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Spiritualizing the Material, YES... Materializing the Spiritual, NO ❤️ Jesus expl. Matthew 22:15-22

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The Lord’s Sermons – Sermon 48… Matthew 22:15-22

Spiritualizing the Material… YES – Materializing the Spiritual… NO

Revealed to Gottfried Mayerhofer
(April 29th, 1872)
spoken by Pascal

Matthew 22:15-22 – The Lord’s Attitude Towards the Authorities
“Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Hero-dians, saying, Master, we know that thou are true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men. Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s. When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.”

Thus says the Lord:

1. This chapter contains a number of parables which I gave to the Pharisees and scribes in order to obviate all their objections in the best possible way.

2. The above verses deal with one of those pitfalls the Pharisees used to set for Me, hoping to be able to hand Me over to the authorities if I gave an unwary answer.

3. The Romans, as their rulers, were only concerned with their own supremacy in the land of the Jews and were quite indifferent to the Jewish religion and its reformers – be they prophets or preachers, like My predecessor John, or the expected Messiah as represented by Me, – so long as any innovations concerned only the domain of religion and did not reach into the political field. Therefore, the Pharisees were anxious to find a question where, if answered conscientiously, I could not possibly evade politics.

4. So the Pharisees sent their followers to Me, together with some servants of Herod, with the ambiguous question: “Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?”

5. They had assumed that My answer would be that the offering to the temple came first and the tribute to the emperor was an unjust burden forced upon them by the might of the sword. Through such an answer they would have had the most conclusive evidence that I misled the people with bad interpretations, making them hostile to the government, and they believed thus to be able to involve Me with the authorities. However, so that they would not appear responsible and in case I denied the claim they would have witnesses, they sent also servants of Herod along, who were to confirm the statement they expected to hear from Me.

6. I must admit that this question was insidious. Since the Romans were not the lawful rulers, and only circumstance had forced them upon this land as its possessors, the Pharisees believed that I, as a native Jew, must despise the foreign rule and oppose it. But I, who search into the human heart, was quite aware of the Pharisees’ intentions and gave them, with only a few words, an answer that made a further question on their part impossible. For the answer: “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s!” already contained the whole explanation, which only I, being the One Who I was, could give, – although this was not the answer they had expected.

7. Since I had shown them on the coin they handed to Me the image of the emperor and its superscription, I could not say anything else but: “This image on the one side of the coin shows you whose subjects you are; and if you do not want to understand the meaning of the image, the superscription on the other side proves it even more clearly. This is a small coin with which you trade and are able to satisfy your worldly needs. The spiritual, however, is above all coins – be they of gold or other metals -; it has another origin, another cause and another goal!” Thereby I made a strict distinction between the tribute due to the worldly power and that due to the spiritual.

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