Healing: Part 3

Five common misconceptions…

1.  God uses sickness to discipline [teach] His children.

2.  Sickness and disease are a part of God’s will for our lives.

3.  God use to heal, but He stopped once the Bible was written.

4.  If I’ve never witnessed a healing then it can’t be true.

5.  If someone is sick then they must have hidden [secret] sin in their life.

“Biblically speaking there is no evidence that God is the originator or the giver of sickness and disease.  On the contrary, He is a good and loving Father who through the death of His Son has provided a way for us to be healed of any and all sickness and disease.” 

1 Peter 2:24 [AMP], He personally carried our sins in His body on the cross [willingly offering Himself on it, as on an altar of sacrifice], so that we might die to sin [becoming immune from the penalty and power of sin] and live for righteousness; for by His wounds you [who believe] have been healed.

“When Christ redeemed us, He did more than save us from our sins.  He also purchased our physical healing, emotional healing, and deliverance from all demonic influences.” 

“Our faith begins where the will of God is known.” 

Q—Is it God’s will to heal you of sickness and disease?

Matthew 8:1-3 [NIV], When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed Him. 2 A man with leprosy came and knelt before Him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, You can make me clean.” 3 Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man.  “I am willing,” He said.  “Be clean!”  Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.

Exodus 15:26 [NKJV], “For I am the Lord who heals you.”

Psalm 105:37 [NASB], Then He brought them out with silver and gold, and among His tribes [3,000,000] there was not one who stumbled.  

• The word stumble means; “every person was physically healthy and strong, not a one was feeble, weak or sick.”

Matthew 4:23-25 [NLT], Jesus traveled throughout the region of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom.  And He healed every kind of disease and illness. 24 News about Him spread as far as Syria, and people soon began bringing to Him all who were sick.  And whatever their sickness or disease, or if they were demon possessed or epileptic or paralyzed—He healed them all. 25 Large crowds followed Him wherever He went—people from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, from all over Judea, and from east of the Jordan River.

Matthew 9:35 [NKJV], 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.

Matthew 14:34-36 [NLT], After they had crossed the lake, they landed at Gennesaret. 35 When the people recognized Jesus, the news of His arrival spread quickly throughout the whole area, and soon people were bringing all their sick to be healed. 36 They begged Him to let the sick touch at least the fringe of His robe, and all who touched Him were healed.

Luke 6:17-18 [AMP], Then Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a vast multitude of people from all over Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon, 18 who had come to listen to Him and to be healed of their disease.  Even those who were troubled by unclean spirits (demons) were being healed.

Acts 10:38 [NKJV], ”God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”

• Jesus’ life was both a revelation and a manifestation of the unchanging love and will of God.

“Every time He either laid His hands on or spoke a word to heal a sick person’s body…He was revealing the everlasting will of the Father.”

• If all of this was true for those who were living under the Law, how much more true is this for us, who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ and are now living under the New Covenant?

Acts 10:34 [NLT], Then Peter replied, “I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism.”

Q—Why did Jesus healed people?  COMPASSION.

Matthew 14:14 [NASB], When He went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and felt compassion for them and healed their sick. 

“Do we honestly think the loving heart of the Son of God, who had compassion upon the sick, and healed all who had need of healing, somehow lost [withdrew, modified] that same compassion when He was exalted to the right hand of the Father?” 

Psalm 145:8-9 [NKJV], The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy. 9 The Lord is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works.  <—Everyone of those testimonies are nothing more than our God, who is FULL of COMPASSION moving on the behalf of His children.