1 00:00:01,468 --> 00:00:03,970 Matthew 22. 2 00:00:03,970 --> 00:00:06,539 Matthew 22 is 3 00:00:06,539 --> 00:00:10,176 in the middle of the of the Tuesday before 4 00:00:10,710 --> 00:00:14,347 Friday's crucifixion and in your Bible. 5 00:00:14,414 --> 00:00:17,384 If you go back to Matthew 21, verse 6 00:00:17,384 --> 00:00:20,387 18 or so. 7 00:00:21,021 --> 00:00:23,056 Somewhere around there, Matthew 21, 8 00:00:23,056 --> 00:00:27,427 all the way through Matthew 25. 9 00:00:27,694 --> 00:00:33,199 So all of those 21, two, three, four, four, 25 all happen on Tuesday. 10 00:00:33,466 --> 00:00:35,535 They all happen in one day. 11 00:00:35,535 --> 00:00:38,038 The Tuesday before Friday's crucifixion. So. 12 00:00:38,038 --> 00:00:41,374 So what were the passage of Scripture that we're in 13 00:00:41,441 --> 00:00:44,411 is a day. 14 00:00:45,678 --> 00:00:48,681 There's so much that happens on this Tuesday. 15 00:00:48,915 --> 00:00:52,786 And it really begins with Jesus 16 00:00:53,853 --> 00:00:57,991 broaching the subject of his authority and what we're in chapter 21. 17 00:00:57,991 --> 00:00:58,758 And what we're going to see in 18 00:00:58,758 --> 00:01:03,296 chapter 22 is four different groups that challenge his authority. 19 00:01:03,930 --> 00:01:07,300 And chapter 22, he's going to silence them all, 20 00:01:07,934 --> 00:01:12,338 and he's going to show them and prove to them that he has authority 21 00:01:12,539 --> 00:01:17,744 and the right to have authority over everything and everyone. 22 00:01:17,744 --> 00:01:20,747 And so here's the big idea for chapter 22. 23 00:01:21,481 --> 00:01:26,319 Jesus alone has the authority to define the kingdom, 24 00:01:26,619 --> 00:01:32,792 to define truth, to define obedience, and to define our relationship with God. 25 00:01:32,826 --> 00:01:35,361 He alone has that authority. 26 00:01:36,629 --> 00:01:39,466 As I was thinking about this issue of authority, 27 00:01:39,466 --> 00:01:43,269 as we get into chapter 22, I started thinking about the way different 28 00:01:43,269 --> 00:01:48,274 generations view authority because every generation it changes. 29 00:01:48,308 --> 00:01:52,145 We, each generation and each individual chooses 30 00:01:52,145 --> 00:01:55,515 what will be the authority in their lives and what will be allowed 31 00:01:55,515 --> 00:01:57,183 to have authority in their life. 32 00:01:57,183 --> 00:02:00,753 And it's different for, for for most people, 33 00:02:00,787 --> 00:02:02,255 and it's certainly different for each generation. 34 00:02:02,255 --> 00:02:06,192 So I thought, let me just let me just give you some symbols of authority. 35 00:02:06,226 --> 00:02:07,827 Right. 36 00:02:07,827 --> 00:02:08,294 What's that? 37 00:02:08,294 --> 00:02:12,332 A symbol of police who have authority. 38 00:02:12,398 --> 00:02:15,235 At least they should do being on their generation. 39 00:02:15,235 --> 00:02:18,238 They'll determine how much authority you'll give them 40 00:02:18,671 --> 00:02:22,909 about that judge who has what we. 41 00:02:22,942 --> 00:02:23,943 Absolutely. 42 00:02:23,943 --> 00:02:26,913 What about that doctor? He has what? 43 00:02:28,014 --> 00:02:30,083 The doctors have authority, right? 44 00:02:30,083 --> 00:02:32,552 By their training, by their expertise. 45 00:02:32,552 --> 00:02:35,555 What about that military? 46 00:02:35,822 --> 00:02:38,791 Certainly. Symbols of authority. 47 00:02:38,791 --> 00:02:41,427 What about that? 48 00:02:41,427 --> 00:02:42,795 It used to be a symbol of authority. 49 00:02:42,795 --> 00:02:44,297 No, it still is. 50 00:02:44,297 --> 00:02:45,698 It still is. 51 00:02:45,698 --> 00:02:48,701 Depending on what part of you're part of. 52 00:02:49,135 --> 00:02:51,938 What about that? 53 00:02:51,938 --> 00:02:52,872 It's a coach. 54 00:02:52,872 --> 00:02:54,841 Referee, a coach. 55 00:02:54,841 --> 00:02:55,742 It was interesting. 56 00:02:55,742 --> 00:02:58,745 At practice this last week, 57 00:02:59,913 --> 00:03:01,414 there was a young man 58 00:03:01,414 --> 00:03:04,417 I was trying to correct. 59 00:03:04,717 --> 00:03:07,320 I'm the coach, he's the player. 60 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,323 And he started arguing with me about it. 61 00:03:10,356 --> 00:03:12,492 And I said, listen, you can argue all you want. 62 00:03:12,492 --> 00:03:13,159 I'm right. 63 00:03:13,159 --> 00:03:16,162 You're wrong. 64 00:03:16,229 --> 00:03:20,333 The story I heard about that. 65 00:03:21,701 --> 00:03:23,203 Yeah. 66 00:03:23,203 --> 00:03:25,672 Meta verified, 67 00:03:25,672 --> 00:03:26,839 you know, social media. 68 00:03:26,839 --> 00:03:30,510 What about that million likes, 69 00:03:30,510 --> 00:03:34,214 million views for some of us like that has no authority in my life. 70 00:03:34,214 --> 00:03:36,950 Others are. You like, that's the authority. 71 00:03:36,950 --> 00:03:39,953 And it changes generationally what 72 00:03:39,953 --> 00:03:43,356 we what we allow to have authority over us. 73 00:03:43,356 --> 00:03:47,794 And so for, for the baby boomers, those who are somewhere 74 00:03:47,794 --> 00:03:53,066 between 62 and 80 years old, there is a 40 in the position. 75 00:03:53,066 --> 00:03:55,668 There's an authority in the hierarchy. 76 00:03:55,668 --> 00:03:59,305 But that challenge by you, baby boomers is 77 00:03:59,739 --> 00:04:03,109 or that authority by you baby boomers is challenged a little bit. 78 00:04:04,210 --> 00:04:05,111 So. So 79 00:04:05,111 --> 00:04:09,515 for the baby boomer, the older people authority still exists. 80 00:04:09,515 --> 00:04:13,753 But authority comes not just from position but from accomplishment as well. 81 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,890 And so you have to have a position, but that a position, 82 00:04:17,890 --> 00:04:18,958 you've got to be good at it. 83 00:04:18,958 --> 00:04:24,664 So the successful business person or the successful coach 84 00:04:25,431 --> 00:04:28,234 or the decorated military leader. 85 00:04:28,234 --> 00:04:29,669 So there's got to be the position 86 00:04:29,669 --> 00:04:33,139 with the accomplishment for the baby boom generation to say, yes, 87 00:04:33,139 --> 00:04:37,277 they have authority over me for the next generation. 88 00:04:37,610 --> 00:04:40,613 Those 46 to 61 years old, 89 00:04:41,114 --> 00:04:43,750 my generation is a bit more skeptical 90 00:04:43,750 --> 00:04:48,054 about positions of authority and hierarchies and institutions. 91 00:04:48,321 --> 00:04:51,791 In other words, we decide if you have the right 92 00:04:51,791 --> 00:04:55,795 to have authority over us and it will absolutely be challenged. 93 00:04:55,795 --> 00:05:00,199 And so for the baby, for the Gen X generation, competency 94 00:05:00,199 --> 00:05:03,670 is more important than titles. And so so 95 00:05:03,670 --> 00:05:06,673 we view it as you might be the boss, but it doesn't mean you're right. 96 00:05:08,474 --> 00:05:10,143 For the millennial generation, 97 00:05:10,143 --> 00:05:13,980 those who are 35, 30 to 45 years old or so, 98 00:05:14,881 --> 00:05:18,818 the authority they allow to have over them has to be based in relationship, 99 00:05:19,452 --> 00:05:24,857 in authenticity, in transparency and in participation. 100 00:05:24,891 --> 00:05:27,060 Like I have to know who you are. 101 00:05:27,060 --> 00:05:30,029 You can't be fake with me, and you need to invite me 102 00:05:30,029 --> 00:05:35,134 into this process so that I will allow you to have authority over me. 103 00:05:35,835 --> 00:05:39,639 For the Gen Z generation, those who are 14 to 29 years old 104 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:42,642 or so pay attention now. 105 00:05:42,975 --> 00:05:45,144 The authority that you will allow to have over 106 00:05:45,144 --> 00:05:47,947 you has to first of all be relatable. 107 00:05:47,947 --> 00:05:51,417 They have to get you and you have to get them. 108 00:05:52,819 --> 00:05:54,620 There's there there's 109 00:05:54,620 --> 00:05:58,057 got to be a platform like you have to have it. 110 00:05:58,057 --> 00:06:00,793 Not necessarily a title, but you have to have a platform. 111 00:06:02,095 --> 00:06:03,363 There has to be 112 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:07,400 peer validation, like all of my tribe agrees, 113 00:06:08,401 --> 00:06:11,304 and there has to be some type of lived experience. 