Lack of Knowledge

DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
TEXT: Mark 12:18-27

SUMMARY: In the Sadducees' prideful, condescending treatment of Jesus, their Messiah, there is an important lesson for us: that a proper understanding of God's power, of the Scriptures, and of ourselves, cannot even begin without humility.

I. THEY WERE IGNORANT OF GOD'S POWER.
A. Rationalists.
B. Materialists.
C. Politicians.

II. THEY WERE IGNORANT OF THE SCRIPTURES.
A. Lacking Spiritual Discernment.
B. Biblically Learned, but Willfully Ignorant.

III. THEY WERE IGNORANT OF THEMSELVES.
A. Regarding Their Standing with Other Men.
B. Regarding Their Standing with God.
C. Regarding Their Eternal Destiny.