Excellent Life Keys October 12

 *EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️

Wed/12th/Oct/2022

*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach) 

_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_

*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (175)*

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test Him they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven. He answered them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.' And in the morning, 'It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times" (Matthew 16:1-3).

According to Expositor's Bible Commentary, 'A Sign'... was usually some miraculous token to be fulfilled quickly or at once, in order to confirm a prophecy. The Pharisees were not asking for just another miracle, since they had already persuaded themselves that at least some of those Jesus had performed were of demonic agency;  they were asking for a 'sign' performed on command to remove what seemed to them to be the ambiguity of Jesus' miracles. These men are not suffering from a lack of evidence. They're suffering from stubbornness. 

Although many convincing signs had already been given, attesting to Jesus' identity, the religious leaders of the first century didn't believe these clear proofs. So when the Pharisees and Sadducees challenged Jesus to show them a sign, He answered with an example of how it was easy enough for them to predict the upcoming day's weather by watching the sky, but that they couldn't discern the serious occurrences, prophetic events, social and spiritual conditions of the world around them. For the Old Testament was prophetically rich in such, in regard to the first coming of the Messiah, and Jesus had already fulfilled many and proved to be the Messiah. 

Encouraging the brethren at Ephesus and us today. Paul wrote: _"See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil"_ (Ephesians 5:15-16). In other words, Christians should recognize the conditions prophesied to exist at Christ's second coming and be ready for this monumental event. For the "signs of the times" entail prophetic events, individual and social behaviors, plus false signs and wonders from satan, among others. 

*EXCELLENCE KEY*🗝️

_We must know our times and their signs. Above all, we must know that Jesus both transcends all times and gave the most important signs of all time._ 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*

#1562 ELK.