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Our God and our gracious Father, indeed we

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would echo the words of the hymn we

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have just been singing.

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As we consider the greatness and the loveliness

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of our Lord Jesus, no mortal can with

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Him compare among the sons of man.

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Our hearts bow and worship O God, to

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think that He who is verily God, yet

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became truly human.

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Lower than angels to die in our stead,

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we bow O God with wonder and worship,

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and again with appreciation that He is the

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one who gave Himself for us, who accomplished

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the work to God's satisfaction, and who has

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brought eternal blessing to our souls.

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Father, we're thankful this Lord's Day morning that

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with Thy people we can gather, not only

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to remember Him later on, but also to

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consider Him as we open Thy word together.

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We pray Thou give help to all of

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our brethren, and each one of us to

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appreciate something more of our Lord Jesus and

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His passage from this beautiful gospel that presents

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to us the Lord Jesus.

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Help us, O God, to comprehend something of

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the infinite perfection that is found in His

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words and His work.

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And Father, we are thankful today that again

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we have the entirety of the word of

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God that would present to us Thy purposes

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regarding Him and the place that He will

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one day occupy in eternity.

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We offer our thanks for coming together this

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morning.

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Another Lord's Day, we thank Thee, O God,

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for the benefits of the weather and the

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conditions under which we gather.

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We give thanks for the conference.

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We thank Thee for the assembly of the

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saints here in Blue River, and we pray

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Thy blessing upon them as we continue today

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and seek to learn more of Thyself and

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of Thy word.

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So we offer our thanks, commend ourselves to

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Thy hand, in the precious name of the

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Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

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Our passage to read and to consider this

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morning is Luke chapter 4, brethren have selected

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this passage, and we'll begin reading in this

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chapter from verse 14.

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Luke chapter 4 and verse 14.

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And Jesus returned in the power of the

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Spirit into Galilee, and there went out a

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fame of Him throughout the land, through all

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the region round about.

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And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified

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of all, honored or esteemed is the idea.

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And He came to Nazareth, where He had

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been brought up, and as His custom was,

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He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath

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day and stood up for to read.

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And there was delivered unto Him the book

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of the prophet Isaiah.

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And when He had opened the book, He

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found the place where it was written, The

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Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because

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He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel

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to the poor.

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He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,

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to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering

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of sight to the blind, to set at

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liberty them that are bruised, to preach the

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acceptable year of the Lord.

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And He closed the book, and He gave

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it again to the minister, and sat down.

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And the eyes of all them that were

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in the synagogue were fastened on Him, and

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He began to say unto them, This day

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is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

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And all bear Him witness and wonder at

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the gracious words which proceeded out of His

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mouth.

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And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

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And He said unto them, Ye will surely

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say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself.

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Whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do

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also hear in thy country.

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And He said, Verily I say unto you,

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No prophet is exempted in his own country.

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But I tell you of a truth, many

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widows were in Israel in the days of

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Elias, when the heaven was shut up three

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years and six months, when great famine was

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throughout all the land.

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save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto

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a woman that was a widow.

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time of Elisha, the prophet, and none of

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them was cleansed, saving Nahum and Assyria.

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heard these things, were filled with wrath, and

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rose up and thrust Him out of the

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city, and led Him unto the brow of

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the hill whereon their city was built, that

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they might cast Him down headlong.

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went His way and came down to Capernaum,

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a city of Galilee, and taught them on

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the Sabbath days.

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His word was with power.

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We'll stop our reading at that point.

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Brethren, I've indicated that this is the passage

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you would like us to consider.

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And we are dependent upon the help of

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our brethren that are here this morning to

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help us to glean the maximum from this

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passage of the Word of God.

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Now, I just want to say a few

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words in opening, and then leave it to

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the discussion that can follow.

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In looking at this passage of the Scripture,

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I'd like to break it down into four

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different parts.

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And I think we'll have sufficient time to

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expand and to consider the context of the

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chapter as it begins with the testing, the

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proving of the Lord Jesus in the wilderness,

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and to see how that leads into the

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commencement of His public ministry, which began here

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in Nazareth, the city where He had been

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brought up.

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I think it would be helpful to look

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at verse 13 through 15.

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at the background that lies ahead of this

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moment when it says that He returned in

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the power of the Spirit into Galilee and

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began, it says, actually He began to teach.

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He began a ministry of teaching that would

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continue for the three and a half years

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of His public ministry.

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about, I believe, a key that would help

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us in relation to a spiritual power that

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a believer can derive from resisting temptation.

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tempted in the way that we are.

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He was tested and proven.

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It was the Spirit of God that drove

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Him, Mark's Gospel tells us, into the wilderness.

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superiority.

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displayed His power over the devil.

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So, we have the background in relation to

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this section and how it fits into the

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Gospel we can look at for the first

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part of our study.

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we should look at the way that the

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Lord Jesus handled the Scriptures.

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We can learn much that would help us

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in relation to how we should handle the

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Word of God.

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How it should be read.

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How it should be interpreted.

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And the Lord Himself displayed perfect ability as

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well as wisdom in how He handled the

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Word of God in this particular passage.

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So, here we have the handling of the

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Word of God in verse 16 through 19.

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Lord's regular practice.

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interesting use of the Old Testament examples.

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did the Lord Jesus select these two examples

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from this particular period of the history of

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Israel in the Old Testament.

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Why did He select this woman in the

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days of Elijah?

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Elisha?

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ties in with what He has already been

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saying to them.

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have to do with their response, their anger,

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the rejection of Him, and of course His

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going away and going down to Capernaum.

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So, let us try to learn something from

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not only the perfection of the Lord Jesus

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and to discern something of the intrinsic glory

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that was displayed in Him, but also perhaps

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things that would help us in our life

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as well as our testimony before the world.

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Now, we oftentimes say, and I think brethren

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would always agree with this, that the one

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that leads the Bible reading doesn't have all

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the answers.

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We're just here to help things move along

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and there are brethren here that are able

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to contribute very well.

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We hope that they will, not only these

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men that are sitting in the front row,

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but there are others here that can give

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help in this Bible reading so there might

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be the maximum profit to each one of

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I think it's helpful for us to begin

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by noticing that Luke's gospel is presenting the

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Lord Jesus in such a way that it

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ties in very well with the fact that

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emphasis is made on the power and the

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work of the Holy Spirit in His life.

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that or bring in other aspects of the

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background to this particular section.

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descending upon Him at His baptism, verse 22,

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and then we have the declaration from heaven,

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Thou art my beloved Son, in Thee I

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three occurrences or the three temptations that are

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recorded of the Lord Jesus.

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So, what I'm thinking is God knew beforehand

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the absolute impeccability and sinless purity of the

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Lord Jesus, otherwise that statement could not be

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made until after the temptation, but it comes

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before it.

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Thou art my beloved Son, in Thee I

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am well pleased.

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gives us a view of the impeccability.

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Yeah, God, He safeguards the person of Christ,

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doesn't He?

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The gospel of Luke, of course, is a

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gospel of the perfect man.

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He's going to be baptized.

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Others were being baptized onto the remission of

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their sins, but the Lord Jesus wasn't, and

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God safeguards that by opening the heavens and

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descending upon Him like a dove.

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So, you find in the scriptures, that's a

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principle I think, very often God counterbalances truth

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so we don't get on the wrong track.

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And then, usually for us at least, that's

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when testing comes when we're baptized.

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Some people that aren't born into Christian homes

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have enough difficulty when they're saved, but it's

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usually at their baptism that even the family

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seems to go against them.

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was full of the Holy Spirit, and then

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the Spirit that led Him into the wilderness,

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He was still under control of that Spirit

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when He comes into the synagogue.

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I think it's very good to notice the

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fact that this gospel traces the genealogy of

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the Lord Jesus back to Adam.

