<html><head></head><body><div><div><div><div><br></div>Mark 8;11-13<div><br></div><div><b>11. &nbsp;The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking a sign from heaven, to test him.</b></div><div><b>12. &nbsp;And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? &nbsp;Truly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.”</b></div><div><b>13. &nbsp;And he left them, and getting into the boat again he departed to the other side.</b></div><div><br></div><div>We normally think of the term <i>“generation” </i>&nbsp;as referring to people born during a certain period of time. &nbsp;For example, people born within about ten years following the end of World War Two (September 2, 1945) as ‘Baby Boomers’ or the ‘Boomer’ generation, or ‘Gen X&nbsp;also called Zoomers’,&nbsp; ‘Millennials, also called Generation Y’, or ‘Gen Xers’. &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>But Jesus is not referring to a certain group born at a particular time,&nbsp;rather, he is referring to people who deliberately&nbsp;put their trust in themselves and their own powers of reason. &nbsp;This generation is continually choosing to reject the work of the Holy Spirit. &nbsp;They belong to the generation of the ‘unforgivable sin’. &nbsp;They blaspheme&nbsp;the Holy Spirit,&nbsp;&nbsp;(Who&nbsp;seeks&nbsp;to soften their hard hearts with the gifts of repentance and faith, but they will have none of it.).&nbsp; Their minds are made up, they refuse to consider that they could possibly be wrong. &nbsp;This generation is&nbsp;the generation of ‘Gen H’ (Hell’s generation).</div><div><br></div><div>Jesus was continually giving signs from Heaven&nbsp;to those who were humble. &nbsp;Being willing to re-think and re-consider one’s own opinions and understandings, is evidence of open-hearted repentance. &nbsp;There is always more truth our Lord would have us to embrace. &nbsp;It must be so, for our God is infinite in love, and eternal in giving His Life into us. &nbsp;As Believers, we must always be in the process of being changed. &nbsp;This is what repentance is, ongoing change. &nbsp;<i>“ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit is, there is freedom. &nbsp;And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.” &nbsp;</i>(1 Corinthians 3;17&amp;18)</div><div><br></div><div>Praise God, we are not doomed to remain ‘GenH’ers’. &nbsp;&nbsp;Those who hear the Word with humble hearts, knowing they have yet much to learn, are the ‘regenerate’ generation! &nbsp;This means, that have been ‘made new’ and are ever changing more and more&nbsp;into Christ’s likeness.</div><div><br></div><div>Prayer, O Most Merciful Heavenly Father, deliver us from hard-hearted thinking which believes we already know all the answers. &nbsp;Humble us, soften our hearts and minds to allow the Holy Spirit to continue His work in us, on-going change. &nbsp;In Jesus we pray, Amen.</div><div><br></div><div>Love,</div><div>Dad/Baba/Eric&nbsp;</div><div>Grandpa Pickle Pastor</div><div>“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word. &nbsp;God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;<br><br><br><div><a href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&amp;c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&amp;af_sub1=Acquisition&amp;af_sub2=Global_YMktg&amp;af_sub3=&amp;af_sub4=100000604&amp;af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>


Mark 8;11-13
11.  The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking a sign from heaven, to test him.12.  And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign?  Truly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.”13.  And he left them, and getting into the boat again he departed to the other side.
We normally think of the term “generation”  as referring to people born during a certain period of time.  For example, people born within about ten years following the end of World War Two (September 2, 1945) as ‘Baby Boomers’ or the ‘Boomer’ generation, or ‘Gen X also called Zoomers’,  ‘Millennials, also called Generation Y’, or ‘Gen Xers’.  
But Jesus is not referring to a certain group born at a particular time, rather, he is referring to people who deliberately put their trust in themselves and their own powers of reason.  This generation is continually choosing to reject the work of the Holy Spirit.  They belong to the generation of the ‘unforgivable sin’.  They blaspheme the Holy Spirit,  (Who seeks to soften their hard hearts with the gifts of repentance and faith, but they will have none of it.).  Their minds are made up, they refuse to consider that they could possibly be wrong.  This generation is the generation of ‘Gen H’ (Hell’s generation).
Jesus was continually giving signs from Heaven to those who were humble.  Being willing to re-think and re-consider one’s own opinions and understandings, is evidence of open-hearted repentance.  There is always more truth our Lord would have us to embrace.  It must be so, for our God is infinite in love, and eternal in giving His Life into us.  As Believers, we must always be in the process of being changed.  This is what repentance is, ongoing change.  “ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit is, there is freedom.  And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.”  (1 Corinthians 3;17&18)
Praise God, we are not doomed to remain ‘GenH’ers’.   Those who hear the Word with humble hearts, knowing they have yet much to learn, are the ‘regenerate’ generation!  This means, that have been ‘made new’ and are ever changing more and more into Christ’s likeness.
Prayer, O Most Merciful Heavenly Father, deliver us from hard-hearted thinking which believes we already know all the answers.  Humble us, soften our hearts and minds to allow the Holy Spirit to continue His work in us, on-going change.  In Jesus we pray, Amen.
Love,Dad/Baba/Eric Grandpa Pickle Pastor“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word.  God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”
 


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