The FaithOfJesus2 Daily Devotional
Focus:
kjv@Revelation:14:12
( FaithOfJesus thread begun by rRandyP )
Today's Verse:
kjv@Luke:4:14 kjv@Luke:4:15 kjv@Luke:4:16 kjv@Luke:4:17 kjv@Luke:4:18 kjv@Luke:4:19 kjv@Luke:4:20 kjv@Luke:4:21 kjv@Luke:4:22 kjv@Luke:4:23 kjv@Luke:4:24 kjv@Luke:4:25 kjv@Luke:4:26 kjv@Luke:4:27 kjv@Luke:4:28 kjv@Luke:4:29 kjv@Luke:4:30 dict:torrey Anointing of the Holy Spirit The year of the Lord by Isaiah is generally thought to be referring to the kjv@Leviticus:25:13 50 year jubile or kjv@Ezekiel:46:17 year of liberty. kjv@Leviticus:25:8-55 is an interesting read of the symbolism of that to e compared with an ultimate Jubile (dict:easton Jubile ) of redemption (dict:easton Redemption ) that the Messiah would bring. There also is year of the recompenses kjv@Isaiah:34:8 to the day of the Lord's vengeance. I am drawn to the hot and then cold reaction to Jesus to the people that attended synagogue that day. He went from being glorified by all to being thrust to a cliff to be cast down. An immediate proof of His anointing is that He was delivered from their hostile intent passing through the midst of them. The synagogue, as we understand it, frequently had laymen read a passage of scripture and render it's meaning. Meaning then became largely what the other listeners expected for layman to say, mingled with what the priest meant for it to say, laced with what the layman personally thought it to be. If that is all that meaning is to be, a composite or expectation, then it is no wonder the synagogues became vacant of God's own meaning. The reading of kjv@Isaiah:61:1-3 by Jesus was first received as gracious until He claimed that it had been fulfilled in Him. The meaning composited and expected had far strayed from the meaning divinely intended. How is it a carpenter's son could fulfill what could only be fulfilled by the Lord? especially as we have twisted the meaning? It is not wrong of them to at once test the notion, for of all the others that might claim to be this Lord only one can actually be the one. It is wrong for them not to further investigate such a claim and outright reject it on grounds of familiarity with this man. This is especially true of the residents of Nazareth having been prophesied as bearing the Righteous One. It is right of God to substantiate the claim by miraculously delivering Him out from their collective sentence. Jesus turns the gracious perception with the scriptural references (kjv@1Kings:17:9-24 Elijah and widow/kjv@1Kings:18:17 Elijah blamed for drought/kjv@2Kings:5:1-27 Naaman) into public wrath and outcry. So then it appears that they understood His meaning prophesying that they would behave in similar fashion to the mass rejection of other great prophets; they proved Him right in not trying to prove Him wrong. One certainty to be considered today is the overwhelming tendency on our part to make scripture mean either what we want it to mean or what others want it to mean outside of what God means for it to mean. Indeed, fatal is the notion that God's meaning cannot be known, just as is the notion that what God has meant is already fully known by us. It is either the laziness of not having to know or the rush to offence when challenged in what we do think we know that makes us to not test all claims fairly and honestly to further substantiate or deny. Even by trying these challenges, rejection of such will likely be the outcome as should be, but once in a great while that which does come from God will be proved in the process. Further Resources: Comment Board:Luke:4:14-30
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kjv@Psalms:20:6
kjv@John:5:39
kjv@Isaiah:53:1
kjv@Isaiah:53:2
kjv@Isaiah:53:3
kjv@Acts:3:18
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