1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,320 Morning everyone. It's good to see everyone here 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,480 this morning. This morning we're just going to 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:08,560 talk a little bit about Jesus. Very simple lesson. 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,320 The Bible says that Matthew chapter 21, verse 11. 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:18,320 So the multitude said this is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:23,640 of Galilee, Jesus of Nazareth. So where was he from? 7 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,280 Did the study I got to thinking about all the memories so many 8 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,790 I've etched in my mind. Remember the schools I was 9 00:00:31,790 --> 00:00:35,390 raised in, the world I was raised in, the schools I went to 10 00:00:35,390 --> 00:00:38,070 the holidays, we celebrated the holidays. 11 00:00:38,070 --> 00:00:41,350 Others celebrated many events in my young life. 12 00:00:42,470 --> 00:00:44,750 I was raised in the church. I remember the church at Linwood 13 00:00:44,750 --> 00:00:48,310 when I was really small people. There were the Warwicks, the 14 00:00:48,310 --> 00:00:52,270 Cohes and the Foxes as a little kid. 15 00:00:52,750 --> 00:00:55,110 Churches at Montebello and Cypress, those churches, I 16 00:00:55,110 --> 00:00:57,030 remember those. I grew up all through my teenage 17 00:00:57,030 --> 00:00:59,660 years. Another affected me in my life. 18 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:02,860 I grew up. I remember the diet we had. 19 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:06,460 Mom was from Oklahoma, had some of the red beans, corbread. 20 00:01:06,460 --> 00:01:15,380 I was raised that kind of world. I was raised him and all the 21 00:01:15,380 --> 00:01:17,300 blue collar kind of people I was raised with. 22 00:01:17,300 --> 00:01:21,340 My dad was a mechanic. It was so my grandpa worked the 23 00:01:21,380 --> 00:01:24,540 oil fields, Jack stock up, We all know him. 24 00:01:24,540 --> 00:01:27,510 Those kind of people I was raised with, the blue collar 25 00:01:27,510 --> 00:01:31,790 type of folks, remember the government as I was being 26 00:01:31,790 --> 00:01:34,590 raised. There was impact in my life. 27 00:01:34,590 --> 00:01:38,750 The sassage, President Kennedy, troubles in Vietnam, at home and 28 00:01:38,750 --> 00:01:40,430 abroad. Remember those things, 29 00:01:41,270 --> 00:01:43,990 Resignation of President Nixon. I remember that. 30 00:01:45,230 --> 00:01:47,310 Remember all the families of my life at the time and their 31 00:01:47,310 --> 00:01:51,310 political views. We can all look back, reflect on 32 00:01:51,310 --> 00:01:55,030 the cultures we were raised in and those around us and our 33 00:01:55,030 --> 00:01:57,870 families and our neighbors and our friends and the values that 34 00:01:57,870 --> 00:02:01,190 made us who we are, kind of made them who they are, how it kind 35 00:02:01,190 --> 00:02:04,270 of formed them. Look at other folks. 36 00:02:04,270 --> 00:02:07,150 If any of them have lived a long way from home, where they were 37 00:02:07,150 --> 00:02:12,510 raised and how they're affected by their younger years, their 38 00:02:12,510 --> 00:02:18,310 hometown, their home, church, their family might say they're 39 00:02:18,310 --> 00:02:21,430 raising the old saying. You can take the kid out of the 40 00:02:21,430 --> 00:02:23,750 hills, but you can't take the hills out of the kid. 41 00:02:24,370 --> 00:02:28,250 They're just a little bit of truth in that many of our lives 42 00:02:28,250 --> 00:02:31,050 are defined by the circle of culture which were brought up in 43 00:02:32,650 --> 00:02:33,810 around here. Look at all the Depression 44 00:02:33,810 --> 00:02:36,890 people, all the similarities they have, how much they're 45 00:02:36,890 --> 00:02:40,450 alike, how affected them in all their older years. 46 00:02:41,530 --> 00:02:44,090 It was one of those sailors said his navigational chart was 47 00:02:44,090 --> 00:02:48,730 established in his childhood. Tom Brokaw wrote a book called A 48 00:02:48,730 --> 00:02:52,050 Long Way From Home. In that book he quoted, this 49 00:02:52,930 --> 00:02:57,010 could not be the man I was I am could not be the man I am today 50 00:02:57,010 --> 00:03:01,690 with the boy I was yesterday in a fireplace a long time ago. 51 00:03:02,530 --> 00:03:05,250 He's raised in South Dakota, long ways to New York. 52 00:03:05,250 --> 00:03:09,410 The question this morning is we were thought about Jesus in that 53 00:03:09,410 --> 00:03:11,650 way. What shaped him? 54 00:03:12,490 --> 00:03:16,530 We know he was the son of God, but he's also a man like us. 55 00:03:17,130 --> 00:03:20,860 Hebrews 4 and 15 The Bible says we do not have a high priest who 56 00:03:20,860 --> 00:03:24,460 cannot sympathize in our weakness, but was in all points 57 00:03:24,460 --> 00:03:31,060 tempted as we are, yet without sin, tipping always like we are. 58 00:03:31,940 --> 00:03:35,180 He understands us. He was affected by things like 59 00:03:35,180 --> 00:03:38,900 we are. John 1135 Jesus wept. 60 00:03:39,620 --> 00:03:44,180 He had emotions. He showed like us in many ways. 61 00:03:45,660 --> 00:03:47,500 He was raised from a child to a man. 62 00:03:47,930 --> 00:03:49,850 We know what was common and normal for us. 63 00:03:50,330 --> 00:03:53,410 What was common, normal for Jesus that he's being raised? 64 00:03:54,490 --> 00:03:56,330 Did his raising affect his adult life? 65 00:03:57,370 --> 00:03:59,130 What kind of environment did he come from? 66 00:03:59,130 --> 00:04:04,170 We're going to discuss his human element, you might say this 67 00:04:04,170 --> 00:04:07,410 morning, or to cover some questions in his life. 68 00:04:07,410 --> 00:04:11,650 This in the lesson, for example, Nazareth. 69 00:04:11,650 --> 00:04:15,490 What kind of town was it? What type of life was it in 70 00:04:15,490 --> 00:04:19,310 Jesus's day? The government in his day and 71 00:04:19,310 --> 00:04:23,270 time, His town's relationship with government, the influence 72 00:04:23,270 --> 00:04:26,790 of government in his daytoday life, A little bit about the 73 00:04:26,790 --> 00:04:30,710 family, Joseph and Mary's. He's being raised. 74 00:04:32,030 --> 00:04:36,070 How did a couple raise Jesus at a time like this where you talk 75 00:04:36,070 --> 00:04:39,470 about where Jesus came from and maybe we will see how his past 76 00:04:39,470 --> 00:04:42,630 effect is some of his life in his later years, maybe some of 77 00:04:42,630 --> 00:04:43,990 his teachings. We'll get to that. 78 00:04:45,060 --> 00:04:46,500 Reconstruct and dig down a little bit. 79 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:49,180 All the evidence I can find is scripture, archaeology and 80 00:04:49,180 --> 00:04:54,500 history about Nazareth. Modern day Nazareth is a very 81 00:04:54,500 --> 00:04:59,340 busy tourist city. Being hometown Jesus is a 82 00:04:59,340 --> 00:05:01,140 pilgrimage for many, many people. 83 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:05,900 People go there to see where Jesus grew up by souvenirs and 84 00:05:05,900 --> 00:05:10,660 the vendors look at the sites. Modern day Nazareth, there's a 85 00:05:10,660 --> 00:05:13,990 lot to see there. There's a place there in a 86 00:05:13,990 --> 00:05:17,950 church that said the Angel Gabriel came down and then he 87 00:05:17,950 --> 00:05:19,950 told Mary. But the divine conception, 88 00:05:20,390 --> 00:05:21,830 whether it's true or not, we don't know. 89 00:05:21,830 --> 00:05:26,710 But that's more they have there. It's noisy city with a mix of 90 00:05:26,710 --> 00:05:29,310 Palestinian Christians and Christian Muslims. 91 00:05:29,310 --> 00:05:32,190 One part of the city Jews have different sects. 