WEBVTT 00:00:02.399 --> 00:00:04.559 Welcome to the MetaCurch podcast. 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:05.440 My name is Clayton. 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:14.240 I'm the pastor at MetaCurch, and I hope that today's message is inspiring and enlightening and really builds you up wherever you're at in life. 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:28.160 If you're here in Holotus, I'm so glad you joined us. 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:31.039 So encouraged by what's happening at our Holotus venue. 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:34.159 If you're with us online, I want to welcome you in as well. 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:42.880 This is incredible to think about, but we started our journey through the Gospel of Luke 26 weeks ago today. 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:44.799 We have been at this for a while. 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:49.359 If it's your first time, you probably think we should be like at the end of Luke. 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.280 No, we're in chapter four, 26 weeks later. 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:58.399 We've been going through this very, very slow, and we've called this series the Chosen King. 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:04.719 This has been all about the preparation that went into Jesus beginning his ministry. 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:06.319 And this matters to us. 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:07.280 You guys know this. 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:12.799 We start with the belief at MetaCurch that God created you on purpose and with purpose. 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:18.319 It's no accident that you're here on planet earth and God has something for you to do here. 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:28.640 And so we are watching very carefully over this series all the preparation for Jesus to step into his purpose so we can learn how to step into our purpose as well. 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:38.319 Now, last week, Jesus began his ministry, and Luke told the very first story, and he let us know he's telling it out of chronological order. 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.000 He's doing that for two reasons. 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:49.519 The first reason we saw last week, Luke wanted Jesus to say who he was and why he had come to earth out of his own mouth and his own words. 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:51.359 We watched that happen last week. 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:57.599 Jesus went back to his hometown, Nazareth, very few people who lived there, the backwoods of the backwoods. 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:14.080 He went to the synagogue into their worship service, and he read where he wanted to read out of the prophet Isaiah, that he was the anointed one, the Messiah, the chosen king who had come to preach the good news, to open the eyes of the blind, and to set free the oppressed. 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:24.879 After he read that, he sat down, the eyes of the synagogue were on him, and in this sacred, holy moment, Jesus said, This guy, Isaiah prophesied about. 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:31.280 This is incredible. 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:33.360 I mean, imagine being there in that moment. 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:38.400 This is the apex of God's plan for the rescue and redemption of humanity. 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.800 You happen to be there in Nazareth that day. 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:47.039 Everyone sat in stunned silence, their eyes were glued on him, they're in this holy moment, this sacred moment. 00:02:47.199 --> 00:03:00.240 And so you would expect God comes to earth in human flesh, he shows back up to his hometown, he lets them know who he is, and so of course, they're in awe, they believe in him, they worship him, they make him king, the end of the gospel. 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:09.199 That's what you would think, but instead, what we're gonna see today is they question him, they reject him, by the end, they try to kill him. 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:14.159 And so let's look because they do respond well for like maybe half of a second. 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:17.120 In verse 22, they were all speaking well of him. 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:18.240 That's good. 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:22.159 They were amazed by the gracious words that came from his mouth. 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:23.199 That's good. 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:27.599 Yet they said, Isn't this Joseph's son? 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:37.120 Yet they said it's interesting in in the Greek, this could also be translated, yet they calculated. 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:40.479 In other words, they ran the numbers. 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:45.439 They took this spiritual moment and they processed it through their flesh. 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:48.400 They ran the numbers and the numbers came up a little short. 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:49.280 Why? 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:51.280 Isn't this Jesus? 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:52.639 Joseph's son? 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:54.319 Don't we know this guy? 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:55.919 Didn't he grow up here? 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:58.719 Didn't some of us like change this fool's diapers? 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:02.080 Let me tell you, Nazareth is like five or six hundred people. 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:07.039 Uh I wonder how many of you know where Awadulce, Texas is. 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:09.360 It's 13 miles from Alice. 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:15.039 Some of you know Alice, the Alice Coyotes, but you don't know Awadulsi because you blink and you miss it. 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:18.319 I spent all of third grade and some of fourth grade in Awadulce. 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:19.600 It's my mom's hometown. 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:22.079 There are about 500 people who live in that town. 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.279 When I moved there, they went from 500 to 501 people. 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:26.800 That's how small it is, right? 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:28.480 Everybody knows everybody. 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:30.000 This is Nazareth. 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:36.079 And so Jesus speaks with so much power, the Spirit of God animating every step that he takes. 