Seeking Kingdom Authority: Parables and Perspectives on Truth

2. Matt. 21:23-46

3. 2 Questions • By Who’s authority are you doing miracles? • AND - Who gave you that authority?

4. Jesus answers questions with a question? Matthew 9:14-15Matthew 15:1-3Matthew 15:32-34

5. “24 I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. 25 The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?”

6. John the Baptizer Isaiah 40:3 “3 A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”

7. We drop the needle of truth into a pop-haystack and then complain that it’s hard to find.

8. Winston Churchill “If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”

9. Parables focus on Kingdom Fruitfulness • 2 sons in the vineyard • Tenants of the vineyard

10. 2 Tim 4:3 “3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,”

11. “Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.” Dr Dionysius Lardner (early 1800’s), professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College London

12. “The phonograph has no commercial value at all.” Thomas Edison

13. “Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.” Dr Pierre Pachet, British surgeon and Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.

14. “X-rays will prove to be a hoax.” “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” “Radio has no future.” Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, late 1800’s.

15. “I’m sorry, Mr Kipling, but you just don’t know how to use the English language.” The San Francisco Examiner

16. “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty—a fad.” The president of the Michigan Savings Bank

17. “You better get secretarial work or get married.” Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, advising would-be model Marilyn Monroe in 1944.

18. “If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one.” W.C. Heuper, National Cancer Institute, 1954.

19. “It will be gone by June.” Variety, passing judgement on rock ‘n roll in 1955.

20. What is Kingdom Fruit? 1. Church Planting Churches 2. Disciple making Disciples 3. Eternal Reward