92 00:05:32,190 --> 00:05:36,790 In another part of the city it is separately for satellite 93 00:05:36,790 --> 00:05:39,630 dishes, construction sites, heavy traffic, lot of 94 00:05:39,630 --> 00:05:45,290 Mercedes-Benz cars, KF C's cell phones, Hopkin double parked 95 00:05:45,290 --> 00:05:49,930 cars like you would think. Very busy place, not much in 96 00:05:49,930 --> 00:05:55,930 common with current Nazareth and the Nazareth of Jesus 20th 97 00:05:55,930 --> 00:05:59,050 century. Separate the two layers of 98 00:05:59,050 --> 00:06:00,810 debris of all type are stacked over. 99 00:06:02,050 --> 00:06:07,010 It's quite a job to uproot and find the town which is Galilean. 100 00:06:07,010 --> 00:06:14,110 Roots were and John 145 and 46. The Bible says this. 101 00:06:15,670 --> 00:06:19,430 Philip found Nathaniel. Nathaniel said to him, We have 102 00:06:19,430 --> 00:06:23,110 found him of whom Moses is the Moses is is in the law. 103 00:06:23,990 --> 00:06:27,750 And also the prophets wrote Jesus of Nazareth, the son of 104 00:06:27,750 --> 00:06:30,830 Joseph. Nathaniel said to him, Did you 105 00:06:30,830 --> 00:06:35,230 think good come of Nazareth? You think good come of Nazareth? 106 00:06:35,910 --> 00:06:40,030 Sounds like an insult to me. Why do you think you said this? 107 00:06:40,030 --> 00:06:43,910 Did they have a bad reputation or just not have any reputation 108 00:06:43,910 --> 00:06:46,910 at all? Outside the Gospels, early 109 00:06:46,910 --> 00:06:49,550 Christian texts, there's no record before the Emperor 110 00:06:49,550 --> 00:06:53,990 Constantine of the city of Nazareth at all Is ever 111 00:06:53,990 --> 00:06:56,550 mentioned by Jewish rabbis in history during discussing the 112 00:06:56,550 --> 00:06:58,790 Talmud. It's not there. 113 00:06:59,390 --> 00:07:01,790 They mentioned 63 other Galilean towns. 114 00:07:02,830 --> 00:07:06,510 They don't mention Nazareth Josephus, who we all pretty much 115 00:07:06,510 --> 00:07:09,910 know about. In his writings he mentions 45 116 00:07:09,910 --> 00:07:12,730 sites in Galilee. He never misses Nazareth. 117 00:07:14,930 --> 00:07:18,850 It's almost like it's never never known in significant town. 118 00:07:19,410 --> 00:07:21,090 It's not mentioned in the Old Testament. 119 00:07:22,330 --> 00:07:25,570 There's nothing connecting Nazareth to God's messianic 120 00:07:25,570 --> 00:07:29,650 plan. The discussion we saw here, we 121 00:07:29,650 --> 00:07:32,210 see here in John one between Philip and Nathaniel. 122 00:07:32,970 --> 00:07:36,050 That's his statement only makes sense in the conversation 123 00:07:36,050 --> 00:07:37,570 they're having about the Messiah. 124 00:07:38,450 --> 00:07:42,180 Nathaniel sees no connection between Nazareth and God's 125 00:07:42,180 --> 00:07:45,060 Mitziani plan, but I think it can come from Nazareth. 126 00:07:46,820 --> 00:07:50,900 This should be no surprise. At that time, like now, writing 127 00:07:51,020 --> 00:07:54,500 and political power and upper class activity. 128 00:07:56,020 --> 00:07:58,340 Those who learned to read and write were the rulers, the 129 00:07:58,340 --> 00:08:02,620 wealthy, the scribes, the like like that, not someone from 130 00:08:02,620 --> 00:08:08,380 Nazareth. The elite cared little about the 131 00:08:08,380 --> 00:08:10,740 majority of the people. What went on, the small areas, 132 00:08:10,780 --> 00:08:14,180 rural villages and countryside towns are truly what was what 133 00:08:14,180 --> 00:08:19,100 Nazareth was and we shall see. Nazareth was basically a peasant 134 00:08:19,100 --> 00:08:21,900 town. The population of about 2000, 135 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:24,500 give or take, depends on which period scholar you read. 136 00:08:24,780 --> 00:08:27,100 That's about what it was. I'd just say about 2000. 137 00:08:28,100 --> 00:08:32,419 The Jewish village adhering to what was called temple oriented 138 00:08:32,419 --> 00:08:36,020 Judaism which we get to in a few minutes, we talked about Jesus 139 00:08:36,020 --> 00:08:43,659 is the religion in Jesus's time. So basically Jesus was a Jewish 140 00:08:43,659 --> 00:08:48,420 peasant background summer to many we know today like saying 141 00:08:48,420 --> 00:08:52,340 he was from Arvin pretty much our home like he was in Sanger. 142 00:08:53,020 --> 00:08:55,460 Sanger is close to Fresno. Arvin is close to Bakersfield. 143 00:08:56,020 --> 00:08:58,340 LA could be the Jerusalem, you know that's that's kind of the 144 00:08:58,340 --> 00:09:03,060 way the situation it was a little town like that look at me 145 00:09:03,060 --> 00:09:05,840 the heritage here today. Dust Bowl people and look at 146 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:07,280 some of the folks that I've known my life. 147 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:13,080 We all know our history you know mine love a labor lot know know 148 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,520 it's like not have much. That's kind of where Jesus came 149 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:21,880 from. A peasant at the time of Jesus 150 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,640 in a town like Nazareth have little time to read or write. 151 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:29,240 Usually, as I said before that multi upperclass people, they go 152 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:33,190 to the temple but their daytoday life is usually pretty busy, but 153 00:09:33,190 --> 00:09:37,070 mostly work in the land. Many were farmers, some are 154 00:09:37,070 --> 00:09:41,670 tradesmen, some are merchants. We'll discuss this later. 155 00:09:41,670 --> 00:09:44,070 How it's evident in his teachings, his dialogue. 156 00:09:45,030 --> 00:09:47,630 We're having knowledge of some of these things, the temple 157 00:09:47,790 --> 00:09:51,830 agriculture, things like that. Pretty much. 158 00:09:51,910 --> 00:09:53,790 Most think there was a Rock Corey nearby. 159 00:09:53,870 --> 00:09:57,190 There's a town by there ever. The rock quarry has been found. 160 00:09:57,950 --> 00:10:03,090 Some anatomy may have worked at that rock quarry, had rocks from 161 00:10:03,090 --> 00:10:05,210 that rock quarry and they may have been manufactured there in 162 00:10:05,210 --> 00:10:08,610 Nazareth. We don't know hills. 163 00:10:08,610 --> 00:10:11,690 It was a Carpenter at the time. Being a Carpenter consisted more 164 00:10:11,690 --> 00:10:13,530 than hammer and nails and it does today. 165 00:10:13,530 --> 00:10:18,530 At the time many skills were involved, working from stone, 166 00:10:18,610 --> 00:10:22,410 the abundance of stone nearby, maybe making farm implements, 167 00:10:23,130 --> 00:10:28,170 plows, ox carts, furniture, maybe tooling other necessities. 168 00:10:28,490 --> 00:10:34,140 Similar to the the blacksmith of our the past years, me and me. 169 00:10:34,140 --> 00:10:37,900 And this economic level they struggled, was trying to make 170 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:41,380 the ends meet, had to pay taxes, which was a great big deal back 171 00:10:41,380 --> 00:10:48,620 then, and live in what was left. In archaeological digs around 172 00:10:48,620 --> 00:10:51,020 Nazareth they found cups and bowls out of limestone. 173 00:10:51,020 --> 00:10:56,380 Nearby they found wood, cups, little bowls as evidence they've 174 00:10:56,380 --> 00:10:58,620 been turned on lays. They have a centering point in 175 00:10:58,620 --> 00:11:00,730 them. They might think back then they 176 00:11:00,730 --> 00:11:03,890 might not have had lays. Well, I got documentation in my 177 00:11:03,890 --> 00:11:05,890 Bible here. It's back to 300 BC. 178 00:11:05,890 --> 00:11:09,130 That evidence of lays called rope lays. 179 00:11:09,170 --> 00:11:12,210 They had the string lays. So they may not be as primitive 180 00:11:12,210 --> 00:11:15,050 back then as we think of the things they found. 181 00:11:17,810 --> 00:11:20,090 No lays have been found there. We know they exist. 