Todays sermon was given by our priest in charge the Rev Nick Mwandia on the 20th Sunday after Trinity, 22nd Octorber 2023. Download Mp3 HERE! Sermon starts at 3:20 Matthew 22 v 15-22 Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar 15 Then … Continue reading →
Todays sermon was given by our priest in charge the Rev Nick Mwandia on the 20th Sunday after Trinity, 22nd Octorber 2023.
Download Mp3 HERE!
Sermon starts at 3:20
Matthew 22 v 15-22
Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar
15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words.
16 They sent
their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that
you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the
truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they
are.
17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax to Caesar
or not?”
18 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to
trap me?
19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a
denarius,
20 and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21 “Caesar’s,” they replied.
Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is
God’s.”
22 When they heard this, they were amazed. So, they left him and went away.
1 Corinthians 12 v 1-11
Concerning Spiritual Gifts
1 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be
uninformed.
2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were
influenced and led astray to mute idols.
3 Therefore I want you to know that no one
who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say,
“Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.
5 There are
different kinds of service, but the same Lord.
6 There are different kinds of working,
but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.
7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
8 To
one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of
knowledge by means of the same Spirit,
9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to
another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,
10 to another miraculous powers, to
another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in
different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.
11 All
these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one,
just as he determines.