Jesus Has Preachers

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With great delight, we come to hear more about Jesus the Preacher. We are consciously mindful that it is impossible to separate Jesus as Preacher, Teacher, Healer and more. However, as has been indicated, during this week, we shall be focusing on His preaching, while still receiving from all His other attributes and competencies.

It’s like a bright, big, beautiful rose whose vivid colours cannot be missed. Complete and perfect as it stands, we are given privilege to smell its fragrant aroma and in touching it, in holding it even, to have some of its fragrance, perfume us also. We are not roses, but in holding and touching that rose, our hands smell sweet like the rose. Jesus is the Rose, if you will, full of all beauty and bounty, preaching and teaching, healing and helping, forgiving and saving, to name a few. But we are being touched by His preaching, for He Himself has stated that He was anointed to preach.

This is no coincidence, nor is it any conniving on Jesus’ part to make Himself who He is not. I speak of the occasion when Jesus returned to Nazareth in full, public ministry and as was His custom, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day, to do more than simply share in worship. As He stood up to read, He was handed the book of the prophet Esaias. We are told that He opened the book and found this specific section to read to the congregation. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath set me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Luke 4: 18 – 19 KJV. Jesus did not preach because He felt called to preach, saw the need for preaching, or even thought that it was a dire necessity to have preachers. He preached, first and foremost because the Holy Spirit of the Lord was upon Him and had anointed Him to preach the Gospel.

Jesus was a Preacher and He was completely faithful to this work to which He was anointed, for in preaching, He reached many and still continues to reach many in our day. Jesus is omnificent in His preaching, in a way that is unsurpassed and beyond human understanding. Jesus preaches in those whom He sends to preach and proclaim His Word. Two major points are being made here. One is that Jesus’ preaching, His anointing, His God-given work, remains high and vibrant, for He is still in control of His preaching. When Jesus called the Twelve to be His disciples and they responded by giving their lives to Him, He trained them to do His work, which was His Father’s work, and preaching was what they were sent to do, as well. Jesus sent them out on many occasions to do His work. This is what we read in Mark 6: 12. So they went out and preached that people should repent.

The other point is this. Like their Master, so were the disciples of Jesus, even after He was no longer with them in the flesh. He was a Preacher and He trained, schooled, anointed and commissioned them to be preachers as He was. Will you just listen to Peter’s bold and confident words about them being preachers? And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it was He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead. Acts 10: 42.

Jesus still holds preaching as the way for people to hear the Gospel News, believe it, repent and be saved from their sins. This was and still is the way of His faithful, obedient preachers also. This is what Paul professes about the unconverted masses. How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Romans 10: 14 – 15a. The point is that preaching is still Jesus’ Sacred Work and all who are anointed to share in this work, must be sent by Him, no other.

So we return to the Preacher of preachers and listen to one topic as He delivers His Sermon on the Mount, or Beatitudes, as it is also called. We are addressing ourselves to one topic, which shall bring us to the end of the week.