182 00:11:21,730 --> 00:11:24,930 We can tell they're not rich or fluent by the not only by the 183 00:11:24,930 --> 00:11:28,030 way Mary and Joseph lived or where they lived, but by the 184 00:11:28,030 --> 00:11:30,550 journey to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. 185 00:11:31,550 --> 00:11:33,030 Most of you're familiar with this story. 186 00:11:33,950 --> 00:11:38,830 Bethlehem was about 75 miles or so South of Nazareth, with Mary 187 00:11:38,830 --> 00:11:41,150 being that far along. Think about it, your wife being 188 00:11:41,150 --> 00:11:44,070 nine months pregnant, putting her on a donkey or ox cart and 189 00:11:44,070 --> 00:11:46,590 taking her 75 miles away in some dirt Rd. 190 00:11:47,510 --> 00:11:49,790 It really wouldn't be the thing you would want to do. 191 00:11:49,790 --> 00:11:53,630 You'd want to stay home, but they had to go when they went. 192 00:11:53,630 --> 00:11:56,110 There's no place to stay. They stayed in a in a Manger 193 00:11:57,630 --> 00:11:58,830 doing now what we do about Nazareth. 194 00:11:58,830 --> 00:12:03,510 It may not be surprising person of Nazareth living where they 195 00:12:03,510 --> 00:12:06,310 live come to where they went for an official visit. 196 00:12:08,310 --> 00:12:11,110 Yes, if they're upper wealthy class things may have been 197 00:12:11,110 --> 00:12:14,270 different. Money talk then just as it does 198 00:12:14,270 --> 00:12:16,750 now. Connections counted. 199 00:12:16,750 --> 00:12:20,110 Then just say do now. Obviously Joseph didn't have 200 00:12:20,110 --> 00:12:29,080 money, didn't have connections. There are many, there have been 201 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,600 many archaeological digs around the Nazareth area. 202 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,240 There's a town 4 miles north of Nazareth called Sephorest. 203 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:39,440 They've done a lot of digs around that place. 204 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:42,760 It's one of herd's so-called capitals. 205 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:47,440 Herd had like palaces of forest. It was a Jewish town with the 206 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,840 Roman presence. So they had the Roman overseers 207 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,000 seeing even though it was a Jewish town, they were doing 208 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,720 their best. It said the town resembled a 209 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:59,430 miniature Cesaria. They found evidence of over 20 210 00:12:59,430 --> 00:13:04,470 baths, fancy house with mosaic floors, plastered walls some 211 00:13:04,470 --> 00:13:08,590 even two-story a lot of air coins in there in the in the 212 00:13:08,590 --> 00:13:13,310 area when they dug it up you can tell what's found by what type 213 00:13:13,310 --> 00:13:15,990 of city it was. The people that live there and 214 00:13:15,990 --> 00:13:19,910 NASA for example we know is this Jewish settlement died of a 215 00:13:19,910 --> 00:13:21,670 Jewish peasant was simple and small. 216 00:13:22,350 --> 00:13:25,790 The main foods were probably bread, olives, grapes, simple 217 00:13:25,790 --> 00:13:28,750 things like that. Lentil soup, maybe some nuts and 218 00:13:28,750 --> 00:13:33,870 cheese, depending on the season. Meat was occasionally there with 219 00:13:33,870 --> 00:13:36,910 fish, mutton and goat. Remember, they were Jews. 220 00:13:37,190 --> 00:13:40,270 Ada's Jews did. No pig bones were found in those 221 00:13:40,270 --> 00:13:42,750 digs. Other animal bones were, but not 222 00:13:42,750 --> 00:13:45,950 pig bones. Meat was not probably every 223 00:13:45,950 --> 00:13:49,470 meal, maybe on a special occasion when they had it. 224 00:13:51,070 --> 00:13:53,990 Dig the rich political figures, dig in places like sephorest. 225 00:13:53,990 --> 00:13:57,440 Things were different. Different findings and remains. 226 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:01,160 You find different things, evidence of a diet being 227 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,800 different, clothing being different, even finding jewelry. 228 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:09,960 Some of the grave sites, you didn't find any ivory when they 229 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,680 dig it at Nazareth. You didn't find things like that 230 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,560 those day and times. And as a peasant, a case of the 231 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,760 flu or an abscid tooth, an affection like that could kill 232 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,960 you. There's a remedy for those 233 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:29,040 things. Life expectancy was was less 234 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,920 than it is now, even less than it was in the urban areas. 235 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,960 The more populated areas, they had to work harder. 236 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,720 They weren't cared for as well. Childhood death was common. 237 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:42,320 Think about the risk of traveling when Jesus is a 238 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,360 newborn. Remember, they went to Egypt 239 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,720 after he was born as a newborn had traveled all way to Egypt. 240 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,400 As a parent, think of your concerns and the faith that took 241 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,050 to do those things. Scholars figured about half the 242 00:14:57,050 --> 00:15:00,610 children at that time died in infancy, and maybe half of those 243 00:15:00,610 --> 00:15:03,170 lived to adulthood. They didn't make it to 244 00:15:03,170 --> 00:15:05,370 adulthood. They died too. 245 00:15:08,730 --> 00:15:12,610 He went famous, come from Nazareth, didn't seem so 246 00:15:14,850 --> 00:15:17,570 unknown. Village folks who lived close to 247 00:15:17,570 --> 00:15:20,770 the edge didn't travel much. Famous people didn't come from 248 00:15:20,770 --> 00:15:26,050 places like Nazareth. The famous were the Jews, 249 00:15:26,050 --> 00:15:29,810 Jerusalem and people like that. And there exists a circle is 250 00:15:29,810 --> 00:15:35,610 pretty inclusive. Luke chapter 2, verse of 41 251 00:15:35,610 --> 00:15:38,930 through 52. The Bible says this. 252 00:15:40,810 --> 00:15:42,690 His parents went to Jerusalem every year. 253 00:15:42,690 --> 00:15:45,450 Remember this Jerusalem every year at the feast of the 254 00:15:45,450 --> 00:15:49,410 Passover and when he was 12 years old they went up to 255 00:15:49,410 --> 00:15:51,810 Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast. 256 00:15:52,370 --> 00:15:54,450 When they finished the days they returned. 257 00:15:54,970 --> 00:15:58,410 The boy Jesus lingered behind in Jerusalem, and Joseph and his 258 00:15:58,410 --> 00:16:01,570 mother did not know it. But but supposing him who have 259 00:16:01,570 --> 00:16:04,610 been in the company, they want a day's journey, and sought him 260 00:16:04,610 --> 00:16:08,610 among their relatives and acquaintances, so they so when 261 00:16:08,610 --> 00:16:11,090 they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking 262 00:16:11,090 --> 00:16:14,370 him. So now it was. 263 00:16:14,370 --> 00:16:17,010 And after three days he found him in the temple, sitting in 264 00:16:17,010 --> 00:16:19,770 the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking 265 00:16:19,770 --> 00:16:22,330 them questions. And all who heard him were 266 00:16:22,330 --> 00:16:24,610 astonished at his understanding and answers. 267 00:16:25,210 --> 00:16:26,970 So when they saw him, they were amazed. 