Matthew 11:20-30 Jesus: Judge and Savior

You are listening to the podcast of Recast Church in Mattawan, Michigan. Our desire is to help you draw near to God by growing in faith, community, and service. This message is by Pastor of Teaching and Vision, Don Filsak, and is a part of a series entitled Not Your Average Savior, a study of the book of Matthew.

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Good morning.

Welcome to Recast Church. I'm Don Filsak. I'm the Pastor of Vision and Teaching here, and I just want to welcome you. Glad that you're here. A couple of reminders. You received a worship folder when you walked in.

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Just a free gift. Our way of just saying thank you for joining us in worship, and glad that you are here. Just a reminder that next week is Thanksgiving. Wondering if that was a help to you for me to say that Thanksgiving, you probably already knew that.

But next Sunday is our Thanksgiving service, which is something that we've done for the last couple of years, and it's really been one of the highlights of my year. An opportunity for us to get up and share what we are thankful for, and that's really going to be the focus.

I'm not going to be preaching a sermon next week, so I'll leave that up to you to decide.

Whether that's good or bad.

But we are all going to be preaching a sermon of sorts. I mean, in essence, it's going to be people from the church getting up at a microphone and just sharing what God has done in your life that you are thankful for this past year.

I recognize that just me mentioning a microphone and getting up to speak, some of your knees just started to shake a little bit. I don't want that to stop you from coming, and I mean, nobody's going to be called out, nobody's going to be asked to come up, and it's just going to be a general call for anybody who would like to share.

But I would encourage you to take some time this week, just in the busyness of your life, even if it's just out driving from one meeting to another or walking from one building to another or whatever you do, just to take some time to think throughout your week of what has God done in your life this past year that you are grateful for.

And then come here, it's just an awesome time. I really, really love this, the last couple of years, the chance to just hear what God is doing in people's lives, and ultimately, it's just awesome to just hear gratitude, just thankfulness being poured out to Him.

So that's next Sunday here, both services are going to be doing the same thing. On another note, around the holiday season, the last couple of years, we have tried to help out our community. One of our desires is to be a genuine blessing to the Matawan area.

One of the things that we've done over the last three and a half years is help get a food pantry started here in the community, and Recast is a part of that. I've been sitting on the board of that for the past three years now.

And one of the things that we've done is serve through the food pantry. Last year, we provided personal care products for people who are going to come through. There's only one distribution in December, on December 15th.

So there's two ways that you could be involved. First of all, at the Welcome Center, there's a sign-up sheet with all different kinds of time slots for all different kinds of things. Even if it's just, you might say, I've got a bad back, I can't stand, I can't lift, I can't really help with that, but I could sit and pray with somebody.

A large percentage of the people who come through there would love for somebody to pray with them. We're going to have about 200 families come through from the Matawan area in need. They receive groceries and food.

They also receive clothing. There's a huge layout of clothes. And then also all of the new toys from Toys for Tots for them to be able to provide gifts for their children and things like that. So there's all kinds of opportunities.

The second way you can be involved is there's two Rubbermaid totes just right here by the Welcome Center on the floor for people who would be willing to provide personal care.

Products.

Soap, shampoo, shaving cream, razors, just whatever it might be that God might lay on your heart to bring in. Last year we had kind of a quota and it got to be a little bit dicey and confusing about how many people brought what and too much shampoo, too much of this.

The pantry can use whatever we provide. And if we get too much shampoo, it'll be given throughout the year and it's useful to them. That's one of the things, by the way, that food stamps can't obtain.

And so the things that we can provide there are just a really tangible benefit to our community for those who are going through a hard time right now and struggling. So again, anybody can be involved in that.

Some of the kids that are sitting here, if you get an allowance, you ask your parents to take you over to Dollar General or Family Dollar and buy some shampoo for somebody to help them out that are in need.

So regardless of where you're at financially, if you can provide a crate of shampoo, awesome. If you can provide two bottles or a bottle, that's awesome, too. So everybody can be involved. This week we're going to be jumping back into really seeking to encounter Jesus Christ in the book of Matthew.

