The Mission Statement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

  Gods Mission Statement:Redeem,Release,Reveal

Entrepreneur.com defines a mission statement as...A sentence describing a company's function, markets and competitive advantages; a short written statement of your business goals and philosophies.  God is all about mission, just ask Jonah, Isaiah, Jeremiah and the many other prophets of the Old Testament. We all were created by God and were designed to fulfill a certain purpose that ties into the mission of Gods Kingdom. 

Jeremiah 29:7 reads For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for   good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. (New Living Translation).

Everything God does is intentional, deliberate and with a purpose, even within our failures and the enemies traps God will still use those things for his greater purpose, listen to what Joseph told his brothers who sold him into slavery in Genesis 50:20, "You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people."  I just spoke of failures, so what was mans biggest failure...ummmm let me see....lets go back to Genesis chapter 3 when a certain young man ate the one piece of fruit God forbade him to and then chose to deny his ownership of this sin and point his finger to his wife, who it turn passed the blame to the diabolical serpent, Satan himself.  But as our Eternal Father walked the garden in the cool of the day looking for a naked and ashamed Adam, God had already chose a redeemer for all mankind, Jesus Christ.
 Most times in Christianity we portray Jesus as a flower-child/ hippie passing out daisies, petting sheep and holding up the peace sign.  But know we are in the presence of a powerful sovereign ruler/king who stepped off a majestic throne in heaven to become a babe and be born to a poor unwed Jewish mother who lived in the "hood".  Many religions just as Judaism,  Islam and Jehovah Witnesses deny his deity and position as the son of God, but Isaiah foretold of his coming in ...

Isaiah 9:6  "For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

 As a king, leader and teacher Jesus had set up his agenda and mission from the very start of his ministry, yes he came to save a dying world drowning in our own sins but before doing so he would spearhead a miraculous movement that still vibrates throughout this world today... The Church and The Gospel.

 Just as today, politics was big in Jesus' days; So, then we had Israel's religious leaders, who sucked up to Herod's sons ruling Judea and this was overseen by the murderous bloodthirsty powerhouse of the Roman Empire; this was a major problem for the society Jesus' parents were a part of.  So after a long tiring day of exhausting carpentry labor with his father Joseph, Jesus would see their hard earned money,  go to a bunch of lying, over-pious religious leaders, fat disrespectful overtaxing rulers and a bloodthirsty, too big for its own britches federal government (I know...sounds so familiar, right?).  

 



 This Jesus, who died for yours and mines sin was a powerful and no less than incredible man who lived during a very chaotic and very oppressing time, so tell me would the Son of God, just remain nice, quiet and accommodating during these perilous times. Let Matthew aka Levi (Jesus' Disciple) gives you a story about Jesus...Matthew 8:23-27

²³ Then Jesus got into the boat and started across the lake with his disciples. ²⁴ Suddenly, a fierce storm struck the lake, with waves breaking into the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. ²⁵ The disciples went and woke him up, shouting, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!”

²⁶ Jesus responded, “Why are you afraid? You have so little faith!” Then he got up and rebuked the wind and waves, and suddenly there was a great calm.
²⁷ The disciples were amazed. “Who is this man?” they asked. “Even the winds and waves obey him!”
Does this sound like a man who would nonchalantly sit around avoiding confrontations with hypocritical and very judgmental pharisees or tyrannical roman governors while he watches a oppressed people struggle emotionally, economically and spiritually?  OF COURSE NOT!!  Now lets take a look at Jesus' Mission Statement coming from Luke 4, after Jesus is baptized from his cousin John The Baptist and also after defeating Satan and his temptations in the wilderness; Jesus starts his ministry like this...Luke 4:16-29

Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit’s power. Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region.  He taught regularly in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.

When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures. The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written:

“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;To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently. Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”

Everyone spoke well of him and was amazed by the gracious words that came from his lips. “How can this be?” they asked. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
Then he said, “You will undoubtedly quote me this proverb: ‘Physician, heal yourself’—meaning, ‘Do miracles here in your hometown like those you did in Capernaum.’ But I tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in his own hometown.
When they heard this, the people in the synagogue were furious. Jumping up, they mobbed him and forced him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built. They intended to push him over the cliff, but he passed right through the crowd and went on his way.

So what is the mission you ask, Jesus stated it in verses 18 & 19...

• Bring good news to the Poor  
  
• Proclaim that captives will be released 
• Oppressed will be set free  
• Bringing sight to the blind
• Bringing in the Year of the Lord 

Let start with the last item the Year of the Lord is another way of saying the year of Jubilee.  Jubilee or the year of "release", is a Law from God given to Moses to give to the nation of Israel, it is revealed in Leviticus 25-8...
And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. ⁹ Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. ¹⁰ And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. ¹¹ That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. ¹² For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field.
¹³ ‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession. ¹⁴ And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one another. 

God made this decree to prevent his people from oppressing one another, economically and emotionally by confiscating ones land/home from them.  There is not much evidence within the bible of God's people following this Law; So when Jesus gets in front of his people (The Jews) saying "today this scripture has been fulfilled", it is not very popular, so not popular that these people are possessed to kill this young man at the beginning of his ministry.  But besides economic liberation, Jesus also saw spiritual oppression (demonic possession) among his people, and he saw the "blind (pharisees) leading the blind."  In a way, that day when Jesus declared this proclamation in that tiny synagogue in Nazareth, he was no different than a politician stating his agenda and platform. Only difference was Jesus actually was telling the truth and died doing it, but through his death, we as believers are forever freed and released from oppression, FOREVER!!  HAPPY JUBILEE!!

JESUS FOR PRESIDENT!!