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Mark chapter 12 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Mark chapter 12. Let us pray.
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  Oh Heavenly Father. Here we are again.
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  Lord, we're coming. We desire a touch, Lord.
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  We desire for you to teach us. Holy Spirit, I get out of the
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  way. It's your words.
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  It's your thoughts. It's your time, Lord.
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  It's all about you. King Jesus, we love you.
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  It's just that name. Yes, Lord, we love you so much.
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  Heal us today. Heal all of our infirmities.
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  Lord, I pray you'll clear the air today.
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  God, I pray for our families today.
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  Lord, I pray for this wicked and perverse generation today.
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  God, bring them into the fold. Lord, give them the revelation
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  of Jesus Christ. Lord, give them the clarity of
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  prophecy. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you, Lord, will come and have your will and have your
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  wait. It'll always be about you.
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  So we love you. We get out of the way.
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  Holy Spirit, you teach us in Jesus name we pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And he began to speak unto them
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  by parables. A certain man planted a
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  vineyard. He set a hedge about it, and he
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  dug a place for the wine fat and built a tower and let it out to
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  husbandmen and went into a far country.
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  So here Israel would have very much seen themselves as this
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  vineyard from the passages over in Isaiah here we're going to
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  see that this certain man is God.
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  The vineyard here is the earth, and he dug a hedge about it.
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  This would have been Israel. He built the tower in it.
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  This was his chosen people there and then he went into a far
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  country. God is in heaven, and Jesus here
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  is making sure that those who want to enter in to the
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  understanding of this parable that's being cast along here
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  right next to their understanding of how the world
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  works. And the time that they were in
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  Jesus here was inviting them to a deeper revelation, a deeper
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  understanding of why he is here. And they would have been hanging
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  on every single one of His words because they were trying to
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  indict him. They were trying to cause Him to
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  look as if he was guilty. But we know that Jesus was
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  sinless and guiltless, friends, and He died for our sins just so
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  you and I could make it there. Verse 2.
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  And at the season he sent to the husband men a servant that he
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  might receive from the husbandmen the fruit of the
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  vineyard. This was a common practice at
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  the time for land owners. This was before the days of
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  deeds and before the days of the legal system that you and I are
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  privileged to. And here this, this man was
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  sending the husband to the husbandmen, a servant for the
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  fruit, and that would have proved that he still had
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  ownership of it. And if you take it and look at
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  it from what Jesus is trying to tell them, he desires their
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  fruit, friends. He desires for them to do the
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  will of God, friends. And here what are these wicked
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  husbandmen? Do they see the servants coming?
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  These would have been the servants, would have been the
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  prophets, by the way, three. And they caught him and beat him
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  and sent him away empty. So every time that God sent a
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  server, every time that God sent a prophet into the land to try
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  to get a hold of those people, to try to get them to see the
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  air of their ways, what did they do?
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  They beat them and stoned them and killed them and cast them
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  into prison. And imagine this certain man who
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  had planted the vineyard, God Almighty, and he's sending his
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  servants into the vineyard, which is Israel, and he is
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  wanting fruit, which is for them to do the will of God.
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  And then what happens? Every single time they kill the
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  prophets of old, they stone the prophets of old for.
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  And again he sent unto them another servant, and at him they
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  cast stones, wounded him in the head, sent him away shamefully
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  handled. So here you can see all
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  throughout the Old Testament how many times God sent true
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  prophets to speak on his behalf and the people wanted to only
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  listen to the false prophets that were promising prosperity.
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  And there was no repentance. There was no turning away from
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  their sinful behavior. There was none of it.
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  And it's no different for us and for our day and for our our.
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  There's a lot of pastors who are Co signing on people's sins and
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  they are making their converts twice the sons of hell that they
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  themselves are. And you can see it all around us
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  friends. 5 And again he sent another, and him they killed,
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  and many others, beating some and killing some. 6 Having yet
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  therefore one Son, his well beloved, he sent him also last
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  unto them, saying, They will reverence my Son.
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  Of course Jesus is talking about himself here.
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  Of course Jesus is talking about God's only begotten Son, and
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  he's also predicting that he is going to be put to death here.
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  Jesus is predicting his own murder by the hands of his own
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  people here in Israel. 7 But those husbandmen said among
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  themselves, This is the air. Come, let us kill him, and the
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  inheritance shall be ours. How pathetic.