268 00:16:26,970 --> 00:16:30,610 And his mother said to him, Son, why have you done this to us? 269 00:16:31,250 --> 00:16:33,770 Look, your father and I have sought you anxiously. 270 00:16:34,450 --> 00:16:36,730 And he said to them, Why do you seek me? 271 00:16:37,250 --> 00:16:39,170 Did you not know? That must be about my father's 272 00:16:39,170 --> 00:16:41,850 business? But they did not understand the 273 00:16:41,850 --> 00:16:43,410 statement which he spoke to them. 274 00:16:44,130 --> 00:16:46,250 Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was 275 00:16:46,250 --> 00:16:48,770 subject to them. His mother kept these things in 276 00:16:48,770 --> 00:16:53,600 her heart that Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and favor 277 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:59,000 with God and men. This amazement was not only he 278 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,480 was 12, but gift. Nazareth with his background 279 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,760 could be so smart in the scriptures, he could be so 280 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:11,640 informed 12 years old. Imagine he asked him who he was, 281 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:15,400 where he was from at 12. Did Jesus know how to read? 282 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:17,200 It doesn't say. Really. 283 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:21,710 He read it, says he. He discussed the scriptures with 284 00:17:21,710 --> 00:17:24,710 them. The reason with them, That's 285 00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:27,829 amazing. 12 years old. Where would that knowledge come 286 00:17:27,829 --> 00:17:30,390 from? Being a Nazareth nor formal 287 00:17:30,390 --> 00:17:34,630 teaching or training? He had them shaking their heads. 288 00:17:35,870 --> 00:17:38,710 I just wonder where these guys were 22 years later. 289 00:17:38,710 --> 00:17:41,430 Jesus started as ministry. Did some of them remember Jesus? 290 00:17:42,150 --> 00:17:44,910 Did Jesus remember? Some of them remember every year 291 00:17:44,910 --> 00:17:47,900 it said they went, there's a familiarity with this. 292 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:49,300 We'll get to this later in the lesson. 293 00:17:50,220 --> 00:17:53,620 So when he 22 years later, when he or 20 years later, he's 12 294 00:17:53,620 --> 00:17:55,820 here. So our mystery is 30. 295 00:17:56,420 --> 00:17:59,580 These guys in the temple, you're so amazed at him this year. 296 00:17:59,580 --> 00:18:01,060 Were there other years like this? 297 00:18:02,180 --> 00:18:04,060 So Jesus probably knew some of these people. 298 00:18:04,060 --> 00:18:07,060 He touched me through later on his life from his earlier years. 299 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:09,700 He knew how it worked. He knew how it was in Jerusalem. 300 00:18:10,220 --> 00:18:13,020 He had a history, you might say, of being in the temple and with 301 00:18:13,020 --> 00:18:18,430 some of those people there. Sorry. 302 00:18:18,430 --> 00:18:20,710 Also in the cage is probably dangerous traveling then. 303 00:18:20,830 --> 00:18:22,470 That's one reason why they did in groups. 304 00:18:22,790 --> 00:18:25,670 He's looking out for the other kind of the wagon trains. 305 00:18:26,110 --> 00:18:28,190 And the old was to see in the movies, all the wagon trains 306 00:18:28,190 --> 00:18:29,750 circle the wagons. We all know about that for 307 00:18:29,750 --> 00:18:32,430 protection. The same principle was there. 308 00:18:33,390 --> 00:18:35,950 We had Indians then, but that time they had bandits just like 309 00:18:35,950 --> 00:18:38,910 they've had all over the place. Like they have many places right 310 00:18:38,910 --> 00:18:40,590 now. We'll ambush you on your 311 00:18:40,590 --> 00:18:42,350 journeys. If you're out, away from 312 00:18:42,350 --> 00:18:46,250 everywhere, you pop it just together. 313 00:18:46,250 --> 00:18:48,890 Each time they went for safety and to make it easier in each 314 00:18:48,890 --> 00:18:52,810 other, it mentions their relatives and acquaintances. 315 00:18:53,530 --> 00:18:56,170 They had relatives. We know Jesus had siblings. 316 00:18:56,450 --> 00:18:57,850 We'll get to that in a few minutes. 317 00:18:57,850 --> 00:19:01,490 He had four brothers, at least two sisters, because it says 318 00:19:01,490 --> 00:19:03,770 sisters. It mentions a plural, so at 319 00:19:03,770 --> 00:19:06,090 least six. There may have been others. 320 00:19:06,090 --> 00:19:12,050 We don't know those things, but imagine as a parent you worries 321 00:19:12,050 --> 00:19:16,170 the concerns traveling a day and time like that with that many 322 00:19:16,210 --> 00:19:17,850 children. What would you be thinking? 323 00:19:21,970 --> 00:19:24,050 We don't know how much other travel Jesus did in his early 324 00:19:24,050 --> 00:19:26,170 years. We know they went to Egypt and 325 00:19:26,170 --> 00:19:29,010 back when he was the baby figured they were in Egypt about 326 00:19:29,010 --> 00:19:32,330 two years. So he's just a toddler when they 327 00:19:32,330 --> 00:19:35,210 came back from Egypt. That's also probably a rough 328 00:19:35,210 --> 00:19:37,330 journey. Also remember the life 329 00:19:37,330 --> 00:19:42,980 expectancy of a child, the risks they were taking, you know, 330 00:19:42,980 --> 00:19:45,380 traveling we don't know about. Maybe they went up to sephoras 331 00:19:45,380 --> 00:19:48,380 because it was close by, maybe it was just 4 miles north. 332 00:19:48,420 --> 00:19:53,060 That's not very far. May went there to conduct 333 00:19:53,060 --> 00:19:55,900 business, deal with the Romans. Sometimes. 334 00:19:56,900 --> 00:19:59,700 Joseph was a Carpenter, trained his training, his sons be 335 00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:01,140 Carpenter. May went there for work. 336 00:20:01,180 --> 00:20:04,060 A lot of construction there and if you missed we'll find out. 337 00:20:04,060 --> 00:20:07,460 There was an amphitheater there. There's always 20 bass, a lot of 338 00:20:07,460 --> 00:20:09,420 things going on. They may went there for labor. 339 00:20:09,820 --> 00:20:16,460 We really don't know. Another way to find the economic 340 00:20:16,460 --> 00:20:21,260 level, the life of people there is look at material and those 341 00:20:21,260 --> 00:20:24,260 digs are not common, not from the area. 342 00:20:25,060 --> 00:20:27,900 As I said, like you didn't find ivory and Nazareth. 343 00:20:28,740 --> 00:20:33,340 These are pottery, jewelry, perfume containers, glassware, 344 00:20:33,780 --> 00:20:37,780 period cones, things important. None of this was found in 345 00:20:37,780 --> 00:20:39,460 Nazareth. What they found in Nazareth are 346 00:20:39,460 --> 00:20:44,940 things made of local materials he's made in the area, which may 347 00:20:44,940 --> 00:20:48,340 be that quarry nearby. There are no grand tombs found, 348 00:20:48,980 --> 00:20:53,780 no great engravings found, no grand homes or palaces found, 349 00:20:54,220 --> 00:20:56,020 none of those things, None of those ruins. 350 00:20:56,340 --> 00:20:59,300 There's evidence of simple people with simple lives. 351 00:21:01,020 --> 00:21:03,660 That's the world Jesus was in, in Nazareth. 352 00:21:06,350 --> 00:21:09,270 People asked, was Jesus a Carpenter when he was young? 353 00:21:10,150 --> 00:21:12,070 The Bible says marked six and three. 354 00:21:12,070 --> 00:21:13,790 This word talks to his brothers and sisters. 355 00:21:13,790 --> 00:21:17,470 It says it's not this the Carpenter, the son of Mary, 356 00:21:17,750 --> 00:21:22,430 brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon are not his sisters 357 00:21:22,430 --> 00:21:25,110 here with us, so they offended him. 358 00:21:25,630 --> 00:21:30,670 Is this not the Carpenter? That time in the Jewish world is 359 00:21:30,670 --> 00:21:35,310 common to train your sons in a trade, preferably traded the 360 00:21:35,310 --> 00:21:38,050 father. It was only calmer him to do 361 00:21:38,050 --> 00:21:40,170 this. All Jews were taught to be able 362 00:21:40,170 --> 00:21:44,290 to take care of themselves. The Apostle Paul in Acts chapter 363 00:21:44,290 --> 00:21:46,730 18, verse three talks about being a tent maker. 