Jesus has Come to Deliver and Set You Free
Those
who are captive and slaves to sin will be set free IF they put their faith in
JESUS CHRIST. This is what is recorded
about Jesus in Luke 4:16-30
“16So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up.
And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and
stood up to read. 17And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And
when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
18“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has
anointed Me
To preach the gospel
to the poor;
He has sent Me to
heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight
to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
20Then He closed the
book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the
eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. 21And He began to
say to them, “Today this Scripture
is fulfilled in your hearing.” 22So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious
words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, “Is this not
Joseph’s son?”
23He said to
them, “You will surely say
this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done
in Capernaum, do also here in Your country.’ ” 24Then He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is
accepted in his own country. 25But I tell you truly, many widows were in
Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six
months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; 26but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the
prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
28So all those in the
synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with
wrath, 29and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to
the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him
down over the cliff. 30Then passing through the midst of them, He
went His way.
The
Pharisees an the Jewish leaders of that day did not approve of the salvation of
Jesus Christ, they were jealous and they wanted people to come to THEM, not to
be set free from bondage and sin in the name of JESUS. Today we have the exact same problem. The church leaders are jealous of the power
of God, they would rather you go to THEM, that you continually say in bondage,
that you would not be set free so that you may feel compelled to pay them
tithe, money every week and that you would continually go to THEM for your
salvation. But Jesus has come to set you
free. Not that you would be in bondage
to SIN and DEAD RELIGION.
I want to read to you
what Jesus was reading from in Isaiah 61:1-3; “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is
upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captive,
and the opening of the prison to those who are bond; to proclaim the acceptable
year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who
mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the
oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be
called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be
glorified.”
For those that repent and find the righteousness of Jesus
Christ, THEY WILL BE SAVED. But the
vengeance of God will come upon those who refuse to repent, just as the
vengeance of God came upon the Pharisees who hated the words of Jesus
Christ. Will you be like those who were
overjoyed to hear the words of Jesus?
Will you ask Him to set you free?
Will you come out of the darkness of sin? Will you confess your sin and REPENT? Or will you go more into BONDAGE and will the
vengeance of GOD fall upon you. There is hope for you in the name of Jesus IF
YOU REPENT TODAY.
