Our paragraph topic is: (Tribute to Caesar) Part 4.
Now that the foundation was laid the real question comes. They want to know the inner workings of his mind since they have laid the trap for him and set the parameters surrounding what they thought would be his response. They were wise in their own conceited way. They believed that they were knowledgeable enough to know more than this simple man called Jesus. They had met many others like him and brought about their downfall.
They did not know. They did not understand. They were blinded by their own arrogance and conceit in thinking that this man was the same as the others that they had met. This was the Messiah, the living Christ, Son of God the Father. But they did not know him. So they asked him: "Tell us, therefore, what dost thou think?"
They wanted to know his thoughts, how he processes the questions that they would ask of him, and how he would respond since he is a man of truth and teaches the way of God. They had set this trap with the knowledge of how they thought that he would respond but their knowledge was limited. Their knowledge was flawed, their knowledge was human. It was influenced by the desires of evil and wickedness that drove them to be blind to the truth that was before them, drove them to be deaf to the word that came to them, they could not hear, drove them to not believe in wisdom that had come down through the ages from the prophets that came before him. They were lost without hope. But they wanted to know his thought even though they could not comprehend them. They could only anger at how their plan would fail.
Yet Christ was loving. Christ was gentle. Christ was understanding in his knowledge of where they were and what they were doing. He offered a way out. He is merciful in that he never relents in his mercy. He never stops offering his mercy to us no matter what we do, no matter how often we turn away, no matter how often we let go of him, he is always there waiting for us to call out to him. He hears our voice. He knows our cry and he will come to our aid if we are true to him in our need.
That inner voice will tell us to give up, to not believe, to end it all. But I am here to say that he, Our Father, is real. Our God will come. Our God will provide. Our God does love you and will demonstrate his love for you everyday. Patience is the key. Belief is the way. Once you taste the fruit of his love you will know that there is nothing else on this earth that will satisfy you. You will walk your hand in his hand and no one or nothing can take that away. And now your journey begins.
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.
Now that the foundation was laid the real question comes. They want to know the inner workings of his mind since they have laid the trap for him and set the parameters surrounding what they thought would be his response. They were wise in their own conceited way. They believed that they were knowledgeable enough to know more than this simple man called Jesus. They had met many others like him and brought about their downfall.
They did not know. They did not understand. They were blinded by their own arrogance and conceit in thinking that this man was the same as the others that they had met. This was the Messiah, the living Christ, Son of God the Father. But they did not know him. So they asked him: "Tell us, therefore, what dost thou think?"
They wanted to know his thoughts, how he processes the questions that they would ask of him, and how he would respond since he is a man of truth and teaches the way of God. They had set this trap with the knowledge of how they thought that he would respond but their knowledge was limited. Their knowledge was flawed, their knowledge was human. It was influenced by the desires of evil and wickedness that drove them to be blind to the truth that was before them, drove them to be deaf to the word that came to them, they could not hear, drove them to not believe in wisdom that had come down through the ages from the prophets that came before him. They were lost without hope. But they wanted to know his thought even though they could not comprehend them. They could only anger at how their plan would fail.
Yet Christ was loving. Christ was gentle. Christ was understanding in his knowledge of where they were and what they were doing. He offered a way out. He is merciful in that he never relents in his mercy. He never stops offering his mercy to us no matter what we do, no matter how often we turn away, no matter how often we let go of him, he is always there waiting for us to call out to him. He hears our voice. He knows our cry and he will come to our aid if we are true to him in our need.
That inner voice will tell us to give up, to not believe, to end it all. But I am here to say that he, Our Father, is real. Our God will come. Our God will provide. Our God does love you and will demonstrate his love for you everyday. Patience is the key. Belief is the way. Once you taste the fruit of his love you will know that there is nothing else on this earth that will satisfy you. You will walk your hand in his hand and no one or nothing can take that away. And now your journey begins.
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.