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Adam was the one that failed when it

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came to testing, and there is a man

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that was instituted by God and put in

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a place of responsibility.

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He failed to respond to that responsibility, and

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as a result we know what has happened

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in terms of the entire creation.

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But this one who can trace the genealogy

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and that side of His heritage back to

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Adam was the one who the Spirit of

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God Himself led into this position not to

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see if He would fall.

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We need to make that very clear.

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It was not to determine if the Lord

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Jesus would overcome temptation or not.

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It was to prove that He could not

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be.

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He was a different order, as it were,

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from Adam.

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Different altogether, and proving the fact that He

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was a superior man, a man of a

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new and a different order.

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So in the records of the temptation, in

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Matthew, it would show that He's competent to

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reign.

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He's the King.

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And then in Mark, of course, He's competent

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to be God's servant.

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And here it's showing in His manhood the

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perfection of His manhood.

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You might ask the question, in terms of

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verse 1, we're going back there, but does

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the Spirit of God ever lead a believer

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today into a situation like this?

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James tells us we're led away of our

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own lusts, and our temptation doesn't come from

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the Spirit of God.

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It seems to indicate this is totally different

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than what you and I experience in our

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daily life.

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As you say, Joel, it's linked with Adam.

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When God brought His people into the land,

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it was a land flowing with milk and

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honey.

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It wasn't to be a place where there

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was a wilderness.

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But because of the disobedience of Israel and

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so on, you find you're in the wilderness.

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tempted under perfect conditions.

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Now here you have the Lord in the

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wilderness.

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And as well as that, I have thought,

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tell me if I'm going too far from

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what you have in your own mind, but

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God says in Matthew, out of Egypt have

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I called my son.

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So you have the Lord sort of fulfilling,

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going the same pathway as the nation of

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Israel.

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And now he's in the wilderness.

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Well, you know what happened to them in

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the wilderness?

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And they murmured and complained and so on.

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And God gave them manna.

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And now we have the Word of God.

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Man shall not live by bread alone.

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So verse 14, commencing at that point, He

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returned, not full of the Holy Spirit here,

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but in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Is there a sense, and I'm making an

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application, I know, but is there a sense

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that a believer who resists temptation, I'm talking

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about a different thing perhaps than what the

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Lord, but we have a pattern of it

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here, a believer resisting temptation experiences an increase

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in his spiritual power.

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Spiritual ability comes from a determination to do

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what is right before God, to be subject

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to His will, and to be obedient to

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His Word.

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So we have a sense in which, I'm

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just looking at this from my own point

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of view, but we have a sense in

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which believers that seek to overcome sin, seek

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to resist temptation, experience an increase or more

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ability in the spiritual realm, ability to be

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used of God because of the commencement of

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His public service.

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Yes.

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Yes, that's a good point.

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And I was just, it came to my

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mind that when God tempted Abraham, each testing

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was to increase his faith and to make

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him stronger.

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I know Abraham failed at least on a

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couple of occasions, but the greatest temptation wasn't

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the first one, but it was the last

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one.

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But God was increasing him as he would

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overcome, so that when the great test came

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of offering up a son, he was equal

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to the test.

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You take it, Brother Jewell, that between verses

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13 and 14, you have the chapters 2

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through 5 of John's Gospel?

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I believe we did.

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Right.

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It's interesting then, if you notice the order

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of the temptations as recorded by Luke, it's

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different from Matthew, but you have that which

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is linked with bread, then you have the

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thought of dominion, and then cast yourself down,

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and as it were, defy gravity.

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Chapter 6 of John, immediately following his return

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to Galilee after Judea, you have the feeding

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of the 5,000 linked with bread.

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They wanted to make him a king, but

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he departed.

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He wouldn't have it.

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And then the next thing is Jesus walking

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on the sea to meet the need of

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the disciples, if you will, defying gravity, so

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it seems to be there's a link with

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the very order that you have here.

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When he returned into Galilee, there went out

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a fame of him, there was a repute,

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there was a rumor.

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Men were increasingly becoming aware of him, and

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the Spirit of God that drove him or

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led him into the wilderness and returning to

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the power of the Spirit of God is

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now expanding the area of that ministry, opening

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the areas, so that there are those who

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are becoming aware that there is a prophet,

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or there is one who God has raised

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up in the midst of his people.

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And so in verse 15, he began to

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teach, is the idea of the tense of

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Galilee.

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He not only taught once, but he was

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teaching or began to teach in their synagogue,

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and he was being honored of all, but

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then he came to Nazareth.

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And what a contrast.

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The place where he should have been honored

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was a place where he was rejected and

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despised.

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So the gospel of Luke also is the

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gospel of the priest.

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So you have the Lord as the teaching

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priest.

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And I think it's, as you say, it's

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wonderful.

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It comes to Nazareth, the despised place.

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That's where he's associated with.

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Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?

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Well, I'm glad we know, yes.

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And when he came to Nazareth, it's where

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he was brought up.

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That's usually the most difficult part to be

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a good testimony for God, right among your

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own people.

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They know all about you, but here you're

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brought up.

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And it's custom was, he went into the

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synagogue on the Sabbath day.

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I would take it that his coming to

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Nazareth was done deliberately.

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We don't believe any movement of the Lord

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Jesus was ever by chance or haphazard.

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So he came here to Nazareth, but what

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for?

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I would take it that he came to

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expose the unbelief of those that above all

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should have believed him.

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They should have seen him growing up.

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They should have seen the character of his

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life.

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They should have marked him out as being

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a unique person.

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But in that sphere, he comes deliberately to

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the place where, again, like John chapter 1,

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he came unto his own.

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This is the closest to his own, but

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his own received him not.

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Then he went down to Galilee.

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They that received him, as many as received

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him, he gave them power, and so on.

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But here he comes to Nazareth in a

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deliberate movement that he might expose the unbelief

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that lay deep in their hearts, the refusal

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to receive him.

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One of the things that he had done

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in Galilee, verse 14, causing the fame of

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him to go out throughout that region, was

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the healing of the nobleman's son at Capernaum.

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And it's interesting, verse 23, when the Lord

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comes to Nazareth, instead of appreciating him, like

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you're saying, for who he was, it seems

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that they drag that up as something of

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a mockery.

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Whatsoever we have heard Don and Capernaum do

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also here in your country, and we believe

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you, you know.

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Is there a practical principle?

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I know that probably John 2 and 3

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comes before this, but yet, is that where

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we should start our testimony?

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Among our own people and in our own

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place?

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Most would like to go someplace, and it's

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easier where you're not known, maybe in some

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ways, but we need to begin right where

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we were brought up, right where we live.

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What about, brother, I want to start with,

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he stood up for Tariq.

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I'd like to just emphasize this one expression,

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as his custom was.

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In chapter 2 is it that we find

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that his parents went up year by year

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to Jerusalem.

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That was their practice, a regular practice that

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had been established.

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We heard about Samuel yesterday, and we see

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Samuel's parents, in spite of the conditions that

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existed at the tabernacle, where Eli and his

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sons were officiating, his parents went up every

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year.

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Here we find that in the life of

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the Lord Jesus, in his perfect manhood, his

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custom was, regularly, to go to the synagogue.

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Now that just wasn't a matter of habit,

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that was a practice that he knew was

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right.

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The practice of honoring God, and recognizing the

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word of God.

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I think it's interesting that he begins a

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public ministry by doing something that was his

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regular custom.

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You come to chapter 22 at the end

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of public ministry, and Judas knew where he

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was going to be, because it was his

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habit, it was his practice, to go to

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the Garden of Gethsemane.

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So, in a sense, can we not learn

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that as believers there are good practices that

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we need to establish in our lives?

