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Hey, friends, welcome back. I want to finish a conversation that we started

yesterday. It's actually Jesus' conversation, but I cut it off midstream because I didn't want to

rush it. So we're in Matthew chapter 12, and we're talking about this conversation that Jesus is having with some antagonistic people,

the scribes and the Pharisees, and their motive has already been revealed.

They are not interested in believing on Jesus.

They're not interested in submitting to him.

They're just interested in neutralizing his ministry

and recapturing some of the popularity that they feel has been stolen from them. Jesus has

answered them and told them that you're wanting me to give you supernatural signs, which is a

little bit disingenuous because I have

been doing signs in front of you and you've already not believed them. And if all I do is do

sign after sign after sign and you don't believe on me, you're really not operating in faith

anyway. The ultimate sign of my ministry is the resurrection,

just as the sign of Jonah, three days and three nights in the belly of the fish, was a validation

of his call in ministry and God's work. So my resurrection will be the ultimate sign of my ministry.

And the Ninevites, they repented when Jonah came.

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