Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Luke and Jesus

In the book of Luke, go to chapter 3 and you will find Jesus as He begins to start his public ministry.  Jesus has been identified as the rightful king in the Line of David in Chapter 3 and verses 23-38 which define His genealogy through that of His mother, but shows Him from the lineage of David as prophesied. You would think the Jewish people would be anxious to accept this fulfillment of the prophets and scriptures. Sadly in the next chapter 4 and verses 16-30 we already see the rejection of Him and His ministry.  At the very onset of His ministry, rejection is already becoming the normal. As He begins to expose their spiritual conditions, the rejections soon turns to attempts of kill the Messiah.
This rejection is a repeating characteristic of the Jews that He was sent to as the "lost sheep of the House of Israel".

Luke 4:28-30
And all they is the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath

And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.

But he passing through the midst of them went his way.

The early accounts in the book of Luke show the normal for His own people. They reject to the point that they "kill him"
They seal their own fates!  The people of God's Abrahamic Covenant reject their king.

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