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And even though conditions might not be what

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we like them to be, and perhaps we

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can find fault, and rightly so at times,

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yet there are practices to begin in early

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life, and maintain, and carry on constantly, because

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of the fact they're according to the word

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of God, they're right before God, they're honoring

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God, and they're seeking to express reverence for

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Him.

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Even the institution of a synagogue was not

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something as such specified in Scripture, but it

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was a good practice for people to gather

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together for the reading of the word of

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God.

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It's interesting that seven times in the Gospel

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of Luke we find the Lord Jesus on

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the Sabbath day.

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Six times He was working, or He was

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preaching, or He was active on the Sabbath

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day.

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The seventh Sabbath day it says He rested,

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He was in the grave.

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And so we have the constant activity, the

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Son of Man is Lord even on the

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Sabbath day, and He used the Sabbath day

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for the accomplishment of God's purposes.

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Now you were just going to bring us

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into the passage that you read.

542
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,800
Yeah, well I wanted to point out that,

543
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,540
you to point out that He stood, I

544
00:24:32,540 --> 00:24:35,140
think that was a normal practice, but yet

545
00:24:35,140 --> 00:24:37,360
He had a reverence for the word of

546
00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:40,140
God, and I think we can see in

547
00:24:40,140 --> 00:24:44,000
this passage, not only a reverence for it,

548
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,400
a familiarity with it, He knew where it

549
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,140
was, He knew the word, the scroll was

550
00:24:51,140 --> 00:24:52,600
handed to Him, and the book as it

551
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:57,520
said, the scroll, it wasn't prearranged by Him

552
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,500
that it would be from the book of

553
00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:03,080
Isaiah, but He had that reverence and that

554
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:07,760
familiarity and knowledge, knew where to begin reading,

555
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,400
and He knew where to conclude His reading.

556
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,240
I would take it that, it's hard to

557
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,440
tell whether this was just simply the passage

558
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,640
that was regularly read, I mean this was

559
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,020
going to be the passage on that particular

560
00:25:25,020 --> 00:25:30,160
Sabbath day, or whether He selected this passage.

561
00:25:30,820 --> 00:25:32,480
If it was the regular passage then He

562
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,720
determined, knowing ahead of time, what Sabbath day

563
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,800
He would be there, so that that would

564
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,460
be the portion of Scripture to read.

565
00:25:40,860 --> 00:25:43,580
He knew the appropriate time to be, to

566
00:25:43,580 --> 00:25:46,560
rise and read the passage, or He selected

567
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,580
it knowing that the time had come, the

568
00:25:49,580 --> 00:25:52,400
day was fulfilled, and the prophecy of Isaiah

569
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,000
was being completed in His coming into public

570
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:56,480
ministry.

571
00:25:57,020 --> 00:25:59,740
Don't we have a hint that He selected

572
00:25:59,740 --> 00:26:00,000
it?

573
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,420
He unrolled the scroll.

574
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,880
So, Isaiah was handed to Him, that may

575
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,800
have been what was to be on that

576
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,720
Sabbath, but He unrolled it and He found

577
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:14,220
the passage.

578
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,160
That's the way I would think about it.

579
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:20,120
That it was a determination on His part,

580
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,540
and it tells us the Lord Jesus knew

581
00:26:22,540 --> 00:26:23,080
the Scriptures.

582
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,380
We know He knew everything perfectly, but He

583
00:26:26,380 --> 00:26:28,860
also knew the Scriptures because He had learned

584
00:26:28,860 --> 00:26:31,220
them and studied them as a boy growing

585
00:26:31,220 --> 00:26:31,520
up.

586
00:26:32,060 --> 00:26:33,980
It tells us, brethren, that we need to

587
00:26:33,980 --> 00:26:37,340
seek to learn more of the continuity and

588
00:26:37,340 --> 00:26:39,500
the flow of Scripture, the way the Word

589
00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:42,220
of God fits together, the way it is

590
00:26:42,220 --> 00:26:44,580
designed by the Spirit of God to give

591
00:26:44,580 --> 00:26:45,220
us instruction.

592
00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:49,140
It wasn't a haphazard reading, it was determination,

593
00:26:49,940 --> 00:26:51,260
and He knew what He was doing.

594
00:26:51,260 --> 00:26:54,220
It's quite a thing that there was prophecy

595
00:26:54,220 --> 00:26:55,280
being fulfilled.

596
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,220
It's quite a thing, too, that a man

597
00:26:59,220 --> 00:27:03,900
should read an article that is about himself.

598
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,260
It's quite a thing for a spiritual man

599
00:27:08,260 --> 00:27:09,500
to read the Scriptures.

600
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,700
But in this instance, you have all those

601
00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:15,440
things combined.

602
00:27:16,220 --> 00:27:19,840
Prophecy fulfilled, he's reading about himself, he's doing

603
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,460
it in the energy and power of the

604
00:27:21,460 --> 00:27:22,140
Spirit of God.

605
00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:23,640
It must have been quite a thing.

606
00:27:24,940 --> 00:27:28,840
And in the temptation, He used the Pentateuch.

607
00:27:29,660 --> 00:27:32,200
Now He's using the prophets.

608
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,540
So, you know, of course, in the temptation,

609
00:27:37,220 --> 00:27:41,820
He selected the readings from Deuteronomy because they

610
00:27:41,820 --> 00:27:43,400
were the ones that were applicable.

611
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,880
And here, of course, it would be handed

612
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,460
the scroll, as you say, it would be

613
00:27:48,460 --> 00:27:49,340
Isaiah.

614
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,940
But he was there every week, wasn't he?

615
00:27:52,980 --> 00:27:55,780
At least that was his custom, to go

616
00:27:55,780 --> 00:27:56,400
into the...

617
00:27:57,060 --> 00:28:03,400
But whatever, he knew exactly where to begin.

618
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,580
The prophet of Isaiah, as he opened the

619
00:28:05,580 --> 00:28:07,780
book and he found the place where it

620
00:28:07,780 --> 00:28:08,240
was written.

621
00:28:10,940 --> 00:28:13,320
And you want to go down some of

622
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:13,960
these...

623
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,020
It's a good comment, but his use of

624
00:28:16,020 --> 00:28:17,160
the Scripture was perfect.

625
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:17,740
Yeah.

626
00:28:18,260 --> 00:28:22,420
And the wilderness experience, using the quotation from

627
00:28:22,420 --> 00:28:24,700
Deuteronomy, that was a book in which the

628
00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:26,480
heart of God's people was being tested.

629
00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:31,140
And they had proven, our brother read yesterday

630
00:28:31,140 --> 00:28:33,520
in Deuteronomy chapter 8, this is the way

631
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,320
the Lord led thee to try thee and

632
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:37,900
to prove what was in thy heart.

633
00:28:38,620 --> 00:28:40,320
And the proving only brought out the failure.

634
00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:43,140
But in relation to the Lord Jesus, He

635
00:28:43,140 --> 00:28:46,760
could take those same Scriptures and He proved

636
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:47,840
what was in His heart.

637
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,160
And it was such a contrast with what

638
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,160
had existed in the nation of Israel.

639
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,300
Does all these things mentioned in verse 18

640
00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:59,200
and 19 with really the fulfillment of His

641
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,880
public ministry from now to Calvary?

642
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,720
It was the introduction of this day of

643
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,240
grace that began with His coming.

644
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,540
He could say this Scripture is fulfilled.

645
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,340
I would take it it won't be totally,

646
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,500
completely fulfilled until the millennium.

647
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,260
But perhaps you would look at it differently,

648
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,680
that it's being fulfilled at this moment.

649
00:29:23,820 --> 00:29:25,020
That's kind of raising the question.

650
00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:25,400
Yeah.

651
00:29:26,380 --> 00:29:28,140
So what did our brother think about that?

