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Luke 11:29-36


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jesus and his disciples went onto the villages around caesarea philippi on the way, he asked them who do people say I am, they replied, some say john the baptist, others say elijah and still others, one of the prophets. But what about you? Who do you say? I am Amen. It’s good to be with you this morning. We are going to continue going through the book of luke. We’ve been working our way through this for a couple of falls and now winter and so we, we’ve been making our way through. But it’s amazing to just go through a verse by verse, section by section and discover God’s word with you today. I’m, I’m calling the sermon today the greater one and you’ll see why here. But I thought for a good example or just a good illustration might be um something that’s happened to me, I will just share a story, Maybe it’s happened to you. I wish I could say this has only happened once, but it’s actually happened multiple times. And it’s when I’ve gone to the fridge and I open the fridge and I’m looking for something, let’s say catch up. Right. And I open the fridge and I’m like, there’s no ketchup, Hey baby, is there any, do we have ketchup? Is there any ketchup, yep, it’s on the right shelf, like there’s no catch up. She walks in, you know, she’s like, it’s right here, you know, like, yep right in front of my face, right? It’s, it’s amazing how sometimes it’s like right there and you can miss it and I’m like how in the world did that just happen. And so I think that just gives us a little bit of as you’ll see. Looking at luke 11 26 2 39. What I’m talking about here. So let me read here, Luke 11, the first portion 1126 through 32. And then we’ll jump into that. It says as the crowds were increasing. He began saying, this generation is an evil generation. It demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Ninevah. So also the son of man will be to this generation, the queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon and look something greater than Solomon is here. The men of Ninevah will stand up in judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at Jonas preaching and look something greater than Jonah is here. And so it speaks about it a couple of times, just the greater one and initially, you know, we see in the crowds are increasing, it’s getting bigger and bigger and bigger and most people would be like, yes, yes, right, we’re gaining momentum. This is exactly what we want, bigger, bigger, bigger more people and yet jesus kind of slashes that pretty quickly. We look back on verse 14, which was covered uh this last week and looking at, hey, why was it even getting bigger? Well, in verse 14, it talks about how he was healing a person who was mute, right? He had a mute demon in him. He cast that out and people were amazed and says they were amazed. And so they started gathering and it’s pretty easy, you have a street performer, a guy playing some music on the corner or whatever and right, if they’re really good, you can gather a crowd pretty quickly, people come around and if someone’s healing people doing some miraculous things, I don’t think it would take much to be like, tell your buddy, call your friend, gather people and all of a sudden you have a big crowd. That’s right. The crowd is getting bigger and bigger and bigger a lot of times we think, yes, bigger, right? More. And then jesus says, this is a wicked generation, alright, if you want to cut a crowd real quickly, go there, right, this is a wicked generation. And so that’s where he starts and he’s and and so he says, you guys is sin is right out there, it’s wicked, it’s evi…
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