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Wouldn’t it be sad if the miracles of the Bible were not true? In today’s passage we meet a group of people who deny the miraculous power of God and who demonstrate a complete misunderstanding of the Bible. Where does their hope come from? What about God’s intervention in our circumstances? What about seeing our loved ones in heaven? What about our own salvation? Thank God, He is still in the miracle business.

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Do you ever feel like you’re being ganged up on? Maybe it seems like everybody – at work, at home, even at church – like everybody is taking pot-shots at you? In Luke 20, each group of Jesus’ enemies have ganged up on Him trying to trip Him up and watch Him fall. The Pharisees and the Herodians have already taken a shot. Now it’s the Sadducees’ turn. But Jesus has had the right answers for each one, and He has the right answers for you.

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James chapter 3 ends with a contrast being basing decisions on worldly, godless, natural wisdom versus facing those same decisions with heavenly, godly, supernatural wisdom. One is from below; the other is from above. And they couldn’t be more different. And the results will be different as well. God has provided everything you need to make right decisions.

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Throw a rock in any direction and you’re likely to hit a TV show or a book that encourages you to “follow your heart.” But the prophet Isaiah was clear when he wrote, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Sometimes even church members – sometimes even preachers – offer the same worldly advice, and it is not from God. To make right decisions in this life, you need something more than your heart, something more than common sense to go on. You need wisdom from above.

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This classic teaching of rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and rendering unto God the things that are God’s is filled with profound truth against those who consider themselves better suited to run their own lives more than God. Just as Jesus corrected these people in Luke 20, He will correct us today.

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We would never think about questioning Jesus’ integrity. If there is anyone who can be said to have integrity, it’s Jesus. And that’s true in all matters. Here in Luke 20, however, we find a group of people bent on challenging His integrity when it comes to money. This makes me want to take inventory of myself. Am I as honest in my financial dealings as I should be? Listen to what Jesus has to say about that.

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The American economy is in a mess. The national debt is reported to be over $35 trillion. Many of our family finances are also in a mess. The average total debt per person in America is now over $60,000, with the total household debt being over $17 trillion. Many of our Dollar Decisions have been bad decisions, but the Bible shows us how to be content and how to be missional with the dollars God has entrusted to us.

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Many of the decisions we make in life, even on a daily basis, deal with money. And many of us are convinced that if we just had more money that the decisions we have to make would be easier and that many of life’s problems would disappear. That’s not the case, though, is it? The Bible presents a different picture of money and gives us the proper perspective to make those Dollar Decisions.

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Tucked away in this Parable of the Vineyard Owner is a truth that we need to be clear on. Jesus said of Himself as the Chief Cornerstone, “Whoever falls on that stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.” We need to be broken before Him; He wants us to be broken before Him. But none of us wants to be crushed. Neither does He want to bring that judgment on you. So, yield to Him, and see what wonderful things He will do through a broken vessel.

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We would never think about questioning Jesus’ authority. Not out loud. But the religious leaders of His day did. They did it because His authority threatened theirs. And they were not willing to either lose their authority or bow down to His. We may not say it out loud, but we have a tendency to resist His authority over us too. Yield to Him. That which is for His glory is for your good.