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 So I'd like to talk to you about tax this morning.

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 Who ever said church was boring?

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 I want to talk about tax.

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 And tax, for those of you who don't know,

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 is a compulsory contribution you have to make to the state

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 for different things that you earn, services that you use,

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 and purchases that you make.

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 You will look about as excited as this as I am.

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 So you pay income tax, you pay inheritance tax,

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 you pay road tax, which they certainly don't use

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 to solve the pothole problem in Edinburgh.

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 You pay capital gains tax, you pay value added tax,

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 and all sorts of other kinds of tax.

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 Benjamin Franklin said this,

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 certainty in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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 Good news.

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 So just to give you an example of tax.

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 Jack did some work for me.

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 And I didn't have any money,

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 so I'm going to pay him in kinder bars.

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 Jack worked really hard, he did really well,

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 so I'm going to pay him ten kinder bars.

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 Are you ready, Jack?

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 Hold out your hands.

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 Check I don't shortchange you, I am English.

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 One, two, three, four, eight, ten.

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 Agreed?

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 Good lads.

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 Problem is, Jack,

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 this is a church,

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 so this isn't like a brown envelope under the table,

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 say no more, say no more kind of deal.

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 You're going to have to pay some tax.

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 Here's your tax bill,

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 it'll come up on the screen,

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 and you must pay it immediately.

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 Okay, so there's a parent tax.

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 20%, that's two bars,

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 and they need to go to your mum.

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 Parent tax.

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 On you go.

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 What else do you have to pay, Jack?

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 Brother tax.

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 Ten percent.

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 One bar.

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 And a bargain at the price.

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 What else?

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 A cleaning tax.

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 Unfortunately, Irene's gone out,

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 so I'll take that for her.

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 What else?

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 A youth pastor tax.

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 Ten percent.

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 You need to pay Peter.

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 He works very, very hard,

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 and his tax is well earned.

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 And then there's a tech tax.

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 You see, they're serving you

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 by putting your tax bill on the screen,

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 so you better go and pay them.

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 Let's see what else you've got.

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 That's actually it, Jack.

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 Ten kinder bars,

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 your total tax bill,

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 60%.

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 How did you like paying tax?

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 You didn't,

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 but you'll need to get used to it.

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 Thank you very much.

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 No, you don't need to pay me tax.

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 I'm all right.

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 It's amazing, isn't it,

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 that tax is kind of ubiquitous.

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 Everyone pays it.

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 And Romans 13 says,

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 by obeying civil authorities,

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 you're worshipping God.

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 So next time you pay something

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 to the government,

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 think I'm actually worshipping the Lord

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 by paying tax.

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 Story I want us to look at this morning

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 is about paying tax.

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 Problem is,

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 I'm not very good at reading,

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 so any words that's in blue

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 you're going to have to help me with

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 and all read it out together.

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 Okay, you all look very educated,

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 if not slightly worried.

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 Okay, here's the story.

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 It's from Mark chapter 12.

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 It starts like this.

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 Later they sent some of the Pharisees

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 and Herodians to

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 to

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 him in his words.

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 They came to him and said,

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 we know that you are a man

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 of integrity.

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 I was better at reading than I thought.

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 You aren't swayed by others

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 because you

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 know attention to who they are,

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 but you

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 the way of God

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 in accordance with the

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 truth.

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 Is it right to

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 the imperial tax to Caesar or not?

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 Should we

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 or shouldn't we?

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 But

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 knew their hypocrisy,

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 why are you trying to

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 me?

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 He asked,

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 bring me a denarius

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 and let me look at it.

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 They bought the

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 coin

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 and he asked them,

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 whose

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 is this

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 and whose inscription

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 Caesar's they

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 denarius

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 Then Jesus said to them,

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 back to Caesar

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 what is Caesar's

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 and to

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 what is

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 and they were

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 at him.

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 It's a very little story,

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 isn't it?

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 And we're going to try and understand it

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 just very briefly together.

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 The first thing we're going to have to do

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 to understand this story

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 is understand who the two groups of people are.

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 We need to know who are the Pharisees

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 and who are the Herodians.

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 So let me give you a little bit of history.

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 If tax was an exciting,

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 history will certainly do it for you.

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 Here we are.

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 Now,

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 these two groups of people usually hate each other.

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 The Pharisees

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 are a group of religious extremists.

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 They hate the Romans

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 who were the occupying force

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 in Israel at this time.

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 They are ultra-religious.

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 The Pharisees hate Romans'

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 religious extremists.

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 Here are the Herodians.

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 The Herodians love the Romans.

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 They're very political

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 and they're collaborators.

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 They work with the Romans.

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 Do you see how normally

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 these two groups of people

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 would not get along at all?

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 They're actually

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 opposites to each other.

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 The Pharisees look down on the Herodians

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 as being compromises

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 and the Herodians look down on the Pharisees

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 for being religious neat-necks.

