The Worship that Liberates

Exodus 3:11-18 Psalm 137

Acts: 16: 25 – 34
Luke :13:10-17
 Luke 4: 18,19
• Isaiah 58: 6,7 Isaiah 61: 1,2
• Bring good news to the poor
• Freedom for prisoners
• Recovery of sight to the blind
• Release the oppressed
• Proclaim year of the Lord’s favour
 Luke 13:10

Now Jesus was teaching in

one of the Synagogues on
the Sabbath.
 Healing on the Sabbath Day

• Healing of the withered hand

Luke 6:6-11, March 3:1-6
• Healing a man with dropsy
-Luke 14: 1-6
 Luke 13:11
And there was a woman who
had had a disabling spirit for
eighteen years. She was bent
over and could not fully
straighten herself.
 Afflictions are part of God’s plan

Romans:
8 :26 …..the Spirit helps us in
our weaknesses
28:.. For those who love God
all things work together for
good
 Luke 13:12
When Jesus saw her he called her
over and said to her,
“Woman
you are freed from your
disability”.
 James 1:27
Religion that is pure and
undefiled before god, the Father,
is this:
to visit orphans and widows in
their affliction and to keep oneself
unstained from the world.
 Luke 13:13
–And he laid his hands on
her and immediately she
was made straight and
she glorified God.
 She glorified God
• She enjoyed the transformation
• Healed externally
• Healed emotionally
• Inner person is made perfect
• The fruit is shown by the outer
person
 Luke 13:14
The ruler of the Synagogue being
indignant because Jesus had healed
on the Sabbath, said to the multitude
“There are six days in which men
ought to work. Therefore, come on
those days and be healed, and not on
the Sabbath day”
 4th Commandment
Remember the Sabbath to keep
it holy…
Exodus: 20:8-11
Deuteronomy: 5:12-15
 Luke 13:15
…….You hypocrites! Doesn’t
each one of you free his ox
or donkey from the stall on
the Sabbath, and lead him
away to water?
 Sharp words

Martha: - Luke 10:41,42

Peter : - Matthew: 16:23
Mother Mary : Luke : 2:49, 8:21
John: 2:4
 Luke 13:16
Ought not this woman, being
a daughter of Abraham, whom
Satan had bound eighteen long
years, be freed from this
bondage on the Sabbath day?
 Son of Abraham
Matthew : 3:9(Luke 3:8)
And do not presume to say to
yourselves ‘we have Abraham
as our father’, for I tell you, God
is able from these stones to
raise up children for Abraham.
 Luke 13:17
As he said these things all his
adversaries were disappointed
and all the multitude rejoiced
for all the glorious things that
were done by him.