• Matt 11:20-24 Here's what I want you to get out of this sermon- You need to repent. Right now. What does that mean? It means to turn from your sin and turn towards God. It means to receive forgiveness by faith. Walk in the grace that Jesus provides. Live securely in his Grace
• Often times I get feedback that I talk about repentance too much or that is all I talk about-
• We go through the Bible. That’s what we do here. Book by book. Chapter by chapter. Line by line.- and this book talks about repentance a lot because God wants you in rel. with him.
• This book is intended to draw you to God. It is its purpose. Its why I say it’s a holiness story
• Ezekiel 14:6 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Repent, turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.
• Joel 2:12“Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
• Matthew 3:8 Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance,
• Acts 3:19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
• The reason the sermons always talk about repentance is that the Bible always talks about it
• The whole Idea of a sermon is that there is something you don’t know or something that you aren’t doing that needs to change. Unless its just an informational sermon. I don’t do those
• So at this point in the story- Jesus has just been talking to his disciples and now he begins to rebuke entire cities for rejecting his message- Mark 1:15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”
• This passage- is contrasting three Jewish towns where he has performed many signs, with three Gentile cities known for such extraordinary wickedness as to deserve God's destruction,
• on the Day of Judgment the Jewish towns will be judged more harshly, because of their greater unwillingness to repent even though they saw Jesus and his miracles.

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