Monday, May 09, 2022

May 9 = Life of Christ #091 The People of Nazareth Refuse to Believe (Matthew 13:53-58; Mark 6:1-6)

Jesus Rejected Again (Nazareth)
Matthew 13:53-58
Mark 6:1-6a


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Mark 6:5‐6 ‐‐ “He could not do any miracles there, except lay His hands on a few sick people and heal them.  And He was amazed at their lack of faith.”   

Jesus chose to become fully human to live and walk as you do.  He walked like you yet
He performed miracles, spoke great wisdom, and lived in a way that drew people to God.  While living on earth, He learned to commune and connect with God in a way that made Him an incredible conduit for God’s life and work to flow through Him.  

This verse presents the dichotomy of One who oozed faith and those whose faith was so weak that God was not able to touch their lives in the smallest way.  In your life, there are many areas where you exhibit great faith and experience God’s presence – but what areas have you closed off from God?  Where have you subconsciously or deliberately excluded God due to unbelief, doubt, or shame?  Even disobedience is a reflection of unbelief of who God is and what He says He will do.  

God wants to live and demonstrate His life in every area of your life.  There is no area from which God wants to be excluded.  The only thing that keeps God from demonstrating His life and power is your faith to invite Him to do so ‐‐ a faith that believes all things are possible because of God’s grace, love, and desire to be involved with you.  Jesus desired to do miracles in those people’s lives.  But their faith limited what He did among them.  Jesus wants you to walk and live as He lived.  Faith is the portal into God’s world.  Jesus is our greatest example of a Man who by faith allowed God’s full magnificence to be lived through Him.  May your faith not exclude God from any area of your life so that God’s full power, love, and glory might be lived through you!   

Hebrews 4:14‐16 ‐‐ “Therefore, since we have a great High Priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.  For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have One who has been tempted in every way, just as we are — yet was without sin.  Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” 

John 14:12 ‐‐ “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.”  

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