue 712 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:01,740 and God our reference or our worship. 713 00:29:01,740 --> 00:29:05,260 And that's what he's talking about here as he goes into verse 25. 714 00:29:05,260 --> 00:29:06,539 And he said to them 715 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:12,520 Render therefore to Caesar's the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. 716 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,600 Give it to Caesar whose image is on it? 717 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:15,720 Well Caesar's is. 718 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:16,520 Well give it to him 719 00:29:16,679 --> 00:29:17,240 then. 720 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:18,039 It's his 721 00:29:21,139 --> 00:29:24,500 I mean it's how society works, right? 722 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:27,220 It's why we have roads and and toilets 723 00:29:27,380 --> 00:29:28,019 and you know 724 00:29:28,179 --> 00:29:31,220 we're paying our taxes. 725 00:29:32,220 --> 00:29:35,340 But it's the abuse that we struggle with, right? 726 00:29:35,340 --> 00:29:37,340 That's why we hate it so bad. 727 00:29:37,340 --> 00:29:37,500 As 728 00:29:37,660 --> 00:29:38,539 we see the abuses 729 00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:41,500 and the overspending and the fraud and the um 730 00:29:42,460 --> 00:29:44,140 just the negligence. 731 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:46,480 And it's really the 732 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:47,440 I mean 733 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:51,760 we're in a pickle 734 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,400 because there's been so much abuse 735 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,640 monetarily in our country 736 00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:58,160 But he's saying, so 737 00:29:58,320 --> 00:29:59,520 just give it to Caesar. 738 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,280 But listen, you give that to Caesar, but you better give to God's 739 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,360 what is his. 740 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:06,960 Well, whose image 741 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,200 is on you and me? 742 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,200 God's image is. 743 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:12,840 And so it's 744 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:13,320 it's 745 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,360 it's right. 746 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:22,040 It's right to pay taxes, it's right to give your reverence to God. 747 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,400 Years ago I watched a movie. 748 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:25,360 And I'm gonna do a 749 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:26,320 movie recommend. 750 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,400 I don't usually do movie recommends because 751 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,040 I really don't watch many movies, but um 752 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,240 a good movie recommend is the old movie 753 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:35,040 Sgt. 754 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:35,360 York 755 00:30:36,740 --> 00:30:37,539 Sergeant York 756 00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:38,100 with Gary 757 00:30:38,260 --> 00:30:39,220 Cooper. 758 00:30:39,220 --> 00:30:39,860 And uh 759 00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:42,340 quite a it's got quite a history to it. 760 00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:42,580 Uh 761 00:30:42,820 --> 00:30:48,100 Alvin York, who the movie was about, was one of the most decorated World War I 762 00:30:48,419 --> 00:30:50,179 vets. 763 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:50,240 And 764 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:50,640 um 765 00:30:50,799 --> 00:30:52,000 he was a conscientious 766 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:53,520 objector and was not gonna 767 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,160 was not gonna go fight. 768 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:56,799 And he 769 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:57,280 um 770 00:30:58,660 --> 00:30:59,460 So they gave him 771 00:30:59,860 --> 00:31:02,100 they said, all right, York, because of 772 00:31:02,419 --> 00:31:06,740 your religious beliefs and you don't believe that God would have you come and fight 773 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,919 He says, you go home for 10 days, 774 00:31:09,799 --> 00:31:12,039 you get furlough, you get to go home for 10 days. 775 00:31:12,039 --> 00:31:15,000 And in that 10 days, if you uh determined 776 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:20,520 and you can seek your God and you determine that you don't want to fight, we'll discharge you. 777 00:31:20,419 --> 00:31:20,500 So 778 00:31:20,740 --> 00:31:20,980 York 779 00:31:21,299 --> 00:31:21,940 goes home 780 00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:23,780 and he's searching the scriptures. 