Many people believe that Jesus lived on this earth; they believe in Him as a historical person, and even as a prophet. However, what was Jesus really sent here to accomplish? Well, the best person to answer that question, would be Jesus Himself, don't you think? And He described His mission in Luke 4:18-19:
"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."
And these words did not come from His own mind, they were not words and nice formulations so He could attract more followers. These words were spoken by the prophet Isaiah about 700 years before Jesus walked the earth, and they predicted that God would send His Son to "set people free", to sum it up in my own words.
Over the next days I will try to look more deeply into what the meaning behind these words of Jesus is, and how they apply to your and my daily life.
Let's start with looking into the actual words that He spoke, and the facts about them.
Jesus said that the Spirit of the Lord was upon Him, and the reason for that was that He had an assignment to fulfill. The implication is that Jesus needed the Spirit to fulfill his assignment. No Spirit, no accomplished assignment.
Is that something for us to consider? Yes, absolutely. Jesus said in John 15:5 that we can do nothing without Him, and He also said that "John baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost ..." (Acts 1:5). And what was this baptizing with the Holy Ghost for? Acts 1:8 gives the answer: "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me ..." Jesus needed the Holy Spirit to accomplish HIS task, and we need the Holy Spirit to accomplish OUR tasks.
In the next texts, we'll look more deeply into what Jesus was designed to do.
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