Mark 12, Matthew 22 More on Hypocrisy

Jesus saw through the hypocrisy of the religious leaders as they sought to trap Him and cause Him to say what is against scripture. It is the same today. Many come with the questions that they formulate but when truth is revealed, they deny it or question it. Truly Jesus said “you are badly mistaken.” Is this what Jesus would say to us when others come with questions that mirror unbelief?

I recently had a conversation with a fellow believer about the topic of abortion. Even though a believer, she told me I was the unrighteous one for believing that abortion was wrong. I sat there dumbfounded. She had fallen for the lie that the enemy has crafted and used the argument that “you don’t know their circumstances.” Truly Paul wrote: the god of this world has blinded the minds…” 

The religious leaders in the day of Jesus had also crafted what they thought was the right argument to trap Jesus about marriage in the afterlife but He caught them in their argument and silenced them. That is what we face today. Can we silence them with words of truth?