Matthew 11:20-30

Number one, Jesus as the judge.

And I think the big application here in this first movement is, And I'll try to explain this to you, but I put it as respond to him.

The people Jesus is going to rebuke were not responding to him.

We want to be a people who respond to the revelation that he's given to us.

I was actually at a men's conference in Southern California yesterday.

It was perfect.

They called me right as we were wrapping up Matthew chapter 7 last spring.

And they said, hey, we're going to do a men's conference.

We want you to come.

And our theme is Matthew chapter 7.

You got anything on that subject? I was like, no.

As a matter of fact, I think I can whip something up.

But we were thinking about Jesus saying at the conclusion of that sermon, the person who hears these words of mine and does them is like a man who built his house on the rock.

The storms came and he stood.

The man who hears these words and does not do them is like a man who built his house on the sand.

The storms came and his house was toppled over because of the weak foundation upon which it was built.

Jesus is going to talk to a few cities here who hear his words, hear a lot more than even his words, the powerful miracles that he produced, but yet they do nothing.

There's no application.

There's no response.

We want to be a responding people.

Amen? All right, so let's read the passage together.

It says in verse 20, Then he, Jesus, began to denounce the cities... where, look at this, most of his mighty works had been done because they did not repent.

Scholars will call this the evangelical triangle.

There's going to be three towns that Jesus talks to here.

And apparently, according to Matthew, most of Jesus' miraculous works were done in this little region, the region of around or to the north of the Sea of Galilee.