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 But here in our story,

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 we find them working together.

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 And the reason they're working together

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 is because they both

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 are threatened

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 and they hate Jesus.

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 In fact,

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 this collaboration,

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 this coalition

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 has been going on

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 since chapter 3, verse 6,

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 when Jesus

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 heals a man with a withered hand

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 and at the end of that story

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 it says,

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 and the Pharisees

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 and the Herodians

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 went out together

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 to plot

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 how they might kill

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 Jesus.

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 It's a story about tax

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 asked by these two groups of people

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 and this is how it comes about.

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 The Herodians

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 and the Pharisees

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 come to Jesus

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 to catch him in his words.

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 They want to trap him.

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 They want to catch him out.

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 This is part of their plot

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 to try and shut him up

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 forever.

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 And so verse 14,

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 they come with a lot of flattery.

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 Teacher,

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 we know that you're a man

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 of integrity.

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 Your insides are the same

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 as your outsides.

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 You're a good guy.

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 You aren't swayed by others

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 because you pay no attention

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 to who they are.

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 Single-minded

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 and focused on teaching

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 the way of God

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 in accordance with the truth.

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 It's very flattering.

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 Slithery tongues

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 baiting the trap

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 and here's the trap

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 and it is a killer question.

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 Is it right to pay

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 the imperial tax

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 to Caesar or not?

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 Should we pay

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 or shouldn't we?

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 The reason that is

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 such a brilliant question

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 is because if Jesus says yes,

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 then the Pharisees

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 will condemn him

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 for being a collaborator,

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 for being willing

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 to go along

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 with what the Romans say.

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 And if he says no,

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 the Herodians

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 will have him

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 as a rebel,

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 as somebody

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 who's usurping

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 what Caesar says.

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 If he says yes,

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 he's condemned.

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 If he says no,

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 he's condemned.

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 Jesus,

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 should we pay tax

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 or not?

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 Brilliant question.

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 Jesus is in

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 a catch-22 situation.

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 He is literally

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 between a rock

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 and a hard place.

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 He's condemned

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 if he does

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 and he's condemned

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 if he doesn't.

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 What's he going to do?

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 How's he going to get

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 out of this trap?

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 Well, he says,

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 bring me a denarius.

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 Here's to warm up.

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 That's a two-pence piece.

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 Whose picture is on it?

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 Liz.

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 Liz is on it.

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 But that's not,

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 they don't,

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 Jesus doesn't say

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 bring me a two-pence.

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 He says,

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 bring me a denarius,

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 which was a coin

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 that was paid

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 for one day's labor

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 for a normal person.

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 Whose image is on this?

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 Brilliant, Aaron.

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 Unbelievable.

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 Tiberius Caesar.

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 And Jesus says,

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 whose image is this

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 and whose inscription?

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 They say Caesar.

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 And then Jesus says,

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 give back to Caesar

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 what is Caesar's

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 and to God

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 what is God's.

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 And then it comments,

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 and they were amazed

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 at him.

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 They've gone from

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 trying to trap him

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 in his words

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 to being amazed at him

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 all by using a coin

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 and asking one question,

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 whose image is this?

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 Why is that so brilliant?

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 What is really going on here?

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 Well, let me walk you

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 through the logic.

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 The reason that you pay taxes

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 to Caesar

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 is because your coin

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 has Caesar's face on it,

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 Caesar's image on it,

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 and Caesar's inscription.

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 So what bears Caesar's image

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 and bears Caesar's inscription,

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 you're to give back to Caesar.

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 But he's making a very profound point.

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 Because in the mind

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 of these people,

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 there's this word image

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 and this word inscription.

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 In Genesis 1.26,

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 God at the very creation

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 of the world says,

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 let us make man

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 in our image.

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 That humankind

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 is to bear the image of God.

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 humankind is indwelt

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 with value,

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 dignity,

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 and worth

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 as image bearers

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 of the living God.

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 And then in Jeremiah 31.33,

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 God says this,

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 I will put my law

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 in their minds

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 and inscribe it

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 on their hearts.

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 The coin bears

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 Caesar's image

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 and Caesar's inscription.

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 I, you, we,

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 bear God's image

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 and God's inscription.

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 And so Jesus says,

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 give the coin to Caesar

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 because it's Caesar's.

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 But the question,

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 the answer behind

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 the answer,

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 well before you get to that,

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 understand that everything you are

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 and everything you have

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 belong to God

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 and it's important

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 that you give yourself to him.

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 That's why they were amazed

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 at him.

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 That's why they marveled

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 at him

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 because he took their trap

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 and he flipped reverse to them.

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 They were left undone

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 as people who knew

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 that they weren't giving

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 all of their lives to God

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 as those who bear his image

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 and his inscription.

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 And so Jesus would say

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 exactly the same thing

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 to each of us this morning.

