Sermon Tone Analysis

How many of you have read the book rich dad poor dad?

Its a story of two different dads who raised their son in two completely opposite ways.

Many of you have been listeneing to a voice that is not the voice of your spiritual dad and it has been keeping you in a state of safety, security and comfortability.

God wants you to stop listening to that mind and listen to your Spiritual Dad because he owns a cattle on a thousand hills.

Ex) Why do babies always look so comfortable and peaceful with their parents?

They know that their parents are going to everything in their power to protect and provide for their babies.

God wants to get us to a place where we can operate the same way.

I hear so many young people praying for abundance, financial resource, jobs, their own house, etc but have no Kingdom purpose attached to it.

The funny thing is God knows you need all of those things but he also knows that the recieving of those resources usually is connected to a Kingdom purpose.

Problem: a college Grad wants to get a Job, moe out on their own and become stable.

So in order to do this they go about getting Jobs that have no connection to their Kingdom Purpose, or mission but they do the work because of the financial seredipities.

The problem is this puts us in a place of striving and survivng… living paycheck to paycheck.

God wants you to live abundantly.

MATHHEW 17:24-27 — Paying the Temple Tax : This temple Tax was equvielant to two long days of common Labor.

($200 in todays wages)

He can refer here, then, only to Himself; using the word “children” evidently in order to express the general principle observed by sovereigns, who do not draw taxes from their own children, and thus convey the truth respecting His own exemption the more strikingly:—namely, “If the sovereign’s own family be exempt, you know the inference in My case”; or to express it more nakedly than Jesus thought needful and fitting: “This is a tax for upholding My Father’s House.

As His Son, then, that tax is not due by Me—I am free.”

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And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money—the double drachma; a sum equal to two Attic drachmas, and corresponding to the Jewish “half-shekel,” payable, towards the maintenance of the temple and its services, by every male Jew of twenty years old and upward.

For the origin of this annual tax, see Ex 30:13, 14; Ex 30:13, 14, 2 Ch 24:6, 9. Thus, it will be observed, it was not a civil, but an ecclesiastical tax.

The tax mentioned in Mt 17:25 was a civil one.

The whole teaching of this very remarkable scene depends upon this distinction.