364 00:21:47,490 --> 00:21:48,930 The Apostle Paul was a Pharisees. 365 00:21:48,930 --> 00:21:51,530 The Pharisees that he was a tent maker. 366 00:21:51,530 --> 00:21:54,690 He knew a trade in the craft. There's not that unusual the 367 00:21:54,690 --> 00:21:57,170 time to do that. So yes, Jesus, no, he was the 368 00:21:57,170 --> 00:21:59,810 father Carpenter. He was a Carpenter because it 369 00:21:59,810 --> 00:22:02,090 was a normal thing. His normal, remember, is 370 00:22:02,090 --> 00:22:05,170 different than ours. The time to do that, be able to 371 00:22:05,170 --> 00:22:06,370 have a way to take care of yourself. 372 00:22:10,050 --> 00:22:12,290 Nazareth did not attract attention. 373 00:22:12,290 --> 00:22:15,530 Become a historical site to app. The conversion of Constantine 374 00:22:15,530 --> 00:22:19,570 and 312AD. That's almost 300 years at the 375 00:22:19,570 --> 00:22:22,250 death of Christ, before people ever thought about going to 376 00:22:22,250 --> 00:22:25,050 Nazareth. Being a pilgrimage place. 377 00:22:25,210 --> 00:22:28,930 It still wasn't that popular even after Jesus died for 378 00:22:28,930 --> 00:22:35,240 hundreds of years. Religion in Jesus's day, Time of 379 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:36,840 Jesus, the temple of Jeruism had. 380 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,840 I didn't write this, but the guys call it priesthood 381 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,560 dominated Jewish religion. That's what the experts call it. 382 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,400 Which means basically the priestess ran everything. 383 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,160 The Pharisees are the most influential priests of the time. 384 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:55,280 Most religious leaders described the scholars, the Pharisees, and 385 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:59,600 lived in urban settings. You might say some are wealthy. 386 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,450 They're sure not poor. Many had enough support to 387 00:23:02,450 --> 00:23:05,170 write, perform tasks for the temple and for the people. 388 00:23:06,730 --> 00:23:09,130 Many were well known. They're popular with the people 389 00:23:09,130 --> 00:23:10,490 prominent. Many gatherings. 390 00:23:10,490 --> 00:23:13,690 They had people you wanted to have at your gatherings because 391 00:23:13,690 --> 00:23:16,410 of who they were. Pomp and circumstance was 392 00:23:16,410 --> 00:23:20,170 evident at that time. In the synagogue's outlying 393 00:23:20,170 --> 00:23:23,850 areas like Nazareth or gathering place for the community. 394 00:23:24,210 --> 00:23:27,810 Which marriages were done, Circumcisions, done, meetings, 395 00:23:27,810 --> 00:23:33,110 held, things like that. All the scriptures read out loud 396 00:23:33,110 --> 00:23:36,430 from Hebrew to Arabic. Whatever the whole language was 397 00:23:36,430 --> 00:23:40,070 usually Arabic in Jesus. This time elders were consulted, 398 00:23:40,630 --> 00:23:44,110 traditions talked about. Traditions were a lot bigger 399 00:23:44,110 --> 00:23:47,190 thing then than they are now. Now people kind of just do what 400 00:23:47,190 --> 00:23:50,830 they want to do, kind of ignore traditions of their parents or 401 00:23:50,830 --> 00:23:53,790 their families. Then it was a pretty big deal. 402 00:23:55,630 --> 00:24:00,410 The new tradition of a peasant time in Jesus Galilee was 403 00:24:00,410 --> 00:24:04,170 important to everyone. The Jews tradition of a priest. 404 00:24:04,170 --> 00:24:08,290 The time really was this. The city of family, the births 405 00:24:08,290 --> 00:24:12,570 and deaths of people, the Sabbath season, celebrations, 406 00:24:12,570 --> 00:24:15,730 daily meals and opportunities to pass on. 407 00:24:15,730 --> 00:24:21,530 The traditions pass on from Moses to them being good Jews, 408 00:24:21,530 --> 00:24:24,610 very important. Living in Galilee, there was 409 00:24:24,610 --> 00:24:27,410 some removed from the temple in Jerusalem, a distance that might 410 00:24:27,410 --> 00:24:30,140 have been spiritual as well as in mileage. 411 00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:35,580 He's really different in Galley in Jerusalem, but also some 412 00:24:35,580 --> 00:24:38,220 similarities too, which we'll find later on. 413 00:24:40,020 --> 00:24:45,820 Nazareth had a synagogue, Luke chapter 4, verse 1617. 414 00:24:45,820 --> 00:24:48,300 The Bible says. So he came to Nazareth. 415 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:51,420 We've been brought up. We just came back here to preach 416 00:24:51,420 --> 00:24:55,180 after he was an adult. As his custom was, he went to 417 00:24:55,180 --> 00:24:56,780 the synagogue on the Sabbath day. 418 00:24:57,460 --> 00:25:00,220 He set up to read and he was handed the book of the prophet 419 00:25:00,420 --> 00:25:02,340 Isaiah. Open the book, he found the 420 00:25:02,340 --> 00:25:04,380 place was written. We'll get to the rest of it in 421 00:25:04,380 --> 00:25:06,540 just a minute. But the last part of that 422 00:25:06,540 --> 00:25:09,980 chapter was turn to read verses 20 to 30 in chapter 4. 423 00:25:11,020 --> 00:25:13,380 So all those the synagogue, when heard these scenes were filled 424 00:25:13,380 --> 00:25:17,540 with wrath and rose and thrust him out of the city, let him out 425 00:25:17,540 --> 00:25:19,940 to the brow of the hill which the city was built. 426 00:25:20,340 --> 00:25:24,180 Then I throw him over a Cliff. Then then, passing through the 427 00:25:24,180 --> 00:25:33,130 midst of them, he went his way. Greetings tells us a little bit 428 00:25:33,130 --> 00:25:36,170 about the city. City built on a hill. 429 00:25:36,330 --> 00:25:38,370 It had a Cliff ledge at the end of it. 430 00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:41,410 They're going to throw him off, evidently high enough to kill 431 00:25:41,410 --> 00:25:43,890 him. We thought we had some honorary 432 00:25:43,890 --> 00:25:45,610 friends. Well, that's they turned it in 433 00:25:45,610 --> 00:25:48,330 pretty quick. He went from much to here to 0 434 00:25:48,330 --> 00:25:50,130 real quick. He's popular before he came into 435 00:25:50,130 --> 00:25:53,610 town at the one sermon. This is what they're trying to 436 00:25:53,610 --> 00:25:58,110 do. But the way the town was. 437 00:25:58,110 --> 00:26:02,230 This makes sense of having that Cliff in Rena Town by Nazareth 438 00:26:02,470 --> 00:26:05,710 and Sephora, where they found that limestone quarry, evidence 439 00:26:05,710 --> 00:26:07,630 of a workshop and some tools for the quarry. 440 00:26:08,470 --> 00:26:11,950 Having that kind of makeup, the rocks and everything 441 00:26:12,430 --> 00:26:17,350 geographically, yes, that clip would be there, but they have no 442 00:26:17,350 --> 00:26:19,870 idea what the form of the synagogue had. 443 00:26:19,950 --> 00:26:21,870 There's our archaeological evidence. 444 00:26:21,870 --> 00:26:24,190 Have a hard time with that word. Excuse me, archaeological 445 00:26:24,190 --> 00:26:27,030 evidence, nothing been discovered. 446 00:26:28,230 --> 00:26:31,270 They found ones in town similar to Nazareth in the time of Jesus 447 00:26:31,710 --> 00:26:35,950 town of gold and gamma ones. This is they existed time of 448 00:26:35,950 --> 00:26:38,790 Christ but not as grand as you might expect. 449 00:26:39,630 --> 00:26:42,350 Moses also they figured built at a communal expense. 