The Bryce Crawford Podcast - Luke Series Chapter 4 (EP 58)

Episode Date: December 4, 2024

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to the fourth episode of the Luke Christmas series. I'm Bryce today. We're going to be going over Luke chapter 4, first by verse breakdown. It's going to be awesome. Before we get into it, guys, I have an amazing special announcement. We are doing our first live podcast show ever in Los Angeles, January 19th at 6 p.m. Guys, if you're in the Los Angeles area or if you're from out of the state and you want to come in, drive in, flying for the first ever live podcast show. It's going to be powerful. We're going to do worship. And I'm going to be bringing a word so specific to that night. I've been praying asking God, God, what do you have for the room? So if you guys want to come to our first live show ever, go to Jesus in the street.org slash tickets and get your live podcast show tickets. All the tickets help actually fund our ministry. They actually create the videos, the evangelism videos, the podcast videos, everything. So if you guys want to support our ministry, come to a live, version. We can hang out afterwards. It's going to be awesome. My dog, Moses will be there.

It's going to be amazing. Guys, come January 19th, Los Angeles, Brea Improv at 6 p.m. Go to Jesus in the street.org slash tickets to get your tickets. But speaking to jesusandestreet. dot org. If you just go to jesus and the street.org slash Luke, you can actually get the monthly devotional that you can print out and track your progress here. But let's get into Luke chapter four i'm super excited because now we're getting into jesus jesus is mobile and active right now and he's actually about to go into the desert for temptation so here we go and jesus full of the holy spirit returned from the jordan and was led by the spirit in the wilderness for 40 days being tempted by the devil and he ate nothing during those days and when they were ended he was hungry okay let's set

the seam here jesus and his humanity like any of us if they starve themselves for 40 days would be hungry. Jesus is hungry. What the perfect way for the devil to come in and tempt Jesus out of disobedience. Now, I also want to highlight something else. It says that Jesus was both full of the Holy Spirit and he was led by the Holy Spirit into a 40-day fast in the desert. And I think that's really powerful because when we do things led by the Spirit, we actually see the fruit of it in our lives when we're listening to the Spirit and what he has in store for us. Verse 3, the devil said to Him, If you are the son of God, command this stone to become bread. So Satan is first tempting him with a man-made need.

You're hungry, your God, you can turn that stone into bread and feed your hunger. You should do that. And Jesus responds with, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone. Jesus is a total gangster when he replies to the first temptation of the devil with man does not live by bread alone. Why? Jesus is in the desert, fasting for 40 days, and he is literally, commanding us today as Christians to do the very thing he's doing. He's quoting scripture to defend the temptations of the devil and he is encouraging us in his words, man, don't live by bread alone, but use the word of God to defeat temptation. He's telling us to do the very thing he's doing. So he's

not bossing us how to live our lives. He's actually the example showing us how to live our lives. So he rebukes the devil with the word of God because we know in Ephesians 6, what is the word of God? It's a sword of our spirit. It's the weapon. And my roommate and I were just talking. It's both offensive weapon and a defensive weapon. Like when we're getting attacked by the enemy, we submit to God and we use the word of God and the truth to actually set us free from the temptations of the devil. So that one didn't work. Verse 5 and the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment and said to him to you, I will give all this authority and their glory for it has been delivered to me. And I give it to whom I will. If you then

then, if you then will worship me, it will all be yours. So now the second thing Jesus is tempted with is with the glory of man. And we're about to watch Jesus deny the glory of man. And you might be asking yourself, as a logical thinker, why would Jesus Christ, if He's God, deny the glory of man? His initial mission on the earth wasn't to get glory first. Jesus's initial mission was to suffer first for the sins of the world, and then once he suffered, then he's glorified.

He receives the glory from the Father, and he receives the glory from man because he defeats the very thing that separates us from him, which is sin. So Jesus' initial mission is suffering first, but Satan is trying to tempt him with, hey, give me a moment of worship. He says, trade it all for just a moment of worship. Trade all of the suffering.