114 00:06:11,304 --> 00:06:15,108 So I don't care about your title as long as we have a relationship 115 00:06:15,108 --> 00:06:18,911 and my tribe agrees and you have some experience that I can relate to, 116 00:06:18,945 --> 00:06:21,948 then you have the right to have some authority in my life. 117 00:06:21,948 --> 00:06:27,120 So for that generation, the Gen Z generation 14 to 29 years old 118 00:06:28,020 --> 00:06:31,257 influence becomes a symbol of authority, not a position. 119 00:06:31,257 --> 00:06:34,394 So if you have influence, that's why 120 00:06:34,460 --> 00:06:37,663 influencers are so important to this generation. 121 00:06:38,331 --> 00:06:42,301 Do you follow because they have influence now? 122 00:06:42,301 --> 00:06:43,803 They have authority. 123 00:06:43,803 --> 00:06:45,138 Doesn't matter. 124 00:06:45,138 --> 00:06:47,373 Position, title, expertise. 125 00:06:47,373 --> 00:06:48,875 They have influence. 126 00:06:48,875 --> 00:06:49,909 For Gen Alpha. 127 00:06:49,909 --> 00:06:52,512 Those who are 1 to 13 years old, the little ones 128 00:06:53,579 --> 00:06:54,947 authority in their life has 129 00:06:54,947 --> 00:06:59,318 been decentralized, and so there's not a single authority in their life. 130 00:06:59,318 --> 00:07:02,321 It's decentralized into multiple voices. 131 00:07:02,388 --> 00:07:05,191 And so for them, it can be teachers, 132 00:07:05,191 --> 00:07:08,461 it can be parents, it can be coaches, it can also be YouTube. 133 00:07:08,461 --> 00:07:11,464 It can also be TikTok, and it can also be their friend. 134 00:07:11,831 --> 00:07:14,534 And they all have equal say in equal authority. 135 00:07:14,534 --> 00:07:17,670 And so their response might be, well, my teacher says this, 136 00:07:17,670 --> 00:07:22,041 but YouTube says this and TikTok says this, and my friend says that, 137 00:07:22,375 --> 00:07:25,378 which is a very, very, very scary proposition. 138 00:07:26,078 --> 00:07:31,451 It's interesting to me to note, in this world of social media 139 00:07:31,451 --> 00:07:35,588 and influence, what just happened to the court system with meta. 140 00:07:36,055 --> 00:07:39,959 Meta was just slammed with an $18 141 00:07:39,959 --> 00:07:43,563 billion judgment against them meta being Facebook. 142 00:07:43,596 --> 00:07:48,734 If some of you don't aren't aware, that whole social media conglomerate 143 00:07:48,868 --> 00:07:54,373 $18 billion penalty because they know that their product 144 00:07:54,373 --> 00:07:57,610 is harmful to people, especially children, 145 00:07:57,743 --> 00:08:00,947 and so they've agreed to pay $18 billion 146 00:08:00,947 --> 00:08:05,618 over ten years and to some parameters around its use. 147 00:08:05,618 --> 00:08:10,223 Now, you might think $18 billion is a big judgment. 148 00:08:10,256 --> 00:08:14,961 Last year alone, the total revenue of meta was 200 billion. 149 00:08:15,228 --> 00:08:20,266 And so it's less than 10% of one year's total revenue paid out over ten years. 150 00:08:20,266 --> 00:08:26,973 And what they've agreed to is that it is unhealthy, unsafe and unwise 151 00:08:27,106 --> 00:08:31,177 for children to spend more than two hours 152 00:08:31,177 --> 00:08:36,148 a day on social media and to have any access to it after midnight. 153 00:08:38,184 --> 00:08:40,553 Please understand, my dear friends, 154 00:08:40,553 --> 00:08:43,389 when a tech company agrees 155 00:08:43,389 --> 00:08:48,594 and affirms that their product is harmful more than two hours 156 00:08:48,594 --> 00:08:52,331 a day, and any time after midnight, parents better start waking up 157 00:08:53,332 --> 00:08:56,736 when the tech company says our product is harmful 158 00:08:56,736 --> 00:09:00,473 for your kids, and they say this is how bad it is. 159 00:09:00,506 --> 00:09:02,909 The only reason they agreed to two hours a day and after midnight, 160 00:09:02,909 --> 00:09:05,878 because that's what they could get away with. 161 00:09:05,878 --> 00:09:07,980 So parents, we how you have to. 162 00:09:07,980 --> 00:09:11,751 And I've been preaching this from the day the whole thing broke. 163 00:09:13,052 --> 00:09:16,756 Ever since social media started showing up, I've been preaching parents in. 164 00:09:16,756 --> 00:09:19,759 So few are we're willing to pay attention to me. 165 00:09:20,259 --> 00:09:25,064 If the tech company says this is dangerous to your child, 166 00:09:25,498 --> 00:09:30,102 why would any parent allow them access to it? 167 00:09:35,474 --> 00:09:37,176 That has become the authority 168 00:09:37,176 --> 00:09:40,179 for a generation. 169 00:09:42,081 --> 00:09:45,551 And the only way that the kids are going to be protected from it, 170 00:09:45,585 --> 00:09:48,788 if it's modeled to them by their parents. 171 00:09:52,959 --> 00:09:53,993 And what we've done, 172 00:09:53,993 --> 00:09:54,994 we've opened up 173 00:09:54,994 --> 00:09:58,864 the the access to have authority over our lives and over our children 174 00:09:58,864 --> 00:10:02,068 by someone and something who should never have authority. 175 00:10:05,071 --> 00:10:07,306 And so Matthew 22 176 00:10:07,306 --> 00:10:12,278 speaks of this very issue of authority, and it gets very difficult for people 177 00:10:12,278 --> 00:10:16,816 to give their allegiance to Christ because he demands authority over 178 00:10:16,816 --> 00:10:19,819 every area. 179 00:10:20,219 --> 00:10:21,354 Is Jesus who says, 180 00:10:21,354 --> 00:10:24,357 I have the authority to define reality. 181 00:10:25,891 --> 00:10:27,360 Every generation 182 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,930 will decide what they will allow to have authority over their lives. 183 00:10:30,930 --> 00:10:32,331 Jesus settles the issue. 184 00:10:32,331 --> 00:10:35,334 It says it resides in me. 185 00:10:35,401 --> 00:10:37,703 That's what Matthew 22 is all about, and that's why it's going 186 00:10:37,703 --> 00:10:39,171 to hit so hard this morning. 187 00:10:40,139 --> 00:10:41,307 Matthew 22 188 00:10:41,307 --> 00:10:44,410 is this interaction Jesus has with four different groups of people 189 00:10:44,410 --> 00:10:48,714 and these debates that they that they try to get him to go to get into. 190 00:10:48,714 --> 00:10:51,717 And Matthew 22 is not about. 191 00:10:53,819 --> 00:10:56,956 Jesus respecting Jesus teaching because he's so profound. 192 00:10:56,956 --> 00:11:00,026 It is about who he says he is. 193 00:11:01,761 --> 00:11:04,730 Jesus has identity, will determine his authority. 194 00:11:05,197 --> 00:11:08,834 And at the end of Matthew 22, he's going to ask the question, who do you say I am? 195 00:11:09,335 --> 00:11:12,838 Because who you say am will determine the authority that I have in your life. 196 00:11:12,838 --> 00:11:15,975 And if you haven't guessed it yet, I am the authority. 197 00:11:16,142 --> 00:11:17,710 That's what it's going to say. 198 00:11:17,710 --> 00:11:20,880 And so for some of us, it's going to be very difficult to here. 199 00:11:22,982 --> 00:11:24,417 But it will be good. 200 00:11:24,417 --> 00:11:26,952 And we need to hear we need to hear his words. 201 00:11:26,952 --> 00:11:30,122 And so Matthew 22, let me, let me just 202 00:11:30,756 --> 00:11:33,259 let me walk you through this 203 00:11:33,259 --> 00:11:36,462 in the beginning of the chapter, Jesus is going to say this. 204 00:11:39,231 --> 00:11:40,933 Jesus has authority to 205 00:11:40,933 --> 00:11:44,336 define how I enter the kingdom of God. 206 00:11:45,771 --> 00:11:48,774 He has the authority to find how I enter. 207 00:11:49,275 --> 00:11:51,143 This is how it reads. 208 00:11:51,143 --> 00:11:53,412 And again, Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, 209 00:11:53,412 --> 00:11:57,183 the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast 210 00:11:57,183 --> 00:12:00,386 for his son, and sent his servants to call those 211 00:12:00,386 --> 00:12:04,690 who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come again. 212 00:12:04,690 --> 00:12:09,095 He sent other servants, saying, tell those who are invited, see, 213 00:12:09,095 --> 00:12:10,296 I've prepared my dinner. 214 00:12:10,296 --> 00:12:14,633 My oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything's ready. 215 00:12:14,667 --> 00:12:15,801 Come to the wedding feast. 216 00:12:15,801 --> 00:12:20,906 But they paid no attention and went off one to his farm, another to his business, 217 00:12:20,906 --> 00:12:24,944 while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. 