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 Give to Caesar

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 what is Caesar's

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 or give to Liz

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 what is Liz's

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 but give to God

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 what is God's.

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 And this presents

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 a massive problem

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 for each and every one of us

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 because we're all guilty

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 of tax evasion.

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 We've all failed

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 to give to God

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 what is rightfully his.

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 Each individual one of us

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 has failed to love

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 the Lord our God

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 with all our heart,

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 soul,

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 mind,

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 and strength

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 and none of us

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 love our neighbor

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 as ourselves.

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 And the problem is

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 for this tax evasion

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 before a holy God

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 the penalty

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 is not a fine.

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 It's not a prison sentence.

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 It's death.

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 Romans 6.23

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 will say that

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 the wages of sin,

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 the penalty for sin

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 is death.

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 And we're all undone.

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 We're all guilty.

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 We're all fraudsters

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 and tax evaders

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 because we haven't given

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 to God

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 what is God's.

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 So a story about tax

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 actually becomes

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 a very condemning story

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 about how we failed

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 before God.

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 But there is good news

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 that the very center

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 of Mark's gospel

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 is this verse.

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 For even the Son of Man

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 that's a phrase

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 that Jesus uses

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 to refer to himself.

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 For even the Jesus

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 did not come

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 to be served

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 but to serve

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 and to give his life

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 as a ransom

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 to pay the penalty

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 for many,

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 for us.

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 We were tax evaders

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 who failed to give

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 to God

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 everything that was his.

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 Jesus came

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 and gave all of himself

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 all of the time

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 to God.

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 He paid it in full.

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 And yet he goes

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 to a cross

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 and dies a death.

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 And why?

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 That the only one

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 who gave to God

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 what was truly God's fully

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 died on the cross

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 so that we

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 who have failed

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 to give to God

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 what is rightfully God's

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 could go free.

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 Could have

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 a clean bill of health

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 from HMRC

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 in the heavenly places.

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 This is good news.

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 Give to Caesar

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 what is Caesar's

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 but give to God

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 what is God's

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 and we failed

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 but Jesus won

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 for us.

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 And therefore

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 we get a great

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 credit score

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 by trusting in him.

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 How do we

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 take hold

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 of this bailout?

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 By trusting in Jesus

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 and saying

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 you did it for me.

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 I accrued

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 a load of debt

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 that I couldn't pay

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 and yet you came

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 and died in my place

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 so that your

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 perfect credit history

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 could be replaced

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 by my fallen

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 failing

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 pitiful

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 credit history.

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 so you died

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 for me

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 so I

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 can go free.

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 Start Romans 6.23

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 for the penalty

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 of sin

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 is death

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 but the gift

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 of God

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 is eternal life

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 in Christ Jesus.

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 Why?

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 Because Jesus

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 didn't come

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 to be served

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 but to serve

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 and to give

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 his life

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 as a ransom

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 for many.

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 I wonder

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 if you're

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 a Christian

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 here today

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 in response

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 to this great news

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 are you

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 giving to God

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 what is God's?

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 Are you giving

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 your all to him

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 trusting him

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 with everything

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 and saying

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 if Christ Jesus

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 did this for me

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 then nothing

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 I can do

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 is too much

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 for me

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 to do for him.

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 But perhaps

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 you're not a Christian

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 here today

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 and this is the first

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 time you've even heard

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 that you owe a debt

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 that you cannot pay.

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 Well the only answer

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 is to trust Jesus

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 who pays it

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 for you

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 and say

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 Jesus

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 I'm sorry

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 that I haven't

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 loved the Lord

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 my God

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 with all my heart

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 soul mind

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 and strength

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 and I haven't

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 loved my neighbour

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 as myself

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 thank you

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 that you came

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 and you died

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 my death

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 please

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 will you

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 forgive me

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 that I might

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 go free

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 that you might

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 pay my ransom

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 for me

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 why don't I pray

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 Father God

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 we can come

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 and we confess

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 that we owe

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 a debt

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 that we cannot

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 pay

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 we've sinned

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 in ways

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 that we

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 ourselves

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 cannot atone

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 for

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 but Lord

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 we thank you

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 so much

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 that you

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 loved us

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 that you

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 sent your son

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 that he

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 came

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 that he

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 died

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 in our

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 place

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 for our

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 sins

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 that he

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 gave to you

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 what was

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 rightfully

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 yours

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 which was

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 all of

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 himself

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 and so

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 Lord

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 would we

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 trust him

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 would we

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 lean our

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 whole life

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 upon him

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 and Father

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 now those

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 who are

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 free

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 free of

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 sin

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 would we

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 give to

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 you

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 our

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 lives

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 our

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 dreams

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 our hopes

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 our

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 possessions

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 our

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 all

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 because you

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 Lord are

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 worthy

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 so come

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 and take

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 your rightful

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 place in

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 our lives

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 we pray

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 Amen