Living With a Jesus World View (2)

The Things That Are God’s. V.19-26

INTRO: Psalm 24:1 “The earth is the Lords, and all it contains, the World, and those who dwell in it.”

A. The Things that are the Worlds v.19-23

1. There is a lot of pretending going on to deceive and convince. V.20-21

a. They sent spies who pretended to be righteous. V.20a

b. Their goal was to catch Him in some statement so they could have Him arrested. V.20b

c. They flattered Him. V.21

ILLUST: Jesus warned beware of wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing. Matthew 7

ILLUST: Paul writes in 1 Timothy 6:3-5 These are the things you are to teach and insist on. 3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4 they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5 and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

NOTE: Jesus response to this question exposes a dark and sinister plot to convince people that the world’s view on issues can coincide with the person of God.

3. Should we pay our taxes to Caesar or not? V.22-23

NOTE: Jesus detected their trickery. If Jesus said no, the religious leaders could turn Him over to Rome for teaching tax evasion and if He said pay them he just might lose His jewish supporters who saw Rome as a tyrannical government suppressing the people of God.

ILLUST: Taxes were going to support a system and government that believed the “gods” founded Roman Civiilzation. Greek culture and their god’s was the worldview of Rome. Zeus and the great parthenon was at the center. John writes in Revelation

NOTE: But see this question wasn’t posed to get Jesus world view response, it was posed to get Him to take a side in the kingdom of the world not the kingdom of heaven.

B. The Things that are God’s V.24-26

1. Take a look at your money. V.24

a. “who’s image and inscription is on it?”

ILLUST: Have you seen a dollar bill? It is a polythiestic mosaic and portraits of men who were free masons, diests, and other this world world views.

NOTE: Jesus World view was not based on political parties or world economics. Jesus world view was centered on God’s Kingdom and the desire to redeem all people created in His image. So His answer was not an avoidance of the Question it was a total separation of those two kingdoms and their world views.

b. “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.” V.25

NOTE: God created humans in His Image, too think like He thinks, to rule as He rules and to live as He lives. Jesus called for all listeners to give their lives to the will of God who created them. That is to be the chief concern of Man, to glorify God by living as His imager.

CLOSE:

If you haven’t given God the things that are His, your very life to image who He is to the world then it doesn’t matter what you do with abortion, or your guns, or the LGBTQ, Black lives matter, and the list goes on.

People were amazed because this was a call to come out of the world and live in the Kingdom of God being the very image of God in a world that images themselves.

The reason abortion exists as a viable option is because people have been imaging themselves since Genesis Chapter 4. The reason for the huge identity crisis is because we image ourselves, the reason for hate, and anger, and addiction is because we have bought the lie that paying taxes and living for the things of this world will satisfy the soul of man.

The question are not the question a true righteous person is asking, it is “Am I Living with God’s Image?”