781 00:31:23,780 --> 00:31:30,580 He goes into the backcountry where he grew up hunting and trapping and all that stuff, and he comes across this passage. 782 00:31:31,380 --> 00:31:34,420 Render unto Caesar's the things that are Caesar's 783 00:31:34,580 --> 00:31:35,460 and unto God 784 00:31:35,620 --> 00:31:38,420 the things that are God's. 785 00:31:38,420 --> 00:31:39,700 It was like an aha 786 00:31:39,860 --> 00:31:41,700 moment for Sergeant York. 787 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:47,080 He thought, oh, I am called to be a citizen of this country. 788 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,880 And I'm also called to worship my God. 789 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,080 So I can do both. 790 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,000 I can be a soldier. 791 00:31:53,179 --> 00:31:54,460 And I can be 792 00:31:54,700 --> 00:31:58,539 a soldier for the kingdom at the same time. 793 00:31:58,539 --> 00:31:58,860 And 794 00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:00,299 the rest is history. 795 00:32:00,299 --> 00:32:03,019 You can read about him, fascinating fella. 796 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:03,799 extremely humble. 797 00:32:03,799 --> 00:32:05,000 Cooper would refused. 798 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,080 He was going through a really hard time in his life. 799 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,600 He refused to play the part of Algin 800 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:09,080 Alvin 801 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:09,720 York. 802 00:32:09,799 --> 00:32:09,960 They 803 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:10,520 and the 804 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,520 the director said, Let me fly out. 805 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:13,559 You meet Alvin York. 806 00:32:13,559 --> 00:32:14,039 If you still 807 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,760 don't want to do it, I w I'll get somebody else 808 00:32:16,460 --> 00:32:20,140 He goes, he meets York, and he's so impressed with York 809 00:32:20,300 --> 00:32:24,220 's humility and his love for God, he said, okay, I'll do it. 810 00:32:24,220 --> 00:32:27,820 And that's why Cooper played the part of Alvin York. 811 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:28,120 But 812 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,280 governmental authority is instituted by God. 813 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:33,160 Right? 814 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:33,960 It it is. 815 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:35,080 And it talks about it. 816 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,120 I mean, there's all kinds of references I've got here. 817 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,640 The main ones in the New Testament 818 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:40,120 are 819 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:40,320 are 820 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:41,920 uh Romans 13 and 1 821 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:43,280 Peter chapter 2. 822 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,280 It talks about that God 823 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,800 institutes these governments and that we're subject to them 824 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,760 But they're to be a terror, listen, they're to be 825 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,560 a terror to evil works. 826 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:59,200 But what about when they become a terror to good works or preaching the gospel? 827 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,120 What if the government comes against that? 828 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,040 Are we to obey that? 829 00:33:03,019 --> 00:33:05,260 No, we're not. 830 00:33:05,260 --> 00:33:07,179 So there's a fine line there. 831 00:33:07,179 --> 00:33:09,500 I don't have it all figured out, folks. 832 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:15,740 And you need to purpose in your heart and seek the Lord on some of this stuff too, because it's getting kind of wild 833 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:16,360 In 834 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,040 in this country. 835 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:18,600 And it's 836 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,720 listen, it ain't gonna get no better. 837 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,080 It's gonna get more wild. 838 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:23,240 So 839 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:29,400 you need to determine in your own heart between you and the Lord, what would He have you do? 840 00:33:32,799 --> 00:33:34,640 Because there was a certain 841 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:35,760 i 842 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,240 idolatry that was going on in Israel. 