1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,500 Hi everyone, and thank you for being with us for today's Beach Talk. 2 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:10,260 I love to help us understand every word of God that's in the Word of God so that we can 3 00:00:10,260 --> 00:00:13,180 be the best followers of Jesus that we can. 4 00:00:13,180 --> 00:00:14,420 And our objective is simple. 5 00:00:14,420 --> 00:00:20,340 It's disciples making disciples who plant churches that plant churches so the grassroots 6 00:00:20,340 --> 00:00:23,620 movement of Jesus can continue all over the world. 7 00:00:23,620 --> 00:00:29,880 Now in 2021 our vision is to multiply our churches from four churches in two countries 8 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,240 to eight churches in four countries. 9 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,040 Now this is a big vision. 10 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:37,040 We need you to pray with us that we can accomplish this. 11 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,800 We know there are many people in the world that need their water from the ocean for free. 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:41,800 We're working hard on that. 13 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:43,600 We also need a church. 14 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:49,280 So this Saturday, one of the churches that we started is called Waves Church with Steve 15 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:50,280 Martinez. 16 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,920 He's going to be speaking on San Clemente Pier. 17 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,180 We're going to take our Saturday night service at Sir Coffee. 18 00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:56,680 We're going to meet down there. 19 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:57,680 Really proud of Steve. 20 00:00:57,680 --> 00:00:59,320 He's 24 years old. 21 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:05,560 He's the youngest pastor in South County by 11 years, and he's the only one that isn't 22 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:06,600 white. 23 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:07,600 We're really proud of him. 24 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:08,840 We're really excited. 25 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:14,760 We want to invite you to join us this Saturday down at San Clemente Pier as Steve speaks 26 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:17,320 to hundreds of people down there. 27 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:18,840 We're really excited about that. 28 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:24,320 So be praying with us as we continue to follow God's call for us and our church and ocean 29 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:29,960 water and the opportunity that we find the doors opening up really all over the world 30 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:32,000 from our small grassroots church. 31 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,680 We're really excited about that. 32 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:35,480 So be praying with us. 33 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,520 We believe that God is doing great things in us and through us. 34 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:43,540 Now we have four trips planned for the rest of 2021. 35 00:01:43,540 --> 00:01:46,760 We have two trips in June to El Salvador. 36 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:53,240 We have one trip to Indonesia in September, and then we have a trip to Bangladesh in December. 37 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,240 All of those trips are coming along. 38 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:59,840 The water systems are being paid for, the groundwork for the churches to be planted. 39 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,240 We're working on those things. 40 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,320 We have people that we're going to be training to go live in these countries for six months 41 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:06,600 to help us get going. 42 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:12,840 So again, be praying about how God might use you in all of this. 43 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,960 Now today we're in Matthew chapter 22 and it says, and Jesus answered and spoke to them 44 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:22,440 again by parables and saying the kingdom of God is like a certain king who arranged a 45 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:28,000 marriage for his son and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding 46 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,800 and they were not willing to come. 47 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:36,000 Now Jesus continued to explain to the religious leaders and to the listening crowds the danger 48 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,480 of rejecting him. 49 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:44,200 Now a wedding was and often is today the most significant social event of a person's life. 50 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:50,440 Now the wedding of a prince would be a spectacular event and an invitation would be a prized 51 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:51,440 one. 52 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:56,200 So it seems strange that those who were invited by Jesus to a royal wedding didn't want to 53 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,200 go. 54 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:02,440 Now this illustrates the principle that there's no logical reason why people reject God's 55 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,240 good and perfect gifts to them. 56 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:06,280 Sometimes we do that in our lives. 57 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,960 Now we find ourselves in verse four. 58 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:13,760 Again he sent out other servants saying, tell those who were invited, see I have prepared 59 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:18,640 my dinner, my oxen and my fattened calf are killed and these things are ready, come to 60 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:19,640 the wedding. 61 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:23,160 But they made light of it and went their own ways. 62 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:27,180 One went to his farm and another to his business and the rest seized his servants. 