Hello, my friends. Welcome to another Follow Him favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the amazing John by the way. Welcome John.

Thanks Hank.

Yeah, we take a part just one question from this week's Come Follow Me lesson. And the part we're going to take this week is the Savior in Nazareth.

How does he describe himself? John, you want to take this one?

I love this because they had heard rumors. They didn't know they had heard about healings. We've got like Luke one is what Zacharias Elizabeth John the Baptist Luke two the Christmas story Luke three the baptism of Jesus Luke four. He goes back home.

And I love the wording as his custom was he went to the synagogue and he stood up for to read and I guess the way they did it was you read a scripture and then you sat down and made a comment.

What I love about this is of all the verses that we might think of to describe the Savior in the Old Testament. And maybe we'd even try to pick the best one. Well, we don't have to work Jesus chose the one.

Yeah, he chose it for us.

Yeah, so it says the minister gave in the scroll and he stood up and read this is verse 18 of Luke four.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.

He hath sent me to heal the broken hearted to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set at Liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

And he closed the book gave it again to the minister and sat down in the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

Then he began to say into them this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

And how did they react at that? Hank, these are his friends and neighbors. The people he had grown up with.

This is back in Nazareth where he had been brought up according to verse 16.

So you would think they would be so excited and just shocked that the Messiah is from their own little town.

But instead, he's almost entirely rejected by these people.

Yeah, he says, and when he says this day is this, it's like this is me. And he has anointed me anointed one is Messiah and Hebrew or Christ in Greek.

And he's saying this is me and what could have been a more beautiful message.

But what I love here to answer the question is notice his emphasis on healing to preach the gospel to the poor.

Heal broken hearts, preach deliverance to captives and that could be all sorts of captivity, emotional addiction, recovering sight to the blind, spiritual blindness, physical blindness.

And so I love how positive that way of characterizing what did Jesus come to do. I came to heal broken hearts. That's a verse that I love and I love that Jesus chose it.

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