The Anointed One - January 23, 2022

By Pastor Jayson Martindale

The Anointed One
Text: Luke 4:14-22
Thesis: “A man with a message will always command an audience.”
- Dr. William Barclay
1. Jesus makes a decision to go home to Nazareth.
* “He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the
Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom...”
Luke 4:16
A. Nazareth is not a tiny village; it is a well populated area.
B. Nazareth had upwards of 20,000 inhabitants, roughly the size of Kuna or Mountain Home.
C. Nazareth was located near major trade roads.
“It is wrong to think of Jesus as being brought up in a backwater; he was brought up in a town in sight of
history and with the traffic of the world almost at its doors.”
Dr. William Barclay
* “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked.”
John 1:46
2. While in his hometown, Jesus publicly declares his mission!
A. Jesus had already established himself as someone worthy to speak in the synagogue.
* “He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.”
Luke 4:15
B. Jesus chose a scripture that is normally read on the morning of the day of atonement, the
holiest day of the year for Jews.
1. The priest would offer the annual sacrifice to atone for sin.
3. The people of Nazareth had a hard time with this version of Jesus.
* “...Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.”
Luke 4:22
A. Jesus had a plan for the world, and it was not one that the people of
Nazareth expected.
* “But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter.
“Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely
human concerns.”
Mark 8:33
* “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the
Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and
my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8-9
“Men’s hearts were hungry for the word of life, and they had not yet realized what a blow he was to strike at the
orthodoxy of his time.”
Dr. William Barclay
Self Check:
Do I proclaim good news to the poor?
a
Do I proclaim freedom for prisoners?
a
Do I help the recovery of sight for the blind?
a
Do I help set the oppressed free?
a
Do I proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor?