I NEED JESUS PART 5 QUIET MOMENT The custom, the regular weekly pattern for Christ, was to spend His Sabbath in the synagogue. Do you have any regular, customary, spiritual disciplines? If so, what are they? How committed to them are you? If you do not have any regular disciplines, what would be the first thing you would need to get in place? GOING DEEPER The light shines forth. Jesus announces His message and His mission in Nazareth. Look back at Luke 4:18-19. What was Christ sent to do? What was God’s assignment for Him? What have you been saved to do? Do you think it would be the same mission God the Father gave to His son? Continue reading Luke 4:20-27. What is Jesus’ message to them? Regardless of what these people were saying, Jesus knew their hearts. They would eventually reject Him. We need to be careful of our own hearts as well. How do you respond to the sermon preached on Sunday morning? What do you do with the words that are preached to you? Do you take the Word of God to heart and into your life? Read Luke 4:28-30. 1. What is the response of the people to what Jesus says? What do they do? 2. What does Jesus do in response? 3. Think for a moment about Jesus’ response to those who were trying to attack Him. Do you get frightened when you think of the responses of men? How can this passage speak to that fear? REFLECTION AND PRAYER Ask God to give you ears to hear His message and to help you understand His heart so that you can follow Him in obedience, without compromise, even if it means enduring great opposition. LUK 4:16-19 NIV He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” LUK 4:20-27 NIV Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked. Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’ ” “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.” LUK 4:28-30 NIV All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.
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