Gospel Meeting 15/04/2018

Luke’s Gospel ch4 vs14 -22.

Isaiah ch61 vs1 -2.

Here, at the synagogue in Nazareth, on reading aloud what was foretold hundreds of years earlier, Jesus Christ was telling them that He is the Messiah of God… I am here! I am the One – anointed by the Spirit!

The ministry of The Lord Jesus Christ covered 6 points:

1) Preach the gospel to the poor

2) Heal the broken – hearted

3) Preach deliverance to the captives

4) Recovering of sight to the blind

5) Set at liberty them that are bruised

6) Preach the acceptable year of our Lord

Tonight, the speaker gave a message on three of these points.

a)  Preaching the Gospel to the poor …

Many of the financially poor people did respond, but also particularly those of who were poor in spirit.

People who were at the end of themselves, not knowing where to turn, feeling worthless and inadequate, turned to The Lord and cried out to Him.

They repented and believed the Gospel!

Friend, maybe this is describing how you feel tonight? Perhaps your own life has long since ceased to have any real purpose or meaning? Many in this world are feeling despair, seeing little hope of a happy future or living without any peace in their hearts and minds.

Please take a little time to read the words of Jesus Christ, God’s eternal Son, to find what He offers to you personally. He loves you and wants you to come to Him, trusting Him as your Saviour. Why as your Saviour? ...because all of us are sinners, having broken His laws countless times in our lives. We face eternal punishment from Holy God because of this, but in His boundless, most wonderful love for us, God The Father sent His Son to us who lived a sinless, faultless life. He then gave His life to pay the great price of our sins so that we can be forgiven, being cruelly crucified at the place called Calvary.
 A full and free pardon can be yours tonight, and a place in Heaven absolutely secured!

“…repent and believe the gospel!”

- words of Jesus Christ from Mark’s Gospel ch1 vs15.

b) Healing the broken – hearted …

This One can heal!

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest”.

- words of Jesus Christ from Matthew’s Gospel ch11 vs28.

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Truly, what a most compassionate and loving Saviour we have in The Lord Jesus Christ! There are so many things in this hurtful world that can cause our heart to be suffering to breaking point. We can turn many ways to try find peace and for someone to put the pieces back together again – but only Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour can altogether heal.

“He heals the broken - hearted and binds up their wounds”.

- Psalm ch147 vs3.

c) Preach deliverance to the captives …

This was not a wholesale release of criminals from prison, but of great spiritual significance. However, it is fantastic how many people at this time have come from being imprisoned in a life of crime into freedom, through repentance and trusting Jesus Christ as their own Saviour!

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new”.

- 2^nd Corinthians ch5 vs17.

He changes lives, hallelujah!

Jesus Christ can touch your life and transform you too. He will deliver you from your old life!

There is a worse imprisonment than a physical one – those who are slaves to sin and sinful habits. 

Sin totally wrecks lives- just look around you.

“Jesus, the name high over all,

In hell, or earth, or sky:

Angels and men before it fall,

And devils fear and fly.

Jesus, the prisoner’s fetters breaks,

And bruises Satan’s head;

power into strengthless souls He speaks,

and life into the dead.

(words from hymn by C.Wesley)

In Luke’s Gospel ch8 vs26 -39, The Lord Jesus Christ met a demon possessed maniac. By His power, He completely delivered him, ridding him of many demons and into freedom!  We read that the man was then found sitting and clothed, in his right mind!

Jesus Christ today is still setting many captives free from the power and domination of sin in peoples lives. Come to Him!

“But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness”.

- Romans ch6 vs17 -18.

All who accept Christ as Saviour are transferred from this one camp to the other!

Indeed, being a slave to Jesus Christ is a greatest blessing! –

- Paul, James and Jude are some of whom we read in God’s Word that gloried in it.

It gives us the greatest freedom in the world!

Friend, if you are still in bondage to sin tonight, accept the love that Jesus Christ freely offers you and He will bring you forgiveness, peace and freedom. 

Ask Him into your heart and life while there is still time -

“…behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation”.

2^nd Corinthians ch6 vs2.