In this episode, Bryce breaks down Luke Chapter 20.
Chapter 1: What is the focus of Luke Chapter 20?
What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver podcast. I'm Bryce and today we are on Luke chapter 20 of the 24 day Luke Christmas series where every day we've been reading a chapter of Luke. So by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole gospel of Luke. Guys, this is our fifth to last one.
I think I said that we are five days away from completing the whole gospel of Luke. It's going to be powerful before we get into it, guys. January 19th, 6 p.m., first ever live podcast show in Los Angeles. It's going to be awesome. Come join us. The funds help mobilize us and create the videos for you guys.
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Chapter 2: What event challenges Jesus's authority?
Now, it's going to open up this chapter here where the Pharisees were challenging the authority of Jesus here. One day, Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel. The chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up and said to him, tell us by what authority do you do these things or who it is that gave you this authority?
He answered them, I'll also ask you a question. Now tell me, was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Now some people might hear that and they might think, but Jesus totally dodged this question. He did not. He's not dodging it at all. He's making a statement here saying, you guys believe John the Baptist was a prophet sent from God. It's undeniable. The people believe it.
And if you guys believe that John was sent from God, then he was also right in saying that Jesus Christ was the Messiah because they believe John, John the Baptist was a prophet from God. And John the Baptist was literally saying, here's Jesus. He's the Messiah. So he's like, if you think that John was from God, then you think I'm from God.
And they discussed it with one another, saying, If we say from heaven, he will say, Why did you not believe him? But if we say from man, all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet, like we just said. So they answered that they did not know where he came from. And Jesus said to them, Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
Jesus decided not to answer their question directly, not because he didn't want to, but he recognized that the Pharisees were insincere seekers of him. Jesus has extreme compassion on sincere seekers of him. Jesus is not going to entertain insincere seekers of him. Verse 9. And they began to tell the people this parable.
A man planted a vineyard and let it out to the tenants and went into another country for a long while. Now, the phrase vineyard, these Jews would understand that in the Old Testament, this picture of a vineyard was known to be Israel. So when they hear this phrase and they're like, oh, okay, this is cool.
Like we think about Israel, which is very important because Jesus's earthly ministry, it came to the Jewish people. Jesus didn't write the Bible to America. he, Jesus, like the Bible wasn't written to America. That's what I'm saying. It was written for believers, but the audience in this time period is Jews. Okay.
So when he's speaking to them, they recognize this race vineyard is referencing to Israel. Okay. This is important. When the time came out, he sent a servant to the tenants that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard, but the tenants beat him and sent him away empty handed. And he sent another servant, but they also beat and treated him shamefully and sent him away empty handed.
And he sent yet a third. This one also, they wounded and cast it out. Okay. Imagine how many prophets have been sent by God and people have persecuted them, tried to kill them, all these things. I mean, you look at like Jezebel headhunting the prophets in the Old Testament. You look at so many other stories. How many times were the prophets persecuted?
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