“…and he closed the book…” luke 4:16-20

“…And he closed the book…”

Luke 4:16-20


Jesus closed the book of Isaiah


Luke 4:24 “And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in

his own country”


Luke 4:16-20 “And he came to Nazareth, where he had been

brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath…


Luke 4:16-20 …day, and stood up for to read. And

there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet

Esaias. And when he had opened the…


Luke 4:16-20 …book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the…


Luke 4:16-20 …gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to…


Luke 4:16-20 …the blind, to set at liberty them that are

bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book…


Luke 4:16-20 …and he gave it again to the minister, and sat

down. And the eyes of all them that were in the

synagogue were fastened on him”


Isaiah

61:1-2

Isaiah 61:1-2 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me;

because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good

tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up…

Isaiah 61:1-2 …the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and

the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To

proclaim the acceptable …

Isaiah 61:1-2 …year of the LORD, and the day of

vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;”


Gen 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head,

and thou shalt bruise his heel”


Gen 22:18 “And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because

thou hast obeyed my voice”


Psa 89:3-4 “I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have

sworn unto David my servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever,

and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah”


Deut 18:18 “I will raise them up a Prophet from among their

brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that

I shall command him”


Jer 23:5-6 “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I

will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King

shall reign and prosper…


Jer 23:5-6 …and shall execute judgment and justice in the

earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall

dwell safely:…


Jer 23:5-6 …and this is his name whereby he shall be

called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS”


Prophecies

He would be born of a virgin


Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall

conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel”


Prophecies

He would be born in the city of Bethlehem


Micah 5:2 “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little

among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto

me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old,

from everlasting”


Prophecies

He would be God’s Son


Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the

government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be

called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father,

The Prince of Peace”


Prophecies foretold His manner of life


Prophecies foretold of His rejection by men


Prophecies foretold of the kind of death and burial.


Isaiah 53:2-5 “For he shall grow up before him as a

tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and…


Isaiah 53:2-5 …when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows…


Isaiah 53:2-5 …and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from

him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely…


Isaiah 53:2-5 …he hath borne our griefs, and carried our

sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was…


Isaiah 53:2-5 …wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised

for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes

we are healed”


Prophecies foretold ofCalvary in detail,

hundreds of years before Jesus was even born.


Psa 22:15-16 “My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and

my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death…


Psa 22:15-16 …For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands

and my feet”


Psa 22:18 “They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my

vesture”


Jesus, in effect, was saying, “I

am the Messiah, the Christ”


Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the…


Luke 4:18 …brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the

captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at

liberty them that are bruised”


Heb 9:15-17 “And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by

means of death, for the redemption of the…


Heb 9:15-17 …transgressions that were under the first

testament, they which are called might receive the

promise of eternal…


Heb 9:15-17 …inheritance. For where a testament is,

there must also of necessity be the death of the testator…


Heb 9:15-17 …For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth”


Heb 1:1-2 “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom

he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds”


Acts 17:1-3 “Now when they had passed through

Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica,

where was a synagogue of…


Acts 17:1-3 …the Jews: And Paul, as his manner was,

went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures…


Acts 17:1-3 …Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again

from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you,

is Christ”


Matt 17:5 “While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud

overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which

said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye

him”


They were no longer to listen to “Moses and the prophets.” They were to

hear Jesus


Matt 28:18 “And Jesus came and spake unto

them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven

and in earth”


Jude 3 “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the

common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered

unto the saints”


John 12:48 (KJS) He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall

judge him in the last day.


2 Pet 1:3 “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life

and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath

called us to glory and virtue”


Nothing more is needed.


Nothing else is allowed.


Gal 1:8 “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto

you, let him be accursed”


That Word is final, for all men, God’s last

word. Jesus“closed the book.”


JESUS “CLOSED THE BOOK” ON

SALVATION


Luke 19:10 “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that

which was lost”


1 Tim 1:15 “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ

Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am

chief”


When one rejects Jesus,

he rejects God.


When one rejects the Word, he rejects

Jesus Christ.


When one rejects the Plan of Salvation, he

rejects the Word.


Jesus “closed the book.”


Acts 1:11 “Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up

into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into

heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into

heaven”


John 14:3 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am,

there ye may be also”


2 Cor 5:1 “For we know that if our earthly house of this

tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in

the heavens”


2 Cor 5:10 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat

of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his

body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad”

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“…and he closed the book…” luke 4:16-20

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