843 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:42,799 The Jews came against it, and Caesar said, You guys keep protesting, I'm gonna kill you. 844 00:33:43,140 --> 00:33:43,380 And 845 00:33:43,540 --> 00:33:43,860 um 846 00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:46,820 and so they kept protesting. 847 00:33:46,820 --> 00:33:53,620 And so he sent soldiers there, and they all laid down on the ground and they grabbed their collar of their shirt and they bore their necks. 848 00:33:55,280 --> 00:34:01,360 And he thought, oh, you guys are willing to die for this. 849 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:02,080 Yeah. 850 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,480 What are you willing to die for? 851 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:06,200 Our country? 852 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:06,520 Yeah, 853 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,240 I think the Lord would have us be willing to die for our country. 854 00:34:09,240 --> 00:34:12,520 If you're willing to die for our family, yeah, we should die for our family. 855 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,840 But what about for the gospel's sake? 856 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:14,919 You 857 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:16,280 willing to die for that 858 00:34:18,839 --> 00:34:22,200 The people that established what we call the church today 859 00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:24,359 did. 860 00:34:24,359 --> 00:34:27,240 They laid the foundation with their blood. 861 00:34:27,379 --> 00:34:29,700 Every one of them, save John. 862 00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:31,059 He died an old old man. 863 00:34:31,059 --> 00:34:32,419 He probably wished he would have been 864 00:34:32,579 --> 00:34:33,859 went with them. 865 00:34:36,820 --> 00:34:37,780 But it's 866 00:34:38,579 --> 00:34:41,940 Yes, our citizenship is in heaven, as it says in Philippians 867 00:34:42,099 --> 00:34:42,260 three 868 00:34:42,419 --> 00:34:46,020 twenty, and we are strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 869 00:34:45,859 --> 00:34:48,899 But that does not mean we should ignore our earthly 870 00:34:49,060 --> 00:34:51,220 responsibilities like going and voting 871 00:34:51,379 --> 00:34:53,139 on Tuesday. 872 00:34:53,139 --> 00:34:54,020 Right? 873 00:34:55,179 --> 00:34:55,500 So 874 00:34:56,540 --> 00:34:59,820 Jesus was not suggesting that we divide 875 00:35:00,380 --> 00:35:01,260 our loyalties 876 00:35:01,420 --> 00:35:03,420 between God and government. 877 00:35:03,420 --> 00:35:05,100 No, God's supreme 878 00:35:06,579 --> 00:35:12,579 Since the powers that be are ordered by God, we live as good citizens 879 00:35:13,540 --> 00:35:16,500 when we obey the authorities for the Lord's sake. 880 00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:16,820 And thus 881 00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:19,380 we should be good citizens. 882 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:20,320 Here 883 00:35:23,839 --> 00:35:25,839 But when obedience with God 884 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:26,800 for God 885 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,960 conflicts with obedience to man, then we must put God first. 886 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:32,280 Right? 887 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,760 And that's what they talk about in Acts 4. 888 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,080 And you can read that on your own. 889 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:38,320 But we must do it 890 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,160 in a manner that is loving and honorable. 891 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:47,360 Even if we cannot respect the people in office, we must respect the office. 892 00:35:47,420 --> 00:35:50,700 The counsel that Jeremiah gave to the Jews 893 00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:57,020 when they were exiled to Babylon is just a good rule of thumb, right? 894 00:35:57,299 --> 00:35:58,579 And he said this 895 00:35:58,900 --> 00:36:00,180 to them. 896 00:36:00,180 --> 00:36:00,420 Oh 897 00:36:00,579 --> 00:36:00,900 right, I 898 00:36:01,059 --> 00:36:02,420 gotta turn there, sorry. 899 00:36:02,420 --> 00:36:03,859 It's in, it's in uh 900 00:36:05,539 --> 00:36:07,539 Jeremiah 29. 901 00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:08,560 And 902 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,040 this is what he told them. 903 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:16,720 In verse 4 of Jeremiah 29, it says, For thus says the Lord God of hosts. 