Bob Bennett – Missionary, Baptist Church Planters
What Christ did for us
Isaiah 61:1-3
These verses are a prophesy of Christ ministry, how he viewed people, how he was concerned for us, how he miunistered to them. We need to ask ourselves: how do we care for the needs of other, how do we view those who are hurting?
Jesus had been anointed for this ministry of proclaiming the good news of himself. That He alone is able to meet our needs. His birth, his sinless life, his work, his death and resurrection, his ascension, all point to who he is, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He had come to share this good news and now the task falls upon us to also share this truth about Him.
To preach this good news to the poor. To those who have needs in their life, those who have nothing to look forward too, those who have an empty feeling in their soul. Jesus will fill that emptyness, that lonliness in their soul.
To heal the broken hearted. The idea here is of a bandage around a wound, for the purpose of binding together to heal. Jesus Christ will bind together with him those who are emotionally and spirtually overtaken and at the point of being unable to cope with life any more and bring healing to our lives thru salvation.
To give liberty to the captives. Those who are held captive to sin.and its control over us. Christ has destroyed the power of Satan and given us liberty and has set us free. John 8:32, tells us that the truth of who Jesus is will set us free. We can now have victory over sin thru Christ living in us.
This good news is being proclaimed now and when we turn in repentence and in faith accept Christ as our Savour He will take away the saddness and the mourning and will replace it with beauty and gladness. We will become like a tree planted next to “living water†so that God will be glorified by our lives.