Today's Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 4 verses 23 through 30:
23Jesus said to them, ‘Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, “Doctor, cure yourself!” And you will say, “Do here also in your home town the things that we have heard you did at Capernaum.” ’ 24And he said, ‘Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s home town. 25But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; 26yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 27There were also many lepers* in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.’ 28When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. 29They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. 30But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.
I heard a bunch of stuff about "America First" Caucus and a its explicitly "Anglo-Saxon" pride. Apparently the Caucus is already over, but I doubt its really gone away. It certainly drew a lot attention and probably a lot of donors for its champions. The dogs will keep coming even after you put the dog whistle back in your pocket.
They had an Israel First Caucus back in Jesus' hometown Nazareth somewhere around 30AD. It liked to have killed Jesus right then and there; we can thank God He slipped away.
But the Caucus didn't fold up shop. They kept organizing -- in secret. Three years later they came out with their full force.
Let us remember that, so we won't be surprised when in three years we see the Caucus rise again ourselves.
In fact, after reading about what they tried to do to Jesus, nothing should surprise us ever again.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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