S7E8 - Luke 4 v16-44 - Jesus' Declares His Mission

Grace walks into Nazareth, opens Isaiah 61, and stops mid-sentence. That single pause changes everything. We unpack why Jesus proclaims the year of the Lord’s favor without invoking “the day of vengeance,” and what His claim—“Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing”—demands from a crowd tempted to reduce Him to “Joseph’s son.” The tension spikes from polite admiration to raw fury, exposing how pride, familiarity, and spiritual entitlement can harden hearts. When the room demands hometown miracles on cue, Jesus reaches back to Elijah and Elisha, showing how God’s mercy finds faith beyond the expected boundaries.

From there the scene moves to Capernaum, where Jesus teaches with a striking, unborrowed authority. Unclean spirits cry out His identity, and He silences them with a word. No theatrics. No negotiation. Just the authority that flows from who He is. We talk about why demons often hold a clearer Christology than modern skeptics, why a purely material lens misses the spiritual stakes, and how believers can face darkness without fear by anchoring in Christ’s victory. Then compassion meets a household: He rebukes Simon’s mother-in-law’s fever, and she rises to serve—a quiet picture of how true healing points us toward humble, grateful action.

As the sun sets and the crowds swell, Jesus heals many but refuses demonic testimony and empty hype. When people beg Him to stay, He slips away to a desolate place and resets on purpose: “I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God.” That line becomes our compass. We explore the habits that shaped His ministry and can shape ours—regular worship, community, Scripture fluency, solitude, service, and a mission that resists the drift toward applause. If you’ve ever wrestled with unbelief, spiritual pride, the reality of the demonic, or the difference between popularity and purpose, this journey through Luke 4 offers both clarity and courage.

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Welcome And Host Introductions

SPEAKER_02 0:16

What's up, Lifehouse family? Welcome back to the Life Talk Podcast. We are, as always, super excited to be bringing you another episode today. Uh, typically Mondays. We hope you're on the edge of your seat waiting for the episodes to drop. But whenever you are listening and maybe you're uh going back through some archives, whatever the case may be, we're thankful for you taking the time for us. And uh man, I have an all-star crew that like the faithful friends who are who are just journeying through and uh putting up with me on a weekly basis here. So uh have Jonathan Bush with me today. Jonathan gets to go first, man. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 0:56

Oh, finally.

SPEAKER_02 0:58

You do a good thing. This is like episode eight, and we're finally gonna let Jonathan go first. You know, that's what you get for sitting opposite me, you know. No, not that the listeners can see.

SPEAKER_03 1:09

Uh it's good to be here. I I look forward to this month. Uh, we've covered quite a lot of ground and just finishing up chapter four. I'm looking forward to it. And always appreciate being with you guys, love you guys, and let's do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

A lot of fun. Hope it is for the listeners as well. And uh, we have Jeremy Alrich of Dishwasher Fame. You know, you're not I don't think you're gonna live that down, man. You know, dishwashers, connect groups, man. You you you're building the reputation here on the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

I will always thank God for dishwasher repair, man, to be honest with you. Like and my connect group's going great. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

Excellent, excellent. That was gonna be like my next question, but you read my mind.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

So insert insert plug here for connect groups. Yes, they're so important.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

Repetition breeds success, right? So we can bring it up. And the man of the hour, Rico da Silva. He's continued with us hanging in there, enduring running the race with us this month. So good to have you back.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

I appreciate you having me back. I'm excited for this one.

Series Focus And Luke 4 Setup

SPEAKER_02 2:07

All right, and we are going to finish chapter four today. Last uh week we touched on the temptation of Christ, man, such a deep scripture there. But Jesus is now starting his ministry. You know, we've been through man two months, kind of feels like a long time, all very important. But now, really, Christ is out there proclaiming, starting to share the good news, starting to perform some miracles. So, Rico, man, take us through this scripture and uh see what God's got for us.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

Absolutely. Uh, we appreciate you uh for this. I appreciate everybody in here. And if you're listening, um get ready for a ride. We're gonna partake in some part of scripture that's gonna be vital for daily living. Um if you have been hearing us for uh some quite time now, uh, we can see how it's so important to be in scripture, to be in community, uh, to know what Christ has done and his mission, his purpose, uh what he is what he's here for. Right. Um I'm gonna touch some uh key points. Uh we're gonna go through Luke 4, 16 to 44. And if you are Jeremy, is that right?

