Bulletins - Real Life Selkirk

Sermon
Key Text
Matthew 21:23–46 NIV
Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you this authority?” Jesus replied, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. John’s baptism—where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or of human origin?” They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ But if we say, ‘Of human origin’—we are afraid of the people, for they all hold that John was a prophet.” So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then he said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things. “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ “ ‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go. “Which of the two did what his father wanted?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him. “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.” Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “ ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.” When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them. They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.
Introduction
Have you ever noticed how quickly we can defend ourselves?
Someone says, “Hey, did you forget to do that thing I asked you to do?”
And before they even finish the sentence:
“Well, here's what happened…”
We are amazing attorneys when we're defending ourselves.
Nobody had to teach us this.
You see it in little kids.
“Did you hit your brother?”
“Yes…but he…”
There it is.
The defense has begun.
And we don't really grow out of it. We just get better vocabulary.
We explain.
We minimize.
We compare.
We blame.
We justify.
Because there is something inside of us that really doesn't like saying three simple words:
I was wrong.
And here's what's interesting: sometimes the hardest place to say “I was wrong” is in our relationship with God.
Because if God is right about something in my life, then I may have to change.
And sometimes I would rather defend what I'm doing than surrender what I'm doing.
So today I want to ask you to do something that may be uncomfortable.
As we walk through this passage, don't spend your time thinking about somebody else who needs to hear it.
Don't think, “Oh man, I wish my husband was here.”
Don't elbow your wife.
Don't text this sermon to your kid halfway through.
Just let Jesus talk to you.
Because we're going to meet some religious leaders today who have become very good at defending themselves.
And it would be easy to look at them and think:
“How could they possibly miss this?”
But if we're willing to look closely enough, I think we're going to discover something uncomfortable.
They look a lot like us.
As we step into our text today, I want us to look at some context.
Two weeks ago, Jesus entered Jerusalem…
As we step into our text today, I want us to look at some context.
Two weeks ago, Jesus entered Jerusalem. A lot of people had entered Jerusalem. Even some on donkeys. But when Jesus entered, He did so in a way that fulfilled prophecy. And he didn’t back down from that. In fact, He said, “I won’t tell the people to be quiet. If I do, the rocks will cry out.”
Jesus was claiming a Messianic entrance into the city.
Last week, we saw Jesus go into the temple and clear the temple out. He turned over the money changers tables, and quoted Scripture about how his Fathers house is to be called a house of prayer, not a den of thieves
The religious leaders had to be feeling some tension at this point. They hadn’t granted that someone could declare themselves the Messiah. This religious care job was their responsibility. Jesus was operating outside of their framework.
What gives him the right?
This is where our text picks up today?
Preaching Text
Matthew 21:23–27 NIV
Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you this authority?” Jesus replied, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. John’s baptism—where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or of human origin?” They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ But if we say, ‘Of human origin’—we are afraid of the people, for they all hold that John was a prophet.” So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then he said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
A Heart Revealed (v.23-27)
Recap the text:
Jesus walks into the temple and the money changers had to be covering up their tables.
The priests were likely thinking, “Here we go again.”
They cut Jesus off and say, “What gives you the right to do what you did?
I want you to know, this question is not wrong?
I want you to imagine that we are here for service and someone comes in with an orange vest and puts yellow tape over both bathrooms and says, “You can’t go in there.”
We would want to ask the question, “By what authority are you doing this thing?”
If it is by the authority of the West Bonner School District, we would have to comply and figure out another plan.
If it is by the authority of a couple of people who got vests from Amazon and wanted to play a prank, we would not listen to them.
But I want you to look deeper into their question.