63 00:03:27,180 --> 00:03:29,200 He treated them spitefully and then he killed them. 64 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,680 Now when the king heard about this, well he was furious, obviously, and he sent out his 65 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,080 armies, he destroyed those murderers and he burned up their city. 66 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,080 Now what's happening here? 67 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:42,800 Well the king persisted in making the invitation as attractive as possible. 68 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,880 He really wanted the invited guests to show up. 69 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,800 Now William Barclay says that when a great social event happened in the Jewish culture 70 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:55,000 of the day, people were invited but without a set time. 71 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,860 Some cultures are like that, they're lenient. 72 00:03:56,860 --> 00:04:00,520 Now on the appropriate day when the host was ready to receive the guests, they sent out 73 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:05,680 messengers to say that everything was ready and it was time to come to the feast. 74 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:12,280 Now we don't come to God's feast and prepare our own meal, he made it already for us and 75 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,400 we're supposed to go there to receive it and to eat it. 76 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:20,060 Now the reaction of those invited really didn't make any sense but it does give an accurate 77 00:04:20,060 --> 00:04:25,720 description of the reaction of many people to learning about Jesus or hearing the gospel. 78 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,000 Many made light of it. 79 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,600 They went back to their business, they went back to what they were doing before like many 80 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:32,600 of us. 81 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,320 So the king rightfully brought judgment on the offenders. 82 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:39,320 Not only did they reject his invitation but they also murdered his messengers. 83 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:40,840 They shot the messenger. 84 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:45,200 This was a prophecy of what would happen to Jerusalem, the city whose religious leaders 85 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,360 so strongly rejected Jesus and the gospel. 86 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:52,980 Now in verse 8, then he said to his servants, the wedding is ready but those who were invited 87 00:04:52,980 --> 00:04:59,000 were not worthy, therefore go into the highways and as many as you find, invite those to the 88 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,000 wedding. 89 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,040 So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found 90 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,840 both good and bad. 91 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:10,680 That's interesting and the wedding hall was filled with guests. 92 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:16,360 Now the king was determined that he would not have an empty banquet hall so an invitation 93 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,800 was given to all who would hear. 94 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:24,400 Now when the first and the second invitations were so dramatically rejected, the third invitation 95 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,400 was made more broadly. 96 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,240 Everybody was invited, got through a giant party. 97 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,540 Now in this sense we can say that the parable is about grace. 98 00:05:33,540 --> 00:05:39,080 Those who were invited and who came were utterly undeserving of the invitation but much less 99 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,360 the wedding feast itself. 100 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:46,560 Isn't God gracious to us always giving us what we don't deserve? 101 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:52,080 Now look at verse 11, but when the king came in to see the guests he saw a man there who 102 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:58,080 did not have on a wedding garment so he said to him, friend, how did you come in here without 103 00:05:58,080 --> 00:05:59,820 a wedding garment? 104 00:05:59,820 --> 00:06:01,240 And he was speechless. 105 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:07,280 Then the king said to his servants, bind him, hand and foot, take him away and cast him 106 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:08,760 into outer darkness. 107 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:15,360 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth for many are called but few are chosen. 108 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:20,560 Now the king carefully examined his guests to see if they all wore the garments that 109 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:25,680 were customarily offered to those attending a wedding feast. 110 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:30,960 Now the man who did as he pleased at the wedding feast instead of honoring the king and conforming 111 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:35,060 to his expectations, he suffered a terrible fate. 112 00:06:35,060 --> 00:06:42,240 Now this parable demonstrates that those indifferent to the gospel or Jesus or antagonistic towards 113 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:47,080 Jesus, those who go unchanged by Jesus's message share the same fate. 114 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,600 None of them enjoyed the king's feast. 115 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,300 Now verse 15, now when the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might entangle him 116 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:59,680 in this talk, they sent him to the disciples with the herodians saying, teacher, we know 117 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:05,020 that you are true and teach the way of God and truth, nor do you care about anyone for 118 00:07:05,020 --> 00:07:08,260 you do not regard the person of men. 119 00:07:08,260 --> 00:07:10,160 Tell us therefore, what do you think? 