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:42.000 Everyone stands in awe, but then they remember we know this guy. 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:44.000 This is Joseph's son. 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:48.560 Jesus was like our local carpenter until a few minutes ago. 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:50.720 Actually, Jesus, we've been wondering where you are. 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:53.920 The table you sold me is a little wobbly after synagogue. 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:56.160 I need you to come check this out for me. 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:58.079 What's happening? 00:04:58.319 --> 00:04:59.439 You need to know this. 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:03.360 Familiarity creates expectation. 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:06.959 You can't understand this passage if you don't understand this concept. 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:09.439 And I'm gonna go a step further. 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:16.480 You can't live a great life if you don't understand how this concept affects your everyday life. 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:19.439 And so I want to drill down on this for just a few moments. 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:26.879 If you're taking notes, you should write down behind every emotion is an expectation. 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:29.360 This could change your life. 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:32.879 Whether you are a believer, not a believer, this isn't really my sermon today. 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:34.800 I'm just gonna give you something that could change your life. 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:38.480 Behind every emotion is an expectation. 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:42.720 When expectations are met, we are satisfied. 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:47.600 When expectations are exceeded, we are happy, excited, joyful. 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:58.160 When expectations are not met, when expectations are broken, we are frustrated, angry, enraged, confused, discontent, depressed, anxious. 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:07.360 Behind every single emotion is an expectation, which means if you are feeling emotions and you don't know what to do with them, you should search under them and find the expectation that has been broken. 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:11.439 Let me explain how this kind of works out in your everyday life. 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:19.199 You can have different expectations for different people in your friend group, and you will respond differently to the same activity from them. 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:20.879 Let me paint a hypothetical. 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:24.879 You have a Christmas party, you ask everyone to bring a gift for a gift exchange. 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:27.759 The friend starts showing up, everybody followed the rules. 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:29.839 Two friends don't bring a gift. 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:34.639 The first one you have high expectations of, you're very disappointed, they ruined the night. 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:37.759 Now we don't have gifts, you're very cold shouldered now. 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.800 Ten minutes later, the other friend shows up late. 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:42.319 They also don't have a gift. 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:44.319 You had low expectations of them. 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:45.759 You're like, don't even worry about it. 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:47.279 As a matter of fact, I already bought you one. 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:49.519 I knew you were gonna forget one in the first place. 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:56.079 Two friends, they do the same thing, they get a completely different emotional response because your expectations were different. 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:59.920 Some of you, you have different expectations for your mom and your dad. 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:04.800 I'm talking to the students in the room, I'm also talking to adults who still have living parents. 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:15.519 Even as an adult, your mom and dad can give you the same advice about the same thing in the same week with one parent, you'll be like, that is really sage advice. 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:17.040 I appreciate you saying that. 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:19.519 The other parent will say the same thing the same way. 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:23.439 You will bite their head off because you have different expectations of them. 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:26.639 This okay, okay, let me help you. 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:28.720 Blank stairs in the room. 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:38.480 Expectations are why it is a very specific kind of hell to be a cowboys fan. 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:41.759 I'm with you. 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:43.519 I am a Cowboys fan. 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:46.079 I wish I wasn't, but my parents would disown me. 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:47.920 So I am also a Cowboys fan. 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.560 And here's what we do, Cowboys fans. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:53.600 Every preseason we say the same thing. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:55.360 This is our year. 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.639 We're gonna do it back to the 90s. 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:02.480 You know who doesn't have that problem? 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.199 Cleveland Browns fans. 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:11.759 There's not a Cleveland Browns fan on planet Earth in the preseason who's like, you know what, this year? 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:13.600 Probably Super Bowl. 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:24.160 So the Cowboys could win 15 regular season games, but fall short of the championship, and we are once again despondent for a month. 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:29.920 The Browns can win four games, and their fans are like pretty solid. 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:31.439 She could chase it. 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:34.240 It's just different expectations. 