Matthew 11:16-19 “But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.”
Jesus is teaching us that the world will always find excuses to reject the written Word of God and the Living Word of God. Today the excuses are, “The Preacher is too conservative,” or “Those Christians take too many liberties,” or the old standby, “There are too many hypocrites in the church.” The real reason that many worldlings reject the Word is that they do not want to deal with the issues of sin and the Savior.