450 00:26:42,670 --> 00:26:45,710 Everybody got together, put the funds together and built them. 451 00:26:46,450 --> 00:26:48,530 They weren't big, rich, grand things like it was in other 452 00:26:48,530 --> 00:26:51,410 places, but there's not enough evidence. 453 00:26:51,410 --> 00:26:54,690 Tell much else about them. Bible tells nothing about the 454 00:26:54,690 --> 00:26:56,290 leaders of the synagogue and Nazareth. 455 00:26:56,330 --> 00:27:00,410 But you have a Fluence They had on Jesus, who they were, All 456 00:27:00,410 --> 00:27:03,250 that we know about them. Is this in game here? 457 00:27:03,250 --> 00:27:07,170 What happened to them here? The rivers of them is in lute, 458 00:27:08,050 --> 00:27:12,610 but you go back and read what it says, when it says place where 459 00:27:12,610 --> 00:27:15,250 it was written. Let's read on lutes from 16 on. 460 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,640 The Spirit of Lord is upon me because he has anointed me. 461 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,640 That's what he's telling the people in Nazareth in the 462 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,360 synagogue to preach a gospel to the poor. 463 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:27,680 He has sent me to heal a broken hearted, to became liberty to 464 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,960 the captes, have a sight to the blind, set liberty to those who 465 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,200 are oppressed, to to proclaim the acceptance year of the Lord. 466 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,840 He closed the book, gave back to the attendant and sat down. 467 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,160 And the eyes of all who in the synagogue were fixed on him. 468 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,920 And he began to say to them, today, today the scripture is 469 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,310 fulfilled in your hearing. So Arbor witness to him and 470 00:27:48,310 --> 00:27:50,670 admirable that the gracious words would proceed to proceed 471 00:27:50,670 --> 00:27:54,430 of his mouth, they said, is this not Joseph's son? 472 00:27:55,510 --> 00:27:57,710 Seems he heard that before, and he was 12 with the temple, 473 00:27:57,710 --> 00:28:02,150 Didn't he familiar with these kinds of things? 474 00:28:03,030 --> 00:28:06,590 Maybe some of the shock when only that he's he was there 475 00:28:06,590 --> 00:28:10,470 teaching to him about the Messiah, but he was his Messiah. 476 00:28:10,910 --> 00:28:13,190 He was home, his home church, so to speak. 477 00:28:14,890 --> 00:28:18,170 Hear most does not read well. Then he's a carpenter's son, one 478 00:28:18,170 --> 00:28:21,970 they knew here he's reading. That may have been one shock 479 00:28:21,970 --> 00:28:25,930 right there And the knowledge and building for the elite, the 480 00:28:25,930 --> 00:28:28,370 well schooled describable experts. 481 00:28:29,010 --> 00:28:37,230 And Jesus came with this. The Jesus before he came there, 482 00:28:37,270 --> 00:28:40,030 he had done a lot of miracles. He had a father when he came to 483 00:28:40,030 --> 00:28:42,070 Nazareth. He was already getting kind of 484 00:28:42,070 --> 00:28:45,290 famous when he came, but Jesus knew here. 485 00:28:45,290 --> 00:28:47,730 He learned here, as he learned before the separation, Religion, 486 00:28:47,730 --> 00:28:54,210 status, social position was so evident as peasant, regular 487 00:28:54,210 --> 00:28:57,370 people. If you can't read, it doesn't 488 00:28:57,370 --> 00:28:59,450 mean you know. If you're literate, doesn't mean 489 00:28:59,450 --> 00:29:02,250 that you're ignorant. This means you don't know how to 490 00:29:02,250 --> 00:29:05,490 read. Those people were smart. 491 00:29:06,370 --> 00:29:08,610 They knew the way traditions were passed down like they'd 492 00:29:08,610 --> 00:29:10,370 always been. The old test traditions. 493 00:29:10,730 --> 00:29:13,800 They passed down by actions or words near the scriptures, by 494 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,440 listening to them and memorizing them, And by doing it, they 495 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,120 could live the life of good Jews. 496 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,760 They're very religious people. So when Jesus began to teach the 497 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,320 synagogue as he did, there's one reason the level of amazement 498 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:34,360 leaders of congregation say he was Messiah put him on a 499 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,640 different level, just preached to them, and he warned them, and 500 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,560 there's lesson there. You see, heeding the warning, 501 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,490 they're enraged. They wouldn't take it from him. 502 00:29:46,610 --> 00:29:49,970 Bible speaks of their unbelief, which is really, really sad. 503 00:29:49,970 --> 00:29:52,730 I think of Jesus feeling for all those people. 504 00:29:52,730 --> 00:29:56,690 They're his relatives, friends and acquaintances, and they 505 00:29:56,690 --> 00:30:03,170 rejected him how he must have felt, even though it's wrong to 506 00:30:03,170 --> 00:30:06,290 inflict punishment, the Sabbath and these people there knew that 507 00:30:07,170 --> 00:30:09,890 they were not swayed by that. And that day they took him out, 508 00:30:10,410 --> 00:30:14,110 throw him off the Cliff. No miracles in Nazareth, just 509 00:30:14,110 --> 00:30:18,470 attempted murder. And how sad that is such as 510 00:30:18,470 --> 00:30:22,110 religion in Jesus's day in his hometown, far away from 511 00:30:22,110 --> 00:30:24,470 Jerusalem. But not that different from 512 00:30:24,470 --> 00:30:31,870 Jerusalem, was it? All this conveys in the areas of 513 00:30:31,870 --> 00:30:36,430 uncovered no pave streets, no bath houses, no palaces, no 514 00:30:36,430 --> 00:30:39,150 theaters, no defensive walls Around the city, none of those 515 00:30:39,150 --> 00:30:42,600 things. They found one house and no 516 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,440 mansion. They're still working on digging 517 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:45,840 that up. See how that is? 518 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,600 They found evidence of all the presses or wine presses. 519 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,880 They found water cisterns, evidence of grain silos from 520 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,680 farming grinding stones scattered about. 521 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,520 As I said, no pig bones. It was a kosher town, you might 522 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,600 say, just as sports was and other ones the town simple 523 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,520 working folks trying to make it the best they could. 524 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,120 Small town boy raised the ways of religion with additions of 525 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,650 Moses living the Roman world. So was Nazareth. 526 00:31:11,650 --> 00:31:16,970 A small town over the hill walk a distance of course with Jesus 527 00:31:16,970 --> 00:31:20,930 home. Jesus of Nazareth. 528 00:31:22,490 --> 00:31:25,010 One more aspect real quick. I know I'm almost out of time. 529 00:31:26,490 --> 00:31:31,730 The outside world in his day, how that affected his world, I 530 00:31:31,730 --> 00:31:33,890 don't believe in that day and time there's a lot and they had 531 00:31:33,890 --> 00:31:35,770 a lot of association with the outside world. 