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The Scripture & The Sense Podcast #349: Hosea 13:15-16 by Daniel Whyte III

TEXT: Matthew 11:20-24

Second, more revelation from God will not lead to repentance in the world. There are many unbelievers who say things like, “If only God would perform this miracle right now, I’d believe in Him.” Or, “If only I could go back and see the resurrection for myself, I would become a Christian.” But the truth is that they are firm in their unbelief. They have already rejected God. As an example, if you are Christian, you believe that God created the world. Now imagine that all the atheist and agnostic scientists of the world tried to win you over to the Big Bang theory and the theory of evolution. You would reject them out of hand, because you have already accepted the authority of the Bible over the authority of human research. In a bad way, those who refuse Christ have already rejected the revelation of His authority. Like in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, they have refused to believe the prophets and apostles; neither will they believe if Jesus came to them directly.

John Chrysostom, Part 7 (History of Christianity Podcast #154) by Daniel Whyte III

Understanding Bible Prophecy, Part 1 (The Prophet Daniel's Report #660) by Daniel Whyte III

The Scripture & The Sense Podcast #348: Hosea 13:14 by Daniel Whyte III

Whyte House Daily Devotional Bible Reading Episode #12: Genesis 17, Psalm 11, & Mark 12 by Daniel Whyte III

TEXT: Matthew 11:20-24

First, there are degrees of judgment: those who reject Jesus are judged more harshly than those who never knew of him. Jesus warns that the Jewish cities of Capernaum, Chorazin, and Bethsaida that God’s wrath would be worse for them than it would be for the heathen cities of Tyre, Sidon, and even Sodom. Too help you understand what sins these cities were dealing with, here is what John MacArthur had to say about Tyre and Sidon, “In the minds of a Galilean Jew, the two most wretched cities were Tyre and Sidon - historically. They were in that same area, only over a few miles to the coast. They were the cities of the Phoenicians, and the Phoenicians were the seafaring people, the commercial people, the sailors, the colonizers, in many ways, of the Mediterranean area. And those seaports were everything that a seaport is. All of the riff-raff, all of the sailors who had been at sea for months, and even years, brought in their adulterous immoralities and fornications. Those two cities were deep in the pit of Baal worship. The cities were immoral as far as you could imagine; they were Gentile, pagan, heathen societies, and God destroyed them. In Isaiah 23, and in Ezekiel 26, 27 and 28, we learn that the commercial seamen and the colonizing Phoenicians of those two cities were proud. We learn that they were greedy, avaricious, cruel people. Amos denounces them in his prophecy - chapter 1, verse 9 - because they actually captured Jews and sold Jews into slavery.” We all know how sinful Sodom was. Not even 10 righteous men could be found in that den of sin. In Genesis 19, the men of Sodom wanted to rape the two angels who visited Lot. When Lot, also sinfully, offered his daughters to them, they attempted to break into the house. To this day, the legal system uses the term sodomy to describe sexual crimes against nature, not only homosexuality, but also pedophilia and bestiality. After God was finished destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, the “smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.” But as bad as that fire and brimstone from heaven, was, the fire and brimstone of hell will be far worse for those who reject Christ. The cities of Capernaum and Bethsaida and Chorazin saw Jesus and His power face-to-face, and instead of repentance, they just shrugged and moved on. For that, their doom will be worse than that of the worst sinners.

Prayerless Christians, Part 1 (The Prayer Motivator Devotional #760) by Daniel Whyte III

Manage Your Time, Part 4 (Get Things Done #78) by Daniel Whyte III

Manage Your Time, Part 4 (Get Things Done #78) by Daniel Whyte III