READ: Luke 4:1-21
“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you...” – Acts 1:8
Many of us do not realize the link between the temptation of Jesus Christ and the preaching of His first message in the synagogue.
In an instant, the devil showed Him the world He had come to save. The devil said, “Listen, let’s make a deal. I will give everything to you right now. You can have it all now. There is a quicker, shorter and simpler way. You do not have to go through all those struggles with the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
When He came out of that temptation and went to church, Jesus began to preach. His first message was, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.” Jesus was announcing that He was going to accomplish the salvation of the world by the power of the Spirit of the Lord that was upon Him. Jesus was saying that He could accomplish what He had to accomplish without bowing to the devil and without going about His mission in another way. He said also, that God had anointed Him to heal the broken-hearted.
When John the Baptist sent a message to Jesus asking if He was the Messiah, Jesus sent back a message saying that the blind were seeing, the deaf were hearing and the dumb were speaking. He said that lepers were being cleansed, and the dead were being raised. He knew that John the Baptist would understand that the healings were the sign of Christ. The sign of the Messiah was clear.
The Old Testament ministers predicted the healing anointing on Jesus. That is why Jesus announced that He had been anointed by the Spirit of God to preach and to heal.