218 00:12:25,277 --> 00:12:27,346 So this is what the kingdom of heaven is like. 219 00:12:27,346 --> 00:12:31,183 The King has made all the arrangements for fellowship with him 220 00:12:31,183 --> 00:12:32,551 and to celebrate his son. 221 00:12:32,551 --> 00:12:36,789 And then he gave the invitation, come in and celebrate this with me. 222 00:12:36,789 --> 00:12:39,592 And the first invitation went out to a bunch of people, 223 00:12:39,592 --> 00:12:43,229 and it just simply says, it just simply says they wouldn't come. 224 00:12:43,229 --> 00:12:44,897 They were just uninterested. 225 00:12:45,865 --> 00:12:47,600 Pay attention now. 226 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,502 This is the kingdom of heaven. 227 00:12:49,502 --> 00:12:53,739 The invitation has gone out and there are some people are just aren't interested. 228 00:12:54,106 --> 00:12:57,109 But like neither hot nor cold, there's like whatever, 229 00:12:57,910 --> 00:13:00,813 you know, I know religious people, 230 00:13:00,813 --> 00:13:02,715 whatever. 231 00:13:02,715 --> 00:13:06,585 And so the King sends out a second invitation, which was unheard of 232 00:13:06,619 --> 00:13:07,787 in this culture. 233 00:13:07,787 --> 00:13:09,622 If you turn down the invitation of the King 234 00:13:09,622 --> 00:13:12,625 the first time, he had probably put you to death, at least throw you in jail. 235 00:13:12,625 --> 00:13:15,861 So the fact that he offers a second invitation is indication 236 00:13:15,861 --> 00:13:20,432 that he is a kind, compassionate, and gracious King to continue 237 00:13:20,432 --> 00:13:24,570 inviting you into the King's presence to celebrate his Son. 238 00:13:25,171 --> 00:13:26,939 And so he gives a second invitation. 239 00:13:26,939 --> 00:13:29,942 And to the second invitation 240 00:13:30,142 --> 00:13:32,912 they paid no attention, and they went off 241 00:13:34,613 --> 00:13:36,148 to do other things. 242 00:13:36,148 --> 00:13:39,151 The second invitation goes out, and they're not indifferent. 243 00:13:39,151 --> 00:13:41,720 They just pay no attention. They just make fun of it. 244 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:42,922 It's like a joke to them. 245 00:13:42,922 --> 00:13:46,292 This whole religion thing, this whole God thing, it's just a joke. 246 00:13:46,292 --> 00:13:48,060 And others, it's not a joke. 247 00:13:48,060 --> 00:13:49,762 They're just too busy. 248 00:13:49,762 --> 00:13:52,498 I got my job, I got my career, we got our, 249 00:13:52,498 --> 00:13:55,501 you know, our hobbies, we got travel, but we got all this other stuff going. 250 00:13:55,501 --> 00:13:56,936 We're just just. 251 00:13:56,936 --> 00:13:59,939 We got other stuff to do. 252 00:14:01,807 --> 00:14:04,810 Follow. 253 00:14:06,378 --> 00:14:07,813 And there's another group. 254 00:14:07,813 --> 00:14:11,817 The rest seized those who were intriguing them 255 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:13,452 on behalf of the king to celebrate his son. 256 00:14:13,452 --> 00:14:16,255 The children shamefully and killed them. 257 00:14:16,255 --> 00:14:17,323 They weren't indifferent. 258 00:14:17,323 --> 00:14:20,292 They weren't busy. They were hostile to it. 259 00:14:20,593 --> 00:14:24,930 And so in response, verse seven, the king was angry 260 00:14:24,930 --> 00:14:28,934 and sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 261 00:14:28,934 --> 00:14:31,637 Then he said to his servants, the wedding feast is ready. 262 00:14:31,637 --> 00:14:34,306 But those invited were not worthy. 263 00:14:34,306 --> 00:14:39,111 Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding as many as you find. 264 00:14:39,144 --> 00:14:41,947 And those servants went out into the roads, and gathered all 265 00:14:41,947 --> 00:14:43,716 whom they found, both bad and good. 266 00:14:43,716 --> 00:14:45,751 So the winning hall was filled with guests. 267 00:14:45,751 --> 00:14:47,853 He said, listen, I'm done. I'm starting. 268 00:14:47,853 --> 00:14:49,955 I'm going to fight it like you'll find anybody you can. 269 00:14:49,955 --> 00:14:50,422 I don't care. 270 00:14:50,422 --> 00:14:53,158 Good, bad and good, bad and ugly. Get clean. 271 00:14:53,158 --> 00:14:55,494 I don't care who to just get people to. 272 00:14:55,494 --> 00:14:58,264 I just need people here to celebrate my son. 273 00:14:58,264 --> 00:15:01,133 And so they go out and they make this invitation. 274 00:15:01,133 --> 00:15:04,036 And I love that, because this is what it tells me, 275 00:15:04,036 --> 00:15:06,505 that we're invited into the fellowship 276 00:15:06,505 --> 00:15:09,508 of the King to celebrate his son, not based on who we are, 277 00:15:09,942 --> 00:15:12,678 but based on the father's compassion and his mercy 278 00:15:12,678 --> 00:15:15,681 and his grace in the honor of his son. 279 00:15:16,081 --> 00:15:17,383 This is a symbol. 280 00:15:17,383 --> 00:15:22,321 This is a statement of God's grace that his kingdom is filled with those 281 00:15:22,321 --> 00:15:26,425 who are invited, not based on who they are, but based on his graciousness 282 00:15:26,425 --> 00:15:30,296 and his compassion and his goodness and his mercy to celebrate His Son, 283 00:15:30,296 --> 00:15:32,298 because His son is worthy to be celebrated. 284 00:15:32,298 --> 00:15:33,799 So that's the scene. 285 00:15:33,799 --> 00:15:35,534 And all these people show up. 286 00:15:35,534 --> 00:15:37,469 Now watch what happens. 287 00:15:37,469 --> 00:15:41,273 But when the king came in and looked at the guest, 288 00:15:41,273 --> 00:15:45,077 he saw there a man who had no wedding garment, and he said to him, friend, 289 00:15:45,177 --> 00:15:47,413 how did you get in here without a wedding garment? 290 00:15:47,413 --> 00:15:48,814 And he was speechless. 291 00:15:48,814 --> 00:15:52,584 Then the king said to the attendance, bind him and buy 292 00:15:52,851 --> 00:15:55,187 him hand and foot, and cast him into outer darkness. 293 00:15:55,187 --> 00:15:57,389 In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, 294 00:15:57,389 --> 00:15:59,058 for many are called, but fewer chosen. 295 00:15:59,058 --> 00:16:01,961 So the King goes in the in the celebration. 296 00:16:01,961 --> 00:16:05,197 See these people celebrating his son, and he sees one of them 297 00:16:05,197 --> 00:16:07,599 that doesn't have wedding clothes on. Now here's what's happening. 298 00:16:07,599 --> 00:16:13,505 In that day, the King was responsible to give his guests clothing appropriate 299 00:16:13,505 --> 00:16:17,609 for the celebration, and especially these are invited in the last minute. 300 00:16:17,609 --> 00:16:20,079 They didn't have time to go home and change it, put on black tie stuff. 301 00:16:20,079 --> 00:16:24,283 And so the King was responsible just to give them wedding garments so 302 00:16:24,283 --> 00:16:29,421 that they were clothed in the appropriate covering to celebrate the son. 303 00:16:29,455 --> 00:16:30,656 Do you follow? 304 00:16:30,656 --> 00:16:35,894 And he sees one in there who got in, not being clothed 305 00:16:35,894 --> 00:16:39,932 by the father's garments, but in his own work. 306 00:16:40,599 --> 00:16:42,134 And he says, you don't belong here. 307 00:16:43,435 --> 00:16:44,136 All through 308 00:16:44,136 --> 00:16:47,840 Scripture when it talks about being clothed. 309 00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:50,943 That's the biblical reference, being clothed 310 00:16:50,943 --> 00:16:55,080 in the righteousness of God, not in our own work. 311 00:16:55,180 --> 00:16:57,316 Go back to Isaiah 61. 312 00:16:57,316 --> 00:16:59,785 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. 313 00:16:59,785 --> 00:17:03,355 My soul shall exalt in my God, for he has what? 314 00:17:03,989 --> 00:17:07,826 Clothe me with what the garments of salvation. 315 00:17:07,826 --> 00:17:10,863 And he's covered me with the robe of righteousness. 316 00:17:10,863 --> 00:17:14,800 And so the kingdom of God is comprised of those that God has covered 317 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,670 with his righteousness, not our own work. 318 00:17:18,704 --> 00:17:22,641 The Bible says in Second Corinthians five, for our sake 319 00:17:22,641 --> 00:17:26,412 he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him 320 00:17:26,412 --> 00:17:30,149 we might become the righteousness of God, clothed in his righteousness. 