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Foregoing Your Rights
The disciples were back in Capernaum and the question of relationships and relative loyalties was suddenly sprung on Peter.
He was confronted by the people who were responsible for collecting the annual half-shekel tax that was levied against all Jews for the maintenance of the temple and its services.
“Doesn’t your Master pay His taxes?” they asked in effect.
matt 17.
Illustration of taking the wrong!
I was in a meeting with Clarence sexton back in1996.
There was an issue he had to deal with and it involved letting go three staff members.
I knew what the issue was and saw Dr. Sexton tore up by the gossip and by the staff members andtheir friends.
He was within his rights to publically declare whay they were fired but he did not to protect thier children and their families.
He took the wrong!
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The disciples were back in Capernaum and the question of relationships and relative loyalties was suddenly sprung on Peter.
The disciples were back in Capernaum and the question of relationships and relative loyalties was suddenly sprung on Peter.
He was confronted by the people who were responsible for collecting the annual half-shekel tax that was levied against all Jews for the maintenance of the temple and its services.
“Doesn’t your Master pay His taxes?” they asked in effect
Background
The omniscience of the Lord is seen in what followed.
When Peter came home, Jesus spoke to him first—before Peter had a chance to tell what had happened.
“What do you think, Simon?
From whom do the kings of the earth take customs and taxes, from their sons or from strangers?”
The question must be understood in the light of those days.
A ruler taxed his subjects for the support of his kingdom and his family, but he didn’t tax his own family.
Under our form of government, everyone is taxed, including the ruler and his household.
17:26 Peter correctly answered that rulers collected tribute from strangers.
Jesus then pointed out that the sons are free.
The point was that the temple was God’s house.
For Jesus, the Son of God, to pay tribute for the support of this temple would be equivalent to paying tribute to Himself.
17:27 However, rather than cause needless offense, the Lord agreed to pay the tax.
But what would He do for money?
It is never recorded that Jesus personally carried money.
He sent Peter to the Sea of Galilee and told him to bring up the first fish he caught.
In the mouth of that fish was a piece of money or stater which Peter used to pay the tribute—one-half for the Lord Jesus and one-half for himself
The omniscience of the Lord is seen in what followed.
vs25 - When Peter came home, Jesus spoke to him first—before Peter had a chance to tell what had happened.
“What do you think, Simon?
From whom do the kings of the earth take customs and taxes, from their sons or from strangers?”
The question must be understood in the light of those days.
A ruler taxed his subjects for the support of his kingdom and his family, but he didn’t tax his own family.
Under our form of government, everyone is taxed, including the ruler and his household.
17:26 Peter correctly answered that rulers collected tribute from strangers.
Jesus then pointed out that the sons are free.
The point was that the temple was God’s house.
For Jesus, the Son of God, to pay tribute for the support of this temple would be equivalent to paying tribute to Himself.
17:27 However, rather than cause needless offense, the Lord agreed to pay the tax.
But what would He do for money?
It is never recorded that Jesus personally carried money.
He sent Peter to the Sea of Galilee and told him to bring up the first fish he caught.
In the mouth of that fish was a piece of money or stater which Peter used to pay the tribute—one-half for the Lord Jesus and one-half for himself
What did Peter learn from this?
Peter is watching and what will he take away from this discussion?
This is a teaching moment
I Confrontations Will Happen
The Jerusalem temple was very costly to maintain, so the temple officials used Exodus 30:13 as their authority to levy a temple tax on all male Jews over twenty years of age.
A half-shekel was the equivalent of two or three days’ pay.
Theoretically the tax was obligatory, although the Pharisees and Sadducees argued about that issue, just as they did about everything else.
On the first of the month Adar (March) the authorities made a public announcement that it was time to pay the tax.
On the fifteenth of Adar, collection booths were set up throughout the country.
Payment could be made at the booths until the twenty-fifth of the month; after that payment had to be made directly to the temple in Jerusalem.
We must remember that this was a Jewish tax, not a Roman one, and that it was a tax with Scriptural warrant.
The half-shekel that was paid was regarded as given to God.
So the tax collectors accosted Peter.
There can be little doubt that the question was asked in a hostile manner and with malicious intent.
The revenue officers could easily have asked Jesus directly since He was back in town and available.
Doubtless they were hoping that Jesus would refuse to pay the tax or that Peter would make an incriminating statement.
Peter, however, knew that the Lord kept the Mosaic law in letter and in spirit.
Never had he known Him to do anything else.
So he answered with a brief yes and walked away.
The Jerusalem temple was very costly to maintain, so the temple officials used as their authority to levy a temple tax on all male Jews over twenty years of age.
A half-shekel was the equivalent of two or three days’ pay.
On the first of the month Adar (March) the authorities made a public announcement that it was time to pay the tax.
On the fifteenth of Adar, collection booths were set up throughout the country.
Payment could be made at the booths until the twenty-fifth of the month; after that payment had to be made directly to the temple in Jerusalem.
We must remember that this was a Jewish tax, not a Roman one, and that it was a tax with Scriptural warrant.
The half-shekel that was paid was regarded as given to God.
So the tax collectors accosted Peter.
There can be little doubt that the question was asked in a hostile manner and with malicious intent.
The revenue officers could easily have asked Jesus directly since He was back in town and available.
Doubtless they were hoping that Jesus would refuse to pay the tax or that Peter would make an incriminating statement.
Peter, however, knew that the Lord kept the Mosaic law in letter and in spirit.
Never had he known Him to do anything else.
So he answered with a brief yes and walked away.
This was a set up from the beginning.
Peter answered correctly and Jesus did pay the tax, but he did not have to.
Sometimes we may be 100% correct in our position but we give in to gain an audience.
Illustration - law suits ..... were you really damaged.
ED - tattoo man - wanted to sue hospital and doctor wrong medication .
He was right but , he was not hurt or damaged.
take the wrong
Why are we so quick to demand our rights?
Do we not consider others first?
When we look at the nursery we see the “my way or the highway crowd”
That’s mine, and it gets taken away .....
Sharing and giving it up are man’s natural inclinations.
That’s why some Christians never tithe or give the special offerings?
they never got he memo that its not theirs’s
II Concrete Position of Correctness
II Concrete Position of Correctness
matt
The Lord was reminding Peter of his confession at Caesarea Philippi and of what he had heard on the mount of transfiguration.
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