532 00:31:36,210 --> 00:31:39,450 The Jews as is now modern day Nazareth, as many areas of the 533 00:31:39,450 --> 00:31:42,740 world, they do this separately as much as they can. 534 00:31:43,780 --> 00:31:47,140 They live in Roman society but they literally what you might 535 00:31:47,140 --> 00:31:50,180 say closed community. There was business and 536 00:31:50,180 --> 00:31:52,980 government activity, the association of traveling include 537 00:31:52,980 --> 00:31:55,540 the outside world, but not that much. 538 00:31:57,420 --> 00:31:59,620 Remember just got in trouble later in life or associated with 539 00:31:59,620 --> 00:32:02,100 the outside world. After he called Matthew out, 540 00:32:02,420 --> 00:32:05,060 Matthew had dinner at his house. He went to his house, got in 541 00:32:05,060 --> 00:32:06,980 trouble eating with Republicans and sinners. 542 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,120 Mixing isn't good. Remember the Samaritan woman? 543 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,640 Mixing isn't good. The Old Testament redo, a 544 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,880 testament when the Jews got too close and mixed too well with 545 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,200 people of the world, kind of got him in trouble. 546 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:21,840 That was carried over. That's the life they were living 547 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,280 at that time. We know the outside world 548 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,760 affected him, affected him from his birth. 549 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,600 Remember his parents had to flee to Egypt that he was born and he 550 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,120 has the outside world to put him to death. 551 00:32:35,990 --> 00:32:38,110 Sadly, he lived in a very violent world. 552 00:32:38,230 --> 00:32:41,550 We're talking about brutality in our world now and there is a lot 553 00:32:41,550 --> 00:32:43,870 of lot of brutality in our world and it's awful. 554 00:32:45,350 --> 00:32:49,110 This is very common in the time of Jesus Jesus' time, the lands 555 00:32:49,110 --> 00:32:50,910 he lived in. It was very very common in 556 00:32:50,910 --> 00:32:54,390 brutality and they mean it was comprehend living in such 557 00:32:54,390 --> 00:32:58,270 conditions that Jesus knew as he grew up of how it was. 558 00:33:00,350 --> 00:33:04,260 Matthew chapter 2 verse 13 to 16, the flight to Egypt and he 559 00:33:04,260 --> 00:33:06,020 departed. Behold Angel Lord appeared to 560 00:33:06,020 --> 00:33:09,060 Joseph in a dream saying Oriah see the young child his mother 561 00:33:09,060 --> 00:33:11,980 flee to Egypt see it until I bring you a word for Harry will 562 00:33:11,980 --> 00:33:13,580 see the young child to destroy him. 563 00:33:14,140 --> 00:33:16,580 When he rose he did the child and his mother by 9 to party 564 00:33:16,580 --> 00:33:18,620 Egypt. It was there until the death of 565 00:33:18,620 --> 00:33:21,500 Herod that might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Lord to 566 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:25,180 the Prophet saying out of Egypt I call my son the Herod. 567 00:33:25,180 --> 00:33:28,700 When he saw he was deceived by the wise, many was exceedingly 568 00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:31,900 angry, and he sent forth to put to death all the male children 569 00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:35,560 in Bethlehem and all of his districts but two years old and 570 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,160 under growing the time which he determined from the wise men. 571 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,800 Some say it was hundreds, some say it was thousands. 572 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,440 We don't know. We just know it was brutal and 573 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,960 horrific. We know that Jesus grew up. 574 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,800 He was aware of that kind of world he lived in. 575 00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,600 It's just kind of rough. Think about raising your child 576 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,080 in a world like that. He had to flee because they're 577 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:06,640 after him when he came back. Even living that real close to 578 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,480 Roman province, the Roman capital right there, that close 579 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:16,639 to the Romans, knowing this about them, a few years after 580 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:23,360 Christ was born, that city, Sephoras I spoke of, four BC was 581 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,639 burned to the ground. At the same after Harry was died 582 00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:30,630 it was burned to the ground. About 3000 people were killed. 583 00:34:30,750 --> 00:34:32,590 The resident heavens were sold in slavery. 584 00:34:33,190 --> 00:34:34,949 All kinds of those people. Things were done there in that 585 00:34:34,949 --> 00:34:38,830 town right in Jesus neighborhood 4 miles north of him. 586 00:34:39,429 --> 00:34:41,870 When host, one historian said the guilty were crucified in the 587 00:34:41,870 --> 00:34:45,590 roadside outside of the forest. Remember Nazareth was only four 588 00:34:45,590 --> 00:34:49,190 miles in there. What a world Jesus raised in. 589 00:34:50,110 --> 00:34:53,630 He knew crucifixions as he was young because that was in four 590 00:34:53,630 --> 00:34:57,990 BC when that was done. What environment, What a strange 591 00:34:57,990 --> 00:35:02,380 normal to live in. It seems the Roman and Jewish in 592 00:35:02,380 --> 00:35:07,540 in that world Roman and Jewish submission was necessity or else 593 00:35:08,820 --> 00:35:11,900 That's why Christ teaching was so refreshing when he came 594 00:35:11,900 --> 00:35:14,700 along. Because the way the world was 595 00:35:16,940 --> 00:35:18,660 also found. The Sephoras was a theater 596 00:35:18,940 --> 00:35:21,820 capacity of about 4000. I played for entertainment. 597 00:35:21,820 --> 00:35:25,060 All those things that was common in the day. 598 00:35:25,220 --> 00:35:31,030 It possibly refers to finding beasts and Ephesus and 1st 599 00:35:31,030 --> 00:35:33,550 Corinthians and 1st Scruthians 1532. 600 00:35:34,750 --> 00:35:36,190 That was a common thing at that time. 601 00:35:36,190 --> 00:35:39,030 Those kinds of things. Hair Roman ruins were 602 00:35:39,030 --> 00:35:41,630 treacherous to all. Hair murdered, murdered his own, 603 00:35:41,630 --> 00:35:44,510 his own son. We can go on and on with these 604 00:35:44,510 --> 00:35:47,750 folks. We just know how they were. 605 00:35:49,510 --> 00:35:52,470 Historian Josephus book speaks of 1000 being crucified around 606 00:35:52,470 --> 00:35:54,750 Jerusalem. Remember Jesus went there once a 607 00:35:54,750 --> 00:35:56,550 year. He's very familiar. 608 00:35:56,550 --> 00:36:00,050 Jerusalem. What went on there after death 609 00:36:00,050 --> 00:36:02,570 of Herod? Herod died in 4B C When they 610 00:36:02,570 --> 00:36:06,730 moved back there were 2000 crucified at that time in 611 00:36:06,730 --> 00:36:10,050 Jerusalem. After after the Jerusalem there 612 00:36:10,050 --> 00:36:14,330 was 500 a day they figured crucified all through Jesus's 613 00:36:14,330 --> 00:36:16,530 life. Crucifixion was a normal thing. 614 00:36:16,650 --> 00:36:20,010 Violence in the world. Jewish world, the Roman world 615 00:36:20,010 --> 00:36:22,170 from his own people. Jesus saw it. 616 00:36:22,170 --> 00:36:24,570 He heard about it, was victim of it from beginning to end. 617 00:36:25,930 --> 00:36:27,410 What a normal life to have to deal with. 618 00:36:28,450 --> 00:36:31,690 For Amanda, be on violence that much. 619 00:36:32,770 --> 00:36:34,490 He'd be active that much for his whole life. 620 00:36:35,730 --> 00:36:38,130 To teach things like he did is amazing. 