Luke 20

v1-8: Christ "not only purchased salvation for us but also proclaimed it to us."  But often when He was preaching the gospel to people, he was interrupted.  "This shows us that Satan and his agents do all they can to hinder the preaching of the gospel to the people, because nothing weakens the influence of Satan’s kingdom more."  We should not be surprised when this happen as we try to speak the good news to others.

v9-19: When people are called to do their duty to God, those who have decided not to "cannot bear to be called on to do it."  Even when recognise that the punishment for such a sin is "just, fair, and predictable," they "proceed and persevere in their sinful ways even though at the same time they have a foresight and a dread of the destruction that those ways are leading to."

v20-26: In civil matters we should submit to civil powers, but in spiritual or sacred things, only God is our King.  "We must worship and adore God in such ways as he appointed, and not according to Caesar's inventions."

v27-38: In the world to come, saints cannot die any more, and this is given as a reason why they do not marry.  In the present world where there is death, "there must be marriage in order to fill up the empty spaces left by death, but where there are no burials there is no need for weddings...[as death] is forever excluded from heaven."

v39-47: We can know why the Christ can be both David's Son and David's Lord.  "Christ, as God, was David's Lord, but Christ, as man, was David's Son... By his human nature he was the offspring of David, a branch of his family; by his divine nature he was the root of David, from whom David had his being and life and all the supplies of grace."