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Good evening everybody glad that you guys are here come on in find your seat

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excited to be with you would ask that you pray for brother Gentry who was

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scheduled to speak tonight he's currently in the hospital with his son and

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so just continue to pray for them yes Lucas is in the hospital thank you for

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that clarification but pray for them and for their family as well we're gonna

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start a brand new series tonight called it's all about Jesus it is it's all about

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Jesus isn't it we're gonna be in Luke chapter 4 so if you have a copy of

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scriptures that invite you to open up there the Luke chapter 4 as we begin

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looking at Luke's gospel here I don't know if you guys are familiar with this

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but before the whole social you know very beginning of the social media craze

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before Facebook there was a website called MySpace anybody familiar with

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MySpace anybody ever had one of those MySpace was kind of all about that it

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was dedicated to like your favorite things your favorite music you know when

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you came when your page came up your music your favorite music would begin

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to play and all that kind of stuff very very early on in the whole social media

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craze but it was kind of all about expressing yourself expressing about

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who you are and kind of making your statement in the world declaring this

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is this is me it's all about me it's kind of the whole idea of my space but

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people love to express themselves that's kind of just the way that people are

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it's nothing new a lot of times people you know they hold on to certain

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different identities as a way of expressing themselves either they talk

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about you know if you ask about ask a question about like who people are

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generally they'll respond with maybe their career or their where they're from

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or maybe what sports team they're aligned with there's a lot of people things

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that people kind of grab on to as far as expressing who they are and their

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identity maybe some of you are familiar you know like have baseball players kind

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of how they kind of have that their walk-up song if you're familiar with

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that you people walking up and you know wrestlers they do that too but it's just

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a way of it's not just like their favorite song but it's a way of expressing

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who they are right and so they're they're trying to tell you without telling you

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who they are tonight when we look into Luke chapter 4 we're going to see Jesus's

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declaration in a very overt way of who he is and what his mission was in coming

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to the earth and that's where we're gonna pick up in Luke chapter 4 but I want

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us to be able to kind of walk away tonight understanding that that's a

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mission of Christ understanding what the mission of Christ is and how we fit

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into that mission today can be revealed by what we're gonna be studying here in

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Luke chapter 4 let's go to open up on a word of prayer and then we'll jump into

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the the scripture tonight Father in heaven we thank you for the opportunity

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that we have to look into your scripture this evening Father I pray that you

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would illuminate us in our hearts use the Holy Spirit interact with the word of

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God to penetrate our hearts Lord that we would not just walked away more

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knowledgeable on a certain subject Lord but that we would be motivated to be

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conformed to the image of Christ to be on mission fulfilling the mission that

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you began when you came and that we are have been commanded to go and to

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accomplish in your spirit in your power so Father I you would I pray that you

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would teach us Lord from your word these things in Jesus sing we pray amen

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so here's where I want to jump into Luke chapter 4 we're going to jump about

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halfway down into the scriptures beginning in verse 14 if you're not

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familiar the beginning of Luke chapter 4 Jesus has drawn away into the desert

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there he's tempted in the wilderness responding to Satan with scripture

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being a time of testing but that testing is complete in verse 13 the devil

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withdraws to parts from him from a time a season that says and then verse 14 this

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is where we're going to pick up in our text tonight so verse 14 and we'll read

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on says Jesus returned in the power of the spirit into Galilee and there went

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out a fame of him through all the region round about and he taught in their

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synagogues being glorified of all and he came to Nazareth where he had been

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brought up and as his custom was he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day

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and stood up for to read and there was delivered unto him the book of the

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prophet Isaiah and when he had opened the book he found the place where it was

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written the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he had anointed me to preach

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the gospel to the poor he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted to preach

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deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set

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at liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of the Lord

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and he closed the book and he gave it again to the minister and sat down and

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the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him and he

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began to say unto them this day is the scripture fulfilled in your ears and all

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bear witness and wondered at the gracious words which preceded out of his

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mouth and they said is this not Joseph's son and we'll stop there tonight I want

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us to be able to kind of look at three emphasis there's three emphasis

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that's that Jesus really kind of draws out in this this this passage to help

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us understand not only his mission but also how we can then continue on this

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mission with the same emphasis the first emphasis if you're taking notes is the

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power the power that was in Christ verse 14 talks about Jesus returning in the

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power of the spirit now we when we think about Jesus a lot of times we think

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about Jesus in the right way of course that he is the son of God that he is

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was God incarnate in the flesh but all times that we miss really the the

