"Question, Jesus: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!" (Mk 11:27-33)
3 Wrong Ways to Respond to the Authority of Jesus:
- Just QUESTION it. (Mk 11:28)
- Just don't DEAL with it. (Mk 11:31-33)
- Just PRETEND to accept it. (Mk 11:31)
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And today we're going to continue talking about Jesus is the Lord.
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Mark 11.
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We're going to be picking up in verse 27.
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The title of this message is "Authority." Who does He think He is?
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You know that little part in your brain that sort of acts like a filter?
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Some of you are like, "No, already." Most people have this filter in their brain that when they think something, they don't just immediately blurt it out of their mouth.
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Do you know what I'm talking about?
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Some of you, have you heard of this thing?
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Well, as many of you know, we have two sons, and one doesn't talk, and one doesn't stop talking.
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That's Cade.
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eight-year-old and Cade was born without one of those filters.
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Frustrating at times but often hilarious Cade will just say whatever's on his mind. He doesn't even hesitate. He just if it comes to his mind it's out of his mouth even before the thought is done forming it's out of his mouth. And we've had many interesting conversations in the Miller home. One of my favorites. One time Erin went out, she had to pick up some things for the family, had to do the old Walmart run, right? And he just unprovoked, just went up and cracked Owen one right across the head, just BAM!
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What was that all about? He had no explanation, and I put a chair in the middle of the dining room, and You just sit there.
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You're taking a time out.
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He screamed.
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And screamed.
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And screamed.
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And screamed.
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(Screaming)
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And you just got to ignore him when he does that.
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You just have to ignore him.
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And the more you ignore him, the louder he screams.
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(Screaming)
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Well, this went on for like an hour.
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And he was just starting to calm down.
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Grandma knows what we're talking about.
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He was just starting to calm down when he heard Aaron was coming home.
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So those of you that have children, you know what that meant, right?
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Time to ramp it up for mom, right?
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So Aaron comes in the door and he's just coming out and, "Ahh!
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Ahh!" He was expecting sympathy from mom, right?
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So Aaron walks into the house, and this was priceless.
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Aaron walks in, Cade's screaming, and Aaron just walks up smiling, and she goes, "Are we having a screaming party?
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I want to scream!"
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(screaming)
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And Aaron starts screaming beside Cade.
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So Aaron's like, "Ahh!" And Cade's like, "Ahh!" And Aaron's like, "Ahh!" And Cade's like, "Ahh!" And all of a sudden, Cade stops and he looks at Aaron, and she's screaming and she stops, and Cade looks at Aaron.
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He looks at me.
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And he looks at Aaron.
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And he looks back at me.
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He furrows his little brow and he says, "You're both fired." I wish I could say that was an isolated incident.
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I've lost my job as his dad probably 30-some times in the last two years.
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Interestingly, when he can't reach the cereal, I get hired back.
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I have been fired.
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I have been grounded.
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He has not only threatened to spank me, in fits of rage, He has spanked me.
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And my response in all of these things is excuse me, who do you think you are?
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39, 8, who do you think you are?
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And you're going to see in our passage going to look at today, this is exactly what the people went after Jesus with.
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Who do you think you are? And if you think it's an audacious thing for an eight-year-old to spank his 39 year old dad, I'll tell you what's audacious.
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It's Just this traveling preacher guy walking into a temple and flipping all the tables over and not permitting people to walk through.
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That was audacious.
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Okay, so we get to Mark chapter 11 here.
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This is actually Wednesday in our calendar.
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The triumphal entry happened on Monday.
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I know you're like, "Well, I thought it was Palm Sunday." No, it actually happened on Monday.
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Tuesday was when the temple was trashed.
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We talked about that.
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We saw that Jesus would go into Jerusalem during the day and He would stay with friends at Bethany during the evenings.
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So in your outline, question Jesus, "Who do you think you are?" To picking up where we left off last week, look at verse 27.
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It says, "And they came again to Jerusalem." Okay, so like overnight at Bethany, back to Jerusalem, Jesus and the disciples.
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And it says, "And as He was walking in the temple," everybody say, "Uh -oh." Like seriously, right?
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What do you think people thought when Jesus walked into the temple on Wednesday?
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What do you think they thought?
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Tuesday he was in the temple, and he flipped all the tables over, drove everybody out, denounced their hypocritical money-grabbing scheme - turning God's temple into a marketplace, completely annihilated the place - all these tables and booze and the money changers and the people swapping out animals.
