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Introduction
Good morning and welcome back!
This morning start turning in your Bibles to .
In just a few moments I will be reading from , but first we need to back up a bit in our Journey Through Matthew.
If you will recall last Sunday we looked at chapter 9 and ended up on Sunday night going quickly through chapter 10.
And our focus on Sunday morning was The Healer’s Touch, looking at the touch of Jesus and being IN TOUCH with Jesus.
And that was very important to understand because as much as we desire to be touched and healed by Jesus we have to understand that we must first be in touch with Jesus.
Then on Sunday night we asked the question Where are all of the workers?
Looking at Jesus’ sending out of the disciples to begin to do the work of the ministry.
If you will recall Jesus tells his disciples that . . .
And then immediately after that . . .
And chapter 10 is really this long discourse of all the things that they would be encountering as they went out.
Jesus was preparing them for the hard work that was ahead of them.
But that wasn’t the end either.
Jesus didn’t just send out the 12 and go home and wait for them to report back.
After all Jesus was their leader and not their boss.
Anybody know the difference between a leader and a boss?
A leader is one who is out front doing the work with you, showing you how to do it.
A boss is one who is good at giving instructions but when the work starts they disappear.
They don’t want to get their hands dirty.
Jesus wasn’t like that.
He led, and he led by example.
Chapter 11 actually starts out . . .
He kept going, kept pushing forward.
Which is exactly what we should do.
Sometimes, we have a tendency to pray for something, maybe for someone to be saved.
And after that happens we think the work is done and we can go and sit down somewhere.
Well, that’s not the case.
It will never be the case.
As long as there are people in this world, who need to hear the gospel, we have a responsibility to share the gospel.
And as long as people are being born into this world, there will be a need to share the gospel with people.
So, don’t think just because that one you’ve been praying for was saved, that your work is over.
The work is never over!
Jesus realized that and so did his disciples.
And also, as a sort of secondary event, by this time John had been locked up in prison, but John also burned for the work to continue.
And he became excited, and out of his excitement . . . .
Is it really you?
Matthew 11:2
Is this really happening?
Now?
In our time?
And Jesus responds . . .
Matthew 11:
So, Yes!
It is really me! Yes!
It is really the time!
But Jesus also uses this as a springboard to call the people out on some of their inconsistencies and, honestly, their lack of faith.
They were expecting the Messiah to ride in on a white horse.
They were expecting the forerunner, the announcer of the Messiah to blow a big trumpet.
A lot of pomp and circumstance.
However, what they got was Jesus and John the Baptist.
Jesus tells them . . .
Matthew 11:7-
The road to eternal life has not been an easy road.
It has been a forceful advance and it has been done by the least likely of people.
The people that the world had no use for, but God did.
The people that the world rejected, but God accepted.
And the same way God used John the Baptist and all the others God desires to use us.
However, just like the children of Israel, we have a problem.
Which is what Jesus addresses in our Scripture this morning.
So, if you have found in your Bible, turn with me to verse 16.
Matthew writes this . . .
Scripture Focus
Matthew 11:
matthew 11:
Those Kids!
Those Kids!
Those Kids!
So, Jesus starts out here and his description of the current generation of believers was not too flattering.
He didn’t call them “faithful servants” or “great saints of the faith.”
No, rather Jesus, in calling them out compares them to children sitting in the market-places and call out to others.
And this whole part about them calling out to others, is Jesus’ way of telling them that they are not satisfied with anything.
Nothing he did could satisfy them.
Nothing that John the Baptist did could satisfy them.
They were like a bunch of spoiled children sulking when they didn’t get their way on things.
He went on to say that . . .
In other words, “when we were happy and called you to express joy, you refused”
“When we mourned and called you to mourn as well, you refused.”
“It didn’t matter what we said, or what we did; you were going to do the opposite.”
And Jesus then gives them a perfect example … .
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And this all goes back to that conversation Jesus had with them about why John’s disciples fasted and his did not.
John fasted and instead of embracing John and following his example, what did they do?
They said he was possessed by a demon.
Well, okay, when Jesus came he and his disciples came with joy; eating and drinking, surely this would satisfy them.
Nope, they just accused him of being a glutton and a drunk.
Not only that but because Jesus had compassion on people and tried to help everyone, he was labeled as a friend of those dirty old tax collectors and sinners.
And really it all boiled down to the fact that the people did not want to repent.
They did not want to give up their sinful lifestyle.
They didn’t want this carpenter’s son and his ragtag group of followers telling them to repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.
And they definitely didn’t want sold old wild haired, dirty, bug eating prophet telling them to repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.
They didn’t like what they were hearing and they didn’t like that feeling of conviction deep in their soul, so instead of doing the right thing, they just made up their own narrative.
They couldn’t really explain all of the miracles and things that Jesus was doing.
They couldn’t really explain all of the fulfilled prophesies of John, so instead they made something up.
They convinced themselves that their lies were true.
Satan was feeding them lies and they were buying into those lies.
And our society today is not that much different.
Sure, John the Baptist is dead, but his message lives on.
Sure, Jesus has returned to the Father, but his work continues; the message is the same.
The message of repentance.
The message of hope.
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