Jesus’ Third year Ministry Return of an Unclean Spirit

WE ARE STUDYING THE FOUR GOSPELS MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN TO KNOW THE LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. TO KNOW HIM IS TO LOVE HIM.

Our Savior was rejected in Nazareth see;

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth.

The Wedding at Cana.

Then He;

 Cleanses the Temple.

We see that He;

Knows What Is in Man.        

He then tells us how to get saved;

You Must Be Born Again!

For God So Loved the World!

Jesus ends His Ministry in Judea and;

John the Baptist Exalts Christ.

Jesus finished His Ministry in Judea and went up to Galilee but did not take the long road the Jews normally take to avoid going through Samaria but went straight to a place called Sychar near to the parcel of  ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there.

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria.

Jesus returned via Samaria to Galilee and we see The Rewards Of Service John 4:28-38, The Growth Of Faith John 4:39-45 and lastly The Reward Of Trusting Jesus’ Word John4:46-54.

The Rewards Of Service

Back in Galilee after a year in Judea;

Jesus Ministers to Great Crowds.

Nazareth’s loss was Capernaum’s gain. The people in the latter city recognized that His teaching was authoritative. His words were convicting and impelling.

The Sermon on the Mount.

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 

The Beatitudes. Salt and Light.

Christ Came to Fulfill the Law

Anger.

Lust-Divorce-Oaths.

Retaliation and Love Your Enemies

Secret giving and secret praying

How to pray and how to fast

What to Seek and Whom to Serve

Do Not Be Anxios

Judging Others

Ask, and It will Be Given & The Golden Rule.

A Tree and Its Fruit

I Never Knew You

Build your House on the Rock.

The Authority of Jesus

Rewards Of Faith, The Great Physician

The Helper Of The Needy And The Friend Of Sinners

a Sermon Christ in Me by Dr. Sidlow J. Baxter.

A Jairus daughter Restored to Life, a Woman Healed, Jesus Heals Two Blind men, Jesus Heals a Man Unable to speak.

Hope for the hopeless. Tender Ministry to Maid and Women. Curing the Incurable and Raising the Dead

The sending forth of the twelve in Chapter 9 opens the third year Jesus’ public ministry

The Harvest Is Plentiful, the Laborers Few

The Mission to Israel.

  Not Peace, but a Sword

  Messengers from John the Baptist

Woe to Unrepentant Cities

Come to Me, and I Will Give You Rest

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

God’s Chosen Servant

The Sign of Jonah

Return of an Unclean Spirit

Matthew 12:43-45

“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. 

Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. 

Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. “

Frederick Brotherton Meyer, a contemporary and friend of D. L. Moody and A. C. Dixon, was a Baptist pastor and evangelist in England involved in ministry and inner city mission work on both sides of the Atlantic presents it to us this way regarding Matthew 12:43-45

OPPOSING OR DOING GOD’S WILL

It was an evil and adulterous age. It had no spiritual appreciation, and was intent on getting an outward and sensible sign. Nineveh itself would have condemned it. The queen of Sheba, without the advantage attaching to the Hebrew race, appreciated Solomon; but the people of this generation had no appreciation of the Christ. They were nearing the last days of corruption and reprobation. They were a deserted palace given over to demons. Seven demons possessed them and urged them, as they did the swine in Mat_8:31, to destruction.

But amid the general apostasy, there were faithful souls who recognized Jesus as the Son of God and drew near to hear His words. They recognized His kinship to the Father and revealed their kinship to Him. Let us not look back to Nazareth and Bethany with longing eyes. See Solomon’s Song_8:1-2. We are privileged to occupy a closer relationship than that of natural birth. See John_1:12-13; Galatians_4:1-6; Romans_8:16.  “O Brother Christ, make us more like thee”!

We thank William MacDonald (1917-2007) who, for more than forty years, written directly about the key issues of Christianity. Leaving a promising business career as an employed investment analyst with First National Bank of Boston “at the foot of the Cross”, he had travelled worldwide, proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ for the Believer’s Bible Commentary on Matthew 12:43-45

An Unclean Spirit Returns  

Matthew 12:43-45

12:43, 44 Now Jesus gives, in parabolic form, a summary of the past, present, and future of unbelieving Israel. The man represents the Jewish nation, the unclean spirit the idolatry which characterized the nation from the time of its servitude in Egypt to the Babylonian captivity (which temporarily cured Israel of its idolatry). It was as if the unclean spirit had gone out of the man. From the end of the captivity to the present day, the Jewish people have not been idol-worshipers. They are like a house that is empty, swept, and put in order.

Over nineteen hundred years ago, the Savior sought admittance to that empty house. He was the rightful Occupant, the Master of the house, but the people steadfastly refused to let Him in. Though they no longer worshiped idols, they would not worship the true God either.

The empty house speaks of spiritual vacuum—a dangerous condition, as the sequel shows. Reformation is not enough. There must be the positive acceptance of the Savior.

12:45 In a coming day, the spirit of idolatry will decide to return to the house, accompanied by seven spirits more wicked than himself. Since seven is the number of perfection or completeness, this probably refers to idolatry in its fully developed form. This looks forward to the Tribulation when the apostate nation will worship the Antichrist. To bow down to the man of sin and to worship him as God is a more terrible form of idolatry than the nation has ever been guilty of in the past. And so the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Unbelieving Israel will suffer the awful judgments of the Great Tribulation, and their suffering will far exceed that of the Babylonian Captivity. The idolatrous portion of the nation will be utterly destroyed at Christ’s Second Advent.

“So shall it also be with this wicked generation.” The same apostate, Christ-rejecting race that spurned the Son of God at His First Advent will suffer severe judgment at His Second Coming.

Please pray the Holy Spirit-The Paraclete will use these sermons and studies to bring many to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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