What Jesus Did! 'You Just Don't Know!' — Mark 12:19-24

Isn't it refreshing to hear Jesus tell the simple truth to these manipulative schemers? "You don't know the Scriptures, and you don't know the power of God." So often today, we sit in circles and ask different folks for judgment of a passage from God's Scriptures rather than trying to learn its message for us. It's almost like we're leaving the meaning up to the faulty and error-prone judges of an Olympic boxing, skating, or gymnastics event. They hold their signs to say what score the Scripture deserves. Instead, shouldn't we be asking other questions like ... What do I need to do to apply this Scripture in my life? What do I need to do to live in obedience to God's Scriptures? How is this truth going to change my behavior? Rather than sitting in judgment over God's Scriptures, shouldn't we in humility confess that we don't know enough to critique it and we don't understand God's power fully enough to grasp how it can be fully accomplished? Even more, when someone pontificates on a subject trying to sound religious and yet espouses something counter to biblical truth, shouldn't we gently remind them of Jesus' warning? Perhaps we're a little too infatuated with our opinions and not familiar enough with God's truth. Perhaps we're all a little afraid of the dissenting opinion of the conventional wisdom and not committed to obeying God's heavenly wisdom.