Healing
The Reason He Came
Part 3 – What Is The Truth?
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John 14:6 I am the Way, the
Truth and the Life, no man comes to the Father but by Me.
Jesus
is the Truth and He came from heaven to earth so that mankind could see, hear,
know and follow the Truth.
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See the Truth
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Hear the Truth
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Understand the Truth
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Follow the Truth
Because
… if any person knows and follows the Truth they will be set free from:
1.
Eternal
Death
2.
The
Hell of this Life
There
is a strong and solid thread of truth running throughout the whole Bible. Moses
declared it; Isaiah said it more than once; Jeremiah declared this truth; so
did Ezekiel; and Matthew; Mark; the Apostle Paul and the beloved physician,
Luke. Jesus said it this way:
Matthew 13:15 For the hearts
of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes
they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their
ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I
should heal them.’
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See the Truth
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Hear the Truth
·
Understand the Truth
·
Follow the Truth
The
devil, who is the prince of the darkness of this world, tries his best to hide
the truth from our eyes; argue the truth in our ears; confuse the truth in our
minds; and distract us from following the truth.
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.
What Is
The Truth?
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
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Hell
and Eternal Damnation
The Temporal
Curse of Man
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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.
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Faith as a Force – active and dynamic – a powerful offensive weapon
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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
