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Since the days of Jesus’ physical time on earth, our generation is no different than previous generations who had in their midst people attempting to deceive for earthly gains. They mock those who live by their love of God in the marketplace of man. They defile God’s Words with their own. They try to mislead believers by implying that God sees them for fools in terms of what they believe God wants. And all the while, many of them try to line their pockets with money taken from those who love God through Jesus and live by God’s Word to show their love for Him.
Jesus in Matthew 11:16 calls them out. He says, “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates...” As the marketplaces function, these “children” are off to the side, chiding any merchant and buyer that passes by, but knowing in their hearts they couldn’t hold a candle to them. So they play their flutes of mockery and harass then with the banging of their drums, while their playmates look on appreciatively. They are not interested in any sense or order, since they are too immature and too ignorant to understand what order is.
They get burned by the things they make, they let the wind leak through their own sails, they mock those who honor God’s Calling while having no idea what their own calling is, since they have become subsumed in their jealousy of people who have played by the rules and have turned them away.
And who pays them any mind? Those who cannot afford to pay for the things in the marketplace. Those of whom the marketplace is beyond reach. They won’t be mocked to their faces by the mockers sitting around and calling to their playmates. But they are mocked behind their backs by those very mockers who tell them, ‘Have some wine...We will let you be one of us. Have some oil...We will help you shine like the sun. All we ask is that you sit alongside us, playing a flute or a drum. You see, we give you a choice. Only thing is, you are fools to believe we will give you what you need. We will only take what little you have while refusing to give you any semblance of a real expectation of things that distinguishes man from the animal kingdom he rules over.’
With every generation there are implicit and explicit flute and drummer players that play louder and louder, in hope of drowning out the marketplaces that are the lifeblood of mankind, as more of the blood of mankind has been replacing the roses that are found alongside the same old wine.
Jesus in Matthew 11:16 calls them out. He says, “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates...” As the marketplaces function, these “children” are off to the side, chiding any merchant and buyer that passes by, but knowing in their hearts they couldn’t hold a candle to them. So they play their flutes of mockery and harass then with the banging of their drums, while their playmates look on appreciatively. They are not interested in any sense or order, since they are too immature and too ignorant to understand what order is.
They get burned by the things they make, they let the wind leak through their own sails, they mock those who honor God’s Calling while having no idea what their own calling is, since they have become subsumed in their jealousy of people who have played by the rules and have turned them away.
And who pays them any mind? Those who cannot afford to pay for the things in the marketplace. Those of whom the marketplace is beyond reach. They won’t be mocked to their faces by the mockers sitting around and calling to their playmates. But they are mocked behind their backs by those very mockers who tell them, ‘Have some wine...We will let you be one of us. Have some oil...We will help you shine like the sun. All we ask is that you sit alongside us, playing a flute or a drum. You see, we give you a choice. Only thing is, you are fools to believe we will give you what you need. We will only take what little you have while refusing to give you any semblance of a real expectation of things that distinguishes man from the animal kingdom he rules over.’
With every generation there are implicit and explicit flute and drummer players that play louder and louder, in hope of drowning out the marketplaces that are the lifeblood of mankind, as more of the blood of mankind has been replacing the roses that are found alongside the same old wine.