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practical emphasis that Jesus was also 100% man and that when he came he

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humbled himself as scripture says that he emptied himself of many of the traits

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of the Godhead right that he wasn't everywhere at all one all time he was in

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one place in one body yet he was still God he was born to a poor family like he

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exemplified humility in the way that he lived born into a poor family how do we

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know that well scripture talks about that Joseph and Mary when they went to

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dedicate him at the temple they gave the the the least amount that they were

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able to give the two turtle doves that would emphasize their inability to have

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a whole lot of money he was born born and raised not in Jerusalem and a high

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brow society he was raised in the city of Nazareth we know that Nazareth wasn't

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not necessarily well known in the community for a place where the uppity

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people live right some of the people or even one of his disciples would say

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well is there anything good that could come out of Nazareth right and so he

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grew up in a very humble place in a very humble family some would say that you

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maybe even hit in his baptism he indicated this idea of humility in that

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when he was baptized John the Baptist was doing his ministry and a lot of people

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come to think that the place where John the Baptist would center a lot of his

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ministry around was in some of the literally physically lowest places of

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the earth near the Dead Sea that he was there doing his ministry in the power

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and spirit of Elijah a place where was traditionally believed that where Moses

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came to see the the the land before he was taken away and not permitted into

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the land it was a place where Joshua crossed over the Jordan into the Promised

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Land also a place traditionally understood as a place where Elijah also

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parted that with his raiment and so because he was coming in the spirit of

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Elijah to prepare the way a lot of people thought that this might be a place

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where even Jesus was baptized in the Jordan near the Dead Sea even in the

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lowest parts of the earth that Jesus exemplified humility but as a man Jesus

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relied not necessarily in his own power but in the power of the spirit that he

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exemplified what it meant to live in the power of the spirit that he was led by

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the Holy Spirit and we see this a time and time again where Jesus was conceived

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by the Holy Spirit we've been doing a lot of study about the Holy Spirit we've

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actually just covered this topic of Jesus's ministry and the influence of the

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Holy Spirit in Jesus's ministry but he has conceived of the Holy Spirit Matthew

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chapter 1 we know that in this specific chapter Luke chapter 4 the beginning of

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it talks about him being filled with the Holy Spirit so talked about Jesus being

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led and prepared and then even being victorious over the devil by the spirit

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and by the power of the spirit in Matthew chapter 4 and he ministered in the

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power of the Holy Spirit here in chapter 14 chapter 4 verse 14 Jesus

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returned in the power of the spirit into Galilee his messages were we're so a

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so forceful and so fruitful because of the working of the Holy Spirit the lesson

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I think for us really is to is that we ought to also emulate that that when we

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when we minister we can't minister on power we have to minister in the spirit

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of God that's what Galatians says in Galatians 5 16 he says this I say walk in

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the spirit and you should not fulfill the lust of the flesh for the flesh

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lust is against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are

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contrary to one another so that you cannot do the things which he would

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Jesus to his disciples in Acts chapter 1 verse 8 says we shall receive power

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after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you he shall be witnesses unto me both

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Jerusalem and all Judea and the Samaria unto the uttermost parts of the earth and

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Jesus exemplifies this in his earthly ministry that when he comes in the very

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beginnings of his earthly ministry he does not come to tout his own power even

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though he would have been right to do so yet he exemplifies humility and a humble

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servant of God being led by the Holy Spirit just playing to us that if we are

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going to walk in his footsteps if we are going to continue the mission that he is

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on we'll talk about that in just a minute the purpose but that we must be

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filled with the spirit that if we were going to walk if we're going to worship

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if we're going to witness if we're going to work if we're gonna do spiritual

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warfare we must do it in the power of the Holy Spirit that we cannot do it in

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our own power I illustrated this the opposite of this very very

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flagrantly when I was young in ministry I had just finished college came to work

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a internship at a church down in Florida and we would put on these rather

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large community events for the size of our church in our area and one of the

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things that I was kind of tasked on to early on was to run a fall event we

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called trunkertreat so it was kind of a way for us to be able to interact with

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the community around the Halloween time and so I was in charge of basically

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running this event and of course when you're young in ministry you have a lot

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of assurance that you can do it right you're gonna prove yourself right and

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so I was way in over my head but at that time my head was so big I needed some

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ways to be I needed to be deflated a little bit and that was the experience

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that I had and trying to run that event there was a lot to be done and we had it

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out in the parking lot and we had people coming in but we didn't just have you

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know people decorating their trunks and handing out candy we had fire trucks and

