Sunday, February 11, 2024

He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners. and recovery of sight for the blind

Luke 4:14-30

He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. 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.”

“Truly I tell you,” he continued, no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.

Why?

Because people in Nazareth knew Jesus was the son of a carpenter, so they looked down on Jesus. 

Jesus mentioned Elijah, and Elisha chose the widow and healed Naaman the Syrian, they are lower people in Juda and emeny of Juda. So they looked down on Jesus either and were furious about what Jesus said.

People in the synagogue were Priests or teachers, they were more familiar with the word of the Lord. But Jesus said the word they don't like to hear.

We should not be proud of our life or my Christian life, all of us are sinners, and without the love of the Lord coming upon us we are nothing. Maybe we are worse than these priests or teachers

How?

I am a sinner and poor in spirit, dear Lord, please clean me with your Holy Spirit and pour down your wisdom and love on me.



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