Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.” *

Mark 12:13-27

Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax to Caesar or not?  Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”

But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied. Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”

Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 

At the resurrection[c] whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”

When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

Why?
The questions of Pharisees and Herodians and Sadducees asked, explain more detail about what we believe, which solves many questions we will ask today.

The Kingdom of the Lord is different from this world so we have to pay taxes in this world, and we also need to pay spiritual tax to the kingdom of the Lord.

When we raise from the dead there is a new life in heaven, so the relationship in this world is changed either.

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Q1: 耶穌的政治立場: 法利賽人極度反對羅馬政府、希律王是支持羅馬政府軍的，政治立場不同的人為了找耶穌麻煩居然合作。要耶穌選邊站！凱撒的歸凱撒，神的物當歸神。凱撒的物是凱撒管的到的。其實全部是神的物，一部份交給地上權柄來管。我們是否選天上的政權?我們若把地上的物看的比神還重要，就是把神的物交給凱撒了，我們就比法利賽人、希律黨人還不如了！我們是否可以因為愛的緣故、弟兄姊妹的緣故，放下政治立場的不同。

Q2：復活的問題? 理性與信仰的問題。撒都該人相信摩西律法不相信神蹟。天上人與人的關係，超越地上最親密的(夫妻)還親密。神是活人的神！聖經提到某人的神，我的神表示我與神建立關係。所以代表亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各，他們依然活著，表明神是活人的神。耶穌指出聖經這句話的真正含義！求神讓我們從聖經中讀出神的心意！

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How?

Praise the Lord and give new life in Spirit and raise from the dead, so we have hope in the future we will meet our brothers and sisters in heaven.