As people were in the days of Jesus…so they are today.  With some people, you cannot please them or convince them.  With some people, you cannot win…they will take the opposite tack, every time!

  Jesus recognized this and gave an example of children at play:
(NASB) Luke 7:31-32 “To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like?
32 ‘They are like children who sit in the market place and call to one another, and they say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance (playing at ‘wedding’); we sang a dirge, and you did not weep (playing at ‘funeral’).

Then Jesus compared the differences between John the Baptist and Himself:
(NASB) Luke 7:33-34 “For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
34 ‘The Son of Man has come eating and drinking , and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’”

John the Baptist led an austere life-style of privation.
Jesus, Son of God, ate normal food and drank the customary wine and (gasp!) He associated with known sinners.

Jesus went on to say:
(NASB) Luke 7:35 “Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
Paraphrased from the Amplified Bible: Godly wisdom vindicates [shown to be true and divine], makes you and me ‘right’, when we choose God’s ways [by how we live, our character and actions exhibit Godly wisdom].

Know: you cannot ever please some people!  But, you can please God!  What an amazing God we love and serve.  With some people they will refuse to believe – no matter who the messenger is!

Matthew 11:18-19 is the same words of Jesus as in Luke 7.  John the Baptist and Jesus: two different men and two different ministries which were of God and from God.

With some people…it makes no difference who the messengers are or their message, they will refuse to believe truth.

With some people…are you one of the “with some people”?