Day 308 (Matthew 22, Mark 12) - Year 6
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Hey, bible readers, i'm trolly couple and i'm your host for the bible recap.

Today we open with jesus, telling the parable of the wedding feast. This parable is really similar to the parable of the tenants, which we first read in Matthew twenty one and then read again today in mark twelve. Both involved the master in his relationship with his son.

Both involved sending multiple rounds of servants to get a response from the people who refuse and even kill them, and both involved the master bringing justice for those who refuse him and showing generosity to others. In the wedding, this parable, the master order his servants to go invite both good and bad, according to verse, in this would certainly have shocked the ferraris. They would consider themselves good, but they'd be a guest that the bad were invited as well.

The masters approach to the wedding feast of pins, the pride of the seller, gives everyone who was invited in both good and bad, gets a wedding garment. But jesus points out that those who don't belong, who don't have a wedding government will be cast out. This wedding government seems to be a parallel to the roles of Wrightson ness guy gives his children when he adopts us into his family.

Whether the drops are figurative or literal or some combo doesn't really matter. The point is that they mark s as god's righteous children. As the therapies and other leaders grow more desperate for reasons to accuse jesus, they send some people to trap him in a conversation about taxes.

You may recall that we already dealt with taxes once in Matthew seventeen, when they asked Peter if cheese pays the temple tax or night. When that happened, jesus saint Peter fishing and promised him that had catch a coin to use for the tax. He honors the temple tax ordained by god.

But will he respond differently? When is the tax imposed by the oppressive ruling government? Not by god. The jews hate giving their money to the room and oppressors IT burns, the very army that's ruling over them and even killing their family members.

But jesus says it's lawful to pay taxes to submit to the authors y's god has placed over you even if they are wicked and you're actually in the process of opposing them. It's possible to humbly on our god while keeping the law while we're belling against wig authorities. And jesus will continue to demonstrate this perfectly.

That same day, the sagesse also show up to try to trap him papers in a problem to him to seek his solution. But it's almost certainly a hypothetical situation. The sagesse don't believe in a resurrection of any kind.

They believe that once you die, that's IT, there's no after life. So they're presenting this question as if they did believe in that because they think that will prove what a ridiculous idea resurrection is. They say there's a woman whose married a lot of brothers and they have all died. So who is gone to be married to in the kingdom, by the way? They're referencing in old testament ordinance called leverage marriage, where if a man dies, his brother is responsible for marrying and taking care of his wife so that she's not left destitute.

If you weren't with us in the old text mate who we discussed, that you can check out the short article wavy link in the show notes after they present the scenario of to jesus, they're like, so jesus, who is that woman married to in the afterlife? gotcher? But you can't out smart god jesus rains on their parade by saying, well, look, doesn't no scripture or the power of god you guys here is the deal in the kingdom, people will be like Angels who don't get married.

And as far as this resurrection thing goes, remember how you are always said he's the god of Abraham, iz and jack. Those guys had all died by the time he said that to moses and since he's not the god of the dead and those guys must be alive but just not in dimension so you're attempted a trick question. Show your ignorance of god's word.

There are two other important things to note about what jesus says here. First, we're all the bride of Christ. So technically in the kingdom were all married to god.

Second, the Angels don't marry or procreate with each other, possibly because they're all male as far as we know. So that's impossible as they are talking a therapy. Scribes seems to be impressed without jesus speaks truth.

So he asked jesus, which commandment is the most important jesus? In capsule tes all six hundred and thirteen old estimate laws into just two, the vertical laws, or man to god commands. And the horizontal laws, or man to man commands.

Jesus isn't eliminating any of the laws. He's just summary them, describe as impressed. And she's just tells him you are not far from the kingdom of god, literally, because the king of the kingdom is speaking to him.

Jesus continues his q and a session by answering some people who are perplexed about the idea of how the massager can be a descendant of David, yet also somehow predate David. This section of mark twelve is one of the places where scripture gives a sayle's on what IT means, for jesus got the sun to be outside of time, to have always existed. He existed before David, who died a thousand years earlier, even though jesus was only about thirty three years old at the time.

Another important thing to note about this text is that jesus affirms that the sums were written by David via the holy spirit. That's huge. god.

The sun confirms that god, the spirit, is the author of scripture, even through human hands. Finally, jesus sets out some unconventional ideas for his day. But by now we've come to expect IT from him in the way he flips everything on its head.

First, he says to beware of those who do things for the express purpose of being seen and admired. Long robes and long prayers aren't wrong, but the fiery motives for these things was to be showy. Jesus knows their hearts when they do these things.

Then, after condemning those who tried to draw attention to themselves, jesus shines the spotlight on a woman who doesn't have anything at all to show off, but who gives generously from her heart. And this was my god shot for today. We've already seen that god knows the heart.

We already know that he values humility. But what if that just meant the rich in humble? What if he were like all you humble millionaires come and bring your time.

He doesn't just want the hearts of the rich and powerful and beautiful that maybe what the world wants. And for sure, god wants that to. He's always, after all, the hearts.

But while the world ignores those who have nothing to offer IT, god says people who have nothing to offer are my sweets. But because in this relationship, he's the only one who has anything to offer anyway. He already owns all we give back to him, money and faith and good deeds.

Those are all things he gives to us that we return to him. We're at square one IT all starts and inns with him and our hearts get to feel the blessing of being caught up in the cycle. How incredibly generous of him to invite us into that. He is where the joy is.

Okay, bible readers, its time for our weekly chicken. How are you feeling if you feel like this is all a lup to you? Let me encourage you with something we read today.

Today we saw again how god is after our hearts. It's not about a checklist of good gene to do, whether that's giving your money or just giving your time to being in god's word. There's nothing good we can do apart from god.

He's the one who initiates all his good works in us to begin with, just by being here today, reading the word and recapping that serves as evidence that he is at work in your heart and praise god because he says he's gonna finish what he starts. So i'll see back here tomorrow. I'm cheer you on.