120 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,840 Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? 121 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,300 That's a great question. 122 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:17,640 Many of us wonder that today. 123 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:19,840 They plotted how they might entangle him in this talk. 124 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,820 Here the Pharisees and the herodians work together. 125 00:07:22,820 --> 00:07:27,140 This was evidence of their great hatred of Jesus because they were willing to put aside 126 00:07:27,140 --> 00:07:31,620 their own differences for the sake of uniting against Jesus. 127 00:07:31,620 --> 00:07:35,700 Now their plotting led them to approach Jesus with flattery. 128 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:39,840 They hoped he was insecure and foolish like they were. 129 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:44,040 You see, they were susceptible to flattery so they thought that it would work on Jesus. 130 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:45,360 F.A. Bruce points this out. 131 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:50,060 He says the compliment, besides being treacherous, it was insulting because it implied that Jesus 132 00:07:50,060 --> 00:07:54,940 was a simple person and vain enough to give in to flattery. 133 00:07:54,940 --> 00:07:59,080 Now they asked, is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not to Caesar? 134 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,660 Now Jesus' dilemma with the question was simple. 135 00:08:01,660 --> 00:08:06,240 If he had said that taxes should be paid, he could be accused of denying the sovereignty 136 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:10,820 of God over Israel, making himself unpopular with the Jewish people. 137 00:08:10,820 --> 00:08:15,360 If he said that taxes should not be paid, he made himself an enemy of Rome. 138 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:16,840 So what was his answer? 139 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:21,600 We find out here in verse 18, Jesus perceived their wickedness and said, why do you test 140 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,060 me, you hypocrites? 141 00:08:23,060 --> 00:08:24,700 Show me the tax money. 142 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:29,780 So they brought him a denarius and he said to them, whose image and inscription is on 143 00:08:29,780 --> 00:08:30,780 this? 144 00:08:30,780 --> 00:08:32,140 And they said to him, well, Caesar's. 145 00:08:32,140 --> 00:08:37,920 And he said to them, render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the 146 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:39,320 things that are God's. 147 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:45,560 Now when they heard these words, they marveled and left him and went their way. 148 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:46,560 What's happening here? 149 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:51,100 Well, again, with his wise answer, Jesus showed that he was in complete control. 150 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:55,640 He rebuked the wickedness and hypocrisy of the Pharisees and the Herodians. 151 00:08:55,640 --> 00:09:00,500 Now Jesus affirmed that the government makes legitimate requests of us. 152 00:09:00,500 --> 00:09:05,200 We are responsible to God in all things, but we must be obedient to government in matters 153 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,260 that are civil and national. 154 00:09:07,260 --> 00:09:13,800 Now Peter said it like this in first Peter 2 17, fear God and honor the King. 155 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:18,280 Now William Barclay states, every Christian has a double citizenship. 156 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:22,160 He's a citizen of the country in which he happens to live. 157 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,000 To it, he owes many things like taxes. 158 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,920 He owes the safety against lawless men, which only a settled government can give. 159 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,200 And he owes all of the public services. 160 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,380 Now everyone has the image of God impressed upon them. 161 00:09:35,380 --> 00:09:40,760 This means that we belong to God, not to Caesar or even to ourselves. 162 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:45,880 So we have a national citizenship, but we have a heavenly citizenship and that takes 163 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:47,560 precedent. 164 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:51,320 Now they would never had to give, render anything to Caesar in New Testament times. 165 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:55,480 They would never have to endure the occupying oppression of the Roman Empire if they hadn't 166 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,880 been obedient to the covenant with their God. 167 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:04,080 Now look at verse 23, the same day the Sadducees who say, well, there's no resurrection came 168 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:10,640 to him and asked him saying, teacher, Moses said that if this man having no children, 169 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,480 his brother should marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. 170 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:18,720 Now there were with the seven brothers, the first died that he had married and married 171 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:19,720 to his offspring. 172 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:20,720 He left his wife to his brother. 173 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:25,640 Likewise, the second also in the third, even to the seventh. 174 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:30,120 Most of all, the women died also therefore in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven 175 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,160 will she be for they all had her. 176 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:37,720 Now William Barclay again points out that the Sadducees were not many in number, but 177 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:42,740 they were the wealthy, the aristocratic and the governing class. 178 00:10:42,740 --> 00:10:45,320 So many of them had multiple marriages. 