{"id":6774,"date":"2015-08-01T00:05:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T07:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=6774"},"modified":"2015-07-31T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T18:21:49","slug":"none-of-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2015\/08\/01\/none-of-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"None of Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

One day, Jesus was teaching in the temple and telling the good news. So the chief priests, the teachers, and the nation\u2019s leaders asked him, \u201cWhat right do you have to do these things? Who gave you this authority?\u201d <\/p>\n

\tJesus replied, \u201cI want to ask you a question. Who gave John the right to baptize? Was it God in heaven or merely some human being?\u201d <\/p>\n

\tThey talked this over and said to each other, \u201cWe can\u2019t say that God gave John this right. Jesus will ask us why we didn\u2019t believe John. And we can\u2019t say that it was merely some human who gave John the right to baptize. The crowd will stone us to death, because they think John was a prophet.\u201d <\/p>\n

\tSo they told Jesus, \u201cWe don\u2019t know who gave John the right to baptize.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tJesus replied, \u201cThen I won\u2019t tell you who gave me the right to do what I do.\u201d (Luke 20:1-8)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s good news when the home town wins\u2014unless you were rooting for the other side. That the religious establishment reacted to Jesus preaching good news with anger tells us something about the religious establishment. <\/p>\n

After Jesus drove the moneylenders from the Temple, while he was preaching, the religious leaders approached Jesus and asked him about the source of his authority. Jesus then used his popularity and the popularity of his cousin, John the Baptist, against the religious leaders. They did not believe Jesus was unauthorized. They did not believe that John the Baptist was a prophet of God. But they were well aware of what most of the people in the crowd believed. When Jesus asked them about John\u2019s message, they realized that they couldn\u2019t say anything without getting themselves in serious trouble.<\/p>\n

So when they refused to answer Jesus, Jesus likewise refused to answer them. Jesus point was that they didn\u2019t believe John came from God, so why would they believe Jesus when he told them he came from God and had God\u2019s authority for his actions? Their question was not an honest one. He knew that and they knew that. They wouldn\u2019t accept the truth, so what was the point in giving it to them?<\/p>\n

When someone has already made up his mind, giving him the facts is not going to change it. We therefore need to be careful about how fast we make up our minds. A made up mind, too often, can become a fortress against the truth.<\/p>\n

Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One day, Jesus was teaching in the temple and telling the good news. So the chief priests, the teachers, and the nation\u2019s leaders asked him, \u201cWhat right do you have to do these things? Who gave you this authority?\u201d Jesus … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6776,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions\/6776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}