Morning everyone. It's good to see everyone here
this morning. This morning we're just going to
talk a little bit about Jesus. Very simple lesson.
The Bible says that Matthew chapter 21, verse 11.
So the multitude said this is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth
of Galilee, Jesus of Nazareth. So where was he from?
Did the study I got to thinking about all the memories so many
I've etched in my mind. Remember the schools I was
raised in, the world I was raised in, the schools I went to
the holidays, we celebrated the holidays.
Others celebrated many events in my young life.
I was raised in the church. I remember the church at Linwood
when I was really small people. There were the Warwicks, the
Cohes and the Foxes as a little kid.
Churches at Montebello and Cypress, those churches, I
remember those. I grew up all through my teenage
years. Another affected me in my life.
I grew up. I remember the diet we had.
Mom was from Oklahoma, had some of the red beans, corbread.
I was raised that kind of world. I was raised him and all the
blue collar kind of people I was raised with.
My dad was a mechanic. It was so my grandpa worked the
oil fields, Jack stock up, We all know him.
Those kind of people I was raised with, the blue collar
type of folks, remember the government as I was being
raised. There was impact in my life.
The sassage, President Kennedy, troubles in Vietnam, at home and
abroad. Remember those things,
Resignation of President Nixon. I remember that.
Remember all the families of my life at the time and their
political views. We can all look back, reflect on
the cultures we were raised in and those around us and our
families and our neighbors and our friends and the values that
made us who we are, kind of made them who they are, how it kind
of formed them. Look at other folks.
If any of them have lived a long way from home, where they were
raised and how they're affected by their younger years, their
hometown, their home, church, their family might say they're
raising the old saying. You can take the kid out of the
hills, but you can't take the hills out of the kid.
They're just a little bit of truth in that many of our lives
are defined by the circle of culture which were brought up in
around here. Look at all the Depression
people, all the similarities they have, how much they're
alike, how affected them in all their older years.
It was one of those sailors said his navigational chart was
established in his childhood. Tom Brokaw wrote a book called A
Long Way From Home. In that book he quoted, this
could not be the man I was I am could not be the man I am today
with the boy I was yesterday in a fireplace a long time ago.
He's raised in South Dakota, long ways to New York.
The question this morning is we were thought about Jesus in that
way. What shaped him?
We know he was the son of God, but he's also a man like us.
Hebrews 4 and 15 The Bible says we do not have a high priest who
cannot sympathize in our weakness, but was in all points
tempted as we are, yet without sin, tipping always like we are.
He understands us. He was affected by things like
we are. John 1135 Jesus wept.
He had emotions. He showed like us in many ways.
He was raised from a child to a man.
We know what was common and normal for us.
What was common, normal for Jesus that he's being raised?
Did his raising affect his adult life?
What kind of environment did he come from?
We're going to discuss his human element, you might say this
morning, or to cover some questions in his life.
This in the lesson, for example, Nazareth.
What kind of town was it? What type of life was it in
Jesus's day? The government in his day and
time, His town's relationship with government, the influence
of government in his daytoday life, A little bit about the
family, Joseph and Mary's. He's being raised.
How did a couple raise Jesus at a time like this where you talk
about where Jesus came from and maybe we will see how his past
effect is some of his life in his later years, maybe some of
his teachings. We'll get to that.
Reconstruct and dig down a little bit.
All the evidence I can find is scripture, archaeology and
history about Nazareth. Modern day Nazareth is a very
busy tourist city. Being hometown Jesus is a
pilgrimage for many, many people.
People go there to see where Jesus grew up by souvenirs and
the vendors look at the sites. Modern day Nazareth, there's a
lot to see there. There's a place there in a
church that said the Angel Gabriel came down and then he
told Mary. But the divine conception,
whether it's true or not, we don't know.
But that's more they have there. It's noisy city with a mix of
Palestinian Christians and Christian Muslims.
One part of the city Jews have different sects.
In another part of the city it is separately for satellite
dishes, construction sites, heavy traffic, lot of
Mercedes-Benz cars, KF C's cell phones, Hopkin double parked
cars like you would think. Very busy place, not much in
common with current Nazareth and the Nazareth of Jesus 20th
century. Separate the two layers of
debris of all type are stacked over.
It's quite a job to uproot and find the town which is Galilean.
Roots were and John 145 and 46. The Bible says this.
