Luke 4:1-30
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Introduction
Introduction
What Kind of Messiah Will You Be?
What Kind of Messiah Will You Be?
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’ ” And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “ ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’ ” And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written, “ ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,’ and “ ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’ ” And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ” And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.
Jesus was led in by the HS to the place he would face temptation.
The activity of the spirit shows it was in God's purpose that Jesus should face the question of what kind of Messiah he was to be?
How he would use his power?
This is a very important question. Why?
The answer sets the stage for everything he will do from that point forward.
What he does, what he teaches.
His expectations for his disciples and anyone who would follow him and call him Lord ever since.
How Will You Use Your Power?
How Will You Use Your Power?
Bread - Meet your own needs?
Bread - Meet your own needs?
Kingdoms - Setup a kingdom greater than the world’s combined?
Kingdoms - Setup a kingdom greater than the world’s combined?
The world's power centers (Kingdoms of the world) - The opportunity to set up a kingdom greater than all of them combined. He could do so much good. Worship Satan. Do it by his standards, practices. It meant turning back on his calling. His kingdom was of a different kind. To look for power and authority in the world was to worship wickedness. Jesus renounced it
Manipulate The Scripture for your own purpose?
Manipulate The Scripture for your own purpose?
Top of the temple.
Jesus had no special resource during the wilderness temptation experience. How did he met them? A deep, internalized grasp of the teaching of scripture. He didn't use scripture. He didn't get into it; he didn't know all the facts; he didn't just have it memorized. So much can go wrong with each of those approaches. It got into him.
Jesus was loyal and obedient to his Father.
Preaching Tour: Jesus Was Sent
Preaching Tour: Jesus Was Sent
This next scene we see Jesus beginning to reveal who he is: Character, nature and what mattered to him
And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?” And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘ “Physician, heal yourself.” What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’ ” And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. But passing through their midst, he went away.
Synagogue: The Beginning of Deconstructing the Current System, Model While Participating in it
Synagogue: The Beginning of Deconstructing the Current System, Model While Participating in it
Deconstruction right now is a word being used to describe what has to happen when a system or model doesn’t work any more and has to be updated.
Some like it. Some don’t. Some see how and why it is not working and others can’t.
Let me explain what it is and how Jesus is doing it.
Jesus receive a way of doing things (set of values, roles, practices, processes, etc) that no longer served the people God loved. In fact, it hurt them.
In going to the Jews first (Synagogue), he challenged the status quo.
Letting them know this and that he would be teaching and showing them the new way for a new time that in fact, restored them to much of what they had discarded of who God had called them to be (reconstructing).
Message: Good News For Troubled People
Message: Good News For Troubled People
No ministers as we understand the term. Local synagogue authorities would invite people to read and preach.
The synagogue was used for instruction and worship. Reading was done standing up. Preaching sitting down.
Get the idea that Jesus picked the passage and read it.
He sat down and everyone waited for the sermon.
Here it is: the words of the prophet Isaiah are beginning today.
The captive power of sin to be broken and communion with God reestablished and the will of God to be done - it's happening now.
Jesus saw himself as coming with good news for the world’s troubled people. The acceptable year of the Lord does not, of course, represent any calendar year, but is a way of referring to the era of salvation.
Praised One Day, Rejected the Next
Praised One Day, Rejected the Next
All spoke well of him (all witnessed to him). As he spoke, all began to see that what they heard about him was true and they said so.
Particularly surprised because he was from their own town (Nazareth wasn't an Ann Arbor).
Wondered at his preaching but didn't yet take it to heart. Attracted to it but not committed to it.
And then there was the moment he talked about not being welcome in his home town
At first, may read that people are more ready to see greatness in strangers than in those they know well.
People are more ready to see greatness in strangers than in those they know well.
He talked about two of their ancestors.
Elijah was was sent not to an Israelite woman but to a foreigner.
Elisha healed not an Isreali leper but a Syrian.
I am being sent to a people that is not mine. Gentiles. Enemies. People for whom Jesus is good news. This is too much.
The people tried to put Jesus into the position Satan suggested (throw yourself off the cliff...)
What Kind of Followers of Jesus Will We Be?
What Kind of Followers of Jesus Will We Be?
In the bible, everyone who came to Jesus had to give up something.
In America, we want something (Jeremy Stevens)
In this moment in history:
Like Jesus, like his disciples, we are sent with a mission
What kind of follower/missionary will we be? How will we use what we’ve been given
Spirit - Our needs first?
Scripture - One can get into it, study it, know all the facts, have it memorized and when trouble comes, quote it until the cows come home and by missing what it means, will misquote, misuse, use for our own benefit and inadvertently twist scripture. The solution isn't being careful, the solution is to let it get into us.
Resources - Personal kingdoms
Do we believe that Jesus good news for troubled people?
If So, what are we doing with that conviction?
We often ask the question: Is God in this? Don’t want to do anything if we think It’s us and not God.
I NOW BELIEVE THAT IS LIKELY NOT THE BEST QUESTION.
The BETTER question is this: Is Jesus everything for me.
We shouldn’t try to do anything if JESUS ISN’T EVERYTHING.
Learning and growing in his way of thinking and what matters to him
His truth and life shaping our character, understanding of reality, what is good news and how to live life as he intends.
How we answer this question sets the stage for everything we do and how we do it whether times are good or not.