The Son of Man // The Mission of Jesus - According to Jesus [Luke 4:14-30] (Billy Hanna)

Be ready for your belly. Lord God, it is a privilege now

to hear from Your Word. We know that all scripture is

breathed out by God and is profitable for teaching, for

reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.

And we do pray that Your Word would have its effect on our

lives and on our hearts. I thank you for Billy and just

for his giftedness, Lord, to be able to communicate Your Word

with clarity and with conviction.

Thank you for the preparation that is put in this week and our

prayers. He preaches that You would give

him the grace to preach with boldness and courage and just

bring to mind, Lord, all that has prepared this week.

We pray that you would bless this time, that you would grow

us as your church and for your glory in Jesus name, Amen.

Amen. Very cool.

Good morning Church. Would you open with me to Luke

Luke 4 · chapter mention

Chapter 4? Luke chapter 4.

Luke 4 · chapter mention

I was able to be last week at the Orchard Church over in

Topeka. It was a real joy to just be

there and worship with them. And see, I mean, we had Mike

here, Mike Johnston here earlier this year and we had a deal that

we do a preacher swap and I put it off for so long.

My debt is paid. But it was a real joy to just go

and, and worship with them and and preach with them.

A couple from the orchard have come along talking over this

week, which was not my intention, but it's good to have

you guys as well. Hey, we are going to be in Luke

Luke 4 · chapter mention

Chapter 4 this morning looking at versus 14 through 30.

So I'm just going to read those Luke chapter 4 starting in verse

Luke 4 · chapter mention

14. And Jesus returned in the power

of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out

through all the surrounding country, and he taught in this

synagogues being glorified by all.

And he came up to Nazareth where he had been brought up.

And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath

day, and he stood up to RE and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah

was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found

the place where it was written. The Spirit of the Lord is upon

me because He has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives, and

recovering of sight to the blind, to sit at liberty those

who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour.

And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant,

and sat down. And the eyes of all in the

synagogue were fixed on him, and he began to say to them, Today

this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.

And all spoke well of him, and marvelled at the gracious words

that were coming from his mouth. And they said, It is not this

Joseph's son. And he said to them, doubtless

you'll quote to me this proverb. Physician, heal yourself what

we, what we have heard you did and capernium do here in your

hometown as well. And he said, truly, I say to

you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in

the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up for three

years and six months, and a great famine came over all the

land. And Elijah was sent to none of

them, but only two, Zarephath and the land of sight, on to a

woman who was a widow. And there were many lippers in

Israel and the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them

was cleansed, but only naming the Syrian.

When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled

with wrath, and they rose up and drove him out of the town, and

brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was

built, so they could throw him down the Cliff.

But passing through the amidst, he went away.

Amen. Well, I'm sure all of us at some

point have wondered the question if I could design my perfect

house, if I won the lottery and could design my perfect house,

how would I design it? How many bedrooms would I have?

What I want it to be? You know, maybe like far enough

out of town that you've got the country feel, but close enough

to town that you can just pop into countdown, but you've got a

big backyard, a couple of ensuites.

We're kind of pictured. Maybe this is the perfect house

that I want to have. I've seen it.

If you're a sports fan, I I follow the BAA little bit.

A big question that that people get asked is if you could build

your perfect basketball player, how would you build build this

player? So maybe he's got the shooting

ability of Stiff Curry. He's got the dunking ability of

Michael Jordan. Trying to build, If I could

build this ultimate player, I I've thought about it in terms

of preachers. How would you build the ultimate

preacher, the passion of John Piper, maybe the softness of Tim

Keller combining to create this perfect preacher?

The reason I kind of start with thinking about that is because

I, I think for most of us, or for many of us, we have built up

in our minds a ideal picture of who Jesus Christ is, or at least

who we think Jesus Christ should be.

And, and what we have in these verses this morning is Jesus is

gonna come forward and he's gonna present his mission.

