Rejection!

Week 7, Day 3 Reading: Luke 4:14-30

Luke 4:14, 29-30  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 he stood up to read . . . And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. But passing through their midst, he went away.

What a sad event in the life of Jesus. He goes back to his boyhood town, reads a passage from Isaiah which speaks of the coming Messiah, tells them that he is the living fulfillment of that prophecy. This gets the village folk all riled up. And after a sharp response from Jesus (please be sure to read the passage), they decide Jesus has to go ... not just out of town but out of this life! However, since neither the time nor method of death is in sinc with God's plan, Jesus simply passes through their midst and goes his way (as worked up as the crowd was, they would not have simply let him go without a fight ... something of a supernatural sort must of happened at this point. Just what, we do not know!).

Among other lessons, this passage teaches us that there will always be those who will out and out reject Jesus Christ. This is due to the hardness of the human heart and the deadness of the human soul. Unless God does something in us first, no one would ever embrace him. Thanks be to God that he first loved us!

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pj