What’s on display in Luke Chapter 20, is the enormous capacity we as human beings have to deceive ourselves. Here in the text we have these religious leaders, with all their purported knowledge and all their religious affectations – themselves completely blind to the fundamental truths and core doctrines of the very scriptures they were reading. How in the world did that happen? It happened for the very same reason it happens today. It happened because they were not under the authority of the Word of God, but rather under the authority of self. Now I can call myself a follower of Jesus; I can call myself a Christian – I can know the Bible and I can do all this religious churchy stuff… But if I do not come under the authority of the Scriptures, if the Word of God is not that which I base my life decisions upon, the Bible says that I am a hearer only and that I am deceived. Get your Word on with us and seek to come under the Bible’s authority, that God might lead you unto human flourishing.