Our pastor has lost it.”Īnd then I said, “Why isn’t there Kool-Aid or Pepsi or Orange Juice on the stage?”Īnd the answer was “Because Cindy would hurt you!” That is clear from your snake words.”Īnd then He says, “For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.”Ī few years ago when I was preaching this text, I poured out a water bottle onto the stage, and I said, “Why is there water on the stage?”Īnd you looked at me like, “Uh. “It’s no surprise that you are saying the evil words of verse 24, because you have evil hearts.”
“You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good?” Jesus goes from calling them “trees,” to calling them “snakes.” Jesus says (v.34), “You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.” So Jesus says, it’s no wonder that these men said what they said in verse 24. Or if you make a tree bad (or unhealthy), guess how the fruit is going to be? Rotten.Īnd you can always recognize what kind of tree (healthy or unhealthy or even what species of tree: apple, orange, fig, whatever) it is by its fruit. If the root system and the trunk and the heart of the tree is healthy, then it will produce healthy fruit. If a tree is good, and by that He probably means healthy, then its fruit will be good. Well, Jesus says, “People are like trees.” “It is only by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.” Why would the Pharisees say what they said about Jesus in verse 24? “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.” Attributing to Satan what is clearly the work of God and rejecting Jesus forever.Īnd then the very next verse, Jesus is talking about trees. He just got done talking about the unforgivable sin of the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. The 2011 NIV has “full of.” The English Standard Version and King James Version have the word “abundance.” They key word in the 1984 NIV is “Overflow,” and I’m going to make that the title of today’s message. They are really familiar to me as I studied them and studied them and then wrote about them in my doctoral project and then my book and then have preached about them from out of my book for the last 8 years. I decided to leave this last paragraph to this week because we were running out time, and because these 5 verses are really powerful and really practical for our lives today. There are only 5 verses left where Jesus finishes His response to the Pharisees, verses 33 through 37. We didn’t get to finish this section last time. Because whoever is not with Jesus is against Him, and whoever does not gather with Jesus scatters. So you and I need to choose to follow Him and take His side. Satan may be a “strong man,” but Jesus can tie up the strong man and take anything from his house that He wants. His kingdom is diametrically opposed to Satan’s kingdom!Īnd Jesus is so much stronger than Satan. A bruised reed He will not break, and a smouldering wick He will not snuff out. Because His yoke is easy, and His burden is light. He has invited us to take His yoke of discipleship on ourselves and walk with Him, learning from Him, and He will give us rest for our souls. Jesus has invited us to come to Him in our weariness and under our burdens, and He will give us rest. There is no middle ground, no compromise, between these two extreme positions.Īnd Jesus has used this moment of tension to invite people to trust and follow Him. Lord of the heap or at least working for him. Jesus has all but said that He is the Son of God because He has claimed that He is Lord over the Fourth Commandment from God!īut the Pharisees have said that Jesus is actually Lord of the Flies. You can see that there is no middle ground between these two positions. And His enemies, the Pharisees, have been angry that He did these two healings and have counter-claimed that Jesus is, in fact, the King of the Demons or at least in league with Beelzebub, the prince of demons. Jesus has done two major healings and has claimed to be the King of Rest, the Lord of the Sabbath. Let me give you a quick reminder of what has happened in Matthew chapter 12 so far:
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