Read Today's Passage
Today's reading is once again packed to the gills with great teaching. There are a few that really popped out at me and grabbed me.
The first parable is among my favorites. Not for its violence, but for its teaching. We today are just as guilty as those men from centuries ago that willingly killed the servants and even the vineyard owner's son (yes it is a parable, but bear with me). We today are still trying to take over the vineyard (the earth, even our lives themselves) from the rightful owner, God. But on top of that, the Pharisees who hated Jesus understood clearly just what this parable was about. And it angered them. How often do we get angry with God for not running things the way we would want Him to?
I love how Jesus spoke to the crowd about who the Son of David is, and even though the answer did not really come, the crowd ate it up! The sermon was confusing, the answer did not come, but they loved it! Why do we have to be in search of easy answers and simple solutions when we know that we cannot always receive them? Why can't we be content with sitting at the feet of Jesus and allowing HIM to teach us what HE desires?
I really enjoyed reading about a teacher who did not want to question Jesus in order to trap Him. And not only that but Jesus acknowledged and congratulated him on being wise.
The last thing that really popped at me was Jesus' teaching on marriage. Sure the question was flawed, and it was people asking for an answer that they really didn't want to hear. There is one thing that still puzzles me to this day (an will for probably the rest of my life) about Jesus' teaching on marriage. The original design was for man and woman to be united in marriage, so why here does Jesus state that marriage won't be around? Is it just that it won't be in the form we know it as? Was it just Jesus throwing the Sadducees off their game?
What do you think?
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I always think of that joke from the movie Short Circuit about the minister, priest, and rabbi who are trying to decide how to spend a big donation...The punch line is "we throw all of the money WAY up in the air, and whatever God wants, he keeps!" We also used the taxes verse to reason paying taxes in Poli Sci class in College. After reading through this time with all this context of Jesus pointing out spiritual truths when people are looking in the wrong places, I just see the fact that the people were trying to trick Jesus. Was Jesus just giving them a smart answer to prove their ignorance or was there a deeper meaning behind it that we should build government policy upon????
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