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Last Week: “Pleasures Forevermore” (Luke 20.27-44) Additional Resources:

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SCENE 1: LUKE 20:45-21:6 (ESV) Beware of the Scribes & The Widow’s Offering 20:45 And in the hearing of all the people he [Jesus] said to his disciples, 46 “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, 47 who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” 21:1 Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” 5 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, 6 “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

lepton SCENE 1: LUKE 20:45-21:6 (ESV) Beware of the Scribes & The Widow’s Offering 20:45 And in the hearing of all the people he [Jesus] said to his disciples, 46 “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, 47 who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” 21:1 Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” 5 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, 6 “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” lepton

SCENE 1: LUKE 20:45-21:6 (ESV) Beware of the Scribes & The Widow’s Offering 20:45 And in the hearing of all the people he [Jesus] said to his disciples, 46 “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, 47 who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” 21:1 Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” 5 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, 6 “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

-- John MacArthur (Evangelical pastor and author) SCENE 1: LUKE 20:45-21:6 (ESV) Beware of the Scribes & The Widow’s Offering 20:45 And in the hearing of all the people he [Jesus] said to his disciples, 46 “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, 47 who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” 21:1 Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” 5 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, 6 “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” “How would you feel…if you saw a destitute widow who only had two coins left to buy her food for her next meal give those two coins to a religious system…? You would say, ‘Something is wrong with that system when that system takes the last two coins out of a widow's hand.’ That's what you would say and you would be right to say that….how would you feel if you saw a destitute, impoverished person give to her religion her last hope for life to go home perhaps and die? You'd be sick. You'd feel terrible. You would be repulsed. Any religion that is built on the back of the poor is a false religion. What a sad, misguided, woeful, poor victimized lady. It's tragic, painful. And I think that's exactly how Jesus saw it.” -- John MacArthur (Evangelical pastor and author)

SCENE 1: LUKE 20:45-21:6 (ESV) Beware of the Scribes & The Widow’s Offering 20:45 And in the hearing of all the people he [Jesus] said to his disciples, 46 “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, 47 who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” 21:1 Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” 5 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, 6 “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

SCENE 2: MARK 7:6-13 (ESV) Teaching as Doctrines the Commands of Men 6 And he [Jesus] said to them [the Pharisees and scribes], “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written [in Isaiah 29], ‘This people honors me with their lips,     but their heart is far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me,     teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ 8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” 9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God) — 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

SCENE 2: MARK 7:6-13 (ESV) Teaching as Doctrines the Commands of Men 6 And he [Jesus] said to them [the Pharisees and scribes], “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written [in Isaiah 29], ‘This people honors me with their lips,     but their heart is far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me,     teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ 8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” 9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God) — 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.” Honor your father and mother – Exodus 20:12 Care for Widows in the Old Testament: Exodus 22:21-24 Deuteronomy (10:17-18, 14:29, 24:17-21, 26:12-13) Isaiah 1:17 Jeremiah 22:3 Ezekiel 22:6-7

SCENE 2: MARK 7:6-13 (ESV) Teaching as Doctrines the Commands of Men 6 And he [Jesus] said to them [the Pharisees and scribes], “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written [in Isaiah 29], ‘This people honors me with their lips,     but their heart is far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me,     teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ 8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” 9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God) — 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

SCENE 2: MARK 7:6-13 (ESV) Teaching as Doctrines the Commands of Men 6 And he [Jesus] said to them [the Pharisees and scribes], “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written [in Isaiah 29], ‘This people honors me with their lips,     but their heart is far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me,     teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ 8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” 9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God) — 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

SCENE 3: LUKE 19:45-48 (ESV) Jesus Cleanses the Temple 45 And he [Jesus] entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.” 47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

SCENE 3: LUKE 19:45-48 (ESV) Jesus Cleanses the Temple 45 And he [Jesus] entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.” 47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

SCENE 3: LUKE 19:45-48 (ESV) Jesus Cleanses the Temple 45 And he [Jesus] entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.” 47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

Roman Denarius Syrian Shekel SCENE 3: LUKE 19:45-48 (ESV) Jesus Cleanses the Temple 45 And he [Jesus] entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.” 47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words. Roman Denarius Syrian Shekel

SCENE 3: LUKE 19:45-48 (ESV) Jesus Cleanses the Temple 45 And he [Jesus] entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.” 47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

SCENE 4: LUKE 20:19-26 (ESV) Should We Give Tribute to Caesar? 19 The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him [Jesus] at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people. 20 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. 21 So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.  22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?” 23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, 24 “Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar's.” 25 He said to them, “Then render [give back] to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” 26 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.

SCENE 1: LUKE 20:45-21:6 (ESV) Beware of the Scribes & The Widow’s Offering 20:45 And in the hearing of all the people he [Jesus] said to his disciples, 46 “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, 47 who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” 21:1 Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” 5 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, 6 “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

SCENE 1: LUKE 20:45-21:6 (ESV) Beware of the Scribes & The Widow’s Offering 20:45 And in the hearing of all the people he [Jesus] said to his disciples, 46 “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, 47 who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” 21:1 Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in [her bios] all she had to live on.” 5 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, 6 “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

What we could never do for ourselves, SCENE 1: LUKE 20:45-21:6 (ESV) Beware of the Scribes & The Widow’s Offering 20:45 And in the hearing of all the people he [Jesus] said to his disciples, 46 “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, 47 who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” 21:1 Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in [her bios] all she had to live on.” 5 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, 6 “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” THIS IS THE GOSPEL! What we could never do for ourselves, Christ did for us.

Application for Us: Don’t be like the scribes! Instead, be like Jesus! Love justice

Application for Us: Don’t be like the scribes! Instead, be like Jesus! Love justice This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Don’t exploit or brutalize the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place. Jeremiah 22:3

Application for Us: Don’t be like the scribes! Instead, be like Jesus! Love justice He has told you, O man, what is good;     and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness,     and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8

Application for Us: Don’t be like the scribes! Instead, be like Jesus! Love justice Mercy Truth Self-sacrifice Flee the love of money Give generously Set people free -- Remove as many rules as possible for people to engage with God

Application for Us: Throw your entire life into the NEW SYSTEM! – into the Gospel of Grace worked out in radical generosity. Your Own Family Campus Organizations: Your Church Christian Challenge Team 1:27 Navs Cru Other Ministries of Mercy & Justice: Helping International Students (HIS) The Homestead Read some Books: Safe Families Life Choice Ministries Generous Justice – Tim Keller Manhattan Emergency Shelter Ministries of Mercy – Tim Keller Shepherd’s Crossing Talk/Brainstorm with Other People Operation Christmas Child Meet Your Neighbors LIFE Group Pray About This Discipleship Fusion, KidsLIFE