<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 Saint Matthew 12, begin with the--at the 38th verse. You're--you're so nice I just hate to--I hate to have to squeeze myself. See? And we're used to revival time, when we preach all night, pray all night, night after night (See?), all the time, going constantly. When a revival breaks, it's just day and night, day and night. I don't mind you missing a day's work. That's all right. But I don't want you to miss Sunday school in the morning. Don't--don't miss Sunday school. If you have to miss a day's work, I won't feel too bad about that, 'cause all them things are perishable anyhow. But don't miss Sunday school. I'll let you out early so you can go to Sunday school.
38th verse of Matthew 12:
And there were certain of the scribes... of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and an adulterous generation seeks after... signs; and there shall be no sign given unto 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.
And 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 utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
I want to take a little text from there: "Behold, A Greater Than Solomon Is Here."

L-21 Jesus had been... (I'm setting my watch to alarm, so I know I won't be overtime tonight.) Jesus had been rebuking the cities that He'd come out of, and had done His works and signs. He had been rebuking them because they had not believed Him. If you'll read the previous chapter, the 11th chapter, and read the 12th chapter you'll see in there where those people that ought to have known the day that they were living, they did not know it. They failed to recognize it.
And instead of knowing just exactly the day and the sign that would be in His day... He even rebuked them, said, "You can discern the face of the skies, but the sign of the time you cannot discern. If you would've known Me, you would've known My day."

L-22 Now, let's just try to drink every whit of this in tonight. And I know it's different. These texts has formed different now than what maybe you've been listening to; but I want you to try to listen close tonight. See, they were--they were trying to--to have their own idea, and not Scripturally listening to Him; for He had said to them, "Why don't you search the Scriptures, for They are They which testify of Me. In Them you think you have Eternal Life and they testify of Me. And if I do not the works of My Father then don't believe Me."
They couldn't believe Him being God and yet being a man. He said, "If you can't believe Me as a man, believe the works. Let the works testify, if you can't believe Me. If they say I'm born illegitimate birth, and I have no education, I never appeared in any of your schools, and so forth; and you can't believe Me because I never come up under your doctrine or so forth; why, believe the works that I do. They testify of Me." What a rebuke to a--a people.

L-23 Now, notice all the cities He had been to. And He had been rebuking, "Capernaum, thou art exalted into heaven but shall be brought down to hell. If the mighty works had been done in you, that was done in you had been done in Sodom, it would've been standing yet today." And He begin to talk one to the other, of how that...


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