They were not saying, “You were wrong in what you did and said.”
They recognized the implications of what Jesus did and said and they knew what it meant for them.
Jesus crystalizes their tension by not answering directly, but rather pointing to JTB.
JTB had revealed the authority of Jesus and had preached about the authority of Jesus.
Baptism
Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
He must become greater, I must become less.
JTB preached the OT Scriptures with the authority of a prophet and had led many people to repentance.
And this all happened across the river from Jerusalem. Many if not most of the people in Jerusalem had likely gone out to see JTB at some point.
He was held in high regard until Herod killed him just a matter of months before this moment.
Jesus revealed this tension to the leaders and they would not answer.
Their deliberation was not about if Jesus was truth. The deliberation was surrounding the ramifications of if Jesus was who He said He was.
John said Jesus was the Messiah.
The crowd loved John.
If they said they agreed with John, then Jesus had every right to do what He did and they should fall in line with sweeping changes.
If they didn’t agree with John, then they feared the people, because the people knew that John was sent by God. Their very changed lives were a witness to this fact.
I want to pause here and address the heart of these leaders. It is easy for us to say, “They were just stupid and evil.”
A few weeks ago, we introduced 6 things that reveal our god.
The Priests Authority:
Identity: We are the spiritual leaders
Morality: We are the model of righteousness
Protection: Perception of being right and being on God’s side in every situation
The Priests Authority:
Hope: God blesses our righteousness
Salvation: Our righteousness earns God’s favor
Meaning: Our purpose in life is living the religious system God gave us.
They served the false god of religion and self-righteousness.
They had to be right to be okay.
Think of the ramifications to their worldview if Jesus was right.
Review the two lists again:
The leaders are wrong, not to be trusted. God gave them their position and they needed to be rusted
They are no longer the model of righteousness before the people. They lose credibility
They aren’t always God’s opinion in every conversation
It would cause them to question their position, their favor before God, their authority.
This was not simply, “Ok, Jesus, you were right about this.
It revealed a much deeper and entrenched heart. A heart that is seen in our world and especially in our churches today.
Satan has a strategy. He wants to kill, steal and destroy. If you get into the doors of the church, he is going to continue to work to get you to miss the mark in your heart.
He isn’t going to tempt you with “I reject Jesus and I am becoming an atheist.”
He will get you to become the determining factor in your own heart of what you will allow Jesus to say and do.
We retain the highest authority in our hearts.
I’ve grown up in church. I’ve seen it. I’ve been this. Every time we go to directed prayer, God brings the same sin to your mind.
You say, “I’ll have to get to that someday.”
If the Spirit of God is bringing it to your heart, it isn’t a question of sin, it is a question of authority.
When you go to God in prayer, He continually addresses your porn addiction, your unforgiveness, your hatred, or even your phone addiction, how do you respond.
The easy way is, dismissing it. We become addicted to conviction in our heart and become very skilled in deflecting repentance.
We may look at the religious temple leaders as idiots, but in reality, we are looking at ourselves in the mirror more than we like to admit.
Continual surrender to the authority of Jesus means massive ramifications to our lives.
Jesus then highlights their hearts by telling two stories:
The first is about a person willing to admit he was wrong.
The second is what happens in the heart of the person who refuses to admit he is wrong.
Matthew 21:28–32 NIV
“What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ “ ‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go. “Which of the two did what his father wanted?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
The Evidence of Authority is Repentance (v. 28-32)
Navigate the parable:
Jesus tells a really simple parable: a dad has two boys. He tells both of them to mow the lawn. One boy says, “Sure dad, no problem. I will obey you in everything you say. The other kids says, “Do I have to? Why do you always ruin my weekends. I don’t want to.”
At this point, we feel we have a pretty good idea about who is the good kid and who the “other” kid is.
But then Jesus twists the story.
The first kid that said he would mow the lawn went out hanging out with his friends and never mowed the lawn.
To the dad’s surprise, he got home from work and the lawn was mowed and the younger son was sitting on the front porch all sweaty and drinking lemonade.
The dad says, “I thought you said you weren’t going to mow the lawn?”
He says, “Sorry dad, I changed my mind. You need the lawn mowed, I mowed it for you.”
