Healing
The Reason He Came
Part 2
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Jesus
came to:
Preach Deliver
Why?
Because the two things the devil has done to
people is:
Deceive Imprison
Lies hold us captive – Truth sets us free …
What
is happening in your life? Is it Jesus or the devil? Are you believing lies or
the truth?
·
If
you are imprisoned you are deceived and believing a lie of the devil.
·
If
you have heard and believe the truth which is in Jesus, you have been delivered
and are set free.
Neither
money nor the lack thereof is going to determine my wealth
·
Luke 12:15
A man’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he
possesses.
Situations
and circumstances aren’t going to limit my joy
·
Habakkuk 3
17
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be
in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no
meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no
herd in the stalls:
18 Yet
I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
19 The
LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet,
and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.
Pain will
not determine my perspective
·
Job 2
9 Then
his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God
and die!"
10 But
he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we
indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?" In all
this Job did not sin with his lips.
My peace
is determined only by His presence
·
Philippians 4:7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all
understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
The
lies of the devil imprison men and hold them captive in fear – the truth of God
will set men free.
Jesus came
to destroy the works of the devil:
·
1 John 3:8
… For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy
the works of the devil.
Jesus
came to destroy the lies of the devil by proclaiming the truth and setting the
captives free.
Part Two
Healing
and Deliverance are miracles:
·
Purchased by God
·
Paid for with the blood of His Only Son
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Given to the Children of God
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Received by faith
God requires us to participate in our miracles most often by faith
and works.
Sometimes faith demands action … take Noah
and Abraham for example …
Faith is a process
·
Hearing before healing
·
Believing before receiving
Luke 4
18 "The Spirit of the
LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the
poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the
captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who
are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable
year of the LORD."
Jesus
came to tell and heal … It’s man’s job to believe and receive …
Matthew 4
23 And Jesus went about all
Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and
healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
Matthew 9:35 Then Jesus went
about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the
gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the
people.
What
happens between hearing and healing? People get a chance to believe the truth
and the truth will set them free!
Luke 6
17 And He came down with them
and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude
of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and
Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases,
18 as well as those who were
tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed.
19 And the whole multitude
sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.
Sad
to say not everyone who hears the truth believes the truth. Not everyone
believed Jesus was telling the truth.
Matthew 13:58 Now He did not
do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
Mark 6:5 Now He could do no
mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and
healed them.
Jesus
came to reveal the will of God. It had always been God’s will to include
healing as a part of the benefits and blessings which belonged to God’s
children.
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is
the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Malachi 3:6 "For I am
the LORD, I do not change …”
Psalms 89:34 My covenant I
will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.
Numbers 23:19 "God is
not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He
said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?”
Exodus 15:26 "If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your
God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep
all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought
on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you."
Exodus 23:25 "So you
shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And
I will take sickness away from the midst of you.”
Deuteronomy 7
9 Therefore know that the
LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy
for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
14 You shall be blessed above
all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your
livestock.
15 And the LORD will take
away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible
diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those
who hate you.”
Psalms 103
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgives all your
iniquities, Who heals all your diseases,
Psalms 107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them
from their destructions.
Jesus
came to save us from an eternity in hell and from the hell of this life.
Sickness and disease is straight from the pit of hell and Jesus took our
infirmities and sicknesses, pain and sorrows to the cross and then to the
grave. Divine healing is a forever settled truth and no sickness has a right to
claim the health of a child of God.
Isaiah 53
4 Surely He has borne our
griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God,
and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded
for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The
chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are
healed.
The
Reason He Came …
1 Peter 2:24 who Himself bore
our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live
for righteousness — by whose stripes you were healed.
The
Eternal Curse of Man
·
Hell
and Eternal Damnation
The
Temporal Curse of Man
·
Sickness;
Pain; Worry; Fear; Poverty; Shame
Jesus
cared so much for both the Temporary Needs of man and the Eternal Needs of man
that He not only died for our eternal sins but He also suffered for our
temporal needs.
Both
the Eternal Salvation of our Soul and the Temporal Healing of our Body takes our
Faith in God to be remedied.
·
Faith as a Force – active and dynamic – a powerful offensive weapon
·
Faith as a Shield – steadfast and unmovable – a strong defense
Ephesians 6:16 above all,
taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery
darts of the wicked one.
Faith
is both a force and a field. I believe faith is best used as a shield against
sickness and disease as we live a righteous and holy life in accordance with
the scriptures and make our professions of faith to cover us as a shield. I
think it is better to keep the enemy from getting to us than to deal with the
problems afterwards. In many cases Faith works better
as a shield than it does as a pair of tweezers … however … faith has the power
to do both.
Anyone
will tell you that preventive medicine is the best approach to living a long
and healthy life. Doctors recommend we take flu shots, exercise, eat right, get
vaccinations, visit the dentist regularly, get yearly blood tests, after
certain ages have other screenings and procedures just to help insure we won’t
get sick or that in hopes we can take the advantage against any problems which
might want to attack our health and rob us of time, energy, money and perhaps
life.
I
stand behind the preventive approach to health not only from a medical
standpoint but from a spiritual standpoint as well. I believe it is important
to take our daily God’s-pills (Gospel) and have our regular Spiritual Checkups to
insure we are not leaving ourselves open to some of the enemies who want to rob
us of time, energy, money or life.
We
can use our faith in the Word and Will of God to fight against sickness,
infirmity, disease as well as other curses, to appropriate healing for
ourselves and others. We fight the good fight of faith. (Divine Healing)
As
well, we can use our faith in the Finished Work of Jesus as a shield to stand
against these same curses to keep them unable to successfully attack. (Divine Health)
In
both cases we fight the good fight of faith or stand in faith from a position
of Divine Justice. The fact that Jesus paid the
price for our healing and health, both now and forever, is settled. Sickness
has no more legal claim on the Believer. We have an all knowing Judge, (God);
an all powerful Advocate, (Jesus); a great cloud of witnesses, (Patriarchs
& Saints both in Heaven and Earth); a final decree, (The Word); innumerable
enforcers, (Holy Angels); and someone to comfort us, teach us and guide us
through the process who will never leave us nor forsake us and who has
unlimited resources at His disposal, (The Holy Spirit). I’d say we ultimately
win on every case and each appeal. On top of all of that we are right and the
devil is wrong and we are all family and the devil is a known liar and thief.
Divine
Justice demands our appeal be heard, the evidence be weighed and the case
settled in favor of Pardoned Believer. What
can we do to participate in our miracle?
James 5
14 Is anyone among you sick?
Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him,
anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
15 And the prayer of faith
will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed
sins, he will be forgiven.
16 Confess your
trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
There
are also some other things we can do that agree both with the Word of God and the
medical practice to help prevent sickness and also help us to recover from
attacks as well.
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A
Merry Heart (does good like a medicine)
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Stressful
Relationships (contention and continual drops of water)
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Wounded
Spirit (dries up the bones)
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Bitterness
and Unforgiveness (Don’t forgive, won’t be forgiven)
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Unrepentant
(stiff-necked; stubborn; rebellious)
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Anger
(does not work the righteousness of God)
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Take
no pleasure in the infirmities of your enemies
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Critical
spirit; Judging (Judge not … with the
same measure …)
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Sowing
and Reaping (When Job prayed for his friends …)
This
sets us up for Our Next Topic in this Healing Series …
The Power of Confession