904 00:36:16,740 --> 00:36:25,220 the God of Israel, to all who are carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon, 905 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:26,680 Build houses and dwell in them, plant 906 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:27,160 gardens 907 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,800 and eat their fruit, take wives and beget 908 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,720 sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters 909 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:43,200 to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters, that you may be increased there and not diminished, and seek the peace of the city 910 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:47,840 where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord 911 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:48,960 for it, 912 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,800 For in its peace you will have peace. 913 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,080 And that's where we are. 914 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,240 We're in the God's put us in this place. 915 00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:59,160 We should be people. 916 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,080 Who are peacemakers? 917 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,240 Blessed are the peacemakers, Jesus said. 918 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:04,120 Correct? 919 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:05,960 So we should be peacemakers. 920 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,400 Is there a time to rise up? 921 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,560 Yes, there would be a time to rise up, but for the most part, we're to be 922 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:12,640 Not keep 923 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:19,680 peacekeepers, but peacemakers. 924 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:21,120 Blessed are those 925 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,880 Peacemakers. 926 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:26,200 So 927 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,000 pray for that city. 928 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,040 You've been praying for your 929 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,160 city? 930 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,200 Praying for your city council members and your mayor 931 00:37:34,359 --> 00:37:34,680 and 932 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:35,079 well 933 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:36,040 I don't like 934 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:37,079 our mayor. 935 00:37:36,660 --> 00:37:37,060 Mayor. 936 00:37:37,220 --> 00:37:38,980 Why should I what should I pray? 937 00:37:38,980 --> 00:37:40,660 That her brakes fail 938 00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:48,000 No, just pray for her. 939 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,240 Pray that the Lord, that she would know the Lord, because 940 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,079 bottom line for all of us 941 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:55,960 That's the most important thing. 942 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:56,920 The most important 943 00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:58,680 thing is that people 944 00:37:59,000 --> 00:37:59,319 know 945 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:00,359 the Lord 946 00:38:05,180 --> 00:38:05,500 So 947 00:38:05,660 --> 00:38:07,100 the bottom line is 948 00:38:07,340 --> 00:38:10,700 Jesus lays it out here, pay up. 949 00:38:10,700 --> 00:38:13,820 Give Caesar what's his, give God 950 00:38:14,140 --> 00:38:15,260 what's his. 951 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:27,040 Genesis 2, 7, it says, And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being. 952 00:38:28,980 --> 00:38:30,740 That's the image of God. 953 00:38:30,740 --> 00:38:32,180 He gave it to us. 954 00:38:32,180 --> 00:38:34,099 Our job is to give it back to him 955 00:38:34,740 --> 00:38:35,300 and honor 956 00:38:35,460 --> 00:38:36,099 with what he's 957 00:38:36,339 --> 00:38:36,820 honor him 958 00:38:36,980 --> 00:38:38,260 with what he's given us. 959 00:38:38,260 --> 00:38:41,300 The life that God has given you, you are to honor him 960 00:38:41,619 --> 00:38:42,579 with it. 961 00:38:46,140 --> 00:38:47,660 The reason that we 962 00:38:47,980 --> 00:38:48,620 render 963 00:38:48,940 --> 00:38:50,460 or give to God 964 00:38:51,420 --> 00:38:52,060 in the here 965 00:38:52,220 --> 00:38:52,620 and now 966 00:38:52,860 --> 00:38:53,500 is because 967 00:38:53,820 --> 00:38:56,460 our spirit will return to him. 968 00:38:57,620 --> 00:39:00,900 Right, it talks about it in Ecclesiastes 969 00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:04,500 chapter 12, verses 6 and 7. 970 00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:05,540 I'll read it to you. 971 00:39:05,540 --> 00:39:10,660 It says, Remember your creator before the silver cord is loosed. 972 00:39:10,540 --> 00:39:14,300 Or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher 973 00:39:14,620 --> 00:39:18,940 shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the well. 974 00:39:18,820 --> 00:39:26,180 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. 