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Matt.12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 12:41 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

Christ in every word spoken proved God's ways higher than the way we human think. Whats wrong with making a show? What harm can it do, if some good comes from it, and people come to the Lord? Isn't that the human way? Make a bang, get some attention, appeal to the flesh, so it might listen, do something provocative, buy something, that how its all works, correct?

Thousand's of years later we have huge massive churches, entertainment, movies, and the list is endless, giving signs to those of the flesh to make the message of Christ appealing, but Christ refused, rejected such weak and cunning uses of himself, and the words he spoke from above. If they weren't enough to change hearts those hearts were not going to be changed for his Father.

Ezekiel 14:20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

Luke.16:27 "He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house; 16:28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment.' 16:29 "But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.' 16:30 "He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'
16:31 "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"

Unlike so many today who make preaching and teaching about their power they muster up to do God's work, Christ instead was a faithful slave that would not put on a show on in his flesh. His power came from above, from the Father, and he waited until God directed him to preform a powerful work. Christ warned us weeds would over take the field of God's planting and produce a counterfeit kingdom, the weed stealing the ground of the field of God's planting for his children - wheat.

Matthew 13:33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel} of meal, until it was all leavened."

Human have taken the message of Christ and made the preaching of the word of God from their will, their flesh, from self, creating yet more fleshly thinking Christian's. They build like men of the world empires comparing themselves against their competitors using every tactic they can to win. So goes religion, in a show of advertising, and here we find the fruit of all false religion, and what is that? If some good comes from it, we can justify the bad! Sadly, many new bible students uses the same line of reasoning taught them by fleshly teachers. Unwittingly playing into the very counterfeit kingdoms Christ warn us about. Their not knowing a good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and bad tree cannot bear good fruit. A little evil is not justified by some good humans do!

Matt.7:18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. 7:19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. 7:20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them. 7:21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

James 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

The tree having good fruit is not of man, nor these Pharisee's wanting a sign to impress the flesh, God 's tree was in the tomb for 3-1/2 days and miraculously raised out of death into incorruptible, immortality, given a kingdom, glorified in heaven, and not on earth. Those Pharisee's could not look up, they had a physical kingdom, nor could they believe in Spirit and truth nothing Christ could of done in the flesh would have impressed them because they like so many weed Christian's first look to men to please them, than to a group, and a government, but not up, blindly believing those in the flesh are speaking for God, no sign will be given them as the search the world over for a new forth coming prophecy so that day will not over taken them it already has.

Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away. 21:34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. 21:35 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth. 21:36 Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

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