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:40.480 Our finances, whether or not we feel content or not, it's not typically about the money we have in the bank. 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:44.879 It's about the expectation you had for how much money you should have in the bank by your age that you're at right now. 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:48.320 It's all expectation because expectation drives all of your emotions. 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.559 I know we've got a lot of young married people. 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:52.960 Uh, I married some of y'all, you know. 00:08:53.279 --> 00:09:07.679 I train our pastors and staff when we do premarital work to make sure we tell these fiances, your first couple years of marriage, it's going to be a painful process of uncovering all of your unspoken expectations. 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:14.799 You didn't even maybe realize the expectations you were bringing in, but you won't speak them out. 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:20.639 They will fall below those expectations, and you will live in a lot of tension your first couple years of marriage. 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:30.559 This alone could change your life to realize that behind every one of your emotions that is driving you into chaos, there is an expectation. 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:44.960 And so the difference between someone who is happy the majority of their life and someone who is miserable the majority of their life, please listen to this, is the happy person typically has about 90% less expectations than the miserable person. 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:51.200 You have the power to audit your expectations. 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:56.240 A huge percentage of your expectations are unreasonable and irrational. 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.919 You can just get rid of them and live a better life and have a better marriage. 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.679 The ones that you find to be reasonable, you then have to speak out. 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:07.679 We don't want to do this in marriage because it doesn't feel sexy enough, it doesn't feel romantic enough. 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:11.679 Your spouse is the only person on earth you actually expect to be able to read your mind. 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:18.000 Like when you say I do and they say I do, God magically makes you both psychics, so you never have to speak out your expectations. 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:21.120 So you just sit and you're mad about something you never asked for. 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:23.679 Here's what we have to do: grow up, right? 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:27.200 You gotta audit your expectations, get rid of the unreasonable ones. 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:29.200 The reasonable ones are reasonable to you. 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:30.639 Doesn't mean they're actually reasonable. 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:34.320 So you speak them out loud, you negotiate them, and you live a great life. 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:35.039 You're welcome. 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:36.240 That's not even my sermon. 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:37.919 I just helped you, okay? 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:41.519 Here's the next step. 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:49.360 If you want to go even deeper, you don't just look at your expectations, but you ask the question, where did they come from? 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.919 Your expectations will determine almost everything in life. 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:55.679 And so you ask, Where did they come from? 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:59.679 In your marriage, your expectations probably came from your family of origin. 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.679 Your mother handled the finances, your dad never touched it. 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:06.000 He didn't have an idea of what was going on. 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:12.639 You watched this, now you're married, and your husband wants to say in the finances, and you are beyond offended and you don't know why. 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:15.279 It's an expectation that came from how you were raised. 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:26.320 You grew up in a home, your dad didn't even know where the laundry was, he didn't know where the washing machine was, and now your wife wants you to fold a shirt and you act like she just asked for a kidney. 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:28.159 It's like, where did that come from? 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:32.159 It's an expectation, and the expectation traces back. 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.159 Expectations come from familiarity. 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:38.399 So here's let me let me piece it together. 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:41.360 Familiarity creates expectation. 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:45.039 Expectation creates emotion. 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:50.799 And so we become familiar with people and we set those expectations on them. 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:53.200 Let me give you two sides of the spectrum. 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:58.000 One of the hardest things to be is a hardworking, dependable employee. 00:11:58.080 --> 00:11:59.039 And here's why. 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:08.080 Because people become familiar with your work ethic, they become familiar with your output, and so if you are that employee, let me tell you what happens to you. 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:15.759 You watch your co-workers get away with murder, and if you do not dot one eye or cross one T, someone is on you about it. 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:16.399 Why? 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.080 Because they are familiar with you, they have raised your expectation. 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:22.960 Let me tell you the other side of that spectrum. 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:28.000 We have all known people who are allowed to continue in toxic behaviors. 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:29.679 And can I tell you what we say? 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:31.200 Here's the line. 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:33.200 Oh, that's just so and so. 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:35.440 You know how they are. 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:42.480 If you're the person that they say that about, let me give you some harsh reality. 