652
00:29:29,580 --> 00:29:32,220
I would notice, brother Joel, that the words

653
00:29:32,220 --> 00:29:37,560
in Isaiah chapter 61 and the day of

654
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,760
vengeance of our God is not recorded in

655
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,140
the words here in the book of Luke.

656
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,380
He came to bring the day of salvation,

657
00:29:46,540 --> 00:29:47,420
not the day of vengeance.

658
00:29:48,140 --> 00:29:49,780
That is a good point to make and

659
00:29:49,780 --> 00:29:51,460
it's been made often, but I think it

660
00:29:51,460 --> 00:29:53,700
should be emphasized in connection with the Lord's

661
00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:55,700
proper use of the Word of God.

662
00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:58,620
He could never say that that part of

663
00:29:58,620 --> 00:30:00,040
the Scripture was being fulfilled.

664
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,000
But certainly anticipating the future, He stopped.

665
00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:06,280
Actually in the middle of a sentence.

666
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,260
He stopped when He knew that that was

667
00:30:09,260 --> 00:30:11,740
not yet present, that was still future.

668
00:30:12,660 --> 00:30:14,920
And the Lord's coming in His public ministry

669
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:19,080
and fulfillment of the Word of God fulfilled

670
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:23,540
the messianic promises that were anticipating His arrival.

671
00:30:24,100 --> 00:30:26,780
And this describes, I take it, the ministry

672
00:30:26,780 --> 00:30:27,700
of the Lord Jesus.

673
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:28,780
What did He come for?

674
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,160
He was first of all anointed by the

675
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,880
Spirit of God for this public work.

676
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,820
And then He commenced the work of preaching

677
00:30:35,820 --> 00:30:39,800
the gospel to the poverty stricken, the totally

678
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,880
poor with nothing.

679
00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:45,720
The gospel, in that sense, was the good

680
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,480
news to bring before them the riches of

681
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,040
God to meet their need and deliver them

682
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,500
from their spiritual poverty.

683
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,640
Then again, He came to heal the brokenhearted.

684
00:30:59,580 --> 00:31:02,600
And you can find different suggestions of that

685
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:03,640
in relation to the gospel.

686
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,940
He came to preach liberty or deliverance to

687
00:31:06,940 --> 00:31:07,780
the captives.

688
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,300
I understand the word captives here is the

689
00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:13,640
word for those that have been taken in

690
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:14,140
warfare.

691
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,740
They've been subjugated because of superior power.

692
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,400
And then recovering of sight to the blind

693
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,280
ones and setting at liberty them that are

694
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,240
crushed, bruised.

695
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,640
They're claiming the ear of the Lord, jubilee.

696
00:31:31,380 --> 00:31:33,660
I was thinking about John the Baptist.

697
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,820
He seemed to expect the Lord to quote

698
00:31:37,820 --> 00:31:40,800
scriptures that would bring judgment on their enemies

699
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:41,680
at that time.

700
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,240
But you see, this fits in so much

701
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,480
with the grace of God.

702
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:51,140
And these things that you have mentioned, to

703
00:31:51,140 --> 00:31:52,680
preach the gospel to the poor.

704
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:54,760
Think of the Lord Himself.

705
00:31:55,380 --> 00:31:58,380
He was rich, yet for your sakes became

706
00:31:58,380 --> 00:31:58,840
poor.

707
00:31:59,780 --> 00:32:02,320
And then you have the brokenhearted.

708
00:32:02,540 --> 00:32:04,200
And one of the Psalms said He died

709
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,780
with a broken heart.

710
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,620
Not of a broken heart, but with a

711
00:32:07,620 --> 00:32:08,300
broken heart.

712
00:32:09,060 --> 00:32:11,180
And to preach deliverance to the captive, He

713
00:32:11,180 --> 00:32:14,640
was taken from prison and from judgment.

714
00:32:15,380 --> 00:32:18,060
Recovering of sight to the blind, they blindfolded

715
00:32:18,060 --> 00:32:21,320
Him, prophesied who it was that touched Him.

716
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:23,980
And of course, when we think of the

717
00:32:23,980 --> 00:32:26,880
bruised, we think of Isaiah 53.

718
00:32:27,980 --> 00:32:30,100
So, it kind of should touch our hearts

719
00:32:30,100 --> 00:32:35,400
that the Lord would preach these things.

720
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,840
It shows the rich grace of God.

721
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,280
They marvel at the gracious words that proceeded

722
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:41,960
from His mouth.

723
00:32:43,580 --> 00:32:46,300
Is there a way, Brother, I think maybe

724
00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:47,720
you were hinting at this, that we can

725
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,080
use the scriptures wrongly?

726
00:32:51,940 --> 00:32:54,300
Some people can get something out of any

727
00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:55,840
scripture they read.

728
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,520
And the older men, they used to say,

729
00:32:58,680 --> 00:32:59,900
use the proper scripture.

730
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,120
I know we can apply things, but I

731
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,680
don't think we can apply scripture just any

732
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:04,860
way.

733
00:33:05,860 --> 00:33:08,100
There are definite ways that we can apply

734
00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:08,260
it.

735
00:33:08,260 --> 00:33:12,260
It must fit in with the context and

736
00:33:12,260 --> 00:33:13,080
so on, I think.

737
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,160
It's nice to see that even the Spirit

738
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,960
of God here in control just leads the

739
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:21,600
Lord to open up the scripture.

740
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,280
And He puts the scripture, opens it up,

741
00:33:24,580 --> 00:33:26,320
and shows that they didn't know the scripture.

742
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:28,600
If they would have known the scripture, they

743
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,960
would have never misinterpreted that He was the

744
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:31,360
Messiah.

745
00:33:32,020 --> 00:33:33,900
So, it's important that you and I be

746
00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:36,040
led by the Spirit to the Word of

747
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:36,540
God, too.

748
00:33:36,540 --> 00:33:40,160
Because the Spirit of God never leads in

749
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:41,600
contrary to the Word of God.

750
00:33:42,020 --> 00:33:44,240
And you see that as you follow the

751
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:45,900
Lord Jesus and His movements here.

752
00:33:46,180 --> 00:33:49,240
And even in His normal, everyday experience, it

753
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,500
has accustomed Him.

754
00:33:52,020 --> 00:33:55,440
It wasn't the extraordinary things that He did.

755
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,200
He just did the normal things that need

756
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:58,400
to be done every day and be led

757
00:33:58,400 --> 00:33:58,780
by the Spirit.

758
00:33:59,340 --> 00:34:01,720
That's very important to see that, because it's

759
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,120
important that you and I be led by

760
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,260
the Spirit in the normal things that we

761
00:34:05,260 --> 00:34:05,460
do.

762
00:34:05,460 --> 00:34:08,020
Not just at meeting, not just time when

763
00:34:08,020 --> 00:34:10,040
we preach or when we speak the Word

764
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:10,340
of God.

765
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,820
But in our everyday experience, as He was

766
00:34:13,820 --> 00:34:16,060
accustomed to doing it, just the way He

767
00:34:16,060 --> 00:34:16,760
did it before.

768
00:34:16,900 --> 00:34:18,739
No stepping out of the way.

769
00:34:19,699 --> 00:34:23,880
Going back to your point, Bill, about applications,

770
00:34:25,540 --> 00:34:29,760
and you stressed correctly that we can't make

771
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,540
just any application.

772
00:34:31,540 --> 00:34:34,320
Can you give us any guidance as to

773
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,679
when we can make applications and when we

774
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:37,480
should not?

775
00:34:39,980 --> 00:34:41,900
Oh, maybe I'll help you on that.

776
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:47,139
If it's an application, it must fit with

777
00:34:47,139 --> 00:34:52,080
the other portions of Scripture.

778
00:34:52,820 --> 00:34:56,260
An application can never be contrary to what

779
00:34:56,260 --> 00:34:57,420
the Scripture teaches us.

