Worship into the Week-Fulfilled

 Worship into the Week-

 Luke 4:21
Lectionary C

"Today the Scripture has been 

fulfilled in your hearing."

Jesus in the synagogue teaching as he usually did. 

Reading the verses from Isaiah 61:1-2.

Good News for the Oppressed

61 

"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me,

for the Lord has anointed me

    to bring good news to the poor.

He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted

    and to proclaim that captives will be released

    and prisoners will be freed.

He has sent me to tell those who mourn

that the time of the Lord's favor has come, 

and with it,

the day of God's anger against their enemies."

And they marveled at what he said to them. 

They KNEW the Old Testament. 

It was clear that the implication of the fulfillment

was standing right in front of them.

Then they swung viciously from marvel to anger

 as they understood who he was condemning.

Themselves. 

For no prophet is accepted in his own hometown.

This was right at the beginning of the ministry of Jesus. 

He had finished his temptation by Satan.

He taught regularly in the synagogues. 

and word spread quickly about him.

 He was filled with the power of the Holy Spirit.

Then he returned to his boyhood home. 

Sometimes we just don't want

 to see the truth right before us.

Lord, give me eyes that see you

 no matter what obscures my vision.

Amen.

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