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we had hot dogs and we had gospel presentations and we had some guy that

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was carving out a pumpkin and we had all these multiple all these ministries

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happening at the same time and what's that we had we even had that and so we

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had all kinds of stuff going on at the same time and I felt like I had to be

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over everything and doing everything and I could I couldn't fathom how on the

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world I was gonna be in one place of the parking lot and then be another place in

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the other parking lot and so I came up with this grand idea that I would wear

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rollerblades and I would rollerblade all over the parking lot now of course I'm

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if you know me and a little bit about me I love kids ministry I love being

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thematic and so I was also in a costume and so I was in a costume in on

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rollerblades and so I was rollerblading all over the parking lot trying to be

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here and trying to be there and try to give instructions to these people try to

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give instructions to these people right and instead of instead of doing what I

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was supposed to be doing as far as as raising up leaders and helping people I

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was trying to do it all myself and I thought I'm the only one most qualified

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I got to do everything and so like I said big head and so I'm I'm zooming around

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the parking lot and it's a gravel parking lot it wasn't a great parking lot

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you know it was it wasn't like amazing like we have a nice nice parking lot it

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was not always very well taken care of and yeah you're already beating me to

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the punch here but as I'm going all over the place and trying to do everything

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in my own power guess what happens when you're going five different places on

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a rollerblades in a costume you bite it right and so I hit the ground hard and

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of course I'm just I'm just deflated people are looking at me like what a goofball

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like he's just rolling around all over the place what is this guy doing finally

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I took the skates off and I had to I had to start playing a different game I had

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to start playing the game of let's train leaders and let's try to help people

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let's trust people let's let's let's equip people for the work of the

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ministry imagine that right and so that's what I learned and then there there

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was no way I could do it in my own power and that's still something that I do

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learn to be honest just as a place of vulnerability I like I'm a list person I

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like to make the list check it off twice you know I like to make sure that I get

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all of my ducks in a row and I like I like to be someone who does planning and

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likes to plan a lot in the future and I like to be able to get things done but a

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lot of times I forget that it's not just about what I'm doing it's about what

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God's doing and that I have to be reminded that if I'm going to be doing

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ministry if I'm going to be walking with the Lord if I'm going to be raising a

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family that loves the Lord if I'm going to be making a difference for the cause

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of Christ if I'm going to be trying to minister with the gospel and train others

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to do the same and I cannot do that in my own power that I must do it in the power

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of the Holy Spirit and that's what Jesus here exemplifies that he begins this

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ministry and he's doing it not just in his own power although he would have at

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every right to do so but that he is returning in the power of the spirit

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here says that he went out and the fame of him throughout all the region around

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about him he taught in the synagogues being glorified of all now what we see

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here really leads us to this our second our second emphasis is is that Jesus

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his ministry and this is interesting just by side note Luke here is writing

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not necessarily in a chronological order the other gospels give us accounts

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that Jesus is actually about maybe one year into his ministry but Luke is

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trying to highlight something we'll talk about that in a minute second

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emphasis that we see is not only that Jesus is the emphasis of the power the

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Holy Spirit power but that he is also emphasizing his purpose of why he has

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come to do what he has been called to do in these verses that we find the

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anointing of Jesus and the assignment of Jesus both on display in this synagogue

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event now I mentioned Luke here Luke's a man of detail if you know anything about

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him he is a man of detail he's good at keeping the details and keeping the

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accounts orderly but he records here Jesus coming to Nazareth and I believe

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that he is choosing this event and placing it in his early early part of

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his gospel and he's kind of pulling it out of chronological order but putting

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in more of what he would consider what I would consider more of a logical order

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here he's trying to emphasize something for the reader for us to be able to see

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what's going on why is he doing this well remember that Luke here a little

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bit about a background about the author Luke here we don't know exactly for sure

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most people traditionally have believed that Luke may have been a Gentile there

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are some evidence that would suggest that maybe he was a Hellenistic Jew but in

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either case Luke was not necessarily part of the in-crowd when it came to the

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Jewish mindset he would at best been kind of a social outcast if he was a

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Jew well Luke here he's doing something I believe he's highlighting in an

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unmistakable way the purpose of Jesus's mission and that was to reach

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everyone that Jesus didn't just come to minister to the Jews but Jesus had come

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to reach anyone Jews and Gentiles with his mission and we'll see more proof of

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that farther on in the text we don't have the time to study all of it out

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tonight but you but Luke will bring that out in the text further on you can do

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your own study as well but Jesus does here what the average Jew would have done

