No Waiting in The Wilderness!

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No Waiting in The Wilderness!

April 6, 2025

Topic: blessed, confession, Faithfulness, Jesus, Joy, Savior, Son of Man, The Holy Spirit, The Lord's Benefits

Book: Matthew

Reverend Kirkpatrick Tyler

Scripture: Luke 4:13-20, Matthew 11:2-6

Scriptural Reading

Matthew 11:2-6 (New International Version)

²When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples ³to ask him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?”

⁴Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see: ⁵The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy^[a] are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. ⁶Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”

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Footnotes

Matthew 11:5 The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.

Sermonic Text

Luke 4:13-20 (New International Version)

¹³When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

¹⁴Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. ¹⁵He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.

¹⁶He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, ¹⁷and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
    because he has anointed me
    to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
    and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
¹⁹    to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”^[a]