I want to talk about some difficult verses today, verses that Jesus used to explain that when you

have great opportunity, we all love great opportunity and blessing. We also have great

accountability. So we better do the most with what God has given us. Listen in today.

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episode. Hey, friends, Matthew Chapter 11 today in your Bible. We're going to continue our study

of the book of Matthew and this little section in Jesus' life. And we've been talking about

John the Baptist, how that he was dealing with doubt

and he had sent his couple of his disciples. He couldn't go himself. He was in prison to ask Jesus,

are you really the Messiah or did we get this thing wrong? And Jesus, of course, gave that answer. And then he began to talk

about John the Baptist to that crowd. Had some really great things to say, and we talked about

that last episode. But I wanted to see, because we stopped kind of mid-mid conversation,

and I wanted to look at verse number

14, where Jesus goes on to talk about John this way, and if ye will receive it, this is

Elijah, which was for to come. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. So what did that mean? Is John

the Baptist Elijah? And the answer to that question is, no, they are two different men. Elijah and

John the Baptist were two different people. But John the Baptist did come in the spirit and in the power of Elijah. And God had

promised in the Old Testament that Elijah would precede the coming of the Lord. So how is it then that

Jesus came, but Elijah himself did not come? Well, a couple things. First of all, Jesus said

one thing they didn't understand the Old Testament was that Jesus would come, but that coming

would actually be separated into two comings. Why? Because what the Old Testament saints

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