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:50.480 They have so lowered your expectations that they are just going to allow you to maintain toxic behaviors. 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:56.399 We become so familiar with you that we have written it off. 00:12:57.440 --> 00:12:58.480 We have to get this right. 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:00.799 Familiarity creates our expectation. 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:04.720 Um, we cannot really understand today's passage without this framing. 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:10.000 Familiarity has created the expectation of the synagogue in Nazareth. 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:15.519 See, Jesus isn't rejected at Nazareth because they can't really figure him out. 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:23.759 It's not because they don't know him, he's rejected at Nazareth specifically because they feel like they already know everything about him. 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.360 So let's look at it in the text one more time. 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:35.279 It says, they were all speaking well of him, they were amazed by him, but they said, Isn't this Joseph's son? 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:37.279 That's familiarity. 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:39.120 Let's see the expectation. 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:47.360 And so Jesus said to them, No doubt, you will quote this proverb to me, doctor, heal yourself. 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:52.879 Now, this is uh an ancient, famous parable. 00:13:53.200 --> 00:14:00.720 We see evidence of this writing, this story told all over the ancient Near East, as far back as 600 years before Christ. 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:09.759 Here's how the story goes there's a doctor who comes into the village, and the doctor is handing out advice every second of the day. 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:24.399 He's handing out cures, he's giving prescriptions, he's offering medicine, and yet, here's the twist: this doctor who can't stop giving medical advice is also the most sick person in the village. 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:33.360 And so everyone's hearing this advice from someone, and they say, Doctor, if we're gonna believe your medicine, heal yourself first. 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:36.000 You guys have experienced this? 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:46.879 Uh, this is your friend who, even though you're like five years into a pretty happy marriage and they can't seem to get to a second date with anyone, they keep giving you relationship advice, you know? 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:49.279 They're like, bro, here's what you have to do, all right? 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:52.240 Uh they've watched some like YouTube bros, right? 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.279 So they're like, if you want to keep your woman in check, right? 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.639 Okay, first of all, no longer your friend, right? 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:00.159 That's the wrong line. 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:07.120 They're like, here, it's like, look, dude, why don't you get to a second date and then maybe I will take some relationship with it? 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:17.200 This is your coworker who is in more debt and cannot steward his finances at all, but every other month he's telling you about a new get rich quick scheme. 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:22.799 It's like, why don't you take care of your finances and then maybe you can come. 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:27.120 Okay, this is I I joined a gym and I really love this gym. 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:28.639 I'm not gonna put him on blast. 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:30.720 I'm not gonna say the name of the gym. 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.200 But I joined Crunch Fitness. 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:35.600 And I love it. 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:39.360 I'm not gonna lie to you, I really do love Crunch Fitness, low rates, the whole deal. 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:46.559 But you know, when you join, they try to upsell you a little bit, and they're like, for a little bit more, you could have this personal trainer. 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:51.600 And they introduced me to the personal trainer, and all I'm gonna say is they were not in shape. 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:53.759 I'm like, I'm confused. 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:55.200 Do you want me to train your trainer? 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:56.399 I don't know. 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:00.559 Okay, that was rude. 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:02.080 Enough examples. 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:08.720 So they're looking at Jesus, and Jesus goes, I already know what y'all are thinking. 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:10.960 Well, how exactly does this pertain to Jesus? 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:11.519 Of course. 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:13.519 We have to read the rest of verse 23. 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:16.879 He said, No doubt you will quote this proverb, doctor, heal yourself. 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:22.639 What we've heard took place in Capernaum, do here in your hometown also. 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:27.919 I'm gonna keep reminding you, Luke is telling this story out of chronological order. 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:35.600 Jesus has already been traveling around Galilee, he's been preaching, he's been doing miracles, and he's been healing. 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.399 Jesus spent some time in Capernaum. 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:44.720 That's where he would stay in the house of Peter's mother-in-law, Peter's mother-in-law, who is nearing death, and Jesus healed her. 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:53.360 You read in Mark's first couple of chapters, he's in Capernaum, and people are bringing the sick to him, and he is healing everyone who gets in his vicinity. 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:55.840 He's healing people by the dozens. 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:59.519 And so we have familiarity, isn't this Joseph's son? 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:01.360 And then we have expectation. 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:04.240 And what exactly are the expectations? 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:08.559 The first expectation is look, man, we know you. 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:17.119 We know your mom, we know your dad, we know your siblings, we watched you grow up in these streets, you've been in this synagogue your whole life. 