Study Notes

I.      Luke 4:15-If Jesus is not weighty to you disrespect will manifest

A.    Because he’s honored (weighty) by/to the people has everything to do with the supernatural at work

1.      14-In Galilee they are seeing the supernatural power of God work

2.      15-He was honored (weighty) by all the people

B.     18-Acts 10:38-This is what Jesus preached everywhere he went and he wanted to do this everywhere he went

1.      Matthew 9:35-Everywhere else Jesus went the supernatural manifested

2.      He’s here in his hometown to do the same thing he was doing in the other places

3.      Is it true, that this was the plan of God for him in Nazareth? 21-God’s ready to do this right now

C.    22-They wondered at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth

1.      Wonder-Unusual, Strange, If differs from admiration because it is not necessarily accompanied with love and esteem

2.      Because they don’t respect him, because he’s not weighty to them it’s unusual and strange to them to have these gracious words come out of someone in their minds who is so small and insignificant

D.    23-Jesus was not weighty to them and because he wasn’t the disrespect manifested

1.      Accepted-To receive favorably, embrace, to not reject

a.    A prophet is not received favorably, he is not embraced, he is rejected in his hometown

b.    He’s not weighty to them and it’s all because he grew up there

c.     What you are around all the time, you have to guard against it become light and routine and common

2.      Mark 6:4-Without honor-Base, of less esteem, without value and reverence

a.    Honor (Timios)-To honor as sacred/special, to value of great price, precious, esteemed, hold especially dear, reverence

1)       Honor has to do with valuing something so much that you treat it with great respect

2)       Your honor for a thing is seen in how you treat that thing; If something is valuable to you, you treat it differently and with a greater level of honor and respect

3)       The opposite of honor is to despise-Esteem something lightly, Treat something as unimportant, To care little for, regard lightly, make small account, Fail to acknowledge the importance of, To see a thing as worthless, to not value something

b.    Jesus isn’t weighty to them, he’s just the carpenter, Mary’s son, James brother

II.     How did they dishonor him? Dishonor denies (authority), Dishonor distrusts, Dishonor disobeys and Dishonor deserts

A.    Dishonor Denies authority

1.      Offend-To see in another what you disapprove of and what hinders you from acknowledging their authority-Denying authority

2.      They won’t acknowledge Jesus as one in authority over them, they won’t acknowledge is weightiness in there lives; He should be heavy to them, but he’s light to them and they won’t acknowledge the truth and this is dishonor and lack of respect

3.      Matthew 13:57 (AMP)-They were repelled and hindered from acknowledging his authority

B.     Dishonor Distrusts-Matthew 13:58

1.      Offended-To cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey

2.      What he’s saying carries no weight in their life, his words are light to them, because he is light to them

3.      Honor trusts and says Jesus you are heavy to me and what you say means more to me than anything else

C.    Dishonor deserts-John 6 (You desert what you no longer value)

1.      53-58-Jesus preaches the eat my flesh drink my blood sermon and they don’t understand it

2.      66-They got offended and distrusted and disobeyed and deserted him

3.      66-Why would you walk no more with him? Because of dishonor, you don’t value him

4.      68-Peter doesn’t understand either, but honor sticks with him because they value him and what he’s saying

III.   Mark 6-He could THERE do no mighty work; the place where he wasn’t weighty and where he wasn’t respected he COULDN’T do mighty works

A.    Mark 6:5-He COULD do no mighty work – Can God do anything He wants?

1.      It didn’t say WOULDN’T, it said COULDN’T that means there’s stuff that God wants to do, but can’t do

2.      Did God want to heal people in Jesus’ hometown? Did God want to see to it that these other widows didn’t perish? Did God want to see these Lepers in Israel cleansed? – YES, YES, and YES; Then why didn’t He just do it?

a.    If you believe God can do anything He wants then it the next question which will be, “Then why doesn’t He?”

b.    This is where people get ignorant and say things like we could never know why and they like to act like a person could have no influence on whether or not God moves in their life and God’s is sovereign and he chooses whom he chooses and it’s all in his hands and for some he does and for some he doesn’t and you have to ignore 100s of scriptures to believe that

