1. Storm Clouds Gathering
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Matthew 11-12

3. Storm Clouds Gathering – Matthew Ch 11-12
Rejection of Jesus warm up act – 11:2
Nit-picking criticism of his actions – 12:1-14
Denouncing of Jesus integrity – 12:22-24
Rejection of his power - 12:38-45

4. Storm Clouds Gathering – Matthew Ch 11-12
Jesus answer to John Baptists honest question - v1-4f
‘Are you the one the people should put their hope in or not?’
The answer? ‘Tell John what I’m doing and saying’ – v4-6

5. Storm Clouds Gathering – Matthew Ch 11-12
Jesus answer to John Baptists honest question - v1-4f
‘Are you the one the people should put their hope in or not?’
The answer? ‘Tell John what I’m doing and saying’ – v4-6.
The answer to our questions is the same
Look and what Jesus has said and done
Look at the cross if you doubt his love
Look at the resurrection if you doubt his power
Look back at what he’s done for you
But remember too the other things he promised

6. Storm Clouds Gathering – Matthew Ch 11-12
Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.
John 15:20

7. Storm Clouds Gathering – Matthew Ch 11-12
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
1 Peter 4:12

8. Storm Clouds Gathering – Matthew Ch 11-12
“my plans are not like your plans,  and my deeds are not like your deeds, for just as the sky is higher than the earth, so my deeds are superior to your deeds and my plans superior to your plans. 
Isaiah 55:7-11