Transcript Testing the King

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Testing the King
Matthew 22:15-33
The
Pharisees’
Test
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The
Pharisees’
Test
Is it lawful
to pay taxes
to Ceasar?
Jesus’s Answer
• The proper relationship is to give to each
their due.
Jesus’s Answer
• The proper relationship is to give to each
their due.
• Avoid
1. The state rules the church.
2. The church rules the state.
3. There is no relationship
between church and state.
Romans 13 1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities.
For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been
instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what
God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers
are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the
one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his
approval, 4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be
afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God,
an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one
must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of
conscience. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are
ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay to all what is owed to
them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed,
respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Jesus’s Answer
• The proper relationship is to give to each
their due.
• Avoid
1. The state rules the church.
2. The church rules the state.
3. There is no relationship
between church and state.
• We are to respect our rulers and
worship God.
The
Sadducees’
Test
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The
Sadducees’
Test
If a woman has had
seven husbands,
whose wife will she
be at the
resurrection?
Jesus’s Answer
• There will be no marriage in heaven.
Jesus’s Answer
• There will be no marriage in heaven.
• There will be no loneliness in heaven.
Jesus’s Answer
• There will be no marriage in heaven.
• There will be no loneliness in heaven.
• There will be deeper intimacy in heaven.
The King is all-knowing
and all-wise.
Jesus Knows:
Space & Time
•Job 37 16 Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous
works of Him who is perfect in knowledge
•Jeremiah 10 12 It is He who made the earth by His power, who
established the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding
stretched out the heavens.
•Psalm 136 5 to Him who by understanding made the heavens, for
His steadfast love endures forever;
Jesus Knows:
Activities & Afflictions
•Psalm 139 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You
discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my
lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a
word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
•Exodus 3 7 Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of
my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of
their taskmasters. I know their sufferings”
Jesus Knows:
Thoughts & Possibilities
•Psalm 44 21 For he knows the secrets of the heart.
•Psalm 139 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and
know my thoughts!
•1 Corinthians 45 Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the
time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now
hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart.
Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
•Matthew 11 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For
if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
His Knowledge is:
Perfect
•John 2 24 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he
knew all people
•Job 37 16 Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works
of Him who is perfect in knowledge,
Infinite
•Psalm 147 5 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; His understanding
is beyond measure.
Foundational
•Isaiah 46 9 I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none
like me, 10 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times
things not yet done
God is not limited by our
logic.
If
Then
Jesus is wise.
Isaiah 11 2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon
him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of
knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
Jesus is only wise.
Romans 16 27 to the only wise God be glory
forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
Testing the King
If
Testing the King
If
Jesus knows the right thing to do at
the right time to protect us, and the
right thing to say at the right time to
comfort us.