Holistic Gospel
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16 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. As usual, he entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.
17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written:
18 The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.
20 He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.
21 He began by saying to them, “Today as you listen, this Scripture has been fulfilled.”
22 They were all speaking well of him and were amazed by the gracious words that came from his mouth; yet they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
Introduction: The beginning of a New Year tends to have us reflecting on certain things. Things like what have went well in the last year or what didn’t go so well in the last year. Things like what we didn’t accomplish in the previous year and things that we would like to accomplish in the coming year. We tend to set goals and markers that we would like to hit in the new year, and this isn’t a bad thing. However, we do want to also be aware that there are sometimes some very valuable things that we ought to (1) be grateful for and (2) hold on to.
That’s what’s we’ll be looking at over the next few weeks. As our church embarks into this new year we will still hold to our same core values: Gospel, Community, Mission. Over the next few weeks we will revisit these values and their biblical groundings.
This week we want to point our attention to A Holistic Gospel.
Background:
sitting is the posture of the teacher/preacher v. 20
Jesus sermon: Luke 4:21
21 He began by saying to them, “Today as you listen, this Scripture has been fulfilled.”
Significance of the Passage
1 The Spirit of the Lord God is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners;
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of our God’s vengeance; to comfort all who mourn,
Jesus is that One
The Gospel (what is the good news in Luke 4:18)
Broadness and Narrowness of the Gospel
Narrow 1 Cor. 15:1-5
1 Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel I preached to you, which you received, on which you have taken your stand
2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve.
Broad (Our Scripture Text for today)
Figurative/Literal? Maybe both? (Luke 7:22)
22 He replied to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news,
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, and yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.
Key things to remember:
Jesus is King
He has a Kingdom
He Kingdom is not of this world
We are citizens of His Kingdom
We ought to want to see His Kingdom lived out on this Earth as well (though it is a limited view of it)
The Beatitudes carried a counter-cultural narrative
Justice is ultimately about restoring things to what God says to be right
13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
14 “You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden.
15 No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house.
16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Conclusion: Let us have a right view of the whole Gospel and let us engage the world with it!