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We are never at the mercy of our enemy.

But the church must rise and be more than just religious; she must be what Jesus intended her to be. She must stop trying to be a religious institution and become a life-giving organism.

Show Notes For This Foundational Podcast:

6 Things Jesus Came to Do

Luke 4:18-19

• Jesus came to bring into reality the Year of Jubilee
  • Every 7th year was a sabbath year of rest
  • The 49th a year was a sabbath of sabbath's
  • The 50th year was the Year of Jubilee - a year of great liberation
  • Jesus has come to bring a year of liberation
    • Not just a year, but from now until eternity
    • To set men free
• Jesus came to bring liberty to the oppressed
  • Despair ,discouragement, depression, anxiety, worry, fear, insecurity
  • Whatever harasses and suppresses our emotions and ability to take hold of what God intended for us
    • God never intended for us to live this way
    • Jesus came to set us free

• Jesus came to give sight to the blind
  • Physical and spiritual blindness
  • Living far less than what God intended us to live
    • Because we can't see
    • Don't take hold of God's promises
  • Living in limited blessings of God
• Jesus came to give liberty to captives
  • • Prison of phobias
    • Prison of identifying with past addictions
    • Prison of past failures and hurts
    • Jesus came to set you free!
  • • • Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted
        • Abandonment
        • Divorce
        • Broken spirit
        • Jesus heals us so we can love authentically
      • Jesus came to preach gospel to the poor
        • Spiritual poverty
        • Blessed are the poor in spirit
          • Greek word: no means to be able to change their poverty
          • No way out
          • You are blessed when you recognize your condition
        • Jesus came to preach the gospel to all in that condition
          • Every human being is in this condition
          • None not righteous

  John 14:12-3

  "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son."

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