Matthew Chapter 12<\/p>\n
Jesus does a miracle for a man who is both without sight and without speech.\u00a0 This man could not see Christ nor speak his desires to Christ, however Christ healed him by casting the demon out that was causing this sickness.\u00a0 Yes demonic beings can cause sickness, sin is the other reason there is sickness.\u00a0 Not necessarily our sins, but the totality of sin brings death and sickness.\u00a0 The problem with our global tragedies can all be summarized into one event, the fall and our continuation in sin.\u00a0 The Pharisees accuse Jesus of doing these miracles by the power of Satan, and Christ takes great offense to this condemnation by these religious leaders.\u00a0 Within this event Christ mentions the \u201cunpardonable sin\u201d.\u00a0 The sin in verse 31 is coming against the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 The rejection was making something that was clearly a work of God into a demonic action.\u00a0 This is not questioning a work through examination of Scripture or the validity of a healing.\u00a0 Remember, Satan does have power to do the miraculous and he will deceive many through these acts.\u00a0 The actions here are clearly denying Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 This step of forgiveness is not taken unknowingly.\u00a0 This step has also not been taken if you have interest in God and are drawn to God.\u00a0 When you are cast out the things of scripture and the spirit will be removed far from you.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s shift some and look at the religious leaders wanting a sign from Jesus in verse 38.\u00a0 WHAT? They just took a miracle as something that should be held against Christ.\u00a0 What they really wanted was God to do a God thing, like move the Sun or Moon.\u00a0 Jesus points to the most assured evidence we will have and that is God\u2019s Holy Word.\u00a0 Do you want a sign?\u00a0 Continue reading God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 There is no way a not inspired book could have lasted this long without being disproved.\u00a0 Here is your sign – B I B L E.<\/p>\n
The chapter concludes with the pushing away from Jesus\u2019 early family to us as being His family.\u00a0 We are His brother, sister and mother if we do the will of His Father.\u00a0 This journey of being the family of God starts with salvation and continues with every action being done to glory Christ.<\/p>\n
The Spirit is speaking to us today I pray you will continue to grow in His Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}