Philip found Nathaniel. Nathaniel said to him, We have
found him of whom Moses is the Moses is is in the law.
And also the prophets wrote Jesus of Nazareth, the son of
Joseph. Nathaniel said to him, Did you
think good come of Nazareth? You think good come of Nazareth?
Sounds like an insult to me. Why do you think you said this?
Did they have a bad reputation or just not have any reputation
at all? Outside the Gospels, early
Christian texts, there's no record before the Emperor
Constantine of the city of Nazareth at all Is ever
mentioned by Jewish rabbis in history during discussing the
Talmud. It's not there.
They mentioned 63 other Galilean towns.
They don't mention Nazareth Josephus, who we all pretty much
know about. In his writings he mentions 45
sites in Galilee. He never misses Nazareth.
It's almost like it's never never known in significant town.
It's not mentioned in the Old Testament.
There's nothing connecting Nazareth to God's messianic
plan. The discussion we saw here, we
see here in John one between Philip and Nathaniel.
That's his statement only makes sense in the conversation
they're having about the Messiah.
Nathaniel sees no connection between Nazareth and God's
Mitziani plan, but I think it can come from Nazareth.
This should be no surprise. At that time, like now, writing
and political power and upper class activity.
Those who learned to read and write were the rulers, the
wealthy, the scribes, the like like that, not someone from
Nazareth. The elite cared little about the
majority of the people. What went on, the small areas,
rural villages and countryside towns are truly what was what
Nazareth was and we shall see. Nazareth was basically a peasant
town. The population of about 2000,
give or take, depends on which period scholar you read.
That's about what it was. I'd just say about 2000.
The Jewish village adhering to what was called temple oriented
Judaism which we get to in a few minutes, we talked about Jesus
is the religion in Jesus's time. So basically Jesus was a Jewish
peasant background summer to many we know today like saying
he was from Arvin pretty much our home like he was in Sanger.
Sanger is close to Fresno. Arvin is close to Bakersfield.
LA could be the Jerusalem, you know that's that's kind of the
way the situation it was a little town like that look at me
the heritage here today. Dust Bowl people and look at
some of the folks that I've known my life.
We all know our history you know mine love a labor lot know know
it's like not have much. That's kind of where Jesus came
from. A peasant at the time of Jesus
in a town like Nazareth have little time to read or write.
Usually, as I said before that multi upperclass people, they go
to the temple but their daytoday life is usually pretty busy, but
mostly work in the land. Many were farmers, some are
tradesmen, some are merchants. We'll discuss this later.
How it's evident in his teachings, his dialogue.
We're having knowledge of some of these things, the temple
agriculture, things like that. Pretty much.
Most think there was a Rock Corey nearby.
There's a town by there ever. The rock quarry has been found.
Some anatomy may have worked at that rock quarry, had rocks from
that rock quarry and they may have been manufactured there in
Nazareth. We don't know hills.
It was a Carpenter at the time. Being a Carpenter consisted more
than hammer and nails and it does today.
At the time many skills were involved, working from stone,
the abundance of stone nearby, maybe making farm implements,
plows, ox carts, furniture, maybe tooling other necessities.
Similar to the the blacksmith of our the past years, me and me.
And this economic level they struggled, was trying to make
the ends meet, had to pay taxes, which was a great big deal back
then, and live in what was left. In archaeological digs around
Nazareth they found cups and bowls out of limestone.
Nearby they found wood, cups, little bowls as evidence they've
been turned on lays. They have a centering point in
them. They might think back then they
might not have had lays. Well, I got documentation in my
Bible here. It's back to 300 BC.
That evidence of lays called rope lays.
They had the string lays. So they may not be as primitive
back then as we think of the things they found.
No lays have been found there. We know they exist.
We can tell they're not rich or fluent by the not only by the
way Mary and Joseph lived or where they lived, but by the
journey to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born.
Most of you're familiar with this story.
Bethlehem was about 75 miles or so South of Nazareth, with Mary
being that far along. Think about it, your wife being
nine months pregnant, putting her on a donkey or ox cart and
taking her 75 miles away in some dirt Rd.
It really wouldn't be the thing you would want to do.
You'd want to stay home, but they had to go when they went.
There's no place to stay. They stayed in a in a Manger
doing now what we do about Nazareth.
It may not be surprising person of Nazareth living where they
live come to where they went for an official visit.
Yes, if they're upper wealthy class things may have been
different. Money talk then just as it does
now. Connections counted.
Then just say do now. Obviously Joseph didn't have
money, didn't have connections. There are many, there have been
many archaeological digs around the Nazareth area.
There's a town 4 miles north of Nazareth called Sephorest.
They've done a lot of digs around that place.
It's one of herd's so-called capitals.
Herd had like palaces of forest. It was a Jewish town with the
Roman presence. So they had the Roman overseers
seeing even though it was a Jewish town, they were doing
their best. It said the town resembled a
miniature Cesaria. They found evidence of over 20
baths, fancy house with mosaic floors, plastered walls some
even two-story a lot of air coins in there in the in the
area when they dug it up you can tell what's found by what type
of city it was. The people that live there and
NASA for example we know is this Jewish settlement died of a
Jewish peasant was simple and small.
The main foods were probably bread, olives, grapes, simple
things like that. Lentil soup, maybe some nuts and
cheese, depending on the season. Meat was occasionally there with
fish, mutton and goat. Remember, they were Jews.
Ada's Jews did. No pig bones were found in those
digs. Other animal bones were, but not
pig bones. Meat was not probably every
meal, maybe on a special occasion when they had it.
Dig the rich political figures, dig in places like sephorest.
Things were different. Different findings and remains.
You find different things, evidence of a diet being
different, clothing being different, even finding jewelry.
Some of the grave sites, you didn't find any ivory when they
dig it at Nazareth. You didn't find things like that
those day and times. And as a peasant, a case of the
flu or an abscid tooth, an affection like that could kill
you. There's a remedy for those
things. Life expectancy was was less
than it is now, even less than it was in the urban areas.
The more populated areas, they had to work harder.
They weren't cared for as well. Childhood death was common.
Think about the risk of traveling when Jesus is a
newborn. Remember, they went to Egypt
after he was born as a newborn had traveled all way to Egypt.
As a parent, think of your concerns and the faith that took
to do those things. Scholars figured about half the
children at that time died in infancy, and maybe half of those
lived to adulthood. They didn't make it to
adulthood. They died too.
He went famous, come from Nazareth, didn't seem so
unknown. Village folks who lived close to
the edge didn't travel much. Famous people didn't come from
places like Nazareth. The famous were the Jews,
Jerusalem and people like that. And there exists a circle is
pretty inclusive. Luke chapter 2, verse of 41
through 52. The Bible says this.
His parents went to Jerusalem every year.
Remember this Jerusalem every year at the feast of the
Passover and when he was 12 years old they went up to
Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast.
When they finished the days they returned.
The boy Jesus lingered behind in Jerusalem, and Joseph and his
mother did not know it. But but supposing him who have
been in the company, they want a day's journey, and sought him
among their relatives and acquaintances, so they so when
they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking
him. So now it was.
And after three days he found him in the temple, sitting in
the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking
them questions. And all who heard him were
astonished at his understanding and answers.
So when they saw him, they were amazed.
And his mother said to him, Son, why have you done this to us?
Look, your father and I have sought you anxiously.
And he said to them, Why do you seek me?
Did you not know? That must be about my father's
business? But they did not understand the
statement which he spoke to them.
Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was
subject to them. His mother kept these things in
her heart that Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and favor
with God and men. This amazement was not only he
was 12, but gift. Nazareth with his background
could be so smart in the scriptures, he could be so
informed 12 years old. Imagine he asked him who he was,
where he was from at 12. Did Jesus know how to read?
It doesn't say. Really.
He read it, says he. He discussed the scriptures with
them. The reason with them, That's
amazing. 12 years old. Where would that knowledge come
from? Being a Nazareth nor formal
teaching or training? He had them shaking their heads.
I just wonder where these guys were 22 years later.
Jesus started as ministry. Did some of them remember Jesus?
Did Jesus remember? Some of them remember every year
it said they went, there's a familiarity with this.
We'll get to this later in the lesson.
So when he 22 years later, when he or 20 years later, he's 12
here. So our mystery is 30.
These guys in the temple, you're so amazed at him this year.
Were there other years like this?
So Jesus probably knew some of these people.
He touched me through later on his life from his earlier years.
He knew how it worked. He knew how it was in Jerusalem.
He had a history, you might say, of being in the temple and with
some of those people there. Sorry.