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  They chose the world over heaven.
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  They chose this little menial life and their little Playhouse
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  there in Israel over God and his ultimate plan.
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  But it is for your benefit, friend.
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  It's a ultimate plan of God's. He can use it without excusing
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  it. And their disobedience led to
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  you and LED to me coming into the fold, friends.
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  And it's all a marvelous plan, and we'll see it all played out
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  here. 8 And they took him and killed him, and cast him out of
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  the vineyard. 9 What shall therefore the Lord of the
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  vineyard do? He will come and destroy the
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  husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
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  Here you can see that all of these religious leaders, they
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  were telling on themselves, they were letting Jesus know that
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  they knew they were guilty. They knew that he spoke this
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  against them. What shall God do unto all of
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  the religious leaders who rejected Jesus and at the hands
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  of Pontius Pilate murdered their own Messiah?
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  What will they do? Well, he will come and destroy
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  them and will give the vineyard unto others.
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  That's you and me, friends. That's the church, friends. 10
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  And have you not read the scripture, that the stone which
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  the builders rejected has become the head of the corner?
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  11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
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  Write it down, mark it, underline it, highlight it.
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  This is marvelous in God's eyes. They rejected the cornerstone,
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  and it was for your benefit. Friends, praise God.
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  Hallelujah that God's mind is so much greater than our minds.
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  His ways are higher than our ways.
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  And God used their disobedience for you and for me to come into
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  the fold and define salvation. And He is going to reveal to
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  them in the Tribulation that Jesus is the Messiah and that
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  they need not wait for any more. They need not wait for another
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  that Jesus has already dawned on the scene and came and radically
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  changed the landscape of the whole world, and we're still
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  talking about Him today. It's marvelous in our eyes. 12
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  And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people, for
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  they knew that he had spoken the parable against them, and they
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  left him and went their way. So much going on in this one
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  little verse. Here we can see that all of the
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  Pharisees and the Sadducees and the Sanhedrin and the Herodians
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  here, they were trying to lay hold of Him, but they had the
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  fear of man on them. Break the fear of man off of you
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  today, friends. Fear God and watch everything
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  else bow. They knew that He had spoken it
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  against them. They came along, they cast along
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  this parable, they went aside, and they went in the door, and
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  they had in their minds, and they were intrigued, and they
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  were engaged. And they saw that He had spoken
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  against them, that they were the wicked husband men, and they had
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  killed all the servants, and that God desired fruit, and they
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  only gave Him their empty leftovers. 13 And they send unto
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  him a certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to catch
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  him in his words. They're teaming up against them.
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  These two sects that would never have joined forces are joined
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  forces against the Son of God. How pathetic.
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  But we need to give them grace. We miss it all the time.
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  God's doing marvelous things all around us all the time, and we
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  continuously keep choosing this world over God. 14 And when they
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  were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that you're
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  true, and you care for no man, that you regard not the person
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  of man, but teach the way of God in truth.
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  Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?
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  They're trying to trick him by flattery.
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  They're coming in and saying, Oh, we know that you're true,
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  and you don't really care about what people say about you.
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  You're no respecter of position that you see everybody on an
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  equal playing field. Aren't you thankful that that's
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  the way that God sees you? He doesn't see all the sins.
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  All he sees is the blood of Jesus Christ covering you.
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  He doesn't see all of the times that you messed up.
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  All He sees is the blood of Jesus Christ covering you.
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  And for those who have not yet come into the fold, those who
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  are not yet covered in the blood of Jesus Christ, He doesn't see
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  all of your righteousness. He doesn't see all of the good
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  works that you've been doing. He doesn't see all of the times
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  that you have tried to please Him.
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  All He sees is the sin that is on you.
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  You must be covered in the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  Aren't you thankful that it is not by your works that you get
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  in? It's only by the blood of Jesus
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  Christ. They're trying to trap him.
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  And no matter how he answers this question, he's going to be
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  wrong. If he sides with Caesar, he'll
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  he will be showing that he's turned his back on his own
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  people like the Herodians. But if he sides with the Jews
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  and he's sympathetic with their 'cause he will be a traitor and
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  he will be marked as trying to usurp Caesar's authority.
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  So either way, here they're using this flattery to try to
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  lessen his guard and to see if they can get him by pumping his
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  head up. But here comes Jesus.
