Does God Owe You Anything? (Luke 4:16-30) | Daily Devotional & Bible Study
Hearing God in Luke: Within six verses of saying Scripture had been fulfilled in their hearing, Jesus' hometown was dragging Him toward a cliff. What set them off is worth understanding. Today we're in Luke 4:16-30. Jesus announces the year of the Lord's favor, which was Jubilee, and then He stops reading Isaiah mid-sentence. He leaves out the part about vengeance, which is the part they had been waiting generations for. Then He tells two stories about God's mercy landing on outsiders, and the room turns on Him. Underneath all of it is a question worth sitting with in our own Bible study: do we want the miracle more than the miracle worker? Join me on an immersive Bible Study Experience. Learn more at BibleStudyLive.org Have a question about the series or a prayer request? Leave me a voicemail: SpeakPipe Questions we answer today What was the year of the Lord's favor, and what did Jubilee actually mean? Why did Jesus stop reading Isaiah 61 halfway through the sentence? Why does Luke keep using the word "today"? What were they really saying with "physician, heal yourself"? Why did the stories of the widow and Naaman enrage them? Can we fall into the same entitlement they did? Timestamps 00:00 Where we are in Luke 4 00:30 Reading Luke 4:16-30 02:20 Prayer 03:10 The year of the Lord's favor, and what Jubilee was 04:40 Why Israel rarely kept it 05:10 The line Jesus didn't read 06:00 They were waiting for vengeance 07:20 Why "today" is one of Luke's signature words 08:40 Freedom now, not someday 09:30 Why He's still holding off 11:10 A statistic about unreached people 12:40 How a hometown turns into a mob in six verses 13:30 Honor and shame in a village culture 14:20 What "isn't this Joseph's son" really meant 16:00 Physician, heal yourself, and the bill coming due 17:30 Why Jesus refused their claim on Him 19:10 Elijah and the widow in Baal's territory 22:40 Elisha, Naaman, and a kidnapped slave girl 27:30 Why those two stories enraged them 28:30 You're not the widow, you're the generation being passed over 29:10 Wanting the miracle more than the miracle worker 30:50 Power moves toward need and faith 31:30 Where we do the same thing 34:00 He never went back to Nazareth 34:30 Why I'm never invited to speak near home 35:50 Grace landing on people we'd rather it didn't 36:30 Entitlement after years of service 37:20 Prayer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices