1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine and fifty five. Today, 2 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the Gospel 3 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: of Luke. As we start chapter twenty. Welcome to the 4 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. Chapter twenty. 5 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: Here we're in the middle of Holy Week, that week 6 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: in between Palm Sunday and Good Friday, and we'll continue 7 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: that right after a word from this sponsor. Verse one, 8 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: the authority of Jesus questioned One day, as Jesus was 9 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the 10 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 1: good News, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, 11 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,279 Speaker 1: together with the elders, came up to him. Tell us 12 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: by what authority you are doing these things? They said, 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: who gave you this authority? He replied, I will also 14 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: ask you a question. Tell me John's back. Was it 15 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: from heaven or of human origin? They discussed it among 16 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: themselves and said, if we say from heaven, he will 17 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: ask why didn't you believe him? But if we say 18 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: of human origin, all the people will stone us, because 19 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: they are persuaded that John was a prophet. So they answered, 20 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,559 Speaker 1: we don't know where it was from. Jesus said, neither 21 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: will I tell you by what authority I am doing 22 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: these things. So Jesus has a way of turning things 23 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: around on people a couple different famous times, and this 24 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,479 Speaker 1: is one of those where he turns their question into 25 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: a question that they cannot answer. And it's not that 26 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: they don't have an answer for it, it's they're very 27 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 1: careful what they say because of how people will reply. 28 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: I don't know if you know, but this it strikes 29 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: me as their politicians, if you will, there are people 30 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: with power who are trying to hold onto power, and 31 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: so they're saying they don't want to say something that's 32 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: not popular, even if it's what they believe is true, 33 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: because it would be a threat to themselves, even if 34 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: the people wouldn't actually stone them. They don't want to 35 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: lose face with the people. And that is a difficult 36 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: position to be in. And I don't know if you 37 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: have found yourself in that situation where the truth is here, 38 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: but you say something else. I remember being at work 39 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: one time and we went off and we did a 40 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: two day seminar, a two day seminar and how we 41 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: might work better as a team at the particular company. 42 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: I was at and I won't rat out of the 43 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: particular company, it's one you've heard of. And the person 44 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 1: who was leading the seminar I thought had some good 45 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: things to say in terms of how we should behave 46 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: towards one another and how we could be a better 47 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: team of managers at this company. And then the end 48 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: of the two days, we went around the table. It 49 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: was a fairly large table, and the question was, how 50 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: is this going to change things when we get back, 51 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 1: And as one person after another said, well, we're going 52 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: to go back and we're going to change the whole company. 53 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: And we were just a division, so it wasn't even 54 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: that we had interactions with everybody in the company. And 55 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: as it got closer and closer to me, I thought, well, 56 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: that is not what I think is true. Came my turn. 57 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,399 Speaker 1: I said, well, we haven't shown that we can do 58 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,959 Speaker 1: what we have talked about in this particular webinar, so 59 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: I think it might be a little premature to say 60 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: that we're going to change the whole company. I didn't 61 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: think that that was particularly controversial. It was certainly what 62 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: I thought was true, but I was surprised the number 63 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: of people who came up to me afterwards and said, 64 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: I can't believe you had the guts to say, basically, 65 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: to not go along with the party line. And I 66 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: wonder how many times we do that, And I see 67 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: the chief priests and the elders doing that here, and 68 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: I don't think it actually comes from a position of strength. 69 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: Continuing on the parable of the tenants, he went on 70 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: to tell people this parable a band planet a vineyard, 71 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: rented it to some farmers and went away for a 72 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: long time. At harvest time, he sent a servant to 73 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:18,919 Speaker 1: the tenants so they would give him some of the 74 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 1: fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and 75 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: sent him away empty handed. He sent another servant, but 76 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: that one they also beat and treated shamefully and sent 77 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: away empty handed. He sent a third and they wounded 78 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: him and threw him out. Then the owner of the 79 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: vineyard said, what shall I do. I will send my son, 80 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: whom I love. Perhaps they will respect him. But when 81 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,359 Speaker 1: the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. This 82 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: is the heir. They said, let's kill him and the 83 