3.      If God can do anything He wants and He can do it anytime he wants then when it’s not happening you’ll be tempted to turn on him and this is a strategy of the enemy to get you question God’s love for you and for people

a.    People say why did God let this happened? He could have stopped it? Could he have?-Psalm 78:41-There were things He wanted to do, but they limited Him; Ephesians 3:20-It’s according to the power that works in you; Rev 3:20-Open the door

B.     This is a place where the supernatural power of God could not work (Mighty-Dunamis, strength, power, ability, supernatural power)

1.      It said COULDN’T and that means something stopped it from working; We can do things that stops supernatural power from working

2.      Where there was no honor the supernatural power of God was chocked

a.    Mighty work-Ability; Because of their dishonor God had no ability to do anything there-Dishonor Disabled him

b.    It’s not an issue of God saying I won’t if you don’t honor me, but rather it’s the issue of I can’t do it if you won’t honor me

1)       If He wanted the widows sustained, the lepers cleansed and miracles done in Nazareth and they weren’t then it wasn’t an issue of God saying I won’t, but more so of God saying I can’t

c.     Dishonor disables God in your life because it makes Him and what he says light

C.    There’s a connection between the honor of God, the fear of the Lord and the supernatural

1.      In the atmosphere of honor the supernatural will begin to manifest

a.    Where God and His things are valued greatly and are the biggest thing going on, the supernatural will manifest

2.      You’re not going to ignore the honor principle and pray in the supernatural

a.    You can’t pray in the supernatural, you don’t desire in the supernatural, Jesus manifest where honor is-John 14:21

3.      There are certain places and certain peoples lives in which God moves in a greater degree and that’s because there are certain people to whom God and His stuff is weightier to and more respected by

a.    Matthew 9:35-Everywhere else he went he could do mighty works, but here he couldn’t; Luke 4:25-27-There were many widows suffering in that famine, but he only went to this one and there were many lepers, but only Naaman did God cleanse; What’s causing this widow to get provision? What’s causing this man to get cleansed? What’s keeping Nazareth from the move of God?

4.      Luke 4:23-Desire doesn’t usher in the move of God, honor does

a.    They want him to do what he did in Capernum, but in Capernum he was honored more

b.    Luke 4:28-30-We know that they didn’t honor Jesus because they threw him out of town and wanted to throw him off of a cliff

c.     Luke 4:31-In Capernaum there was honor; 38-They didn’t throw him out of he synagogue, They invited him into their house; 40-42-This is going on all day and after it’s going on all day they don’t want him to go

IV.   Luke 4:25-27-The question is why here with this widow and not the other widows? Why Naaman and not the other lepers? Why not in Nazareth, while the other towns got it?

A.    The answer to these types of questions is not as mysterious as some have made it to be and Jesus is giving us light on it right here

1.      These are the types of questions that many believers think there is no answer to and that we could never know the answer to it and they’ll to you, “We just have to trust the “Sovereignty” of God and he chooses whom he chooses and it’s all in his hands and for some he does and for some he doesn’t,” and you have to ignore 100s of scriptures to believe that

2.      There was something going on with this widow that wasn’t with the others, there was something going on with Naaman that wasn’t with the other lepers, there was something going on in other towns that wasn’t going on in Nazareth that enabled God to move and manifest in their lives while he couldn’t in others lives; So what was it that was going on?

B.     Does God love the other widows in Israel? Does God love the other lepers in Israel? Did God want these other widows sustained? Did He want these other lepers cleansed? – 2 Chronicles 9:8 NIV, Hosea 11 MSG); Does God love the people and Nazareth and does He want to do in Nazareth what He did other places – Matthew 9:35, Luke 4:18 --- YES!

