okay welcome back we're in Matthew
chapter 11 Jesus has been lamenting his
generations rejection of John the
Baptist whom they said had a demon and
their rejection of him who may said is a
drunkard a gluttonous man a friend of
the dregs of society and so forth and
then he has warned the cities of Galilee
how it's going to be more tolerable
tolerable in the day of judgment for
wicked cities that God judge in the past
like tyre and Sidon and sauna and
Gomorrah then for those cities and so
it's a real indictment against the
hardness of the hearts of those people
and as I previously said to you we like
to think that miracles always will
result in people having their eyes
opened and so forth but historical
revivals that if we take a look at them
the ones that were there were miracles
that occurred in them you know yeah sure
some people gets their attention but a
lot of people they just ignore it you
know not interested at all they've got
other things to do and they don't
believe it even from afar but not even
willing to investigate to see if it's
true they've already decided that they
will not believe because they're full of
unbelief which God considers to be
wicked why because unbelief is not
intelligent it's stupid unbelief is a
stupidness that's based upon a willful
rejection of what is obvious did you get
that we always look at the Skip
skeptical ones as if they were the
Intelligencia inteligencia the educated
the you know the the ones who really are
you know scrutinize everything closely
and then come up with a logical
conclusion oh no no no no no no people
who don't believe in Jesus are not wise
they're fools people who don't believe
in Jesus but not the intelligent ones
they're the stupid ones because they are
ignoring the bulk of evidence
it cannot be refuted that is undeniable
and clinging to some stupid little thing
by which they can attach their unbelief
and justify continuing in their unbelief
you got it okay that's really what i
believe is and that's why God considers
it to be wicked you are rejecting the
bulk of the evidence because you hate
God it reveals what's in your heart the
unbelief reveals what's in your heart
because God does all he can to reach you
and there are miracles going on around
all of us all the time and their God is
shouting at everybody all the time new
creation now we begin reading in Matthew
11 and verse number 25 this has been so
negative up until now all these
limitations but Jesus now takes us out
of the earthly realm into the heavenly
realm to show us that even though
there's something to be saddened about
this rejection there's also something to
be happy about because this ultimately
fits into God's over-riding plan verse
25 at that time jesus said you now he's
praying I praise You Father Lord of
Heaven and Earth that you have a hidden
these things from the wise and
intelligent and have revealed them to
infants yes Father for this was well
pleasing in your sight and so God has
had an eternal plan he's created people
as free moral agents and then he tests
them over the period of their lifetimes
to see if they will be qualified to be a
part of his eternal Kingdom and only
those who believe and who thus repent
and turn from their sins are those who
qualify ultimately for eternal life and
that's God's plan that has been his plan
from the beginning and so when Jesus
says you know you've hidden these things
from the wise and intelligent it's not
that God has actively said oh you're
wise intelligence so I'm going to with
hold this from you know the message is
automatically as it were hidden from
them because they suppress the truth and
unrighteousness really it's it's not
hidden from God's standpoint it's hidden
from their own standpoint because they
close their eyes and shut their hearts
they say I'm wise I'm intelligent and
therefore I don't believe in such simple
things as this but the the infant's the
babes as the King James says those are
the ones who are soft-hearted and who
are really the truly intelligent ones
and the truly wise ones because they
don't resist what is so obvious they
embrace it live up to it repent and say
it this is the way that I will go and
this same principle is said in other
ways in Scripture isn't it sure the
Bible says God resists the proud and he
gives grace to the humble well if you're
gonna you know kind of draw a parallel
between what we just read in that
statement the Word of God the proud
would be the wise and intelligent
whereas the humble would be the infants
and that as Jesus said was pleasing in
God's sight now this next verse
oftentimes like so many verses are is
taken out of its context for certain
people as a proof text to prove what you
know something that they're trying to
persuade us of yet they ignore the
context before and after and thus
completely switch around the meaning the
obvious meaning of what Christ was
trying to convey in verse number 27
let's read it all things have been
handed over to me by my father and no
one knows the son except the father and
and nor does anyone know the father
except the Sun now here's the phrase
that some people just love to hone in on
and anyone to whom the son wills to
reveal him and so they'll say up see
there that proves it right there Jesus
you don't know the father unless the son
wills to reveal him to you and so God
through
has will to reveal the father to some
and not to others well shame on you for
taking a verse out of its context if
that's what you're promoting because
we've just read that the people whom God
has chosen are not specific individuals
but a certain kind of visual those who
are infants and he's chosen not to save
those who are proud who are wise and
intelligence so yes God does choose
people he chooses humble people he
chooses the babes hope that's you I'll
see you next time