He's gonna presence. This is who I am, and this is

what I've come to do. And he's bringing it to the

people of Israel. And what's gonna become very

clear very quickly is that the mission that Jesus presents, it

doesn't line up with this ideal picture of the Messiah that

Israel had. Jesus is going to present to us

the mission of Jesus according to Jesus because well, and you

might have noticed that I guess as we came to this passage, as

we have in verse 22, after Jesus had spoken to them, they're

amazed, They're amazed at the words they're, they're speaking

well of him. And then you go like moments

later down to verse 29. They're trying to throw him off

a Cliff. Now, I'm sure many or Dan have

said some things up here that maybe you didn't agree with or

didn't like the way we sit it, but no one's tried to throw me

off a Cliff yet that I know of. So something had to go down.

What went down and those moments that made them want to throw

Jesus off a Cliff. And very simply, it's because

they had this picture of what they felt the Messiah should

look like and what Jesus says he's here to do.

It didn't line up. They were two different things

and and as we come and I guess unpack that this morning, I I

want to think about how that might be similar with us.

What is the picture we have of Christ?

What is this ideal picture of? We say Jesus is supposed to come

and bring me this. OK, let's look at what Jesus

said he came to bring and see. Does it line up?

Do we have actually the right picture of who Jesus is?

So let's look together at the mission of Jesus according to

Jesus. As we look at these verses, very

simply, the first part is this. The mission of Jesus is Jesus

has come to save us. Jesus has come to save us.

It's pretty simple right at this point in his ministry when

you're going to see that in versus 14 and 15 Christ had

Jesus Christ had built quite the reputation.

He this is actually what we're reading here, the first of his

public ministry. So we've seen he has the birth

narratives of him as a child. We've seen him grow up and be

baptised and be tempted. Dan spoke on that last week.

So this is the first instance of Jesus actually interacting and

teaching the people of Israel. And it's going to say in verse

14 and 15 that a report had gone out about him through all the

country and he taught in their synagogues being glorified by

all. So people started to hear

stories and whispers about this Jesus guy and that the miracles

he was doing, the things he was doing, he was building quite the

reputation. And so the scene we have here

is, is coming to Nazareth. Now you might recognise

Nazareth, Nazareth as his hometown.

This is where he was born. This is where he was raised,

this is his people. And so he's coming to people who

know him, who probably knew him as a child, saw him grow up.

They saw him learn to be a Carpenter.

They, they didn't, probably didn't know him as Jesus the

Messiah. They just knew him as Jesus.

And so he's coming now into his hometown that the suspense is

built because now he's coming to the synagogue on the Sabbath

day. And to give you a picture maybe

of what the synagogue would look like, I think maybe our closest

representation is what we're doing right now.

So in in Israel at the time, you had the temples where you did

the sacrifices and all that, but the synagogues were mainly a, a

space for the reading of the word and the proclamation of the

word. And so people are the Jews would

come together to the synagogue and there would be readings from

the Torah, They'd be readings from the writings, they'd be

reading from the profits. And then someone would come and

speak. And what it would usually look

like is the person would stand and they would read, and then

they would sit and then they would teach.

And that's why I've chosen to sit this morning because I

wanted to maybe give you a picture of what that might have

looked like. I thought I might follow Jesus,

sleep. And So what happens here is the

scroll you're going to see in verse 17, the scroll of the

prophet Isaiah is handed to Jesus.

And the people, like you said, they know him, they've heard

these rumours. Now he's about to get up and

speak and it says he's gonna unroll the scroll to the section

from Isaiah, and it's Isaiah chapter 61.

Isaiah 61 · chapter mention

And this is where he's going to read from these words in Isaiah

61. The Spirit of the Lord is upon

me because He's anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

He sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering

of sight to the blind, to sit at liberty those who were

oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour.

And so before I look at what Jesus seared, I, I want you to

understand and maybe put yourself in the synagogue

alongside the Jews and understand the significance of

Isaiah 61. If you were a Jew.

In this section of Isaiah 61 is this promise that one day God

would rescue them. There is this promise of a

Messiah. And when I use the word Messiah,

I'm, I'm essentially Speaking of a, an anointed 1A promised one

who would save Israel in the future.

And so the Israelites, they, they would know this, they would

be familiar with this. And they're thinking, yes,

someone is going to come and save us.