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:19.839 We know you, we are familiar with you. 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:27.440 So we're not just gonna buy off of faith that you are the Messiah we've been waiting for for a thousand years. 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:31.440 We're not just gonna buy because you like quoted the right thing in Isaiah. 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:38.000 So if you want us to believe you are God's last and final chosen king, prove it. 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:43.119 You're a miracle worker, do some miracles. 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:46.720 Show us something cool, do a trick. 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:49.279 Make us believe. 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:51.920 We heard about what you did in Capernaum. 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:53.839 So, what is expectation number one? 00:17:54.079 --> 00:18:00.799 Expectation number one is I will believe it, but first I have to see it. 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:03.039 Gotta see it to believe it. 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:05.200 Now we have to be careful when we approach scripture. 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:07.200 I try to remind us this all the time. 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:12.480 Before we judge Nazareth, we have to realize we often are Nazareth. 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:16.720 We put expectations on God. 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:19.680 We put expectations on Jesus. 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:30.720 And when we place those expectations on Jesus, what we are saying is if you are good and you are God and you will provide for me, and I can trust you, and you can really do what you said, prove it. 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:44.559 We do this a lot as believers, we will start really like finding ourselves in difficult situations, and we will pray these compromising prayers. 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:52.799 You know, a lot of times when we hit rock bottom, it's like when they hand us the divorce paper, and all of a sudden we're like, God, here's the deal. 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:58.400 If you will magically change her mind, which by the way, this is a pro tip, that's the wrong prayer. 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:03.599 The real prayer should be, God, can you change my heart and behaviors that got me into this mess in the first place? 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.359 That's not what we pray, because we're gonna compromise with God and we're gonna ask God to prove Himself. 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:16.480 So it's like, God, if you will magically get me out of this, if you will change her heart, you know, if you will just work your miracles, then look, I know I haven't been the best. 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:20.400 I will never skip Sunday service for an NFL game again, God. 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:22.799 I will show up, I will start giving. 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:28.079 I haven't done that, but I will give probably most of the time, if I can, or it's convenient. 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:34.799 I'm gonna give God those cheesy, terrible Christian shirts I make fun of, I'll wear those, God. 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:40.160 Like if you get me out of this, we're five margaritas in, trying to drive the four miles home. 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:43.119 We see lights behind us, we start praying these kind of prayers. 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:51.200 Like, God, if you can help me walk a straight line tonight, I swear I will be the best husband, I will serve on the welcome team, I will do it all. 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:57.359 God, like if you prove this in this moment, then I will start following you. 00:19:57.759 --> 00:20:01.039 And here's the real issue: this is why we have to get to know the real Jesus. 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:09.359 When you read the gospels, what you find is Jesus does not do miracles to try and pull faith out of the faithless. 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:15.039 Jesus does miracles to affirm faith that is already shown. 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:30.000 The woman who has lived her life with this disorder of blood and is dying every single day and crawls through the streets with faith enough to just touch the hem of his garment and he heals her. 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:33.200 Not to create faith, but to affirm faith that is already there. 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:36.400 This happens again and again and again. 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:56.240 And so often, even for those of us who haven't crossed that line of faith and you're not convinced by the claims of Christianity, and maybe you even think this way, it's like, yeah, man, if God would part the skies and like speak in an audible voice and show up and deliver a truckload of money to my house, signed like from Jesus to you, or what it's like, sure, man, I'll put my faith in Jesus. 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:59.200 You just need to know this, like the Holy Spirit is showing up. 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:06.480 And whether you know it or not, there are like a million little miracles that are happening every second of your life if we only have eyes to see them. 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:17.599 And and Jesus is just not going to be your genie, he's not going to be your psychic, he's not going to be a trained animal where we say, Hit the symbols, Jesus, hit the symbols, and he goes on command. 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:20.559 He's not interested about getting on your agenda. 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:24.960 Jesus is not here to get up on your expectations. 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:31.519 Jesus is here to give expectations, and if we follow them, we can live a great life, not just here, but in eternity. 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:33.519 You can say amen if you believe in that. 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:39.039 The first expectation is I will believe it if I see it. 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:42.559 There is a second expectation that is buried in here, though. 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:45.599 And we see it in the contrast. 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:53.200 Jesus, we've heard rumors you were like healing by the dozen in Capernaum. 00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:56.559 But Jesus, Capernaum didn't raise you. 00:21:57.359 --> 00:21:58.400 We raised you. 00:21:59.039 --> 00:21:59.759 Capernaum's not. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:02.160 Home, Nazareth is home. 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:06.240 So if you healed a hundred there, you better heal 200 here. 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:12.559 I know they've got their sick and their poor in Capernaum, but we've got them in Nazareth as well. 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:15.359 And you know that, Jesus, because you grew up here. 00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:21.920 And so what they have as a second expectation is a hometown advantage. 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:25.279 Surely, if you really are the Messiah, you're gonna prove it to us. 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:28.880 And if you are gonna prove it to us, you better go above and beyond. 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:34.960 Surely, if you did it for some strangers in Capernaum, you're gonna do it for your people here in Nazareth. 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:40.400 And before we judge Nazareth, we have to realize a lot of times we are Nazareth. 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:54.960 And a lot of times people who come up in the church and who are faithful to the church, they start drawing expectations on Jesus that Jesus should show up to us first, that Jesus should take care of us first. 00:22:55.759 --> 00:23:03.519 You know, I grew up in churches, many churches, where it was like as Americans, we are expecting an extra level of favor from God. 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:12.000 Now, keep in mind, the United States of America came around about 1800 years before this book was done being written, or after this book was done being written. 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:19.680 So I don't know exactly where we got that from, but it's like America, we're like God's people, so hometown advantage, so God, you show up for us first. 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:31.200 There is nothing that will cause people to be frustrated with God quicker than when you're young in your faith and out of obedience, you start giving, but you don't understand Christian generosity. 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:35.839 Because you start giving and you give a few months in a row, and the promotion doesn't come. 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:47.519 And she doesn't say yes to the date, and you get a bad screening at the doctor, and pretty quickly you don't understand that we give out of God's expectation for us. 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:55.279 We do not give to place an expectation on God, and all of a sudden it's like, I've given three months in a row and you won't show up for me. 00:23:57.279 --> 00:24:01.039 Jesus is about to get rejected at Nazareth. 00:24:01.279 --> 00:24:08.000 And do not miss, his rejection comes first and foremost out of broken expectation. 00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:17.680 Let's go a layer deeper because in verse 24, here's what Jesus says: Truly, I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown. 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:18.960 This is the moment. 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:23.759 This is the moment where Jesus acknowledges rejection. 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:29.440 He came to Nazareth, he let them know who he was, he let them know his mission. 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:32.880 That's Luke's first reason for putting this story first. 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:35.200 Here's the second reason. 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:46.799 The second reason Luke needed to get this story first and took it out of chronological order is because this moment in Nazareth is a microcosm of Jesus' entire ministry. 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:49.519 This is a microcosm. 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:55.680 It's this small picture of the big picture of everything that's gonna happen during the three-year ministry of Christ. 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:59.279 And so if you're taking notes, I don't have this on screen, but I think it's important. 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:02.960 Uh the Lord gave this to me right before I walked on stage in our first service. 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:05.200 So I want you to write this down if you're taking notes. 00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:08.480 Here's how it goes it goes like this revelation. 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:10.160 Revelation. 00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:13.839 Jesus revealing who he is, revealing God to us. 00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:15.039 That's what John's gospel says. 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:21.039 He revealed God to us, the revelation of salvation, the revelation of eternal life, the revelation of hope. 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:23.279 He reveals revelation. 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:26.799 Revelation leads to response. 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:29.440 Revelation, response. 00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:35.599 What happens in Nazareth is a microcosm of what happens in his ministry. 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:40.799 He comes up, he preaches to the power of the Spirit of God, and the response. 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:41.920 Look what it said. 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:43.359 It's like they were speaking well of him. 00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:44.880 They were amazed by him. 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:51.599 Notice in Jesus' ministry as he travels all of Israel, revelation, response. 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:53.279 The crowds flock to him. 00:25:53.599 --> 00:25:55.200 They hang on every word. 00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:56.160 They want to know more. 00:25:56.240 --> 00:25:58.079 They follow him town to town. 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:01.279 He is like the biggest rock star in the entire world. 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:04.960 People are showing up by the tens of thousands to hear him. 00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:10.160 Revelation leads to response, leads to rejection. 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:13.039 This is the ministry of Christ. 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:16.319 Let me give you the ultimate example. 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:22.799 The climax of Jesus' earthly ministry is his journey into Jerusalem for the Passover. 00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:28.079 And there are people running ahead of Jesus announcing that he's coming. 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:34.799 And the people start ripping palm branches off of the trees, throwing them on the ground. 