Our paragraph topic is: (Tribute to Caesar) Part 1.
Christ is the Son of the Living God who came down from heaven to walk among the people. He came to teach and to preach and to give an example of how to live according to the commandments of God. He demonstrated his love and his passion for the people, his mercy and his willingness to forgive the sins of those who sought forgiveness.
But then there were those who were against him, those who sought to tear him down, to destroy him in the eyes of the people. They wanted to show him as being a fraud and not the genuine article as the real Son of the Father. They were the ones who were afraid, who feared that he would show the people who they really were. They were afraid of being fake and not real on the inside as they appeared to be. Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might trap him in his talk.
Christ is the Son of the Living God who came down from heaven to walk among the people. He came to teach and to preach and to give an example of how to live according to the commandments of God. He demonstrated his love and his passion for the people, his mercy and his willingness to forgive the sins of those who sought forgiveness.
But then there were those who were against him, those who sought to tear him down, to destroy him in the eyes of the people. They wanted to show him as being a fraud and not the genuine article as the real Son of the Father. They were the ones who were afraid, who feared that he would show the people who they really were. They were afraid of being fake and not real on the inside as they appeared to be. Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might trap him in his talk.
They took counsel among themselves and came up with a scheme as to how they thought that they might catch him in a trap. They believed that they could trick him. They believed that they could trap him. They believed that they could plan a way to bring about his fall, but they did not think that they were dealing with the Son of God who knew their plans before they did. He saw through them. He understood them. He knew where they came from because he knew the influence from which they came.
They could not trap him. They could not trick him. They could not harm him in any way. He came that he might surrender himself for the sins of mankind. God wanted all men and women, boys and girls to be free of sin, so he gave Adam the choice to decide to obey his commandments. But Adam was human and Adam came up against the serpent who tricked Eve and brought sin into the world for all mankind.
Now we each and everyone of us have to make that decision and live by it for the rest of our days. For Christ came and gave us a new choice, a new life, a new beginning. He came and freely gave of himself to be our sacrifice, our propitiation, that we may have life and have it more abundantly. The choice is now ours, individually to make. The choice is now ours to individually to decide. The choice is now ours to individually live day in and day out that we may know the truth of who we are in Christ. He gave us life and it is life that is within us if we choose it.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