But if we understand what the salvation had looked like so far

for the Israelites in the Old Testament, there had been the

Exodus where they were slaves in Egypt and and God sent Moses and

saved them from the land of Egypt and then eventually

brought them into the Promised land.

And then through their sin, God exiled them from their land into

Babylonian captivity. But he promised to bring them

back into their land. So the salvation that they were

likely thinking of was a physical salvation, a right

here, right now, physical salvation.

Someone's gonna come and they're gonna save us.

Because at the time Jesus comes, they're under captivity from

Rome. The Romans had taken over the

land of Israel. They were oppressed under their

captivity. They were paying taxes.

It was not a nice time to be an Israelite person and and God had

had saved them in the past by bringing them into the land, by

giving them freedom from oppression.

And I guess the reason I want to give you that context is I want

you to understand as Jesus reads this, a juice sitting in the

synagogue is not thinking the same thing we're thinking right

now. They're thinking, yes, Jesus is

gonna save us from oppression, from Rome.

Not Jesus, but the the Messiah. The Messiah is gonna save us

from this physical right here, right now oppression that we are

under. And so Jesus, he grabs the

scroll and he stands up and he reads it, and he sees the Spirit

of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim

good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim

liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the

blind, to sit at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim

the year of the Lord's favour. Today the Scripture has been

fulfilled and you're here. You imagine being in the

synagogue at this point. Imagine if someone even came up

here and there. Maybe read a passage from

Revelation that we kind of knew as a promise in the future.

And then they sat down and they said today this has been

fulfilled. I think that's going to give you

a picture of the shock that people have What really today,

but it also comes with so much expectation of what that is

going to look like. But Jesus is about to smash

those expectations. I remember as a kid when I was

maybe 10 or 11, Christmas Eve, the presents go out under the

tree and you start to like, look, We had the rule look, but

don't touch but the Christmas presents.

But you get like as close as you can and you try to like look and

see if you can see like a name tag or not to work out if it's

yours. One year there was this prison

at the very back corner of the tree.

It was about this big. It was a huge one.

I couldn't see the name tag, but I was convinced.

I mean, I'm the youngest of 6. I don't know why I thought this,

but I was convinced that it was for me and I was convinced it

was a Nintendo Wii. I'm like, Mum and dad have

finally caved. They've decided it's a good idea

and and I had built up this expectation that Mum and Dad had

bought me a Nintendo Wii for Christmas and it was the last

present there on Christmas morning as we're handing out the

presents and I'm sitting, I'm like alright, ohh, here we go,

you know, I'm looking forward to it.

And then they unwrap it and the rest of my siblings had all

chipped in to buy Mama's sewing machine.

Ohh, my, I didn't even know about this, but it's from the

children. This is kind of what's gonna

happen for the Israelites, because they have this

expectation of what's gonna happen when they hear this, and

those expectations are about to be smashed.

And I do think that many of us, we do have a prepackaged

understanding of what Jesus Christ promises to give us.

We have this understanding he is going to give me.

Maybe it's not freedom from Rome, but Jesus Christ has

promised to give me an easy life with a comfortable job, free

from suffering as long as I maybe come to church most weeks.

And I'm a relatively good person.

Jesus owes it to me. What kind of expectations do we

have of Christ? And is that what Christ promises

to save us from? Because yes, Jesus has come to

save, but not in the way we might think or want.

Not in the way we might think or want.

And firstly, what's gonna happen is we're gonna see very clearly

that this is not the Messiah that they expected.

This is not the Messiah they expected.

And I think firstly, on a foundational level, it's because

Jesus is in his hometown. They knew him from childhood.

They knew this is Jesus. Imagine here of our Andy sum

came up. And so this is pretty much the

only church you've come to. Andy kind of raised through

Hookway. If he comes up on stage right

now. And a lot of people, especially

if you've been here and seeing Andy grow up, he comes up and

says, hey, just letting you know, I'm going to start a new

career. I'm going to be a professional

rapper. I think for most people who know

Andy quite well, they go Andy. Like, look, Andy's being a

rapper. I I think that there is this

level of comfort that would go that doesn't really make sense.

And I think that's what it's coming across when they asked

this question. Is not this Joseph's son?