SPEAKER_02 3:19

Are we good? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's okay. Thank you. Jeremy's the guy.

Jesus’ Custom Of Worship And Community

SPEAKER_00 3:27

I listened to it last week, and Jerry here's some point. Here's some point. So I I know if I pass some scripture, he's gonna be hey, Rico, get back on point. That's right. Um, but we're gonna go over Luke 4 uh verses 16 to 44, and three key points, uh, subjects overview that we're gonna go look into. Uh, we're gonna see the authority of Jesus, uh, we're gonna see the identity uh that he has, and his mission why he came to this earth. And on those uh three uh overviews, uh we're gonna find his identity, who he is, uh his authority over scripture, demons, and sickness, and his mission. He came to preach to the kingdom, not to chase popularity. Okay, so we're gonna see how that's going to affect us in our daily living. And before I started, uh I I had a conversation with um somebody who came to me and asked me, hey Rico, why if people know the truth about Jesus, why do they not believe in him? How come they cannot accept who he is? And to this scripture, to this passage of scripture, we're gonna know exactly why. There's so much truth into this scripture that is gonna tell the reader, the hearer, uh why when you present Christ to somebody, they might deny it. And we're gonna dig right into it. So starting on verse 16, and we're gonna jump right into it. Uh so he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. And he and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up and read. And he was handed the book of the prophets Isaiah, Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written. I think this is a good time to pause right here. So much to unpack in here, but it tells us that he went back to where he belonged, where he came from. And he scriptures tell us that it was custom for him to do that. What does that tell us? That he was a churchgoer, he was in ministry for the new age is like the Sonda Gore, the Bible study. Um so he was present, he was faithful in worship, he was faithful in ministry. He returned to his hometown where people know him. That's that's deep. I I put myself in this in this what those people say who you are if you go back to where you come from. And he speaks volumes to that, to do that. Any observations from there.

SPEAKER_02 6:35

Yeah, I think too, like you point out, it's his his custom, and yeah, we've continually talked about this on a few episodes. You know, Jesus, even though he is the son of God, was not above being obedient, being in synagogue, church, you know, regularly and worshiping. You know, that was what he did. We saw it from when he was 12 years old, and none of that has changed nor nor does it change. And so I think that yeah, it continues to set a really important example, you know, for us.

SPEAKER_03 7:06

Yeah, and with you know, Jewish custom, uh the synagogue was a central part of their culture. And you were uh, you know, because he was uh, you know, it was forecasted that uh the Messiah would be a Nazarite, or known, you know, from being from Nazareth. And so, you know, we'll get into a little bit about the identity and whatnot. But again, he just all these things that were being forecasted from the old testament, he's just checking off and and he's filling it in its entirety. Not just, oh yeah, he was he happened to be there one day, but he his whole like what you were saying, Nate, his whole life, his his existence was uh faithfulness to um you know being in the synagogue, reading the word, hearing the word. And and at that time, it wasn't the whole canon of scripture we have now, it was just the old testament and but potentially you know the Torah.

SPEAKER_01 8:01

Yeah, and I'm gonna call you out, Nate, for like you know, the uh when you spoke in forge last last month, but you know, even for us. Forever ago now, you know, exactly. But uh I mean you had made a reference to like the average church attendance, like monthly church attendance. And like so, Enrico, when you're talking about this, it reminded me of like you know how important it is for us to be in community and in receiving the word in community. And you know, in Hebrews it talks about like that we should consider how to stir one another up to love and good works and not uh give up meeting together, as is the habit of some. And I know you had a statistic, I can't remember what it was, Nate.