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right he's going back home to Nazareth that was his hometown verse 16 he came

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came to Nazareth and when he where he had been brought up and as his custom was

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verse 16 it says he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood

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up for to read and there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet

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Isaiah and when he had opened the book he found the place where it was written

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the Spirit of the Lord is upon me so Jesus here he's doing what he had always

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done remember that Nazareth was his hometown he grew up there and so he

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would have been going back seeing you know there yeah there's Timmy there's

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Jimmy and there's Sally and there's people that had had grown up with and

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people that knew him as a boy and people that knew his family knew his parents he

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was kind of coming back home if you will if you've ever maybe done that maybe you

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maybe you've grown up anybody here grow they grew up in Trinity like Trinity like

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you've never known any other church you've just been in Trinity your whole

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life so several people so it's kind of like if you had gone away for a trip and

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then come back to Trinity right and you're coming back home people knew you

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people know you and they grew up around you maybe some of you have a place like

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that where maybe you go back you're visiting family for me that my church

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like that is in Florida and so when I go back I see people and they know me and I

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know them we have this long history together right and so Jesus is coming

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back home and so as he would do as a good Jew would do and as a as he had his

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cousin's custom was he would go to synagogue and so it was time for the

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community to come around to to exegete scripture to to have a time of reflection

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over God's word and as he would have probably had done many times before as

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he was growing into adulthood he has handed the scriptures to read and now

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we see I believe it's in Matthew's Gospel where he is preaching to the

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Pharisees as a young boy right and they're astounded at the questions that

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he has and it's down to that at the answers as they're as they're having

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these scriptural discussions doctrinal discussions and so Jesus had probably

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most likely already had a history of being able to communicate God's word to

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the people around him and here he stands and he's going to read the scroll of

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Isaiah which is handed to him and so he begins to read it and Jesus reiterates

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what we talked about in our first point namely that he had been anointed by he

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had been filled with the Holy Spirit and that it was in that power that he came

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to do the ministry then he shows us the assignment for his life from a heavenly

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perspective that Jesus he's assigned here to preach the good news verse 18 he

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goes to Isaiah this is Isaiah chapter 61 we're gonna read it here in just a

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second but here he opens up the book to the place where it's written verse 18

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the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he had anointed me to preach the

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gospel to the poor he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted to preach

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deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to

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say that liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of the Lord

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here Jesus is assigned to preach the good news he says his preaching was to be

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to the poor about the freedom of captives and recovery of sight to the

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spiritually by and the oppressed being set free and the freedom for all to

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accept the Lord by faith here he talks about preaching the acceptable year of

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the Lord most people who study this would believe that he's referencing

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Leviticus chapter 25 that year of Jubilee Leviticus 25 verse 8 through 10

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gives us a little bit of insight into what that was all about it was a a about

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every 50 years for the Jews it was a it was an exciting time it was a time when

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people were set free if you had become a bond servant or a slave to pay off debt

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your debts were wiped clean and you were able to return home if you had sold off

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ancestral property to pay off bonds that ancestral property would have then been

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returned to you it was a very exciting year for the people of God

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Leviticus 25 gives us a little bit of illustration that verse 8 it says

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thou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years unto the seven times seven years and

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the space that the seventh Sabbaths of years shall be unto the 40 49 years

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then thou shalt cause the trumpet of Jubilee to sound on the 10th day of the

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seventh month in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound

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throughout all your land and ye shall hollow the 50th year and proclaim

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liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof it shall be a

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Jubilee unto you and ye shall return every man unto his possession and ye shall

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return every man unto his family but remember Jesus's mission wasn't just to

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deliver the people from the bondage of the Romans or even to enforce the year

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of Jubilee it was to bring spiritual freedom to those who were in spiritual

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bondage to sin and what Jesus is saying here what Luke I believe is trying to

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highlight to his readers at the very beginning of his book but of this

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gospel is to help people understand that Jesus's mission the purpose of him

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being on this planet was to declare the spiritual year of Jubilee not just for

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the Jews but for all nations that he was going to be bringing freedom from sin to

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those who would believe but not just the Jews but to the Gentiles also I think

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this is highlighted more in chapter 4 verses 25 through 27 we don't have time

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to study it but basically Jesus brings up several times in Old Testament

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history where God worked not in the Jews but among the Gentiles and that is at

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that point the crowd turns on him and thrusts him out but I want you to notice

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something that's I think easily missed I don't have the scripture up but if you

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could turn in your Bibles real quick to Isaiah chapter 61 Isaiah chapter 61 is