621 00:36:38,450 --> 00:36:39,690 Just that should make you an awe. 622 00:36:41,290 --> 00:36:44,170 So Jesus was baptized by John. That's where he headed into. 623 00:36:44,170 --> 00:36:48,050 And he knew it. He knew all about it. 624 00:36:49,970 --> 00:36:52,370 He started to teach the people, not the leaders. 625 00:36:52,370 --> 00:36:54,650 Followed him. He spoke their language. 626 00:36:55,210 --> 00:36:58,700 His teaching was different. He taught like no other. 627 00:37:00,460 --> 00:37:02,500 Know what we know now. So the teaching makes more 628 00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:06,300 sense. He references to agriculture. 629 00:37:06,940 --> 00:37:10,340 Turn the other cheek because he saw so much violence. 630 00:37:10,340 --> 00:37:14,260 Knew where the route was. I knew where it led to the B 631 00:37:14,260 --> 00:37:15,700 attitude. The Sermon on the Mount. 632 00:37:15,700 --> 00:37:19,740 Read that thinking this. No one where Jesus came from. 633 00:37:20,820 --> 00:37:23,020 Think where some of that came from his heart. 634 00:37:23,340 --> 00:37:25,260 Well, he was raised how it affected him. 635 00:37:26,180 --> 00:37:28,020 How we dealt with those really, truly in need. 636 00:37:28,020 --> 00:37:31,620 The blind, the beggars, the lame, those of low estate, even 637 00:37:31,620 --> 00:37:34,180 the variety of people. He chose the apostles no Rd. 638 00:37:34,180 --> 00:37:37,060 scholars there. Who did he choose? 639 00:37:38,340 --> 00:37:40,220 Talked about the rich man, Lazarus the fair, is he 640 00:37:40,220 --> 00:37:45,340 republican? And the prayer and the leaders, 641 00:37:45,340 --> 00:37:50,620 religious leaders of the time. He knew the hearts, he knew 642 00:37:50,620 --> 00:37:52,140 where to hit them, he knew what to say. 643 00:37:53,340 --> 00:37:55,100 Been on the temple for years, since his youth. 644 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:59,000 Here he talked about the temple, talked of all the activity in 645 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,240 temple. How could the Kip and Nazareth 646 00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:02,440 know all that? Well, he knew it. 647 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:04,920 He'd been going there a long time. 648 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:08,440 Here he goes. How it really was. 649 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,960 He'd seen it, lived it and suffered because of it. 650 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,800 But knowing his story, where he came from, maybe understand 651 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,160 better how he lived his life, why he responded like he did, 652 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,960 why he did what he did, what he told us he did. 653 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,280 He covered the whole spectrum. He's called the King of Kings. 654 00:38:25,370 --> 00:38:29,410 Lord of Lords was crucified between 2 thieves alone. 655 00:38:31,210 --> 00:38:37,090 He he covered all the territory. I tried to recreate the world of 656 00:38:37,090 --> 00:38:41,090 Jesus, recreate the time he lived in as he lived it, his 657 00:38:41,090 --> 00:38:43,970 hometown, his government, his religion, and some other items. 658 00:38:45,010 --> 00:38:46,570 Try to have it. We could imagine living in 659 00:38:46,570 --> 00:38:49,450 Jesus's world, living how he did. 660 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,800 We say we have it bad. We do sometimes not even close 661 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,400 to what he had as I presented it. 662 00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:02,880 Remember going back to Hebrews, what it said to Hebrews. 663 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,960 He suffered, been tented always as we are. 664 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,920 He knows how we feel in our lives and our struggles, if we 665 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,200 ever wondered. Jesus understands us if we know, 666 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,440 want to know how. If he really, really feels, he 667 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:19,600 does. We talk about the word sympathy. 668 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,070 Sympathy is a feeling or a pity for another, just sad for the 669 00:39:23,070 --> 00:39:26,510 situation just has more than he has with the word called 670 00:39:26,510 --> 00:39:29,590 empathy. He actually knows how we feel. 671 00:39:29,910 --> 00:39:32,390 Empathy is defined by our ability to understand how 672 00:39:32,390 --> 00:39:36,790 someone else feels. Understand your compassion, not 673 00:39:36,790 --> 00:39:39,190 just sad for them. You really actually know how 674 00:39:39,190 --> 00:39:42,110 they feel. That's what it means in Hebrews. 675 00:39:42,110 --> 00:39:44,430 He actually knows how we feel. We're tempted. 676 00:39:44,470 --> 00:39:49,470 He's as us and knowing what he put himself, knowing that world 677 00:39:49,470 --> 00:39:55,100 and he came from heaven and entered that world be sacrificed 678 00:39:55,460 --> 00:39:58,860 for us. You talk about what love is. 679 00:39:58,940 --> 00:40:03,500 It's almost can't comprehend that kind of love to be sitting 680 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:06,900 at the right hand of God and come down into a world like that 681 00:40:08,380 --> 00:40:13,660 and go through he did just for us, that is that to me is just 682 00:40:13,660 --> 00:40:16,660 amazing. I should make us emotional time 683 00:40:16,660 --> 00:40:19,900 for that. What he's done for us, what he 684 00:40:19,900 --> 00:40:21,700 went through. Hope you did this less. 685 00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:23,940 We understand a little bit about what's a little bit more what he 686 00:40:23,940 --> 00:40:26,180 went through. But where he came from. 687 00:40:26,820 --> 00:40:29,380 Maybe some why he talked about like he did about some things. 688 00:40:29,620 --> 00:40:31,780 It helped me read some of the stories of Jesus. 689 00:40:32,100 --> 00:40:34,580 Knowing some of these things, it made more sense to me. 690 00:40:35,660 --> 00:40:38,140 That's my lesson this morning. Both a little longer than I 691 00:40:38,140 --> 00:40:41,820 thought I was going to. Hope you've made something. 692 00:40:41,820 --> 00:40:44,580 Make you think this morning about Jesus by me. 693 00:40:44,580 --> 00:40:47,060 Brought you closer to Jesus. I can become closer to him. 694 00:40:47,660 --> 00:40:49,220 We all want to go to heaven together. 695 00:40:49,930 --> 00:40:51,330 The way to do is become a Christian. 696 00:40:51,370 --> 00:40:54,010 If you're not a Christian you can do that this time you've 697 00:40:54,010 --> 00:40:56,010 heard the word Todd. I did my best this morning to 698 00:40:56,010 --> 00:40:57,970 teach the word to teach you a little bit about Jesus. 699 00:40:58,690 --> 00:41:01,810 Have to repent this repent. You shall likewise perish with 700 00:41:01,810 --> 00:41:06,850 13 and three. Have to confess as a as a as an 701 00:41:08,210 --> 00:41:09,490 Acts. Chapter 8. 702 00:41:10,130 --> 00:41:12,170 Fill up in the unique. The confession is there. 703 00:41:12,730 --> 00:41:13,730 Be baptized. Rise. 704 00:41:13,730 --> 00:41:15,450 Be baptized. Wash away your citizens call 705 00:41:15,450 --> 00:41:18,290 name of the Lord Acts 22 and 16 is the apostle Paula Stone. 706 00:41:18,290 --> 00:41:20,030 He's baptized. You do those things. 707 00:41:20,030 --> 00:41:23,990 Become a Christian this morning. We thank you for listening to 708 00:41:23,990 --> 00:41:29,390 our podcast put on by the Church of Christ at 2215 Plans Rd. in 709 00:41:29,390 --> 00:41:32,310 Bakersfield. 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