Physician, Heal Yourself!

Luke 4:23. At this point, Jesus' fame already preceded Him, everyone knew what happened in Capernaum and were anxious to "see" the same signs and wonders, but, the problem for them was that they thought they "knew" who Jesus was and where he came from, that Jesus was the son of Joseph and Mary and He was a Nazarene (they didn't know He was born in Bethlehem), Matthew 2:23, therefore He could never be the Messiah (Anointed One) because the Messiah had to come from Bethlehem of Judea, Micah 5:2. When Jesus read Isaiah 61:1-2, and told them that this passage was fulfilled before their eyes, meaning that He was the Messiah Isaiah spoke about, they refused to believe Him. Then Jesus talks about Elijah and Elisha, that those prophets being rejected by their own people, were used by God to minister to foreigners. With this Jesus was telling them that even if He did miracles and wonders among them, they would not believe that He was the Messiah. Right after, they try to kill Him. The wonderful thing about Jesus is that He was never impressed by the amount of people following Him, He never allowed the crowd to dictate what He had to say and do, He only did what His Father told Him to do. Today, if we turn on our tv, we'll see preachers trying to convince the people by displaying the "power of god" through persuasive words and pseudo-miracles that attract multitudes of people. Unfortunately, if you just pay attention, they are preaching everything but "Jesus Christ Crucified". Paul rebuked the Galatians for turning away from the Truth, Galatians 3:1. Jesus is been preached in our churches today, no doubt about it, the question is: What Jesus? (Read the post: What Jesus: The Narrow Way or the Broadway?) If the multitudes, even after seeing miracles and wonders still rejected Jesus Christ because He preached "unconditional obedience to God", it wouldn't be different today, in fact, the multitudes, just like in Jesus' time, are only running after signs and wonders, they want to see miracles and wonders but they don't want to follow Jesus, they don't want to lose their lives to become His disciples. I'm not saying that signs, wonders, miracles, healings and all the gifts we see in the Bible are not for today, absolutely, they are as real today as they were in Jesus’ time, i'm saying that if they are done in the absence of Truth, they are meaningless. I have experienced rejection after speaking the Truth, even after people seeing how God used me with diferent gifts. Unfortunately it hurts, but God is faithful and none of the words that came from Him will fall to the ground, they can kill the messenger but will never destroy the Message: Isaiah 55:11.