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where Jesus is here reading in the synagogue and I want you to notice

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something that's I think significant to to Jesus's purpose Isaiah chapter 61

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beginning in verse 1 scripture says this the spirit of the Lord God is upon me

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because the Lord hath appointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek he has

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sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the

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opening of the prison to them that are bound to proclaim the acceptable year of

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the Lord and a day of vengeance of our God to comfort all that mourn but I want

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it I want you to notice something if you I don't know if you can do this kind of

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look back and forth but if you look if you compare Isaiah chapter 61 and the

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first two verses there one and two with what Jesus reads you will notice

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something interesting 61 is captured and encapsulated in verse 18 of Luke chapter

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4 but Luke 19 we see only the very first phrase of Isaiah 61 verse 2 the rest of

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that phrase says and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all that

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mourn but you'll notice Jesus does not read that part in Isaiah chapter 61 it

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says in verse 20 of Luke chapter 4 he closes the book and I think that this is

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significant and sometimes easily missed because what Jesus is communicating here

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is that Jesus is the living exegesis of Isaiah chapter 61 and that when he comes

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he comes to preach deliverance for the captive and sight for the blind and and

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and healing for those who are broken-hearted and he preaches this

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year of jubilee this acceptable year of the Lord but he stops why is that

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significant well here's the thing when Jesus came the first time that was his

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mission that was his purpose to bring salvation to bring deliverance and

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spiritual freedom but if you know anything about what scripture teaches

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Jesus is coming again he's coming a second time and what's he's second time

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characterized by well it's characterized by the rest of Isaiah 61 verse 2

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vengeance and deliverance for those that mourn see Jesus here is the living

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exegesis of six of Isaiah chapter 61 this prophecy and the reason why he

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stops is because he's only come the first time he's coming to deliver good

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news good tidings salvation his purpose and you know what's exciting according

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to John chapter 20 verse 21 Jesus's purpose of being sent is now our purpose

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in being sent John chapter 20 verse 21 Jesus says as the father has sent me in

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the same manner so send I you that we have been sent not to deliver damnation

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and vengeance of God but to deliver the ultimate good news the ultimate good

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tidings that Jesus has come and deliverance is here and salvation is for

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anyone who believes whether you're Jew or Gentile that everyone who calls upon

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the name of the Lord whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be

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saved Jesus's mission of deliverance and good news and good tidings is the same

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mission that we have the same purpose the same the purpose Christ had in coming

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to deliver to deliver that good news in the same spirit is our purpose in going

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and sending there's been I'm sure many stories and maybe some of you may have

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stories to tell of times when good news wasn't delivered and what what devastation

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that that that can rot the story that came to mind when I was thinking through

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this is the story I don't think I've heard about it just I just in paraphrase

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but the story I don't know if it was Japan or if it was some some island in

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the Pacific where they discovered these soldiers that had been there and they

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were World War two soldiers and this was multiple decades after World War two

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had ended but these soldiers had never been delivered the news that the war was

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over and so that they were kind of had turned almost into guerrilla warfare

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people where they were there were scavenging weapons and they were attacking

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anybody who had come near them but how devastated these people were when they

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realized that they could have gone home decades ago but that that good news that

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the war was over had never reached them I don't know if you're familiar with that

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story it's an incredible true story but that's we have an even greater story to

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tell we have even better good news to tell and how much how much more

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devastating will it be for those who have not heard the good news that Jesus

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has come to pay for their sin when they step on the other side of eternity and

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find out that they had not heard the good news that's why we're so that's why

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we're so motivated to partner with church-planting missionaries that's why

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we're so motivated to get the gospel not just in our community but around the

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world because there is an entire world of people who still have not heard the

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good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ and while we are bold to not just once

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a year once a year we highlight it but throughout the year encourage you to

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give sacrificially to faith promise missions because we have a job to do

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and we're partnering with other people who have felt that call to go and why

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we are on purpose why we are motivated here to boldly ask you to go that's

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what the whole the whole who's your one thing was for Easter but that doesn't

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stop at Easter there's still a people in our county who need to hear the good

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news of the gospel who have not yet repented and believed the gospel they

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need to hear and so we need to go so our Jesus's purpose has become our purpose

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to go and to deliver the good news that Jesus has come that the that God has sent

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good tidings to free the captives the spiritually spiritual captives and to

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preach that salvation has come all right the last emphasis that we see with our

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time remaining I want us to point out is what we call the predictions we've got

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the power we've got the purpose and the predictions look here at verse 20 verse

