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Those “God told me.” kind of people
I'm not one of those God told me kinds of people.
I have always struggled to hear from God.
I'm envious to be honest.
I have always struggled to hear from God like that.
pick it up look at it
set it down
pick it up
I have always wanted to have that calm quiet patient feeling of knowing 100% for sure.
Hearing from God and following.
set it down
pick it up
and its always when you least expect it that BAM It rings and your like in the bathroom or something.
When I do hear from God God it's never that simple, it's taken lots of asking and it's hard to be 💯 sure
Did that answer come from God or someone else?
How can I be sure that I am hearing God's call?
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Trans: I know for me it's in the uncertain times when I don't know what to do.
When I don't know the next step.
When I'm overwhelmed, ashamed, or even angry.
Its in those moments when I just need that clear voice you know
Anyone ever been there?
I think we want that...
G - Perhaps the reason we cant hear God, is because we dont want to hear God (like foster at bedtime)
TRANS:that's why I have always sort of envied the people in the Bible.
They walked with Jesus they heard from God in no uncertain terms.
Face to face.
Burning bush ect.
Our scripture today is about a group of people that heard from God face to face and how they responded to his voice.
Perhaps we can get and idea from there story how we can hear God better in our own lives (as I wrestled with this story this week I found....)
Tell The Story
Exposition
So Far
born, baptized, tested in the desert
Rising Action
Jesus has been teaching all over Galilee in synagogues.
- People are loving it.
Jesus gets to his hometown Nazareth
14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.
15 He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.
Proclaims his message (presumably what he says elsewhere)
They hear him and they are excited, Everyone Loves it
Build anticipation
16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.
He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him.
Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
Build anticipation
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
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But Jesus pushes back - He challenges
and They completely turn on him
Build anticipation
He’s reading part of written hundreds of years ago.
Its an ancient promise that is part of the long story of God’s people, a promise and story that EVERYONE in the room knew.
One that defined how they understood the world and their place in it.
It goes like this.
God, chose Isreal to bless and be a blessing in the world if they followed him.
Isreal failed to follow God.
Isreal was destroyed, oppressed, and exiled.
BUT
4. One day God would send someone to restore.
They all know this promise, they were all raised on it.
They hoped that maybe just maybe they would see it come true.
20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down.
The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
explain
this is a BIG DEAL.
IF they believe Jesus this is something to celebrate
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.
And they do.
Can you imagine it.
The son of the Synagogue comes home!
He has made a name for himself! and he comes to say.
That ancient hope is coming true!
right here, right now.
And on top of that, the one that will do it, the one proclaiming the GOOD NEWS is ONE OF US.
People are stoked to hear from Jesus, excited to hear from God or at least his messenger.
But its more than that, they are excited because he is ONE OF THEM.
Jo’s Son.
It’s like if your cousin got elected president and his message is about solving all the problems you and he grew up complaining about.
Its double good, not only does he have a good message, you have to assume he will remember you when he is sitting in the white house right?!
but this is bigger than that.
They are excited by his words of Grace.
But Jesus doesn't do what we might and soak it all in, he recognizes what they are thinking and he challenges them on it.
23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’
And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’
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Jesus says, you may be happy now but Its not going to be long before you are calling me up saying, “dont forget where you came from.”
Where are our miracles?
Where is our good news?
Of course help others, but start with us!
Jesus says I know where this is going...
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