Matthew 22 - Difficult questions.
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Difficult
Questions
Matthew 16
March 12, 2023
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Herodians on Politics: How do you deal with
rulers & money?
Sadducees on Doctrine: Who will you be
married to in heaven?
Pharisees on Ethics: What is your biggest
Commandment?
Jesus question: Whose son is the Messiah?
Executive Functions
Logical Reasonings
Needs to be loved vs. Fear
of losing love
Needs to be important vs.
Fear of losing relevance
Needs to survive vs. Fear
of dying
We have blind spots
We cannot appreciate what we cannot
perceive
Holy Spirit is
“the better
angels of
our nature”
Jesus is
revealing
heavenly
truths
outside our
daily
experience
Jesus is
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Herodians on Politics: How do you deal with
rulers & money?
Sadducees on Doctrine: Who will you be
married to in heaven?
Pharisees on Ethics: What is your biggest
Commandment?
Jesus question: Whose son is the Messiah?
They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians.
“Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity
and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the
truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no
attention to who they are. 17 Tell us then, what is your opinion?
Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a] to Caesar or not?”
-- Matthew 22
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Herodians on Politics: How do you deal with
rulers & money?
Sadducees on Doctrine: Who will you be
married to in heaven?
Pharisees on Ethics: What is your biggest
Commandment?
Jesus question: Whose son is the Messiah?
“Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies
without having children, his brother must marry the widow
and raise up offspring for him. 25 Now there were seven
brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since
he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same
thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down
to the seventh. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 Now then, at the
resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of
them were married to her?”
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-- Matthew 22
The question of the one bride and the seven brothers is not a
search for the truth. The Sadducees do not expect, indeed, do not
want, an answer. They hope to stump Jesus, and thus to
“foolish” ideas of a resurrection
demonstrate how
from the dead are.
I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
-- Exodus 3:6
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Herodians on Politics: How do you deal with
rulers & money?
Sadducees on Doctrine: Who will you be
married to in heaven?
Pharisees on Ethics: What is your biggest
Commandment?
Jesus question: Whose son is the Messiah?
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the
Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law,
tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the
greatest commandment in the Law?”
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Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[c] 38 This is the
first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it:
‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d] 40 All the Law and the
Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
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-- Matthew 22
Jesus Command to love one another is both Old and New
Moses taught in the Law.... „You shall love your neighbor as yourself“
New in its emphasis, quality of sacrifice & scope
Your new relationship with Jesus Christ is Central to practicing Biblical love
towards others
If you are lacking in love for a difficult person, pray, “Lord, You know that I am
empty and unable to love this person. But, I am in You and You do not lack
love, even for the unlovely. Please love this person through me!”
Growing in Love for others is a lifelong process
You never arrive at the place where you can say, “I love everyone perfectly
now!
“that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all
discernment” (Phil. 1:9).
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Herodians on Politics: How do you deal with
rulers & money?
Sadducees on Doctrine: Who will you be
married to in heaven?
Pharisees on Ethics: What is your biggest
Commandment?
Jesus question: Whose son is the Messiah?
“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”
“The son of David,” they replied.
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He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the
Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,
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“‘The Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies
under your feet.”’[e]
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-- Matthew 22
“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you[a
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this testimony for the churches. I am the
Root and the Offspring of David, and the
bright Morning Star.”
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-Revelation 22
Are you striving to love God?
What are your bias?
What are your blind spots?
What’s the Bible telling you?
What is the Holy Spirit telling
you?