Is this not Peter's son? Peter son's son, as Jesus says

he's making this claim and he's making very clear I am the one

who was going to bring this, essentially saying I am the

promised one. I am the Messiah, the saviour

thing from God. And these people, they saw Jesus

as a teenager. They saw him growing up.

And they go, is not this Joseph's son?

This is not the Messiah they expected.

Because I think very simply they were expecting a military

leader, someone who is going to come and, and start a

revolution, maybe even a violent revolution against Rome and

rescue them and, and, and give them the freedom, the political

freedom that they wanted as a nation.

But what do they get? They get Joseph's son.

It doesn't make sense to them. This is not the Messiah that

they expected and that's why essentially Jesus speaks on

their behalf. He says doubtless in verse 23,

doubtless you will quote to me this proverb.

Physician heal yourself what you've done and what we've heard

you did and capernium do here in your hometown as well.

Physician, heal yourself as essentially saying prove it

right. If I tell you that I'm a doctor

and I can, you know, do all of these things, you you wanna see

some proof that I can do there, they're saying prove it.

We've heard you've done these miracles, do them here.

And and Jesus is because of their unbelief.

No, I'm not I'm not going to do that for you.

And then he kind of gives us, I think, a truism by saying no

profit is acceptable in his hometown.

When there is familiarity with who Jesus is, there is contempt

because he's not fitting into this role that they expected him

to fit into. So already these expectations of

who Jesus might be are starting to crash.

This is not the Messiah they expected.

But secondly, this is not the Messiah they wanted.

You gonna find that out pretty quickly.

He's about to smash their expectations and he's gonna show

them that they have a wrong picture of what the Messiah

should be. They want a Messiah who's going

to come and make Israel great again, but Jesus is not coming

for that purpose. Make Israel great again.

He's going to give them two examples to show them that this

is not the case. And we're gonna look at these

and he's going to give them some examples from the Old Testament

to show them as illustrations what he has come to do.

And the first example is of this widow in Sidon, which is this.

But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in

the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years

and six months and a great famine came all over the land.

And Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath and

the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

Now this is a familiar story for I'm sure all of the Jews and the

synagogue here. He's using this as an

illustration, pointing back to a time in Israel's history when

there were many widows and there was a famine that came over

Israel because of God's judgement, because of Israel's

sin. And he's saying the prophet

Elijah came, and who did he go to?

He was not sent to any of the Israelite widows, but he was

sent to an outsider. He was sent to a gentile.

He was sent to a woman. He was sent to a widow and if

you want to read more of that you go to 1st Kings chapter 17.

But but that's a, I guess a shocking illustration for him to

give. Who did the prophet come for?

Not the Israelites. The profit came from the

outsider. Then he's gonna give another

example, and then I'll just paraphrase it for you of an

example with naming the Syrian who was a lipper in the time of

the Prophet Alisha. And there were many livers in

the land of Israel. But who did Elijah go to?

Who was he sent to? He went to this Syrian king

called Neiman who had leprosy, and he healed Neiman.

What are these two examples have in common?

The Prophet came and passed over Israel and yet offered salvation

to an outsider, not only to an outsider, an outsider who

recognised the need to be saved across the saying here that the

mission he's saying here to the Israelites, the mission of the

Messiah. My mission is not for your

physical right here, right now game.

They wanted him to come and and fill the need that they felt

like they had at the moment. We need freedom as a nation.

We need to be free from Rome. We need social freedom, whatever

it was. And Jesus is making very clear

I'm not coming to help you right here, right now.

The purpose of Jesus Christ coming is to save sinners.

That is why He has come. He has come to save sinners.

He has not come to give us a good job.

He has not come to give us a comfortable life.

He has come to save us from our sin.

And it's very easy, I guess, if you look back over those verses

that you read, to read those as physical promises and the sense

to say we can read that right now and we go have Jesus.

Job is to give this to me right here, right now.

And the way that Israel do you have to give this to me right

now. But actually the way Jesus

speaks of it, and I actually think the way the rest of the

Gospels are going to speak of it is as a spiritual promise that

he's giving to them. Think about this.