780
00:35:02,180 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaking about context, it's always good to remember

781
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,140
to use the Scripture in its context.

782
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,900
If we wrest the Scripture out of its

783
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:13,760
context, we can make any kind of application.

784
00:35:14,700 --> 00:35:16,960
A brethren that could read almost any passage

785
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,160
of the Scripture and teach whatever they wanted

786
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,560
from it, but it had no relationship to

787
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:22,220
what they were reading.

788
00:35:22,740 --> 00:35:24,600
Nothing wrong with what they were teaching, but

789
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:25,880
it did relate to what they were reading.

790
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,220
And so the Lord Jesus is using the

791
00:35:29,220 --> 00:35:35,380
Scripture intelligently and accurately in accord with the

792
00:35:35,380 --> 00:35:37,240
intent of the Spirit of God in giving

793
00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:37,480
it.

794
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,780
And He's applying it in a way that

795
00:35:40,780 --> 00:35:43,980
they recognize the implications of what was being

796
00:35:43,980 --> 00:35:44,400
said.

797
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:46,920
And so it caused a reaction on their

798
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:47,320
part.

799
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,240
Brethren, we need to handle the Word of

800
00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:52,420
God with reverence.

801
00:35:52,420 --> 00:35:55,400
And to do so, recognizing that it has

802
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,700
been given to us by the inspiration of

803
00:35:57,700 --> 00:36:01,460
the Holy Spirit, intended to be handled in

804
00:36:01,460 --> 00:36:02,720
a way that is appropriate.

805
00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:05,500
And expresses that, because if we take the

806
00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:08,960
Scripture and use it anyway, well, even it

807
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,200
might produce results and there might be someone

808
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,080
saved from it.

809
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,180
But on the other hand, later on, that

810
00:36:15,180 --> 00:36:17,260
individual may learn, well, that Scripture wasn't even

811
00:36:17,260 --> 00:36:17,820
used right.

812
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,040
They should have used it differently.

813
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,900
The Apostle Paul, he used Old Testament Scriptures,

814
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:25,460
didn't he, and applied them.

815
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,020
Like, thou shalt not muzzle the ox that

816
00:36:28,020 --> 00:36:29,120
treadeth out the corn.

817
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,760
But then he says, does this refer to

818
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:32,540
the ox only?

819
00:36:33,140 --> 00:36:36,220
And he applies that, but it's in keeping

820
00:36:36,220 --> 00:36:39,180
with the Old Testament Scriptures.

821
00:36:40,940 --> 00:36:43,240
I say this, and maybe I shouldn't.

822
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,520
I'm not trying to be humorous, but I

823
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,640
was at a conference where a lot of

824
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,320
local brethren took part.

825
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,180
And I'm not against that in any way,

826
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:52,440
if they're able, you know.

827
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,940
But this young fellow got up, and he

828
00:36:54,940 --> 00:36:58,780
had, we were the stones in David's sling.

829
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,160
And I'm not sure what he meant, but

830
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,740
we end up on somebody's head.

831
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,980
You know, you just kind of, it doesn't

832
00:37:05,980 --> 00:37:06,700
make sense.

833
00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:09,220
There's no way that can be a proper,

834
00:37:09,740 --> 00:37:11,780
and I've heard quite a few things like

835
00:37:11,780 --> 00:37:14,120
that, and maybe I've done sometimes, I've done

836
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:14,720
it myself.

837
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,040
But we need to be very careful.

838
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:21,340
There's a statement that's often made, there's one

839
00:37:21,340 --> 00:37:24,200
interpretation in many applications.

840
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:25,820
I don't really believe it.

841
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,600
Sometimes I think even there's maybe more than

842
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:31,600
one interpretation.

843
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:32,620
Right.

844
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,240
You know, but as well, it's not just

845
00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:40,020
to take something and just go fanciful in

846
00:37:40,020 --> 00:37:42,280
your own mind and apply it.

847
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,760
These conditions in his verses really should be

848
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,560
recognized and appreciated as what the gospel has

849
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,500
brought to us in a spiritual sense.

850
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,040
I think that the people of that day,

851
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,840
like even today, if the Lord would have

852
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,960
made them rich, physically, they would have been

853
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:02,880
glad to accept it.

854
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,440
If he would have healed their broken hearts

855
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,680
and made them all happy, that would have

856
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:08,560
been very acceptable.

857
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,260
But when they recognized that there was something

858
00:38:11,260 --> 00:38:14,620
deeper to that, there was an implication that

859
00:38:14,620 --> 00:38:16,380
this had spiritual meaning.

860
00:38:16,820 --> 00:38:19,240
That by sin we are captives and we're

861
00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:22,260
crushed and we're bruised and broken hearted and

862
00:38:22,260 --> 00:38:23,220
poverty stricken.

863
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,220
They weren't willing to accept that, and neither

864
00:38:26,220 --> 00:38:28,060
are the lost today.

865
00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:32,220
So he was presented here as the answer

866
00:38:32,220 --> 00:38:33,920
to these problems.

867
00:38:34,580 --> 00:38:40,440
Even the problem of poverty, sorrow, bondage, suffering,

868
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:42,320
oppression.

869
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,580
God had sent him as the answer.

870
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,260
There's a plan, maybe this is an application,

871
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:53,380
I hope it's a good one.

872
00:38:53,380 --> 00:38:57,520
But you have the message of salvation to

873
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,340
preach the gospel to the poor.

874
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,200
And then you have the result of salvation

875
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,440
to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance

876
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,080
to the captive, recovering of sight to the

877
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:08,380
blind.

878
00:39:08,500 --> 00:39:10,960
So this is what we preach in the

879
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,500
gospel.

880
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:14,980
And then you have the time of salvation

881
00:39:14,980 --> 00:39:17,680
to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

882
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,140
This is the time.

883
00:39:19,820 --> 00:39:21,380
And then of course you have the rejection

884
00:39:21,380 --> 00:39:22,960
of salvation brought in.

885
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:25,960
So how long is this year?

886
00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:30,200
Referred to in verse 19.

887
00:39:31,740 --> 00:39:34,820
It's in contrast, wouldn't you say, William, with

888
00:39:34,820 --> 00:39:38,020
what follows in the prophecy.

889
00:39:39,940 --> 00:39:41,960
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord

890
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,500
and the day of vengeance of our God.

891
00:39:44,860 --> 00:39:45,880
Until that day.

892
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,280
Yeah, it shows that God is dealing with

893
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,720
his long suffering now, but when he comes

894
00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:53,460
in in judgment, it will be swift judgment.

895
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,580
So there's a prolonged period of time in

896
00:39:55,580 --> 00:39:56,800
which there's deliverance offered.

897
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,260
And then the day of judgment follows.

898
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,920
I think it could be helpful to give

899
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,120
a little background or setting for the scene

900
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,520
that follows at this rejection.

901
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,660
When I look at a map, a map

902
00:40:11,660 --> 00:40:13,700
is flat on the table before me.

903
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,900
And you don't get any feel at all

904
00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:17,800
for the topography.

905
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,480
And I was astonished when we visited Nazareth

906
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,100
12 years ago.

907
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,760
Because Nazareth is built on an incline.

908
00:40:30,340 --> 00:40:31,940
And then they led him to the brow

909
00:40:31,940 --> 00:40:32,420
of the hill.

910
00:40:34,020 --> 00:40:37,800
There's a steep slope.

911
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,640
And had they been able to throw him

912
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:43,040
over the brow of the hill, he would

913
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:47,120
have been killed, normally speaking.

914
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,740
But he just made his way through them

915
00:40:49,740 --> 00:40:50,860
to get out of there.

916
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,000
That astonished me when I saw that Nazareth

917
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,860
was built on a slope.

918
00:40:55,860 --> 00:40:59,520
And then to stand at the almost a

919
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:03,000
cliff to the north.

