Title target? you mean? (Matthew 12:38-42)
Content 1) Jews and signs
“The Jews seek a sign” (1 Corinthians 1:22).
"The Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus, a sign from heaven
beg to be seen” (Matthew 16:1).
“The Pharisees came out and rebuked Jesus and tried him, and he came from heaven.
He was looking for a sign” (Mark 8:11).
“Unless you see signs and wonders, you will never believe” (John 8:48).
“The crowds had faith in Jesus because they had heard these signs work” (John 12:18).
2) Modern people looking for signs
Charismatic, miraculous, mystic, false churches and idolatry
2. Jesus' words about their needs (12:39-42)
1) He spoke of the relationship between signs and times (12:39a)
"Evil and adulterous times are a sign
save me"
* The age of seeking signs is an age of evil and lewdness: Loves miracles and miracles.
If there are many people who do it, it is an age of evil and lewdness.
* Those who seek a sign are evil and adulterous: those who seek miracles and signs
The man himself (if you seek a sign, you will become an evil and lewd man
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* Religions and churches seeking signs are evil and adulterous religions and churches: miracles, miracles
The religion and church that seeks are evil and obscene religions and churches
“Jesus sighed deeply in his heart, and said, Why is this generation
Do you seek the enemy? Truly I tell you, do you give this generation a sign?
no” (Mark 8:12).
2) He spoke about the signs among the signs, the real signs (12:39b-40)
* Quoting from the Old Testament, there is no sign to be seen except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
He spoke of Jesus' own death and resurrection three days later.
Sim (39b-40)
* The true sign is the event of Jesus' death and resurrection
The sign of the prophet Jonah is indeed the greatest of all the signs of the Old Testament.
because?
* God who called Jonah (Jon 1:1-2) - Sign
* He caused a storm in the sea to which he was fleeing in the boat to Tarshish.
God's work (1:4) - a sign
* God's work of casting lots to reveal that the calamity was due to Jonah
(1:7) - target
* As Jonah requested, he threw Jonah into the sea, and God calmed the sea.
History of (1:15) - Signs
* The work of God who prepared a big fish to swallow Jonah (1:17) -
target
* The work of God who commanded the fish to vomit Jonah to dry land
(2:10) - target
* The work of God that made Jonah live instead of dying in the belly of the fish (2:1, 9) -
target
* Jonah's preaching in the great city of Nineveh (3:4)
- The city of the 3-day road, Jonah preached one day, "Nineveh will fall in forty days.
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* Truly, the wicked king and the people of Nineveh heard Jonah's preaching and believed in God.
The fact that they repented after proclaiming the ceremony and putting on sackcloth and sitting on ashes (3"5-9) - Signs
* God gave to those who heard Jonah's evangelism (that is, the word), believed in God, and repented.
Do not bring disaster, but save them, and save their souls.
God Fact (3:10, Matt 12:41)
-Why is the fact of Jesus' death and resurrection the greatest and only sign?-
* The very fact that he died and rose again on the third day according to the word itself - a sign
* Because he was recognized as the Son of God (the true Messiah) by his resurrection.
(Romans 1:4) - Signs
* Because he gave us a new birth by his resurrection and gave us a living hope (1 Pet.
1:3) - target
-Living hope: the resurrection of the saints (Revelation 20:6)-sign
* Proving that the spiritual labors and faith of the saints are not in vain by the resurrection (1 Cor.
15:14-15a, 17b) - target
* The fact that all our sins were forgiven through His resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:17b) - a sign
* The one who believed in our Jesus and led the dead to eternal life through his resurrection.
Thread (1 Corinthians 15:18) - a sign
3) He spoke about the condemnation of this generation of the people of Nineveh at the time of judgment (41)
* Why are those who seek signs judged? - Seeking only fleshly targets for greed
because they rejected the word and did not repent
* Why do the people of Nineveh come to condemn this generation? (41) - Jonah's Evangelism
(Jonah did no miracles in Nineveh)
They all just preached the word. Those were the words that the people of Nineveh didn’t want to hear.)
4) Speaks of condemnation of this generation of the Queen of the South in the judgment (42)
(This woman did not come because she missed the signs of Solomon, and Solomon had never performed any signs. This is because the woman came all the way to listen to the words of God’s wisdom delivered by Solomon.
3. Are you talking? are you a target?
1) Sign faith is the faith of an evil and adulterous person. Is this belief a belief?
never
2) Our faith should not become a miracle-seeking, sign faith, like the Jews in Jesus' day. This faith is not faith, and if it is faith, it is an evil and obscene faith. Our faith is to love the Word and to spread the Word. It must be a faith in the Word that teaches, learns, understands, and lives according to the Word. This is the only true faith that Jesus wants.
(Words that testify)
Revelation 1:3, 22:7, Luke 8:15, 21, Psalm 119:9, 11, 17, 140, 162, Proverbs 13:13, 16:10,
20, 19:27, 22:17, 23:12, 30:5-6, John 1:1-2, Hebrews 4:12, John 8:47, John 4:41,
6:68, 1 Timothy 6:3, Ephesians 5: l 26, 6:17, 1 Pet 1:23-25, John 17:17, Matthew 4:4, Acts 20:32,
John 8:32, Col 1:5, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-13, 1 Timothy 3:15, John 4:41, Acts 4:4, 5:20, 6:4, 8:4,
14, 13:48, Romans 9:28, 10:8, 17, 1 Corinthians 4:6, 2 Timothy 2:9, 15, 4:2, Titus 1:9
<Activities of Satan in the End Times> - Performs signs to deceive those who will perish
“The coming of the evil one will follow the work of Satan, with all powers and signs and false miracles and unrighteousness.
all deceitful deceit, which will come upon those who are perishing, that they may receive the love of truth
because they did not receive it, they could not be saved” (2 Thessalonians 2:9-10).