Also in the cage is probably dangerous traveling then.
That's one reason why they did in groups.
He's looking out for the other kind of the wagon trains.
And the old was to see in the movies, all the wagon trains
circle the wagons. We all know about that for
protection. The same principle was there.
We had Indians then, but that time they had bandits just like
they've had all over the place. Like they have many places right
now. We'll ambush you on your
journeys. If you're out, away from
everywhere, you pop it just together.
Each time they went for safety and to make it easier in each
other, it mentions their relatives and acquaintances.
They had relatives. We know Jesus had siblings.
We'll get to that in a few minutes.
He had four brothers, at least two sisters, because it says
sisters. It mentions a plural, so at
least six. There may have been others.
We don't know those things, but imagine as a parent you worries
the concerns traveling a day and time like that with that many
children. What would you be thinking?
We don't know how much other travel Jesus did in his early
years. We know they went to Egypt and
back when he was the baby figured they were in Egypt about
two years. So he's just a toddler when they
came back from Egypt. That's also probably a rough
journey. Also remember the life
expectancy of a child, the risks they were taking, you know,
traveling we don't know about. Maybe they went up to sephoras
because it was close by, maybe it was just 4 miles north.
That's not very far. May went there to conduct
business, deal with the Romans. Sometimes.
Joseph was a Carpenter, trained his training, his sons be
Carpenter. May went there for work.
A lot of construction there and if you missed we'll find out.
There was an amphitheater there. There's always 20 bass, a lot of
things going on. They may went there for labor.
We really don't know. Another way to find the economic
level, the life of people there is look at material and those
digs are not common, not from the area.
As I said, like you didn't find ivory and Nazareth.
These are pottery, jewelry, perfume containers, glassware,
period cones, things important. None of this was found in
Nazareth. What they found in Nazareth are
things made of local materials he's made in the area, which may
be that quarry nearby. There are no grand tombs found,
no great engravings found, no grand homes or palaces found,
none of those things, None of those ruins.
There's evidence of simple people with simple lives.
That's the world Jesus was in, in Nazareth.
People asked, was Jesus a Carpenter when he was young?
The Bible says marked six and three.
This word talks to his brothers and sisters.
It says it's not this the Carpenter, the son of Mary,
brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon are not his sisters
here with us, so they offended him.
Is this not the Carpenter? That time in the Jewish world is
common to train your sons in a trade, preferably traded the
father. It was only calmer him to do
this. All Jews were taught to be able
to take care of themselves. The Apostle Paul in Acts chapter
18, verse three talks about being a tent maker.
The Apostle Paul was a Pharisees.
The Pharisees that he was a tent maker.
He knew a trade in the craft. There's not that unusual the
time to do that. So yes, Jesus, no, he was the
father Carpenter. He was a Carpenter because it
was a normal thing. His normal, remember, is
different than ours. The time to do that, be able to
have a way to take care of yourself.
Nazareth did not attract attention.
Become a historical site to app. The conversion of Constantine
and 312AD. That's almost 300 years at the
death of Christ, before people ever thought about going to
Nazareth. Being a pilgrimage place.
It still wasn't that popular even after Jesus died for
hundreds of years. Religion in Jesus's day, Time of
Jesus, the temple of Jeruism had.
I didn't write this, but the guys call it priesthood
dominated Jewish religion. That's what the experts call it.
Which means basically the priestess ran everything.
The Pharisees are the most influential priests of the time.
Most religious leaders described the scholars, the Pharisees, and
lived in urban settings. You might say some are wealthy.
They're sure not poor. Many had enough support to
write, perform tasks for the temple and for the people.
Many were well known. They're popular with the people
prominent. Many gatherings.
They had people you wanted to have at your gatherings because
of who they were. Pomp and circumstance was
evident at that time. In the synagogue's outlying
areas like Nazareth or gathering place for the community.
Which marriages were done, Circumcisions, done, meetings,
held, things like that. All the scriptures read out loud
from Hebrew to Arabic. Whatever the whole language was
usually Arabic in Jesus. This time elders were consulted,
traditions talked about. Traditions were a lot bigger
thing then than they are now. Now people kind of just do what
they want to do, kind of ignore traditions of their parents or
their families. Then it was a pretty big deal.
The new tradition of a peasant time in Jesus Galilee was
important to everyone. The Jews tradition of a priest.