920
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,760
That shows the condition of the people.

921
00:41:06,540 --> 00:41:09,360
Satan, he wanted him to go off the

922
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:10,420
pinnacle of the temple.

923
00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:14,820
So here, his children, and they have the

924
00:41:14,820 --> 00:41:17,140
same idea, cast him over the hill.

925
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,420
So in verse 16, the Lord began his

926
00:41:21,420 --> 00:41:24,080
ministry by carrying on what his custom was.

927
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:25,940
And he ended it the same way.

928
00:41:26,900 --> 00:41:30,040
In verse 21, we have this expression, this

929
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,300
day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

930
00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:35,940
That the anointing of the Lord Jesus and

931
00:41:35,940 --> 00:41:38,580
commencement of his ministry was fulfilling that prophecy.

932
00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:41,280
When you come to the end, you find

933
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,260
in chapter 19 and verse 42, the Lord

934
00:41:44,260 --> 00:41:45,400
entered into Jerusalem.

935
00:41:45,660 --> 00:41:48,000
He says, hath thou just known, even in

936
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,020
this thy day, this day.

937
00:41:50,020 --> 00:41:52,520
So there was another day that would fulfill

938
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:53,040
scripture.

939
00:41:54,100 --> 00:41:56,560
And so the Lord's ministry was begun and

940
00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:01,640
ended, embraced entirely by the fulfillment of the

941
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:02,200
word of God.

942
00:42:03,220 --> 00:42:06,880
And so that what he commenced, resulted ultimately

943
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,760
in his rejection at the end of this

944
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:10,740
public ministry.

945
00:42:11,460 --> 00:42:14,040
Now time is going, how about down here

946
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:15,700
in verse 22 and going on.

947
00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:19,360
They wondered at the words of grace that

948
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:20,160
proceeded out of his.

949
00:42:20,420 --> 00:42:23,160
They wondered at these words just as a

950
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:24,440
result of his reading the scripture.

951
00:42:25,220 --> 00:42:27,360
There seemed to be a power in what

952
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:28,060
he said.

953
00:42:28,700 --> 00:42:31,680
And what he was announcing to them, that

954
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,220
they, it caused them to wonder.

955
00:42:33,820 --> 00:42:36,400
They wondered, that this man, is not this

956
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:37,380
Joseph's son?

957
00:42:37,780 --> 00:42:38,680
Just the carpenter.

958
00:42:39,300 --> 00:42:41,360
Why would he say such words as these?

959
00:42:41,580 --> 00:42:43,860
This day is this scripture fulfilled in your

960
00:42:43,860 --> 00:42:44,120
ears.

961
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:48,120
So their unbelief was being expressed right from

962
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:48,740
the very beginning.

963
00:42:49,420 --> 00:42:52,920
They had low thoughts of the Lord Jesus.

964
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,780
And they didn't appreciate who he really was.

965
00:42:58,140 --> 00:42:59,740
Do we get a hint that the Lord

966
00:42:59,740 --> 00:43:02,080
was passing comment on what had been read?

967
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,440
Or do you take it that these gracious

968
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,880
words are simply what is recorded in verse

969
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:09,260
21 period?

970
00:43:11,260 --> 00:43:13,000
You can surmise what you will.

971
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,640
I would think that he likely commented on

972
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:20,640
them in addition.

973
00:43:21,540 --> 00:43:25,040
The summary of what he said about them

974
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,720
was this day is this fulfilled.

975
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,940
But would he not likely have given them

976
00:43:31,940 --> 00:43:32,640
instances.

977
00:43:33,580 --> 00:43:36,540
And elaborated on the meaning of the different

978
00:43:36,540 --> 00:43:38,200
expressions that are found here.

979
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:40,640
I would think so.

980
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,180
We can think so, we don't know.

981
00:43:44,580 --> 00:43:46,040
Because it doesn't say so.

982
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,440
But nevertheless there was something about the power

983
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:50,000
of his word.

984
00:43:50,620 --> 00:43:52,820
There was something about how he handled the

985
00:43:52,820 --> 00:43:53,140
scripture.

986
00:43:53,660 --> 00:43:54,540
How he read it.

987
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:55,920
If he expounded it.

988
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:57,840
They marveled.

989
00:43:58,060 --> 00:43:59,880
Where did this man get this knowledge?

990
00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:01,560
How did he know all these things?

991
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:02,800
He never went to the school of the

992
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:03,340
rabbis.

993
00:44:04,020 --> 00:44:07,000
And they wondered at the words of grace.

994
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,900
Because what he's reading is the expression of

995
00:44:09,900 --> 00:44:10,660
God's grace.

996
00:44:11,060 --> 00:44:13,860
It's not judgment, it's grace that's being expressed.

997
00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:15,780
And they wondered at it.

998
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,520
So the answer to is not this Joseph's

999
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,480
son is a no.

1000
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,840
They thought he's just an ordinary man.

1001
00:44:24,860 --> 00:44:26,100
He's a son of Joseph.

1002
00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:28,540
He wasn't really the son of Joseph.

1003
00:44:29,060 --> 00:44:30,860
Legally I suppose you could say he was.

1004
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,480
But that's what they were saying.

1005
00:44:33,580 --> 00:44:36,360
How can an ordinary man speak like this?

1006
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,080
And their eyes were fastened on him.

1007
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,740
It must have been a marvelous sight.

1008
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:48,700
Their conscience was obviously reached as he spoke.

1009
00:44:49,780 --> 00:44:52,080
And that reaction that followed.

1010
00:44:53,220 --> 00:44:55,440
Where they wanted to throw him over the

1011
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:56,140
brow of the hill.

1012
00:44:56,780 --> 00:45:01,080
They refused to acknowledge the truth that he

1013
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:02,160
had set before them.

1014
00:45:02,620 --> 00:45:06,500
And they rebelled against the truth of God.

1015
00:45:07,340 --> 00:45:09,200
And were going to take this drastic action.

1016
00:45:10,220 --> 00:45:12,380
It seems evident from what the Lord says

1017
00:45:12,380 --> 00:45:12,800
to them.

1018
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:14,040
Physician, heal thyself.

1019
00:45:14,860 --> 00:45:16,880
It indicates to us what was true of

1020
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:17,560
all of his life.

1021
00:45:17,700 --> 00:45:18,760
He knew their thoughts.

1022
00:45:19,300 --> 00:45:21,060
He knew what was going in their mind.

1023
00:45:21,180 --> 00:45:22,080
He knew their reaction.

1024
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,680
He knew how they were going to respond

1025
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:25,280
to what he says.

1026
00:45:25,380 --> 00:45:27,360
You will certainly say it on yourselves.

1027
00:45:28,220 --> 00:45:29,460
Physician, heal thyself.

1028
00:45:30,060 --> 00:45:32,800
In other words, those deeds that you have

1029
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,200
done in other places, do them here.

1030
00:45:36,580 --> 00:45:39,320
Sometimes believers have the idea the Lord Jesus

1031
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,500
performed miracles in order to cause them to

1032
00:45:42,500 --> 00:45:43,460
believe on him.

1033
00:45:45,020 --> 00:45:47,300
Normally speaking, the Lord did not perform any

1034
00:45:47,300 --> 00:45:49,060
miracles because of their unbelief.

1035
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,420
So they never saw him perform a miracle

1036
00:45:52,420 --> 00:45:53,060
in Nazareth.

1037
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,120
And it was because of their unbelief that

1038
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:57,400
killed their heart.

1039
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,540
There was a comment made when we were

1040
00:46:00,540 --> 00:46:02,120
in Israel that I never forgot.

1041
00:46:03,180 --> 00:46:06,340
On the north shore of the Sea of

1042
00:46:06,340 --> 00:46:08,360
Galilee is Bethsaida.

