Friday, September 27, 2013

Render - Luke 20:19-26

Luke 20:19-26 ESV 
Paying Taxes to Caesar
 The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people. So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?” But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar's.” He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent.

The question might be what belongs to God?  In whose likeness are we made?  

We have been reborn in the image of Christ. All those who have been sealed in the Spirit are marked by God as His own. All those who do not follow after our Lord belong to the world. They bear a mark contrary to God. 

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