Mark My Word Daily with Reinhard Bonnke Thursday, March 20 Scripture Dynamite And He began to say to them, Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. (Luke 4:21-22) The Gospel of Jesus Christ on our lips will produce spiritual dynamite. What did Jesus preach? Jesus talked about Himself. On the Emmaus road, walking with Cleopas and a friend, He explained to them, going throughout the Scriptures, the things concerning Himself - all His teaching goes back to Himself. For example, after He had left Nazareth and begun His wonderful ministry, the Gospel of Luke tells us that Jesus returned one day and went into the synagogue. For twenty years He had attended that very synagogue faithfully every week. The custom was to allow men who were known to read the Scriptures, and perhaps comment on them afterward. Naturally, when Jesus was present at the synagogue again, He was invited to do this. The Gospel message was found in the Old Testament - in fact, the Old Testament is full of the Gospel! Luke tells us that Jesus read from Isaiah 61: The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor, He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. No doubt, many in the synagogue knew that passage by heart, for those words had been read for eight hundred years. The scroll of the Scriptures was handed back. The synagogue leader took it with great reverence, kissed it, and put it away, to be forgotten until the next week. But suddenly, that scroll seemed to become a stick of dynamite: the Word on the lips of Jesus produced effects all right - it awakened the drowsy congregation! He showed them that the Word was about Himself. There are seven distinct statements in that verse and they all apply to Him, as well as to the present. Today, He dared to announce, this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. Thus He declared Himself to be the Anointed One - the Christ, the One to perform all those promised exploits. Proclaim liberty! Do not preach for effects, for pulpit display, or to charm, excite, or scare folk. Do not preach to calm people down. You can preach for all kinds of effects, but Jesus simply announced liberty. He proclaimed, that day in the synagogue, that the Jubilee had begun. He showed them what a true Jubilee would be: deliverance! It would be a Jubilee - not merely for Israel - but for the whole world. A Jubilee for you ... and for those to whom you speak the Gospel!
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:23:52 +0000
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