Reading Isaiah 61 And Stopping Short

SPEAKER_02 8:42

But it is one and a half Sundays is the average, and this is for people who call themselves Christian. This isn't because it can be some people, it's like the creasters, it's one and a half a year. Maybe you make Christmas, maybe you make Easter. But even people who are quote unquote the strongest Christians in the United States these days, it's one and a half Sundays a month average, and that's even true at Lifehouse. Um, just knowing we've kind of looked because we can usually see with our children's ministry because of check-ins and things like that, that the average child is here one and a half Sundays a month. So that's even true, you know, love our church, but you know, an encouragement and exhortation that I think uh that was the goal to point that out, you know, especially in Forge for the men. And you know, if you're listening to, you know, are you a one to two Sundays a month? Like you get to church when it's convenient, or is it part of who you are? And I think, like you said, Rico, identity, which was you know the point of that Forge talk, that if we're to be consistent in what we say we believe and we want to grow in our faith, it's hard to do that in one and a half Sundays a month when you're out more than you're in. So appreciate you bringing that up for clarification too.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

That's good. Um I I I like the statistics, statistics speak volumes, right? Uh, and if statistics you can value based on your own affirmation of what you do on your with your time, right? Uh and going back to uh Jesus, what he said, um he found a place and it was written. And he quoted here uh Isaiah 61. And for you, if you're listening, I want you to do your diligence to go back to Isaiah 61. And there's some clever point in here that is not fully quoted, but is for a reason, is intentionally. And reading on verse 18, it says, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He's uh He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty of the of the captive and recover the sight of the blind, to set a liberty to those who are oppressed, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Now he's quoting here Isaiah 61. But if you flip back to if you take a note, so if you flip back to Isaiah 61, it's the same quote, but something very, very specific in Isaiah 61, verse 2. He proclaimed the acceptor year of the Lord. Uh-huh. And in the middle, Jesus did not continue in full sentence. He stopped because the next sentence on that is, and the day of the vengeance of our Lord to come for all who mourn. That speak volume. He's he tell us, he telling the readers, listen, I came for this, but there's some here that is encrypted that it would not be fulfilled yet. This is what I want you to know now. But there's more coming. And we can see here that he is giving the good news to the poor. Before you know the new good news, you need to know what's bad. We if you will be listening to all the episodes, uh, we know what the bad news are. And John the Baptist has uh he came to proclaim, hey, repent. Right? We know exactly what we need to do in order to be in good standards. So he came to get the good news to the poor, freedom up for the captives, slight side to the blind, freedom to the oppressed, and is the year of the Lord. That's the favor. So that's big volume to anything that you see in there that magnifies why he did not continue in quoting Isaiah 61.

Today This Scripture Is Fulfilled

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Yeah, I mean, you like oftentimes in prophecy we talk about this dual fulfillment. Um, and you know, I've heard it one time explained about like the prophets would be writing and they'd be looking uh looking out on a horizon, and they're seeing um they're seeing the things that are happening, um, but they don't see that there's like a mountain peak there. So like one one peak is the fo is the is is is happening, and then there's another mountain peak because they see the set they see it all in one big line of sight, right? And so so Jesus stopping at that spot was deliberate. Like he's proclaiming the year of the Lord's favor, like God's grace, and like the day of the of vengeance. He stopped. He didn't bring that in. Like, uh why why is that because he's it's not the day of the Lord's vengeance, right? Now, in this moment, when Jesus is proclaiming, he's proclaiming God's grace. God's grace is here, God, God is making all things new through through this new covenant that is about to happen.

