Lesson 3168

 (Lesson 3168)(09-03-20) Matthew 12:38-45

    “Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.” 

    In essence, in today’s quote, because of their disbelief, Jesus informed the hierarchy of the Jews that they were in far better shape under the Law than they would be after Jesus had fulfilled that Law.

    In many ways, today’s “Christianity”, because of  it’s penchant for making God’s word fit it’s twisted narrative, is guilty of the same failures that doomed those Jews. That is, that their belief in themselves and their own hypocritical actions is directly opposed to what should be their total faith in the perfection and sacrifice of Jesus Christ crucified.~