The time really was this. The city of family, the births
and deaths of people, the Sabbath season, celebrations,
daily meals and opportunities to pass on.
The traditions pass on from Moses to them being good Jews,
very important. Living in Galilee, there was
some removed from the temple in Jerusalem, a distance that might
have been spiritual as well as in mileage.
He's really different in Galley in Jerusalem, but also some
similarities too, which we'll find later on.
Nazareth had a synagogue, Luke chapter 4, verse 1617.
The Bible says. So he came to Nazareth.
We've been brought up. We just came back here to preach
after he was an adult. As his custom was, he went to
the synagogue on the Sabbath day.
He set up to read and he was handed the book of the prophet
Isaiah. Open the book, he found the
place was written. We'll get to the rest of it in
just a minute. But the last part of that
chapter was turn to read verses 20 to 30 in chapter 4.
So all those the synagogue, when heard these scenes were filled
with wrath and rose and thrust him out of the city, let him out
to the brow of the hill which the city was built.
Then I throw him over a Cliff. Then then, passing through the
midst of them, he went his way. Greetings tells us a little bit
about the city. City built on a hill.
It had a Cliff ledge at the end of it.
They're going to throw him off, evidently high enough to kill
him. We thought we had some honorary
friends. Well, that's they turned it in
pretty quick. He went from much to here to 0
real quick. He's popular before he came into
town at the one sermon. This is what they're trying to
do. But the way the town was.
This makes sense of having that Cliff in Rena Town by Nazareth
and Sephora, where they found that limestone quarry, evidence
of a workshop and some tools for the quarry.
Having that kind of makeup, the rocks and everything
geographically, yes, that clip would be there, but they have no
idea what the form of the synagogue had.
There's our archaeological evidence.
Have a hard time with that word. Excuse me, archaeological
evidence, nothing been discovered.
They found ones in town similar to Nazareth in the time of Jesus
town of gold and gamma ones. This is they existed time of
Christ but not as grand as you might expect.
Moses also they figured built at a communal expense.
Everybody got together, put the funds together and built them.
They weren't big, rich, grand things like it was in other
places, but there's not enough evidence.
Tell much else about them. Bible tells nothing about the
leaders of the synagogue and Nazareth.
But you have a Fluence They had on Jesus, who they were, All
that we know about them. Is this in game here?
What happened to them here? The rivers of them is in lute,
but you go back and read what it says, when it says place where
it was written. Let's read on lutes from 16 on.
The Spirit of Lord is upon me because he has anointed me.
That's what he's telling the people in Nazareth in the
synagogue to preach a gospel to the poor.
He has sent me to heal a broken hearted, to became liberty to
the captes, have a sight to the blind, set liberty to those who
are oppressed, to to proclaim the acceptance year of the Lord.
He closed the book, gave back to the attendant and sat down.
And the eyes of all who in the synagogue were fixed on him.
And he began to say to them, today, today the scripture is
fulfilled in your hearing. So Arbor witness to him and
admirable that the gracious words would proceed to proceed
of his mouth, they said, is this not Joseph's son?
Seems he heard that before, and he was 12 with the temple,
Didn't he familiar with these kinds of things?
Maybe some of the shock when only that he's he was there
teaching to him about the Messiah, but he was his Messiah.
He was home, his home church, so to speak.
Hear most does not read well. Then he's a carpenter's son, one
they knew here he's reading. That may have been one shock
right there And the knowledge and building for the elite, the
well schooled describable experts.
And Jesus came with this. The Jesus before he came there,
he had done a lot of miracles. He had a father when he came to
Nazareth. He was already getting kind of
famous when he came, but Jesus knew here.
He learned here, as he learned before the separation, Religion,
status, social position was so evident as peasant, regular
people. If you can't read, it doesn't
mean you know. If you're literate, doesn't mean
that you're ignorant. This means you don't know how to
read. Those people were smart.
They knew the way traditions were passed down like they'd
always been. The old test traditions.
They passed down by actions or words near the scriptures, by
listening to them and memorizing them, And by doing it, they
could live the life of good Jews.
They're very religious people. So when Jesus began to teach the
synagogue as he did, there's one reason the level of amazement
leaders of congregation say he was Messiah put him on a
different level, just preached to them, and he warned them, and
there's lesson there. You see, heeding the warning,
they're enraged. They wouldn't take it from him.