The word good news to the poor, the way the word poor is used

throughout the Gospels, especially look Matthew chapter

Matthew 5 · chapter mention

5 and the Beatitudes. He says Blizzard are the poor

and spirit. So Jesus has come not to restore

Israel's fortunes right here, right now.

He has come to save those who are poor, not in money but poor

in spirit, to save those who realise that they are

spiritually bankrupt, that our sin is a problem and we need to

save you. And God has come to meet the

spiritually poor who recognised their need, spiritually rich.

And I think it's very easy for us to have these assumptions.

Cross job as to meet my needs. Crust job as to improve my life.

Christ job is to lighten my yoke.

Shouldn't that give me an easier life?

Shouldn't that make things a little bit more comfortable for

me? Why is life still so hard?

I was at youth Group A couple of weeks ago and they had a Q&A.

They had some questions that they put in and there was a

really powerful question that was asked, which was essentially

saying if Jesus promises come to me and I will take your yoke

upon me, why is life so hard? If Jesus promises us rest, why

is my life so hard? I think that's a very real

question that a lot of us ask in our day-to-day life.

I've trusted in Jesus, but my life is still hard and I want to

speak to the comfort that comes from Christ in a moment.

But I also just want to recognise that we do need to

step back and we go what has promised?

What has Christ promised to give us?

Because if we're looking to Jesus Christ and assuming that

it's his responsibility to give us an easy life, we're only

going to be angry. We're only going to be

disappointed because we're looking at things that he hasn't

actually promised to give us. Jesus Christ has come to save

us, but not in the way we might want.

He isn't promised us health. He hasn't promised us He's he

promised, hasn't promised us wealth.

And a lot of these things are good things in their their gifts

that God often chooses to give. But they're not the promise that

cross gives us. It's not the mission of Christ

and I could see him saving. As we talk about this, there can

be a lot of feeling of being like, what does this mean?

Does this mean that we just need to taper our expectations?

OK, I thought that it was going to be this good following Jesus,

but actually it's just this good.

Is that what I'm saying to you? That's not at all what I'm

saying to you. What?

What I wanna leave you with this morning as we reflect on this is

we reflect on the mission of Christ as actually being able to

see this as good news to walk out and go.

I thought I wanted this, but actually what I've got is far

deeper. It is far richer, it is far

better what Christ has come to bring.

That may not be what we think we want, but it is truly deeper.

So I wanna ask the question why is this good news?

Why is this good news? Cause so far it might just sound

disappointing. Why is this good news?

Firstly, this This is good news because although Jesus hasn't

come to give us necessarily what we want or what we think that we

need, Jesus Christ and God knows our true needs.

He knows our true needs, and he wants to reorient our

perspectives around what we truly need.

There's a lot of things in life. We use that word very freely.

Neat. There's a lot of things in life

that we tell ourselves that we need.

Acceptance, fiction, self esteem, purpose, money, job,

house, whatever it might be. There are a lot of things that

we say, I need this. And when we're saying everything

is a need, we, we, we put those on Jesus Christ and we say it is

your responsibility to provide me those needs.

But the good news of the mission of Christ is that firstly, we

Jesus knows our true needs. He knows them better than we

know them. In the same way, if you've seen

a child who is convinced that they need this, and as a parent

or as an adult, you can often look at it quite objectively and

go like, you don't need this right now.

In fact, if I gave it to you everyday, it would not be

healthy for you. We need to trust that Jesus

knows our true needs and also we need to trust this that Jesus

Christ has a provided for them in abundance.

If we're actually understanding the reality of what we truly

need and we look at the mission of Christ, he is saying I've

provided for it. Because let me tell you, as

human beings, our deepest true need is to know God.

It is to know the God who made us and created us and loved us.

And the problem is that because of our sin, that relationship

with God has been broken our way to God, our way to be made right

with God, and our hope of spending eternity with God

because of our sin, that has been broken.

That is our deepest need. It is an eternal need.

God knows that, and through Jesus Christ He has provided for

that in abundance because of what Jesus did as Dan was

talking about before, because he said it is finished on the

cross. We have that hope because you

know you're gonna see at the end of the passage, these men tried

to throw Jesus off a Cliff. Jesus passed through their

mouths. I think that gives the idea it

might have been a miraculous, like he walked through them, It

might have just been that he managed to escape.

