Hearing God in Luke:
Jesus stood up in His hometown synagogue, read Isaiah out loud, and said
it was about Him.
Today we're in Luke 4:14-22, where Jesus announces His mission: good news
to the poor, liberty to the captives, sight to the blind. The word for liberty
is the same word Luke used earlier for the forgiveness of sins. It means
release, pardon, a debt wiped off the books. I also share a story from a prison
in Kenya that changed how I read this passage, including one woman who stayed in her cell after her freedom had already been paid for.
Join me on an immersive Bible Study Experience. Learn more at BibleStudyLive.org
Have a question about the series or a prayer request? Leave me a
voicemail: SpeakPipe
Questions we answer today
What's the difference between being full of the Spirit and operating in
His power?
Why does power so often show up on the other side of testing?
What does it mean that Nazareth was where Jesus was "brought up"?
Why does it matter that Jesus read the word "anointed" out loud about
Himself?
What kind of proclamation is Jesus actually making?
Are you living like someone who has been set free?
Timestamps
00:00 Why this series has felt intense, and why I'm not
softening it
02:10 Reading Luke 4:14-22
03:30 Prayer
04:30 Full of the Spirit going in, power coming out
05:40 Dunamis, and where we get the word dynamite
06:50 Power shows up on the other side of the test
08:00 What testing produced in me
11:00 The hardest season, and the question God asked
12:00 How that season shaped the ministry
13:30 The same power promised to us in Acts 1:8
14:10 Trepho, and what "brought up" really
means
15:50 The place that fed Him
16:40 Thirty years of synagogue on the Sabbath
17:10 Why the Old Testament matters
18:10 Reading from the scroll of Isaiah
18:40 Chrio, the root of Christos
19:30 Priest, king, prophet, and Jesus as all three
20:40 Two different words for proclaim
22:20 A royal herald announcing the King's decree
23:50 Aphesis, and what liberty actually means
25:00 Inside a Kenyan prison
27:30 Why we are the captives
29:30 Are you walking like you're free?
30:30 The woman who wouldn't leave
31:20 Prayer
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