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He completely trashed the courts.
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And then the next day he says, "Jesus is walking in the temple." Do you think people were a little on edge when they saw Jesus walking in?
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Yeah, I imagine so.
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It says, "And as He was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to Him." The chief priests, the scribes, and the elders - those three groups would have made up the Sanhedrin.
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The Jewish ruling council.
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Now this is important.
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And then in verse 27, it says, "They came to him." And that might not seem like anything in the English, but in the Greek, it actually means something aggressive.
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So I'm going to show you what I mean.
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Jack and Jesse Ort, would you guys come up?
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I need you to help me.
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Come on, you guys can help.
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Everybody give Jack and Jesse a hand.
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Come on.
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Okay, so we are going to be the elders and the chief priests and the scribes - us three, okay?
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And Mike Gates, would you stand up?
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You're going to be Jesus.
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But Mike, for now, this is a non-speaking role, okay?
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I don't want you shooting from the hip trying to lay down some knowledge or anything.
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This is an illustration.
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Don't tell Nancy that you're Jesus.
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Okay, so it says that they came to Him.
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Now, like I said, it's aggressive.
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So it wasn't like this.
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It wasn't like the chief priests The elders and the scribes were like, they came to Jesus like, "Oh, there He is! Hey! Hi, Jesus!" They came to Him aggressively.
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So that's what we're going to do.
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We're going to act this out.
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So they're kind of huddled up here.
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Oh, there's Jesus.
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And we're going to walk as if they walked aggressively.
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So we're going to walk towards Mr. Gates aggressively.
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We're going to show everybody what that would have looked like.
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You ready?
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this? Okay, let's go.
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Okay, so it says they came to him meaning aggressively. Let's go.
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Come on.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, back up, back up, back up.
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We're gonna take another run at that. It looks like we were going towards Jesus for a dance-off. Aggressively. You ready to try this again? Okay, so Jesus is in the temple and we are furious with Him, and we want Him to see from our body language and walking towards Him, that we're not going to give Him a cinnamon roll. We are coming to have words. Okay? Alright, let's do this. Come on. Alright, how was that everybody? Was that good? Alright, you guys can have a seat. Thank you.
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Thank you guys so much. I knew I could count on you. So has Aggressively.
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For three years.
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For three years, these people were everywhere - these chief priests, these scribes, these elders - never seeking the truth.
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All they ever wanted was to discredit Jesus.
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That's all they wanted.
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Discredit Jesus.
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Let's make Him look foolish.
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Let's lessen His esteem in the eyes of others.
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from verse 28.
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It says, "And they said to Him, 'By what authority are You doing these things?
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Or who gave You this authority to do them?'" Authority - the Greek word for authority just means the freedom to act.
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That's all that means.
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It means the freedom to act.
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Like Jesus, you walk into the temple and you flip over all the tables.
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Who gave You permission to do that?
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He gave you the authority.
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Why do you think for a second that you have the freedom to act that way?
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And obviously, it says, by what authority are you doing these things?
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These things obviously refers to flipping over the tables, driving the people out.
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Did you know that Jesus' ministry actually started the same way?
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Did you know that?
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reference down. John chapter 2 and verse 18. When Jesus started His ministry, one of the first things He did was clean the temple like He did in Mark chapter 11.
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And interestingly, in John 2.18, the Jews asked Jesus a similar question. They said, "What sign do you show us for doing these things?" In other words, who do you think Who do you think you are?
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Who do you think you are to walk in and do something like that?
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And let's be honest, it's a logical question, right?
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I mean, if you walk down to the local Mormon church and just walked in while they're having service and started flipping chairs and tables over and throwing their Book of Mormon in the garbage, I'm going to have some people come up to you and say, "Who do you think you are?
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To just walk in here and do this.
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Who do you think you are?" That's exactly where they had Jesus.
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You have to understand that this question that they were asking, by what authority, they already knew the answer that He was going to give.
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And men - you totally get this, men - "Dear men, it took me a few years to discover this in my own marriage, so let this be a heads up for those of you that maybe are more newlywed.
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When your wife asks you a question, she is not looking for information.
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True or false, men?
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I see some men that are awfully scared shake their head.
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But men, when your wife is asking you a question, she is not looking for information.
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Understand that at that point in time, your wife has become a game show host.
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She's asking a question wanting to know if you know the answer.
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Right, Aaron?
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I love you so much.
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My point is this, when they asked Jesus this question, they weren't going, I would like some information, please.
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Understand that they knew what Jesus would have said to this.
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You tell me, what's the answer?
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Where did Jesus get His authority, church?
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Just shout it out.
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From God, right?
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From God.
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They knew that was the answer that He would give.
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But they wanted Him to say it.
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Why? Because they had all these laws.
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They had their laws sort of canonized.
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Their Jewish laws, which was kind of loosely based on the Old Testament law.
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And one of the laws said that if you're a blasphemer, you should be killed.
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And then they outlined, here's how you determine what a blasphemer is.
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A blasphemer is somebody that exerts false authority.
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So what they were trying to do was to get Jesus to make sort of a confession.
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Admit it. Admit it.
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In front of everybody, public forum, just say it out loud.
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I want you to say out loud You get your authority from the Lord Himself.
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They knew what His answer would be.
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They just wanted Him to say it.
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Look at v. 29, "Jesus said to them, 'I will ask you one question.
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Answer Me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.'" Is the baptism of John from heaven or from man?
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Answer me.
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I wrote this down in my notes.
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I wrote, "Jesus turns the tables on them." And I thought, "Ha, ha, ha." Let me give you another run at that.
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Jesus turns the table on them.
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You feel like it wasn't funny the first time.
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Come on.
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He literally turned the tables the day before, and today he is metaphorically turning the Do you see what I did there?
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These are things that amuse me while I'm studying, Amanda.
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Just note to self, if I ever preach this message again, we're going to take the metaphor thing out.
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Okay, so Jesus says, "Okay, you're going to ask me a question.
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Let me ask you a question, and if you can answer my question, then I'll give you an answer." And Jesus, notice Jesus brings up John the Baptist.
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Remember John the Baptist?
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whole sermon on him way back in Mark chapter 1. John the Baptist conceived miraculously, chosen by God. You know, he preached in a wilderness. Remember, he wore camel's hair and he ate locusts and he was like this...
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he was like this scary mountain man type preacher and he was out in the wilderness and people were coming out to him in droves and he was preaching. You need to repent. You need to change your mind about your sin and you need to turn from your sin and baptism the symbol of repentance.
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Do you remember John the Baptist?
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So Jesus, His question focuses on verse 30. He says, "Was the baptism of John..." What does that mean?
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The baptism of John just simply means John the Baptist's ministry.
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That's all that means.
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John the Baptist's ministry.
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But why did Jesus bring up John the Baptist?
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Jesus was saying in essence, He's an authority figure.
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How do you assess Him?
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How do you assess John the Baptist?
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You know, you're asking me about my authority, but let me bring up another authority figure - John the Baptist.
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What do you do with him?
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And look at verses 31 and 32.
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Jesus puts the ball in their court.
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Baptism of John from heaven.
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"For man, answer Me." And they discussed it with one another.
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So this was, I imagine him stepping off to the side and huddling up here, right?
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I don't imagine they had this conversation in front of Jesus, do you?
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Like I imagine they thought that we'll just go to the side so he can't hear us kind of thing.
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They discussed it with one another saying, "If we say from heaven, he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'" How we say, "from man"?
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They were afraid of the people.
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They all held that John really was a prophet.
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So do you see the dilemma?
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Jesus said John's baptism - John's ministry so to speak - was it from heaven or was it from man?
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Here's the dilemma.
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As they huddled up, they said, number one, first of all, John the Baptist affirmed Jesus, right?
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John the Baptist baptized Jesus.
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John the Baptist appointed to Jesus.
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John the Baptist was like, "I must decrease. He must increase.
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Follow Him.
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He's the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world." That was like John the Baptist's whole ministry was pointing to Jesus.
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Follow Jesus. Follow Jesus.
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Follow Jesus.
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That was John's whole thing.
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And now these chief priests and elders and scribes are in a predicament.
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They're like, "Well, our first option, we can't say that John the Baptist was legit.
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We just can't do that.
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Because if we say, 'Oh yeah, John the Baptist, yeah, he was from God.' Now you've got a real big problem because this John the Baptist was pointing to Jesus." And they're like, "Well, now Jesus is going to say to them, 'Why didn't we believe Him?' Because..." So option A, definitely out.
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we cannot say from heaven.
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Because that would be affirming Jesus' ministry.
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So option A - just scratch that one.
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No way.
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Absolutely not.
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Ok, what was option B again?
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Oh, for man.
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Well, there were people watching this exchange.
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But you notice what it says.
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It says in v. 32, "They were afraid of the people, They all held that John really was a prophet.
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The religious leaders did everything for a show.
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You know that?
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They did everything for a show.
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Read Matthew chapter 6.
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Jesus pulls the curtain back on that.
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Everything they did was for a show for the people, right?
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When they gave, it was for a show.
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Look everybody, I am about to give to the temple.
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"I am about to make a donation in the name of the Lord.
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Is everybody watching?
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Get your cameras out.
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I am going to make a donation." Jesus said they do that to be affirmed by other people.
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And surely I say to you, they receive their reward.
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That's how they give.
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They announce it with trumpets.
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(imitates trumpet)
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We're gonna give now.
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Everybody pay attention.
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And the same thing with fasting.
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They fasted to get people's attention.
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They would deliberately make themselves up to look like - pardon the expression, but they make themselves look like zombies.
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Everything they could do to make themselves - you know, I'm so weak.
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They were wanting people to say, "You look famished.
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You look tired. What's the matter?" Like, "Oh, I was so hoping you'd ask.
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I've been fasting because I'm so spiritual." Yes, I know. I know.
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It has been the longest three hours of my life, but I have been fasting.
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Jesus said they did it for a show.
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They wanted people to walk away going, "Wow, you know that Bob, he's such a spiritual guy.
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You see, oh, he's fasting.
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What a spiritual guy." And the same with prayer.
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They prayed not to God.
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They prayed unto themselves.
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And they would make sure that they were in a place where everyone could see them, and They would just make these long, drawn out, wordy prayers because they wanted people to go, "Wow, he knows how to pray.
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Do you hear him praying?
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He knows how to pray." The point is they did everything for a show.
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They wanted people to look up to them.
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They wanted to be popular.
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So, here was their dilemma.
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People love John the Baptist.
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I mean, let's be honest.
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We would have been big fans of John the Baptist back in the day, right?
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I mean, he was cool.
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He was like this mountain man, hippie preacher guy.
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And everybody loved John the Baptist.
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And they're like, this guy's gotta be a prophet from God.
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This guy, God's hand is all over him.
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So these guys couldn't say, oh yeah, John the Baptist, he was just some guy.
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He wasn't anything special.
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He was just some nut preaching out in the wilderness.
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He wasn't really anything special.
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They knew that if they said that, the people would have been like, "What are you talking about?
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We thought you guys were the spiritual experts, and you can't even recognize John the Baptist?
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What's your problem, man?" And they're like, "Our approval rating is going to plummet if we denounce John the Baptist." So we can't say from heaven, "That is completely out." Out.
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And we can't say from man, because then the people are going to think less of us.
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They might actually get violent, because now we're not affirming whom they believe to be to be a true prophet.
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But we need to give an answer.
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Well, verse 33 has the answer.
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Are you ready for this?
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I love this.
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So they answered Jesus.
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These were the most educated, spiritually minded, respected religious leaders of the day.
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And they come to Jesus and they say, We do not know.
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That had to have crushed them to say that.
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The spiritual brains couldn't answer a simple fundamental question about the second most important religious leader in their day?
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Do you mean to tell me they never had an official agreed upon opinion of John the Baptist?
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Really?
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And Jesus responds to them, "And Jesus said to them, 'Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things." End of conversation. Jesus was saying, "If you can't even answer a simple question about John the Baptist's authority, you don't get any answers from me about mine." So as I wrap up here today, I just want to share with you three wrong ways to respond to the authority of Jesus, and you're going to see these principles all come from the text. And these are three wrong ways to respond to the authority of Jesus. Number one, just Just question it.
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Just question it.
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Just constantly question the authority of Jesus.
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Now, don't misunderstand me.
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I'm not talking about seeking.
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There is a difference between seeking the Lord and questioning the Lord.
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There is a difference between seeking the Lord and questioning the Lord.
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And parents, you understand this with your own children.
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There is a difference when your child asks you something versus when your child questions you.
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Asking questions about what God said versus questioning what God said.
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See, the Bible commands us to seek the Lord.
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However, questioning the Lord is never satisfied; never really looking for an answer.
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You know what the first question in the Bible is?
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Do you know?
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You know what the first question in the Bible is?
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Remember, go back to Genesis chapter 1, God created, God created, it was good, evening and morning it was good, second day, third day.
