Healing

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   i knew the lord would have me preach on it because he just kept laying it on my heart over and over because you know i have in the past talked about this subject but i think the lord wants me to cover some areas that don't usually get covered in it but i want to talk to you about about divine healing this morning about the mystery of healing healing is a mystery sometimes how many of you know god still heals amen we believe that god heals how many even though sometimes that god doesn't heal amen there's reasons at times for that but i want to i want us to look at it a little closely this morning take your bibles with me turn to isaiah 53. this ought to be a familiar passage of scripture to most everyone in here but i'm going to preach this a little bit so i don't ever turn my mic down a little bit because i feel the preach coming on this morning because i feel good about this amen god is a healer praise god but he's not only a healer i think some people in the body of christ they get so focused in on that they miss so many other important things but as christians we got to deal with this subject of sickness sickness and disease why does god allow sickness and disease why do things happen why do uh you know sometimes we tend to think well if somebody if somebody has a problem they must be in sin or there must be an open door that can be the case but then there's godly christians living godly lives that sometimes they get attacked sometimes god permits things everybody ought to know the book of job pretty well we also know paul had a thorn in the flesh we may talk about that this morning a little bit but i just want you to know something i want to read this and i want to make this statement let's read isaiah 53 of course this is the the prophecy in the old testament 700 and approximately 750 years before jesus was born that gives judaism fits because this talks about the suffering messiah and uh that he would basically be bruised for our iniquities and but let's just read it isaiah 53 verse 5 but he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed you ought to underline that in your bible if you don't but you know i want to say this after reading this statement divine healing or supernatural healing of the physical body is provided for in the atonement and the atoning work of jesus i don't even know why that's even debatable i don't know where these these you know these denominations these schools of theology where they get the idea that somehow god changed and somehow that god said that in the

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   same verse where he said he would be wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities it also says that by his stripes we are healed so within the same verse speaking of the atonement of jesus christ and his shed blood on the cross and he shed blood being whipped and beaten and the crown of thorns and everything every every part of that every drop of blood that he shed was to deal with our sins our iniquities our sicknesses our diseases the power of the devil jesus came to deal with those things now jesus dealt with them amen jesus dealt with them on the cross he said it is finished then he rose from the dead he cast the the keys of hell and death but how many of you know we're still down here as paul said in first corinthians 13 we see through a glass darkly we don't all see it perfectly we don't all have it perfectly and we don't all minister perfectly now when i say that we know that that jesus it says here that healing is in the atonement right all right that's very clear then when jesus came to the earth and did his ministry we know that what he taught he preached he healed sick bodies he says he healed every manner of sickness and disease he worked miracles which are different than healing sometimes they go together but still they can't be different he worked miracles and he cast out demons right those are what jesus did then jesus when he died on the cross and he left that ministry transferred to the church okay jesus did he not say and i'm just going to quote some verses for you this morning because you ought to know these but mark 16 15-20 if you want to turn there you can i just know that one by heart mark 16 15-20 it says this go ye into all the world preach the gospel to every creature he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved he that believeth not shall be damned and these signs shall follow them that believe in my name they will cast out devils they will speak with new tongues they shall take up serpents that's taking authority over demons it says if they drink any deadly thing it will not hurt them they will lay hands on the sick and they shall recover jesus carried this on further when he see he he gave his apostles an anointing to go out and heal the sick and um and let's just turn let's look at a verse um sometimes i think this gets a little misunderstood go to to acts chapter 10. acts chapter 10 everybody get there for a second jesus um it's interesting somehow sometimes you just have to you have to look at something i don't know why this verse came to my mind

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   maybe this is for somebody but you know jesus came on the earth and and he as i said he taught and he preached and he healed and he cast out demons and he did miracles but what does it say here let's look at this this is a famous uh well-known passage about jesus ministry of healing and and dealing with the devil but look what it what it says here in acts 10 38 says how god anointed jesus of nazareth with the holy ghost in power who went about doing good healing all that were oppressed with the devil for god was with him now what's interesting you know we we have to be careful sometimes when it says all that we're oppressed did jesus heal everybody in israel no but he did heal everybody he ministered to big difference if he had healed everybody in israel there would have been anybody left for the apostles to heal you know i think jesus purposefully left the lame man at the gate beautiful that was laid there every day for john and uh and peter as a witness to his resurrection as a witness to the sanhedrin that this jesus thing wasn't going away you know jesus could heal that man matter of fact it's it's pretty much believed by bible scholars and theologians that jesus walked by that man every day and didn't heal it okay because it was for another time it was for another reason all right i'll get to some of that in a minute but jesus went about doing good he was anointed of god went about doing good healing all that were oppressed with the devil so let me say this about sickness and disease sickness and disease are part of the fall it's part of the curse it's part of something that we inherited from adam and eve that got passed down to mankind of course how many of you know that before adam and eve sinned there was no sickness disease or death in the garden of eden right so that got passed down to us now as we are walking with jesus we're working out our salvation with fear and trembling is that you know what what philippians 2 says work out your own salvation with fear and trembling so salvation is a process of learning it's a process of growing it's a process of understanding we don't all get it all at one time amen i mean you get born again i believe you get saved you get regenerated you get a new spirit and all that and but we got things to learn our faith needs to grow we need to know the word we need to be in fellowship i mean there's a lot of things that we need to do but the bottom line is is that this thing is not all you know we don't have it all at one time um i am now almost 25 years into this i mean and i'm not talking about i don't even count the years when i got saved when i was young and and there was a little time there that i i walked with god as i should have but i don't even count that but i'm talking about as an adult spirit filled going after god reading the word believing in

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   healing believing in miracles casting out demons and and i think i know a little bit about this subject um just some of you have heard these things something not i have i have seen i've laid my hands on a deaf person and their hearing came back in jesus name i've prayed for a crippled woman who was in a wheelchair for two and a half years that had not walked and she got up and walked okay i prayed for people that the doctors said would be dead in two or three days of the cancer that had been eating their bodies up for years i'm not talking about they had months i'm talking about days and it disappeared i've seen people in a coma with brain swelling on the brain and paralyzed from falling out of a truck instantly healed and wake up out of intensive care and leave in three hours fine three babies in the womb i've seen die in the mother's womb and the doctor said they're dead you have to you have to have them removed and prayed for them and they came back to life okay this is no i i know a little bit about this i prayed i see broken bones healed instantly instantaneously on the spot a guy broke his hand uh prayed for him and just just go so i mean i've seen everything just just just about every every miracle that you can possibly see and i've believed in healing and miracles ever since i came back because i just read the word amen so so god wants us to be people of faith we should always be believing for healing and for miracles and and let me just say this real strongly sickness and disease and demonic attacks it's the enemy okay it's the enemy and should always be resisted in the name of jesus and rebuked and resisted and fought we should never be people who just accept sickness and disease or problems okay now i know sometimes some of us knew know these things and we get lazy all right now let me let me say this i have seen two over the years that if you do you know a sickness comes on you or something that comes on you it manages to get through somehow i have discovered one thing that resisting it and fighting it in the name of jesus and rebuking it can definitely shorten the length of what's going on so what i'm saying is being a warrior being a fighter resisting sickness and disease and not just saying i have to accept this you know there are people out there and this is the problem there are there are christians out there who think that

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