Luke 4:18 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, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. We are approaching the end of this passage of scripture and my prayer is that the spirit of the Living God has spoken to your heart about “The Gospel”. Today we are going to look at the portion that deals with “to set at liberty them that are bruised”. A very interesting part of the gospel. and is one that is often never incorporated into our practices. We are good at placing bruises but rarely are we concerned about relieving the pressure or pain of bruises. A bruise occurs when there is a crushing or pressing of the flesh to the point of separating the blood from it’s vessels and causing a noticeable a mark. It is our calling as preachers of the gospel to offer freedom and deliverance from such. We have been so guilty of separating the blood from our message to the flesh and made some terrible marks on humanity that must be relieved if we are to be true carrier’s of this gospel message. Dr. Oliver Green used to say, “It’s the blood of Jesus plus or minus nothing that gains you eternal life”. We bruise humanity with an ugly mark of legalism when we preach any other gospel than the old bloody one from Calvary. It is now our responsibility to apply the full gospel to relieve the pressure and pain of these ulgly marks we have left on humanity with our message of the partial gospel of eternal life only and no thought of the life here and now. Till we finish this passage….

Babu