God's Heart For The Brokenhearted
God's Heart For The Brokenhearted
Text: Luke 4:18-19(NKJ)
* This morning, I want to help you and remind you that we serve a God of restoration.
- This is such an important message because so many are being ripped off by the devil.
- Not a day goes by that I am not working with people who are desperate for God's intervention.
- But there is such good news . . . Jesus was sent for this very purpose!!
* From the very beginning of the Bible . . . God reveals His heart toward broken people.
- When sin entered the world, God didn’t step back . . . He stepped in . . . He had a plan.
- His plan calling us to himself . . . Not to condemn you, but to draw you close so He can make you
whole . . . God is not distant from our pain.
- Psalm 147:3(NKJ) says, He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
* And when Jesus showed up, He didn’t just talk about the Kingdom . . . He demonstrated it.
- The crowds came with diseases, torment, oppression, and despair, and over and over, the Bible
says He was moved with compassion.
- That compassion isn’t just simple pity . . . It is what moves Him.
- His compassion reaches out . . . His compassion restores . . . His compassion heals.
- Look at our text . . .
Read Text: Luke 4:18-19(NKJ)
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.
* This is one of the clearest “mission statements” Jesus ever preached.
- He stands up in the synagogue, opens the scroll of Isaiah, and reads what He has come to do.
- This is a Spirit-filled announcement: Heaven has invaded earth, and the Spirit is empowering
Jesus to set captives free.
- And here’s the amazing part . . . Jesus doesn’t just read it.
- In Luke 4:20-21(NKJ) the Bible says . . . Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the
attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him.
And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
* That means healing isn’t a side ministry of Jesus . . . It’s part of His assignment.
- Deliverance isn’t a rare exception . . . It’s the freedom He proclaimed.
- Restoration isn’t a maybe . . . It’s the work of the Redeemer.
* Some of us grew up thinking God is willing to save us but reluctant to help us.
- Willing to forgive, but hesitant to heal . . . But that’s not the God of the Bible.
- In Ex 15:26, the Bible reveals Him as “the LORD who heals you.”
- Jesus never turned away a hurting soul who came believing . . .
- He said in Mark 9:23, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
- Not because faith is magic . . . Because God is good.
- He wants to heal those who are hurting, deliver those who are bound, and restore those who
have been robbed. . . Because that’s who He is.
* And if you’re thinking, but you don’t know what I’ve been through . . . You’re right, I don’t.
- But He does . . . And He’s the One who says, “I am the LORD, I do not change.” (Malachi 3:6) - If He healed then, He heals now . . . If He delivered then, He delivers now.
- If He restored then, He restores now.
* When Jesus opens His mouth in Luke 4:18 and says, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because
He has anointed Me.”
- He’s not giving us a religious slogan . . . He’s announcing heaven’s intervention plan.
- That opening phrase is the doorway into everything else in the verse.
- It’s the “why” behind the “what.”
1. “ The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me.”
* This is first about presence . . . God’s presence resting on Jesus for a purpose.
- In the Old Testament, the Spirit would come “upon” leaders, prophets, and kings to empower
them for a specific assignment.
- Now Jesus is declaring something greater: the Spirit is upon Him as the Messiah, the One
sent by the Father to rescue people who are stuck, bound, bruised, and broken.
- God is stepping into human pain, not from a distance but from inside the story.
- That’s why this verse is so precious for us.
- It tells us that God’s answer to our problems isn’t just a concept . . . It’s His presence and
power at work.
- That is how God moves in our lives . . . By bringing impartation . . . His Spirit resting on us,
strengthening us, helping us, changing what we could never change on our own.
- God’s intervention often looks like the Holy Spirit coming upon a person with strength,
clarity, courage, and authority they didn’t have before.
2. “ Because He has anointed Me.”
* Now Jesus explains the reason the Spirit is upon Him: anointing.
- In Scripture, anointing isn’t hype . . . It’s God’s authorization and empowerment.
- You could say it like this . . . The Spirit “upon” Jesus speaks of God’s presence.
- The “anointing” speaks of God’s purpose and power flowing through that presence.
- This matters because deliverance isn’t simply willpower or positive thinking . . . It’s God’s
power applied to real human conditions.
