The Only Sign / Death ,Burial and Resurrection

                                
Mat 12:38 ASV - Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we would see a sign from thee.  Looking for a sign to accuse him the more of being apostate to their religion .   Jesus knew their motive , but for the sake of the innocent , hungry people he spoke a truth that still lives in his word today to all mankind.

Mat 12:39 ASV - But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet:                              Generation   Greek: genea  Age:       a period ordinarily occupied by each successive generation, say, of thirty or forty years,   metaph. a group of men very like each other in endowments, pursuits, character  Born of the loins of Adam .   From the beginning of time to the end of all things there is only one remedy for an evil generation ! Jesus Christ and him crucified .  With out the shedding of blood their is no remission of sin's . From the Old testament to the New testament it was about a sacrifice for the sins of mankind . The Law brought man to a conciseness of sin , what God declared to be sin !   But we must first look at why did God destroy the earth with water .    Gen 6:13 ASV - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.   The scripture says that Noah and his sons work on the ark some where around seventy five years .  Noah preached to the people of the coming flood and judgement of God .   Noah and his family eight souls were saved , only eight of all the people in that day were saved . I must add only eight righteous people were saved . 

 I am remembering Abraham and the destruction of Sodom and the cities around Sodom .  Abraham went from fifty to ten righteous souls for God to relent of this judgement on Sodom . Abraham was remembering his nephew Lot living in Sodom and was pleading with God for his soul.  
Gen 19:29 ASV - And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.  Because of Abraham God sent the angels to rescue Lot and his family .  It was because of Abraham's righteousness that God spared Lot and his family . Not even ten righteous souls were in the five cities of the plains ,  and only three souls were save out of Sodom because of a righteous mans prayer .  Jas 5:16 ASV - Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.


2Pe 2:5 ASV - and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;   1Pe 3:20 ASV - that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:   Of all humanity upon the earth in that ancient world at that time , and only eight souls were saved .  The number eight in numeric's is New beginnings , Resurrection , Jesus.
1Pe 3:21 ASV - which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

Mat 12:40 ASV - for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.                                                 Jonah or Jonas = "dove"     From that time began Jesus to show unto his disciples, that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.  Jonah a prophet of God was a man of flesh as we are he was commanded to go and prophesy to Nineveh a great city in his day with many people .    So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey.  And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jon 4:11 ASV - and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?  One hundred and twenty thousand small children alone , Nineveh was a very large city with a vast number of people .   It took Jonah three day's to walk through the city to warn the people of the coming judgement to repent and seek God .     People in that day could not build this large city and it being  prosperous as it was. A man can walk 40 miles in a day if he has to.  Nineveh was over a hundred miles in length . God was telling Jonah the children need grace the people need judgement .   Jonah was a man chosen by God to be his prophet ,  and Jesus says in our time many are called but few are chosen ,  The gospel of God has nothing to do with religion of man , For the very reason people believe that God does not see their sin is foolish . 
God was trying the heart of Jonah to obey , all your God wants from you is to obey his word to love him .  People say what am I here for what does God expect from me ,    it is  what God has wanted from the very beginning of his word to be obedient to his commands.   Mat 22:37 KJV - Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
He is a just God slow to anger full of mercy and grace it says that he first loved you before you ever knew him .  Do we believe Gods word to be true is it as the scripture says   Heb 4:12 ASV - For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.      Jesus said he did not come to judge men he came to save men  .                                                                                                                                                                                  Jhn 12:47 ASV - And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Jhn 12:48 ASV - He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.  Amos 7  And Jehovah said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb-line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more;  This word that will judge all man kind is that plumb line of God.

Jhn 12:49 ASV - For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
Jhn 12:50 ASV - And I know that his commandment is life eternal; the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak.
Psa 107:20 ASV - He sendeth his word, and healeth them, And delivereth them from their destructions.       Luk 4:18 ASV - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19 ASV - To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
                                                                                                                               
  Jhn 4:23 ASV - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.     
Jhn 4:24 ASV - God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
Jhn 14:17 ASV - even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.

Jon 3:6 ASV - And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jon 3:7 ASV - And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
Jon 3:10 ASV - And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.    Jonah preached what God gave him to preach ,  a word from God .    Jonah was a sign to us all he experienced the death ,burial and the resurrection  .   Jesus is telling us that unless we become as he was we will not enter into the resurrected life .         Mar 16:15 ASV - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.   Into all the world is from the beginning of this great truth to the end of all things .  There is more than one baptizem in this word of obedience ,  John preached the baptism of repentance and the baptism of the Holy Spirit  .        Mat 3:11 ASV - I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire:   God knows the heart of a man he will not endure anything short of a broken contrite heart . 
 Mar 1:4 ASV - John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins.        It is very clear that repentance is mandatory for salvation , and that this repentance is of a Godly sort .   For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.                                     Do you hear a message of repentance in your time of gathering .  
 The word says that a man must first believe that God is before he can come unto him .  Heb 11:6 ASV - And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.  A man must be pricked in his heart just as the people that was broken in their heart for their sins when they ask Peter what must we do to be saved .  Acts 2
Mar 16:16 ASV - He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.   Johns baptism was unto repentance .      He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved  this word repent is not a common word preached today . The seeker friendly church believes the truth will drive people away ,  Jesus said  in  Jhn 12:47 ASV - And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Jhn 12:48 ASV - He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.   
 In the very end of all things Rev tells us And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.   The book of life will be opened on that day and will it read your name .  Jesus said if you do not repent unto Johns baptism and than receive the fullness of his spirit endued with power from on high be clothed with the holy spirit you will be condemned .      He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.   Repent and be baptized for the remission of your sins,  and you shall receive the GIFT of the holy spirit.   Matt 26   for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many unto remission of sins.  Mark 1 John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins.    Luke 1   To give knowledge of salvation unto his people In the remission of their sins,  Luke 3 And he came into all the region round about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins;  Luk 24 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. Acts 2 And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.   Act 26:18 ASV - to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.  Be not deceived my friend the gospel of God will bring  resurrection life .  Let no man take thy crown
Rev 3:10 ASV - Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.   
Rev 3:11 ASV - I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.