321 00:17:30,149 --> 00:17:31,984 And the kingdom of God is filled to those who, 322 00:17:31,984 --> 00:17:32,751 by the grace of God, 323 00:17:32,751 --> 00:17:35,254 have been invited into the fellowship of the kingdom to celebrate the 324 00:17:35,254 --> 00:17:39,358 son clothed in what God has done through Jesus on the cross. 325 00:17:39,358 --> 00:17:42,628 And there's this one person there who came in on his own merit. 326 00:17:42,861 --> 00:17:45,864 And the King says, that's not how we do it. 327 00:17:46,031 --> 00:17:51,537 You don't get in to my kingdom based on how you've clothed yourself. 328 00:17:52,638 --> 00:17:54,173 Do you follow? 329 00:17:54,173 --> 00:17:57,676 And that person, now it's too late, 330 00:17:58,210 --> 00:18:00,879 is thrown into outer darkness where the weeping and gnashing of teeth. 331 00:18:00,879 --> 00:18:02,781 Here's two responses. 332 00:18:02,781 --> 00:18:05,751 When we try to get into the kingdom, clothe 333 00:18:05,751 --> 00:18:09,354 in our own effort and merit, it doesn't work. 334 00:18:09,354 --> 00:18:11,423 It's not how it's designed, and there will be a day 335 00:18:11,423 --> 00:18:15,027 when it's too late to be clothed in the righteousness of Christ. 336 00:18:15,027 --> 00:18:16,829 When you stand before him. 337 00:18:16,829 --> 00:18:18,597 And there'll be two responses. 338 00:18:18,597 --> 00:18:20,232 One is weeping. 339 00:18:20,232 --> 00:18:24,136 There'll be people on the day who will realize what a full life been. 340 00:18:25,170 --> 00:18:27,773 What a fool I been. 341 00:18:27,773 --> 00:18:30,442 I was too busy, I was indifferent, 342 00:18:30,442 --> 00:18:33,412 I just didn't care enough. 343 00:18:34,146 --> 00:18:34,813 What a fool! 344 00:18:34,813 --> 00:18:37,282 I've denied his authority over my life. 345 00:18:37,282 --> 00:18:41,787 And they'll weep in desperation because they realized. 346 00:18:41,820 --> 00:18:42,354 What? 347 00:18:43,755 --> 00:18:45,290 What have I done? 348 00:18:45,290 --> 00:18:47,459 But another group will have gnashing their teeth. 349 00:18:47,459 --> 00:18:53,465 That's a biblical way of saying they are still vehemently demonically angry at God. 350 00:18:53,866 --> 00:18:55,834 How dare you? 351 00:18:55,834 --> 00:18:58,003 How could you do this to me? 352 00:18:58,003 --> 00:19:01,440 What right do you have to assert this kind of authority over my soul? 353 00:19:01,673 --> 00:19:04,676 Can you imagine? 354 00:19:06,011 --> 00:19:06,745 So Jesus says, 355 00:19:06,745 --> 00:19:10,415 I have the authority to determine how you enter my kingdom. 356 00:19:11,450 --> 00:19:14,453 This by my righteousness, not by your effort. 357 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,955 And then he says this 358 00:19:16,955 --> 00:19:20,092 I have the authority to determine what you owe the kingdom. 359 00:19:21,660 --> 00:19:24,663 He says, I have the authority to determine what's owed. 360 00:19:25,664 --> 00:19:28,100 Verses 15 through 22. 361 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:32,371 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words, 362 00:19:32,371 --> 00:19:34,072 and they sent their disciples to him, along 363 00:19:34,072 --> 00:19:36,742 with the Herodians, saying, teacher, we know that you are true 364 00:19:36,742 --> 00:19:39,578 and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's 365 00:19:39,578 --> 00:19:41,947 opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances. 366 00:19:41,947 --> 00:19:43,081 Tell us then, what do you think? 367 00:19:43,081 --> 00:19:44,950 Is it lawful to be taxes to Caesar or not? 368 00:19:44,950 --> 00:19:48,654 You're going to see four groups in Matthew 22 the Pharisees, 369 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,823 the Herodians, the Sadducees, and the lawyers. 370 00:19:51,857 --> 00:19:55,627 And so this first two groups, the Pharisees and the Herodians, come 371 00:19:55,627 --> 00:19:58,297 to Jesus. And they think, we don't like what you're saying. 372 00:19:58,297 --> 00:19:59,131 What do you mean? 373 00:19:59,131 --> 00:20:03,101 Our righteous work doesn't get us into the king's banquet hall? 374 00:20:03,135 --> 00:20:05,137 You're ridiculous. We are Jews. 375 00:20:05,137 --> 00:20:08,373 We're God's chosen people, and we're righteous religious people. 376 00:20:08,373 --> 00:20:11,276 We deserve to get in. He says, no, you don't. 377 00:20:11,276 --> 00:20:15,280 And so they plot together like we can't handle what he's saying. 378 00:20:15,314 --> 00:20:16,148 We've got to kill him. 379 00:20:16,148 --> 00:20:18,317 We got to discredit him and kill him. 380 00:20:18,317 --> 00:20:22,187 And so the Pharisees and the Herodians get together, and all the Pharisees 381 00:20:22,221 --> 00:20:24,790 were the conservatives of their of their day. 382 00:20:24,790 --> 00:20:27,192 They believed in the literacy of Scripture. 383 00:20:27,192 --> 00:20:28,860 They were pro-Israel. 384 00:20:28,860 --> 00:20:31,029 They were conservative in their living. 385 00:20:31,029 --> 00:20:32,297 They were the conservative group. 386 00:20:32,297 --> 00:20:36,535 The Herodians were fans of Herod, who was a puppet king of Rome. 387 00:20:36,602 --> 00:20:38,470 The Pharisees hated Rome. 388 00:20:38,470 --> 00:20:40,272 The Herodians loved Rome. 389 00:20:40,272 --> 00:20:43,575 And so now these two were diametrically opposed 390 00:20:43,575 --> 00:20:46,745 to each other, have a common enemy and a common enemy. 391 00:20:46,745 --> 00:20:48,947 It makes strange bedfellows. 392 00:20:48,947 --> 00:20:51,083 So the Pharisees go to the Herodians. 393 00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:53,452 The audience wanted to support Rome. 394 00:20:53,452 --> 00:20:55,254 They didn't mind taxes. 395 00:20:55,254 --> 00:20:59,491 And so they asked the question, is it lawful to taxes to Caesar? 396 00:20:59,491 --> 00:21:02,227 Because the Herodians think we got him. 397 00:21:02,227 --> 00:21:05,464 If he says, no, it's not lawful, it'll be taxes to Caesar. 398 00:21:05,664 --> 00:21:07,733 Like the Pharisees say. 399 00:21:07,733 --> 00:21:11,470 The zealots of the Pharisees would say that if you pay taxes to Caesar, 400 00:21:11,503 --> 00:21:13,438 you are sending Caesar to be your God. 401 00:21:13,438 --> 00:21:16,074 It's idolatry, like they were vehemently opposed to that. 402 00:21:16,074 --> 00:21:20,112 So if Jesus says, if Jesus says yes, pay taxes, 403 00:21:20,112 --> 00:21:23,148 Caesar, he's denying the sovereignty of God over Israel. 404 00:21:23,181 --> 00:21:25,317 If he says no, don't pay taxes, Caesar. 405 00:21:25,317 --> 00:21:28,220 Now he set himself up against the government of Rome. 406 00:21:28,220 --> 00:21:30,122 And so they they think we got him. 407 00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:32,491 He's in a no win situation. We're going to best him. 408 00:21:32,491 --> 00:21:35,894 Well, we learned last week that Jesus was the mover of mountains 409 00:21:36,228 --> 00:21:40,232 who could take these incredible, difficult mysteries and unravel them 410 00:21:40,232 --> 00:21:41,633 and make them make sense. 411 00:21:41,633 --> 00:21:45,037 And so his response, he says, you think you got me? 412 00:21:46,738 --> 00:21:47,906 Is it lawful? 413 00:21:47,906 --> 00:21:49,074 They weren't talking about legal. 414 00:21:49,074 --> 00:21:51,943 They were talking about spiritually acceptable. 415 00:21:51,943 --> 00:21:56,214 Is it okay because some believe that by paying taxes, the Rome they were 416 00:21:56,381 --> 00:22:00,385 they were acknowledging the the lordship of Caesar over their lives. 417 00:22:00,419 --> 00:22:01,853 It's an act of idolatry. 418 00:22:01,853 --> 00:22:03,422 It's like you want to talk about that. Okay. 419 00:22:03,422 --> 00:22:07,893 So this way says Jesus said, aware of their malice. 420 00:22:08,660 --> 00:22:10,829 They started by flattery. 421 00:22:10,829 --> 00:22:12,664 Look, we know you don't respect to people. 422 00:22:12,664 --> 00:22:15,000 You know, you just you speak the truth. 423 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,871 You're you're so righteous and and and you people can't win you over. 424 00:22:19,871 --> 00:22:22,240 Well, that's what they're trying to do. But. 425 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,575 And he calls them on it. 426 00:22:23,575 --> 00:22:26,211 But you here I see right through who you are. 427 00:22:26,211 --> 00:22:29,081 Your flattery means nothing to me 428 00:22:29,081 --> 00:22:32,617 to to think I'm so shallow that I would give given over to your flattery. 