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You nearly broke my hand when we shut this morning.

All right.

Now, remove in 2 episode, 27 of the plan.

We have been going through the sermon series of the storyline of the Bible for over six months now.

And just today, we are finally getting into the ministry of Jesus.

And the reason why we've been doing doing it this way is because I believe there's a real value in going through the Old Testament before you get to Jesus.

Cuz it's one of the things that happens that causes us to miss some of what's going on in.

Jesus ministry.

Is it, we read the Bible backwards, we start with the last part of the Bible, read the letters.

We read Galatians enrollment in Ephesians, cuz those are written to the church.

And they seem to be more relevant to our issues and our our groups.

And it's always start there.

And we got our understanding what the Bible is about from the letters and then we go back and we read the gospels and we look for that stuff.

We got from the letters in the gospels.

So we assume that Jesus is talking about all the same stuff as those letters and then we do it back to the Old Testament looking for what the letters were written about through Jesus.

And we we can sometimes find it but usually we say we don't find it.

So he said, oh, that's all old Covenant and we forget so we read Jesus looking for the letter, the stuff in the letters that came after him and we miss what Jesus is doing to complete, the story of the Old Testament.

And so, as we're going through the Bible, in the order that it was the events happened.

What we're going to see after 26, Urban setting up a Ministry of Jesus.

We're going to be able to see a fresh perspective of what exactly it was.

He was doing.

So before we get into the ministry of Jesus, we're going to remind ourselves of the story that we've been finding in the Bible.

The Bible is the story of God's plan, to establish a Place full of people who live out their purpose in his presence.

So, God made the world, he put people in it, and gave them the job of ruling on his behalf.

And then he came down to live with them on the 7th day.

And that was the goal of all creation, but we messed it up and we kept messing it up and we kept messing up until finally.

God said.

All right, I'm going to pick one family, one nation and they are going to show the rest of you, what my plan is supposed to look like.

So you committed that through this one family.

He was going to restore the plan to the whole world and that family was Israel.

So, we gave this one group of people, one particular place, the land of Israel.

He came down to live in the temple.

He gave them one set of rules to describe their purpose, which is the law of Moses.

And the whole world is supposed to be able to look at Israel and see what God is all about.

And what he means for Humanity, what he intends for Humanity.

Unfortunately, the hazard lights weren't any better than the rest of us until they kept messing up and they kept messing up until finally got it.

One point says, alright, this does not represent what I want.

And so the only way I can show the world who I am is by ending this Arrangement and showing I do not endorse the way the Israelites have been living and we call that the Exile, so he sent him into exile.

And then you brought some of them back into the land of Judah, but they're still, he hasn't returned the plan to them.

And so a group of them remembering ezra-nehemiah.

They start trying to get back on track with God, but they prioritize staying away from Gentiles, keeping the ethnic Purity, and they prioritize these keeping that they can be measured and tracked and enforced on other people.

And they figure if we can stay far enough away from the Gentiles.

And if we can keep these external rules, well enough God will come back and they try that for four hundred years.

And that's the project that they're in when John the Baptist comes out and says, this is not the way God wants is to be restored to him.

He wants us to pursue Godly character.

Not genetic Purity and he's meticulous rules.

He wants us to have hearts like his you want us to genuinely repent.

And when John presented that choice to the Jews, he says there is the old way of meticulous, real, keeping in, and racial Purity, or this.

True way of real repent in Jesus shows up, and he gets baptized to show that he is part of that way, you're part of this, genuine way of genuine repentance to restore Israel.

And at that moment, the Holy Spirit comes down God's presence returns to earth and a voice.

From Heaven says, this is my son, meaning.

This is the one I have chosen to lead Israel and restore the plan to the world.

Last week, we talked about the Temptation where God prove that Jesus was up to the task.

But today, we're going into when he starts.

If we launch has this mission that God has put them on.

And as we read with that back story, we get to see what he's doing from a fresh perspective.

So as I go into our opening passage, I want you to remember the coordinates that we keep to keep us oriented in the story.

Watch.

For, who's the story about watch, for?

Where is their home, and what's their relationship to their home?

How can they meet with God?

And what did God tell them to do?

So will pick up in Luke chapter 4, just after the temptation of Jesus.

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.

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, and the scroll of the prophet, Isaiah was handed to him on rolling it, he found a place where it was written.

The spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to Proclaim good news to the poor.

Then he rolled up the scroll.

Give it back to the attendant and sat down the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him.

He began by saying to them today.

This scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.

All right.

So that's our are launching.

Passage self.

Who is the story about?

About Jesus and the Jews.

The Jews are God's chosen people.

He is still committed to this plan of restoring the, the world through the Jews and the chosen leader of the Jews is Jesus.

God made that pretty much as clear as he ever could at the baptism of Jesus.

Jesus is the one that is leading the Jews into the next step in God's plan.

Where is their home?

At this point, the land that God has given them.

We would called Galilee and Judea because the Romans conquered it, and they carved it up into territories and they decided to carve it this way.

There's after Herod the Great used to rule over all of it on the Romans behalf.

And in the room after he died around.

Cinday.

Why don't we just do?

I cut it into quarters that, that sounds good, but that's so the fact that it's called Galilee and Judea is a sign that Rome is in charge, and the Jews aren't, which the Jews being able to rule their own land is supposed to be part of the plant.

That's a problem, right?

How can they meet with God? Remember the question here is where can they go and know that they're going to meet with God?

For about five hundred years.

There hasn't been a place where they knew they could meet with God.

But over the last two weeks, we found out that there is now a place because the spirit of God descended on Jesus.

And so if you want to be in the presence of God, go to Jesus.

And anytime you're in Jesus presence, you're in the presence of God.

Now, you know, we know from the Holy Scripture that Jesus is God himself, but in the narrative, that hasn't really become clear that Jesus didn't go around telling every, hey, I'm God.

That wasn't how it came out.

So it, but at this point, what we what would have been clear to people who are the baptism, was at the presence of God was on Jesus and so they can encounter God through him.