The Bryce Crawford Podcast - Luke Series Chapter 20 (EP 168)

Episode Date: December 20, 2025

In this episode, Bryce breaks down Luke 20.

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Jesusandestreet.org slash tour, get your tickets. And we'll see you guys, 26 for the live podcast tour. What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver podcast. I'm Bryson. Today, we are in Luke chapter 20. But before we get into it, as always, we need Elf Dylan in the room. Elf Dylan. Merry Christmas, Bryce. Thank you so much. It's always good to hear you say that. All right. Let's go with this one. It says joy. Oh, thank you. Got to love. It gives you joy. Got to love the joy.

Whoa! This might be the best one we've gotten. Bottlehead. A Jesus bobblehead. Oh, man, I'm loving this. Oh, thank you so much, Elf Dillon. I appreciate you. That's super kind. Here's it. You know what? I might have to put this on the table right now.

I got to do it. This might be the best one that we've been given so far. Thank you, Elf Dylan. This is very thoughtful of you. I appreciate that. This is cool. Now, this is meant for your car, right? But, you know, we can just temporarily set it up here. It's also good for a table. Wow, thank you. Very, very, a two and one. Merry Christmas. Thank you so much, Dylan. And as always, we're going to be in the Word of God today. And Luke, chapter 20, one day as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes,

what the elders came up and said to him, tell us by what authority do you do these things, or who it is that you gave, or who it is that gave you this authority. Now, notice every time in scripture, the Pharisees challenged Jesus, they're doing it in an insincere way. They're trying to trip them up. They're not sincerely asking them questions. They're just insincerely trying to trip them up. He answered them, I'll also ask you a question.

Now tell me, was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? And they discussed it with one another saying, well, if we say from heaven, he will say, why did you not believe him? But if we say from man, all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet. See, because everything that John the Baptist did was evidence in a sign that he was sent from God, everything that he did. So they answered that they did not know where it came from, and Jesus said of them, neither will I tell you by what authority do these things? See, if John was from God, then he was right in saying that Jesus is the Messiah. So he caught them. He said, look, I don't have to tell you if I'm the Messiah or not. Look at the fruit of

my life, look at the fruit of John's life, look at what John did, you should know this by now, you know what I'm talking about, I don't have to say it with my mouth. Isn't that so cool? You know, Muslims always want to say, where in the Bible does Jesus say, I am God worship me? My God, Jesus Christ, is bigger than having to say, I'm God worship me. Through his actions, he deemed himself worthy of worship. We recognize his divinity through his actions, through the way he lived his life. It's beautiful. It's magnificent. And then in verse 9, he begins to tell a parable and he began to tell the people in this parable saying, a man planted a vineyard. This vineyard is referencing Old Testament Israel. A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went

into another country for a long while. When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenant so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. And then he sent another servant, but they also beat and treated him shamefully and sent him away empty-handed. And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out. Then the owner of the vineyard said, what shall I do? Well, I send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him. But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, this is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance may be ours. And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come.

and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others. When they heard this, they said, surely not, but he looked directly at them and said, what then is this that is written? And this is a quote from Psalm 118 that Jesus is going to say. The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, talking about himself. Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him. This is interesting. Jesus gives a beautiful parable of himself. and the people that were in that parable that were led were tenants that went there that they beat beforehand would be considered the prophets.

Verse 19. I love this next passage. I think it is so crucial. Scribes and the chief priest sought to lay hands on him at that very hour. For they perceived that he had told his parables against them, but they feared the people. So they watched him and since spies who pretended to be sincere so that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. So they asked him, teacher,

We know that you speak and teach rightly and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar or not Caesar is the leader of the government at the time? When he perceived their craftiness and said to them, Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have? They said, Caesar's. And he said, then, they're rendered to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are gods. You see, what Jesus is saying is, look, there's something that the governmental authorities require.

and because God has delegated authority to the governments of the world, submission to those authorities that aren't led into sin, submit them. If the governments of the world require something that isn't sinful, lend that submission because God has given them authority. Give the Caesar what a Caesar said to God the things that are gods. And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer, they became silent. Now, verse 27, we're about to see the Sadducees.

So you have the Pharisees and the Sadducees, both sets of religious. leaders of the Sadducees, and came to them some Sadducees, verse 27, who deny that there's a resurrection. And they asked him a question saying, teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The verse took a wife and died without children. And the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. Afterward, the woman also died. And the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? for the seven had her as a wife.

Trying to trip Jesus up. Jesus said to them, the sons of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage. But they cannot die anymore because they are equal to the angels and are sons of God,

being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls to the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living for all lived in him. Then some of the scribes under him, T-shirt, you have spoken well, for they no longer dared to ask him questions.

They were trying to trip him up. And this is interesting. But then he said to them, how can they say that Christ is David's son, talking about King David. For David himself says in the book of Psalms, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstle. That's a quote from Psalm 110, verse 1. David thus calls him Lord, so how is he the son of God?

Revelation 2216 would tell us that Jesus is both the root and the offspring of David, answering this question. And then verse 45 to close, and in the hearing of all the people, he said as disciples, beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long rooms and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows' houses and for pretense make long prayers, they will not, they will receive the greater condemnation. up lofty prayers to the appearance of godliness. They wear long robes for the appearance of royalty and godliness.

They like the greatest seats in the synagogues because they want people to see how holy they are. True holiness and righteousness is louder in secret than it is in public. Because character defends itself, integrity defends itself. And they want the appearance of godliness but deny its power. Don't be like the scribes. be one who's faithful to Jesus in private. Guys, I pray that Luke chapter 20 was an encouragement to you and we'll see you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 21.

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