Text: Luke 20:1-8

20:1  Now it happened on one of those days, as He taught the people in the temple and preached the gospel, that the chief priests and the scribes, together with the elders, confronted Him 

20:2  and spoke to Him, saying, “Tell us, by what authority are You doing these things? Or who is he who gave You this authority?”

20:3  But He answered and said to them, “I also will ask you one thing, and answer Me:

20:4  The baptism of John—was it from heaven or from men?”

20:5 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ 

20:6 But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

20:7   So they answered that they did not know where it was from.

20:8  And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

STUDY:

The religious leaders of old consciously looked for reasons to condemn Jesus Christ and His ministry. In our text today, they came with the question of the source of the authority with which He worked. It was not as if Jesus was not sure of the right answer to the question, but He had perceived that they didn’t mean well, and were only expecting an answer to justify their crooked intentions. He decided to manifest divine wisdom by throwing a hard question at them. John the Baptist, whose baptism exercise on Jesus Christ was a divine confirmation of His ministry (Matt.3:16-17), was recognised by them and the people as having come from God, so, they couldn’t play with the people just for their evil intentions against Jesus.

We live in a world that employs every possible means to discredit us. Sometimes, Christians are set up in order to destroy up their God-given ministry. The divine wisdom manifested by Jesus in this instance is a great example to us. However, the manifestation of divine wisdom is very rare without the influence of the Holy Spirit. We are not only to desire to be filled by the Spirit of God, we are to walk in communion with Him daily. By this, we will escape all the traps of the evil one.

Prayer: 

Father; fill me with your Spirit and direct my heart on how to respond to everysituation in Jesus Name. Amen.

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