Sometime back the United States Treasury tackled one of its most vexing problems. Sophisticated, hi-tech resources now available to the average citizen have become real problems to the Treasury Department. With the introduction of high quality ink jet printers, computer scanners and other office equipment into homes and offices across the nation, the amount of counterfeit money almost doubled in the years between 1992 and 1997. Counterfeit money became hard to distinguish from the real thing. Thus, in 1998 the United States Treasury introduced a new weapon--a new twenty dollar bill--because this was the most widely counterfeited bill. This new twenty contained a few new wrinkles that made it almost impossible to reproduce.

In today's lesson, Jesus warned his disciples about counterfeit Ch…