60IN60 Day 31 - Wed Feb 3

It's Day 31 and we're in Matthew 11.

The 60IN60 emails usually arrive in the middle of night and people have asked if I’m up then sending them out.  Thankfully, no!  One of the reasons that I administer 60IN60 through the 60in60Bible.org site is so that these emails can be set up to go out automatically each night.  I do write them, but not at 3 a.m.  

Where God Spoke To Me:
- Verse 22 - There are degrees of punishment on Judgment Day.  This should trouble us for a lot of Americans who have had multiple opportunities to hear the gospel and yet rejected it.  It puts them in a bad situation.

Help:
- Verse 3 - John the Baptist is doubting whether Jesus is the Christ.  Why?  Probably because John expected a political Messiah who would overthrow Rome and John is still sitting in jail at this point.  Jesus was the Messiah, but not the type of Messiah John was expecting.
- Verse 12 - This verse is a little obscure.  It most likely means that the kingdom was suffering from violent attacks.
- Verse 14 - A prophet like Elijah was to be the forerunner of the Christ.  John is filling that role for Jesus.
- Verse 25 - Not babies, but spiritual infants.  Those who are willing to come humbly and receive the truth.

If you want to read the chapter online, here's a link.

If you have a question or comment, email me at butcher@ymail.com.

Your Comments: 
- I wonder as we seem to always think of ourselves when God's grace and blessings are freely given to us, that we often overlook the admonishment in Matt. 10:8 where it says "Freely you received, freely give."