Note: I prepared and preached this sermon about 15 years ago. Today, while I still prefer expository preaching, I would not state my view as strongly as I do below …<\/p>\n
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And then I saw something in Luke 4 I had never seen before.<\/p>\n
But the jolt comes in Luke 4:15-16.<\/p>\n
Now skip down to Luke 4:32.<\/p>\n
Luke 4:44. And He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Look back up at Luke 4:16.<\/p>\n
Luke 5:1. So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God,<\/strong><\/p>\n
[1] Luke 4:16ff, Luke 6:6ff, Luke 13:10ff and many other places. This is also the pattern that the early church followed (Acts 2:42), and what Paul followed (Acts 13:13ff; 14:1ff; 15:21, 18:4, etc.).<\/p>\n
[2] The following synagogue facts are taken from Alfred Edersheim, Sketches of Jewish Social Life<\/em><\/a>, p. 229-255.<\/p>\n
[3] ISBE<\/a>, V. 4, 677.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"