1043
00:46:09,500 --> 00:46:13,240
Standing there, a brother who had prepared to

1044
00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:14,900
make some comments to the group.

1045
00:46:15,700 --> 00:46:20,280
Said that within a five mile radius, 85

1046
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:25,780
% of the Lord's speaking, preaching, and miracles

1047
00:46:25,780 --> 00:46:26,660
took place.

1048
00:46:27,460 --> 00:46:29,400
And I believe he was likely right.

1049
00:46:30,220 --> 00:46:32,520
Now Nazareth was not in that five mile

1050
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:32,860
radius.

1051
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:34,900
It was further to the west.

1052
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,500
But it's an astonishing thing that where he

1053
00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:42,040
labored, where he spoke, is where he was

1054
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:43,100
ultimately rejected.

1055
00:46:43,900 --> 00:46:45,040
Is that astonishing?

1056
00:46:45,260 --> 00:46:45,720
Not really.

1057
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:47,900
Look at the world today.

1058
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,040
Name the name of Christ accepted blasphemy.

1059
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,340
And you frequently get a very, very bad

1060
00:46:55,340 --> 00:46:55,920
reaction.

1061
00:46:58,940 --> 00:47:01,780
Verse 24, the Lord says no prophet is

1062
00:47:01,780 --> 00:47:03,200
accepted in his own country.

1063
00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:06,180
He begins by using an example of a

1064
00:47:06,180 --> 00:47:08,100
man who wasn't accepted, that's Elijah.

1065
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,880
And we need to look in the third

1066
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:16,180
few minutes that remain at these two examples

1067
00:47:16,180 --> 00:47:17,180
from the Old Testament.

1068
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:17,720
Why?

1069
00:47:18,140 --> 00:47:20,040
I know that we can see in them

1070
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,460
the display of the grace of God going

1071
00:47:22,460 --> 00:47:23,340
out to Gentiles.

1072
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,300
That's often done to preach the gospel.

1073
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,660
Both of these who received blessing in the

1074
00:47:28,660 --> 00:47:31,860
days of the apostasy and the unbelief that

1075
00:47:31,860 --> 00:47:33,800
enveloped the nation, the northern tribes.

1076
00:47:34,380 --> 00:47:35,740
These were both Gentiles.

1077
00:47:36,380 --> 00:47:37,760
The woman of Sarepta.

1078
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:39,960
But why does the Lord say this?

1079
00:47:40,020 --> 00:47:42,420
How does that fit in with the context

1080
00:47:42,420 --> 00:47:44,020
of what he's been announcing to them?

1081
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,540
And the evidence of their rejection of him?

1082
00:47:48,100 --> 00:47:49,220
These two examples.

1083
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,580
Doesn't it show us, I'm going to just

1084
00:47:55,580 --> 00:47:56,260
tell you what I think.

1085
00:47:57,060 --> 00:47:59,220
Doesn't it show us he's telling them by

1086
00:47:59,220 --> 00:48:01,920
these two examples why he was not being

1087
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:03,640
accepted by the people of Nazareth.

1088
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,180
Because he is reading from the prophet of

1089
00:48:07,180 --> 00:48:07,620
Isaiah.

1090
00:48:08,660 --> 00:48:10,500
The kind of people that would receive the

1091
00:48:10,500 --> 00:48:12,840
message and receive benefit are the ones that

1092
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,840
were poor, poverty stricken, broken hearted.

1093
00:48:16,420 --> 00:48:19,300
The ones that recognized their spiritual depravity and

1094
00:48:19,300 --> 00:48:19,720
their need.

1095
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:21,720
They were not ready to recognize that.

1096
00:48:22,860 --> 00:48:24,740
He says they have to be, in order

1097
00:48:24,740 --> 00:48:26,620
to receive blessing, they have to be like

1098
00:48:26,620 --> 00:48:27,920
that widow woman.

1099
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,300
Who was in a hopeless condition.

1100
00:48:30,300 --> 00:48:34,620
Who had nothing that she could look forward

1101
00:48:34,620 --> 00:48:34,860
to.

1102
00:48:34,980 --> 00:48:37,000
Only destitution and death.

1103
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,500
But they weren't willing to recognize that their

1104
00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:41,500
condition was hopeless.

1105
00:48:42,740 --> 00:48:43,960
In the same way as Naaman.

1106
00:48:44,620 --> 00:48:46,400
He was a man that was defiled.

1107
00:48:47,180 --> 00:48:49,500
A man that had no ability to cure

1108
00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:50,520
or heal himself.

1109
00:48:51,180 --> 00:48:52,940
And they weren't willing to accept that either.

1110
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:56,320
So they were not willing to accept him

1111
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,760
because they did not realize that they had

1112
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:00,620
any need of him.

1113
00:49:01,220 --> 00:49:02,440
They were too good for that.

1114
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:03,960
Right?

1115
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,680
So what a change in attitude from verse

1116
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:09,080
20.

1117
00:49:09,220 --> 00:49:11,360
When all eyes were upon him.

1118
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,300
Moving ahead to verse 28.

1119
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,340
And all they in the synagogue, when they

1120
00:49:15,340 --> 00:49:17,300
heard these things, were filled with wrath.

1121
00:49:18,140 --> 00:49:19,820
It underscores what you're saying.

1122
00:49:19,820 --> 00:49:23,060
When he brings before them the self-righteousness.

1123
00:49:23,340 --> 00:49:26,120
He's reaching out to the needy to help

1124
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:26,360
them.

1125
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,180
It's interesting too that in these examples the

1126
00:49:32,180 --> 00:49:33,200
Lord Jesus used.

1127
00:49:33,380 --> 00:49:36,460
We have an indication that he refused to

1128
00:49:36,460 --> 00:49:38,240
cater to their unbelief.

1129
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:40,520
He could well have said words that would

1130
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,960
have soothed them and made them feel comfortable.

1131
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:46,580
And assuaged their anger against him.

1132
00:49:46,700 --> 00:49:47,580
But he didn't.

1133
00:49:47,580 --> 00:49:51,300
What he said only brought out in full

1134
00:49:51,300 --> 00:49:52,880
clear evidence.

1135
00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:55,240
What was the condition of their own heart.

1136
00:49:55,660 --> 00:49:57,780
He didn't just try to say words that

1137
00:49:57,780 --> 00:49:59,660
would accommodate them.

1138
00:49:59,940 --> 00:50:01,140
Or make them feel comfortable.

1139
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:02,700
Or soothe them.

1140
00:50:03,260 --> 00:50:06,640
He was going to tell them exactly the

1141
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:08,780
kind of message they needed to receive.

1142
00:50:09,420 --> 00:50:11,140
Even though he knew they were rejected.

1143
00:50:12,580 --> 00:50:14,600
So in the Jewish mind.

1144
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:19,140
The widow, the woman, the widow, the gentile,

1145
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:19,980
the leper.

1146
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,300
They were all at the bottom of the

1147
00:50:23,300 --> 00:50:24,700
social scale.

1148
00:50:25,620 --> 00:50:26,780
As you might say.

1149
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,040
But these were the people that were blessed

1150
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:31,100
in the days of the prophets.

1151
00:50:31,820 --> 00:50:33,100
But like you're saying.

1152
00:50:33,340 --> 00:50:35,640
They didn't see themselves in any way at

1153
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:37,840
the bottom of the totem pole so to

1154
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:38,140
speak.

1155
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:41,920
They had higher thoughts of themselves than that.

1156
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:44,920
That's why we read later on that the

1157
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:46,940
Lord in chapter 15.

1158
00:50:47,260 --> 00:50:49,620
He was accused of receiving sinners and eating

1159
00:50:49,620 --> 00:50:50,220
with them.

1160
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:54,280
The Pharisees thought that's totally contrary to our

1161
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,180
ideas of what he ought to be doing.

1162
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,020
He shouldn't be doing that.

