Greetings, if you would like to support Free Gospel Church and our ministries, you can make a donation at FreeGospelAssembly.com.  If you have any Podcast topic suggestions, please send an email to [email protected].  Thank you for listening. If this message has blessed you please share it, that others may hear! God bless you.Main Scriptures: Luke 4:14-30, especially verses 24-30; John 1:11-14On From “astonishment”, at Jesus teaching in Nazareth, (Matthew 15:54; Mark6:2-2 also “where did this son of a carpenter get such wisdom”) Luke 4:22, “They allspoke well of Him” to unbelief, opposition and disrespect(see Luke 4:22-23). And all thisfrom His own people, learned in Jewish Messianism. Jesus' interpretation of their quick change of heart in Luke 4:24: ‘Truly, I say to you, no prophet(O.T & N.T. and maybe even today) is acceptable in His own country”, or “among His our people.”Recently in the DSS translation of Isaiah 53, especially verse 11, in context,presented a Messiah who would suffer for His people and atone for their sins, and after and Rise from the dead.Also John 1:11-14, especially verses 9-12 generalizes the above text's themeabout what happens in Luke 4:14-30: to such a point that initial acceptance quicklyleads to murderous intent; Luke 4:29-30. But it was not His time and God’s manner. So Jesus parts the crowd of His persecutors like parting the Red Sea.What helped motivate such hate? Jesus' use of an episode in the life andministry of Elijah in 1 Kings 17:1; 18:1-2 found in Luke 4:28-30.Sometimes unbelievers do better in receiving God’s Revelation. Right from thevery start there was rejection because of familiarity, “He’s Joseph’s son, howdare He!” He doesn't fit into our popular Jewish Messianism: The valiant Messiahthat would rally together all Israel to destroy the rule of the pagans, with God’shelp. But, Jesus revelation as Messiah was more profound than that, note Luke4:16-18 of quoting Isaiah 61:1-2, 58:6, release of both Jew and Gentile alike, toproclaim “liberty” to all the oppressed and verse 9.

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