Bible speaks of their unbelief, which is really, really sad.
I think of Jesus feeling for all those people.
They're his relatives, friends and acquaintances, and they
rejected him how he must have felt, even though it's wrong to
inflict punishment, the Sabbath and these people there knew that
they were not swayed by that. And that day they took him out,
throw him off the Cliff. No miracles in Nazareth, just
attempted murder. And how sad that is such as
religion in Jesus's day in his hometown, far away from
Jerusalem. But not that different from
Jerusalem, was it? All this conveys in the areas of
uncovered no pave streets, no bath houses, no palaces, no
theaters, no defensive walls Around the city, none of those
things. They found one house and no
mansion. They're still working on digging
that up. See how that is?
They found evidence of all the presses or wine presses.
They found water cisterns, evidence of grain silos from
farming grinding stones scattered about.
As I said, no pig bones. It was a kosher town, you might
say, just as sports was and other ones the town simple
working folks trying to make it the best they could.
Small town boy raised the ways of religion with additions of
Moses living the Roman world. So was Nazareth.
A small town over the hill walk a distance of course with Jesus
home. Jesus of Nazareth.
One more aspect real quick. I know I'm almost out of time.
The outside world in his day, how that affected his world, I
don't believe in that day and time there's a lot and they had
a lot of association with the outside world.
The Jews as is now modern day Nazareth, as many areas of the
world, they do this separately as much as they can.
They live in Roman society but they literally what you might
say closed community. There was business and
government activity, the association of traveling include
the outside world, but not that much.
Remember just got in trouble later in life or associated with
the outside world. After he called Matthew out,
Matthew had dinner at his house. He went to his house, got in
trouble eating with Republicans and sinners.
Mixing isn't good. Remember the Samaritan woman?
Mixing isn't good. The Old Testament redo, a
testament when the Jews got too close and mixed too well with
people of the world, kind of got him in trouble.
That was carried over. That's the life they were living
at that time. We know the outside world
affected him, affected him from his birth.
Remember his parents had to flee to Egypt that he was born and he
has the outside world to put him to death.
Sadly, he lived in a very violent world.
We're talking about brutality in our world now and there is a lot
of lot of brutality in our world and it's awful.
This is very common in the time of Jesus Jesus' time, the lands
he lived in. It was very very common in
brutality and they mean it was comprehend living in such
conditions that Jesus knew as he grew up of how it was.
Matthew chapter 2 verse 13 to 16, the flight to Egypt and he
departed. Behold Angel Lord appeared to
Joseph in a dream saying Oriah see the young child his mother
flee to Egypt see it until I bring you a word for Harry will
see the young child to destroy him.
When he rose he did the child and his mother by 9 to party
Egypt. It was there until the death of
Herod that might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Lord to
the Prophet saying out of Egypt I call my son the Herod.
When he saw he was deceived by the wise, many was exceedingly
angry, and he sent forth to put to death all the male children
in Bethlehem and all of his districts but two years old and
under growing the time which he determined from the wise men.
Some say it was hundreds, some say it was thousands.
We don't know. We just know it was brutal and
horrific. We know that Jesus grew up.
He was aware of that kind of world he lived in.
It's just kind of rough. Think about raising your child
in a world like that. He had to flee because they're
after him when he came back. Even living that real close to
Roman province, the Roman capital right there, that close
to the Romans, knowing this about them, a few years after
Christ was born, that city, Sephoras I spoke of, four BC was
burned to the ground. At the same after Harry was died
it was burned to the ground. About 3000 people were killed.
The resident heavens were sold in slavery.
All kinds of those people. Things were done there in that
town right in Jesus neighborhood 4 miles north of him.
When host, one historian said the guilty were crucified in the
roadside outside of the forest. Remember Nazareth was only four
miles in there. What a world Jesus raised in.
He knew crucifixions as he was young because that was in four
BC when that was done. What environment, What a strange
normal to live in. It seems the Roman and Jewish in
in that world Roman and Jewish submission was necessity or else
That's why Christ teaching was so refreshing when he came
along. Because the way the world was
also found. The Sephoras was a theater
capacity of about 4000. I played for entertainment.
All those things that was common in the day.
It possibly refers to finding beasts and Ephesus and 1st
Corinthians and 1st Scruthians 1532.
That was a common thing at that time.
