10.25.2020 - God Likes Questions - Matthew 22

In this sermon we consider the role that questions play in the life of faith, that questions are how we come to esteem the sacredness of life as we learn how to see God in all things and all things in God. We consider how the problem was not that the Pharisees and Sadducees questioned Jesus, but that they’re weren’t actually questioning him. They had already decided what they think, thus closing themselves off from God. Their questions are actually questions we should never stop asking as we pursue the way of faith.


“Part of what I’d like to reflect on today is that perhaps these particular questions that they ask of Jesus are in many ways questions that we should never stop asking. The question of paying taxes to Caesar is a question about idolatry and ones allegiance to God over everything. The question about the resurrection is a question about God’s provision and our hope for a future. The question about the greatest commandment is a question about ones purpose in the world. Even Jesus’ question to them is a theological question about who we say that he is. These are questions that we never stop asking. And as we’ll see in a moment to stop asking these questions is like showing up to a wedding in the wrong clothes.”