Isidor Isaac Rabi, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, and one of the
developers of the atomic bomb, was once asked how he became a scientist.
Rabi replied that every day after school his mother would talk to him about
his school day. She wasn't so much interested in what he had learned that
day, but how he conducted himself in his studies. She always inquired, "Did
you ask a good question today?"
"Asking good questions," Rabbi said, "made me become a scientist."
In order to ask a good question I think you need to have noble motives
behind the question. You have to want to know the truth. The Pharisees, by
contrast, already had the answers to their questions. They felt they already
knew the truth. How many times have we had it in for someone and ask a
question designed to trap them. We do it to our loved ones all the time. In
a moment like this we are not trying to learn; we are trying to injure.
The Pharisees come to Jesus once again with a question designed to do damage
to the reputation of Jesus. And once again Jesus proves he is equal to the
task. Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest? Now, even
though this question was used to test Jesus, it is nonetheless an important
question. Perhaps in the life of Israel at that time it was THE most
important question. But Jesus had a question of his own. A question, which
signified that the times were changing; a new theological season had come.
He put this question to the same Pharisees who had tested him: "What do you
think of the Messiah. Whose son is he?"
These were the two most important questions of that era and my friends they
are the two most important questions of our time. Let us consider.
1. Which Commandment Is the Greatest?
2. What Do You Think of the Messiah?
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