975 00:39:26,180 --> 00:39:26,420 But 976 00:39:26,580 --> 00:39:28,980 for the silver cord is broken. 977 00:39:28,980 --> 00:39:32,660 Speaking of this life, that there is a moment when we 978 00:39:33,380 --> 00:39:33,700 We 979 00:39:34,020 --> 00:39:37,220 take our last breath. 980 00:39:37,220 --> 00:39:39,380 And the Spirit returns to God 981 00:39:39,539 --> 00:39:41,299 who gave it. 982 00:39:41,299 --> 00:39:43,859 And what's he going to do with it? 983 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,359 He has to place it somewhere. 984 00:39:48,359 --> 00:39:50,680 Where is he going to place it? 985 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:51,640 In glory 986 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,839 or in judgment? 987 00:39:54,839 --> 00:39:55,640 That's your 988 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,839 decision and my decision. 989 00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:04,839 Therefore, we should 990 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,000 honor him. 991 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,840 Honor him with the life that he's given us. 992 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:11,640 Give it 993 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,760 to God. 994 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:15,080 And 995 00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:18,440 don't leave the Caesar thing undone. 996 00:40:20,860 --> 00:40:23,340 Well, he wraps it up here in verse 26. 997 00:40:23,340 --> 00:40:25,740 He says, But they could not catch him in his 998 00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:26,140 his 999 00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:27,020 words. 1000 00:40:27,020 --> 00:40:28,220 Yeah. 1001 00:40:28,220 --> 00:40:30,220 In the presence of the people. 1002 00:40:30,220 --> 00:40:31,820 And they marveled 1003 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:32,800 At his 1004 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,840 answer and kept silent. 1005 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,440 Jesus shut him up 1006 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:39,280 with his 1007 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,320 words, with his wisdom, with who he was. 1008 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:43,760 They could not catch him in his 1009 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:44,240 word. 1010 00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:45,040 That's because 1011 00:40:45,359 --> 00:40:48,720 The words that he spoke, they were words of God. 1012 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:51,440 They were words of life. 1013 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,040 Look at what Jesus says in 1014 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:53,359 John 1015 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:54,480 chapter 6. 1016 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:55,119 He says 1017 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,599 It is the spirit who gives life. 1018 00:40:57,599 --> 00:40:59,359 The flesh profits nothing. 1019 00:40:59,359 --> 00:41:03,200 The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. 1020 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:07,359 But there are some of you who do not believe. 1021 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,400 For Jesus knew from the beginning 1022 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:13,880 who they were who did not believe 1023 00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:15,480 and who would betray him. 1024 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:16,040 And he said, 1025 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:17,960 Therefore I have said to you 1026 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:22,000 that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him 1027 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:23,440 by my Father. 1028 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,960 From that time many of his disciples went back and walked with him 1029 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:27,920 no more. 1030 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:28,560 Then Jesus 1031 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:29,920 Jesus said to the twelve, 1032 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,960 Do you also want to go away? 1033 00:41:32,460 --> 00:41:36,220 But Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? 1034 00:41:36,220 --> 00:41:38,860 You have the words of eternal life. 1035 00:41:38,860 --> 00:41:43,420 Also we have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living 1036 00:41:43,740 --> 00:41:44,380 God. 1037 00:41:44,380 --> 00:41:46,860 Have you come to that conclusion? 1038 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,840 That Jesus, is he that for you? 1039 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,440 Or is he just kind of a 1040 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:53,080 you know 1041 00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:53,320 just 1042 00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:54,120 kind of a good look 1043 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:55,000 charm? 