Jesus Comes Home

Tom Shrader walks through Luke 4:14-30, setting the scene of Jesus returning to His hometown of Nazareth amid widespread excitement and anticipation. Jesus reads from Isaiah 61 and declares that the Messianic promise — to preach to the spiritually poor, free the captives, restore sight to the blind, and liberate the oppressed — is fulfilled in Him that very day. The sermon explores how familiarity bred contempt among the townspeople, how two Old Testament illustrations of God's grace to Gentiles enraged them, and applies the passage as an invitation to those who feel spiritually bankrupt or enslaved to surrender to Christ. “Jesus comes to those squashed by life's circumstances, who can see no way out, who find living itself an oppression, and he gives them freedom.” — Tom Shrader Series: A Study Of The Life Of Jesus Christ (2003/2004) Recorded in 2004 Duration: 40 min Themes: rejection, grace, freedom, salvation, humility, evangelism, spiritual blindness, surrender, feeling spiritually bankrupt, struggling with unbelief, new believer, skeptic, feeling enslaved to sin, seeker, young adult, returning to faith Topics: christology, messianic fulfillment, Isaiah 61, soteriology, salvation, gentile inclusion, biblical prophecy, prevenient grace Scripture: Luke 4:14-30, Luke 4:18-19, Luke 4:21-24, Luke 4:28-30, John 4, John 8:36, Isaiah 61:1-2, Isaiah 58:6, Isaiah 66, Mark 6:2, Revelation 3, Deuteronomy 6, Deuteronomy 11, Numbers 15, Psalm 145, 1 Kings 17, 2 Kings 5, James 4:6-8 — About Priority Living AZ — Priority Living AZ preserves the teaching legacy of Tom Shrader. Browse the full archive at prioritylivingaz.org/archives