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It was, you know, it was all statements.
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All statements.
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God did this and it happened, and God did this and it happened.
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The very first question in the Bible, do you know what it is?
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It's when Satan enters the scene as a serpent and he comes up to Eve and he says, "I'm Did God really say?
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First question in the Bible.
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And church, you've got to be discerning.
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It's the spiritual issue of our day as well because it's the same approach.
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Does the Bible really say that?
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Or worse, church, when we hear people say things like, "Well, I know the Bible says But I think, if you want my blood pressure to go up immediately, say that sometime.
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Just say that to me.
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"I know the Bible says this, but you know what I think?
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I'm sure the Lord is sitting on the edge of His throne waiting to hear what you think about that." "I know the Bible says that, but you know what I think?" "What, you think God's wrong?
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Is that what you're about to say?
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Because anything you're about to say sounds like that." "Surely not me.
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I know the Bible says that I should give to the church, but I think...
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You think what?
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I know the Bible says that I should be involved in serving in the church, but you know what I think?
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Not sure that it matters.
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I know the Bible says that when I receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior that I I'm telling you this in love, it doesn't matter what you think about baptism.
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God commanded us to do it as an outward sign of what He's doing inwardly in us.
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Here's where it really hits.
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This is the one I hear the most.
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I know the Bible says I should forgive that person, but, I know the Bible says I should forgive that person, but, but, there's a million things that go into blank after that, but you don't know what they've done.
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that they need to come back to Me.
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But I don't think they're sorry.
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But, but, but, but, but...
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Jesus has all authority.
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Jesus never asked permission for anything.
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And you see it all through God's Word.
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Jesus has authority.
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We saw it in our study of Mark.
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Nobody ever taught with the authority that Jesus taught.
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Jesus said He has the authority to forgive sins.
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Jesus had the authority to cast out diseases and to drive out demons.
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Jesus had authority over death and has authority over death.
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Jesus says He has the authority to judge, He has the authority to save.
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Jesus said in John that He has the authority to lay down His life and to take up His life again.
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I could go on and on, but I'll sum it up by saying this, in the Great Commission, Jesus said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me." That pretty much covers it, right?
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Jesus said, "If there's any authority anywhere, I have it." Like anywhere on the earth?
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Yeah, all authority.
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What about heaven?
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Yeah, there too.
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Jesus said, "All authority has been given to Me." And like every other passage of Scripture that we evaluate, you have to walk away making one of two choices.
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You either say that's a true statement, or that's a false statement.
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Jesus said He has authority.
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whether he was telling the truth, or he was wrong about that.
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If you study your Bibles, you'll see he was telling the truth.
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He has all authority.
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And who are we to come along and question his authority?
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Don't question him. Just do it.
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When you're reading God's Word, when you hear a message here or on the radio, or something you're personally studying, when you know that God is saying something to you, If you know God's Holy Spirit is calling you to something, just do it.
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Just do it.
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Don't question it.
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Don't make excuses for it.
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Don't try to reason your way around it.
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Just do it.
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That's a wrong way to respond to the authority of Jesus.
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You see, these guys in this passage, they never got it.
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As far as I can see from Scripture.
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Obviously, some of them came to Christ.
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Think of how many of these chief priests, these scribes, these elders, they were never seeking the truth.
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All they ever wanted to do was question, question, question Jesus, question Jesus, not for information, but to just discredit Him.
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That is a bad plan.
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Number two, you can just question it.
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Number two, just don't deal with it.
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There are wrong ways to respond to the authority of Jesus.
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Just don't deal with it.
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As I said, either these men didn't settle on the John the Baptist issue ahead of time, or they were too chicken to say what they really thought.
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Because when Jesus asked them about John the Baptist, they had to huddle up and talk about what they were going to say.
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By the way, I do need to insert here, Notice that when they were evaluating their opinion of John the Baptist, one of the things they had to take into consideration was what everybody else thought about John the Baptist.
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That is terrible.
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And I would say to you, the opinion of others should not determine what you believe.
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The opinion of others should not determine what you believe.
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They were totally influenced by that.
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Well, we can't say we believe this and people thought he was a prophet.
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Other people's opinion shouldn't shape what you believe.
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Why do you keep saying that?
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See how prevalent it is today?
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Some famous musician or actor makes a statement about marriage or abortion or something, and everybody's hanging on their words.