1.      Yet many widows in Israel were perishing, many lepers in Israel perished, people in Nazareth are perishing and it’s not what God wants and God loves them just as much as he does anybody else

a.    Many other widows WERE IN ISRAEL; They were God’s people and yet they were perishing in this famine, but not this widow

b.    Many lepers WERE IN ISRAEL: They were God’s people and yet they perished under the leprosy, but Naaman (Syrian) got cleansed

2.      God goes where honor is, God’s presence manifest in the presence of honor

a.    The widow woman was in Sidon, not Israel; God, in essence, “leaves” Israel and goes to Sidon because that’s where honor was

b.    Naaman was a Syrian; God, in essence, “passed over” Israelite lepers (his people) & goes to Naaman b/c that’s where honor was

c.     The interesting thing is the other widows and the other lepers God didn’t even come to and give this opportunity because he knew how they responded with previous things

3.      God’s desire & willingness to move comes from His love for you, but his ability to move in your life comes from your honor for him

a.    We are seeing people who God wanted to move on their behalf, but were passed over; Jesus is teaching us how to not be passed over

b.    This is not an issue of His love for us because if it was just based on his love for us everybody would have it

1)       God loves everybody, but not everybody is getting treated the same by Him and it’s not because He loves some more

2)       Your receiving from God is not hinging on His love for you, but rather on your Honor for him

C.    You aren’t going to find people who dishonor God, who distrust and disobey Him, who don’t value Him or His things and see God moving and manifesting in their lives

V.    The reality is the more you honor God and trust him and obey him the more he will be able to do for you; and because some honor God more and trust God more and obey God more God will be able to do things for them that He is not able to do for others

A.    1 Kings 17-Honor and the supernatural

1.      2-Why did God come to him? God goes where honor is present

2.      2-4-The Lord tells him to go hide by brook Cherith and he’ll drink of the brook and the ravens feed you THERE

a.    Go camp out by the creek and the birds will bring you food; So he went – This is not just obedience this is honor

1)       He acknowledges God as his authority, he trusts what he says, he obeys him and sticks with God

2)       The word of God is the biggest thing in his life; bigger than his circumstances, bigger than the draught and that’s honor

b.    This is a time of draught and famine, but he’s eating and drinking because honor gives place to the supernatural

1)       In the place where he honored God he received his provision

2)       In the place where you honor God, in the place where God and his things are the biggest thing going on in your life that’s where you’ll be sustained and cared for the way God wants to sustain you and care for you

c.     9-I have commanded a widow woman THERE to sustain you; If he continues to honor God, he’ll continue to be sustained

1)       It’s a time of famine and draught and a widow woman taking care of you makes about as much sense as birds feeing you

3.      There were many widows in the land in that day that weren’t sustained, but God sent His man to this one – WHY?

a.    He asked her for a cup of water in a time of drought and for some bread in a time of famine; It’s like asking for gold

b.    She stopped doing what she was doing to go get him a cup of water; So obviously his cup of water is more important to her than whatever she was doing (She was getting sticks to feed her and her son a final meal, but he was more important than that)

1)       She recognizes that this is a man of God and when he asked for water she goes and gets the man some and that’s all you need to know as to why God sent him to her and not others because the others wouldn’t respond this way

2)       She acknowledges his authority, she trusts him, obeys him and sticks with him when what he said couldn’t have made any senses and this the honor of God and this ushers in the supernatural; THE MAN OF GOD IS WEIGHTY TO HER

c.     Elijah said me first, then you – The honor variable

1)       Many wouldn’t have respond like this, they would have valued their life and their family over the Lord

2)       She fed the man of God before she fed her kid and it was an issue of honor

3)       Why didn’t the Lord send Elijah to his own country and folks and people? Why is he over here at this town with this widow? It’s about who loves God enough and respects the things of God enough, trust Him enough to actually do what he tells them

4)       15-What’s different about her than the other widows? She went and did it because of honor

4.      Her honor ushered in the supernatural and while others perished in this famine she was satisfied

a.    2 Chronicles 16:9-God is looking for permission; If you don’t honor him enough to trust him and obey him and do what he says then you limit him from doing all that he wants to do in your life

B.     2 Kings 5:1

1.      Why did God send Elisha to Naaman? Because he knew he’d have enough respect and honor and faith to do what he said and the other wouldn’t have responded like this

2.      1-We already know he is a man of honor because God honored him by giving him victory

3.      5-This is honor for the prophet that he’s going to spend his money and take his time to go see the prophet

4.      11-13-When he was tempted to desert, distrust, disobey and not acknowledge the prophets authority he acted in honor

5.      15-He wants to honor the man of God with is substance

C.    Proverbs 19:23