429 00:22:32,617 --> 00:22:33,785 It's ridiculous. 430 00:22:37,656 --> 00:22:38,423 Aware of their mouth says. 431 00:22:38,423 --> 00:22:39,891 Why are you putting me to the test, you hypocrites? 432 00:22:39,891 --> 00:22:42,227 Show me the coin for the tax. And they brought him a denarius. 433 00:22:42,227 --> 00:22:43,362 And Jesus said to them, 434 00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:46,498 whose likeness is and inscription is this they said, Caesar's. 435 00:22:46,531 --> 00:22:48,834 Then he said to them, therefore render to Caesar 436 00:22:48,834 --> 00:22:51,770 the things that are Caesar's, and the gods the things that are gods. 437 00:22:51,770 --> 00:22:54,439 When they heard it, they marveled, and they left him and went away. 438 00:22:54,439 --> 00:22:56,541 Here's what he's saying. He's saying, fine. You want to talk about taxes? 439 00:22:56,541 --> 00:22:59,311 Bring me the coin. The coin was a Daenerys coin. 440 00:22:59,311 --> 00:23:02,414 And once a year, every citizen of Roman Empire 441 00:23:02,481 --> 00:23:05,984 had to pay a denarius for the right to breathe Roman air. 442 00:23:07,052 --> 00:23:10,655 And so he says, fine, if that's the tax system we live in. 443 00:23:10,655 --> 00:23:12,491 I didn't come to abolish the tax system. 444 00:23:12,491 --> 00:23:14,092 I didn't come to remake the tax system. 445 00:23:14,092 --> 00:23:17,262 If it's oppressive, whatever, we're citizens, we got to pay our tax. 446 00:23:17,262 --> 00:23:19,030 So says bring me the Daenerys. 447 00:23:19,030 --> 00:23:22,901 So someone brought them a little coins, a little silver coin, and he said, 448 00:23:22,934 --> 00:23:24,035 who's image? 449 00:23:24,035 --> 00:23:26,772 Caesar's? Because, you know, like us, right? 450 00:23:26,772 --> 00:23:29,174 Our money has the pictures of who on it. 451 00:23:29,174 --> 00:23:29,975 Our presidents. 452 00:23:29,975 --> 00:23:34,279 Same thing back then, he said, if it bears Caesar's image, give it back to him. 453 00:23:35,514 --> 00:23:36,982 Don't care if you like the taxes or not. 454 00:23:36,982 --> 00:23:38,583 That's not the point. 455 00:23:38,583 --> 00:23:41,720 The point is, you're a citizen of this empire, so you pay your taxes. 456 00:23:42,187 --> 00:23:44,923 But then he says this. 457 00:23:44,923 --> 00:23:48,360 In essence, he says, and whatever bears God's image 458 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,730 that belongs to God. 459 00:23:52,063 --> 00:23:54,266 Go back to Genesis one chapter, 460 00:23:54,266 --> 00:23:57,669 chapter one, verses 2020, 2627. 461 00:23:58,470 --> 00:24:01,039 God says, let us make man in our image, 462 00:24:01,039 --> 00:24:04,342 in the image of God, let us make male and female. 463 00:24:05,677 --> 00:24:08,680 What he's saying is this 464 00:24:09,147 --> 00:24:12,117 taxes or taxes? 465 00:24:12,117 --> 00:24:15,120 But you bear the image of God. 466 00:24:15,187 --> 00:24:19,858 And so he says, I have the right and the authority to define 467 00:24:19,858 --> 00:24:22,861 what you owe the kingdom and what you owe the kingdom, because you bear 468 00:24:22,861 --> 00:24:25,864 the image of God is your very being. 469 00:24:26,832 --> 00:24:27,732 Do you understand? 470 00:24:30,235 --> 00:24:33,238 And they knew that they were bested. 471 00:24:33,238 --> 00:24:34,339 They wanted to trap him. 472 00:24:34,339 --> 00:24:36,274 He said, no, no, no, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to. 473 00:24:36,274 --> 00:24:37,909 I don't want to talk about governmental oversight. 474 00:24:37,909 --> 00:24:40,912 I want to talk about God's rulership. 475 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,616 Human and human alone bear the image of God. 476 00:24:44,616 --> 00:24:47,118 Plants don't. And animals don't. 477 00:24:47,118 --> 00:24:49,020 You and I are the only creatures made. 478 00:24:49,020 --> 00:24:50,322 Angels don't. 479 00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:52,991 The only creatures made in the image of God as me and you. 480 00:24:52,991 --> 00:24:54,426 And God says, if you. 481 00:24:54,426 --> 00:24:57,429 Jesus says, if you bear his image, 482 00:24:57,462 --> 00:24:59,631 every 483 00:24:59,631 --> 00:25:01,900 selling, your being, 484 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:05,937 every decision, every move belongs to him. 485 00:25:06,438 --> 00:25:09,441 You give it back. 486 00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:13,578 Romans 12 one 487 00:25:13,578 --> 00:25:17,015 I appeal to you there for brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, 488 00:25:17,015 --> 00:25:20,018 to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, 489 00:25:20,051 --> 00:25:22,654 holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 490 00:25:22,654 --> 00:25:25,357 Your act of worship is not emotionalism. 491 00:25:25,357 --> 00:25:26,558 It's not exuberance. 492 00:25:26,558 --> 00:25:29,561 It is the giving of your whole self to the God 493 00:25:29,594 --> 00:25:32,597 who has authority over your life because you bear his image. 494 00:25:32,864 --> 00:25:33,498 Follow. 495 00:25:34,733 --> 00:25:38,103 So Jesus says, listen, I have the authority to determine who 496 00:25:38,303 --> 00:25:39,571 and how you enter the kingdom, 497 00:25:39,571 --> 00:25:42,574 and I have the authority over what you owe the kingdom. 498 00:25:42,974 --> 00:25:45,577 And then he says this I have the authority 499 00:25:45,577 --> 00:25:48,580 to find what scriptures mean. 500 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:53,351 And so the next group, the Sadducees, that same day, this is all on Tuesday, 501 00:25:53,385 --> 00:25:56,788 the Sadducees came to him who say there is no resurrection. 502 00:25:56,788 --> 00:26:00,458 And they asked him a question, saying, Teacher Moses said, 503 00:26:00,458 --> 00:26:02,394 if a man dies having no children, 504 00:26:02,394 --> 00:26:05,530 his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring from his brother. 505 00:26:05,597 --> 00:26:07,532 Now there were seven brothers among us. 506 00:26:07,532 --> 00:26:10,635 The first married and died having no offspring left, 507 00:26:11,136 --> 00:26:14,172 left his wife to his brother, so the second and third 508 00:26:14,172 --> 00:26:18,143 down to the seventh after them all the woman died in the resurrection. 509 00:26:18,143 --> 00:26:21,079 Therefore, of the seven whose wife will she be? 510 00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:21,947 For they all had her. 511 00:26:21,947 --> 00:26:24,950 Here's what's going on. The Sadducees, 512 00:26:24,983 --> 00:26:29,020 this other group of religious leaders, they were the liberal group. 513 00:26:29,054 --> 00:26:30,822 They didn't believe in miracles. 514 00:26:30,822 --> 00:26:32,190 They didn't believe in resurrection. 515 00:26:32,190 --> 00:26:35,393 They believed the science only what could be proven scientifically. 516 00:26:35,427 --> 00:26:36,795 They didn't believe all the scriptures. 517 00:26:36,795 --> 00:26:39,464 They just believe the first five books that we know them 518 00:26:39,464 --> 00:26:41,733 Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers, Deuteronomy. 519 00:26:41,733 --> 00:26:46,104 And they were the liberal part of this religious group. 520 00:26:46,104 --> 00:26:48,306 And so they didn't believe the resurrection. 521 00:26:48,306 --> 00:26:52,143 So in order to trap Jesus, they asked him a resurrection question, 522 00:26:52,210 --> 00:26:54,112 hoping that he'll say, well, you're right. 523 00:26:54,112 --> 00:26:56,281 I guess resurrection doesn't make any sense. 524 00:26:56,281 --> 00:26:56,781 You're right. 525 00:26:56,781 --> 00:26:59,417 There is no resurrection, thereby 526 00:26:59,417 --> 00:27:02,520 ruining everything that Jesus taught about the resurrection 527 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,189 and the doctrine of Scripture, about the resurrection. 528 00:27:04,189 --> 00:27:07,392 So this is the question according to their law 529 00:27:07,392 --> 00:27:10,695 in the first five books of the Bible, the leverage vow. 530 00:27:10,795 --> 00:27:13,498 If a man marries a woman and they don't have babies, then that 531 00:27:13,498 --> 00:27:18,336 woman becomes the property of his brother so that that family line can have babies. 532 00:27:18,336 --> 00:27:20,572 If that one dies, it goes to the next brother. 