titled this message, This Day
is the Scripture Fulfilled in Your Ears. Start reading in verse 16. And he came to Nazareth, where
he had been brought up. And as his custom was, he went
into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto
him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book,
he found the place where it was written. The spirit of the Lord
is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the
poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering the 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 and he
gave it again to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of
all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he
began to say unto them, this day is the scripture fulfilled
in your ears. Here is our Lord Jesus Christ,
the God man, in the flesh. and dwelling among
us. John chapter one, we see Christ
is the true light. He was in the world, and the
world was made by him, but it knew him not. He came to his own, but his own
received him not. But as many as received him,
To them He gave power to become the sons of God, even to them
that believe on His name. Born not of the will of flesh,
not of man, but of God. In this Christ Jesus, sent of
the Father to redeem His chosen elect, anointed of God, filled
with the Spirit of the Lord, Remember in Matthew 3, our Lord
told John, the Baptist, to baptize him. He said, oh Lord, I can
baptize you, I need to baptize thee. He said, suffer it to be
so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. And when Jesus was baptized,
he went straight up, way out of the water, and the heavens
opened to him. And he saw the Spirit of God
descending like a dove and lighting upon him. And a voice from heaven
saying, this is my beloved Son in who I am well pleased. Sinners, here is Christ Jesus
proclaiming he is sent of God to preach the acceptable year
of the Lord. Here is the Messiah. Declaring
to these people He is the one the scripture is about As is in Isaiah 61 we just read Speaking of this day is the scripture
fulfilled in your ears. That's what he told him It is
I I am he No, what a happy day. The day
of the acceptable year of the Lord. God in the flesh, Christ
Jesus, sin of his father, bringing good tidings to man. Preaching the gospel in truth
and spirit, filled with the spirit. The whole Godhead residing in
him bodily. Speaking the year of Jubilee.
Acceptable year of the Lord. The year of Jubilee, they said,
every 50 years, the Jews would hear a trumpet sound. They'd
never heard it before. They said, once in a lifetime
for many. But they heard it. And they knew what it was. That was a time of liberty. Debt's
forgiven. These that are sold under bondage
set free. Whatever sold was, or whatever
was lost was restored. And there was rest. There was
rest in that year of jubilee. From all the works. Isn't that a joyous time? Isn't that good news? It's good to some. Not so good
to others. But it's good to those that God
calls to be His sons. So who benefits from this jubilee?
This acceptable year of the Lord? Who's happy? Who's happy to see
it? Well, here in verse 18, we see. Preach the gospel to
the poor. The poor are glad to hear this
gospel. The poor in spirit, the meek,
the humbled before God, Because they have been shown to have
a need. They have no righteousness of
their own. But what they do have is filthy
rags. Their works are all dead. They seek pardon, peace. Salvation,
life, the grace of God and Jesus Christ. These people love to
hear the gospel. Oh, that trumpet sound. They
never heard it before, but they knew what it was. Let's see, next we have the healing
of the broken hearted. The brokenhearted, are these
the ones who the Holy Spirit, by the Word of God, has made
them a contrite heart? Guilty of sin, full of fear before
a thrice holy God. Indeed, in need of comfort and
healing, the need for sin-atoning blood of Jesus Christ to be applied
to them. Oh God, I'm a vile sinner. Who can
deliver me? Then we see the captives to be
delivered. Satan has put them in bondage. They're prisoners, tempted, bound
in chains of sin. Oh God, deliver me. I have sinned
against you, oh God. Held captive under the curse
of the law. Guilty before God. The judgment
of God is upon you. These are those who need Christ's
righteousness imputed to them. They need a Savior to free them. The Christ Jesus, who took captivity
captive, became a curse for us, for cursed is he, everyone that
hangeth upon a tree. He brought in a perfect righteousness
with his obedience unto death. He the just and the justifier. He who became sin for us, who
knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God
in him. All that was lost in the fall
of Adam restored double. You've lost nothing, but you've
gained Christ. Oh, this is getting good. That
trumpet sound. Who is the light that shines
in darkness? Who causes the blind to see? God the Father in the face of
Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son. That's how he reveals himself. He who sits at liberty, the bruised. Those crushed under
the burden of the holy law, the holy justice of God that demands,
that demands blood. No sin will go unpunished. There
must be a remission of sins. There must be a substitute, that
second Adam. The lamb slain before the foundation
of the world. He who in the beginning, God
the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, made a covenant
of grace with himself. God the Father chose him a people
to love. Chose him. Put them in his son,
who gladly became their surety. He, the righteous one, who would
be sent to redeem them after the fall of Adam, their first
representative, those born with Adam's sinful, God-hating nature,
With his own blood, he would suffer and die for his elect. Oh, no greater love. I will lay
down my life for the sheep. And God, the Holy Spirit, supply
that precious and atoning blood, sprinkled on their hearts, that conscience, giving the sinner
life, Making them a new creation God giving faith by his grace
So they can believe on his son Jesus Christ in whom he is saying
That he is all That God the Father has required for your salvation
All that God has required He has given He has provided For
His elect in the Christ Jesus is the only begotten Son. For
salvation, eternal life is in Him. He is salvation. He is eternal
life. He is our high priest, risen
on the third day according to the scripture. He, the only just one who can
justify us, the ungodly. He loved us when we were still
in our sins because he chose us in his son in the beginning. He ascended back up into heaven,
and he alone presented himself, this Christ Jesus, this God-man,
presented himself, the perfect sin, putting away that propitiation,
the sacrifice for sin, in the room instead of all that God
had given him. And God the Father, Accepted
his sacrifice. Fully satisfied. Fully satisfied
in the wrath of God. It pleased Him to bruise Him.
