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Introduction
If you remember, Jesus had burst onto the scene with everyone shouting Hosanna! or “Save Us” to Him back in chapter 20.
Then, we see Him enter the temple and turn over the tables.
Obviously, He was at war with the common held beliefs of the day and making a very loud statement about the error of the religious leaders and authorities of the day.
Jesus came into the temple and spoke at length about the laborers in the vineyard and those invited to the wedding feast.
Those two parables are preceded by a very interesting, short parable which follows the scepticism of Jesus’ enemies, the chief priests and Pharisees.
If you remember, Jesus bursts onto the scene with everyone shouting Hosanna! or “Save Us” to Him.
Then, we see Him enter the temple and turn over the tables.
Obviously, He was at war with the common held beliefs of the day and making a very loud statement about the error of the religious leaders and authorities of the day.
Any time someone shows up and starts questioning authority we all start doing the same.
Who knows whether they could be right.
After all, whoever we place as an authority over us has certain priveledges and we will either be leading us down a cliff, or up the tallest mountain.
Authorities
Do we need to trust all of the authorities?
Are we supposed to believe that everyone who stands before us is worthy of telling us how to live our lives?
Jesus speaks to many people before they put them to death and His teachings were highly regarded by many, but the religious leaders of that day were not impressed because they had become so focused on the scholarship of their day.
They had rabbis who were very well thought of and they had writings and traditions that they spent and even days understanding and memorizing so that they could teach others with authority one day.
Jesus didn’t mess with any man made scholarship because His information was straight from the true source.
We have many authorities in our day.
In school the teacher is supposed to be the authority and the principle.
At home the father and parents are the authority.
At work, the boss is the authority.
In government, the police are the authority.
Whatever is spoken by the authority carries with it some form of power, justice, relevance and truth as it is shared with others.
This is a law and it must be upheld.
It is important to understand!
Jesus was said to have spoken as one with authority
Jesus spoke with authority because He had been given authority.
A truth that has not sunk in for the religious elite.
He allows an adulterer to go free, telling her to sin no more because His words of authority are about salvation from the darkness and bringing people to the light.
He doesn’t want them to stay in the darkness any longer.
He came to seek and save the lost.
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His authority comes from the Creator of the universe.
He speaks the words God has given Him to speak and doesn’t go against His Father’s will.
Choosing Hypocrisy
Jesus responds to their inquiry on this occasion with a question.
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Instead of recognizing Jesus’ authority, the religious leaders try to find a way to condemn Him for blasphemy.
When Jesus asks this question about the baptism of John, they have to backtrack to keep from losing the respect of the people.
You see John was an exception to the Jewish traditions of leadership of the people.
Typical Politicians!
They decide to do the political thing and not tell the truth about what they thought.
They decide not to recognize an obvious prophet of God who, verse 32 points out came in the way of righteousness.
John was a man who abstained from everything.
Surviving on locust and honey in the wilderness.
This obviously righteous man pointed to Jesus, not these hypocrites.
He pointed to the requirement of one who hears his call to repent and be baptized, but to these people he said, “What are you doing here?
VIPERS!”
Jesus saw what John saw.
Men who do not care to repent of their adultery, their robbery, their lying, their murdering, their oppression!
They have justified all of that and see no reason to change as you can imagine.
They say that they are going to do God’s will while planning to do the opposite.
The Parable
The two sons are obviously compared to the immoral people who recognize their error and the self righteous who are proud and justify every evil that they create for themselves.
The question must then be asked, are you the first or the second son.
If you don’t know of any sins you have committed, you are the second.
If you think you are a good person and that you don’t need salvation from the darkness, you are still in it.
The hypocrites don’t just go to church.
They also walk about on Sundays playing golf and exclaiming how they can commit adultery, but it’s okay because they gave their spouse a certificate of divorce as these Jews did.
These are men who say that they are good and righteous, but they aren’t clean on the inside.
The intentions of their heart are awful.
You don’t have to be religious to be one of the people who condemned Jesus.
You just have to be the type of person who justifies your own bad behaviour instead of fessing up!
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These people are rotten and dead on the inside and until someone or something wakes them up.
Maybe if something happens to expose their deadness, they will be willing to let God fix what’s wrong with the baptism of Jesus.
We looked previously at how Jesus came into the temple and spoke at length about the laborers in the vineyard and those invited to the wedding feast.
Those two parables are preceded by a very interesting, short parable which follows the skepticism of Jesus’ enemies, the chief priests and Pharisees.
So, Jesus tells them to jump into the same boat as those who He did not come to judge, but to save.
Those who have originally lived a selfish self serving life of immorality, and are NOW choosing to go into the vineyard TODAY and get to work!
A lot of people say that the millennial generation is leaving organized religion.
I believe it has a lot to do with whitewashing and self justifying their sins away because they haven’t learned that God provides us with all of the fulfillment that we need in this life.
All of the other things are not as important.
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