And I like to turn to the Gospels, particularly over the holidays, because they snap into focus the reason that Jesus came over 2 ,000 years ago. Now we're not over the holiday, we're not studying the actual birth of Jesus, just covering that first couple chapters.

But I've been going through the Gospel of Matthew bit by bit since we started three years ago. And we're picking up here in Matthew chapter 11, the second half. But I'd like to turn our attention to Jesus and the reasons that he came.

And I think that if we look at the lifestyle of Jesus, we know that he didn't do anything unintentionally. Everything he did was with purpose. And it ultimately showed the focus of where his heart was.

I don't think it's quite sufficient to say that Jesus is the reason for the season, because that misses the point. I mean, it rhymes, and it sounds kind of cliche and catchy, right? I mean, see, Jesus is the reason for the season.

Well, he is.

But I'm going to admit that maybe he's a little bit more than that. Just a little bit more than the reason for the season. As a matter of fact, he's the creator of seasons. He's the one who gave the earth the tilt so that it produces seasons.

He's the one. So it's a little bit more than that. Like the whole phrase, keep Christ in Christmas, I got some information, he's already there. Like it's not up to us to keep him in Christmas, Christmas is all about him.

That's the point. It's not enough to worship a little baby once a year. I think our culture kind of goes down to, oh, baby Jesus, he's cute, he's in the manger. That baby grew up, lived a sinless life, died a substitutionary death on the cross to cover our sins and the sins of any who would believe, and then rose again three days later.

He is not just a baby. Jesus Christ is Savior. Jesus Christ is Lord. He is King. He is God in flesh, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. And not only that, but we're going to see an aspect of Jesus in our text that can tend to make us a little bit uncomfortable at times.

Because Matthew is going to reveal in the second half of Matthew chapter 11 that Jesus is also the rightful judge. He is the standard upon which judgment is based. And that might not be a real popular Christmas message, but it is an aspect of Jesus Christ that we need to hear nonetheless.

So I want you to open your Bibles to Matthew chapter 11. We're going to read verses 20 through 30, that's page 695 in the Bible that is in the seat back in front of you. So if you pull that out, turn to 695, and it's Matthew 11 starting at verse 20 in the 11 verses through the end of the chapter.

Follow along as I read the very words of God to us through the Gospel of Matthew from Jesus.

Christ.

Then He, that is Jesus, then He began to denounce the cities where most of His mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than.

For you.

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until.

This day.

But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom.

Than for you.

At that time Jesus declared, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little.

Children.

Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses.

To reveal Him.

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Let's pray as the band comes to prepare to lead us in worship this morning. Father, I am so grateful for this message that brings together two aspects in our Savior that are just really central and essential, and that is that He is the standard.

What we do with Him matters most. How we interact with Him and what we do with the trust that's been given us, with the privilege that has been given us regarding knowing Jesus, and that ultimately judgment comes based on.

Him.

But then equally that He is not just judge, but He is Savior. He is the one who has made a way. And so, Father, I ask that You would help us to worship You as You truly are, as revealed through Your Son, Jesus Christ, to us.

Father, that we would see You high and exalted and lifted up, and that the songs that we sing would flow from hearts of gratitude for salvation, and that we would heed this call to come to Jesus. He says, come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden.

He provides rest. And, Father, I am convinced that many of us in this room are weary. Many of us in this room are burned down with weights. So, Father, I ask that You would help us to come as we worship You, in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Well, I want to just offer a big thanks to Rob Knoll for filling in. Dave called this morning and was ill, and so he was not able to lead us in worship, so Rob jumped right in, and so I appreciate his willingness to do that.

Thanks a lot.

Go ahead and make sure your Bibles are open to Matthew chapter 11, verses 20 through 30,.

Is where we're going to be at.

Again, that's 695 in the Bible that's in the seat back in front of you, in case you weren't here when we read that. Just to set the context, last week we were earlier in the book of, earlier in chapter 11 of Matthew, and Jesus was on a tour, has been on a tour of Galilee, the northern part of Israel, touring various cities, preaching and teaching, the text told us last week.

