Luke 20 Jesus vs Hypocrisy AUDACITY Audacity Enters

Luke 20 – Jesus vs. Hypocrisy AUDACITY

Audacity Enters the Temple What is “Audacity” ? Not Religious Con-Artists Not Religious Establishment Not Hypocrisy

Audacity Is: God Alive! The Sadducees • Religious dead-heads. • God without power or compassion. • USA “Christianity” Jesus • “You Don’t Know God!” • God Means Eternal Life • Heaven Means: Sex 2 !! Then Jesus was approached by some Sadducees—religious leaders who say there is no resurrection from the dead. Luke 20: 27

Audacity Is: God Alive! The Sadducees • Religious dead-heads. • God without power or compassion. • USA “Christianity” Jesus • “You Don’t Know God!” • God Means Eternal Life • Heaven Means: Sex 2 !! Then Jesus was approached by some Sadducees—religious leaders who say there is no resurrection from the dead. Luke 20: 27

Audacity Is: God Alive! The Sadducees • Religious dead-heads. • God without power or compassion. • USA “Christianity” Prof. Bart Ehrman “Miracles don’t make no sense” Brian Mc. Laren Jesus • “You Don’t Know God!” • God Means Eternal Life John Dominic Crossan • Heaven Means: Sex 2 !! “Trust me, it’s all figurative language” “It’s a bunch of fairy tales”

Audacity Is: God Alive! The Sadducees • Religious dead-heads. • God without power or compassion. • USA “Christianity” The Uncompassionate God Jesus • “You Don’t Know God!” • God Means Eternal Life • Heaven Means: Sex 2 !! • “Go figure it out yourselves!” - God

Audacity Is: God Alive! The Sadducees • Religious dead-heads. • God without power or compassion. • USA “Christianity” Postmodern Spirituality “Nobody knows” Jesus • “You Don’t Know God!” • God Means Eternal Life • Heaven Means: Sex 2 !! “Nobody cares”

Audacity Is: God Alive! The Sadducees Jesus • Religious dead-heads. • God without power or compassion. • USA “Christianity” • “You Don’t Know God!” • God Means Eternal Life • Heaven Means: Sex 2 !!

Audacity Is: God Alive! “But now, as to whether the dead will be raised—even Moses proved this when The Sadducees he wrote about the burning bush. Long • Religious dead-heads. after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had • God without power or compassion. died, he referred to the Lord as ‘the God • USA “Christianity” of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. ’ So he is the God of the living, not the dead, for they are all alive to him. ” Luke 20: 37 -38 Jesus • “You Don’t Know God!” • God Means Eternal Life • Heaven Means: Sex 2 !! “I AM the God of…” “Well said, Teacher!” remarked some of the teachers of religious law who were standing there. And then no one dared to ask him any more questions. ” Luke 20: 39 -40

Audacity Is: God Alive! “In heaven I think we are going to have that kind of close relationship with everybody, because once sin is removed from human relationships, we will be able to enjoy a closeness with others that would The Sadducees transcend what we enjoy with our own marriage Jesus • Religious partners now. ”dead-heads. – RC Sproul • “You Don’t Know God!” • God without power or compassion. • USA “Christianity” • God Means Eternal Life • Heaven Means: Sex 2 !! “will neither marry nor be given in marriage…” So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 1 Corinthians 15: 42 -43

Audacity Is: God Alive! The Sadducees Jesus • Religious dead-heads. • God without power or compassion. • USA “Christianity” • “You Don’t Know God!” • God Means Eternal Life • Heaven Means: Sex 2 !! Who would you follow?

AUDACITY IS: EVIDENCE! Then Jesus presented the Sadducees with a question. “Why is it, ” he asked, “that the Messiah is said to be the son of David? ” Luke 20: 41 -44 Jesus • Is the son of King David Messiah • Is the son of King David • More authority for Jesus Conclusion

AUDACITY IS: EVIDENCE! “David himself wrote in the book of Psalms: ‘The LORD said to my Lord, Sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet. ’ Since David called the Messiah ‘Lord, ’ how can the Messiah be his son? ” Luke 20: 41 -44 Jesus • GOD is King David’s “Lord” Messiah • Is King David’s “Lord” • God-like authority for Jesus Conclusion

AUDACITY IS: EVIDENCE! Messianic Prophecy NOBODY Else Comes Close Audacious Faith Rests on Facts Jesus Fulfilled Over 300 “Trust me!” Weak vs. Strong Christians Detailed & dated “I think this & that…” Hypocrisy vs. Audacity

AUDACITY IS: POWER! Luke 20: 45 -47 Then, with the crowds listening, he turned to his disciples and said, “Beware of these teachers of religious law! For they like to parade around in flowing robes and love to receive respectful greetings as they walk “And how they love the seats of honor in the synagogues in the marketplaces. of this, will and the head Because table at banquets. Yetthey shamelessly cheat widowsbe outseverely of their property and then pretend to punished. be pious by making long prayers in public. ”

AUDACITY IS: POWER! JC is Not PC “Beware of these teachers of religious law! For they like to parade around in flowing robes and love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces. ” “Sons of hell. . . brood of vipers…hypocrites!” Matthew 23. “Everything they do is for show. On their arms they wear extra wide prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and they wear robes with extra long tassels. ” Matthew 23: 5

AUDACITY IS: POWER! Harsh, emphatic, repeated language Spiritual deception Victimizing people Brian Mc. Laren • “Trust me, it’s all just figurative” • “Just try to be a dogooder!”

AUDACITY IS: POWER! “Save God’s Children!” “you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith… Matthew 23: 23 “they shamelessly cheat widows out of their property” Luke 20: 45 -47 Dave Knowing God is not a PERFORMANCE. It IS inside-out CHANGE. Don’t Get Burned Out! Burned out by legalism

AUDACITY IS: HUMBLE SERVING! Luke 21: 1 -4 While Jesus was in the Temple, he watched the rich people dropping their gifts in the collection box. Then a poor widow came by and dropped in two small coins. “I tell you the truth, ” Jesus said, “this poor widow has given more than all the rest of them!” wn o n Unk ere y n Ma NTS H SAI

Audacity is: Serving Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must from your selfish If youturn try to hang on to yourways, life, you take up your cross daily, follow will lose it. But if you giveand up your life me. Luke 9: 23 you will save it. for my sake, Luke 9: 24 God Alive! Jesus Power Next Evidence And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but are yourself lost or destroyed? Luke 9: 25