That's how much He loves you. That's how much He loves those
that He put in His Son. Chose before the foundation of
the world. Completely and totally satisfied. And because He put you in Christ
before the foundation of the world, our surety, you were in Him. You were in
Him. When He brought that perfect
righteousness in His obedience to God the Father and His law, you were in Him. When he suffered, you were in
him. When he died, you were in him. That blood had atoning blood
shed to put away your sins. When he was buried, you were
buried with him. And oh, went on that third day
according to the scripture. Because he had satisfied the
holy justice of God. Full payment for all the sins
of his elect. All that the Father had given
him. He was raised up. We were in him. And he ascended up into heaven. that perfect sacrifice for us. And we're in Him. He has made
us acceptable before God. He and He alone is our righteousness,
our justification, our sanctification, our holiness. He is our all. You were in Him in His appointed
time of love. But you didn't know this. You
didn't know this. But when He pleased God in His
appointed time of love, He revealed Christ in you by His Holy Spirit. He sent a messenger. a preacher. That's the way God set it up. He sent a preacher to preach
the gospel of God. Christ Jesus through remission
of sins, he sent a preacher to preach the gospel. This glorious, appointed, acceptable year of
the Lord. that you believe. He preached the gospel to you
and He called you by His grace. Oh, by grace you are saved. Through that God-given faith,
in that knot of yourselves, you had nothing to do with it. You
had nothing to bring. God provided it all in His Son. That's the only, only one who
satisfies Him. That faith, that grace is a gift
of God. Not of works lest any man should
boast. There's that wrist. And here's the Redeemer. Here's
the Redeemer. Preaching to these people. These
Jews. Who had... God had given them
the laws. given them the Scripture, delivered
them out of Egypt, sent them prophets, judges, kings,
priests. He was in the midst of them.
They stumbled over. Here's the Redeemer preaching
to these people the acceptable year of the Lord. He said, Proclaiming
who he is This day is the scripture fulfilled in your ears He told
them I am the Messiah. I am the one sin of the father
I am the one the prophet spoke of I am the one You have been
waiting to come in the flesh to redeem you I Am It is I. I've been sent to seek and save
those that are lost, the ones that have been preached about.
Go your way. Go your way and tell John what
things ye have seen and heard, how the blind see, the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear. The dead are raised to the poor
the gospel is preached. And blessed is he whosoever shall
not be offended in me. Verse 22. And all bear him witness and
wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. Could you imagine Christ preaching
the gospel? You hearing it from Christ Jesus,
the Messiah. And they said, is this not Joseph's son? And all they could say after
hearing this blessed gospel preached by Christ Jesus himself, the
Savior, the Deliverer, the Messiah that they had been looking for,
the healer of souls, the righteous, the holy, the just, God in Christ
reconciling himself, reconciling us to himself, Why? We've heard that trumpet. We've
believed on Him by His grace, for He is eternal life. But after
hearing them, they said, it's not this Joseph's son. It's not
this Joseph's son. Oh, what unbelief. What did he
tell them? What did he tell them in Hebrew?