He's trying to give him a shortcut around the suffering. But Jesus says, you shall worship the Lord your God and serve him only. Jesus is worshiping God the Father by suffering first, fulfilling his earthly ministry calling, and then receiving the glory after he defeats sin and death on the cross. Then that didn't work. So in verse 9, and he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, if you're the son of God, throw yourself down from here. For it is written, he will command his angels concerning you to guard you,

and on their hands they will bear you up lest you strike your foot against the stone. Satan knows the Bible more than you think. This brother just quoted Psalm 91 to Jesus. He thinks he contempt Jesus Christ with Psalm 91. Now, why is it incorrect what Satan did? Satan quoted Psalm 91 out of context. He perverted Scripture. Satan's smart.

He knows Bible, but he can pervert Scripture to make it appear to you to justify your sin. So he's misquoting Psalm 91 of Jesus. and Jesus says, you shall not put the Lord your God to the test. Say, hey, look, listen, if you're really going to try Satan, actually test me with truth, not the perversion of truth. So it says after that in verse 13, and when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time. And we see this in James. When we submit to God, when we submit to His lordship, the teachings of scripture, we naturally resist the devil by submitting to God. And because we naturally resist the devil, He flees from us. We see the prime example here. And I also want to quote something here.

Jesus Christ, who was in the desert, defeated the temptations of Satan. But when you have Eve, who's in paradise, she loses to the temptations of the devil. So at the end of the day, it's not about the location where you're at, but it's about the decisions you make. You can be in paradise and still fall to sin. or you can be in a dry, barren wasteland and still defeat the temptations of the devil with the spirit of God. So don't make excuses for your sins saying, oh, well, if I was in this environment, I wouldn't have done it, or if I was in this environment, no, no, no. The Bible actually shows us that we can overcome temptation in any environment, any circumstance with the Spirit of God. I mean, 1st Corinthians tells us that no temptation has overtaken us.

That's not common to man, meaning that we can sympathize and empathize with each other because the devil has no new tricks. there's always a back door to sin and escape. Verse 14, and Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit of Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country, and he taught in their synagogues being glorified by all. Now, if you look back at that, some people may say, oh, well, he just received glory by man.

Well, at the end of the day, at the end of Jesus' earthly ministry, I mean, all those people that were glorifying him, like these people right here were the same people that crucified him and denied him at the end of the day. So when we're talking about glory of man, that Satan was proposing to him. He was trying to propose him like the fleshly glory of man. But Jesus is going to suffer in the world first.

What God the Father's will is for his life, he dies and when he resurrects, he will receive the glory from the Father, which is eternal, pure glory. Then he will receive glory from man in which they put their faith and trust in him. Jesus 16, I mean, first 16,

and he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. So Jesus of Nazareth is now in his hometown. We're about to read a really famous verse here, and we're going to break it down. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue, and on the Sabbath day he stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written.

Now he's about to quote, Isaiah 61, I believe. The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim the good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering the sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down.

And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. Let's stop right there. What did Jesus just read? Jesus just read aloud a prophecy about himself. When he says today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing, he is both saying, Isaiah, who did he write of? He wrote of me.

And when is this time period that's occurring? It's occurring now. Isaiah says the spirit of the Lord is upon me. the Spirit of the Lord is on Jesus Christ. And it says, he came to proclaim the goodness to the poor because sin impoverish his people. He came to proclaim liberty to the captives. Sin enslaves us to its desires. It recovers the sight to the blind.

Sin blinds us to set liberty at those who oppress, sin oppresses us and proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. He says, look, this prophet Isaiah, he's speaking of me right now. And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming out of his mouth. And then they said, is this not Joseph's son? So then they just doubted what he just said. And he goes, doubtless, you will quote to me this proverb. Physician, heal yourself. What have you, what have heard you did at Copernum do here in your hometown as well?

And he says, truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. Why is he saying this? It's not just like, oh, well, the place that you're born, people aren't going to like you. There's a reason he says this. Well, earlier they said, do the miracles you did in Copernum here. Now, obviously they're not recorded in the book of law. Luke, but there's many miracles that aren't recorded in today's history that Jesus did. There's not enough books that can put the miracles that he did in this lifetime together to record them.