But it happens a couple of times in the Gospels where people try

to kill him and it becomes very clear that Jesus sees it's not

the time. But we have this hope because

there was a time in the Garden of Gethsemane when when the

Romans came to arrest and when he was betrayed by Judas.

And Peter has has his brash apostle pulls out his sword and

cuts off one of the servants ears who was trying to arrest

him. Jesus heals the servant and

tells Peter, Put away your sword.

Shall I not drink of the cup my Father has given me?

This wasn't the time for Jesus to die, but when the time came,

Jesus didn't run from it, although he could have.

He faced it head on. He he mixed the wrath and the

anger of God so that he may provide for our needs a restored

relationship with God. And I will say this because it

might be, it is challenging. I mean, as Christians, we live

in a sinful world, we face sufferings, we face hardships.

And in a sense that's probably natural to look to God and go

God, it's your responsibility to take these away from me.

And I don't want to minimise those sufferings.

I don't want to minimise what people are going through, but

what I will say as well is that the way, although God doesn't

promise to remove all suffering from us in this life, He's

provided for our needs. That and, and, and Jesus Christ

We have access to God who have pulses in Second Corinthians

2 Corinthians 1 · chapter mention

chapter 1 as the God of all comfort.

His Holy Spirit is with us to comfort us in the midst of our

afflictions. We have access to the God who

has the power to strengthen us in the midst of our weaknesses.

His grace is sufficient. Second Corinthians chapter 12.

2 Corinthians 12 · chapter mention

Go have a read of that. Because we are in Christ, we

have hope. We have hope and the

resurrection that one day we will be perfectly united with

God. We have purpose in the midst of

our trials. There is purpose.

There is reason, there is sharpening that happens in the

midst of our trials. And actually we have the hope

that in the new heavens and the new earth for those of us who

are in Jesus Christ, for those of us who know Jesus Christ and

trust in Jesus Christ, these realities that are spoken about

here and Isaiah chapter 61, they will be fulfilled.

Isaiah 61 · chapter mention

They will come to fruition not spiritually, but physically,

meaning this. We will not be in want.

We will not be looking for more. We will not have to suffer.

We will be perfectly united with God.

We will be perfectly united with one another.

This aching, this groaning in our hearts will be fulfilled.

And so right now, right here, we, we, we, we are on earth.

Sin surrounds us and we suffer. But we have the hope that one

day we will be perfectly united with Jesus Christ.

This is good news because Jesus knows our true needs, the

mission of Jesus. Jesus has not come to meet our

wants, but he's come to fill our needs, and that is good news.

If he had just come to free Israel from Roman captivity,

they might have had a slightly easier life, but they still

would have been in this scene. They would have been lost if

Jesus came to make our lives easier.

Yeah, sure, they might be easier, but our greatest problem

is our sin problem and and Jesus Christ has come to deal with

that. And we're gonna see that more as

we journey through the book of Luke.

That is good news for us to sit with them.

And really as we go from here, we we've got 2 responses as we

think about who Christ is, The mission of Christ.

Firstly, we could either mould our understanding of who we want

Christ to be to the actual picture of how Christ has shown

himself. Meaning this we we don't

continue to look to Jesus to provide us a easy life when he

hasn't promised that, but we actually look to him as to how

he's shown himself to us. That's our first option.

We could. We could look at him in the way

he's shown himself to us, or we could reject Him and we could

look to build our own Saviour, look to find someone or

something else that is going to provide us with the things that

we think that we need. Those are our options this

morning. And my prayer is, as you look at

the mission of Jesus Christ, you would see truly has given us all

we need through what He has done on the cross.

What a great hope we have. Let's pray.

Lord God, we thank you for your goodness.

We thank you for your grace, and we thank you for the mission of

Christ and what He has come to do.

I pray for all of us, Lord, that we may look to You as who You

truly are. You are good.

You are. You're the one who has meet all

of our needs. God pray, Lord, you make comfort

those of us who are struggling and those who do not know you

would. They just see the good news that

is found and what Jesus Christ has done.

Thank you for the thought. In Jesus name I mean.