Thoughts to Consider

We all want some type of authority

Jewish leaders asking Jesus authority

• Not to really to know but b/c their position suffering
• Jesus exposes their bad motivation
• They hate Jesus. We have all at a time too.
• Answered to try to not look bad
• Consumed about self interests
• Trying to figure how to do it themselves?

Jesus authority over nature comes from Him creating it

Jesus the King has all authority

• Church serving Jesus

You have been created in His image

He lived the perfect life you cant

You were born to be in fellowship w/ Him

20 One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up 2 and said to him, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.” 3 He answered them, “I also will ask you a question. Now tell me, 4 was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?” 5 And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’ 6 But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.” 7 So they answered that they did not know where it came from. 8 And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

— Luke 20:1-8