Main Point: Requests for evidence are often a mask for unbelief seeking to justify itself; God does give evidence, but he does it on his own terms.

Outline:

1. The Sign of Jonah

2. The Judgment by Enemies

3. The Return of the Demons

Main Point: Jesus calls all people everywhere to repent, not just of their bad deeds, but of their bad heart and to experience real change at the heart level by turning to Christ.

Outline:

1. The Tree

2. The Treasure

3. The Test

Main Point: It takes a dangerously hardened heart not to see that Jesus is able to cast out demons, testifying to the Holy Spirit’s work in his ministry.

Outline:

1. The Soothing (12:22-23)

2. The Stubbornness (12:31-32)

3. The Strong Man (12:24-30)

Main Point: Jesus Christ was bruised so that he could minister to the bruised.

Outline:

1. The Bruised Reed

2. The Bruised Ministry

Main point: As a rescued sinner in a fallen world you have hope.

Outline:

Rescuer from sin

Response to sin

Reward (which is unspoiled by sin)

Main Point: The cross was a hellish experience for Christ, but “after these things” Christ and his church experienced the greatest possible blessings imaginable.

Outline:

1. Christ Suffered and Died (19:28-30)

2. Christ Was Buried (19:38-42)

3. Christ Rose Again (20:1-18)