SPEAKER_03 13:46

I always find it fascinating with the Bible how it is able to communicate through a single word or words in this case, and yet have multiple impact. You know, and I think you know, it's like at Forges uh this last time we met, you know, we we pray that regardless of what is spoken, that we're all in different places, but how the Holy through the Spirit and His Word, it impacts each of us. Even though we're all different, all unique, yet it's just and and in this case, like socially speaking, like for us as you know, where we where we are today on this side of the cross, uh, and you know, and and we have all the canon of scripture and history and stuff like that, we have one perspective, and we take it and we can see this and and see like you're saying, Jeremy, this is the Lord's favor. But like for the Jewish individual, then for them it was much different because for them, they're just they're going through and they they're familiar with this, they know what they're looking for, the Messiah. And and really honestly, in this point in time with the Romans, they wanted the Romans out, they wanted vengeance, they wanted someone to come in and and take care of business and and make things just. And so for them, all of a sudden, for him stopping, it was like, hmm, uh Jesus, you forget something? You know, and so it's just it it's this I just find it fascinating how you know in God's word, like these type of things, like when you see it, it's just that richness, that fullness that it's just like, man, God, that is good. Like, because it's not it's not incomplete, it's complete and it's perfect. Then he closed the book.

Familiarity, Pride, And Unbelief

SPEAKER_00 15:20

I mean, he he just dropped what he was gonna drop, said what he was gonna say, he closed the book and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on him. I want you to picture that. All eyes, not some, but our eyes were fixed on him, and when he began to say, he began to send to them today the scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. That is, ladies and gentlemen, if you're listening to this, that's it, that is a mic drought for them. Today, the scripture is fulfilled. He declares right there, hey, I am the Messiah. The one who Isaiah was speaking of all these years, that's me. That's huge. That is so useful. It's a my drop. So all who bore witness to him are marvel of the gracious words which proceed out of his mouth, and they said, Here we go. Is this not Joseph's son? Let's just stop right there for a second. Is this not Joseph's son? So who they went by after they see who these men was. He proclaimed that he is the Messiah. People in the audience say, Hey, is not Joseph's son? They're trying to reduce Jesus to his past, familiarly to who was encusting to. What does that tell us? This is so huge for us to understand that you can go back to where you came from with transformation, but because people know your past, that might not accept you, but he never did nothing wrong. They didn't have a problem with the truth, they have a problem with him. Any thoughts on that?

SPEAKER_02 17:34

A lot of application, and yeah, I think you bring out a lot of times, especially people if you come to faith, your family can be the hardest ones to witness to because they're like, I know who you are, and I know your past, and often Satan wants to drag up our past in in many areas, and so it's very easy for that to do. But yeah, we were talking earlier, you know, before we jumped on the mics, and it jumps out to me too. We have a lot of people who have this attitude today. You know, they speak well of Jesus, they marvel at his words, you know. Yeah, this is good good advice, like we talked about way back, you know, at the start of the year. Like, yeah, you know, something I might learn something from rather than being authoritative, the son of God. And so we have a lot of people who say, yeah, Jesus is somebody I can learn something from. He's got some some nice things to say, you know, he's sort of just uh almost a therapist for for people in that in that mode, but it's not just about having gracious words or you know, speaking well of him, it's having faith in him, it's having that that recognition of who he is and what he's saying here of the scripture being fulfilled. You know, I think like you said, they didn't want to hear that. And I know it digs into more, you know, that the prophet is not acceptable in his hometown, and so he has to really confront that.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

Yeah, I think also um that we, you know, something something for us today, even, is that you know, we need to guard against the pride, which probably is like the most prevalent and the root of all sins, but um you know, and just being able, just being callous or just be just having this moment of like, well, I already know that, or I already like, you know, I'm I don't like I read through this scripture even, like, and I've read I'm not gonna get anything new out of this particular scripture, or you know, we know that the word of God is living and active, and it's you know, profitable. You know, uh in 2 Timothy it says it's profitable for teaching, for correction, for rebuke, for for training and righteousness. Um, so we just we need to guard against that familiarity, that pride of familiarity. Um and what we see we see that happening in Nazareth, where people are saying, Well, I well, who is this guy? We already know this guy. Like, why is he talking to us like this?

