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Jesus
came to:
Preach Heal
Proclaim Deliver
Why?
Because
the two things the devil has done to people is:
Tell a lie Take people captive
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.
We
can be free in Christ even when we are enslaved by other elements of life. Paul
and Silas were the Lord’s freemen long before those prison doors opened and
their chains fell off in Acts 16.
·
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.
1 Peter 1:8 … Though now you
do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and
full of glory.
·
Pain
will not determine my perspective
Job 2
7 So Satan went out from the
presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his
foot to the crown of his head.
8 And he took for himself a
potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes.
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. Freedom is decided by what we believe not by where we are or
what we are going through.
1 Corinthians 7:22 For he who
is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he
who is called while free is Christ’s slave.
The
desire of the devil is to deceive us. It was in the beginning with Eve – the
devil deceived her and made her think she was not what she could be or that she
was relegated to some second class existence.
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 thereby
setting the captives free.
Faith is a process of:
·
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.
Isaiah
53:4&5
1
Peter 2:24
James
5:14-16
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.
Brenda
recently relayed to me a story she heard about a man who came into the living
room to find his young daughter playing on the couch with a friend. When he
walked past the girls he heard a strange sound underneath the couch. Upon
investigation and much to his surprise he found that a rattlesnake had somehow
decided to occupy that place in his house.
The
man said that he never once wondered if the rattlesnake had a right to be there
or if it was there to teach his daughter some lesson or if he should ignore it
and hope it went away or that perhaps it was the will of God that his little
girl get snake bitten or that for some reason this snake had a right to stay …
he knew it was an enemy of all that was good and acted immediately to thwart
any attempt or desire that snake to remain in his house. He was willing to do
whatever it took to deny that snake rights to anything or anyplace in this
house or power over his family.