The gospel was preached to them the same as it is to us. They
lack faith. Had God given faith to believe? Is this Joseph's son? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This
ain't Joseph's son. No, this is the Son of God! The Son of God. I'm in the midst
of you. I will be in the midst of you. The Messiah. Born of a virgin. Born of the seed of David, seed
of Abraham. born of the Spirit of God, God
in the flesh became man. Let's read on in verse 23. And he said unto them, Ye will
surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself. Whatsoever we have heard done
in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. And he said, Verily
I say unto you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. Can you see the providence of
God when working here, playing out? How beautiful. If they had known, my brother
read from Corinthians in the study, if they had known, if
they had known who He was, if it had been revealed to them,
They wouldn't have shouted, crucify him, crucify him. We will not
have this man rule over us. They'd never done it. They'd
have fell down on their face and they would praise him. But they said, is this not Joseph's
son? But I tell you, verse 25, ah,
but I tell you of a truth. Many widows were in Israel in
the days of Elijah. When the heaven was shut up three
years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the
land, but unto none of them was Elias sent. save unto Sarepta,
a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. She was not a Jew, not an earthly Jew. And many
lepers were in Israel in the time of Elias. The prophet and
none of them was cleansed. Saving Naaman, the Syrian. He was not an earthly Jew like
these people. And all they in the synagogue,
all these Jews, earthly Jews, who knew the scriptures so well,
studied for years. And all they in the synagogue,
when they heard these things, were filled with wrath. The Son of God has preached the
gospel to them, and they're filled with wrath. Christ just told these self-righteous,
worse religious, under-the-law Jews that God has mercy on whom
He will have mercy. He just told them it is God who
chooses who He reveals Himself to. And the rest He hardens just
like Pharaoh. It's not of the law. The law
does not bring salvation. The law doesn't bring a pardon
for sins. It declares you guilty before
a thrice holy, just, and sovereign God. It declares you guilty. It magnifies sin, makes sin more
sinful, It's not of works. Salvation
is of grace. Grace alone, Christ alone. Christ finished works that the
God the Father has sent him to do. Proverbs 9, verse 8, it says,
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man,
and he will love you. Well folks, God knows who his
people are. He knows who they are, where
they are, and he knows his appointed time of love when he will reveal
himself in the face of his only begotten son, Jesus Christ. And that's the only way. My sheep will hear my voice and
they will follow me. I know my sheep. Christ rebuked
these people. for their lack of faith and for
their unbelief. Oh Lord help my unbelief. And
they were angry, full of wrath. And all they in the synagogue,
when they heard these things, were filled with wrath. And they
rose up and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the
brow of the hill, whereupon their city was built, that they might cast him down
headlong. They gonna take the Son of God
and cast him down headlong. But he passing through the midst
of them, went his way. You can't stop God. You can't
counsel God. You can't tell God what to do. You can't lay your hands on a
Christ holy God and do with him as you please. He does as he
pleases. He created all for himself, to
himself, and by himself for his glory. and for the saving of
His elect, those that He chose in the beginning and put in His
Son, to redeem them by His blood, and to reveal Himself with His
Holy Spirit unto salvation by grace, the faith that He gives. The acceptable year of the Lord,
He came to do his father's will. He went on his way, and he finished
it. Praise God, he finished it. In full. It's done. Christ is enough. His grace is
sufficient. And he sits down. On his throne is our eternal
high priest. After the order of Melchizedek,
he rules and he reigns with all power. All power is given to
me by the Father in authority. All his enemies be made his footstool. That's how we have that hope
of glory in Him. That one day, He's going to come
again. And He's going to gather us all
together in Him. And we're going to know Him as
we are known. We're going to know Him as He
is. Without sin. Because He's put
it away. He's our mediator and our intercessor. Well, we don't even know how
to pray! But with moans that we can't even understand. God loves His Son and He loves
us in His Son. That blood, that ever-flowing
blood. He's our peace with God. He has made us one in Him. The
acceptable year of the Lord, He has made us acceptable. In
Him, He has made us acceptable to God. Made us one. Let that sink in. I can't, I
can't, I can't fathom it. It's too great for me. And He
is at rest. He's ruling and reigning, and
He's at rest. He's perfect rest. For all His work is done. And we rest in Him. Because He's
put us in Him. We're in Him, in heavenly places.
Because He accomplished it before the foundation of the world.
But He makes it known to us. He manifests Himself to us in
His own appointed time. When it pleases Him. Believe on Him, for He is worthy
of our praise. Rest in Him, for there is no
more work to be done. Stop trying. You couldn't please
God to begin with. You can't go and please Him now,
and you never will. Except in Him, except in His Son, covered
with that blood. That imputed righteousness of
Christ, given by God the Father, to all that He had chosen. He
died and he did it all. He did it all for us as our substitute. He is the anointed one of the
Father, full, full of the Spirit of the Lord. This day is the scripture fulfilled in
your ears. To God be the glory. Amen.