No Prophet Accepted At Home

SPEAKER_00 19:53

That's good. And we pick up in verse 23, and he said to them, You will surely say these proverbs to me, physician, heal yourself. Whatever we have to her done in Caperna to us or here in your country. This is where people demand miracles without faith. We know there was never people question Jesus about his miracles. Every miracle that he did, people were surprised, people was praising, people were like, Yes, that's him. I saw it in my own eyes. He went back home, and his own said, Hey, we heard what you did there, but for us to believe, I want you to do the same thing here. That is something that for us, faith without works, right? The Bible speaks about faith without works, and believing and seeing does not work in this predicament. We pick up in verse 20 24. Then he said, Asurely I said to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in those days in Eliah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land, but none of them was Elijah sent to accept to Seraphiah in the region of Sidon to a woman who was a widow, and many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elijah the prophet, and none of them was clean except Naam the Syrian. Here Jesus goes back into scripture in something that they really knew and they were familiar to the scripture. And if you are listening and if You're taking notes or what he spoke about Elijah and Elijah. You can find Elijah and the widow in 1 Kings 17. And real quickly, is the Elijah asked the widow for water and bread that she didn't even have. And the way that he asked for this, she know that she had to depend on faith. And the miracle was that hey, if you do this, the Lord promised supplies that we're not run over. And God's provision will surpass if you obey. That's number one. And the second one, the verse that he went over Elijah and Naaman is in 2 Kings 5, when Naaman was a respected commander in Syria and he suffered from leprosy. Elijah sent uh servants to him to tell him to dip himself in the Jordan seven times. Initially, Nahum was mad, he was upset, he was a person of stature, but he was pursued by his servants and he dipped himself in water and he was restored. He was made clean again. So they knew exactly what he meant. Hey, I'm not gonna be accepted here, and this is exactly what happened in the past. You guys know this story, therefore, because you do not believe things are gonna happen. This isn't this message is not for you. It's for you, but you're not accepted. Accepted it. So for us, the truth is that God often works outside religious of the comfort zones. Faith is the move of God working on people who trust Him. Any thoughts on that?

Elijah, Elisha, And Gentile Examples

SPEAKER_03 23:53

Yeah, with that example, I mean, why they were, I mean, we see it says at the end they were, you know, became furious and they drove them out, um, was in part because the those two examples there is where culturally speaking, you know, it was it was God is in the temple, you come to Israel, Israel is where God exit God dwells. Uh, you know, with the new covenant, that all changed, but that was it was seen as if you want to be close to God, you came to the temple. And and so, as God's people, it was expected that they would act and fulfill the law that God had given them, but they didn't. And so God sent the prophets, and in this case in Isaiah, and and they rejected the prophets. Because ultimately, where did they end up? They ended up in Babylon. They ended up with the Assyrians, they were they were they were forced out because what was promised. That was the promise. Is if you don't follow my law, you will I will I will get rid of you, you know, I will I will expel you. And so what what we have here is he's he's coming back and kind of just, you know, it's it's it's also I think highlighting also the deity of Jesus because he's able to respond exactly. It wasn't like he got some feedback and realized, oh, I need to I need to respond in this manner, but it was he knew exactly what the issue was. And and part of it was the pride of, well, I'm an Israeli or or I'm in the synagogue and I go to church and I'm good. I don't know who this Jesus guy is. He said some things, it's kind of I don't know if I agree or disagree, but it's like, no, this is a son of God, and you either accept or you don't. And if you don't accept, you stand in opposition to Christ. And so that in this example, and then and it's where the spirit goes. Where did the spirit bring him? The spirit brought him here, and yet they weren't willing to listen.

