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Our Lord’s Calling. What does the calling of Jesus Christ mean for Christians in medicine?. Luke 4: 18-19. The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me; therefore He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to captives,
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Our Lord’s Calling What does the calling of Jesus Christ mean for Christians in medicine?
Luke 4: 18-19 The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me; therefore He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to captives, and new sight to the blind; to send away crushed ones in deliverance; to preach an acceptable year of the Lord.
How Jesus saw His patients • They are The Poor • Crouching and cringing beggars who have fallen into a state of abject poverty from which they need to be lifted up • The Poor sub-divided: • Broken-hearted: worn out through crushing problems and circumstances • Captives: pitiable prisoners of war captured by a gruesome enemy. Only God can deliver them. • Blind: unable to see how to live, literal + figurative • Crushed ones: weakened and broken by an oppressor who chokes
What Jesus did with His patients • Tell-Good-News (euaggelizw) • Heal (iaomai) • Preach (kerussw) • Deliverance • New sight • An acceptable year of the Lord • Send away in deliverance
Prerequisites for ministry • The fullness of the Holy Spirit, Luke 4: 14 • You need to be continually being filled with the Holy Spirit if you want to minister to your patients. See also Ephesians 5: 18 • The anointing of the Holy Spirit, Luke 4: 18 • The anointing of the Holy Spirit is released as you use your gifts and talents under the guidance of God in the workplace
Methodology of Jesus at work • Vertical relationship is the fountain for ministry • Face-to-face interpersonal contact: God’s method is a man/woman • Appropriate ministry to each target group • Tell-Good-News to the poor • Healing for the broken-hearted • Deliverance for captives and crushed ones • New sight for the blind • Preach acceptable year of the Lord for all
Presuppositions about care of the sick in the ministry of Jesus Christ • Man is a complex and inseparable whole • Both proclamation and demonstration needed • Both contemporary and eternal aspects addressed • Both horizontal and vertical aspects included • Both sin and disease affect the well-being of the whole person • Both sin and disease should be dealt with in care of the sick
Dear colleague, what will you do with the calling of Jesus Christ? • Will you seek the fullness and the anointing of the Holy Spirit in your workplace? • Will you see your patients as Jesus sees them? • Poor, broken-hearted, blind, captive, crushed • Will you increasingly integrate: • Vertical + horizontal • Temporal + eternal • Proclamation and demonstration • Will you minister appropriately to the whole person in the Name of Jesus?