Hot and Hidden #3 – Too Close to Home

Hot & Hidden #3 – Too Close to Home 

Pastor Blake Hanson | 7.20.25 

 

Luke 4:14–30 (NLT)

14 Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit’s power. Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region. 

15 He taught regularly in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. 

16 When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures. 

17 The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written: 

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, 

19 and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.” 

20 He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently. 

21 Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!” 

22 Everyone spoke well of him and was amazed by the gracious words that came from his lips. “How can this be?” they asked. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” 

23 Then he said, “You will undoubtedly quote me this proverb: ‘Physician, heal yourself’—meaning, ‘Do miracles here in your hometown like those you did in Capernaum.’ 

24 But I tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in his own hometown. 

25 “Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land. 

26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon. 

27 And many in Israel had leprosy in the time of the prophet Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian.” 

28 When they heard this, the people in the synagogue were furious. 

29 Jumping up, they mobbed him and forced him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built. They intended to push him over the cliff, 

30 but he passed right through the crowd and went on his way.

 

When Jesus gets close, what’s hidden in us gets . 

Truth is but first it might hurt. 

 

AREAS OF LIFE WE DON’T WANT EXPOSURE… 

1.   Hidden  

John 3:20 (NLT)

20 All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.

 

2.  Spiritual Doubt 

Mark 9:24 (NLT)

24 The father instantly cried out, “I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!”

 

THE BENEFITS OF JESUS HITTING TOO CLOSE TO HOME… 

 

1.   Jesus reveals what we’ve grown with. 

Mark 6:2 (NLT)

2 The next Sabbath he began teaching in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. They asked, “Where did he get all this wisdom and the power to perform such miracles?”

 

Luke 4:22 (NLT)

22 Everyone spoke well of him and was amazed by the gracious words that came from his lips. “How can this be?” they asked. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

 

Mark 6:3 (NLT)

3 Then they scoffed, “He’s just a carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon. And his sisters live right here among us.” They were deeply offended and refused to believe in him.

 

2.  Jesus confronts what we’d rather . 

 

Luke 4:24 (NLT) – You won’t accept me. 

24 But I tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in his own hometown.

 

Luke 4:26 (NLT) – Elijha 

26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon.

 

3.  Jesus exposes our real . 

Luke 4:23 (NLT)

23 Then he said, “You will undoubtedly quote me this proverb: ‘Physician, heal yourself’—meaning, ‘Do miracles here in your hometown like those you did in Capernaum.’

 

 

4.   Jesus leaves us with the . 

Luke 4:18–19 (NLT)

18“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, 

19and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.”

 

Four Truths Jesus Leaves Us: 

 

1.   Jesus came to reach the spiritually . 

 

Luke 6:20 (NLT)

20 “God blesses you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours.

 

2.  Jesus came to proclaim a spiritual release to those in . 

 

John 8:34 (NLT)

34 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin.

 

3.  Jesus came to give sight to the blind spiritually . 

 

Psalm 82:5 (NLT)

5 But these oppressors know nothing; they are so ignorant! They wander about in darkness, while the whole world is shaken to the core.

 

4.  Jesus came to set free those who were spiritually . 

 

Matthew 11:28–30 (NLT)

28 Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 

29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 

30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”

 

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