Drb Kids

 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