LK 20:22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?
LK 20:23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?
LK 20:24 Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar’s.
LK 20:25 And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.
LK 20:26 And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
Some will question should Christians pay taxes. Some will ask, if truth be known, out of greedy motives. They would love it if they could find a way out of taxes.
Others will ask for a more genuine reason. It truly appalls them that their hard earned money goes for the killing of babies. It makes their heart sickened that their hard earned money goes to pay for children to be indoctrinated into the atheistic state religion of evolution. Or a multitude of other things that tax money goes to that is against Christian values. It is true that Christians are to turn from every evil way and that we are to have no part with wickedness. So it is a valid question. Should Christians pay taxes when they know the money will be used for wickedness. Well we find the answer here in our text.
They came to Jesus and basically asked Him should we pay Caesar taxes. Now if you study history, you know that Caesar’s government did plenty of godless wicked things with that tax money. What we see today is nothing new. And Jesus answered them, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar’s” Jesus taught that we should pay our taxes. We cannot control the use of the money. Tax money will be misused today and tax money was misused in Caesar’s day. The people in Caesar’s day had no say in how the money was used and Jesus taught them to pay taxes anyway. So the answer is clearly yes Christians should pay their taxes.
