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Let's open our Bibles this morning, to Luke chapter 4 and we're going to start in just a few minutes.

In verse 14, Luke 4:14.

This is part 11 of our series, working through the Gospel of Luke.

As we start this morning, this may already be obvious to you, but I have obviously discovered, the Fountain of Youth.

I can tell you a way that you can instantly get quite a bit younger.

Then you already are.

You can go back in time discover the Fountain of Youth.

Here's how you do that.

Grow up in a church.

Go off to college.

Do whatever you're going to do and returned to the church that you grew up in.

And you'll be 16 years old again.

It's amazing how that works.

I hope we don't do that to our kids when we don't ever let them get older.

When they get older.

They get older.

That's just how it happens.

We don't like that, but that's just the way it works.

But I remember being a young man, it in a church that we are our church was a split off from another Downtown Church in San Antonio that happened when I was a freshman in high school.

And so I had spit a lot of years into that church in that church and even into my twenties at and there began to be this growing frustration, in my own heart of missing.

Why is it that I can go and speak at youth camps?

Or lead worship at at this event outside of my church, but I don't get to do anything in my home Church.

Why is it that I get to go and preach at these other churches?

Which actually are bigger than this church.

Thank you very much my home church, but I don't get to do anything in my home church, and I was I was venting that frustration one time to it to an older guy in the church who had known me and knew me well, and we're still talk, but he said something to me and it has stuck with me and made a lot of sense.

Even at the time.

He said you got to understand once you have been 16 years old, in this church.

You will always be thought of that way even when you're not anymore it.

And so the reason why that doesn't necessarily you can be going out there is because you're not 16 there, but you're still 16 here even though you're not sixteen anymore.

So true.

So, so spot-on.

A prophet is without honor in his hometown or his home church until finally in the Gospel of Luke.

We're going to get sort of to the place where Jesus is Ministry, begins because everything that we've done, has led up to this and his baptism.

And last week, we talked about the Temptations in the wilderness.

All that was going on.

There Will presumably that ended.

Jesus ended the fast and began his ministry in the Gospel of Luke.

Luke is going to skip over some things to bring us to a specific place.

And where we're going to be today in Jesus.

Jesus is Ministry is Nazareth the place where Jesus had grown up the place where Jesus was known his home church so to speak.

And what's happened is we we've already by the time we get to where we're going to pick up today.

Jesus has begun his ministry and we see some hints, some indicators of things that have already taken play.

John chapter to where Jesus turns water into wine, where Jesus cleanses the temple.

And in chapter 3, Jesus has this conversation with Nicodemus, all of those things, take place before what we're going to see today.

Evidently, but Luke doesn't mention them because Luke wants to begin here at Nazareth.

So let's begin in verse 14 and Jesus returned.

In the power of the spirit to Galilee, in a report about him, went out throughout all of the surrounding country and he taught in their synagogues.

Being glorified by all.

So after all the intensity of the preparation, Jesus has already been doing Ministry.

There have been things that are that are going on to things that I mentioned in.

Luke Chapter 2, but will be looked down at verse 23, it reveals, that Jesus is already obviously been teaching at a place called capernium, which is in Galilee.

Now, if you'll picture it this way, just a little bit of geography of that area.

There's Jerusalem further to the South and then the, the Jordan River is going to run up northward from there and then get to the Sea of Galilee which is up in the north.

And so that's where we got places like Nazareth and capernium in Cana and things like that.

They're all up in the north and that's where Jesus is going to begin and that's where he grew up.

So evidently he's been ministering around there.

That's just not exactly where Luke begins.

But Jesus is receiving a warm welcome and it's a big reception and worried about him is Spreading everywhere.

But now he comes to Nazareth and this is where Luke is going to focus the attention.

Look at verse 16.

And it came to Nazareth where he had been brought up.

And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day.

And he stood up to read know it.

Let's pause there for just a minute because if there is something here, important it and I I realized to some degree.

I'm preaching to the choir here with what I'm about to say, but I think it's important that we see this as was his custom.

He went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day.

The point is Jesus went to church.

Jesus went to church.

People have a lot of bad experiences and they get burned in churches, if that's happened to you.

It's happened to me.

Also.

It's probably happen to a lot of us.

You can have a bad experience with people in churches.

Does hypocrites that go to churches.

And that would be all of us.

Maybe some more than others, but it's true.

Of every one of us.

There's a lot of churches or some Churches.

Anyway, that lost their way, along time ago, and why they're still in existence.

And what in the world it is they're doing, it's not the gospel anymore.

I don't know what they're doing.

Some Churches have a real jerk for pastor.

Some churches will sing songs that you don't like to sing and they are not your favorite songs, but all of that to say Jesus went to church As was his custom.

So, typically in a Jewish synagogue, this is what would happen date.

They would be the Sabbath day obviously, and one of the important men in the end of town in the area, or even sometimes, a guest would come and read the scriptures and then that person would sit down and expound on what just had just been read.

So, evidently on this day in Nazareth, with his reputation spreading in all that Jesus was the guest of honor.

Even though he's grown up around these people, he returns home.

He's the guest of honor in the synagogue and there's all this excitement in the air, the people of Nazareth.

And hey, this is Jesus and we're hearing about these miracles in his great teaching with authority.

Word's getting around and they're excited.

Verse 17.

And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and he unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written.

A hold on, just a minute before we even getting into reading the scripture that he read.

Let's stop here for a moment.

Jesus did not open the scroll to the place or right.

There was his Isaiah chapter 61 because, The scripture have not been divided into Chapters at that point.

And if we could look at the schools, that Jesus was looking at that day, even if we did understand Hebrew or Aramaic or whatever it was it that time.

It's just a bunch of letters and riding all piled up together.

No chapter, two visions, no tabs.

No versus none of that.