Jesus asks, “Which kid did what the dad asked?”
The obvious answer is the second one.
Here is a truth to mine from this text:
Acknowledging authority is very different from surrendering to authority.
The first son acknowledged the father’s authority, but did not surrender.
The second son’s actions showed surrender.
But that surrender had to come after a heart change.
Last week, we talked about faith (Pistis) and how it is not just believing something to be true. Rather is it is allegiance to a new authority.
Allegiance cannot be conditional. It cannot be dual between something else.
Allegiance (Pistis) is recognition and surrender to the authority if Jesus.
Here is the thing about allegiance, we will come to the crossroads of finding out who the real authority is at some point.
Repentance is what happens when my allegiance to Jesus requires me to change direction.
Following Jesus, saying He has my heart, saying “Jesus is #1” is so easy.
Being the first brother is so easy and it looks good to everyone!
But when the issues of life come to the forefront, our allegiances are challenged:
If I determine the boundaries of Jesus’ authority, I AM STILL THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY!
You are all at church today. At some point, you have said that Jesus can have your Sunday morning. But what if He want’s your Monday? Your Tuesday?
I say I have surrendered to Jesus but, I also say:
My finances are mine.
My relationships are mine.
My sexuality is mine.
My future is mine.
My politics are mine.
My forgiveness is mine.
Who decided where Jesus’ jurisdiction ended?
I did.
Never underestimate the spiritual significance of these three words:
I WAS WRONG
I AM WRONG
We are in the shoes of these two boys every single day. Our lives reflect our allegiance
Are we honoring God with our lips while our hearts are far from Him?
Do we look at Jesus as a consultant in our lives?
“Great point Jesus, I’ll take that under consideration?”
Where do my words say ,”Yes Lord”, but my life says, “No.”
Repentance is often seen as a one time event when we come to Jesus.
However, Jesus wants us to have a repentant heart. Not a heart that once repented.
We can see the results of a repentant heart in the last two verses of this passage:
Matthew 21:31–32 NIV
“Which of the two did what his father wanted?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
Repentance Leads to Confession (v. 31-32)
Jesus brings a stunning contrast to the story of the two sons.
One son is the religious leaders
The other son is the tax collectors and sinners
At this moment in the temple courts two groups of people share the same space.
Both groups need grace
Both groups are in the presence of God
One group admits it
The other group justifies themselves.
We often think that repentance is just changing my actions.
But an important step is acknowledging our sin.
I want you to imagine the group of people that were following Jesus into the temple that day.
Clearly it was made up of some people with some pretty broken pasts.
I even think of Matthew. At one level, I imagine Matthew valued the opportunity to follow Jesus greater than any of the other disciples.
He had come from the place of the most sin.
But can you imagine being Matthew and seeing people shake their heads at Jesus. Calling him a hypocrite because people like you are hanging out with him.
This isn’t in the Bible, but I imagine Matthew may have had this conversation with Jesus:
“Jesus, my reputation is bad for your ministry. I love that you called me, but it is probably better for you that you leave me behind.”
Jesus says, “Matthew, I did not come for my reputation. I came for you.
And now here in front of the chief priests, Jesus and these followers come in. The chief priests only know the followers by their sin.
That is the tax collector
That is the prostitute
That is the thief
That is the addict
But Jesus says, “That may be how you see them, but I see them as citizens of my Kingdom.”
They have confessed their sin.
Confession is when we stop putting our excuse at the end of our prayer.
God, I’ve had a lot of anger against that person...BUT.
God I was wrong...BUT
I know you are convicting me of sin, BUT
Just stop and acknowledge your sin.
Confession is agreeing with Jesus as King that He is right and you are wrong.
You have to acknowledge that.
We hide our sin to protect ourselves.
Think back to the 6 critical elements of our heart:
If righteousness provides identity, confession threatens who I am.
If reputation provides protection, confession threatens my image.
If comparison provides morality, confession threatens my superiority.
If control provides hope, confession threatens my future.
If self-justification provides salvation, confession destroys my defense.
If accomplishment provides meaning, confession threatens the story I've built about myself.
The very foundations on which we have built our lives are undermined.
So we hide. We make excuses for ourselves.
We rename our sin:
Gossip becomes concern
Control becomes leadership
Greed becomes responsibility
Cruelty becomes honesty