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20 in chapter 4 it says he closed the book and he gave it again to the minister

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and sat down and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were

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fastened on him and it began to say unto them this day is the scripture

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fulfilled in your ears many of the Old Testament scholars suggest that there

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are more than 300 prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament alone several of

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which had been already fulfilled up to this point remember we're kind of a

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little bit chronologically out of order Jesus is already most likely had

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already transpired almost a year into his ministry until this point but Luke

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kind of pulls us up out of the narrative and places it here to help us

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understand that Jesus's emphasis of his ministry was not just for Jews but for

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everyone the fact that he would be born in Bethlehem and he would be preceded by

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a messenger John the Baptist that that he would enter and drew some of the

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donkey he would be betrayed by a friend sold for 30 pieces of silver born of a

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virgin hated without a cause silent before his accusers executed like a

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thief he'd be raised from the dead they were all fulfilled by Jesus those and

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so so many more and the point of this passage makes the point this passage

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makes is that Jesus is fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah 61 1 and 2 right

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before their eyes as they're gathered in the synagogue he came to proclaim and

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produce salvation for all who would believe on him here Jesus is emphasizing

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that the Scripture had already been fulfilled that they were experiencing

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the predictions that were made hundreds of years before Christ being fulfilled

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in their very presence that he had come just as the Old Testament had promised

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that that Messiah would come and he was telling them the Messiah is now here and

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as Jews they would have heard this declaration the point I want to make in

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this sermon tonight is that the ministry of Jesus is worthy of believing and

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modeling because it's based on God's word that Jesus Jesus in fulfilling the

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predictions of the Old Testament only goes to further should only go to

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further our belief in who Jesus was that we should find encouragement and

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strength and then boldness to share the gospel because we know that the story of

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the gospel that Jesus came bled died sacrificed himself the judgment was

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placed upon his shoulders and that he died for our sins that he was buried

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and that he rose again all of it is rooted in Scripture and was declared by

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Jesus and that all the predictions and all those things go to only prove that

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Jesus was who he says he was and that Jesus lives still today the gospel the

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story of the gospel though is rooted in history see what do you say that yeah

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that's kind of an obvious thing well here's here's the reason why I say

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yeah because the fact that the gospel is rooted in history it's not something

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that you can just dream up somebody can't be in some foreign country and sit

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under a tree and begin to reason out logically the story of the gospel and

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then come to faith in Christ because the story of the gospel is rooted in

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history because it is a story like all stories it must be shared otherwise

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no one will ever come to the conclusion that God exists that he sent his son and

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if I call upon him I'll be saved you can't reason that you come can't come to

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that through some kind of logic up to a certain point things can be revealed to

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you as Romans chapter 1 says but you must hear the gospel why because faith

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comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God the lost must hear the gospel

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the lost must hear the the word of God for them to come to faith in Christ our

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world is full of stories right and people like to share stories I do I like

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to share what I learn and we're filled with stories you know if you watch the

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news or you read the newspaper or you listen to podcasts or if you're on

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social media and you're scrolling through all kinds of articles and if I find

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something funny I like to share it or find something interesting I like to

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share it but a lot of times this is the way that the world works like we're

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sharing these stories we don't even necessarily know that if the story that

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we're sharing is even a hundred percent true but sometimes we're sharing it

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anyway but we've got a story that's a hundred percent true that God so loved

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the world that he gave his only begotten son Jesus and whosoever believeth in

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him should not perish everlasting life we have the story of the gospel and it's

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gotta be shared and if we keep it to ourselves if we keep it in here and we

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just talk about it and we amen brother and amen sister all day long in this

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building and never take it out and it never comes out of our lips and never

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goes into our workplace and never goes into our families never goes into our

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schools it never goes into our places of influence the people who've never heard

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it are not going to come to the conclusion that they need Jesus they need

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to hear the history of the gospel we have that story Paul says we have that

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treasure and earth and vessels so what I want to challenge you tonight is that in

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the same power we have the Holy Spirit the same spirit that raised Jesus from

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the dead lives in us in the same power of the Holy Spirit for the same purpose

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of declaring good news of the gospel that salvation has come that the blind

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can see the dead can walk again the captive can be made free and because all

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those predictions are true I want to challenge you to take the gospel that

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you have so believed and share it with others and let's do it because it's all

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about Jesus pastor are you gonna be doing that prayer quest if you have a pro quest

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I want to encourage you we can you can write one of those slips down if you

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have it raise it up for the door and come by and grab it for you as we move

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into a time of prayer tonight