Preachrblog

It's a funny thing about us sinners, we never met a law of God that we don't , by nature, want to break .  Never a command we don't want to disobey .  Never a rule we don't have an urge to reb el against .  So too with Jesus' words today. “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's ”.     If you think of this saying of Jesus in terms of the 10 commandments, you'd have to file it under the The Fourth Commandment, “You shall honor your father and mother” for there the Small Catechism says, "What does this mean ?  We are to fear and love God so that we do not despise or anger our parents and other authorities" Caesar , or earthly government, certainly falls under "other authorities"     And on the other side of the coin, we are also to honor , serve , love and cherish them. The accusation here , the sad reality is that sinners like you and me, we don't really like authority much. We generally despise b...