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there's some kind of profit. Like, "Well, you know what George Clooney says about this and Morgan Freeman says about that. Like, I say this in Christian love, but who cares?
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What do you do for a living? Oh, you pretend to be somebody else and I should buy everything you're selling. Why?
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I like the movies. I'm not bashing those guys. But true or false, We seem to put so much weight on what a celebrity says about an issue.
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Who cares?
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You need to come to the place where you're resting in your conviction about something.
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What do you believe about that?
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Your beliefs should be based on what the Bible says, not on what Hollywood says.
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So don't be like these guys, "Well, before we evaluate our beliefs, we need to consider what other people think. Interestingly, they were afraid of the spiritual people of their day. They were afraid of the genuinely spiritual people, but in our day, we're afraid of the worldly people. We're afraid that if we say what we really believe about marriage or what topic of the day, whatever, we're afraid that if we really say what we believe about those things, that we won't line up with what our worldly friends think about those things. Don't let the opinion of others determine what you believe.
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But you see these guys when it came to the John the Baptist thing, apparently they didn't deal with it.
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And they didn't want to deal with wrestling with Jesus' authority. You know, you just don't think about it, just don't deal with it, just put it off. And that happens in churches.
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I know what God's calling me to do.
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I know that I should embrace Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.
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I know I need to die to myself.
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I know I need to let the life of Christ live in me.
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I know I need to do those things, and someday I will.
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And when I get through this season of life, or when this happens, the bottom line is delayed obedience equals disobedience.
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Delayed obedience equals disobedience.
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If you know God is calling you to something, delayed obedience is disobedience.
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If you go week after week after week knowing what you need to do and not doing it, it is sin according to James 4.17.
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James 4 .17.
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That is a wrong way to respond to the authority of Jesus.
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You can just question it to death.
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You can just choose not to deal with it, and then finally, just pretend to accept it.
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Just pretend to accept it.
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From heaven, saying that John the Baptist's ministry was from heaven, and saying that Jesus Christ's ministry was from heaven - that statement brings serious implications.
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And affirming that means I can't speak against Jesus.
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In Luke 6:46, Jesus said, "Why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord' and not do what I tell you?" For some people in the church, we just pretend to accept it.
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And we learn to compartmentalize our lives.
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Is Jesus Christ Lord?
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Is He Lord?
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In this setting, we would all say, He is Lord. He is Lord. Is Jesus Christ Lord of this church? Yes, Jesus Christ is Lord of this church.
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What about at home? Is Jesus Christ the Lord of your home? Is He the Lord of your home?
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If I came over to your house this afternoon, would I walk away with the sense of Christ seems to be the very center of this home.
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What about at work?
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Is Jesus Christ Lord over you at your workplace?
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If I saw the way that you conducted your business at work, if I saw your interactions with co-workers, would I say, you know, it seems that Jesus Christ is Lord of that person even while He's at work.
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He's still representing Jesus Christ.
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Or have you tried to compartmentalize in some section of your life.
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You don't want to get too churchy at work.
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Is He Lord there too?
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What about my fellow scribes and chief priests?
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What about school?
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Is Jesus Christ the Lord while you're at school?
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Not just you guys, but kids of all ages in school.
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Do you pretend that you're not really into all that church stuff when you're at school You think that will make you cool in front of your friends?
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Everybody talks about letting other people's opinions shape your beliefs.
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We could go on and on as Jesus Christ, Lord, over your hobbies.
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As Jesus Christ, Lord, over the way that you talk.
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As Jesus Christ, Lord, over your checkbook.
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That's why, church, we encourage you week in, week out.
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It's in your bullet.
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We announce it from up here.
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It's on our website.
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I encourage every one of you to get involved in one of our small groups.
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What I love about our small group is it is a time of getting real.
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We don't show up and fake it and put on our church smile.
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It's not our religious duty.
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Our small groups are a group of people that say we're not content to just play church.
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We want the real thing.
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And what kind of church would we be And every single one of us are passionately pursuing Jesus Christ, allowing His Lordship, allowing His authority in every single area of our lives.
Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Mark 11:27-33
Why didn't the religious leaders accept Jesus' authority? Why don't people in our day?
Why did Jesus' question take them to John the Baptist? What did their answer reveal about them?
What are some ways people let "popular opinion" shape their beliefs?
Breakout Questions:
What is an area of Jesus’ authority you struggle with? Pray for one another about your "authority issues".
