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Proclaiming the Best Gift
Luke 4:14-22
Online Sermon:
http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567
Once again Christmas is just around the corner.
Christmas is the time of year when in trying to express our love
for others we seek high and low for the very best gifts to give
them!
We go to crowded shopping malls to find the “right” gift
only later to be left in wonder if
they truly liked the gift we have
slavishly search and found?
But
what if we were to examine the
true meaning of Christmas, is
there not a gift we can give that
would truly fill our loved ones
with wonder, peace, and
inexpressible joy?
The answer of
course is YES, what better gift to
give than an introduction to the Babe lying in the manger?
Jesus emptied Himself of His glory in heaven, was born amongst
us and paid the price for our sins so that we would be offered
forgiveness and eternal life!
Many of our family, friends and
acquaintances are destined to hell and we have glorious news
to offer them that the Lord wishes none of them to be damned
but saved!
While most Christians understand the need for
giving the reasons why they have hope in Jesus, many refuse to
plant or water seeds of righteousness!
While indifference is
one reason for not proclaiming the Good News, for most
Christians it is not knowing how to proclaim that stops them for
giving others such an amazing gift.
They fear in proclaiming
Jesus they will jeopardize relationships that they hold most
dear, family and friends.
They also fear they will not know what
to say that honors God and reaches them or that the person
witnessing too might see the hypocrisy of their living for this
world and detract another from even looking at God’s gift!
The following sermon is going to examine how Jesus
told the Jewish people and his family and friends
about the Good News so that we might imitate His
example and be the gift introducing ambassadors
God wants us to be on His Son’s birthday!
Witnessing in the Spirit
“Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the
Spirit, and news about Him spread through the
whole countryside.
He was teaching in their
synagogues, and everyone praised Him” (14-15)
After having been tested and having defeated Satan in
the wilderness, Luke tells us that Jesus returned to “his home
region of Galilee to begin His preaching and healing ministry.” 1
Luke portrays Jesus not as the “limping survivor of the
temptation experience” but as one who being in the Spirit was
“righteous
and
vindicated
by
2
God.”
From His
conception (1:35),
to His baptism
(3:22), to His
temptation in the
wilderness (4:1)
and now at the
start
of
His
3
ministry; each step Jesus took was in the power of the Holy
Sprit.4
News soon spread about Jesus “through the whole
countryside” to the point that He frequently got invited and
taught in the Jewish synagogues and “everyone praised Him”
(14).
While Luke doesn’t give us reasons for Jesus’ popularity
when we turn to Matthew and Mark’s account of the beginning
of Jesus’ ministry, we learn that when in Galilee He “healed
every sickness among the people,” casted out demons, and
taught the people as one who had authority in word and deed
(Matthew 4:23-25, Mark 1:21-28).5 Considering “first-century
Jews believed that the Holy Spirit ceased speaking directly to
God’s people at the end of the prophetic era in Israel,6 to hear
One speak with authority of the Spirit would have been truly
remarkable!
Due to His performing miracles and teaching with
authority Jesus soon became famous7 and earned a “reputation
as a respected rabbi and teacher.”8
The Jewish synagogues
asked this “well known” rabbi Jesus to speak at their facilities 9
quite frequently.10
While Luke does not mention what Jesus
1
6
Clinton E. Arnold, Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Matthew, Mark,
Luke, vol. 1 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002), 361.
2
James R. Edwards, The Gospel according to Luke, ed.
D. A. Carson, The Pillar New Testament
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