Text: Luke 4:31-44
42 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them, 43 but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.”
C.S. Lewis once said:
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way, the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill-tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.
C.S. Lewis.
Our brokenness in sin is evident in many ways. We show fourth that brokenness at times in actions. The things we say and do say so much about who we are. But Christ and his work on our behalf are greater than the broken flesh we inhabit. It is through him and his work that we are made new.
The good news is preached in the name of Jesus, for you!
Our brokenness is nothing new. In the Gospel lesson for today, Jesus, who last week was compelled to do a miracle in his hometown goes to Capernaum casting out a demon of a man possessed.
34 “Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us?”
C.S. Lewis.
Our brokenness in sin is evident in many ways. We show fourth that brokenness at times in actions. The things we say and do say so much about who we are. But Christ and his work on our behalf are greater than the broken flesh we inhabit. It is through him and his work that we are made new.
The good news is preached in the name of Jesus, for you!
Our brokenness is nothing new. In the Gospel lesson for today, Jesus, who last week was compelled to do a miracle in his hometown goes to Capernaum casting out a demon of a man possessed.
34 “Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us?”
The truth is yes. Jesus came to destroy sin, death, the devil and brokenness in the world and to make peace with God and man and to restore our original righteousness lost in the fall into sin.
The one, whom the demon’s know by name, the Holy One of God, is in their midst.
Jesus commands the unclean spirits to come out and they obey. The people are amazed with this word saying:
“What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”
What is this word? At times I’m not sure if we know or remember. The world sure gives us pause. What had been normal is now considered abnormal. Natural law has given way to the law of self.
At times it feels like the 10 righteous in Sodom are left to be destroyed by fire come down from heaven while the multitude of God’s enemies goes free.
37 [But] reports about [Jesus] went out into every place in the surrounding region.
What feels like brokenness in our day was with Christ and the people of our Gospel reading too. The taint of sin in the flesh we all inhabit was not only in the Synagogue but also in the fever of Simon’s
mother-n-law. The demon was cast out by the word of God and so too the fever which was rebuked by Christ healing her in an instant as she rose and began immediately to serve them. Not because it was her duty … but out of joyful thanks for the blessed gift of healing she received.
The Kingdom of God is present in Christ and it remains present for you.
“When Jesus laid His hands upon any sick person, it implied: [You are] a sinner, I am the Savior of sinners; I take the curse and consequence of sin from [you], [that is] an admonition [so that you] abstain from the service of sin.”
P.E. Kretzmann Popular Commentary of the Bible NT Vol.1 Pg 288
The good news is preached in the name of Jesus, for you!
40 Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.
It is Christ’s desire to make you well … to heal you so that you will know him and know his love for you. In baptism you have been healed from sin, death and the devil and given new life in him and by his Spirit know him and love him.
41 And demons also came out of many, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
The Knowledge of Christ is not demonic and he is not made known through the demons whose mouths he shut - though they know who he is and they cower in fear.
The good news is preached in the name of Jesus, for you!
42 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them, 43 but he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose." 44 And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
When we look to Christ it is God’s Spirit in us pointing you and me to the one who is the way the truth and the life. In spite of our fears, sin, death and the devil we have been redeemed and made new. And in Christ as his new creation born from above … we … as our epistle says rejoice in truth.
In the name of the Father and of the Son + and of the Holy Spirit
Amen
Jesus commands the unclean spirits to come out and they obey. The people are amazed with this word saying:
“What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”
What is this word? At times I’m not sure if we know or remember. The world sure gives us pause. What had been normal is now considered abnormal. Natural law has given way to the law of self.
At times it feels like the 10 righteous in Sodom are left to be destroyed by fire come down from heaven while the multitude of God’s enemies goes free.
37 [But] reports about [Jesus] went out into every place in the surrounding region.
What feels like brokenness in our day was with Christ and the people of our Gospel reading too. The taint of sin in the flesh we all inhabit was not only in the Synagogue but also in the fever of Simon’s
mother-n-law. The demon was cast out by the word of God and so too the fever which was rebuked by Christ healing her in an instant as she rose and began immediately to serve them. Not because it was her duty … but out of joyful thanks for the blessed gift of healing she received.
The Kingdom of God is present in Christ and it remains present for you.
“When Jesus laid His hands upon any sick person, it implied: [You are] a sinner, I am the Savior of sinners; I take the curse and consequence of sin from [you], [that is] an admonition [so that you] abstain from the service of sin.”
P.E. Kretzmann Popular Commentary of the Bible NT Vol.1 Pg 288
The good news is preached in the name of Jesus, for you!
40 Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.
It is Christ’s desire to make you well … to heal you so that you will know him and know his love for you. In baptism you have been healed from sin, death and the devil and given new life in him and by his Spirit know him and love him.
41 And demons also came out of many, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
The Knowledge of Christ is not demonic and he is not made known through the demons whose mouths he shut - though they know who he is and they cower in fear.
The good news is preached in the name of Jesus, for you!
42 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them, 43 but he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose." 44 And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
When we look to Christ it is God’s Spirit in us pointing you and me to the one who is the way the truth and the life. In spite of our fears, sin, death and the devil we have been redeemed and made new. And in Christ as his new creation born from above … we … as our epistle says rejoice in truth.
In the name of the Father and of the Son + and of the Holy Spirit
Amen
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