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Jesus’ second pattern of life was His Sabbath day attendance in a synagogue. The Greek
language reveals that Jesus was constantly doing this. Jesus’ pattern of life should also be our pattern.
He set the example. Today some claim that they can worship God on the golf course or out in the wilderness.
If one really wants to worship God, why go to the golf course and ignore the preaching of the Bible, which
He wrote? The truth is - people go to golf courses to golf and not to worship! Jesus set the example by going
to “church” or synagogue even though the synagogues were undoubtedly not all that they should have
been.
Both patterns of life should also be true for us too! Galatians 5:16-23 and Ephesians 3:16;
5:17-18 command us to walk or to be filled with the Holy Spirit. That is, we are supposed to allow the Holy
Spirit to control our lives throughout the day. God did not encourage us to be filled with the Holy Spirit
in these passages, nor did He ask us to be filled. He commanded us to be filled with the Holy Spirit, just
as He has also commanded us to gather on the first day of the week to worship with other Christians (1Cor.
16:2; Heb. 10:24-25). Jesus set the pattern and we are supposed to follow.
Jesus Visits Nazareth. So when we come to the next verse in our study, we find
Jesus continuing in His pattern of life.
And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read. (NASB) Luke 4:16 Earlier Jesus was in Cana of Galilee where He had healed the son of a royal official to King Herod. If you recall, the father had traveled to Cana and left his son in Capernaum. Jesus did not travel to Capernaum but healed his son from a distance of 16 miles (26 Km). It was a stunning miracle, and the rumor of the miracle would have spread in that small region and quickly reached Nazareth, which was only 5 miles (8 Km) south of Cana and about 21 miles (34 Km) from Capernaum. According to John 2:12, Jesus had been in Capernaum before. The results of His ministry would also have reached Nazareth by now. We are not told what He taught or what miracles, if any, that he did in Capernaum. But we will see shortly that the people in Nazareth had already heard about His ministry before His return home. They had probably also heard about His miracles and teachings in Jerusalem, since the gospel of John has already told us that,
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