533 00:27:20,572 --> 00:27:22,974 So they come up with this stupid hypothetical. 534 00:27:22,974 --> 00:27:26,077 Well, let's say that happened seven times and she still doesn't have a baby. 535 00:27:26,077 --> 00:27:27,412 Then she dies. 536 00:27:27,412 --> 00:27:31,316 Now all seven husbands and a woman are in the resurrection. 537 00:27:31,316 --> 00:27:32,817 Whose wife is she? 538 00:27:32,817 --> 00:27:36,588 They don't believe in the resurrection, but they're trying to stick it to Jesus. 539 00:27:36,621 --> 00:27:38,556 Do you see what I'm saying? 540 00:27:38,556 --> 00:27:41,493 And so Jesus is like, you guys are idiots. 541 00:27:41,493 --> 00:27:42,227 That's that's all. 542 00:27:42,227 --> 00:27:45,263 I just like you don't get a redefined scripture. 543 00:27:45,296 --> 00:27:48,600 The doctrine of the resurrection has been one of the most foundational doctrines 544 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,735 in all of Scripture, from beginning to end. 545 00:27:50,735 --> 00:27:52,704 You don't get to redefine it. 546 00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:57,142 And so he says, your problem 547 00:27:57,142 --> 00:28:01,379 is because you're you're ignorant both to the Bible and to the power of God. 548 00:28:01,379 --> 00:28:04,382 That's what he says, he says. 549 00:28:06,184 --> 00:28:08,219 Jesus answered them, you are wrong. 550 00:28:08,219 --> 00:28:11,623 He's not gentle with these guys like your mom. 551 00:28:12,157 --> 00:28:13,358 You don't argue with me all you want. 552 00:28:13,358 --> 00:28:16,361 You're wrong. 553 00:28:16,428 --> 00:28:18,897 Because you don't know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. 554 00:28:18,897 --> 00:28:21,733 For in the resurrection they neither Mary nor a given a marriage. 555 00:28:21,733 --> 00:28:24,035 But they're like angels in heaven. 556 00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:28,673 And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you? 557 00:28:28,673 --> 00:28:29,240 By God? 558 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,744 I am the God of Abraham and Isaac, and of Jacob. 559 00:28:32,744 --> 00:28:35,714 He's not the God of the dead, but of the living. And the crowd heard it. 560 00:28:35,714 --> 00:28:37,982 They were astonished as his teaching he said, listen, 561 00:28:37,982 --> 00:28:40,518 your problem is because you don't understand the Bible. 562 00:28:40,518 --> 00:28:42,554 You don't understand Scripture. 563 00:28:42,554 --> 00:28:44,222 You don't know the power of God. 564 00:28:44,222 --> 00:28:45,457 In the resurrection. 565 00:28:45,457 --> 00:28:47,225 There is no marriage. You're like the angels. 566 00:28:47,225 --> 00:28:48,193 Please don't misunderstand. 567 00:28:48,193 --> 00:28:50,795 We said he doesn't say we become angels. 568 00:28:50,795 --> 00:28:52,130 Don't don't ever believe. 569 00:28:52,130 --> 00:28:55,834 Well, they died because God needed another angel that isn't so unbiblical. 570 00:28:55,834 --> 00:28:57,335 It's not even funny. 571 00:28:57,335 --> 00:28:59,137 God made angels. He made people. 572 00:28:59,137 --> 00:29:00,672 People don't become angels when they die. 573 00:29:00,672 --> 00:29:02,707 Do we understand that? Yeah. 574 00:29:02,707 --> 00:29:04,943 We're like the angels in that there's no more death 575 00:29:04,943 --> 00:29:08,213 and there's no need to recreate anymore, okay? 576 00:29:08,513 --> 00:29:10,215 But there's no marriage in heaven. 577 00:29:10,215 --> 00:29:11,916 Like there's no ceremonies in heaven. 578 00:29:11,916 --> 00:29:14,786 Some of you are thinking finally. And get out. 579 00:29:14,786 --> 00:29:15,587 Don't get. 580 00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:20,759 I mean, it's like, just just put this straight. 581 00:29:20,992 --> 00:29:22,160 The point is this. 582 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:27,065 God's not a dead god, and his people aren't dead in a grave. 583 00:29:27,332 --> 00:29:30,635 God said, I am the God currently, right now 584 00:29:30,702 --> 00:29:34,272 of Abraham, right now of Isaac, right now of Jacob. 585 00:29:34,272 --> 00:29:36,574 Right now. They're not dead. 586 00:29:36,574 --> 00:29:39,711 They might pass from this earth, but they're not dead. Why? 587 00:29:39,744 --> 00:29:44,149 Because the doctrine of the resurrection is one of the most foundational doctrines 588 00:29:44,149 --> 00:29:45,283 in all of Scripture. 589 00:29:45,283 --> 00:29:47,352 And just because they didn't agree with it, 590 00:29:47,352 --> 00:29:50,355 because they didn't like it, because they didn't understand it, doesn't 591 00:29:50,355 --> 00:29:53,358 mean that they get to redefine it. 592 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:56,361 And Jesus says, 593 00:29:56,361 --> 00:30:00,832 I have authority to define what scriptures mean. 594 00:30:00,832 --> 00:30:03,635 That is still the case. 595 00:30:03,635 --> 00:30:08,773 And just because we don't understand or like what the Bible says, 596 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,278 doesn't mean we have the authority to redefine what it means. 597 00:30:15,580 --> 00:30:18,516 He has authority. 598 00:30:18,516 --> 00:30:21,519 This is so important. 599 00:30:23,621 --> 00:30:25,890 If it's true, it's not new. 600 00:30:25,890 --> 00:30:27,625 If it's new, it's not true. 601 00:30:27,625 --> 00:30:30,628 Don't let anybody redefine what the Bible says. 602 00:30:32,597 --> 00:30:35,733 All Scripture is breathe out by God and profitable for teaching, 603 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,803 reproof, for correction, and for training and righteousness. 604 00:30:41,072 --> 00:30:44,275 I hear all the times, well, Jesus never really spoke to that very thing. 605 00:30:44,275 --> 00:30:46,611 Well, the Bible says that all scriptures breathed out by God, 606 00:30:46,611 --> 00:30:48,680 so it's all God's Word with this Old Testament. 607 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,915 It doesn't matter whether Paul said that Jesus said it. 608 00:30:50,915 --> 00:30:52,217 Moses. 609 00:30:52,217 --> 00:30:55,220 All scriptures breathed out by God. 610 00:30:56,921 --> 00:30:58,756 We don't have the authority 611 00:30:58,756 --> 00:31:02,293 to reinterpret Scripture just because it doesn't fit our agenda 612 00:31:03,795 --> 00:31:07,332 just says, look, I have the authority to determine how you get into my kingdom. 613 00:31:07,332 --> 00:31:08,533 I have the authority of what you owe 614 00:31:08,533 --> 00:31:12,003 the kingdom, and I have the authority to determine what scriptures mean. 615 00:31:12,570 --> 00:31:18,176 And then he says, and I have the authority to determine what matters most. 616 00:31:22,347 --> 00:31:25,583 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, 617 00:31:25,617 --> 00:31:29,787 they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question 618 00:31:29,787 --> 00:31:32,123 to test him. Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? 619 00:31:32,123 --> 00:31:34,459 And he said, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, 620 00:31:34,459 --> 00:31:35,860 and with all your soul, with all your mind. 621 00:31:35,860 --> 00:31:37,562 This is the greatest and first commandment, 622 00:31:37,562 --> 00:31:40,131 and the second is like it you shall love your neighbor as yourself. 623 00:31:40,131 --> 00:31:42,700 All these two commandments depend on. 624 00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:45,870 On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets. 625 00:31:45,870 --> 00:31:48,873 So now they get the lawyers involved 626 00:31:49,307 --> 00:31:54,812 and, and and in their law they had 613 commands of God, 627 00:31:54,879 --> 00:31:58,917 365 negative ones, one negative command for every day of the year. 628 00:31:58,917 --> 00:32:00,618 You better not, you better not, you better not. 629 00:32:00,618 --> 00:32:03,621 And 248 positive ones. 630 00:32:03,721 --> 00:32:05,223 You're better, you're better, you're better. 631 00:32:05,223 --> 00:32:08,192 So out of all those is so which one is the greatest one? 632 00:32:08,192 --> 00:32:09,027 And Jesus says, look, 633 00:32:09,027 --> 00:32:12,030 let me take you back to what you believe in the Old Testament. 