179 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:46,680 This is an interesting question. 180 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:50,880 Now the Sadducees asked Jesus a hypothetical and a ridiculous question, hoping to show 181 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:55,540 that the idea of resurrection is nonsense based on, based in Deuteronomy. 182 00:10:55,540 --> 00:11:00,920 If a married man dies childless in his brother's responsibility to take care of his widow and 183 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,240 then count the child as his own. 184 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:08,280 Now the Pharisees imagine circumstances along these lines and raise the questions. 185 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,240 Therefore in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? 186 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,040 Now again, they were trying to trap him. 187 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:17,040 Now the practice of brother-in-law marrying the widow of his brother is known as a lever 188 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:18,040 at marriage. 189 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,720 Now the term comes from the Latin levier, meaning brother-in-law. 190 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:27,560 This is the specific idea in question, Mary is not the normal Greek word, but a technical 191 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:30,920 term for the performance of the lever at duty. 192 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,360 In other words, if your brother's wife passes away, you were to care for her. 193 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,800 Now Jesus answered in verse 29 and said to them, you are mistaken not knowing the scriptures 194 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:40,640 nor the power of God. 195 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:45,360 Now the Pharisees connected their thoughts to a biblical passage, but they did not think 196 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,340 through the passage correctly. 197 00:11:47,340 --> 00:11:53,800 These highly trained men were mistaken in their basic understanding of biblical truth. 198 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,120 Their mistake was rooted in two causes. 199 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,720 First they did not know the scriptures, though they thought they did. 200 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:04,680 Second they did not know the power of God being basically anti-supernatural. 201 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:09,480 This was true of them, even though their religion was their career and they were highly trained. 202 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:10,720 So let's break this down. 203 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:16,140 If it's possible for a person to have so much Bible knowledge, yet not fundamentally know 204 00:12:16,140 --> 00:12:22,480 the Bible, Paul later told Timothy to hold fast to the pattern of sound words, which 205 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:23,480 you've heard from me. 206 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,780 There's a difference between a lot of words and sound words. 207 00:12:27,780 --> 00:12:30,340 We're supposed to follow sound words. 208 00:12:30,340 --> 00:12:33,080 We're supposed to detect with a discerning heart. 209 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:37,760 It also suggests that we can lose this pattern if we're not careful. 210 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:42,320 Now the Sadducees had the Bible knowledge, but they did not hold fast the pattern of 211 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:43,900 the sound words. 212 00:12:43,900 --> 00:12:46,080 Many today are like them in this respect. 213 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:52,040 Now the Sadducees denied supernatural truths such as the existence of angels or a physical 214 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:53,600 resurrection of Jesus. 215 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:58,340 They had a fundamental doubt in the power of God to do beyond what they could measure 216 00:12:58,340 --> 00:13:01,120 or understand in the material world. 217 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,000 A lot of people are like this today. 218 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,680 God is bigger than the material world. 219 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:05,920 Now look at verse 30. 220 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:10,040 From the resurrection, neither married nor given in marriage, but are like angels of 221 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:11,360 God in heaven. 222 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:15,280 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by 223 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:19,840 God saying, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 224 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,760 Now God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. 225 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:28,720 And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at his teaching. 226 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:29,760 Now what's happening here? 227 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:34,320 Well first, Jesus reminded them that life and the resurrection is quite different from 228 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:35,520 this life. 229 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:41,040 It does not merely continue this world and its arrangements, but it is a life of completely 230 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:42,040 different order. 231 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:48,320 Now the passage has made many wonder if marriage relationships will exist in heaven, or if 232 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:52,800 those of husband and wife on earth will have no special relationship in heaven. 233 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:57,720 Now we're not told enough about life and the world beyond to answer that in great detail, 234 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,160 but we can understand a few principles. 235 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:06,200 Now family relationships will still be known in life and the world beyond. 236 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:11,120 The rich man Jesus described in the afterlife was aware of his family relationships in Luke 237 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,440 16, so that's a beautiful thing. 