Luke 11:27-32 Messiah has come!

Luke 11:27-28 Jesus contrasts the blessedness of observing God's word to the blessing of motherhood. A mother's view is always based on pride in her children, and in this case with Jesus demonstrating with power that He was the Messiah, it would be natural for a Jewish woman, who had also born children, to state that the mother of the Messiah was truly blessed. What bragging rights! But as in the case in Luke 8:19-21, Jesus makes it clear that doing what God says is the true source of blessedness. We cannot choose our parents, and at some point we can't decide what our children are going to do, but we can decide what we are going to do. Specifically to hear God's voice spoken to our heart, and obey, or not.

Luke 11:29-32 Jesus contrasts Old Testament revelation to His presence. His first example is Jonah - that the Ninevites repented at the preaching of Jonah (Jonah 3:5-10), but Jonah was merely a prophet. The Queen of the South (no doubt, the Queen of Sheba) came from the ends of the earth to hear Solomon's wisdom (I Kings 10:1-10, 2 Chronicles 9:1-9), but Jesus was revealing God's wisdom that was greater than Solomon's. She tested Solomon with difficult questions, and observed how his household was organized and run. Jesus said that both the men of Nineveh and the Queen of Sheba would, in the final judgment, rise up to condemn the generation that had Jesus physically in their presence but did not listen to Him and repent.

         In our day, we have the full story in the gospels of all Jesus did, and the Holy Spirit has been poured out to speak directly to every person's heart. We have no less responsibility to listen to Jesus and repent than those who were standing beside Him when He was on earth.