* God’s intervention in our lives is not random . . . It’s not God occasionally throwing us a lifeline. - It’s the ongoing overflow of Jesus’ anointing as savior . . . And by the Holy Spirit, our
deliverance becomes personal, present, and practical.
- Everything that follows in Luke 4:18 is the fruit of that anointing.
- Look at the lists of specific outcomes through real-life deliverance in real-life places . . .
3. “ To preach the gospel to the poor.”
* The “poor” aren’t only those lacking money . . . This includes anyone who is empty, broken,
marginalized, or without resources.
- The gospel is God’s intervention for people who have reached the end of themselves. I
- It’s not just good advice, it’s good news . . . Jesus came to save, restore, and bring you into
His Kingdom.
- Matt 5:3(NKJ) Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4. “ He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted.”
* Notice the phrase . . .“He has sent me.” . . . This phrase speaks of mission.
- Jesus is not self-appointed . . . He is sent . . . Demonstrating the intentionality of God for us.
- To be sent means you are under authority and carrying a message.
- Jesus often said He did not come to do His own will but the will of the One who sent Him.
- That means His ministry is anchored in the Father’s heart . . . For us, this is where we stand.
- This is our confidence in His desire to help us and strengthen us . . . He was sent.
- Jesus is always moving toward the broken, the excluded, the outcast, the overlooked.
* Now we step into the tenderness of Jesus’ ministry . . . Healing the brokenhearted.
- “Brokenhearted” isn’t a small thing.
- It’s the person who has been shattered by grief, betrayal, trauma, shame, disappointment,
long-term pressure.
- The Bible doesn’t mock that pain . . . In fac the Bible says in Psalms 34:18(NLT) . . . The
Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.
- Psalm 147:3-4(NKJ) He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds. He counts
the number of the stars; He calls them all by name.
- Jesus doesn’t just forgive sins; He heals souls.
* Some of us were taught to act like emotions don’t matter . . . “Just have faith.”
- But biblical faith doesn’t deny pain; it invites God into it.
* So, How does Jesus heal the brokenhearted?
He tells the truth that sets you free: “You are loved. You are not abandoned.”
He replaces lies with identity: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Cor 5:17).
He gives peace that surpasses understanding (Philippians 4:7).
He restores what grief and sin tried to steal.
* Sometimes this healing is instantaneous . . . Sometimes it’s progressive . . . But it is always real. - The Holy Spirit is not only for power in public . . . He is also for healing in private.
- If you’re hurting, troubled, discouraged . . . Jesus didn’t come to manage you.
- He came to heal you.
5. “ To proclaim liberty to the captives.”
* Now Jesus gets confrontational with the chains . . . Bringing liberty to captives.
- Captivity can look like . . . Addiction, patterns of sin, tormenting fear, bitterness,
- Bondage in the mind, demonic harassment, generational cycles, and shame that keeps you
hiding.
- Jesus is not intimidated by bondage . . . He is the Deliverer.
- When Jesus proclaims liberty, it’s more than a motivational speech.
- It’s a Kingdom decree backed by authority.
- Jesus is saying . . . He was sent with an anointing to announce and enforce freedom.
- That word “proclaim” matters . . . It’s a legal announcement.
- In the Kingdom of God, deliverance often begins when heaven’s decree is spoken over what
hell has tried to claim.
- Demon work hard to hold areas off your life captive . . . By building strongholds . . .
- But we have been given power . . . 2 Cor 10:3-6(NKJ) For though we walk in the flesh,
we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal
but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every
high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into
captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when
your obedience is fulfilled.
6. “ Recovery of sight to the blind.”
* No doubt Jesus healed physical blindness . . . But He also opens spiritual eyes helping people
see God rightly, see themselves rightly, and see the enemy’s lies for what they are.
- God’s intervention often looks like illumination and revelation . . .
- Suddenly you can see what you couldn’t see, understand what you couldn’t grasp, discern
what was confusing.
- The Holy Spirit still brings that kind of sight.
7. “ To set at liberty those who are oppressed.”
* Oppression is the feeling of being pressed down, weighed on, harassed, restricted.
- Jesus includes this because some people aren’t exactly “captives” in chains, but
they’re crushed under a spiritual or emotional weight.