Those kinds of things. Hair Roman ruins were
treacherous to all. Hair murdered, murdered his own,
his own son. We can go on and on with these
folks. We just know how they were.
Historian Josephus book speaks of 1000 being crucified around
Jerusalem. Remember Jesus went there once a
year. He's very familiar.
Jerusalem. What went on there after death
of Herod? Herod died in 4B C When they
moved back there were 2000 crucified at that time in
Jerusalem. After after the Jerusalem there
was 500 a day they figured crucified all through Jesus's
life. Crucifixion was a normal thing.
Violence in the world. Jewish world, the Roman world
from his own people. Jesus saw it.
He heard about it, was victim of it from beginning to end.
What a normal life to have to deal with.
For Amanda, be on violence that much.
He'd be active that much for his whole life.
To teach things like he did is amazing.
Just that should make you an awe.
So Jesus was baptized by John. That's where he headed into.
And he knew it. He knew all about it.
He started to teach the people, not the leaders.
Followed him. He spoke their language.
His teaching was different. He taught like no other.
Know what we know now. So the teaching makes more
sense. He references to agriculture.
Turn the other cheek because he saw so much violence.
Knew where the route was. I knew where it led to the B
attitude. The Sermon on the Mount.
Read that thinking this. No one where Jesus came from.
Think where some of that came from his heart.
Well, he was raised how it affected him.
How we dealt with those really, truly in need.
The blind, the beggars, the lame, those of low estate, even
the variety of people. He chose the apostles no Rd.
scholars there. Who did he choose?
Talked about the rich man, Lazarus the fair, is he
republican? And the prayer and the leaders,
religious leaders of the time. He knew the hearts, he knew
where to hit them, he knew what to say.
Been on the temple for years, since his youth.
Here he talked about the temple, talked of all the activity in
temple. How could the Kip and Nazareth
know all that? Well, he knew it.
He'd been going there a long time.
Here he goes. How it really was.
He'd seen it, lived it and suffered because of it.
But knowing his story, where he came from, maybe understand
better how he lived his life, why he responded like he did,
why he did what he did, what he told us he did.
He covered the whole spectrum. He's called the King of Kings.
Lord of Lords was crucified between 2 thieves alone.
He he covered all the territory. I tried to recreate the world of
Jesus, recreate the time he lived in as he lived it, his
hometown, his government, his religion, and some other items.
Try to have it. We could imagine living in
Jesus's world, living how he did.
We say we have it bad. We do sometimes not even close
to what he had as I presented it.
Remember going back to Hebrews, what it said to Hebrews.
He suffered, been tented always as we are.
He knows how we feel in our lives and our struggles, if we
ever wondered. Jesus understands us if we know,
want to know how. If he really, really feels, he
does. We talk about the word sympathy.
Sympathy is a feeling or a pity for another, just sad for the
situation just has more than he has with the word called
empathy. He actually knows how we feel.
Empathy is defined by our ability to understand how
someone else feels. Understand your compassion, not
just sad for them. You really actually know how
they feel. That's what it means in Hebrews.
He actually knows how we feel. We're tempted.
He's as us and knowing what he put himself, knowing that world
and he came from heaven and entered that world be sacrificed
for us. You talk about what love is.
It's almost can't comprehend that kind of love to be sitting
at the right hand of God and come down into a world like that
and go through he did just for us, that is that to me is just
amazing. I should make us emotional time
for that. What he's done for us, what he
went through. Hope you did this less.
We understand a little bit about what's a little bit more what he
went through. But where he came from.
Maybe some why he talked about like he did about some things.
It helped me read some of the stories of Jesus.
Knowing some of these things, it made more sense to me.
That's my lesson this morning. Both a little longer than I
thought I was going to. Hope you've made something.
Make you think this morning about Jesus by me.
Brought you closer to Jesus. I can become closer to him.
We all want to go to heaven together.
The way to do is become a Christian.
If you're not a Christian you can do that this time you've
heard the word Todd. I did my best this morning to
teach the word to teach you a little bit about Jesus.
Have to repent this repent. You shall likewise perish with
13 and three. Have to confess as a as a as an
Acts. Chapter 8.
Fill up in the unique. The confession is there.
Be baptized. Rise.
Be baptized. Wash away your citizens call
name of the Lord Acts 22 and 16 is the apostle Paula Stone.
He's baptized. You do those things.
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