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Let Us Run to Jesus, Part 2
Hebrews 12:1-3 Last week we started a two-part message out of Hebrews chapter 12, which I entitled Let us run to Jesus. Let us run to Jesus. And if you would turn in your Bibles back there to Hebrews chapter 12. And by way of introduction this morning, I just want to maybe take a snapshot from the book The Pilgrim’s Progress. Many of you may be familiar with that, some of you may be less familiar, but The Pilgrim’s…
The Messiah Confronts His People
Luke 4:22-30 You’ll notice there, if you’rein Luke 4 verses 14 to 16, the scene is set there in the synagogue. The synagogue was the place of weekly Jewish worship and instruction. And we spent some time last time describing the synagogue because really it features so often in the synoptic Gospels. It’s mentioned nine times of the synagogue in Matthew, 11 times in Mark, 16 times in Luke. Then there’s another 22 times the synagogue is set as the…
The Messiah Announces His Mission
Luke 4:16-22 If you’re not already there, we’ll start there in Luke chapter 4, and we’ll start reading in verse 14. “And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out throughout all the surrounding country. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and…
Jesus Gets to Work
Luke 4:14-15 We have finished a long section on Jesus’ origins, kinda the story of where he came from and what qualifies him, that began with Luke 1:5, there after the prologue, ended with last week’s sermon in Luke 4:13. Luke’s Gospel, as we’ve seen, provides the most in-depth treatment of Jesus’ beginnings as Luke prepares his readers to meet the Savior and to see the significance of his ministry. We see, we saw in that section that we studied,…