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: inheritance will be ours. So they threw him out of 84 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner 85 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: of the vineyard do to them, He will come and 86 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. When 87 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: the people heard this, they said, God forbid. Jesus looked 88 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: directly at them and asked, then, what is the meaning 89 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: of that which is written? The stone that the builders 90 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: rejected has become the cornerstone. Everyone who falls on that 91 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: stone will be broken to pieces. Anyone on whom it 92 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 1: falls will be crushed. The teachers of the law and 93 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, 94 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: because they knew he had spoken this parable against them, 95 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: But they were afraid of the people. So again we 96 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: have the teachers of the law who are constrained by 97 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: their fear. Here. But Jesus is talking about real estate. 98 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: He's talking about a vineyard that somebody rents out, and 99 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: he rents it out to some bad people who are 100 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 1: beating up the people. He sends to collect the rent, 101 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: right since one sends another sense a third and they're 102 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: not just treating them badly, not just being rude, but 103 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: they're beating them up and injuring them, And so he 104 00:05:54,839 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: sends his son, and these evil tenants actually kill the son, 105 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: thinking that they will inherit the vineyard, And of course 106 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: they won't. They're going to die, right the owner of 107 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 1: the vineyard, he will come and he will have those 108 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: tenants killed. Now, what he is talking about is Jerusalem 109 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: and Judah and the prophets and himself. And I don't 110 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:26,799 Speaker 1: know how much the teachers of the law understand the specifics, 111 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,239 Speaker 1: but they know that he's talking about them. The stone 112 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 1: the builders rejected will become a cornerstone. The one who 113 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: they are rejecting, who is him, will become a cornerstone. 114 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: But remember this is the same Jesus who in the 115 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: last chapter was looking on Jerusalem and was mourning for it, 116 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: knowing that it was going to be destroyed. Jerusalem, how 117 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 1: you have killed the prophets. You've killed the prophets that 118 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: were sent to you to get you to repent, and 119 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: now you're even going to kill the heir. And this 120 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: is almost a summary of this Holy Week, of all 121 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: that's going to happen. Here is in this story here 122 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: both the destruction of Jerusalem after Jesus' death, but also 123 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: this rejection of the one whom God has said. And 124 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: then one last story that we will do today, and 125 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: that is paying taxes to Caesar, keeping a close watch 126 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: on him. They sent spies who pretended to be sincere. 127 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said so 128 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: they might hand him over to the power and authority 129 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: of the governor. So the spies questioned him, teacher, we 130 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: know that you speak and teach what is right, and 131 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: that you do not show partiality, but teach the way 132 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right 133 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: to pay taxes to Caesar or not? He saw through 134 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: their duplicity and said, to them, show me a denarius 135 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: whose image and inscription are on it Caesar's, they replied. 136 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: He said to them, then give back to Caesar what 137 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: is Caesar's and to God what is God's. They were 138 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: unable to trap him in what he had said. They're 139 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: in public, and astonished by his answer, they became silent. 140 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,119 Speaker 1: There's numerous times that they're trying to do the same 141 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: thing to Jesus that he has done to them, in 142 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: the sense that they want Jesus to either get in 143 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: trouble with the people or in trouble with the law. 144 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: They want him to say something that will be revolutionary, 145 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: as the people suspect he is, so that they can 146 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: have him arrested. And so the natural thing here is 147 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: will ask them is it right to pay taxes to 148 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:46,439 Speaker 1: this occupying country Rome? Because clearly if he says yes, 149 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: the people will hate him and then we can get him. 150 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: Or if he says no, then the Romans will hate 151 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: him and the Romans will get him theirselves. So this 152 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: is something he can't possibly get out of, is what 153 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: they're thinking. And yet he answered with wisdom, give to 154 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: Caesar what is Caesar? And to God what is God's 155 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: and they can't trap. There's still going to be some 156 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: more questions as we continue on with this chapter and 157 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: in this week before we get to Good Friday, but 158 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: we're going to end right there and continue with the 159 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: rest next week. So with that we'll end this episode 160 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: of the Bible Study Podcast. If you have any questions, 161 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 1: send an email to Chris two exit gmail dot com, 162 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: or better yet, leave a comment on this episode at 163 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: the Bible Study Podcast dot com. And is always thanks 164 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: so much for listening. 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