Discover what the true vengeance of God is and how we can participate in that. It is getting even with all the wrong ever done to us.

1. Vengeance
true meaning
of getting even

2. What Is Jesus Mission?
• John 3:16
• We know that Jesus came to love us
• We know that Jesus died for our sins
• What was Jesus mission statement?
• Did you know Jesus came for revenge?

3. Luke 4:14-21

4. Jesus returned to Galilee in the power
of the Spirit, and news about him
spread through the whole countryside.
He taught in their synagogues, and
everyone praised him.

5. He went to Nazareth, where he had
been brought up, and on the Sabbath
day he went into the synagogue, as was
his custom. And he stood up to read.
The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was
handed to him. Unrolling it, he found
the place where it is written:

6. The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me
to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed,
to proclaim the year
of the Lord's favor.

7. Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it
back to the attendant and sat down.
The eyes of everyone in the synagogue
were fastened on him, and he began by
saying to them,
Today this scripture is fulfilled
in your hearing.

8. Jesus Takes Our Pain Away

10. Jesus p0wnz!

11. Jesus p0wnz!
• Jesus launches his teaching here
• Got up and turned right to the place
in the scroll that was handed to him
• Read that he was the fulfillment
of the prophecy of Isaiah
• That shut everyone up!
• What did Jesus come to do?

12. What Is Vengeance?

13. It is mine to avenge; I will repay.
In due time their foot will slip;
their day of disaster is near
and their doom rushes upon them.
Deuteronomy 32:35

14. noun: vengeance, retribution, payback
the act of taking revenge
harming someone in retaliation
for something harmful that they have done
especially in the next life

15. Isaiah 61:1-3

16. The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners

17. Planned Tangent!
• What is the good news?
• He was sent with the favor of God!
• Who is brokenhearted
and what does that mean?
• What does it mean to bind up?
• Jesus is the healer and lover of our soul

18. The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners

19. to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn

20. and provide for those
who grieve in Zion
to bestow on them:
a crown of beauty
instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness
instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
instead of a spirit of despair

21. They will be called
oaks of righteousness,
a planting of the LORD
for the display of his splendor

22. Instead...
• He takes what we deserve
• He gives us the exact opposite
• He provides something
in place of something else
• God offers us a free replacement
• Why? To show God s glory and splendor

23. Total Vengeance
• Our God loves getting even
• Our God loves doing the impossible
• Our God s idea of vengeance is so cool
• He takes every ever done wrong to you
• He smashes it into the enemy s face
• Jesus converts curses into blessings

24. Deuteronomy 11:26-28

25. See, I am setting before you today
a blessing and a curse
the blessing if you obey the commands of the
LORD your God that I am giving you today;
the curse if you disobey the commands of the
LORD your God and turn from the way that I
command you today by following other gods,
which you have not known.

26. Jesus Breaks The Curse
• Jesus came to fulfill the prophecy
• Jesus came to fulfill the law
• The law brings the curse of death
because we cannot follow it
• We all live in separation from God
• Jesus came to steal and give back
what that enemy stole!

27. What Has Been
Stolen From You?
• Your life
• Your mom or dad
• Your reputation
• Your innocence
• Your future
• Your blessing

28. Jesus steals back your life and
returns it to us with interest

29. You are people of the blessing
And not the people of the curse

30. We p0wn. w00t!
• I am Jesus am you can be too
• Jesus was in the power of the Spirit
• The Isaiah verse applies to
those whom God s spirit is upon
• If you believe and want to receive this
anointing, God is faithful to provide it
• This becomes your mission statement

31. What Is Your Mission?