238 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:18,560 Now the glory of heaven will be a relationship and a connection with God that surpasses anything 239 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:24,640 else, including our present family relationships, according to Revelation 21. 240 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:29,580 Now it seems that life and the resurrection that Jesus spoke of here does not include 241 00:14:29,580 --> 00:14:32,700 some of the pleasures of life we know on earth. 242 00:14:32,700 --> 00:14:39,500 It is only because the enjoyments and satisfactions of heaven surpass what we can know on earth. 243 00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:45,360 We can't be completely certain what life in glory beyond this life will be, but we can 244 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:51,840 know with certainty that no one will be able to contain a double thrust since the Sadducees 245 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:53,660 denied their existence. 246 00:14:53,660 --> 00:14:59,360 Now Jesus demonstrated the reality of the resurrection using only the Torah, the five 247 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,640 books of Moses, which were the only books the Sadducees accepted as authoritative. 248 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:08,720 Now if Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did not live on in resurrection, they would say that he 249 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,480 was the God of Abraham instead of saying, I am the God of Abraham. 250 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:19,320 Now verse 34, but when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered 251 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:20,320 together. 252 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:25,240 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question testing him and saying, teacher, which is 253 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,080 the great commandment in the law? 254 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:33,700 Matthew gives us the fascinating scene of the opponents of Jesus working hard to embarrass 255 00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:36,480 him unsuccessfully. 256 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:42,240 Now the question was also planned to trap Jesus in asking Jesus to choose one great 257 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:43,240 commandment. 258 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:47,400 They'd hoped to make Jesus show neglect for another area of the law. 259 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:54,120 Now the rabbis had 613 commandments of the law and distinguished them into greater and 260 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:55,120 lesser. 261 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:59,400 These later though, they thought they might be neglected or violated with little or no 262 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:00,400 guilt. 263 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,800 Now verse 37, Jesus said to them, you shall love the Lord God with all your heart, with 264 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,880 all your soul, and with all your mind. 265 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:12,320 Now this is the first and the greatest command and the second is like it, you shall love 266 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,540 your neighbor as yourself. 267 00:16:14,540 --> 00:16:20,120 Now on these two commandments, hang all the law and the prophets. 268 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:26,340 Now perfectly understanding the essence of the law, Jesus had no difficulty answering 269 00:16:26,340 --> 00:16:29,480 instead of promoting one command over another. 270 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:34,760 Jesus defined the law and its core principles, love the Lord God with everything and love 271 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:36,680 your neighbor as yourself. 272 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:37,720 Brilliant. 273 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:43,120 It is clear enough what it means to love the Lord God with all we are though it is impossible 274 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:44,120 to do it perfectly. 275 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,760 But there's been a lot of confusion about what it means for us to love our neighbors 276 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:49,760 as ourselves. 277 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:54,820 Now this doesn't mean that we must love ourselves before we can love anyone else. 278 00:16:54,820 --> 00:16:59,920 It means that in the same way we take care of ourselves and we're concerned for our own 279 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:05,960 interests, we should care and have concern for the interests of other people. 280 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:11,960 Now God's moral expectation of man can be briefly and powerfully said in these two sentences. 281 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:17,200 If the life of God is real in our life, it will show by the presence of this love for 282 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:21,640 God and for other people. 283 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:26,600 So now look at verse 41, we'll wrap up this chapter, but while the Pharisees were gathered 284 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,640 together Jesus asked them saying, what do you think about Christ? 285 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:31,800 Whose son is he? 286 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:38,360 Now before they could think of another question to test him, Jesus asked them a question. 287 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:41,760 He said, what do you think about the Christ? 288 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,540 Whose son is he? 289 00:17:43,540 --> 00:17:45,480 They said to him, the son of David. 290 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:47,080 Now this is interesting. 291 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:52,380 Now this is one of the great Old Testament titles of the Messiah, founded on the covenant 292 00:17:52,380 --> 00:17:56,040 that God made with King David in second Samuel. 