Good day dear friends.
Here is the study guide for today:
Monday: Isaiah 61, 62, 63Jesus quoted Isaiah 61:1-2 in his hometown of Nazareth. Read the story in Luke 4:16-30. Why do you think Jesus’ townspeople responded as they did?
If you read the whole of Luke 4, you see Jesus had a custom or habit, of going to his church on the Sabbath. It was in this setting that Jesus shares Isaiah in the reading. Isaiah knew God's Spirit and his entire ministry was guided by the Holy Spirit and so he says, in prophetic tones that the Spirit was going to move in a marvelous way: Good news proclaimed to the poor, captives released, the blind would see, no more oppression, and the year of the Lord's favor was coming. Jesus' neighbors heard it in their frame of reference which was a great historical piece, meaning something to another era, not them, and to hear the carpenter's son say that He was the one to do all these things was received in the same way you and I would have reacted to someone we knew saying he was the annointed one.
But the more important question is how we see Jesus today. Has He fulfilled the prophecies of the coming Messiah? Is His message the one the poor, the captives, the blind and the oppressed waited to hear? In my opinion, yes, and more! But what do you say, and how do you live it?
PRAYER: Father, we thank You for Jesus and His message and life. We thank You for His being our Messiah. May He reign in our hearts and lives forever. We ask this in Jesus' precious Name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord.
e.v.
Here is the study guide for today:
Monday: Isaiah 61, 62, 63Jesus quoted Isaiah 61:1-2 in his hometown of Nazareth. Read the story in Luke 4:16-30. Why do you think Jesus’ townspeople responded as they did?
If you read the whole of Luke 4, you see Jesus had a custom or habit, of going to his church on the Sabbath. It was in this setting that Jesus shares Isaiah in the reading. Isaiah knew God's Spirit and his entire ministry was guided by the Holy Spirit and so he says, in prophetic tones that the Spirit was going to move in a marvelous way: Good news proclaimed to the poor, captives released, the blind would see, no more oppression, and the year of the Lord's favor was coming. Jesus' neighbors heard it in their frame of reference which was a great historical piece, meaning something to another era, not them, and to hear the carpenter's son say that He was the one to do all these things was received in the same way you and I would have reacted to someone we knew saying he was the annointed one.
But the more important question is how we see Jesus today. Has He fulfilled the prophecies of the coming Messiah? Is His message the one the poor, the captives, the blind and the oppressed waited to hear? In my opinion, yes, and more! But what do you say, and how do you live it?
PRAYER: Father, we thank You for Jesus and His message and life. We thank You for His being our Messiah. May He reign in our hearts and lives forever. We ask this in Jesus' precious Name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord.
e.v.
