Sermon Tone Analysis

The religious leaders are hardened by their hatred for Jesus.

They want to discredit Jesus because they want to hold the place of supremacy over the people.

They have called him a sabaoth breaker.

That doesn’t stick, so they say that He is satanic.

Jesus responds by saying that that kind of thinking is illogical, that they are hypocritical, and that He must be greater and stronger than Satan.

Because of their rejection Jesus says they are beyond redemption.

That doesn’t stick, so they say that He is satanic.

Jesus responds by saying that that kind of thinking is illogical, you are hypocritical, and that He must be greater and stronger than Satan.

Because of their rejection Jesus says they are beyond redemption.

The last attack that they attempt in chapter 12 starts in verse 38.

Many moral people today - Mormons, Muslims, Catholics, etc.

But morality without the person of Jesus is a failure and leads to a dangerous self righteousness.

I.

An Unexpected Sign (38-40)

I.

An Unexpected Sign (38-40)

A. A Wicked Demand (38)

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B. A Biting Rebuke (39)

C. A Biblical Type (40)

What Jesus means by adulterous:

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Jeremiah 3:6–11

They were adulterous because they were choosing religion over Jesus, tradition over a person.

They had an encounter with Jesus and they rejected Him.

C. A Biblical Type (40)

C. A Biblical Type (40)

Matthew 12:40

1 Corinthians 1:

Jonah was the sign to Nineveh and so Jesus is the sign to Israel.

II.

An Unexpected Judgement (41-45)

Matthew 12:41-42

A. Nineveh (41)

Matthew 12:

B. the Queen of Sheba (42)

Here is a tremendous truth—Jesus is God’s sign, just as Jonah was God’s message to the Ninevites and Solomon God’s wisdom to the Queen of Sheba.

The one real question in life is: ‘What is our reaction when we are confronted with God in Jesus Christ?’

Is that reaction bleak hostility, as it was in the case of the scribes and Pharisees?

Or is it humble acceptance of God’s warning and God’s truth as it was in the case of the people of Nineveh, and of the Queen of Sheba?

The all-important question is: ‘What do you think of Christ

Matthew 12:42

C. The Result (43-45) The problem of morality without Jesus.

Application: If you can be sit in church or pretend to be religious and not believe in Jesus, you will be condemned by the Muslim, the prostitute, the cult leader, the liberal, the lgbtq that has repented of their unbelief like the Ninevites.

1. Exit (43)

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2. Return (44)

A man who tries to improve his morals but is not filled with Jesus, remains empty and open to assault.

3. Swarmed (45)

Some demons are worse than others.

2 Pete 2:

The solution is the put off, put on principle:

It therefore follows that the only permanent cure for evil action is Christian action.

Any teaching which stops at telling people what they must not do is bound to be a failure; it must go on to tell them what they must do.

The one fatal disease is idleness; even a sterilized idleness will soon be infected.

The easiest way to conquer the weeds in a garden is to fill the garden with useful things.

The easiest way to keep a life from sin is to fill it with healthy action.

If we are finding the temptations of evil very threatening, one of the best ways to conquer them is to plunge into activity for God and for our neighbours.

Application: If you can sit in church or pretend to be religious and not believe in Jesus, you will be condemned by the Muslim, the prostitute, the cult leader, the liberal, the lgbtq that has repented of their unbelief like the Ninevites.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ today!

Application: If you can be sit in church or pretend to be religious and not believe in Jesus, you will be condemned by the Muslim, the prostitute, the cult leader, the liberal, the lgbtq that has repented of their unbelief like the Ninevites.

III.

An Unexpected Allegiance (46-50)

IV. (46-50)

A. Expected Allegiance (46-47)

Why were they there?

Concern because of the plot to kill Him? Thinking Jesus a fanatic?

Intervention?

How embarrassing for a teacher, “You mom’s outside!”

B. Peculiar Question (48)

C. Statement of Allegiance (49-50)

Matthew 12

Matthew 10:37