All along the 12 disciples, He sent them out, and they're doing the same thing. So they're not necessarily together, but they're going out in groups of two, Jesus is out among the cities, and He made clear that He had a unique ministry among the down and out.

And then, last week, we saw Him take His generation to task. They said, they were saying, Jesus, you're not the kind of Messiah we were looking for. We were looking for somebody who was a little bit more religious, we were a little uncomfortable with the way that you hang out with tax collectors and sinners, we want to play the flute and have you dance to our tune, His generation said.

And I think that maybe we can reflect a little bit of that, unfortunately, in our own hearts, and maybe you've dealt with that this past week, of relating how we desire a Jesus that fits our mold, and we tend to make Him in our own image, and that is not appropriate.

He is the Messiah, He is the King, He is the one who was sent, and we need to let Him be who He is, and even this text might challenge us that way, as we contemplate and consider the way He's going to address a couple of cities here, in a pretty dramatic fashion.

In verses 20 through 24, we see Jesus showing Himself, ultimately, as the standard. He is the standard upon which everything is judged, and as a matter of fact, He is, in essence, the judge Himself. And in this section, Jesus is going to bend our pretty picture of Himself once again.

The nice, kind, tame Jesus picks up where we left off last week, but even takes it up a notch. He's going to ratchet, you know, turn the temperature up on those He's speaking to in the crowds, by denouncing the cities around Him.

Now, how many of you used the word, denounce, sometime this past week, in just routine conversation? Like, I denounce you. We don't really use that word, and so it can be kind of devoid of meaning in one sense.

How many of you at least knew, like, when I say the word, denounce, it's got a negative.

Meaning to it?

Did you already know that? It's a little bit of a negative flavor to the word, denounce, but a picturesque way of understanding this Greek word is, even to the extent of, it can be used for insult, or reproach, or revile.

What He's going to say is not nice, and it's very clear, I mean, the nature of this is denouncing them, to ultimately revile them. Maybe a modern paraphrase should read that Jesus began to let them have it, okay?

He begins to diss them. And He picks out three particular cities to hold up as a negative example, and He's picking them intentionally. As a matter of fact, we see in the text, He chose these three cities because they are the places where the majority of His mighty works occurred.

Now we talked last week about how the word, works, can be a very generic term, just for every deed that you did yesterday, you could call those your works. But how many of you know that when you put, when you're talking about Jesus, and you use the word, mighty, in front of His works, what do you think is an appropriate understanding of that?

His miracles, okay? So He did the majority of His mighty works in that place, and of course, we're really super familiar with these three cities, Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum, right? I mean, you guys all know right where those are, you can find them on a map, right?

You remember that from Sunday school. How many of you, like, maybe this is potentially the first time you've ever heard the city Chorazin, for example. I mean, it's not really mentioned a lot, it's only mentioned twice in the Gospels, and yet it was one of the areas, one of the districts where Jesus performed the majority of His miracles.

Now, we might be, I mean, I think if we're honest, we're probably fairly familiar with some of the miracles that Jesus did, like, say, feeding, how many of you knew that Jesus fed 5 ,000 people with the little boy's lunch?

Okay, did you know that He did that? How many of you can tell me, like, you have a picture in your mind of where in Israel that happened? Okay, not so good, right? This is called by some scholars, if you were to draw a line between these three cities, it's called the Triangle of Miracles.

The majority of the miracles that Jesus did occurred north of the Sea of Galilee, way up in the north of Israel, between these cities, Capernaum, Bethesda, or Bethsaida, rather, and Capernaum. And so, what are these cities?

Capernaum is on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee. It's the bottom of the triangle, okay? It was really the center of Jesus' ministry. Now, imagine, like, you're raised in Kalamazoo, or maybe you were raised in Jackson and you went off to college at Western.

So Western ends up kind of, Kalamazoo ends up becoming a home away, a home of sorts for.

You.

