The Jesus Story
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The word.
The First (First sermon)
The Last(Last Sermon)
The Path(Resurrection Message)
Now, a few weeks ago I shared my first ever sermon.
But I also remember my first ever sermon here at Ignite.
Someone to look up to
Someone to walk with
Someone to lead
This sermon has in its own way been preached a multitude of time here at igntie. Its my preaching heart beat to create this, and hold dear to it.
With this in mind. We know the scripture says. God is the Same yesterday, today, and forever.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
In this 3-part series were going to break down and understand the First, last, and path of Jesus.
The Jesus Story
as we continue to look at this. If you could flip your bibles open to Luke 4.
In Luke’s Gospel we see
Chapter one Luke opens with the birth stories of John the Baptist & Jesus.
Chapter two: The Birth of Jesus followed by Jesus early child years.
Chapter three: Jesus meets with John the Baptist and is baptised.
Chapter four he is lead into the wilderness.
I want you to notice something here at the end of chapter 3 Jesus is lead by the Holy Spirit, but within our passage of Chapter four He is filled with the Holy Spirit.
Its okay, but you might have missed it.
The Spirit leads, and those who follow are filled.
The Spirit leads, and those who follow are filled.
Background before diving in:
So its interesting here in Luke’s Gospel this is the first sermon, however its interesting because Jesus does this whole, Silent, loud, silent, loud thing within His ministry.
John’s gospel we see about a year of ministry has happend inside of capernum up until this point. He went around p
14 Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit’s power. Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region.
15 He taught regularly in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.
16 When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures.
17 The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free,
19 and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.”
20 He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently.
21 Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”
22 Everyone spoke well of him and was amazed by the gracious words that came from his lips. “How can this be?” they asked. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
23 Then he said, “You will undoubtedly quote me this proverb: ‘Physician, heal yourself’—meaning, ‘Do miracles here in your hometown like those you did in Capernaum.’
24 But I tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in his own hometown.
25 “Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land.
26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
27 And many in Israel had leprosy in the time of the prophet Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian.”
28 When they heard this, the people in the synagogue were furious.
29 Jumping up, they mobbed him and forced him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built. They intended to push him over the cliff,
30 but he passed right through the crowd and went on his way.
Today, were going to be those youtubers, who nitpick every single thing we can about someone elses preaching, here, we dont have a video, but the Word of God. Lets dive into Jesus, His words, and most importantly, we need to find out is what He is saying, what he finished saying?
16 When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures.
First thing we need to see is Jesus was Regularly at church!
Ill start by saying, thanks for coming to Church today, But are you a regular church attender?
We have the Christian culture today where we walk around with a charcutteir board of Spirituallity in our lives.
Picking and choosing when we feel like going to church, This does two things.
No accountability.
most the time irregular church goers will be the first to say, well the church has no culture. Yet at the same time the only text or calls youa re getting are, “we missed you at church” followed by an few day’s of a delay before getting a washed up response.
Nobody can help you walk the walk.
Idk about you but I have the full intention of if I’m going to follow Christ, I’d like to have a Christ like faith. Jesus went to the synagoge regularly.
2. No discipleship.
To be Christlike, we have to be able to be discipled. Regular church attendance isnt about sunday mornings, or volunteering once a month. Its about getting and check this out. Staying plugged in. The disciples didnt walk with Jesus for a few months, and then dip back out. Take a vacation, nor call in sick one afternoon. They lived life in the thick and the thin.
You know when I was of this world, money, no money, I always found a way to do what I wanted. (ill just leave that there)
Lets be Christlike my friends.
Now in the Synagogues it was custom for the Teacher in the synagoge to get a congregant to read a scripture or two from the bible, or the scrolls back then.
There would two readings. One from the Law’s, and one from the Prophets.
Now normally the teacher would have preselected and rolled to the passage and give directions.
We see here, Jesus has been selected to read from the scrolls.
Now we dont know if he kept to the script, or if he rolled on down to Isaiah 61…and read that passage himself.
But This passage becomes Jesus’ first sermon.
Not because of Jesus’ response at the end of His reading which was.
21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
22 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.
You know I pray you have all felt this before.
Jesus speaks and you are amazed, His words, The Word of God just touches you and the Word of God becomes graciously abundant for you Spirit.
If you have felt this, then I want you to know thats what conviction feels like. Conviction is not heavy, it does not pull you down, it pulls you up.
That, i hate to call it this, I just dont know the eternal word that I can say here, but that feeling, that feeling you get when the word is being spoken and you are being stirred up, lifted up!
That’s conviction. A calling to a better place. And that was what happened here. The people were amazed.
But you know what, the devil ah man that dude is annoying. because he will take that moment, that sometimes split second.
He will attach that moment of hope to a moment of complaceny and that alone will cause you to stop hopoing.
Because
When we make familiar what is meant to call us higher, we will falter
When we make familiar what is meant to call us higher, we will falter
Let us not make What Jesus read during His first sermon Familiar. But may it bring us hope,, and direction!
Lets break it down. 5 things.
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor….
The spirit of the lord is upon me
First and foremost you can not preach without the spirit.
It’s not based on a one time occurrence. It don’t say at one time. But is on me!
22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Now Jesus the messiah Also known as Jesus Christ
This word Messiah or Christ is the same it means the “anointed one”.
Jesus is anointed. Are you anointed?
We you are if you are a believer!
