Big Healing Book - Luke 4:18-19

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.

Notes on Luke 4:18-19:

Jesus quoted part of Isaiah 61:1-3 about Himself.

It is interesting that instead of saying that He was anointed to deliver the captives, He said that He was anointed to preach deliverance to the captives. Likewise, today, we preach the good news to the captives that Christ has purchased their deliverance. Jesus did the work; now we announce it to the world. It is not as much a case of us delivering captives as it is preaching the good news so that they can believe that deliverance is theirs to receive. Jesus didn’t restrict this to any particular form of captivity, such as sickness (which is called captivity in Job 42:10), so we shouldn’t restrict this either. God does not want anyone to be a captive of anything. He sent Jesus to redeem everyone from captivity of every kind so that everyone can enjoy abundant life.

Because Jesus was anointed to do all these things back then, He is anointed to do all these things now because He never changes (Hebrews 13:8). The difference in practice is that He works through His Body on the earth today.