2000 years ago, a man walked into the synagogue and read a verse from 3000 years ago:

Isaiah 61 1 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.  He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor

I am sure that this Jesus from Nazareth was regarded as a very knowledgeable “commoner”.

But that was not His intention.  His intention was to proclaim that He was God.

And when He said:  “Today, this scripture is fulfilled upon your hearing”, He set in motion the plans for His execution.

When the Jewish historian Josephus described Jesus in the history books, he was described as man who was executed for his actions.

He wrote.

About this time lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was the achiever of extraordinary deeds and was a teacher of those who accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks.

But, with respect to the historian, Jesus was no “wise man”.  And He did not claim to be a wise man.

Jesus claimed that He was a “fulfillment of the scripture”.  He was claiming to be God.

And in 2021, we have a choice.  Jesus claimed that He was God, acted like God, and was crucified for these claims on a cross between two thieves.

And those who followed Him, even though they were scattered at His execution, and even His rising, championed His cause with their lives—that we might have the scriptures that we read today as a result of God inspiring them to spread it.

This is the greatest story I have ever read.

It is the hope of all mankind.

And it has rescued me from my greatest enemy … myself.

Our destiny is that we will live a short life.

We will be here today, and gone tomorrow.

But Jesus … He is in it for the long haul.  And those who follow will belong to Him.

As you search the world over for your purpose, for your direction, ask yourself if you are missing this.

You were created in God’s image.

You were filled with sin as a result of choice.

And you were invited back to God by Jesus.

It isn’t just for later, He offers to save us NOW.

He knows you.

Yet He loves you anyway.

The apostle John says:  

“those who would RECEIVE Him would be given the right to be children of God.”

RECEIVE Him this very day.  It is my conviction that this will be the greatest thing that you have ever done.

Thank You Lord.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Luke 4  14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. 15 He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.

16 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, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

18 “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, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

20 Then 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. 21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J