21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us,
22 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
Did you know the anointing comes purpose.
Prophesied and proclaimed by Jesus was this .
To preach the good news.
The good news we will see in a moment.
But in the same breath Jesus reads “to the poor.”
You know the theme of Luke’s gospel has a core message. That Jesus came to seek and save the lost
In Luke 19 we see Jesus give his purpose as searching for, restoring and rescuing those repeated from God because of sin.
It reads like this in Luke 19:10
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Now poor here is a spiritual poor.
I grew up in a middle class home I’d say.
My mom put in the hours to pay the bills. And because my mom is a God fearing, faithful woman of God I didn’t recognize what I didn’t have. I knew I had the game consoles. And o had TVs although they may have come from the side of the road! I went out to eat with my friends and stayed the nights at friends houses.
But at the same time. I had holes in my socks, hand me down clothes from the boys at church. Not complaining they were nice clothes.
Although I do regret that day I went to high school with large plade shorts on and a different color style plaid shirt on. Won’t see me do that ever again.
Jesus came to me. Came our household. And listen it’s easier for the financially poor to come to Jesus. Because when you’re poor you have to more so fully depend on God to provide. Which he will.
But that’s not this poor.
This poor is poor in spirit.
If you have ever experienced poor in things and finance then you understand in a deeper sense “poor in spirit.”
And being poor in spirit is knowing that you are bankrupt. Knowing that you are in need of someone else to he totally dependent on.
Listen even this morning I am as the quote by
DT Niles’s says
I’m just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.
In Jesus most in-depth sermon was Matthew 5. And he says blessed are the poor for they will inherit the earth.
To continue breaking down this passage. In the KJV it adds the full thing, we will go over to Isaiah 61…Its inperative we break it down.
now the reason you may not see it is due to translation. Luke is writing all of this down from the Septuagin, which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew OT. Which than might not of had a translation for these original words. Which Jesus would have read from the scroll. Later added to the KJV….and should be in our bibles. But our bibles are translations of old into new. While the KJV translates it all.
18 …… He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,
Let me show you
……. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,
Jesus continues he( God through the Holy Spirit) has sent me to (kjv) bind up the broken hearted and proclaim that captives will be released.
The first thing Jesus came to do was to deal with the heart. Jesus came to heal hurting hearts, to mend broken hearts.
This has to be first because proverbs 4:23
23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Every issue flows from the heart.
When we begin to see Jesus working something happened. And what was once dead begins to beat with purpose again. When we experience Jesus love we begin to have direction again.
32 The poor will see and be glad— you who seek God, may your hearts live!
33 The Lord hears the needy and does not despise his captive people.
This is what gives freedom.
“And recovery of sight for the blind”
While there is no doubt that Jesus can heal the physically blind.
This is spiritual blindness.
Nothing holds a person into captivity more than spiritual blindness.
Jesus says this in John 9:39
39 Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
What Jesus is saying here is that those who belong to this world cannot perceive spiritual truth because they do not see or recognize the spirit of Truth.
Yet Jesus came to reveal the Spirit to those so they can see again.
Paul says this in 1 Cor 2 7-10
7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
So in Jesus message he claimed.
To be the Messiah.
Filled with the Holy Spirit.
Proclaiming Good news
Heal the Heart
Give freedom to the oppressed
Give sight to the Blind
That He was the fulfilment of all of these things!
But I want to close on what Jesus didnt say.
Jesus quoted Isaiah 61. But he distinctly stopped mid verse. No period, no comma, just stopped. Lets see what comes next.
1 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Proclaim the Year of the Lord’s Favor.
You know I have a friend who is a conspiarcy theorist. I love Him and always will. Years and years of conspiracies that I hear! But some of them make sense, some of them, I try to forget, others, I can see taking place.
The Year of the Lord’s Favor is not a conspiracy theory though, its what Israel of the OT would celebrate every 50 years. Its called the year of Jubilee.
Its when there was a hard reset.
now this little point here in closing is one of the biggest ones yet. Often surpassed within this passage, or only understood as of old.
But Jesus is Prophetic!
The year of Jubilee is when Israel would do a hard reset.
Debts were canceled.
Slaves were freed
Land would be restored to there original families
All the people would basically get a fresh start.
Jesus proclaims & therefore prophesies that the Year of Jubilee is no longer needed.
Jesus says.
Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.
Jesus is saying no more will you wait for time this is no longer a moment on your calendar, its now represented with me here.
Jubilee is happening at that synagoge right then and there, through Jesus Christ. He was the living breathing reset!
Who is living, breathing, and reiging today.
In Christ, resoration is not just possible, But Perfected!
In Christ, Renewal isnt a fairy tale, its available!
In Christ, All debts former and future are paid.
In Christ, what was stolen by the enemy is restored in the immediate!
Yet jesus stops right before the rest of the line would have read,
and the day of vengence of our God.
Jesus didnt come for vengence.
Jesus’ focus is on Redemption and Grace.
But one day. Jesus will come back, take up His people, and the vengence of God will be released on the wicked.
The world we see that hates, thats selfish, thats prideful, will fall to its own plunder, seperated from all of God. While Heaven will mourn, and the earth Groan nothing will stop the vengence of God.
Yet today is not that day.
The Lord is waiting, he is proclaiming, He is stirring you, some Shaking you, allowing you to be lead into the wilderness so that He, Jesus can heal your heart, call you to him!
