Whose Image is This?






Mark 12:16

They brought the coin, and He (Jesus) asked them (the Pharisees), “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied.


The plot to “TRICK” Jesus by the High Priest of Jerusalem and the Pharisees FAILED miserably because Jesus knew EXACTLY what they were up to…even before they asked their question about…if it were indeed proper to pay taxes to Rome.


What a lot of Christians have never heard before about what Jesus was REALLY revealing to these devious Pharisees…was when Jesus asked for a coin…the Pharisees presented Him with a Roman coin with the “Graven Image” of Caesar stamped upon it.  They knew full-well that Jesus just showed everyone gathered around them the hypocrisy of these Religious men having a coin that was carried in and out of the Temple…which was absolutely FORBIDDEN by God.


Deuteronomy 4:16

BEWARE lest you act corruptly by making a Carved Image for yourselves, in the form of ANY figure, the likeness of male or female.


It startled the Religious hypocrites to silence when Jesus replied so brilliantly.


Mark 12:17

Jesus said to them, “Pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”


What are you hiding away in your pockets?  Is it a money clip with the face of a President?  It’s all about one’s heart…and having the LOVE for God…or the LOVE of that “Graven Image” on that money.  Remember…we MUST always render onto Caesar what is CAESAR’S…but ALWAYS render unto our Mighty God’s…what is God’s.


Have a BLESSED day Y’all!!!

VQ

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