SPEAKER_01 25:44

Yeah, I you know, we were talking in the pre-recording of uh about you know this being sort of like a sense of entitlement, right? They were the people of God, they were they were they were uh they believed or they they had this assumption that they were going to be having God's favor, you know, all the time, which with as sort of a default, right? Like, and and so what Jesus is exposing is that is that God when we talked about it earlier again, like God doesn't have grandchildren, um, and that he was exposing their unbelief. Entitlement isn't doesn't mean the sense of entitlement doesn't get you what you want. Like, and so Jesus is showing that you know not only is um are they uh do they unbeliev are do they have this unbelief, but that the gospel is for everyone, for all, for for everyone, both you know, in both believing those believing in Israel and for those outside of Israel. It's again we've we've said this many times already. The theme of Luke that everyone the gospel is not just just for the Jew, but it's for everyone. And he's really uh confronting their spiritual pride here.

SPEAKER_03 26:56

Um in in in just and he goes right to where it starts, right? Nazareth's for him. Like that is starting where from the center of it, if you will, of where he lived.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

And this echoes John the Baptist saying, you know, as people are coming to be baptized, we talked about in chapter three. You know, don't think just because you have Abraham as your father that you're good. Like you said, Jeremy, with the grandparents, like just because of your pedigree or your lineage, don't think that's going to save you because it will not. There's the faith that is what saves, it's that what Christ would ultimately do, not just saying, Oh, yeah, well, I'm an Israelite or whatever the case may be. So he's really confronting a lot of that pride in it and using that widow of Zarephath and Naaman. They were Gentiles, even in the Old Testament. So we see this, you know, some people think, oh, the Old Testament was only Israel, only the Jews. Now we talked about the genealogies in Matthew. Some of the women in the genealogy of Jesus are Gentiles. So God's had that always as the plan, and for you know, to get prideful in any way, or think that, oh, I come from a Christian's home or I'm a pastor's kid, or whatever the case may be, I go to church on Sunday.

SPEAKER_03 28:10

I go to church.

SPEAKER_02 28:11

One and a half Sundays, right? Maybe you go two, you're better than average, so you think you're good. But that's not what it's about. I think Jesus is laying that out pretty clearly.

Rage In Nazareth And Narrow Escape

Teaching With Authority In Capernaum

SPEAKER_00 28:20

They they got so upset on that. In verses 28 to 30, um, we can see the verge of how upset they were, right? That they even tried to throw him out of the cliff. And that that's big volume, right? And of course, um that didn't happen, but how raised can you be when you hear the truth that even truth can flee from you right because you do not want to accept it. Um jumping back to uh scripture, we're gonna pick up um here on verse uh uh 31 to 37 is the authority over the demons. And I just gonna paraphrase uh for time's sake. And if you're listening, I want you to do your diligence to go back and read the chapter for yourself. But keep key verses here in 31 as he was teaching them on the Sabbath. Uh Jesus thought with authority, not an opinion. Uh jumping to 33 to 34, when he's speaking, you can see the demons even know who he is. The demons recognize Jesus before people do. That's huge. Um the spiritual opposition often reveals spiritual authority. That's something that speaks volume to us because even if the scripture says even the demons know who he is, and we don't, what does that tell you about the enemy knowing scripture more than we do? Right. Um, but again, Jesus in verse 35, he goes ahead, be quiet. Come out of him. So he already knew, like hey, I gotta silence him and ensure that people who are trying to disseminate the truth will not hear from the demons that they already know there's no ritual, there's no struggle, just authority on Christ. That's huge for us. Know that the enemy knows who he is, and for us to know that we have to be in scripture to understand who he is, is very impetitive to us. Go back to 36 and 37. Uh, without authority and power, with authority and power, he gives orders. Jesus doesn't say negotiate with darkness. That's what we gather there. That's huge. The truth would be the light. Authority flows from identity. We talk about identity in the previous podcast. That's so huge for us. Who we are, who we go back into the biblical sense to understand where he got us from, and I'm speaking to believers here. He's bringing power. Any thoughts about that?