00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:45.759 When they can't cover the ground, they start taking off jackets, putting them on the ground because Jesus is so holy in their eyes, they don't even want his donkey touching the dirt. 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:54.400 Revelation, response. 00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:57.519 By the end of the week, crucify him. 00:26:58.640 --> 00:26:59.759 Crucify him. 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:01.759 Rejection. 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:06.640 Revelation, response, rejection. 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:08.319 Here's the last thing to write down. 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:09.519 Redirection. 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:10.880 Redirection. 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:12.319 It's gonna be important. 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:13.920 Redirection. 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:17.680 We have a question that's begging to be answered. 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:22.640 How do we get from response to rejection? 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:26.400 Something has to happen in between those two things. 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:28.400 You already know what it is. 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:34.400 Between positive response and rejection is broken expectation. 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:41.039 Our familiarity is what breeds our expectations. 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:49.359 So let me tell you what is happening that causes Israel to go from Hosanna, Hosanna to crucify him. 00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:54.240 It is no secret, people believe Jesus is the Messiah. 00:27:55.359 --> 00:28:01.200 And where we should get our familiarity from is the Word of God. 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:08.799 The entire Jewish scriptures, which is our Old Testament and our Bibles, reveals the coming of the Messiah. 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:17.920 And from the very first mention of the Messiah, it is said his job will be to bless all of the nations of the world. 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:23.599 Yes, he will come first to Israel, but he will be used to bless all the nations of the world. 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:36.319 Here's the problem: the people in Jesus' day were more familiar with their pain and more familiar with their culture than they were with the revealed word of God. 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:44.559 So their view of the Messiah was not shaped by the words of God, it was shaped by their culture and it was shaped by their pain. 00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:46.160 Israel was a conquered people. 00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:51.440 Here's their history: conquered by Egypt, conquered by Assyria, conquered by Babylon. 00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:54.880 While Jesus walked the earth, they were conquered by Rome. 00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:58.799 Because of that pain, they had a cultural perspective. 00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:07.119 That Messiah should be someone who comes and is a military political warrior who will not come to bless the other nations. 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:10.319 He will come to defeat the other nations. 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:20.160 They see Jesus, they see his presence, they see his power, but once they actually understand his message, it breaks their expectation. 00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:33.119 Once they realize that Jesus came not to destroy their enemies, but to bless their enemies, this is when they went from Hosanna to crucify him. 00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:40.000 Twenty-six weeks ago, we started our journey through the book of Luke. 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:43.839 I just looked it up two days ago. 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:46.880 I initially sketched out the chosen king. 00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:50.000 I thought it would be eight weeks long. 00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:51.200 Isn't that hilarious? 00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:53.200 I was off by 300%. 00:29:55.920 --> 00:30:07.680 I told you the reason we're gonna go through Luke and the reason we're gonna go so slow is because I'm afraid the modern Western American church does not know who Jesus is. 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:20.559 And the problem is we are more familiar with our pain and we're more familiar with our culture than we are with the revealed word of God. 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:23.759 Jesus telling us who he is. 00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:30.160 And so some of you have a cultural view of Jesus through the lens of cultural prosperity. 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:34.640 And you were sold a lie from a pastor who shouldn't have a pulpit. 00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:49.039 They told you that if you just put your faith in Jesus, you will be wealthy, you'll have everything you ever want, everything you ever need, you'll be healthy, that God will bless you, he will heal you, that you will have influence and power and status, and that didn't come to pass. 00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:55.279 You have a broken expectation, not of the real Jesus, but the Jesus that you were sold through the lens of the culture. 00:30:56.880 --> 00:30:59.119 Some of you carry some real pain. 00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:05.519 You have a view of Jesus that's a very permissive Jesus. 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:10.960 He doesn't allow all sin, just the ones that you really like. 00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:20.720 And then at some point in your maturity, you actually get into the word and you realize that Jesus does not cosign your behaviors. 00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:22.559 It's an incredible broken expectation. 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:35.839 I cannot tell you how many Christians have walked away from their faith, have gone from response to rejection because they were never informed by the revealed word of God about who Jesus is and what he expects of their life. 00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:43.920 We make a massive mistake when we try to view Jesus through the lens of our pain and through the lens of our culture. 00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:51.359 Our job as children of God is to view our pain and to view our culture through the lens of Jesus Christ. 00:31:51.920 --> 00:32:03.599 We are going so almost painfully slow through the gospel of Luke in part to say, Jesus, in this season, I am not putting expectation on you. 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:08.160