The Message of Life Can Get You Killed?

As Jesus spoke the words of the prophet, Isaiah, it almost got him killed! The message was one of the life, freedom and release of those captive to sin- so what was so infuriating to the religious elite of his day? Perhaps those listening to his words of the prophecy, in the place of worship, hearing the words of scripture that they had heard so many times before, realized that maybe they should have been not just preaching, but living this good news…news of forgiveness and a new start. News of being released from what ails them, release from judgment and condemnation.

Perhaps the contrast between who they should be and who they were so embarrassed them, that they were filled with rage to kill the messenger. They eventually did! But not before he spoke the message of good news, and lived it for all to see.

May we today be messengers of the good news, preparing hearts to meet the Messenger, by letting them know that we believe in their salvation, that his name is Jesus, and it’s a message of life that even our earthly demise cannot kill!

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 is the prophecy of the need to prepare the way for the one to come to release we sinners from our sin. When Jesus read this as the scripture of the day in the Temple,(Luke 4) and let them know that this man in front of them was he; they took him and tried to throw him off a cliff! He got away, for a time, until he later let them kill him, but the message is still alive, and may it be in us!