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  Jesus knows all their tricks. He is God, He is Incarnate, He
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  knows everything. And this is such a wonderful
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  verse that is lived through the ages, and we need to lock in and
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  pay attention to what Jesus is about to say. 15 Shall we give
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  or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy,
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  said unto them, Why tempt you me?
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  Bring me a penny, that I may see it.
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  He says, Why are you trying to tempt me?
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  He knew that they were duplicious in their approach. 16
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  And they brought it. And he said unto them, Whose is
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  this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's
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  17 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Render to Caesar the
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  things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are gods.
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  And they marveled at him. Of course they marveled at him.
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  He's God. He's all knowing.
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  He knew their intentions. He knows their very thoughts.
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  Of course they marveled at him. Give unto Caesar what is Caesar,
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  and give to God what is God's. You owe God your very life as a
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  living sacrifice. You owe God your very next
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  breath. And yes, we live in the world,
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  but we're not of the world. We're just pilgrims passing
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  through a strange land. 18 Then come unto him the Sadducees,
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  which say There is no resurrection.
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  And they asked him, saying, 19 Master Moses wrote unto us, If a
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  man's brother died, and leaves his wife behind him, and leave
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  no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise
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  up seed unto his brother. 20 Now there were seven brothers, and
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  the first took a wife and dying left no seed. 21 and the second
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  took her and died. Neither left he any seed, and
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  the 3rd likewise. 22 And the seven had her, and left no seed.
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  Last of all the woman died also. 23 In the resurrection,
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  therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall be of them?
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  For the seven had her to wife here they're asking a ridiculous
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  question. They do not even believe in the
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  resurrection and then they tie it in and say in the
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  resurrection. And this was their very silly
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  way of trying to discount that there was any afterlife.
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  They were the ones, the Sadducees were the ones, they
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  were very sympathetic with the Roman government.
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  They like to have their cake and eat it too.
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  They had the lineage of Abraham, but they did not even believe in
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  angels, friends. And here they're coming to Jesus
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  and they're wanting to trap him and they're wanting to ask him
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  these silly questions that they've already became hostile
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  towards God. And that is no different for us
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  today. Friends, there are many people
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  who have already made a love decision for money, made a love
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  decision for the pleasures of this world, and they're hostile
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  towards God. And they will not put up with
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  sound doctrine. They will not put up with the
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  sound counsel that there is one true living God, the God of
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  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They will not put up with the
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  Bible being the complete authority that has all authority
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  to govern our lives. Friends, nothing added and
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  nothing subtracted. Only the 66 books found within
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  the Canon. Friends, from Genesis all the
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  way to Revelation. They will not put up with that,
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  Friends. They want things that tickle
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  their ears. They only want to hear new
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  doctrine, and it is no new doctrine that is given.
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  It is only Jesus Christ and Jesus crucified. 24 Jesus
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  answering said unto them, Do you not therefore air, because you
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  do not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
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  Jesus here is saying, do you even read the Bible?
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  And here they were hanging on to the Pentateuch, they were
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  hanging on to the words of Moses.
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  And here Jesus is going to meet them right where they're at.
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  He's going to show them how they have erred grievously. 25 For
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  when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are
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  given in marriage, but are as the angels which are in heaven.
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  So here verse 25 is a wonderful verse that shows us there is no
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  need for procreation in heaven. The people that are there are
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  the people that are going to be there.
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  There's no need for us to be married.
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  It is going to be better than you could ever imagine any
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  earthly relationship here, friends.
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  And when you really dial it in, it all makes sense because if
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  you're a child now, you'll soon be a parent.
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  And if you're a parent now, you will soon be a grandparent.
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  But you were once a child in relationship to your parents.
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  And so in heaven there is this beautiful reality that there is
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  no need for marriage. There is no need.
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  That we will be eternal beings. We will know each other,
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  friends. It will be relational friends.
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  And Jesus knows what he's talking about.
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  And we would do well to believe these words and not try to mix
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  them up and not try to put our own understanding on it.
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  Jesus tells us what it's going to be like, friends, and he
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  makes it as plain as day. 26 And it's touching the dead that they
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  rise. Have you not read in the book of
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  Moses how in the Bush God spoken to him, saying, I am the God of
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  Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
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  27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living.
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  You therefore do greatly err. And friends, we greatly err
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  whenever we don't believe the authority of God's word.
