DYNAMICS: Living With The People God Gave You (3) – The Family You Didn’t Choose 

DYNAMICS: Living With The People God Gave You (3) – The Family You Didn’t Choose 

Pastor Blake Hanson | 2.15.26 

Luke 4:16–30 (NLT)

16When 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. 

17The 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, 

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

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

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

22Everyone 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?” 

23Then 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.’ 

24But 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. 

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

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

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

29Jumping 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, 

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

 You didn’t choose your but God chose how He would use them in your story. 

THE FAMILY YOU DIDN’T CHOOSE… 

1.  GOD HAND-SELECTS THE FAMILIES THAT US. 

Luke 4:16 (NLT)

16When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home…

John 1:46

46 “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”

Psalm 68:6 (NLT)

6 God places the lonely in families… 

2.  HONOR DOES NOT MEAN IGNORING . 

Exodus 20:12 (NLT)

12“Honor your father and mother. Then you will live a long, full life in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Ephesians 6:2–3 (NLT)

2“Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise: 

3If you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.”

Ephesians 6:4 (NLT)

4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.

Luke 4:24 (NLT)

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

Luke 4:30 (NLT)

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

Distance can be an act of honor when staying would enable sin!  BS 

3.  GOD CAN REDEEM WHAT FAMILY . 

Genesis 50:20 (NLT)

20You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.

John 7:5 (NLT)

5 For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

4.  YOU CAN BREAK CYCLES WITHOUT BREAKING . 

Luke 4:30 (NLT)

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

Romans 12:18 (NLT)

18Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone.

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