Hebrews 10:5-7 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Ephesians 1:22-23 And hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.
1 Corinthians 12:27 - Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
TODAY S MESSAGE Preach Deliverance To The Captives
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST:
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 1. MAKE A 21 ST CENTURY IDENTIFICATION OF THE CAPTIVES.
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 1. MAKE A 21 ST CENTURY IDENTIFICATION OF THE CAPTIVES. THIS ANSWERS THE QUESTION, WHO?
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 1. MAKE A 21 ST CENTURY IDENTIFICATION OF THE CAPTIVES. THIS ANSWERS THE QUESTION, WHO? WHO IS TO BE THE FOCUS OF OUR MINISTRY?
that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 2 Timothy 2:26
SLAVERY
SLAVERY Victims of injustice
SLAVERY Bonded slaves
SLAVERY Sex trafficking
SLAVERY Sexual abuse
NEGLIGENCE
Proverbs 17 6(b)... the glory of children are their fathers.
NEGLIGENCE Homosexuals
NEGLIGENCE Prostitutes
NEGLIGENCE Mentally ill
NEGLIGENCE Street people
ADDICTIONS
ADDICTIONS Drugs
ADDICTIONS Alcohol
ADDICTIONS Pornography
ADDICTIONS Other sexual addictions
RELIGION
RELIGION Phariseeism (self-righteousness)
RELIGION Legalism (works-based religion)
RELIGION False religious systems
ECONOMICS
ECONOMICS Abject poverty
ECONOMICS Materialism
II Corinthians 4 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Isaiah 42 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST:
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 2. CAPTURE GOD S HEART FOR THE CAPTIVES.
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 2. CAPTURE GOD S HEART FOR THE CAPTIVES. THIS ANSWERS THE QUESTION, WHY?
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 2. CAPTURE GOD S HEART FOR THE CAPTIVES. THIS ANSWERS THE QUESTION, WHY? WHY SHOULD WE CONCERN OURSELVES WITH THE CAPTIVES?
Psalm 10 1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalm 10 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. 10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. 11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Psalm 10 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Psalm 10 17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Psalm 35 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
Psalm 22 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Genesis 6 5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Psalm 69 33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Psalm 102 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. 18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD. 19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Psalm 140 12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST:
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 3. DEVELOP A BIBLICAL ATTITUDE TOWARD THE CAPTIVES.
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 3. DEVELOP A BIBLICAL ATTITUDE TOWARD THE CAPTIVES. THIS ANSWERS THE QUESTION, WHAT?
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 3. DEVELOP A BIBLICAL ATTITUDE TOWARD THE CAPTIVES. THIS ANSWERS THE QUESTION, WHAT? WHAT IS TO BE OUR ATTITUDE TOWARD THE CAPTIVES?
Matthew 5 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Isaiah 1 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Isaiah 1 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 1 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah 1 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Micah 6 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Matthew 23 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Ezekiel 22 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel 22 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Ezekiel 22 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Ecclesiastes 4 1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST:
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 4. FOLLOW JESUS EXAMPLE IN MINISTERING TO THE CAPTIVES.
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 4. FOLLOW JESUS EXAMPLE IN MINISTERING TO THE CAPTIVES. THIS ANSWERS THE QUESTION, HOW?
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 4. FOLLOW JESUS EXAMPLE IN MINISTERING TO THE CAPTIVES. THIS ANSWERS THE QUESTION, HOW? HOW ARE WE TO CARRY OUT THIS MINISTRY?
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 4. FOLLOW JESUS EXAMPLE IN MINISTERING TO THE CAPTIVES. THIS ANSWERS THE QUESTION, HOW? HOW ARE WE TO CARRY OUT THIS MINISTRY? A. Like Jesus, we must be PASSIONATE against EVIL and yet COMPASSIONATE towards its VICTIMS.
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 4. FOLLOW JESUS EXAMPLE IN MINISTERING TO THE CAPTIVES. THIS ANSWERS THE QUESTION, HOW? HOW ARE WE TO CARRY OUT THIS MINISTRY? B. Like Jesus, we must place ourselves in the SKIN and in the BONDS of those who have been taken captive.
Hebrews 13 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Hebrews 2 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
FOR JESUS TO MINISTER THRU US TO THE 21 ST CENTURY WORLD, WE MUST: 4. FOLLOW JESUS EXAMPLE IN MINISTERING TO THE CAPTIVES. THIS ANSWERS THE QUESTION, HOW? HOW ARE WE TO CARRY OUT THIS MINISTRY? C. Like Jesus, we must allow our FATHER to USE US to be the ANSWERS to the CRIES of children, women, and families who are being held in bondage.
Exodus 3 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.