634 00:32:12,030 --> 00:32:12,830 Let me take you away. 635 00:32:12,830 --> 00:32:15,600 Back then, this has been God's standard from day one. 636 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,037 Deuteronomy six you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, 637 00:32:19,037 --> 00:32:21,105 and with all your soul, and with all your mind. 638 00:32:22,273 --> 00:32:22,740 You've 639 00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:25,743 made it into something that was never intended to be. 640 00:32:25,877 --> 00:32:27,545 You added all this stuff to it. 641 00:32:27,545 --> 00:32:29,781 And not only that, back to Leviticus. 642 00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:31,716 You shall not take vengeance or bear grudge 643 00:32:31,716 --> 00:32:33,918 against the sons of your own people. 644 00:32:33,918 --> 00:32:36,020 You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 645 00:32:36,020 --> 00:32:37,588 I'm the Lord. 646 00:32:37,588 --> 00:32:41,159 I have authority you to find what is the greatest and most important, 647 00:32:41,192 --> 00:32:41,993 what's the priority? 648 00:32:41,993 --> 00:32:44,329 And it's loving God and love in other people. 649 00:32:44,329 --> 00:32:47,332 That's where this whole thing, this is what it's about, 650 00:32:48,099 --> 00:32:52,003 is to love God completely and love your neighbor rightly. 651 00:32:52,670 --> 00:32:55,673 I have the authority to find what matters most, 652 00:32:56,641 --> 00:32:59,610 and all of the law and all the prophets. 653 00:33:00,278 --> 00:33:03,381 Love the Lord your God and love your neighbor. 654 00:33:03,414 --> 00:33:05,283 Though 655 00:33:05,283 --> 00:33:09,187 vertical in the horizontal hangs on the cross 656 00:33:10,355 --> 00:33:12,256 you follow. 657 00:33:12,256 --> 00:33:15,259 This is what matters most. 658 00:33:20,465 --> 00:33:21,499 Now, while the Pharisees 659 00:33:21,499 --> 00:33:24,502 were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question. 660 00:33:25,203 --> 00:33:28,873 Well, let me say this when that when the verse says, love the Lord 661 00:33:29,107 --> 00:33:31,909 with our heart, soul and mind, like 662 00:33:31,909 --> 00:33:34,912 the heart is the seat of emotion, 663 00:33:35,146 --> 00:33:39,384 your soul, all your, your, your, your, your desires. 664 00:33:39,517 --> 00:33:40,918 But he says, your mind. 665 00:33:40,918 --> 00:33:42,954 Love the Lord your God with all your mind. 666 00:33:42,954 --> 00:33:45,890 This is the one that gets lost in people. 667 00:33:45,890 --> 00:33:48,359 We think loving God has to do with the emotion of it 668 00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:51,629 and the experience of an expression of it, and the command 669 00:33:51,662 --> 00:33:54,832 is to also love God with your engage your brain. 670 00:33:55,433 --> 00:33:57,835 That's what the Scripture says. 671 00:33:57,835 --> 00:34:04,842 Like in use this, use your intellect over and over and over through Scripture. 672 00:34:07,145 --> 00:34:07,979 Psalm one, 673 00:34:07,979 --> 00:34:10,982 verse two, Psalm 119, verses 15 to 16. 674 00:34:11,015 --> 00:34:12,517 Like, engage your brain. 675 00:34:12,517 --> 00:34:15,520 Meditate, think about it, ponder it. 676 00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:19,590 We must. 677 00:34:19,590 --> 00:34:24,062 The disciple must engage their brain in learning the Bible 678 00:34:24,062 --> 00:34:27,065 and learning doctrine. 679 00:34:27,131 --> 00:34:30,134 This is so important for us. 680 00:34:30,301 --> 00:34:32,937 If you want to love more deeply, 681 00:34:32,937 --> 00:34:35,940 you must know more fully. 682 00:34:36,941 --> 00:34:39,677 Do you understand this? 683 00:34:39,677 --> 00:34:41,145 The more you know 684 00:34:41,145 --> 00:34:44,148 your spouse, the deeper your love can be. 685 00:34:44,549 --> 00:34:46,851 It's the same thing with God. 686 00:34:46,851 --> 00:34:48,386 You want to love God more. 687 00:34:48,386 --> 00:34:50,822 Know him deeper. 688 00:34:50,822 --> 00:34:52,490 Love him with your mind. 689 00:34:52,490 --> 00:34:55,493 Study. 690 00:34:59,997 --> 00:35:01,833 And then Jesus says, I have the 691 00:35:01,833 --> 00:35:04,836 the authority to find who I am. 692 00:35:05,937 --> 00:35:08,873 Now. While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question. 693 00:35:08,873 --> 00:35:10,842 He said, look, I'm not going to let you ask me one more question. 694 00:35:10,842 --> 00:35:12,543 You've changed my authority enough. 695 00:35:12,543 --> 00:35:15,546 I have the authority. I am the authority. 696 00:35:16,180 --> 00:35:19,117 So he asked them a question what do you think about the Christ? 697 00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:22,019 Whose son is he? They said to him, the Son of David. 698 00:35:22,019 --> 00:35:26,023 He said to them, how is it then, that David, in the spirit of God, 699 00:35:27,792 --> 00:35:28,392 calls 700 00:35:28,392 --> 00:35:33,431 him Lord, saying, and then he quotes Psalm 110, the Lord said to my Lord, 701 00:35:33,464 --> 00:35:36,300 sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet. 702 00:35:36,300 --> 00:35:41,339 If David if then David calls him Lord, how is he his son? 703 00:35:41,439 --> 00:35:44,976 And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day 704 00:35:44,976 --> 00:35:47,111 did anyone dare to ask him any more questions. 705 00:35:47,111 --> 00:35:49,013 He had just silenced them all. Here's what he said. 706 00:35:49,013 --> 00:35:52,283 He said, who's who's who is this Messiah? 707 00:35:52,717 --> 00:35:56,187 They said, was this Son of David all the Old Testament say that 708 00:35:56,921 --> 00:36:00,091 they thought from the genealogy of David, like he's going to come 709 00:36:00,091 --> 00:36:01,692 from that genealogical line. 710 00:36:01,692 --> 00:36:04,962 Jesus is saying, yes, but more than yes, 711 00:36:05,663 --> 00:36:08,299 he is God. 712 00:36:08,299 --> 00:36:10,301 Because how can David, who comes 713 00:36:10,301 --> 00:36:14,105 before the Messiah, call that Messiah Lord over him? 714 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:19,677 I am the Messiah, and I am before David. 715 00:36:19,677 --> 00:36:22,013 I am, 716 00:36:22,013 --> 00:36:25,816 and because I am, I have authority over all things. 717 00:36:25,816 --> 00:36:30,354 And they realize that their concept of the Messiah was something the Messiah wasn't 718 00:36:31,589 --> 00:36:32,056 there. 719 00:36:32,056 --> 00:36:34,659 Realizing now you're claiming to be that Messiah, 720 00:36:34,659 --> 00:36:37,762 and so you're claiming that you are Lord over all things. 721 00:36:37,762 --> 00:36:40,298 You have authority over all things, and that set them up. 722 00:36:40,298 --> 00:36:41,098 They knew they couldn't 723 00:36:41,098 --> 00:36:44,101 ask him any more questions, and they knew they had to kill him. 724 00:36:45,102 --> 00:36:47,705 Everything in Matthew 22 is designed 725 00:36:47,705 --> 00:36:50,708 by Jesus to set the dominoes in place, 726 00:36:51,342 --> 00:36:56,013 to challenge every structure, every everything that they have set up 727 00:36:56,013 --> 00:36:57,215 for their own authority 728 00:36:57,215 --> 00:37:00,518 over their lives, to challenge and to destroy and dismantle all of that 729 00:37:00,518 --> 00:37:04,021 so that the dominoes will fall, so they will become so our way. 730 00:37:04,055 --> 00:37:06,457 They will petition Rome to kill him. 731 00:37:06,457 --> 00:37:09,827 Because when Jesus asserts, I am the authority over your life, 732 00:37:09,860 --> 00:37:12,730 you're either going to submit to it or you're going to crucify him. 733 00:37:14,265 --> 00:37:17,268 And the same thing goes for us today. 734 00:37:19,036 --> 00:37:20,438 Jesus has just asserted, 735 00:37:20,438 --> 00:37:25,243 I have to determine how you get into the kingdom and who gets in. 736 00:37:25,243 --> 00:37:29,480 I have the authority to determine what you owe the kingdom. 737 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,417 I have the authority to determine what scriptures actually mean. 738 00:37:33,417 --> 00:37:36,420 I have the authority to determine what matters 739 00:37:36,420 --> 00:37:39,423 most, and I have the authority to determine who I am. 740 00:37:39,457 --> 00:37:43,261 You're either going to submit to that, or you're going to say, go away with you, 741 00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:46,264 Christ. 742 00:37:47,465 --> 00:37:50,468 The same thing. 