1044 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,520 I like Jesus. 1045 00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,120 Jesus is cool. 1046 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,560 He kind of cramps my style when it comes to my sin. 1047 00:42:01,900 --> 00:42:05,980 I listened to a to a interview with Julian Michaels. 1048 00:42:05,980 --> 00:42:07,660 Who who knows who Julian Michaels is? 1049 00:42:08,140 --> 00:42:09,740 She's the kind of a uh uh 1050 00:42:09,980 --> 00:42:11,420 physical uh group 1051 00:42:11,580 --> 00:42:14,140 guru, you know, workout guru 1052 00:42:14,260 --> 00:42:15,140 Uh but she's 1053 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:16,100 she's an op 1054 00:42:16,420 --> 00:42:18,420 she's openly gay. 1055 00:42:18,420 --> 00:42:19,780 But she had an aha 1056 00:42:20,100 --> 00:42:21,460 moment in an interview 1057 00:42:21,620 --> 00:42:21,940 with 1058 00:42:21,980 --> 00:42:23,660 Victor Davis Hansen, when he stalks 1059 00:42:23,819 --> 00:42:27,660 talks about the historicity of Christ, and you should see the look on her face. 1060 00:42:27,660 --> 00:42:30,700 She's just taken back, like, you 1061 00:42:30,859 --> 00:42:31,500 mean 1062 00:42:32,940 --> 00:42:35,099 Jesus was really real? 1063 00:42:36,500 --> 00:42:39,140 Uh yeah. 1064 00:42:39,140 --> 00:42:41,220 Really, really, real? 1065 00:42:41,220 --> 00:42:44,980 And so it's like it's like now she's on this quest. 1066 00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:46,280 And she's trying to figure this 1067 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:47,560 whole thing out. 1068 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:48,440 And she sees 1069 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:48,840 now 1070 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,200 Christianity, she's kind of drawn to Christians because of 1071 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,440 those who have actually embraced her and will 1072 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:55,400 talk to her. 1073 00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:56,400 And 1074 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,920 she's very troubled by the judgment that would come to 1075 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,920 those involved in sexual misconduct. 1076 00:43:04,900 --> 00:43:07,380 That's very troubling to her. 1077 00:43:07,380 --> 00:43:08,579 And she's trying to 1078 00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:10,980 trying to reason in her own heart. 1079 00:43:11,619 --> 00:43:14,820 Can I get away with this or do I need to turn away from this? 1080 00:43:14,820 --> 00:43:15,780 Right? 1081 00:43:15,780 --> 00:43:18,260 Do I really need to repent? 1082 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:21,920 Yeah. 1083 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:23,040 Yeah. 1084 00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:25,120 Yeah. 1085 00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:32,900 Right, and I don't know how old she is. 1086 00:43:32,900 --> 00:43:37,220 She's not quite as close to heaven as I am, but she's getting there. 1087 00:43:37,620 --> 00:43:38,500 We're all headed 1088 00:43:38,660 --> 00:43:39,300 there. 1089 00:43:39,300 --> 00:43:45,060 We're all headed to that day when when that last breath is taken. 1090 00:43:44,599 --> 00:43:46,839 And we have to render unto God 1091 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:47,480 what 1092 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:49,640 is God's. 1093 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,440 And I can't imagine standing there ashamed. 1094 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,200 It scares me to death. 1095 00:43:56,580 --> 00:43:56,980 Because 1096 00:43:57,140 --> 00:43:58,420 I am ashamed 1097 00:43:59,460 --> 00:44:00,660 as I look back 1098 00:44:00,820 --> 00:44:02,100 and of the things that 1099 00:44:02,340 --> 00:44:04,340 I had done. 1100 00:44:04,340 --> 00:44:06,420 I am ashamed. 1101 00:44:06,420 --> 00:44:07,940 But these guys were 1102 00:44:09,060 --> 00:44:10,660 They weren't ashamed, but 1103 00:44:11,140 --> 00:44:12,420 they were pretty 1104 00:44:12,740 --> 00:44:14,900 overwhelmed with what Jesus did here. 1105 00:44:14,900 --> 00:44:15,220 It says 1106 00:44:15,380 --> 00:44:16,820 they marveled at his 1107 00:44:17,140 --> 00:44:18,100 answer. 1108 00:44:18,539 --> 00:44:21,020 I looked that up in the topical lexicon. 1109 00:44:21,020 --> 00:44:22,940 The verb translated marvel 1110 00:44:23,900 --> 00:44:25,579 or amaze or wonder 1111 00:44:25,740 --> 00:44:27,660 appears 44 times in the New 1112 00:44:27,819 --> 00:44:28,940 Testament. 1113 00:44:28,460 --> 00:44:31,660 and consistently marks moments when human listen 1114 00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:37,020 human perception encounters divine or extraordinary realities 1115 00:44:39,820 --> 00:44:49,580 Whether springing from faith, disbelief, or curiosity, the response underscores the gap between the natural and the supernatural. 