Jesus was raised, He was born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth, leaves Nazareth, and the majority of His ministry takes place near Capernaum, and if there's any place that could actually be called kind of like the place where He laid His head, it was in Capernaum.

Now, He didn't own a home there, as far as we can tell, but He spent most of His nights in Capernaum. It was kind of like the place to go back to, to reset at the end of the day. And so, Capernaum was kind of a base of operations, if you will, for the ministry of Jesus there on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee.

Bethsaida is northeast of that location, and then Chorazin is north and west, almost equal distance. So, we have a triangle that's formed here. And within that triangle, the dead were raised, the feeding of the 5 ,000 occurred, just south of that point where the triangle touches the water is where Jesus walked on water.

Demons were cast out, blindness was healed, the deaf received hearing. All of this stuff happened right in that area. And so, He says, I pick out these cities, and I'm going to denounce them, because the majority of the mighty miracles that I've done, the mighty stuff that Jesus did, happened in this area.

I want you to know, awesome stuff went down there. I mean, can you imagine going to a funeral, you're wearing black, you're crying, you're mourning for your friend or your loved one, and Jesus comes in and says, you know, hold up just a second, come out of the casket, and the person gets up, like, you know, would that just like blow your brain, I mean, it would just be like, what in the world is going on here?

Okay, and these people were privileged at seeing that routinely. Now, what we need to get out of our mind is the notion that there's a miracle every five minutes in biblical times. This was supposed to be awe-inspiring to them.

There was not the general expectation that miracles were just going to happen routinely all the time. This was a surprise to them, like Jesus walking in here and healing people and doing miraculous.

Things.

This would be like, whoa, what is going on here? And it's interesting to note that it's clear from this context that one of the primary reasons Jesus performed miracles was that people would repent, that it would have an actual impact on people's hearts and in their lives.

So that the notion of repenting is that I'm living my own way, I'm doing my own thing, I'm heading on this pathway, living for myself, and I encounter Jesus and he picks me up and sets me in a different direction.

That's repentance. Repentance is turning from this way of life, turning from the very structure, the way that I live, and now living for God and going his way and my feet are on his path. Do you understand that?

So repentance is like a 180 degree turn. I'm heading this way, I'm heading towards destruction, the end of this path is destruction, living for myself, I'm all that matters in my life, boom, I encounter Jesus and my trajectory is changed through repentance and I change direction.

And he said, my miracles should have produced repentance in you.

How?

Well, that they would encounter, have this awesome encounter with God and realize how powerful he is, how awesome he is, how worthy he is, and in essence, the expectation on Jesus' part is that they would see the mighty works of God he was performing, recognize him as the king that has now arrived and turn from their sinful ways.

Does that make sense? That's the expectation. But Jesus in his omniscience says in verse 21 that if the miracles done in Chorazin, if the miracles done in Bethsaida had been done in the Gentile wicked cities of Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago.

Now Tyre and Sidon, just a really brief history lesson, there was a lot of conflict between Tyre and Sidon and Israel proper, that's north of Israel, but really from where Jesus is stating this, it's probably the closest completely non-Jewish city that is in proximity to the district of Galilee.

These two cities were known for their wickedness and opposing the people of God at every turn throughout the Old Testament, so they were a bit of a picture, if you will, a bit of a paragon or held up as an example of wickedness.

And he says, I mean, you know, what he's saying here is pretty extreme. The pagan cities who worship idols would have repented before you have repented. They long ago, if they had seen the things that Jesus has done in Israel, they would have turned their lives over to God and walked away from self-serving lives focused on themselves.

And he even says long ago they would have done this. And they would have repented, not just repented internally, but in sackcloth and ashes, just an external demonstration of a heart change, a very biblical, cultural example.

They would have put on itchy, scratchy clothing that symbolizes humility and sorrow and dejection and in a sense poverty. They would have put ashes on their head and their skin to symbolize lowliness in their hearts.

So Tyrant Sidon would have done that. Now how many of you know that he's actually saying that he's predicting some things. He's basically showing he has the right and the full knowledge of how things would have gone down had his ministry been in Tyrant Sidon.

