February 9, 2013
Luke 4:18
INTRODUCTION
- How many of us have felt brokenhearted?
- Perhaps it is because someone betrayed us
- Perhaps it is as a result of something terrible that happened in life
- Perhaps someone let us down, our expectations were not met
- Perhaps someone close to us died, and we mourn their loss
- Perhaps it is because we feel like we are nobody, no one respects us or seems to care about us
- Our heart can be broken by many things
- How can we be healed and our broken heart mended?
JESUS CAME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED
- 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, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
- Greek suntribo - meaning bruise, break, broken to shivers, brokenhearted, break in pieces
- 1) break, to break in pieces, shiver
- 2) to tread down - to put Satan under foot and (as a conqueror) trample on him - to break down, crush - to tear one's body and shatter one's strength
- When our heart feels trampled upon, when we feel broken in pieces, when our strength is shattered, when we are bruised and the pain does not seem to go away, we are broken hearted
- Sometimes our emotional hurts find their way out in our bodies
- Many verses in Proverbs express the concept of psychosomatic illnesses
- Doctors say that over 80% of our illnesses, while they may be real symptoms, have their origin in our thinking
- So how do we deal with our thinking?
THE SOLUTION
- Rom 12:2 – be transformed by the renewing of your mind
- We are used to thinking particular ways
- We react in a predictable manner
- The way we think has to be renewed so we think differently about things
- Let's take an example
- Say we have just been hurt by someone saying something about us, behind our back
- Our natural reaction is to be angry at the person who did this, we tend to avoid being around them, and we feel sorry for ourselves. We nurse the hurt and let it go round and round in our head
- But our thinking must change
- So, how do we do this?
- 1. We replace negative thoughts with positive ones
- So we drink in what God's word says about it
- Psa 107:20 - He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
- Rom 10:17 - So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
- Psa 147:3 - He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
- We may feel this is impossible, but with God all things are impossible – Mark 10:27
- 2 Cor 5:7 - For we walk by faith, not by sight:
- 2. We respond to situations the Christian way, not led by our flesh
- Eph 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.
- Matt 6:14-15 - For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
- 3. We trust that God will work things out
- Psa 34:18 - The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
- Isa 41:10 - Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
- Psa 55:22 - Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
CONCLUSION
- It hurts to have a broken or bruised heart
- Sometimes it has many layers of hurt
- But God says he will heal the brokenhearted
- If you have a broken heart, tonight is your night to let it go!
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