And the TRUTH is........

                                                                    The Truth Will Set You Free

John 8:31-36  So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 
32  and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” 
33  They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”
34  Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. 
35  The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.
36  So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 

JESUS IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS

                                                     For God So Loved the World

John 3:16 - 21 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 
17  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
18  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
19  And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 
20  For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 
21  But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.” 

It would be wise to bear good fruit

                                               THE PARABLE OF THE TENANTS

Matthew 21:33-44 “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. 
34  When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. 
35  And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 
36  Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 
37  Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 
38  But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 
39  And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 
40  When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 
41  They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”
42  Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? 
43  Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 
44  And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.” 

AUTHORITY & JUDGEMENT

                                                 JESUS HEALS A PARALYTIC

Matthew 9:1-8  And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city.
2  And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.” 
3  And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.”
4  But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? 
5  For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? 
6  But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.”
7  And he rose and went home.
8  When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

The Great Commandment

                                               THE GREAT COMMANDMENT

Mat 22:34 - 46  But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
35  And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
36  “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
37  And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 
38  This is the great and first commandment. 
39  And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 
40  On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” 
                                                     Whose Son Is the Christ?
41  Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
42  saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”
43  He said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying, 
44  “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet”’? 
45  If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” 
46  And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.