SPEAKER_01 31:16

I think that um that that it's telling to note and that you know that we talked about in a previous podcast that we we often the world often struggles with who is Christ and and is and um but the demons here have an accurate Christology. Like we saw that in the past in the in the previous episode too with the temptation. Satan at no at no time said, Well, you know, I'm questioning whether or not you're the son of God. He knew and he said, You are the son of God. Like, so because of that, do these things. And the demons, like Rico, like you said, like they have an accurate Christology, they know who Jesus is, and they're they're acknowledging it, but we often in this world struggle with that. Like, who is Jesus? We like well, we we you'll often hear like the you know, I need who is Jesus to you, or like, like, or the quest for the real Jesus, or or you know, things like that. Um, that's just like the liberalism of today creeping into um the church, and we have to guard against that, like, and we have to get back to the word, and like Jesus is the son of God. Like, he was the beg he was the eternal son of God, he was begotten, not made, you know, and things like and all the all that the Christology is. We could we could have devoted probably a whole month of podcasts to that. So I won't, I won't uh I won't keep rambling, but but more to follow.

SPEAKER_03 32:49

More to follow.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

Stick with us.

SPEAKER_03 32:52

We'll we'll get there. We'll we'll do it. But yeah, definitely, Jeremy. The uh with with Christ is um, I think for us, it's I think some of that has to do just with culturally, with where we are today, is we're a very, you know, a quote scientific driven uh everything. I gotta I gotta be shown, I have to see with my eyes, like we're a very Thomas, you know, the the disciple Thomas who is like, unless I see Christ in the in his wounds, I I can't believe. Um and and I think also because of that, we we discount the the spiritual side of things. And so um just the those shortcomings of where we stand today, I think a lot of times is where we can uh like if someone was reading this, I think you know, in some churches they would say, oh, this was just like maybe an allegory or something along those lines. There really wasn't a demon, he was just maybe crazy in the head or something like that. But no, we we have there Satan is real, and we need to acknowledge that and be aware of that. But then also it's not to be fearful, yeah, yes, like me against Satan, I lose every day. But it's through Christ. Christ has won, and we need to stand firm in Christ because we are victorious, and and with that perspective, then we can face the challenges because we're like we've talked in previous things, is we got those challenges coming.

Demons Recognize Jesus’ Identity

SPEAKER_00 34:11

That that's that's good in in every sense that we have to be prepared, right? We have to be prepared and equipped, even the Bible says study to show yourself approved. Uh, and when we do that, we are connected to the source, we are connected to the Holy Spirit. You mentioned that without him, I'm nothing. And if he's picking up a five with me and the devil, he's gonna win 100% of the time. If I don't have the Holy Spirit, right? Uh so going uh forward, just to lay the plane down, as I'm getting flashes now. Um like Pastor Mark on Sunday.

SPEAKER_02 34:48

We can see in the Holy Spirit moves, we always let the spirit dictate.

SPEAKER_00 34:53

Uh we can see in uh Luke 4, 38 to 41, we see the authority uh over the sickness. And in 38, Simon, mother-in-law, was suffered from a high fever. Uh, we can see another example here in 39. He rebuked the fever and he left her. See, Jesus cares about individual needs, not just crowds. Uh, he rebuked the fever and left her. This is something now mind you. This right here is something that Jesus, in the next verses, 40 and 41, when he started healing on the Sabbath, he has not healed up to this point anything for people to see on the Sabbath. That's why people was taking people to Jesus after the 6 p.m. at that time to get healed. But he did something very clever. Hell he healed each one of them, he healed everybody, verse 40 and 41. So Jesus wants us to know that hey, he's taking things personal, he's not distant, he is personal, he refuses demonic uh testimony. Trust must come from God, not darkness. This is a clear example of who he is. He don't want popularity, he does not want uh people to glorify him. Oh, he did that. No, he wants personal relationship, and he might not heal everybody. In this case, he did. But he might you might be going through something if you're hearing this. Just because he did that on this time, it doesn't mean that your situation is gonna be fixed in the natural, but in the supernatural, you got a connection with him. That is what he wants, he wants personal accountability, personal testimony, personal identity. Uh, jumping back to 42 to 44, uh Jesus clarifies his purpose very clear. The people try to keep him up from living. Um, and we can see in verse 44, uh, he said, I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God. That's his mission statement. Hey, I came here to proclaim his wisdom of God. We can see success can distract you from calling. And if we look at something like that, uh it is clever to understand his position. He he doesn't want popularity, he just wants to ensure that hey, I came here for you. You were in darkness, you were desperate. You came here, I came here for the people who mourning. So just to land the plane, and this is the last verse.

