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I'm a spirit that you would touch all of us, that you would open up just new pathways in our hearts,

that we would be empowered to change the world. Amen.

I started a series 20 years ago, working on a piece by piece.

It's part like 400, it's called Becoming a Cultural Architect.

I actually did start about a month ago on this subject, so this is part two.

Once you turn to Isaiah 61, we're going to do a little bit of review.

This is called the Messiah's mandate. This is what Jesus read in Luke 4,

when he sat on the chair that hadn't been sitting, sat in, ever 400 years,

and he proclaimed this, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. But that, this mandate was a course

to begin with Christ, but it was also a mandate for us. And I want to read it to you and talk to you

about how it relates to becoming cultural architects. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, it writes.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me for the Lord has anointed me to preach the good news,

to be afflicted, to bind up the broken hearted, to speak, release to captives, and freedom to prisoners,

the fairble year of the Lord, the day of vengeance of our God, to grant all those who mourn in Zion,

given them a garland instead of ashes, a mantle of praise instead of the Spirit of fainting,

that they might be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified.

So for three verses we have the Holy Spirit on people to get them well, to take people who were

broken, captive, shattered minds, in fact the word broken hearted, it's actually the word shattered

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