Speaker: Martin Nish
680 sermons
Signs of an Evil Generation: A warning to hard hearts and moralistic hearts
Matthew 12:38-45 is a concluding warning of impending doom upon the current generation--He calls it an "evil and adulterous generation." The religious leaders and the common people had great privilege and light--they should have known that Christ was the long-awaited Messiah and Savior. Yet they asked for further signs, exposing their hardened and moralistic hearts. Jesus graciously "gives" them one last sign--the sign of the past in Jonah's deliverance from the pit of the fish after three days and three nights, which pointed to the greater and only saving sign to come in Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection. Then Jesus gives them two warnings: first, using examples of pagans with little light who did repent, He warns them that One greater is among them and greater judgment is deserved; second, using a parable of an unclean spirit departing but coming back with seven worse spirits, He warns them that with only man-made moralistic reformation of the soul, the end is worse than the first.
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