Once I can make my sin sound righteous, i can keep it without confessing it.
I have become the older brother. Righteous in my own eyes, but far away from surrender. And I am the one deceived.
I want you to see this about those who confess their sin to Jesus. Those who lay down their lives for the sake of allegiance to the King:
Jesus isn’t celebrating prostitution, or corruption.
Jesus is celebrating repentance.
Let’s go back to our six categories:
Because God gives me identity, I can admit I'm wrong.
Because God protects me, I don't have to control everyone's opinion.
Because God defines morality, I can call my sin what it is.
Because God gives hope, failure doesn't determine my future.
Because God saves, I don't have to justify myself.
Because God gives meaning, my worst moment doesn't define my life.
Do you see the grace? Do you see the life? Do you see the hope?
Maybe you’ve thought your past is too bad for Jesus.
Maybe you thought the church walls would cave in.
Maybe you are the righteous person who has verbally confessed Jesus, but you’ve stopped repenting.
Your sin doesn’t surprise God.
We exist to reach the world for Jesus, one person at a time.
Jesus then brings gravity to this topic with His next story.
Matthew 21:33–41 NIV
“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”
We will defend what we won’t confess (v. 33-41)
I want to talk though this passage with an eye on the tenants of the vineyard.
They have legitimate authority. They were given authority over the vineyard.
However, it is a delegated authority.
Here is the problem: Stewardship begins to feel like ownership
These men eventually started to justify in their minds:
We were given authority
This is our vineyard
We’ve worked it, watered it, weeded it
What was entrusted to us has become ours.
Their hearts were exposed.
I want you to think of this parable, but exchange “Vineyard” with something God has entrusted to you:
God entrusted Jared with money
Jared started to look at his money as his own. Ownership over Stewardship.
God allowed sermons to be preached
God brought mentors into his life
The Holy Spirit revealed the scriptures of how Jared should be generous with his money.
But Jared continually dismissed every warning, saying, “It’s my money.”
My body
My time
My marriage
My children
My career
My future
My life
Do you see where I am going with this?
These things were entrusted to the stewards. Not given.
Surrender isn’t giving Jesus something that belongs to me. It is acknowledging that it belonged to Him all along.
The more they rejected the owner, the more they were convinced they were right.
We look at this and say, “How incredibly stupid! They actually thought by killing the son that they would get the field?”
Until we realize that this is not a parable about a field.
This is a parable about the heart. A heart of the religious leaders that was corrupt.
A heart that had seen the truth from the prophets, from God Himself, and from the mouth of Jesus, but still refused to surrender.
If we continue to maintain hard hearts after the work of God in our lives, we are no different.
Where have I started calling ”mine” what God calls “entrusted”?
Matthew 21:42–46 NIV
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “ ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.” When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them. They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.
We can fall on the Stone— Or the Stone will fall on us (v. 42-46)
Here is where we can start to pull this whole passage together.
The religious leaders asked, “By what authority?”
Jesus doesn’t defend His authority. He reveals their heart.
A heart that does not surrender to the God they claim to follow.
Then Jesus shows them where they fit in the story of prophecy
“The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.”
He would be rejected. And these were the people who would reject Him.
But He reveals Himself to them as the cornerstone
The cornerstone was a rock that was placed at the corner of a wall and it would by the rock that every other rock leaned upon.
It is the foundation of the entire structure.
God was establishing Him through their rejection.
Then Jesus gives a powerful warning:
Matthew 21:44 NIV
Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
This probably sounds like an odd verse, but I hope that by explaining it today, it will be something you underline in your Bible.
The phrase “broken to pieces” is the greek word
Synthlao- (Greek)— Broken together, crushed together
What does repentance require? It requires something to break. Something inside of me has to break.
My pride
My insistence on being right
My justifications
My claim to ownership
My protection of myself
My own authority.
The tax collector comes to Jesus BROKEN
The prostitute comes to Jesus BROKEN
We must be willing to come to the rock of ages and allow it to break us and shape us into whatever He wants. In any and every part of our lives.
Broken doesn’t mean useless
What does Jesus do with broken pieces? Broken lives? Broken pasts? Broken families?
