MESSAGE THEME: Jesus of Nazareth is verified as the Messiah and commissioned
as God’s Christ.
*INTRODUCTION
 We have looked at understanding how Jesus lived; now we want to understand what
Jesus did.
 This will help us understand what it looks like to advance His kingdom together.
 It is important because Jesus commissioned us, sending us into the world as God
the Father had sent Him into the world. (John 17:18-20; 20:21)
*Cornerstone Text:
Luke 4:18–19 (NKJV) “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed
Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To
proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those
who are oppressed; 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.”
AND
Luke 19:10 “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
 In the Gospel of Luke, the mission of Jesus Christ is not a reaction to unexpected
events. It is the deliberate, historical fulfillment of God’s eternal covenant.
 When Jesus stood in the synagogue at Nazareth and read from the scroll of
Isaiah, 61:1-2, He was not offering a mere possibility. He was issuing a divine
declaration.
 Before our Lord proclaimed that manifesto in Luke 4:18, Luke presented His
credentials through the events recorded in chapters 1 through 4.
 *A king does not seize authority without divine right; neither did Jesus take this
mission upon Himself.
 God the Father deployed Him
 The Spirit anointed Him
 The lineage humanly qualified Him
 The wilderness tested and proved Him