Do you see what I'm saying? He's actually claiming to know some things that are quite intense and miraculous. He's saying I know how the outcome would have been had my ministry been in Tyrant Sidon. And now in verse 22, Jesus, the righteous judge, makes his point.

He says this.

Maybe just this rattles some of us.

It will be more bearable.

It will be. He's making a declaration of reality. This is really the way it's going to go down. It will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyrant Sidon than for you, Bethsaida and.

Chorazin.

Now let's take the main point first before we get misdirected into another angle of the verse and there's a little bit of a side note here. But the main point here is that to whom much is given, much is required.

Do you get that from the text? Those who were privileged to encounter Jesus Christ in his earthly ministry, those who were privileged to see these mighty miracles. In other words, with great privilege comes great responsibility.

And that is what's going on here. Those who have come close to the Savior. Now listen to this. You can listen to this in two ways. You can listen to this and judge Chorazin and Bethsaida and Capernaum or you can listen to this and think about your own privilege.

Think about these things. Those who have come close to the Savior. Those who have grown up near to the King. Those who have been around the living word of God and have seen his life transforming power.

And if they have seen these things and experienced these things only to reject him in their hearts, they are going to incur a greater judgment, the text tells us. They're not my words. These are the words of Jesus.

Now, are you getting that? Is that making sense to you? That with proximity to the truth comes greater responsibility and equally comes greater judgment. The words bearable and judgment in the same sentence probably rattles some of us.

Would you, bearable, more bearable, judgment, I thought that, I think sometimes we think in such black and white terms that it's either in or out and those who are out are all going to receive the same equal judgment and that's not the case according to this passage and it requires a lot more study for us to understand how judgment actually comes down but it's right here in the text and it's clear that a day of judgment is coming and it's equally clear that judgment will be based upon how privileged we have been with the truth.

There's a part of that. There's an aspect of that. Now, there's much that we don't know about the way that the final judgment is going to go down. There's some things that we do and there are two things that we do know that I think should be sufficient to move us, that should be significant in our hearts and in our lives.

The first is just to genuinely grab a hold of the reality that a day of reckoning is.

Coming.

There is going to be a day of judgment. Do you agree with that? Would you agree that that has significance in our lives, or should have significance in the way we live our lives and the way that we walk and the things that we think about and all of that?

There's a reality to that. But second of all, and this is, I think, the first leads to the second in its importance, that is that there is a day of reckoning coming, but the second is simply this. There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

He is the judge, and the one who is the judge is going to be equally the one who is offering.

Salvation.

He has offered it to us freely, to any, and we're going to see that by the end of our.

Text.

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. What is the way that we come out from underneath the righteous wrath and righteous judgment of a holy and perfect God?

It is Jesus Christ.

He alone is our hope. The one who will be handing out the sentences on that day is the way of pardon. And in verses 23 through 24, Jesus equally takes on Capernaum. They apparently thought that they would be exalted to heaven.

Now think about if, it's biblical times in modern times, and Jesus has chosen Matawan to be his base of operations, okay? Sure, he goes out in the countryside, he heads out to Goebbels once in a while, does some miracles out there, does some things, teaches over towards the lake, walks across Lake Michigan a couple times, does some miraculous things.

But at the end of the day, he comes back to Matawan. What do you think is kind of the feel, the sense of Matawan?

We are awesome.

We are awesome.

God is doing miraculous things in our midst. We must be highly favored. We are highly privileged according to the text. He must like us quite a bit. And I think Capernaum had that thought because Jesus is going to attack that notion.

They apparently thought that they would be exalted to heaven. I think part of it was because Jesus' ministry was going on there. So they just assumed they were in with God. God likes us because look, he's doing these miracles here.

So they took what was supposed to be repentance on their part for their sin and actually took those miracles and made them their own and thought that they were all worth that, showed how super cool they were.

