Some jottings from a talk by Andy Young at the 2017 Banner UK Minister's Conference what was live-streamed on the interweb:
Luke 4:14-30
A programmatic, paradigmatic passage about
Jesus’ ministry placed at the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry
5 marks of Christ’s ministry:
(1) It was ordinary, it used the ordinary
means of grace, the reading and preaching of the Word of God in the congregation
of God’s people – v16-17 – in his home town, in the synagogue as was his custom
The humility of Christ
The Word of God reading the Written Word of
God and proclaiming it, explaining and applying the Word of God
1 Timothy 4:13
God had only one Son and he made him a
preacher
The people there despise the ordinary means of
grace, as we might be tempted to be
They miss the extraordinary in the ordinary
(2) It was a Spirit-filled might
3:22; 4:1; 4:14; 4:18
Jesus the Spirit anointed Priest, Prophet and
King
If Christ depended on the Spirit in his ministry,
how much more should we
(3) The Christ-centred message of Christ’s own
preaching – v18 – Christ preached himself – he is the message he came to
proclaim
(4) The eschatological magnitude – the coming
of Christ as the fulfilment of the Scriptures v21 – the promised future hope of
Israel (of Isaiah 61) has come, the kingdom has come, the new era of fulfilment
has come, the eschatological fulfilment is inaugurated in Christ
Luke 19:9; 23:43
(5) The gracious mission
What he says he will do (v18) – to the needy,
enslaved, helpless
A gospel of grace to those in need
Isaiah 61:2b, “the day of the vengeance of our
God” omitted here – Jesus stops short of mentioning the wrath of God – his
first coming was to bring mercy not the final punishment of sinners
V19 – The Lord’s Favour – Lev 25 Year of
Jubilee
Vv25-27 – God’s universal grace, a hint of the
mission to the gentiles
Behold your God, your wonderful Saviour
Christ!
Emulate Christ, make your ministry Christ-like
Be encouraged because Christ continues to
ministry through his servants
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