THEY TRIED TO THROW JESUS OFF A CLIFF | Dag Heward-Mills

Jesus goes back to his hometown Nazareth, stands up in the synagogue, and reads from Isaiah about the Spirit of the Lord being on him. At first the crowd is amazed - until someone whispers, 'isn't this just Joseph's son?' That one line turns the whole room cold, and within minutes the same people who were marveling at his words are dragging him to a cliff to throw him off. Bishop Dag Heward-Mills uses this story to make a hard point: the people who know you best can be the hardest ones to reach, because familiarity breeds contempt. Jesus escapes the mob, but even then, in his own hometown, he could not do the miracles he did everywhere else. CHAPTERS 0:00 They Tried to Throw Jesus Off a Cliff 0:31 Luke 4:14 - Jesus Returns In The Spirit's Power 2:01 Jesus Travels Far From Home To Galilee 2:34 Isaiah 61 - Reading In The Nazareth Synagogue 3:34 Is This Not Joseph's Son? 4:04 Luke 4:24 - No Prophet Accepted In His Own Country 5:01 The Widow Of Sarepta And Naaman The Leper 5:35 The Mob Tries To Throw Jesus Off A Cliff 6:31 Is This Not The Carpenter, The Son Of Mary? 7:31 Mark 6:5 - He Could Do No Mighty Work There KEY SCRIPTURES Luke 4:14 - "Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about." Luke 4:18 - "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised." Luke 4:21 - "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears." Luke 4:23 - "Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country." Luke 4:24 - "No prophet is accepted in his own country." Luke 4:28-29 - "And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill, that they might cast him down headlong." Luke 4:30 - "But he passing through the midst of them went his way." Mark 6:3 - "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him." Mark 6:4 - "A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house." Mark 6:5 - "And he could there do no mighty work." Full message:    • SUNDAY SERVICE 2000 - HOW TO RELATE TO YOU...   If this spoke to you, subscribe for more. #DagHewardMills #TheyTriedToThrowJesusOffACliff #NoProphetInHisOwnCountry #FamiliarityBreedsContempt #ChristianSermon #Sermon2026