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Open Access Psalm 125 and Matthew 26 - 27 Everything is open now.  Access to God is now open to us. There’s no more curtain, no more barrier between God and man.  There’s no more barrier between heaven and earth.  And there’s no more barrier between life and death.  Now we can have all that God has intended for us - in this world and in the world to come.  It’s made available to us because Jesus gave up his spirit, fulfilling all Scripture and completing all that His Father asked him to do. He became that perfect sacrifice, that enables you and I to live the with-God life, here and now, on planet earth.  And we will have the with-God life when we’re gone, too.  The curtain split in two, the earth split apart, and so did the tombs.  There’s nothing that stands in the way now, to abundant and eternal life, because Jesus gave up his spirit.  He gave up everything for us, that we might have everything in him. Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always

 LIVING DEBT-FREE Today’s reading is Matthew 20 – 22.  We are reading from the New Living Translation. It seems we owe some back taxes.  Have you ever heard the phrase: There are only two things certain in the world – death and taxes?  Well, the Pharisees came to trap Jesus with the question of whether they should pay taxes to Caesar or not.  The Pharisees wanted him to say No.  They saw themselves as citizens of God’s kingdom and not of Rome. They didn’t believe that Caesar, as an occupying force, should have sovereign control over God’s people.  The Pharisees believed they should not pay, but rather find ways to resist and avoid paying.  party line.  They knew that if Jesus answered publicly this way he would have run a fowl of the occupying government and be arrested.  But if he simply answered Yes. Pay.  then he would have been seen as a sympathizer to the Romans and would have lost all credibility with the crowds.   It was a pretty good trap.  But Jesus wouldn’t be trapped.  He simply used their question