743 00:37:51,902 --> 00:37:52,703 We don't 744 00:37:52,703 --> 00:37:55,973 get to decide who Jesus ought to be. 745 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,176 We must decide whether we believe who he says he is. 746 00:38:01,579 --> 00:38:03,481 Simon Peter finally got it. 747 00:38:03,481 --> 00:38:06,450 You are the Christ, the son of the living God. 748 00:38:06,617 --> 00:38:09,053 Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. 749 00:38:09,053 --> 00:38:10,755 Nobody comes the father but through me. 750 00:38:10,755 --> 00:38:12,790 You don't get to decide who you think I am. 751 00:38:12,790 --> 00:38:14,659 You have to respond to who I am. 752 00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:18,663 See, Matthew 22 is not 753 00:38:18,663 --> 00:38:21,699 a collection of debates that Jesus wins because he's smarter than everybody else. 754 00:38:21,699 --> 00:38:24,702 That's not what this is. 755 00:38:25,336 --> 00:38:27,772 At every challenge, Jesus has demonstrated 756 00:38:27,772 --> 00:38:30,775 that he has authority over all things and all people. 757 00:38:30,841 --> 00:38:33,811 That's what this is. 758 00:38:34,178 --> 00:38:37,515 And the one who has been asked questions now ask the question. 759 00:38:38,149 --> 00:38:43,387 And the implication of that answer has profound resonance. 760 00:38:44,522 --> 00:38:46,390 See, here's let me let me finish with this. 761 00:38:46,390 --> 00:38:47,658 Here's what we have to understand. 762 00:38:47,658 --> 00:38:50,261 Jesus is not asking to have a place in my life. 763 00:38:50,261 --> 00:38:53,497 Jesus has authority to define every part of my life. 764 00:38:55,399 --> 00:38:57,335 Jesus has not asked 765 00:38:57,335 --> 00:39:00,338 to be a part of your world. 766 00:39:00,571 --> 00:39:05,176 He has come and said, I have authority over every portion of it. 767 00:39:05,543 --> 00:39:07,545 And some of us today 768 00:39:08,546 --> 00:39:11,349 as well, many as we are, sit in this place. 769 00:39:11,349 --> 00:39:14,819 Having given Jesus a place in my life, 770 00:39:16,387 --> 00:39:19,490 and I have chosen the authority over what places 771 00:39:19,490 --> 00:39:22,593 Jesus will be, in what places he won't be. 772 00:39:24,595 --> 00:39:27,598 And Jesus says, that is not who I am, 773 00:39:27,998 --> 00:39:31,001 and that is not the way of the kingdom. 774 00:39:31,869 --> 00:39:34,872 I'm not asking to be a part of your life 775 00:39:35,973 --> 00:39:37,842 if you want to call yourself a disciple. 776 00:39:37,842 --> 00:39:38,509 I'm demanding. 777 00:39:38,509 --> 00:39:41,512 I have authority over every part of it. 778 00:39:41,812 --> 00:39:45,349 So when it comes down to me and your friend group, I win. 779 00:39:45,983 --> 00:39:48,986 When it comes down to me and your schedule, I win. 780 00:39:49,220 --> 00:39:52,256 When it comes down to me and your money, I win. 781 00:39:52,523 --> 00:39:55,493 When it comes down to me and your goals, I win. 782 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,463 When it comes down to me and your embarrassment of me, I win. 783 00:40:01,031 --> 00:40:03,934 That's what he's saying. 784 00:40:03,934 --> 00:40:06,937 What do you think Jesus would have said to those 785 00:40:07,705 --> 00:40:10,508 after he said, follow me in the New Testament? 786 00:40:10,508 --> 00:40:13,344 What do you think Jesus would have said to those if they said, you know what? 787 00:40:13,344 --> 00:40:17,281 Yeah, like I want your salvation, but I'm not going to do everything you say. 788 00:40:18,516 --> 00:40:21,452 What do you think you would have said? 789 00:40:21,452 --> 00:40:22,920 He would have said, you're not my follower, 790 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,923 then. 791 00:40:25,990 --> 00:40:29,226 You can't accept my salvation and not follow everything I say. 792 00:40:29,226 --> 00:40:30,761 You're not a follower. 793 00:40:30,761 --> 00:40:34,231 And if that's what he would have said to them, then guess what he says to us now. 794 00:40:41,772 --> 00:40:43,340 So we have to answer the same question. 795 00:40:43,340 --> 00:40:46,343 Who do you say Jesus is? 796 00:40:46,710 --> 00:40:48,479 Is he the one you've looked for salvation? 797 00:40:48,479 --> 00:40:50,781 And then you've determined what else he gets to have say over? 798 00:40:50,781 --> 00:40:55,252 Or are you one who says he is Lord over all areas? 799 00:40:56,387 --> 00:40:59,390 And I live in submission to him? 800 00:41:01,659 --> 00:41:04,662 That's the question. 801 00:41:05,229 --> 00:41:06,096 And I leave it 802 00:41:06,096 --> 00:41:09,099 between you and the Holy Spirit to answer that question. 803 00:41:09,900 --> 00:41:12,102 And on those of us for whom conviction 804 00:41:12,102 --> 00:41:15,105 needs to fall, I pray it falls hard, 805 00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:18,576 and we repent 806 00:41:18,576 --> 00:41:21,579 of how we've let Jesus be part of our life 807 00:41:22,313 --> 00:41:25,149 and not Lord over at all. 808 00:41:25,149 --> 00:41:28,152 I pray that conviction falls hard 809 00:41:28,619 --> 00:41:31,622 not to break us, but so that we're made new 810 00:41:32,122 --> 00:41:34,258 and in repentance we say, father, I'm sorry. 811 00:41:34,258 --> 00:41:35,359 I give you my whole self. 812 00:41:35,359 --> 00:41:39,830 All my allegiance is yours above all things redirect. 813 00:41:39,830 --> 00:41:42,833 And all of my life it's all yours. 814 00:41:46,003 --> 00:41:48,973 I want you to pray with me. 815 00:41:50,341 --> 00:41:52,443 Father, thank you 816 00:41:52,443 --> 00:41:55,412 that your love is so profound. 817 00:41:55,913 --> 00:41:58,082 Thank you for your mercy and your grace. 818 00:41:58,082 --> 00:42:00,651 That is new for us every morning. 819 00:42:02,152 --> 00:42:05,155 Thank you for your patience. 820 00:42:06,023 --> 00:42:09,026 Thank you for your goodness. 821 00:42:09,260 --> 00:42:11,762 And thank you for your authority. 822 00:42:11,762 --> 00:42:14,732 I pray in this place that we would humble ourselves, 823 00:42:14,999 --> 00:42:17,601 that we would repent, 824 00:42:17,601 --> 00:42:20,237 and that we would accept the authority 825 00:42:20,237 --> 00:42:23,240 that you have over our lives. 826 00:42:24,074 --> 00:42:27,077 Friends, I want to invite you in this moment 827 00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:30,548 to accept the authority that Jesus has asserted. 828 00:42:30,915 --> 00:42:34,618 And in repentance say, father, I'm sorry I've made you a part of my life, 829 00:42:35,452 --> 00:42:39,023 but you have not received my full allegiance, and you deserve it. 830 00:42:40,057 --> 00:42:42,293 So I submit all of my life to you. You. 831 00:42:42,293 --> 00:42:43,227 I give you a thought. 832 00:42:43,227 --> 00:42:45,262 I accept the authority of you over my life. 833 00:42:45,262 --> 00:42:46,664 Every part of it. 834 00:42:46,664 --> 00:42:49,667 Every part of it. 835 00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:52,703 Father, I honor your son. 836 00:42:54,638 --> 00:42:56,173 Forgive me of my sin. 837 00:42:57,241 --> 00:43:00,678 Give me an incredible disdain for my sin. 838 00:43:02,012 --> 00:43:05,015 Give me an increased desire 839 00:43:05,182 --> 00:43:08,152 to rid myself of it. 840 00:43:08,152 --> 00:43:10,154 To choose a holy life, a righteous life. 841 00:43:10,154 --> 00:43:14,091 And father, do what I cannot do in me, which is to transform 842 00:43:14,091 --> 00:43:17,094 me and make me new. 843 00:43:18,062 --> 00:43:20,931 I give myself to you, and your name I pray. 844 00:43:20,931 --> 00:43:22,232 Amen. 845 00:43:22,232 --> 00:43:24,835 Friends, listen. 846 00:43:24,835 --> 00:43:26,770 I believe that some here 847 00:43:26,770 --> 00:43:30,107 are repenting and in repentance. 848 00:43:30,107 --> 00:43:32,343 I want to just encourage you. 849 00:43:32,343 --> 00:43:33,911 Continue pressing into that. 850 00:43:33,911 --> 00:43:36,914 Let the Holy Spirit do what he wants to do. 851 00:43:37,481 --> 00:43:40,384 And if any of you want to pray with somebody, 852 00:43:40,384 --> 00:43:43,787 just let us pray and agree with you in this way 853 00:43:44,555 --> 00:43:48,192 for your repentance, your renewal, your rejuvenation, for God's hand 854 00:43:48,192 --> 00:43:53,397 to be in there and on there, making things new that have been dead and old. 855 00:43:54,298 --> 00:43:55,499 Humble yourself. 856 00:43:56,533 --> 00:43:59,536 Humble yourself. 857 00:44:01,238 --> 00:44:01,839 Let's see.