Are you getting that? Jesus says they will not be exalted to heaven, but he declares that instead they will be brought down to Hades, to the grave. Not necessarily a word for hell, but a place of death, the place where all souls go, to the grave, to Hades.

And then he says this pretty dramatic statement, that the very works that had been done in Capernaum had been done in, look at the text, what city does he hold up as an example?

Sodom.

He says, if the very works that had been done in Capernaum had been done in Sodom, even Sodom would have repented and remained to this day. Sodom, again, an Old Testament image of a city that was literally physically judged.

Fire came down from heaven and consumed them. They went down to Hades. He says, if the mighty works, if the miracles that I do here in Capernaum had been done in Sodom, they would have repented, turned from their wickedness and they would still exist today.

Is that a pretty extreme statement for a Jew to grab a hold of? Absolutely, especially when you consider all the Old Testament references that hold up Sodom as one of the epitomes of wickedness. So then a question, how significant is the rejection of the Son of God?

To have Him drawn near, to stand at the outer reaches of the crowd and listen in and hear His teaching and be privileged to see the miracles and to take it in, to eat the bread that He multiplied and to be numbered among the 5 ,000 and to not repent and not embrace Him in a significant and unique way, to not come to Him, but to just kind of be satisfied in your own way of life and doing your own thing, but coming just that close to the kingdom.

How significant is that? It will be more tolerable for Sodom than for Capernaum on the Day of Judgment, He says. To have seen the glory and then to go on living for ourselves is the greatest offense. To come in contact with the Son of God and reject Him, that will incur the greatest judgment.

The second section deals with the authority of Jesus to declare such things. Is this kind of a little bit of a downer to start the message here? It's pretty serious and Jesus is getting serious and if we're not taking it serious, then we ought to consider why not.

But in verses 23, I'm sorry, moving on 25 through 27, on what authority does Jesus declare these things? Why does He have the authority to do this? One might challenge Jesus at this point and say, who gives you the right to judge Chorazin?

Who gives you the right to judge Bethsaida? How do you know Sodom would have repented? How do you know these things? And so, verses 25 through 27, Jesus talks directly about His intimate relationship with His Father.

Understanding the inner workings of salvation and understanding even the very mind of God the Father Himself. He's going to make some radical statements in verses 25, but notice that He basically takes this next part, takes the form of a prayer.

So at that time, in that context, in issuing these woes to the cities, at that time Jesus declared, I thank you Father. Jesus thanks the Father ultimately. If you go through the entire text of His prayer, He's ultimately thanking the Father for the plan of salvation.

Jesus is glad that one need not be highly educated or wise, but that the little child can receive this revelation as well. As a matter of fact, one needs to become like a little child in order to understand this by faith.

I do not believe that Jesus is here implying that the educated cannot repent. That if you have a Ph .D., all of a sudden you're in trouble and you can't come into the kingdom. But what He is saying is that if you have a Ph .D. and you refuse to come to Jesus with humility like a child, then you really won't come at all.

If we remain solely in our own wisdom, solely in our own understanding, then we will not come to Jesus as He is. Another way to state this, to clarify it, is that our brains can indeed get in the way.

Of faith.

Do you agree with that? Our minds can get in the way. Jesus is not calling everyone to stupidity. He's not calling everyone to ignorance. Get dumb so you can get in the kingdom. He's calling people to a simple, innocent, childlike faith.

And notice that it's not that we obtain this faith by actively pursuing intellectual facts. Oh, I was smart enough to get in. I was smart enough to get a hold of this. I got enough study and eventually I got in because I'm so smart.

But truth comes to us through revelation. The Father, the Lord of heaven and earth, reveals it to us according to the text. Consider the response of Jesus when He asked His disciples who they thought He was.

A biblical model, a biblical example of this concept that faith ultimately comes by a revelation from the Father. So Jesus asked His disciples, who do you say that I am? And Peter, brash, always the first one to answer, can't keep his mouth shut.

Sometimes I relate to Peter in the text. Interjects, you are the Christ, the son of the living God. And he gets one right for once. You are the Christ. And so you might think that Jesus goes, good job, Peter.