293 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:01,840 It identifies the Christ as the chosen descendant of King David's royal line. 294 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:06,280 So God had this plan and this is part of his work. 295 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:12,240 Now it is possible that the Pharisees did not know or had forgotten that Jesus was in 296 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:18,360 the line of David or that he was even born in Bethlehem, the city of David. 297 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:24,640 Now look at verse 43, he said to them, how then does David in the spirit call him Lord 298 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:33,120 saying, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand till I make your enemies a footstool. 299 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:35,160 Well now what's happening here? 300 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,920 Well if David then calls him Lord, how is he then his son? 301 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:44,640 Now the Pharisees were partially right in saying that the Messiah is the son of David, 302 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:48,800 but they didn't have a complete understanding of who the Messiah is. 303 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:54,320 He is not only David's son, a reference to his humanity, but he is also David's Lord, 304 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:58,040 a reference to the deity of Jesus, the Messiah. 305 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:03,720 Now D.A. Carson points out that the force of Jesus's argument depends on his use of 306 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,260 Psalm 110. 307 00:19:05,260 --> 00:19:10,680 Now the most frequently quoted Old Testament chapter in the New Testament is Psalms 110. 308 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:16,360 Jesus brilliantly gives a simple explanation of the scriptures that put the Pharisees on 309 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:17,360 the defensive. 310 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:21,560 They did not want to admit that the Messiah was the Lord, but Jesus showed them that this 311 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,800 was true from the scriptures. 312 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:29,360 Now look at verse 46, and no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day on 313 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:33,200 did anyone dare question him anymore. 314 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,520 Jesus had whooped them bad. 315 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,400 Full submission, game over. 316 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,360 Now their silence was a tribute. 317 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:48,280 The teacher who never attended the right schools confounds the greatest theologians that had 318 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:50,360 ever walked the planet. 319 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:53,680 Now logic and rhetoric proved useless in attacking Jesus. 320 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:59,920 Now his enemies would use treachery and violence as their next weapons against him, as we'll 321 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:02,120 see in the next few chapters of Matthew. 322 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:07,240 Now this concludes our time in today's speech, talk looking at Matthew chapter 22. 323 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:11,080 I want you to be thinking about now what did God say to me today? 324 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:12,680 And then we want to pray to God about that. 325 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,840 Prayer is just talking to God. 326 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,520 Oftentimes we need to hit reset in our life, or we need to stop some things, or we need 327 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:23,160 to start some new positive habits like reading our Bible, praying, connecting with other 328 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:24,240 believers. 329 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,780 Would you pray with me now and say, God, would you just help me to change my life? 330 00:20:27,780 --> 00:20:30,240 Would you help me to hit that reset button? 331 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:31,760 Give me a fresh start? 332 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,200 Help me to stop the things I know I need to stop, help me to start the things that I know 333 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:36,720 I need to start. 334 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,360 And I need your help to help me do it. 335 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:45,600 And I humbly ask for your help now, in Jesus' name, amen. 336 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,920 Now the Bible teaches us that we give as part of our worship. 337 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,380 Now I really want you to pray about this. 338 00:20:51,380 --> 00:20:53,760 We have so many wonderful things happen to ocean water. 339 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:55,400 We're helping so many people. 340 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,720 We're helping people get their water out of the ocean. 341 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:59,360 We're planting churches. 342 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:06,760 People are as far away from MIT are learning about God and Jesus through our church. 343 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,720 Very, very exciting. 344 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,200 And I'd like you to give as part of your worship. 345 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:16,480 This helps us provide more water, more water systems in more places to plant more churches. 346 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,400 It's a very, very exciting time. 347 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,200 So I hope you'll consider giving as part of your worship today. 348 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,000 And as always, I hope that you have a beautiful week. 349 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,280 If you want to give, you can go to OceanWater.com and you'll find a tab there. 350 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,120 Just be able to do that. 351 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:59,440 And as always, thank you so much for watching today and have a beautiful day.