1163
00:50:58,040 --> 00:50:59,460
But they were the ones that needed him.

1164
00:50:59,620 --> 00:51:01,420
They were the ones that saw their need

1165
00:51:01,420 --> 00:51:01,800
of him.

1166
00:51:02,260 --> 00:51:03,660
They were the ones that were willing to

1167
00:51:03,660 --> 00:51:04,220
receive him.

1168
00:51:04,220 --> 00:51:08,660
The thing that really would cause animosity with

1169
00:51:08,660 --> 00:51:10,300
them though would be the fact that they

1170
00:51:10,300 --> 00:51:11,120
were gentiles.

1171
00:51:11,220 --> 00:51:11,580
Wouldn't it?

1172
00:51:12,060 --> 00:51:12,760
Possibly.

1173
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,840
Just like today in the preaching of the

1174
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:17,220
gospel.

1175
00:51:19,100 --> 00:51:24,020
Those who will not accept the truth about

1176
00:51:24,020 --> 00:51:27,160
themselves will never know the joy of sins

1177
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:27,560
forgiven.

1178
00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:31,560
And there is that resistance to that.

1179
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:34,460
We need to recognize that.

1180
00:51:35,380 --> 00:51:37,340
We should easily recognize it.

1181
00:51:37,460 --> 00:51:39,320
Was that not true of me before God

1182
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:39,780
saved me?

1183
00:51:41,060 --> 00:51:42,940
I had to come to that recognition.

1184
00:51:43,700 --> 00:51:45,600
I'm hopeless, I'm helpless, I'm lost.

1185
00:51:47,300 --> 00:51:49,580
We have an example here as well that

1186
00:51:49,580 --> 00:51:51,220
they could not refute his message.

1187
00:51:51,780 --> 00:51:53,300
So they attacked the messenger.

1188
00:51:54,460 --> 00:51:56,280
And again we find that later on in

1189
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:57,740
the public ministry of the Lord Jesus.

1190
00:51:57,740 --> 00:52:02,240
They could not undermine what he was saying.

1191
00:52:02,740 --> 00:52:04,380
They tried to undermine his character.

1192
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,860
He doesn't cast out demons by the power

1193
00:52:07,860 --> 00:52:08,240
of God.

1194
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:09,200
It's by Beelzebul.

1195
00:52:10,620 --> 00:52:13,180
In their refusal of him, they're really putting

1196
00:52:13,180 --> 00:52:14,800
him in the place of judgment.

1197
00:52:15,740 --> 00:52:17,340
They're taking a judgment against him.

1198
00:52:18,060 --> 00:52:19,780
Wanted to throw him over the brow of

1199
00:52:19,780 --> 00:52:20,140
the hill.

1200
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,260
And really the rejection of Christ, it always

1201
00:52:24,260 --> 00:52:25,140
involves that.

1202
00:52:25,140 --> 00:52:27,780
People are taking a judgment against him.

1203
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:32,220
But interesting, John, as you know, the Mount

1204
00:52:32,220 --> 00:52:35,640
of the Precipice, it overlooks the Valley of

1205
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:39,660
Jezreel to the south, to the west, and

1206
00:52:39,660 --> 00:52:40,640
to the east as well.

1207
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:43,500
It's the very place likely where they wanted

1208
00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:45,000
to throw him down in judgment.

1209
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,340
It's the place he's coming back in judgment.

1210
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:49,320
Revelation 19.

1211
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,520
The link between these examples and the condition

1212
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,160
that was in their heart was that Elijah

1213
00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:00,680
and Elisha ministered in days when Israel was

1214
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:01,440
apostate.

1215
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,080
It was far from God.

1216
00:53:03,940 --> 00:53:07,260
And even their carrying on religious practices under

1217
00:53:07,260 --> 00:53:09,560
Jeroboam was totally contrary to the word of

1218
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:09,880
God.

1219
00:53:10,380 --> 00:53:12,120
That's basically what they were doing here.

1220
00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:14,440
They were carrying on religious practice, but it

1221
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:16,140
wasn't according to the word of God.

1222
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,380
And so that they were really in the

1223
00:53:18,380 --> 00:53:20,020
same condition as the nation of Israel.

1224
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:22,200
And as a result, the blessing of God

1225
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:23,120
couldn't come with it.

1226
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:28,760
There's a giant fact that the category of

1227
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:30,860
the people that was blessed, he read the

1228
00:53:30,860 --> 00:53:32,780
scripture, he showed them, this is the ones

1229
00:53:32,780 --> 00:53:35,780
that are going to be blessed from this

1230
00:53:35,780 --> 00:53:38,100
day on, from this message that I'm going

1231
00:53:38,100 --> 00:53:38,900
to bring to you.

1232
00:53:39,220 --> 00:53:41,040
And then he gives the examples in the

1233
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:44,720
Old Testament that actually this is the kind

1234
00:53:44,720 --> 00:53:46,760
of people that got blessed in the beginning.

1235
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:48,940
Those that were simple enough to take the

1236
00:53:48,940 --> 00:53:49,180
word.

1237
00:53:49,780 --> 00:53:51,400
And it's not going to be the high

1238
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:51,760
and mighty.

1239
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,080
It's going to be the ones that is

1240
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:55,300
categorized here.

1241
00:53:56,980 --> 00:54:00,780
Showing them as well that the nation had

1242
00:54:00,780 --> 00:54:01,640
never changed.

1243
00:54:02,660 --> 00:54:05,800
It hadn't changed from the days of Elijah

1244
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:06,860
and Elisha.

1245
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:08,460
Just the very same.

1246
00:54:08,460 --> 00:54:11,060
And the result was they didn't get the

1247
00:54:11,060 --> 00:54:13,820
blessing that God had in store for them.

1248
00:54:15,980 --> 00:54:18,120
So again we find that they could not

1249
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:18,720
take him.

1250
00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:21,460
John tells us his hour had not come.

1251
00:54:22,220 --> 00:54:24,140
So the passage in the midst of that,

1252
00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:26,920
even though they tried to lay hands on

1253
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,600
him, and the devil would have done everything

1254
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:31,880
possible to take his life at this point.

1255
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,340
Yet, it is evident that they could not

1256
00:54:37,340 --> 00:54:37,800
take him.

1257
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,840
His time was determined by God.

1258
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,160
Man was limited in what he could accomplish.

1259
00:54:45,860 --> 00:54:48,920
And he came down to Capernaum, where the

1260
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,580
majority of his ministry was centered.

1261
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:53,080
A city of Galilee had taught them on

1262
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:53,760
the Sabbath days.

1263
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,460
Our brother's been mentioning where the Lord's ministry

1264
00:54:56,460 --> 00:54:57,060
was centered.

1265
00:54:57,680 --> 00:54:59,880
I think that in the Gospel of Luke,

1266
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:02,860
there's no indication the Lord Jesus was ever

1267
00:55:02,860 --> 00:55:05,800
in Jerusalem from this point on until he

1268
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:07,640
makes his journey toward Jerusalem.

1269
00:55:08,300 --> 00:55:09,660
And he will have that last week.

1270
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:13,340
So his ministry in Luke's Gospel is entirely

1271
00:55:13,340 --> 00:55:17,380
in Galilee, which was really a territory that

1272
00:55:17,380 --> 00:55:21,340
was almost considered semi-Gentile by many of

1273
00:55:21,340 --> 00:55:22,460
the Jews down in Jerusalem.

1274
00:55:23,340 --> 00:55:24,400
Our time is gone.

1275
00:55:24,580 --> 00:55:27,100
Our brother should close in prayer and give

1276
00:55:27,100 --> 00:55:28,300
thanks for the refreshment.

1277
00:55:29,180 --> 00:55:31,500
I trust I've made something of this kind.

1278
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:32,540
Thank you for your help.