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Money Is Not The Face of God
People erroneously believe that in the verse Mark 12:16-18 Jesus was making a social comment about money.
Mark 12:16-18 New International Version (NIV)
16 They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
“Caesar’s,” they replied.
17 Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”
And they were amazed at him.
But in reality Jesus was infuriating the Roman government leadership. On every Roman coin there is picture of Caesar who had proclaimed himself as God. When Jesus Christ said, “give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's”, Jesus was rejecting the deity of Caesar as God!
This blatant slight against Caesar by Jesus Christ, in invalidating Caesar as God, allowed the Temple leadership to drag Rome into the trial of Jesus Christ.
I wonder if anyone today would be so bold as to reject those who make themselves into a Godlike persona such as celebrities, politicians, academics, business executives, religious leaders, etc.?
If you find that the world is filling up with people who place their face on everything (hint: especially the Internet) as if they were a God themselves, then just turn to the one real and true God - Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ came to this world for only one reason, as a sacrifice for all of man's sins. Jesus Christ didn't ask to have his face placed on a coin. Instead he placed his body on a cross!
Believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and rest assured all your sins will be forgiven and you'll spend eternity in heaven with God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit, forever.
God, as Jesus Christ, placed his face in his coins (hint: as the indwelling Holy Spirit in every believer) rather than outside of the coin.
God Bless
note:
One interesting fact as to why there were money changers in the Temple was the fact that since Caesar declared himself as God bringing Roman money into the Temple was tantamount to bringing a foreign God into the Temple. People had to change their Roman money that had the face of Caesar on it for the official Temple currency.
People erroneously believe that in the verse Mark 12:16-18 Jesus was making a social comment about money.
Mark 12:16-18 New International Version (NIV)
16 They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
“Caesar’s,” they replied.
17 Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”
And they were amazed at him.
But in reality Jesus was infuriating the Roman government leadership. On every Roman coin there is picture of Caesar who had proclaimed himself as God. When Jesus Christ said, “give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's”, Jesus was rejecting the deity of Caesar as God!
This blatant slight against Caesar by Jesus Christ, in invalidating Caesar as God, allowed the Temple leadership to drag Rome into the trial of Jesus Christ.
I wonder if anyone today would be so bold as to reject those who make themselves into a Godlike persona such as celebrities, politicians, academics, business executives, religious leaders, etc.?
If you find that the world is filling up with people who place their face on everything (hint: especially the Internet) as if they were a God themselves, then just turn to the one real and true God - Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ came to this world for only one reason, as a sacrifice for all of man's sins. Jesus Christ didn't ask to have his face placed on a coin. Instead he placed his body on a cross!
Believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and rest assured all your sins will be forgiven and you'll spend eternity in heaven with God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit, forever.
God, as Jesus Christ, placed his face in his coins (hint: as the indwelling Holy Spirit in every believer) rather than outside of the coin.
God Bless
note:
One interesting fact as to why there were money changers in the Temple was the fact that since Caesar declared himself as God bringing Roman money into the Temple was tantamount to bringing a foreign God into the Temple. People had to change their Roman money that had the face of Caesar on it for the official Temple currency.