We do not want this man to rule over us!

(Charles Simeon)  Play Audio!  Download

"We do not want this man to rule over us!" Luke 19:14

"'You cannot serve God and money!'  
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed Him."
   Luke 16:13-14

The unsaved view the gospel as:
    too humiliating in its doctrines,
    and too strict in its precepts.

They are filled with pride, and are unwilling to embrace any sentiment that tends to abase them.

They are also full of worldly and carnal lusts, which they cannot endure to have mortified and subdued.

In short, their desires and their passions are altogether adverse to the Gospel; so that, when the Word is preached to them, they instantly set themselves against it!

"Bring here these enemies of Mine, who did not want Me to rule over them—and slaughter them in My presence!" Luke 19:27