Embracing Jesus' Expansive Mission Through Diverse Perspectives
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"Have you ever listened to a married couple telling a story together? I hear some laughs. I think you know where I'm going with this. It can be quite an experience when a married couple is telling a story together as they jump in and correct each other on detail. I'm hearing some elbows and some ouches out there. Why does that happen? It's not just because we remember details differently. It's because we all have our own unique way of framing stories, which details to include, what to leave out, what emotion to tell." [00:00:27] (44 seconds)
"So our gospel stories, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the gospel writers make the same kinds of decisions when each of them decided what to include as they were sort of guided by the Spirit and remembering events and things that they have done. And so, learned and seen. They write it down differently. So, for example, Matthew and Luke start with the day of Jesus' birth. I mean, even kind of the lead-up to it, like the birth of Jesus. The gospel of Mark begins, he's already an adult." [00:02:44] (32 seconds)
"But however they frame the story, whatever choices they make, the order they put things in, the words they use, it tells us something about the gospel writer and about their unique perspective on the story of Jesus. Just think about when you tell a story yourself. You just instinctively make choices along the way. Like, if you're going to tell a story to your friend, is it relevant what clothes you wore that day? Maybe. If it's a story about clothes. If not, you just exclude that part." [00:03:16] (36 seconds)
"We are near the beginning of a long study that we're going to do on the Gospel of Luke. Over the last four years, we've already done Matthew, Mark, and John. We're going to study the Gospel of Luke. This is the life and the ministry according to this one highly educated Greek doctor, a man of many talents named Luke, who investigated and sought to lay out an orderly account, he says. Now, every Gospel writer mentions John the Baptist that we discussed last week. Every Gospel writer mentions that in the Jesus ministry." [00:04:58] (37 seconds)
"And it sets the tone for everything that moves forward. And Luke chooses to fast forward past some of the chronology. He's going to fast forward past something and intentionally start with one particular story. We see this in verse 14. This is the two-verse fast forward. Now, there's some other Gospels who record in greater detail what he just summarized in those two verses. But here we have, okay, he came back to this area in Galilee. He was a powerful, things happened. He became well known. Two verses." [00:05:21] (53 seconds)
"We come to see that what Jesus is about to read from the scroll of Isaiah, which I'll show you, becomes the thesis. It becomes like the mission statement of Jesus. And then everything we're going to see after that fleshes it out. I'll invite you to stand for this reading. I'm going to read from 16 through 21. So Jesus went to Nazareth where he had been brought to. And on the Sabbath day, he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him." [00:09:04] (39 seconds)
"And unrolling it, he found the place where it is written, The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind. So, He set the oppressed free and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. And then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began by saying to them, Today, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." [00:09:42] (44 seconds)
"The Greek word Christ and the Hebrew word Messiah both mean in English, the anointed or the anointed one. And there was an Old Testament tradition of literally anointing, putting oil on someone's head when you're formally anointing a priest, a prophet, or a king to designate them, to set them apart for a specific role. If Jesus is the anointed one, that came to be this expectation of the Old Testament that there was going to be this one great anointed one who would be the Messiah, when? When? Was Jesus anointed?" [00:14:06] (44 seconds)
"In fact, in the story, if Jesus' baptism functions as a moment of his anointing, I wonder if we might also consider our baptisms to be our anointing. Now, I don't mean in the same way as Jesus. The last thing I want is for us to all leave with Messiah complex and think we're all Jesus. I don't mean that. But in some way, we are baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. We're baptized into Jesus. We're also baptized into Jesus' mission and Jesus' calling." [00:22:40] (37 seconds)
"Jesus was anointed to do a certain job. If we're baptized into Christ, I think we're also anointed into Christ's work. So if any of you were baptized at any point in your life, whether as a kid or as an adult, I would love for you to turn to your neighbor and inform them, I've been baptized. Let's take a minute. Okay, and for any of you, if you haven't, let me know. I do baptisms. All right, we'll get you signed up." [00:23:37] (37 seconds)
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"So our gospel stories, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the gospel writers make the same kinds of decisions when each of them decided what to include as they were sort of guided by the Spirit and remembering events and things that they have done. And so, learned and seen. They write it down differently. So, for example, Matthew and Luke start with the day of Jesus' birth. I mean, even kind of the lead-up to it, like the birth of Jesus. The gospel of Mark begins, he's already an adult." [00:02:44] (32 seconds)
"But however they frame the story, whatever choices they make, the order they put things in, the words they use, it tells us something about the gospel writer and about their unique perspective on the story of Jesus. Just think about when you tell a story yourself. You just instinctively make choices along the way. Like, if you're going to tell a story to your friend, is it relevant what clothes you wore that day? Maybe. If it's a story about clothes. If not, you just exclude that part." [00:03:16] (36 seconds)
"We are near the beginning of a long study that we're going to do on the Gospel of Luke. Over the last four years, we've already done Matthew, Mark, and John. We're going to study the Gospel of Luke. This is the life and the ministry according to this one highly educated Greek doctor, a man of many talents named Luke, who investigated and sought to lay out an orderly account, he says. Now, every Gospel writer mentions John the Baptist that we discussed last week. Every Gospel writer mentions that in the Jesus ministry." [00:04:58] (37 seconds)
"And it sets the tone for everything that moves forward. And Luke chooses to fast forward past some of the chronology. He's going to fast forward past something and intentionally start with one particular story. We see this in verse 14. This is the two-verse fast forward. Now, there's some other Gospels who record in greater detail what he just summarized in those two verses. But here we have, okay, he came back to this area in Galilee. He was a powerful, things happened. He became well known. Two verses." [00:05:21] (53 seconds)
"We come to see that what Jesus is about to read from the scroll of Isaiah, which I'll show you, becomes the thesis. It becomes like the mission statement of Jesus. And then everything we're going to see after that fleshes it out. I'll invite you to stand for this reading. I'm going to read from 16 through 21. So Jesus went to Nazareth where he had been brought to. And on the Sabbath day, he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him." [00:09:04] (39 seconds)
"And unrolling it, he found the place where it is written, The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind. So, He set the oppressed free and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. And then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began by saying to them, Today, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." [00:09:42] (44 seconds)
"The Greek word Christ and the Hebrew word Messiah both mean in English, the anointed or the anointed one. And there was an Old Testament tradition of literally anointing, putting oil on someone's head when you're formally anointing a priest, a prophet, or a king to designate them, to set them apart for a specific role. If Jesus is the anointed one, that came to be this expectation of the Old Testament that there was going to be this one great anointed one who would be the Messiah, when? When? Was Jesus anointed?" [00:14:06] (44 seconds)
"In fact, in the story, if Jesus' baptism functions as a moment of his anointing, I wonder if we might also consider our baptisms to be our anointing. Now, I don't mean in the same way as Jesus. The last thing I want is for us to all leave with Messiah complex and think we're all Jesus. I don't mean that. But in some way, we are baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. We're baptized into Jesus. We're also baptized into Jesus' mission and Jesus' calling." [00:22:40] (37 seconds)
"Jesus was anointed to do a certain job. If we're baptized into Christ, I think we're also anointed into Christ's work. So if any of you were baptized at any point in your life, whether as a kid or as an adult, I would love for you to turn to your neighbor and inform them, I've been baptized. Let's take a minute. Okay, and for any of you, if you haven't, let me know. I do baptisms. All right, we'll get you signed up." [00:23:37] (37 seconds)
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