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  We greatly air whenever we are blasphemous towards the Holy
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  Spirit. We greatly air whenever we turn
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  our backs on God And hear these silly Sadducees.
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  They didn't even believe in the resurrection and they were
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  trying to trap Jesus with all of their silly thoughts about the
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  resurrection and how Moses had said that people should continue
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  on the lineage which would have been for the heritage of Israel
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  to strengthen that nation. And here they were using Moses's
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  words against his his own self. And they were trying to trap God
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  Incarnate and they could never do that.
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  Jesus already knows what it is going to be like.
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  He went to prepare a place for us friends and he knows what
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  he's talking about and he's telling us that there is no
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  marriage in heaven. There's no need for marriage in
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  heaven. It will be much better than any
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  relationship down here on this earth.
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  It'll be wonderful and beautiful.
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  It'll be magnificent and holy. And here he's showing the
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  Sadducees that they greatly do air, that God is the God of the
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  living. To God, no one ever really dies,
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  friends. Everyone is going to live
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  forever somewhere. And there are only two choices.
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  There's heaven and there's hell. And no one, if they ever even
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  could fathom what hell was like. No one would ever want to go
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  there. It is torment where the worm
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  never dies and the fires never go out. 28 And one of the
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  scribes came, and having heard them, reasoning together, and
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  perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, which is
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  the first commandment of all. So here this is a genuine
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  approach. He saw that Jesus was wiser than
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  any wise man, that Jesus was all of the embodiment of the Godhead
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  all in one. And he's asking him which is the
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  greatest of all the commandments. 29 And Jesus
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  answered him, The first of all the commandments is here, O
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  Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord. 30 And you shall love the
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  Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
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  and with all your mind, and with all, all your strength.
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  This is the first commandment. 31 And the second is like,
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  namely, this You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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  There is none other commandment greater than these.
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  Love the Lord your God with all your heart, your mind, your
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  strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.
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  Within these two everything is wrapped up.
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  All the law and the prophets are wrapped up in these two.
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  This is what the Lord desires from us, is to serve him and him
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  alone, and have no other lowercase G gods.
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  Every other God is an idol, but serve the God of Abraham, Isaac,
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  and Jacob, and love our neighbors as ourselves.
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  Everything is wrapped up in those 232.
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  And the scribe said unto him, Well, master, that you have said
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  the truth, but there is one God, and there is none other but he.
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  33 And to love him with all your heart and with all your
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  understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength,
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  and to love your neighbor as yourself is more than all whole
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  burnt offerings and sacrifices. So here he's just putting his
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  stamp of approval on Jesus's words.
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  Here he has been studying the scriptures, and he knows the
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  scriptures, the scribe, but Jesus Christ is the scripture.
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  The Word became flesh friends. Jesus is showing him that he's
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  not far from the Kingdom. 34 And when Jesus saw that, he answered
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  discreetly, he said unto him, You are not far from the Kingdom
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  of God. And no man after that dared
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  asked him any question. So there was the finality of all
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  of their silly games they were trying to play with Jesus, to
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  trap him over money and over his authority and over his
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  allegiance, and who he was. And after this they dared not
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  ask him any question. They were hostile towards him.
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  35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple,
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  how save the scribes, that Christ is the son of David. 36
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  For David himself said, By the Holy Ghost, the Lord said to my
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  Lord, sit you on my right hand, until I make your enemies your
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  footstool. So here now he has a blank check
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  carte blanche in the temple Jesus.
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  He silenced all of his enemies, He silenced all of the
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  opposition, and now he has center stage to speak openly
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  without being disrupted. He had silenced them, and now
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  he's going to dial in and he's going to show us what we need to
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  be fixated upon. And he wants them to answer the
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  question, Why do the scribes say that Christ is the son of David?
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  And then he goes on to say that David himself calls him, calls
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  the Christ Lord. 37 David therefore himself calls him
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  Lord, and how is he then his Son?
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  So they were thinking that the Messiah was coming out of David,
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  but then David calls him his Lord, so he was before David.
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  So Jesus is asking this enigmatic question and they must
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  give an answer. And how you answer this question
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  is paramount. Friends.
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  Is he just a biblical scholar, teacher, a good wise counselor?
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  Or is he God? Is he the great I am?
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  Is he eternal? Is he the only uncreated?
