Week 9/30-10/6: Perfect Respone - The Faithful Son

Day Three: Luke 4:40-41 When the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to Him. As He laid His hands on each one of them, He would heal them. Also, demons were coming out of many, shouting and saying, “You are the Son of God!” But He rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Messiah.

HOW DO WE KNOW if Jesus is the one who can save us? Is there a way to judge if Jesus was the expected Savior? To prove He was who He said He was?

Jesus anticipated and answered questions like these. On one occasion, Jesus went to his hometown of Nazareth on the Sabbath Day and went to the synagogue to preach. Upon arrival He is given a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He opens it to Isaiah 61 and reads the first two verses and then declares to them, “Today as you listen, this Scripture has been fulfilled.” (Luke 4:21).

What did he mean by this? He meant that He was the one doing the things that passage predicted the Messiah would do. He was the anointed proclaimer of Good News. He was the healer of the sick, blind, and lame. Jesus came to fulfill the Word of God. He came to do all that God’s Holy Word commanded, and in doing so, He proved He was the One all history had been pointing to and waiting for.

What is the aim and intent of Jesus’ fulfilling of the Word of God? To bring forth restoration to the fallen race of Adam and to make all things new (Rev.21:5).Jesus came to bring forth the Kingdom of God. In the bringing forth of the kingdom, He is inaugurating a new reality.

When sin entered the Garden, creation became broken. He is reversing the effects of the fall, both in the descendants of Adam and the creation. His obedience to those written prophecies show that he alone has the authority to bring forth this new reality, and He expects us and enables us to take part in this new reality.

PAUSE AND REFLECT

▷▷Do you truly believe Jesus is who He claimed to be?

▷▷What difference does that belief make in your life?

▷▷Are you actively taking part is God’s restoration project?

▷▷What is holding you back?