- The anointing is not only for comforting the oppressed . . . It is for setting them at liberty.
- Isa 10:27(KJV) And it shall come to pass in that day, That his burden shall be taken
away from off thy shoulder, And his yoke from off thy neck, And the yoke shall be
destroyed because of the anointing.
- That’s intervention . . . That’s deliverance.
- That’s God stepping in to lift what you couldn’t lift and break what you couldn’t break.
8. “ To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
* This points to the idea of Jubilee . . . Release, restoration, debts canceled, inheritance restored.
- It is Jesus saying: “In Me, God is turning the page.” . . . Some of us need to hear that . . .
- God’s deliverance isn’t only about getting you out of something it’s about bringing you into
something.
- A new season . . . A new identity . . . A new hope.
* Here is the good news this morning . . . God does not intervene empty-handed.
- He intervenes with the Spirit . . . He intervenes with anointing . . . He intervenes with purpose.
- And because Jesus is still the Anointed One, His ministry didn’t end in Luke 4 it continues
- through the Holy Spirit working in and among His people.
* If you’re brokenhearted, the anointing is for healing . . . God can restore what’s broken.
- If you’re captive, the anointing is for freedom . . . God can break the chains of the enemy.
- If you’re blind or confused, He will give you sight . . . God can bring clarity and truth.
- If you’re oppressed, the anointing is for release . . . God can lift the weight and silence the torment.
Conclusion ( Bring up Worship Team )
* Here is the secret to it all . . . Surrender!!!
- Healing, deliverance, freedom begins at the point of surrender.
- I Peter 5:7 tells us to Cast all your care upon Him, for He cares for us.
- Some of us have been carrying what Jesus never asked us to haul alone.
* This morning we’re not denying the pain, we’re just deciding who holds it.
- Matthew 11:28 says . . . Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.
- So, let’s lay it down . . . Every fear, every unanswered question, every wound, every habit,
every diagnosis, every broken place.
- And as we surrender, we make room for the Holy Spirit to do what we cannot.
* If you’re ready to surrender your problems to Him for healing, step out and come . . .
- Let’s believe, and let’s watch God meet you right here at the altar.
* This morning, I want to help you and remind you that we serve a God of restoration.
- This is such an important message because so many are being ripped off by the devil.
- Not a day goes by that I am not working with people who are desperate for God's intervention.
- But there is such good news . . . Jesus was sent for this very purpose!!
* From the very beginning of the Bible . . . God reveals His heart toward broken people.
- When sin entered the world, God didn’t step back . . . He stepped in . . . He had a plan.
- His plan calling us to himself . . . Not to condemn you, but to draw you close so He can make you
whole . . . God is not distant from our pain.
- Psalm 147:3(NKJ) says, He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
* And when Jesus showed up, He didn’t just talk about the Kingdom . . . He demonstrated it.
- The crowds came with diseases, torment, oppression, and despair, and over and over, the Bible
says He was moved with compassion.
- That compassion isn’t just simple pity . . . It is what moves Him.
- His compassion reaches out . . . His compassion restores . . . His compassion heals.
- Look at our text . . .
Read Text: Luke 4:18-19(NKJ)
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.
* This is one of the clearest “mission statements” Jesus ever preached.
- He stands up in the synagogue, opens the scroll of Isaiah, and reads what He has come to do.
- This is a Spirit-filled announcement: Heaven has invaded earth, and the Spirit is empowering
Jesus to set captives free.
- And here’s the amazing part . . . Jesus doesn’t just read it.
- In Luke 4:20-21(NKJ) the Bible says . . . Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the
attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him.
And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
* That means healing isn’t a side ministry of Jesus . . . It’s part of His assignment.
- Deliverance isn’t a rare exception . . . It’s the freedom He proclaimed.
- Restoration isn’t a maybe . . . It’s the work of the Redeemer.
* Some of us grew up thinking God is willing to save us but reluctant to help us.
- Willing to forgive, but hesitant to heal . . . But that’s not the God of the Bible.
- In Ex 15:26, the Bible reveals Him as “the LORD who heals you.”
- Jesus never turned away a hurting soul who came believing . . .
- He said in Mark 9:23, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
- Not because faith is magic . . . Because God is good.