1116 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,920 Jesus came that you and I would have a grasp 1117 00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,800 of the supernatural. 1118 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:00,920 Right? 1119 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:01,240 That 1120 00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:01,720 we 1121 00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:02,600 we would 1122 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,720 know that we could know God. 1123 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,119 I hope you marvel at the words of Jesus. 1124 00:45:13,599 --> 00:45:14,240 I do 1125 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:15,040 , 1126 00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:16,560 like I said, the more 1127 00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:23,040 the more I read them, the more I'm just like, I'm overwhelmed by the truth, by the substance, by the life they 1128 00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,160 seem to stir up in my heart 1129 00:45:26,620 --> 00:45:28,140 For truly they are life. 1130 00:45:28,140 --> 00:45:30,380 These words that I speak to you, he says, their 1131 00:45:30,540 --> 00:45:31,820 spirit in their life. 1132 00:45:31,820 --> 00:45:34,780 Have you been putting life into your heart this week? 1133 00:45:34,820 --> 00:45:37,380 If you haven't, start, would ya? 1134 00:45:37,380 --> 00:45:39,940 Start putting that word in your heart. 1135 00:45:39,940 --> 00:45:41,940 It does wonders. 1136 00:45:41,940 --> 00:45:43,220 It does wonders. 1137 00:45:43,220 --> 00:45:47,300 Not only that, but then God takes his beautiful Holy Spirit 1138 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:47,560 And will 1139 00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:50,600 recall those words when you need them. 1140 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,440 But if you're not putting them in there, how can it recall them? 1141 00:46:00,900 --> 00:46:06,980 Caesar's image and name were on the coins. 1142 00:46:06,980 --> 00:46:08,740 So it was basically 1143 00:46:08,900 --> 00:46:09,220 his 1144 00:46:09,780 --> 00:46:10,740 currency 1145 00:46:12,620 --> 00:46:14,460 To pay the poll tax 1146 00:46:15,660 --> 00:46:18,940 meant simply to give Caesar back what belonged to him. 1147 00:46:18,940 --> 00:46:21,500 God's image is stamped on us, therefore 1148 00:46:21,740 --> 00:46:22,860 he has the right 1149 00:46:23,020 --> 00:46:26,460 to command our lives as citizens in his kingdom. 1150 00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:32,040 We should seek to be such good citizens that God will be glorified 1151 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:32,520 and 1152 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:34,839 The 1153 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:40,200 unsaved will be attracted to the gospel and want to become Christians. 1154 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,680 Lord, help us to do just that. 1155 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:43,960 Amen. 1156 00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:49,580 I'm going to just close with the 1157 00:46:49,820 --> 00:46:52,540 the scripture that I'd mentioned earlier in 1 1158 00:46:52,780 --> 00:46:53,740 Peter. 1159 00:46:53,900 --> 00:46:55,580 Chapter 2, verses 13 1160 00:46:55,740 --> 00:46:57,100 through 17. 1161 00:46:57,100 --> 00:46:58,700 And this is what it says. 1162 00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:05,740 It says, Therefore, submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king is supreme 1163 00:47:05,660 --> 00:47:06,700 or to governors 1164 00:47:06,860 --> 00:47:08,700 as to those who are sent by him 1165 00:47:08,860 --> 00:47:13,020 for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of those who do good 1166 00:47:13,540 --> 00:47:23,860 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men, as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak. 1167 00:47:23,900 --> 00:47:24,140 for 1168 00:47:24,380 --> 00:47:27,420 vice, but as bondservants of God. 1169 00:47:27,420 --> 00:47:29,020 Honor all people, love 1170 00:47:29,180 --> 00:47:32,860 the brotherhood, fear God, and honor the king. 1171 00:47:33,060 --> 00:47:33,780 And that's 1172 00:47:33,940 --> 00:47:35,540 that's our lot. 1173 00:47:35,540 --> 00:47:36,500 And here it is. 1174 00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:36,740 And 1175 00:47:38,260 --> 00:47:39,780 we're in this race. 1176 00:47:39,780 --> 00:47:41,620 We're running this race. 1177 00:47:41,620 --> 00:47:41,940 We got 1178 00:47:42,100 --> 00:47:43,220 to pace ourselves and we 1179 00:47:43,380 --> 00:47:44,580 got to do these things. 1180 00:47:44,580 --> 00:47:46,820 And sometimes we don't want to. 1181 00:47:46,500 --> 00:47:49,460 I don't care if you don't want to, you got to. 1182 00:47:49,460 --> 00:47:50,660 Amen. 1183 00:47:52,580 --> 00:47:54,100 Let's all stand, shall we? 1184 00:47:54,100 --> 00:47:57,460 I'm going to invite the prayer team to be over here. 1185 00:47:57,460 --> 00:47:57,780 And 1186 00:47:57,940 --> 00:47:58,260 um 1187 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,320 They're able to pray with you if you need prayer this morning. 