Jesus' assignment and how it affects me and you today

"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, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord" (Luke 4:18-19).
In the last text we saw that Jesus needed the Holy Spirit to fulfill His assignment here on the earth, and we also saw that we need the Holy Spirit to fulfill our assignments.
Today we'll look more closely at what Jesus was sent to do.
Jesus was sent to this earth to

• Preach the gospel to the poor
• Heal the brokenhearted
• Preach deliverance to the captives
• Preach recovery of sight to the blind
• Set at liberty them that are bruised
• Preach the acceptable year of the Lord

Six powerful statements that was His inauguration speech, so to speak. Let's look at each one more closely.
Preach the gospel to the poor. Who were "the poor"? If I tell you that "I am so poor", what's your first reaction? You think that I lack something, right? May be money, food or clothing; but it could also be other things, such as family, friends, education, or love. The one who is poor, lacks something. Jesus didn't say that He wanted to preach the gospel to "the poor in finances" or "the poor in relationships". He just said "the poor".
My next question is: What does the gospel have to do with being poor, or, with getting out of the state of being poor?
Since Jesus was preaching the gospel to the poor, it must mean that He meant that His preacing would get them out of the poor state they were in. Is that true? Can the gospel free me from being poor?
Galatians 3:8 says that "The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you."
The gospel was announced to Abraham, and through the gospel all nations will ble blessed. Galatians 3:13-14 says that "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree. He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit."
From these scriptures, it seems like the gospel is supplying us with the blessing given to Abraham. What was this blessing? I don't want to spend time on all the blessings here, but you can read them in Deut. 28:1-14. There you'll find a long list of GOOD thingst that God promised Abraham, and that, through Abraham, we can receive through Jesus Christ. Are there any blessings that can make the poor not poor any more? Absolutely. The gospel is called "the good news", and the good news is that everyone who is poor can get out of his or her poor state by tapping into the blessings promised us through the gospel.

More on Jesus' assignment next time.