- He wants to heal those who are hurting, deliver those who are bound, and restore those who
have been robbed. . . Because that’s who He is.
* And if you’re thinking, but you don’t know what I’ve been through . . . You’re right, I don’t.
- But He does . . . And He’s the One who says, “I am the LORD, I do not change.” (Malachi 3:6) - If He healed then, He heals now . . . If He delivered then, He delivers now.
- If He restored then, He restores now.
* When Jesus opens His mouth in Luke 4:18 and says, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because
He has anointed Me.”
- He’s not giving us a religious slogan . . . He’s announcing heaven’s intervention plan.
- That opening phrase is the doorway into everything else in the verse.
- It’s the “why” behind the “what.”
1. “ The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me.”
* This is first about presence . . . God’s presence resting on Jesus for a purpose.
- In the Old Testament, the Spirit would come “upon” leaders, prophets, and kings to empower
them for a specific assignment.
- Now Jesus is declaring something greater: the Spirit is upon Him as the Messiah, the One
sent by the Father to rescue people who are stuck, bound, bruised, and broken.
- God is stepping into human pain, not from a distance but from inside the story.
- That’s why this verse is so precious for us.
- It tells us that God’s answer to our problems isn’t just a concept . . . It’s His presence and
power at work.
- That is how God moves in our lives . . . By bringing impartation . . . His Spirit resting on us,
strengthening us, helping us, changing what we could never change on our own.
- God’s intervention often looks like the Holy Spirit coming upon a person with strength,
clarity, courage, and authority they didn’t have before.
2. “ Because He has anointed Me.”
* Now Jesus explains the reason the Spirit is upon Him: anointing.
- In Scripture, anointing isn’t hype . . . It’s God’s authorization and empowerment.
- You could say it like this . . . The Spirit “upon” Jesus speaks of God’s presence.
- The “anointing” speaks of God’s purpose and power flowing through that presence.
- This matters because deliverance isn’t simply willpower or positive thinking . . . It’s God’s
power applied to real human conditions.
* God’s intervention in our lives is not random . . . It’s not God occasionally throwing us a lifeline. - It’s the ongoing overflow of Jesus’ anointing as savior . . . And by the Holy Spirit, our
deliverance becomes personal, present, and practical.
- Everything that follows in Luke 4:18 is the fruit of that anointing.
- Look at the lists of specific outcomes through real-life deliverance in real-life places . . .
3. “ To preach the gospel to the poor.”
* The “poor” aren’t only those lacking money . . . This includes anyone who is empty, broken,
marginalized, or without resources.
- The gospel is God’s intervention for people who have reached the end of themselves. I
- It’s not just good advice, it’s good news . . . Jesus came to save, restore, and bring you into
His Kingdom.
- Matt 5:3(NKJ) Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4. “ He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted.”
* Notice the phrase . . .“He has sent me.” . . . This phrase speaks of mission.
- Jesus is not self-appointed . . . He is sent . . . Demonstrating the intentionality of God for us.
- To be sent means you are under authority and carrying a message.
- Jesus often said He did not come to do His own will but the will of the One who sent Him.
- That means His ministry is anchored in the Father’s heart . . . For us, this is where we stand.
- This is our confidence in His desire to help us and strengthen us . . . He was sent.
- Jesus is always moving toward the broken, the excluded, the outcast, the overlooked.
* Now we step into the tenderness of Jesus’ ministry . . . Healing the brokenhearted.
- “Brokenhearted” isn’t a small thing.
- It’s the person who has been shattered by grief, betrayal, trauma, shame, disappointment,
long-term pressure.
- The Bible doesn’t mock that pain . . . In fac the Bible says in Psalms 34:18(NLT) . . . The
Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.
- Psalm 147:3-4(NKJ) He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds. He counts
the number of the stars; He calls them all by name.
- Jesus doesn’t just forgive sins; He heals souls.
* Some of us were taught to act like emotions don’t matter . . . “Just have faith.”
- But biblical faith doesn’t deny pain; it invites God into it.
* So, How does Jesus heal the brokenhearted?
He tells the truth that sets you free: “You are loved. You are not abandoned.”
He replaces lies with identity: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Cor 5:17).
