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Jesus was rejected in Nazareth

So many people rejected our Lord, in that time when He walked this earth in the flesh. Even in His own hometown they rejected Him! In (Luke 4:14) the Bible says that Jesus had returned to Galilee and the power of the Spirit was upon Him the news of Him had spread throughout the land. Everyone was praising Him. When He went into Nazareth, where He had been brought up, He went into the local synagogue on the Sabbath Day, as was the custom. When He stood up He was to read from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, which had been handed to Him. He read where it was written; “The spirit of the Lord is on Me,…to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” After He had read this He rolled up the scroll and handed back to the attendant and sat down. Everyone was watching Him and He said, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

 When Jesus spoke to the group there in the synagogue and stated that in Elijah’s and Elisha’s times they did not heal or cleanse the sick and diseased, the crowd became irate. They rejected Him, becoming an angry, unruly mob, and they took Jesus to the edge of town, to the brow of the hill intending to throw Him off the cliff. Well, not so amazingly, what did Jesus do? He simply walked back through the jeering mob, that was now suddenly dumb-founded and confused somehow, and Jesus just went on His way! Awesome! Wouldn’t you have loved to have been there to say to the crowd; “You stupid bunch of idiots! Can’t you see this simple, humble man is the Son of God?”

And now, here we are today, and many people are still rejecting Him? They refuse to believe He still heals, and the light of their faith in Him seems to be flickering.

Can’t they see He is the Son of God?    

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