And they're saying, look, we heard you did miracles, do them here. They're asking for special favors from Jesus just because they're from his hometown. And God is not showing partiality to any people. He doesn't show favoritism to anyone. But then they say, truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. He's saying this because even the people that you grow up to and are closest to, it's easiest for them to doubt you and doubt what the Lord's doing in your life because they're closer to you. It's easier for the people that you've surrounded yourself with all your life to doubt what the Lord's going to do in your life.

And so I'm going to like tell you guys right now that listen, we have to be careful and not get jealous and not get overrun by what's going on in the world. Because listen, here's the reality. People are going to doubt us, but we don't do things for the approval of man. We do it for the Lord. And then he gives an example here in the Old Testament. Testament example of how God doesn't show favoritism to just people, but he shows, he shows grace and mercy to Gentiles as well, because he says, in truth, I tell you there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over

all the land, and Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarifath in the land of Sidian, to a woman who was a widow, and there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elijah, and none of them was cleansed, but only name in the Syrian. He shows that even Gentiles. experience the miracles and power of God. It's not just people that he chooses favoritism to is for all people. When they heard these things and all the synagogue were filled with wrath and they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built so that they could throw him down the cliff but passing through their midst, he went

away. So Jesus is escaping a murderous mom. Then he goes to heal a demon with an unclean spirit. He went down to Copernum, city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath. and they were astonished at his teaching for the word possessed authority. And in the synagogue, there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

the truth will ruffle the feathers of the demons because they pervert truth. And when you walk in power and authority of the truth of the word of God, it will ruffle the feathers of demons. And the demon says, ha, what have you do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God. So even the demon acknowledges that Jesus is real. has authority. But Jesus rebuked him saying, be silent and come out of him. This shows the

quick authority. The demons have to flee and tremble at him. And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him having done him no harm. And they were all amazed and said to one another, what is this word? For with authority and power, he commands the unclean spirits and they come out and reports about him went out in every place in the surrounding region. And then he rose and let the synagogue and enter Simon's house of Simon Peter. Now Simon's mother-in-law was ill with the high fever and they appealed to him on her behalf and he stood over her and rebuked the fever and it left her and immediately she rose and began to serve them now i think it's crazy because not only did the demons listen to jesus but physical sicknesses have to obey jesus even the rocks cry out and worship

jesus all of creation has to obey jesus because he has an ultimate authority verse 40 now when the sun was setting all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. And demons also came out of many crying, you were the son of God, but he rebuked them and they would not allow them to speak because they knew that he was a Christ. Verse 42 to close. And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. I love how Jesus is always running from the crowds more than he is running to them. He prioritizes solitude with the Lord, led by the spirit in the desert, led by the spirit in the desert with God the Father. and now he's going into a desolate place,

but the people sought after him. And a lot of these people that would seek Jesus when he's trying to escape and get lone time with the father, they weren't seeking him for intimacy with him. They were seeking the benefits that come from him. They just wanted miracles. They wanted the benefits of the kingdom without the king. It says, and the people sought him and came to him

and would have kept him from leaving them. But he said to them, I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well, for I was sent for this purpose. and he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea. Man, this is powerful. We see Jesus resists the temptations of the devil in the desert with the word of God. Then we see Jesus uses authority.

He says, hey, look, Isaiah, the guy that he's talking about, the Messiah in this passage, I am he, and this time period is now. The time has come where I'm coming to set people free from their sin. And he goes and heals people with demons and sets people free of demons, sets people free of physical ailments, healing the sick. Now we're about to watch Jesus in chapter 5 where he's going to call the first disciples.

He's going to cleanse a leper. He's going to heal a paralytic. He's going to call Levi, who we know as Matthew in today's day and age, and we're going to hear a question about fasting in chapter 5. Guys, I pray that this series is blessing you guys. I look forward to

tomorrow in Luke chapter 5 as we break it down. I love you guys. Come out to the live show in Los Angeles, January 19th. Jesus in the street.org slash tickets. And if you guys want to print out to follow along on the Luke plan, go to Jesus and the street.org slash Luke and get the free Bible plan today. Love you guys. Bless you guys.

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