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<div class="SSN_title">"THE MARVEL OF UNBELIEF"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THIS IS A RECORD OF THE RECORD OF THE VISIT OF JESUS TO HIS HOME TOWN OF NAZARETH.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. This is not to be confused with His first visit shortly after His baptism.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. In His first visit recorded in Luke's gospel He went to the synagogue and stood up to read the scriptures. When He read to them <a onClick="return mV('Isa',61,1);">Isaiah 61</a>, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent Me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and the recovering of the sight to the blind, to set a liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He then sat down and declared, "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your eyes." He then began to teach them, and they marveled at His gracious word's and asked, "Is this not Joseph's Son?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. As He continued to teach, He was so straightforward that they took Him to the cliff outside of Nazareth and were going to throw Him over the cliff, but He passed through their midst.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. This is now the second time He returned to Nazareth, and in the mean time He had been doing what Isaiah had prophesied, He had been preaching the gospel to the poor, and healing the broken hearted. He had been preaching deliverance to the captives and had healed the blind and all manner of sicknesses. He had even raised the daughter of Jarius from the dead.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. On this visit the disciples are with Him. This could mean more than just the twelve, but a multitude. He is returning to His home town once again, the town that had earlier rejected Him, and sought to kill Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Again on the Sabbath day He went to the Synagogue and again He read the scriptures and began to teach.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Mark tells us that they were astonished at His teaching and wondered how He ever learned all these things, and what mighty wisdom was given to Him. They also wondered at the works that He did.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Their question was, "Is not this the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses, and Jude and Simon?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Note the difference between the account in Luke.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. In Luke they asked, "Is this not the Son of Joseph?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Here, "Is this not the Son of Mary."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. This could mean one of two things.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Joseph had died by this time.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. That as His fame spread throughout the country, the rumor about His mother's becoming pregnant before being married to Joseph was being passed about.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. John tells us that when He was disputing with the Pharisee's that they said unto Him, "We were not born of fornication." They were possibly casting a slur at Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Jesus responded to their question, "Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary?" with the statement, "A prophet is not without honor but in His own country, and among His own family."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. We then read that He could do no mighty works there, with the exception that He laid His hands on a few sick people to heal them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. It is at this point that Jesus marveled at their unbelief.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHY WOULD HE MARVEL AT THEIR UNBELIEF?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He had done so many things to prove that He was the Messiah.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He had been fulfilling the prophesies concerning the Messiah.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Not only those that He had earlier read from Isaiah, but many others.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He had being doing miracles throughout Galilee, casting out demons, even raising the dead.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Jesus said, "The works that I do, they do testify of Me." later to His disciples He said, "Believe Me or else believe Me for My work's sake."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Even if the story of Mary being pregnant before being married to Joseph had spread through the little village of Nazareth, it was prophesied of the Messiah, "Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel." which means, God is with us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. They had marveled at His teaching, and at His works. They recognized that there was something extraordinary about Him, yet they would not believe.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Throughout the whole area of Galilee He was met with throngs of people desiring to be healed, or just to touch Him. He was received gladly by the multitudes. Here in His home town their seemed to be such apathy toward Him, it caused Him to marvel at their unbelief.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHY THEIR UNBELIEF?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. They were very mistaken when they thought they knew Him. They only possessed a head knowledge of Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. They knew a few facts about Him. He was the Son of Mary, brother of James and the others.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. They had probably brought their yokes to Him to be repaired, or maybe ordered yokes or plows from His shop. Perhaps they had bought a table or chairs from Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. They had been close to Him, they had commerce with Him, they had touched Him as a child and a young man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. There was much about Him they did not know. Their unbelief was based upon insufficient knowledge of Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. There are many people today in unbelief because they think they know Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. They have formed their opinions upon the remarks or statements of others. They have never searched for themselves.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The claims of Jesus are so radical, and the consequences of not believing are so great, that you would be wise to examine all the evidence personally before forming an opinion. Jesus said, "He that believeth on Me shall be saved, and He that believeth not shall be damned."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Eternal life or eternal damnation is at stake.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. With the stakes so high, you should make more than just a cursory examination of the facts.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Jesus had challenged them to search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life, but they a they which testify of Me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Paul the apostle thought he knew Him, all he knew was the lies that were told to him about Jesus. On the road to Damascus, he came to know Jesus, and it turned his life around.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. What do you know about Jesus? Where did you learn it? Have you ever read the gospel of John, and asked the Lord that if He were real that He would reveal Himself to you as you read it?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">f. How can you be so foolish to reject something that you don't really know or understand at all.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">g. It is really a sign of ignorance to be so opinionated about something that you really know nothing at all about.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. The marvel of their unbelief is not as great as the marvel of your unbelief.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. The results of their unbelief.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He could do no might works there.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Does this mean that their unbelief restricted His power to do miracles? I hardly think so.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Does it then mean that He just decided to reject them because they had rejected Him. Sort of a retaliation thing. I don't believe so.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. I believe that the unbelief kept people from coming to Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Think of all the benefits they could have received if they had only come to Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Their lame could be walking, their blind seeing. Those who were possessed with evil spirits could have been delivered.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. They could have known the love, joy, and peace of the kingdom of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Remember as He wept over Jerusalem, He said,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Mat',23,37);">MAT 23:37</a> O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [thou] that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under [her] wings, and ye would not!</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The reluctance or unwillingness was not on His part, it was they who would not.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Your unbelief can keep you from coming to Him, and thus miss all of the blessings and benefits that He desires to bestow upon your life.</div>
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