1188 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,120 We're gonna pray and dismiss. 1189 00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,480 These guys are gonna do a closing song. 1190 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:14,640 And so 1191 00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:17,680 pray with me, would you? 1192 00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:19,200 Father, we come before you. 1193 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,040 Thank you. 1194 00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,079 Thank you for your 1195 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:22,880 word. 1196 00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:24,560 Lord, it's alive. 1197 00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,320 It's powerful. 1198 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:37,280 And really, that very breath of life that you've given us, I just pray for everyone in this room that we would be willing to give it back to you. 1199 00:48:38,119 --> 00:48:45,799 And if that's you and you you haven't done that, you're just saying I'm kind of new to this thing, I'm just kind of checking things out. 1200 00:48:45,799 --> 00:48:49,319 I know I need something in my life that's much bigger than myself. 1201 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,280 You need Jesus. 1202 00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:52,880 You just need to say, Lord, hear 1203 00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:54,320 my. 1204 00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:55,680 You've given me this breath. 1205 00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:59,520 Help me to honor you with it, with this life that I have. 1206 00:48:59,620 --> 00:49:03,700 And if that's you, just raise your hand up, would you, and let me pray for you. 1207 00:49:03,700 --> 00:49:06,580 I see that hand back there, several hands. 1208 00:49:06,580 --> 00:49:08,660 God bless you guys. 1209 00:49:08,660 --> 00:49:10,420 Anyone else? 1210 00:49:11,539 --> 00:49:20,180 Lord, thank you for these who have raised their hands, Lord, just acknowledging, Lord, we need that ruach, that breath of God 1211 00:49:20,980 --> 00:49:22,980 that gives us life. 1212 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:28,880 Lord, that helps us to perform all the things that you call us to perform in this life. 1213 00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,320 To speak the words of truth, to acknowledge you. 1214 00:49:33,039 --> 00:49:33,359 As 1215 00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:40,559 the the Christ, the Son of the Living God, who has come to live in us. 1216 00:49:40,559 --> 00:49:42,720 Lord, would you live in us with all 1217 00:49:44,559 --> 00:49:47,200 that we need? 1218 00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:50,680 Help our cup to overflow with the truth 1219 00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:52,839 of the gospel 1220 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:54,119 and the and the power of your 1221 00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:55,079 Holy Spirit. 1222 00:49:55,079 --> 00:49:59,320 Lord, I know that every situation's different, every heart's different. 1223 00:49:59,040 --> 00:49:59,200 So 1224 00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,320 everyone who raised their hand, you know exactly what they need. 1225 00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:05,440 Lord, would you minister that to them even now? 1226 00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,080 Lord, that they wouldn't be afraid to ask for your 1227 00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:09,440 Holy Spirit 1228 00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:10,640 And you told us that the 1229 00:50:11,359 --> 00:50:14,400 Father will give those who ask. 1230 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,320 Lord, would you be with us this week? 1231 00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,079 We're going to go out. 1232 00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:19,520 We're going to have opportunity. 1233 00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,160 We're going to have opportunity to get mad and rebel 1234 00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:25,280 and do evil, or we're going to have the opportunity to 1235 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:26,240 sing praises 1236 00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:31,920 and to worship you and to reach out with the love of God that fills our hearts. 1237 00:50:31,460 --> 00:50:33,300 That does not come from us. 1238 00:50:33,300 --> 00:50:35,380 We know it comes from you. 1239 00:50:35,380 --> 00:50:38,100 Fill us up, we pray, in the mighty name of Jesus. 1240 00:50:38,100 --> 00:50:38,660 Amen. 1241 00:50:38,660 --> 00:50:40,340 Let's worship.