Day 18 - Luke 4:14-19

14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Holy Spirit, and soon people across the region had heard news of Him. 15 He would regularly go into their synagogues and teach. His teaching earned Him the respect and admiration of everyone who heard Him.

16 He eventually came to His hometown, Nazareth, and did there what He had done elsewhere in Galilee—entered the synagogue and stood up to read from the Hebrew Scriptures.

17 The synagogue attendant gave Him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, and Jesus unrolled it to the place where Isaiah had written these words:

18 The Spirit of the Lord the Eternal One is on Me.
Why? Because the Eternal designated Me
    to be His representative to the poor, to preach good news to them.
He sent Me to tell those who are held captive that they can now be set free,
    and to tell the blind that they can now see.
He sent Me to liberate those held down by oppression.
19 In short, the Spirit is upon Me to proclaim that now is the time;
    this is the jubilee season of the Eternal One’s grace.



Terrie's Comments:
The Holy Spirit has not changed.  God does not change.  He still wants to liberate those who are held down by oppression, preach the good news, tell those who are held captive that they can now be set free!!  He wants to use us to set others free and bring them to Jesus.  The question is are we allowing Him to use us?



Tori's Comments:
Wow, how powerful this must have been! It gives me chills to even think of how powerful those words would have been, as God Himself read out the words He wrote about Himself and what he would do. 







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