Rebuking Darkness Without Negotiation

SPEAKER_03 37:36

Well, I was just gonna say here you can see an example of an all-night uh sermon. Because it says, uh, and when it was day, he he departed and went away, but just you know, all times of day, it wasn't just the uh nine o'clock to you know ten o'clock, or you know, realizing that um our mission isn't just in the synagogue or just at church. Our mission should be, you know, like for him, it was in all. And then also, too, was he went to a desolate place, so he needed that that time to be able to uh recharge, if you will. Again, what we see in Christ in these last two is he's given us examples of how we need to live. It's it's not that he lived that way just because he is God, he was Christ. That that's the that's the perfect model. But then also it's it's being accounted for. The purpose of that is is for us is to see that and be like, okay, uh, you know, what would I what would Jesus do? You know, that little saying it's like, well, what would what what do I need to do? Because whatever Jesus would do, I need to be doing.

SPEAKER_02 38:39

I also think it's worth pointing out in these verses, Simon's mother. You know, she's healed, and what does she do? She doesn't like run off and you know, have fun. No, she serves, you know, and too often, you know, people want a miracle. We see that in Hezekiah in the Old Testament, you know, he gets extra years of life, and what does he do? He screws it up, you know, he glorifies himself and ends up doing things that will ultimately take down the kingdom. So a lot of times, like, why do you want a miracle? Why do you want healing? Is it just for yourself, or so you can glorify and serve the Lord? And so, you know, sometimes people wonder why they don't receive it. You know, it might be just because God knows what you'll do with it, you know, if you give that healing, that you'll just use it for your own glory and you know, not truly to give back to him. So I think that's something that kind of jumped out at me in these last couple verses as well.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

And that that's good that you mentioned that because in previous podcasts you've been hearing uh everybody who the Lord go ahead and deliver from immediately, just like Jeremy, that his word, immediately did something back for him. Not like, why would I this way? What did happen to me? What no, he immediately they went back into alignment. That's powerful for us to see. And we conclude with verse 14. He said, and he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee, he kept preaching, he never stopped. His mission was to come here with a purpose. Uh he was faithful as he was faithful. Uh he's faithful over time. Uh, he's here with a mission is for us to be in an alignment with him. And with that being said, we conclude this.

SPEAKER_02 40:11

Well, even though you didn't get the alliteration, Rico, I don't know if we can have you back now. You know, the whole I and P and M. You got to come up with at least an acronym or something for us. So all right.

SPEAKER_03 40:24

Did we have it last week?

SPEAKER_02 40:25

I don't think we did either. So, like, we're clearly in decline here with the human.

SPEAKER_01 40:30

I did last week with the identity and the purpose. We're gonna have the three points. So hey, that's a good baptism.

SPEAKER_02 40:37

All right. You know, the three points, but we're gonna have to have a team meeting, you know, and some some evaluation here after this episode. Definitely. Nah, it's all good stuff. And so definitely, Lifehouse family, thanks for joining us. We pray this has been a blessing to you. We pray something that was said and uh mentioned here today encourages you, helps you with where you're at. I think, like Jonathan said, we're all in different places, but uh truly we are blessed to open up God's word to share these insights with you and uh just pray that they help you in your walk. So with that, we will close this episode, land the plane, and to chapter five next time. Thanks for tuning in to the Life Talk Podcast. If this episode encouraged you, please be sure to like, comment, subscribe, and leave a review so others can find this content as well. And we'll look forward to seeing you next Monday for another great episode.