He gives peace that surpasses understanding (Philippians 4:7).
He restores what grief and sin tried to steal.
* Sometimes this healing is instantaneous . . . Sometimes it’s progressive . . . But it is always real. - The Holy Spirit is not only for power in public . . . He is also for healing in private.
- If you’re hurting, troubled, discouraged . . . Jesus didn’t come to manage you.
- He came to heal you.
5. “ To proclaim liberty to the captives.”
* Now Jesus gets confrontational with the chains . . . Bringing liberty to captives.
- Captivity can look like . . . Addiction, patterns of sin, tormenting fear, bitterness,
- Bondage in the mind, demonic harassment, generational cycles, and shame that keeps you
hiding.
- Jesus is not intimidated by bondage . . . He is the Deliverer.
- When Jesus proclaims liberty, it’s more than a motivational speech.
- It’s a Kingdom decree backed by authority.
- Jesus is saying . . . He was sent with an anointing to announce and enforce freedom.
- That word “proclaim” matters . . . It’s a legal announcement.
- In the Kingdom of God, deliverance often begins when heaven’s decree is spoken over what
hell has tried to claim.
- Demon work hard to hold areas off your life captive . . . By building strongholds . . .
- But we have been given power . . . 2 Cor 10:3-6(NKJ) For though we walk in the flesh,
we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal
but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every
high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into
captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when
your obedience is fulfilled.
6. “ Recovery of sight to the blind.”
* No doubt Jesus healed physical blindness . . . But He also opens spiritual eyes helping people
see God rightly, see themselves rightly, and see the enemy’s lies for what they are.
- God’s intervention often looks like illumination and revelation . . .
- Suddenly you can see what you couldn’t see, understand what you couldn’t grasp, discern
what was confusing.
- The Holy Spirit still brings that kind of sight.
7. “ To set at liberty those who are oppressed.”
* Oppression is the feeling of being pressed down, weighed on, harassed, restricted.
- Jesus includes this because some people aren’t exactly “captives” in chains, but
they’re crushed under a spiritual or emotional weight.
- The anointing is not only for comforting the oppressed . . . It is for setting them at liberty.
- Isa 10:27(KJV) And it shall come to pass in that day, That his burden shall be taken
away from off thy shoulder, And his yoke from off thy neck, And the yoke shall be
destroyed because of the anointing.
- That’s intervention . . . That’s deliverance.
- That’s God stepping in to lift what you couldn’t lift and break what you couldn’t break.
8. “ To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
* This points to the idea of Jubilee . . . Release, restoration, debts canceled, inheritance restored.
- It is Jesus saying: “In Me, God is turning the page.” . . . Some of us need to hear that . . .
- God’s deliverance isn’t only about getting you out of something it’s about bringing you into
something.
- A new season . . . A new identity . . . A new hope.
* Here is the good news this morning . . . God does not intervene empty-handed.
- He intervenes with the Spirit . . . He intervenes with anointing . . . He intervenes with purpose.
- And because Jesus is still the Anointed One, His ministry didn’t end in Luke 4 it continues
- through the Holy Spirit working in and among His people.
* If you’re brokenhearted, the anointing is for healing . . . God can restore what’s broken.
- If you’re captive, the anointing is for freedom . . . God can break the chains of the enemy.
- If you’re blind or confused, He will give you sight . . . God can bring clarity and truth.
- If you’re oppressed, the anointing is for release . . . God can lift the weight and silence the torment.
Conclusion ( Bring up Worship Team )
* Here is the secret to it all . . . Surrender!!!
- Healing, deliverance, freedom begins at the point of surrender.
- I Peter 5:7 tells us to Cast all your care upon Him, for He cares for us.
- Some of us have been carrying what Jesus never asked us to haul alone.
* This morning we’re not denying the pain, we’re just deciding who holds it.
- Matthew 11:28 says . . . Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.
- So, let’s lay it down . . . Every fear, every unanswered question, every wound, every habit,
every diagnosis, every broken place.
- And as we surrender, we make room for the Holy Spirit to do what we cannot.
* If you’re ready to surrender your problems to Him for healing, step out and come . . .
- Let’s believe, and let’s watch God meet you right here at the altar.
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