He has the final authority. 4/28/15

Pray for Napal, and Baltimore

Day 118 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Luke.20

Luke 20:1-26
The Authority of Jesus Questioned
20 One day as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the good news, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him. 2 “Tell us by what authority you are doing these things,” they said. “Who gave you this authority?”

3 He replied, “I will also ask you a question. Tell me: 4 John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or of human origin?”

5 They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’ 6 But if we say, ‘Of human origin,’ all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

7 So they answered, “We don’t know where it was from.”

8 Jesus said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

The Parable of the Tenants
9 He went on to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time. 10 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed. 12 He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out.

13 “Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.’

14 “But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. ‘This is the heir,’ they said. ‘Let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

“What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.”

When the people heard this, they said, “God forbid!”

17 Jesus looked directly at them and asked, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written:

“‘The stone the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone’[a]?
18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”

19 The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.

Paying Taxes to Caesar
20 Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said, so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor. 21 So the spies questioned him: “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. 22 Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

23 He saw through their duplicity and said to them, 24 “Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?”

“Caesar’s,” they replied.

25 He said to them, “Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

26 They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

April 28th  “To” and “toward”

“And He died for all, that those who live should live no longer to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.”
2 CORINTHIANS 5:15
Here Paul is opening up another aspect of our inward posture in the Christian life. We are to the Lord. We are toward Him. That is our inward posture. Let me give an illustration. This life is like going to a boys’ ranch, where you report to the director, and the director checks you in. Then he tells you, “You are going to be here for some time, and I am not going to give you a list of do’s and don’ts. I want you to stay with me instead. I want you to be with me wherever I go. Every moment of the day, I will tell you what to do. You will not have a relationship with a schedule or a written program. You will have a relationship with me.”
The Lord has come into us, not to be cheated by our religious living, but to be our source. He wants us to live moment by moment to Him. That means your eyes are looking at His eyes. You are looking at His face. Is He smiling? Is He happy in what you are saying right now, in how you are carrying on? Is He happy with your habits of life? Are you to Him? Are you willing to gather up your whole life and prove what is well pleasing to Him? Do you dare take every part of your life and live to Him? What about your relationship with others in the world? Can you prove that it is well pleasing to Him? What about your dress? How do you clothe yourself? Do you live somewhat naked? Can you prove yourself to be well pleasing in what you wear? Do you have a consciousness of what pleases Him in your dress? First Corinthians 10:31 says, “Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” Eating and drinking is to be done out of the source of God. I am to eat to God. I am to drink to God. I am to dress to God. I am to talk to God. I am to Him. He is my source. This is the life that springs from within.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

Ariana, and Willie.

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Praise Alert
Blanca is in rehab….improving.

National
Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.
Families of slain Kenyans.
Families of all the recent plane crashes.

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