2. Faced with challenging political and cultural questions of His day, how did Jesus respond to those who questioned Him and what can we learn?

3. What about you?
Mk 12:13 Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words.
v14 Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?

4. What about you?
Mk 12:15-17 Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied. Then Jesus said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.” And they were amazed at him.

6. What about you?
Mk 12:24 Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?
v26 God said to (Moses), “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob” He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

7. What about you?
How should we respond to people asking tough questions?
1. Adopt an attitude of HUMILITY.

8. What about you?
Mk 12:28 Of all the commandments, which is the most important?
v30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”

9. What about you?
How should we respond to people asking tough questions?
1. Adopt an attitude of HUMILITY.
2. Always respond in LOVE.

10. What about you?
Mk 12:35-37 What about you? Who do you say I am?

11. What about you?
How should we respond to people asking tough questions?
1. Adopt an attitude of HUMILITY.
2. Always respond in LOVE.
3. Find a way to ask, “Who do you think Jesus is?”