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  Is he outside of time? And you need to ask yourself
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  that question. And the common people heard him
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  gladly. We need to hear him gladly,
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  friends. 38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of
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  the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love
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  salutations in the marketplaces, 39 and the chief seats in the
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  synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feast, 40 which devour
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  widows houses, and for a pretense make long prayers.
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  These shall receive greater damnation.
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  There's a loaded verse here. 38 and 39 and 40.
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  We need to see that this is just outward religion.
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  This is just a bunch of show, this is a bunch of hoopla, and
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  God sees through it. He is not a respecter of the
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  suit and ties. God sees into your inward
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  motives. He sees all of the reasons that
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  you're doing what you're doing. He knows it and he will bring it
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  into the light, friends. And he shows that there are
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  greater levels of damnation in hell.
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  And perhaps that is a surprise to some, but it is Jesus's words
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  to say that these people who are using religion to devour widows
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  houses and they're stealing every last penny that these
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  people owe. And they're promising them all
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  of these prosperity gospel blessings that they could never
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  deliver upon because they are the children of hell.
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  And they're making their converts twice the children of
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  hell that they are. And that is why they will
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  receive greater damnation is because they used the word of
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  God. They used religion, they used
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  the church to get their way and to take and take and take even
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  the little bit that people had to live on.
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  And they took advantage of the people who were earnest in their
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  approach to God. And God saw it all.
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  And he sees it all, friends, those that get trapped in cults.
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  He sees it all, friends, and This is why it's so important
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  for us to study the Word of God for ourselves, so we can
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  safeguard ourselves against people who try to lead us
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  astray. And the ones that are using
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  God's Word to lead people astray will receive a greater
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  damnation. 41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld
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  how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were
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  rich cast in much. So here they are bringing in all
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  of their money, which would have been in the form of coinage, and
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  they're pouring it in to the treasury.
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  And it would have made a long sound, this jingling and
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  jangling into the treasury here. And it would have been a big
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  show, just like their long flowing robes and their long
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  pretense, pretensive prayers. This would have been a big show
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  for them. And Jesus is watching them, and
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  he's watching you today, friends. 42 And there came a
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  certain poor widow, and sheep threw in two mites, which make a
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  Farthing. 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto
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  them, Truly I say unto you, that this poor widow has cast more in
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  than all they which have cast into the treasury will end on.
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  44 For all they did cast in of their abundance, But she of her
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  want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
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  She trusted God with everything. She believed in God
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  wholeheartedly. Nothing held back, nothing
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  compartmentalized. This poor widow gave everything
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  that she had to live on. And they were giving out of
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  their abundance and they were making a big show out of it.
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  And here she comes discreetly. And look who Jesus noticed and
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  recognized and commended and loved on and taught well of.
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  And it is such a word for you and for me to not trust in the
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  ways of this world. Do not rely on your own senses,
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  do not rely on your own understanding, but trust God in
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  everything and believe that God can do anything.
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  And God desires to take the little bit that you have and to
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  use it for His Kingdom and to bless you.
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  And we should not worry about tomorrow, but let today worry
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  about itself. Friends, God, what takes care of
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  the birds of the air? And they do not reap or sow He
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  closed the lilies of the field, and they not toil or spin.
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  And how much more important are you?
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  How much more precious are you? Friends, He knows your needs
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  before you even ask Him. Give it all to Him and watch how
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  he multiplies it, and watch how there's no lack in your house
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  and you keep pouring from the oil and the oil is full.
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  No matter how much you pour, it's always full.
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  There's no lack in God's house. He has the cattle on 1000 hills.
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  He has all the gold and silver in the hills.
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  He knows where the oars are. He has all abundance, there is
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  no lack in His house, and He desires to pull things out of
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  us, the materialism out of us, the worldly possessions out of
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  us, where we rely on Him and Him and Him alone.
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  Friends, turn it all over to God.
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  We got to get off of this obsession with wealth, we got to
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  get off the obsession with Mammon and we must give it all
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  over to him and trust him that he is going to provide for us
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  every single day. Do not compare your life with
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  others. There are many who look the
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  part, but they will not be there in the end.
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  Friends, we cannot look at other people's blessings and wonder
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  why there is seeming lack in our house in comparison to those who
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  are walking with the Lord. They do not have the heart of
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  God. They trust in their riches and
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  they just tip their hat to God. They're much like these that are
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  giving out of their abundance, and we've got to get to a place
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  where we are giving all that we have to the Lord God Almighty.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter here.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.