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Jesus in Jerusalem is much sought out first by the Pharisees and then the Sadducees, both with single purpose.
"The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him",(v.23)
The Spirit uses this expression 'the same day' in the manner Evangelist Matthew presented the transfiguration of Jesus with 'And after six days" which connects with the everlasting covenant stated in Ge.1. (17:1). In this context what the Spirit is emphasizing is this: the two worlds of the Spirit and of the body are like two sides of the same coin. Hypocrisy of the Pharisees wasin their two worlds being totally out of sync. They were as Jesus said, "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess."(23:25-27). Even in our times we meet their ilk, leaders but blind guides just the same and judgment must begin with the house of God.Their culture wars leave from outside "whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness."
Jesus answered the Pharisees with a cryptic answer and it was left for them to sort it out. "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's."
The same day gives Caesar's of this world to give an account as the servants in the Parable of Jesus had to give account of their stewardship.(25:14-29)
Martin Luther unwittingly gave the Nazi regime a handle to beat the German Protestant church some five centuries later. Citing Ro.13:1-2 he supported powers-that-be during the Peasant's revolt. Had he followed the intent of the Spirit and the saying of Jesus he would have realized his folly. The world of the Spirit where the covenant between the Father and the Son was sovereign authority, would have stopped him meddling in a quarrel that belonged to things which are Caesar's.
Jesus in Jerusalem is much sought out first by the Pharisees and then the Sadducees, both with single purpose.
"The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him",(v.23)
The Spirit uses this expression 'the same day' in the manner Evangelist Matthew presented the transfiguration of Jesus with 'And after six days" which connects with the everlasting covenant stated in Ge.1. (17:1). In this context what the Spirit is emphasizing is this: the two worlds of the Spirit and of the body are like two sides of the same coin. Hypocrisy of the Pharisees wasin their two worlds being totally out of sync. They were as Jesus said, "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess."(23:25-27). Even in our times we meet their ilk, leaders but blind guides just the same and judgment must begin with the house of God.Their culture wars leave from outside "whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness."
Jesus answered the Pharisees with a cryptic answer and it was left for them to sort it out. "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's."
The same day gives Caesar's of this world to give an account as the servants in the Parable of Jesus had to give account of their stewardship.(25:14-29)
Martin Luther unwittingly gave the Nazi regime a handle to beat the German Protestant church some five centuries later. Citing Ro.13:1-2 he supported powers-that-be during the Peasant's revolt. Had he followed the intent of the Spirit and the saying of Jesus he would have realized his folly. The world of the Spirit where the covenant between the Father and the Son was sovereign authority, would have stopped him meddling in a quarrel that belonged to things which are Caesar's.
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