1. Christ’s eye-opening question
Matthew 22:41-46

6. Matthew 22:15
“The Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap Him in His words!”

7. Round one: Pharisees
22:16 “Is it right to pay a poll tax to Caesar or not?”

8. Round two: Sadducees
22: 28 “Wonder if…There were seven brothers and they all had the same woman as a wife. At the resurrection…”

9. Round three: An expert in law
22:36 “Which is the greatest commandment?”

10. Matthew 22:41-42
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”
They said to Him, “The Son of David.”

11. Matthew 22:43-45
He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”’?
If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?”

12. Revelation 22:16
"I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star."

13. You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. C.S.Lewis

14. “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD
Commandment #1
“YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD
WITH ALL YOUR HEART,
WITH ALL YOUR SOUL
AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND”
Matthew 22:37

15. “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR
Commandment #2
“YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR
AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF”
Matthew 22:39

16. Here is your life’s ambition…
“SEEK FIRST HIS KINGDOM” Matthew 6:33

17. “SEEK FIRST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS…” Matthew 6:33