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    By Brian Medway

    agreements_deedsLuke 4:16-21 recounts the day Jesus stood up in the synagogue and read from the scroll that way handed to him… “Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”He rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him.

    Everywhere Jesus went crowds gathered to him - except in Nazareth which is where he is speaking this scripture, right there. During his time there, few people were healed, few hungry were fed. No captives were freed and no blind received sight...

    Still, at the synagogue Jesus received a warm reception! “They were amazed at him and spoke well of him” (vs 22) You can just see it can’t you. “Good job pastor, great sermon”. Yes, yes hours of preparation you know. No! Jesus would not accept such faint praise!


    In Luke 8:4-21 Jesus told the parable of the farmer who sowed his seed everywhere. On all kinds of ground, in all kinds of ways. Whether the ground would receive it or not, whether it was open or not. Here he is on truly stony ground, and he still presses in for some kind of outcome.

    The gospel is preached, but not followed by signs, miracles or wonders here...
    The passage is fulfilled, but nothing is entering in, manifesting out, becoming clear.
    Incredible unbelief, hard hearts, hard soil

    So Jesus, in the synagogue in the town he grew up in, says this: "no prophet is accepted in his home town" (vs 24) and goes on to draw an analyogy between them and Israel in the times of Elijah and Elisha… Elijah fed only one widow, and the was a Sidonian. Elisha cleansed only one leper and he was a Syrian !

    The people were furious with him, drove him out of town and tried to throw him over a cliff!

    I see Jesus pressing for the Kingdom to be known among them – even in the stony and hard place he tries to get them to see the Kingdom of his Father. It occurs to me that we are not trying nearly as hard as Jesus.

     

    SOURCE: Brian shared this message at the Crosslink National Conference, 15 Sept 2011

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    Renee Jefferson-Taite said:

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    If this were on Facebook I'd press "like". I really agree with this last paragraph especially "I see Jesus pressing for the Kingdom to be known among them.....and....... we are not trying nearly as hard as Jesus.

    As a person that was away from the Lord for over 2 yrs. and is now back by His side, by the grace of Jesus, I think that the church seems to have lost sight of the big picture and how important each of us is to Gods plan for eternity. I think the church has lost sight of who she really belongs to and has lost sight by lack of faith of agape love and Gods heart for her and the sea of humanity that surrounds her. As I was brought back to the Lord I had five months of grace to be with Him day after day for many hours. Now, I work 8 1/2 hours a day and have to get other things in my life organized as well as spend time with Him. I've realized how important it is to stay so close to Him so we can continue to see His heart for those around us and to be His heart to those around us because eternity is................forever.
     
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