The Jews Challenge Jesus about Paying Taxes
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Rapp Report Daily 487 The Jews in attempt to trap Jesus challenged him with a question about taxes. They asked him whether Jewish people should pay taxes to Rome. They thought this would be a trap because Jesus would not be able to answer. However, Jesus always has the right answer.   Enter the Christian...
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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. We see the first test in the way that the
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- Jewish leaders tried to discredit Jesus in Mark chapter 12 by asking the question about who to pay taxes to in verses 13 to 17.
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- Now the Pharisees and the Herodians get together to trap Jesus in his talk. It's kind of interesting because the
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- Pharisees and Herodians don't get along, but it does tell you something. People will get along when they have a common enemy.
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- Their common enemy was Jesus, because he said he was God, which he actually proved, and then he said that the things that the
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- Jews held to, God was going to take from the Jews and give it to Gentiles. They didn't like that, so they try to trap him with a question.
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- Who do we pay taxes to? Should we pay taxes? Now the Jewish people would say we shouldn't because the
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- Romans shouldn't be getting paid taxes when they are enslaving Jews.
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- They thought that Jesus would end up not having an answer that would either displease the
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- Jews or they could use it to get the Romans to come after Jesus for encouraging people not to pay taxes and causing insurrection.
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- Well Jesus answers in a way they didn't expect. He says to look at a coin. Who made the coin?
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- Rome? He said render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. In other words, the focus was to focus on that which is
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- God's. Give that to God. God doesn't care about these petty things that the Jewish leaders wanted.
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- He wanted obedience of the heart, and that's what they weren't giving, but they focused on the here and now, the coin, and Jesus said the heart was what
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- God's focus is, and they had no answer. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org