The tax collector brought the pieces to Jesus
The prostitute brought the pieces to Jesus
The sinner brings their pieces to Jesus
Jesus doesn’t demand that they make sense of their broken pieces. The confusion and chaos of a pile of broken lives means nothing but hopelessness to us.
But to Jesus, He can redeem.
There is grace to those who come to him and allow His truth to break Him.
They willingly allow themselves to be broken on the rock.
Refusing to break doesn’t remove the authority of the stone.
The second phrase I want us to see here is:
Likmao- (Greek) to grind or crush into powder
Now the direction reverses.
The first person falls upon the stone
The stone falls upon the second person.
I can surrender to Jesus’ authority, or I will answer to Jesus’ authority— But I will not escape Jesus’ authority.
The religious leaders make the mistake of challenging that Jesus is this rock.
They will not break themselves in humility on the authority of Jesus.
So the authority of Jesus will break them.
Satan wants us to confuse brokenness with destruction
The enemy whispers in our ear:
Don’t confess that, people will judge you
Don’t admit you are wrong, people will think you are stupid
Don’t let anyone know, sin can be invisible
Hold yourself together, you don’t want to look like you aren’t in control
Why would he whisper these things?
Because He wants us to believe that repentance will destroy us.
But broken people receive grace.
The chief priests were protecting themselves from the humiliation of saying, “We were wrong”
Looking at it through this lens, it is a silly battle to fight for such eternal consequences.
I would rather be broken before Jesus than crushed by trying to protect myself from Him.
Gospel: Maybe you came in believing that you had to put all of your pieces together for God.
Our passage today shows us the opposite.
Come broken
Come with addiction
Come with failure
Come with guilt
Come with questions
Come with your past
Come with the broken pieces
But come surrendered
Conclusion
So I don't want to end today by giving you six things to do.
I want to leave you with one question.
And I want you to sit with it long enough to let the Holy Spirit answer it:
What am I protecting that keeps me from surrendering completely to Jesus?
What am I protecting?
Maybe it's my reputation.
If I admit this, what will people think?
Maybe it's my righteousness.
I've spent a long time believing I'm the good one.
Maybe it's control.
I know what Jesus says, but I don't know what will happen if I actually obey him.
Maybe it's hurt.
If I forgive them, it feels like I'm saying what they did doesn't matter.
Maybe it's a relationship.
Maybe it's money.
Maybe it's sexuality.
Maybe it's an addiction nobody else knows about.
Maybe it's simply my need to be right.
What am I protecting that keeps me from surrendering completely to Jesus?
Because that's what these religious leaders couldn't do.
They protected their position.
They protected their reputation.
They protected their righteousness.
They protected their authority.
And eventually they protected themselves right out of repentance.
But standing nearby were tax collectors and prostitutes who had nothing left to prove.
They simply came to Jesus and said:
“You're right. I need grace.”
And Jesus received them.
So if you're here today and you know Jesus, maybe the most spiritual thing you can do today isn't promise Jesus you'll try harder.
Maybe it's simply to confess:
“Jesus, you're right. I'm wrong. And I surrender this to you.”
And if you're here and you've never surrendered your life to Jesus, please hear what this passage says about him.
You do not have to put all the pieces together before you come.
You don't have to clean up the past.
You don't have to convince him you're a good person.
You don't have to justify yourself.
Come broken.
Come guilty.
Come confused.
Come with your past.
Come with the pieces.
Just come surrendered.
Because Jesus already knows every piece—and there is grace for the person who will stop defending themselves and come to him.
So before we leave, don't ask what your spouse needs to surrender.
Don't ask what your kids need to surrender.
Don't ask what somebody across the room needs to surrender.
Just ask:
What am I protecting that keeps me from surrendering completely to Jesus?
And whatever the Holy Spirit brings to mind—
don't defend it.
Don't explain it.
Don't put a “but” behind it.
Bring it to the Cornerstone.
I'd rather be broken before Jesus than crushed by trying to protect myself from him.
- - Matthew 21:23–46ESV
- - Matthew 21:23–27ESV
- - Matthew 21:28–32ESV
- - Matthew 21:31–32ESV
- - Matthew 21:33–41ESV
- - Matthew 21:42–46ESV
- - Matthew 21:44ESV

Sermon

Key Text

Introduction

Preaching Text

A Heart Revealed (v.23-27)

The Evidence of Authority is Repentance (v. 28-32)

Repentance Leads to Confession (v. 31-32)

We will defend what we won’t confess (v. 33-41)

We can fall on the Stone— Or the Stone will fall on us (v. 42-46)

Conclusion

Matthew 21:23–46ESV

Matthew 21:23–27ESV

Matthew 21:28–32ESV

Matthew 21:31–32ESV

Matthew 21:33–41ESV

Matthew 21:42–46ESV

Matthew 21:44ESV