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1. Our bodies to require rest. Without proper rest, our fragile frames will begin to shut down.
2. The same is true spiritually.
3. Each of us needs and even longs for rest for our souls.
4. But where do we find rest, the kind of rest that our souls crave and require?
5. Tonight, we will discover the answer by studying the words of our Savior, our Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ so that we may not only find rest but enter into it.

Matthew 11:20-30
Context
1. In Matthew 11, two of the disciples of John the Baptist approached Jesus with a question from John, “Are You the Expected One, or shall we look for someone else?” (11:3)
2. Many who read this for the first time, shake their heads in disbelief. How could John the Baptist, the one who declared, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” question who Jesus is?
3. But John was weary and discouraged. He had been in prison for over one year and wondered if he had made a mistake when he declared that Jesus is Messiah.
4. Jesus reassured John by pointing to the miracles He had done, signs that confirmed Jesus is the Messiah; the blind see, the lame walk, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
5. Jesus wanted John to be at rest, to have peace. He wants the same for us as well.

Transition – Unfortunately, some people are never satisfied.

I. Some People are Never Satisfied (20-27)

A. It’s their way or the highway

ILLUS – Dealing with difficult people during the holidays

1. They’re like the generation that Jesus called out who witnessed the ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus and were not satisfied with either of them.

Matthew 11:16-17, But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children, and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.

2. That generation wanted God to do things on their terms. They wanted a Messiah who would follow their agenda and bow down to their will.
3. But Jesus did not come to dance to our tune. He expects us to dance to His tune. Meaning, Jesus expects us to follow Him!
4. Then, in verses 20-24, Jesus intensified His tone by denouncing those cities where the majority of His miracles were performed. Why did He denounce Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum?
5. “Because they did not repent.” (20). Jesus’ miracles confirmed His message, the Sermon on the Mount, that He is the Messiah, but they refused to change.
6. They wanted to see signs and miracles, but it was never enough or good enough!

Matthew 12:38-39, Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.” But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet”

7. In fact, Jesus, who knows all because, as the Son of God, He knows what is and what could have been, declared that the wicked, idolatrous cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Sodom, would have repented if the miracles done by Jesus in Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum had been done within their city limits!

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