Authority, Who has it???

Matthew 21:23-46

The conflict in this passage is between Jesus and the religious leaders over the issue of AUTHORITY and specifically where did Jesus get His and did He have authority over them. They feared that His Authority would threaten their own.

I am convinced that scores of people today are there as well. Many ask themselves, "Why should I yield control over my marriage, children, finances, career, thought life, words, actions, everything I am and hope to be to anyone, much less someone I have never met because He died 2000 years ago?"

Jesus made many claims about His Deity. Three of them we must consider:

1. "I and my Father are One."

2. "Before Abraham was I Am."

3. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life and no one comes to the Father except through Me."

We will examine two parables that Jesus gave to prove why we must yield to Him totally.

In Christ

Pastor Todd