August 16, 2020

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Pt.4 Atonement

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Pt.4 Atonement

Sunday, August 16, 2020

Scripture:

Over the last several weeks we have been looking at healing. Can we, from a biblical standpoint, prove the following beyond a reasonable doubt; Healing is for today, Healing is always God’s will, The authority and power to heal has been given to every believer?

”I believe revival will be sparked and marked by healing, but Not just God supernaturally healing everyone. Believers growing in and learning to receive their healing by the finished work of Jesus and in turn flowing in the power that is available to them from the finished work to heal others. This will spark revival and lead to true awakening. When I say healing in this sense I’m talking about healing, deliverance, miracles, etc... The signs that Jesus said would follow believers who... well believed.”

We have seen from the Word several reason why Jesus healed; To establish the dominance of The Kingdom of God, To prove He was the coming Messiah, and last week we seen that Jesus healed the sick to To demonstrate the will and nature of the father.

It seems that one of the hardest things to convince believers of is not Can God Heal, but WILL He heal. More specifically, will He heal me? Is healing His will in this situation.

We must establish for ourselves if healing is always God’s will because Faith begins where the will of god is known.

It is not possible to have faith in an area where you question if it is God’s will or not.

When I know the will of God for a situation, then I can release faith to see His will manifested in the natural.

If we have a question or something we need to prove, we go back to the reference point or the standard. Who or what is the standard? JESUS. Can we prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, by The Word, that Healing is ALWAYS God’s Will?

Jesus is the will and the nature of god demonstrated.

Hebrews 1:3 3 tells us Jesus is express image or the exact expression of God’s true nature- His mirror image.

Colossians 1:15 AMPC 15 [Now] He is the exact likeness of the unseen God [the visible representation of the invisible]; He is the Firstborn of all creation.

Jesus said multiple times “I only do what I see my Father do; I only say what I hear my Father say.”

Jesus totally represented the Father in actions, nature, and character. Jesus said, “He that has seen me has seen the Father”

We concluded that, according to the Word of God… Not opinion, experience, or circumstance, but by the Word only, that everything Jesus did was in agreement with the will of the Father.

Healing is always the will of God! (This is radical to most)

Every person that came to Jesus that was sick or bound, HE healed and set free!

Jesus never said, “I’m sorry, but you will have to wait until you get to Heaven to get healed”, “You just need to suffer a little more so that you can grow spiritually.”, “God is trying to teach you something through this sickness.”. Nor did yes ever impart sickness!

Religions teaches us that God uses sickness, but the Bible does not reflect that! The bible shows Jesus demonstrating the will of God every time He comes into contact with a sick person and the result is always HEALING!!!

The works of Jesus give us a clear view of God’s will to bring healing and wholeness to the earth, because the Son only does what He first saw His Father doing.

Look at Matthew 12:22-28 A kingdom divide can not stand.

If Jesus is the reflection of The Father on earth and, by His own admission multiple times, only does what He sees the Father do and only says what He hears the Father say, THEN WE MUST CONCLUDE THAT HEALING IS ALWAYS THE WILL OF GOD!

Healing is as much apart of the atonement as forgiveness of sin!

Isaiah 53:4-5 NKJV 3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.[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 word translated “griefs” is the Hebrew word meaning “sickness, disease, malady, anxiety, calamity.”

The word translated “sorrows” is the Hebrew word meaning “pain and mental anguish.”

The word translated healed is the Hebrew word: Rafa, as in Jehova-Rapha. Always used in reference to physical healing.

Isaiah prophetically refers to Jesus as a “Man of pains and acquainted with sickness ”

Isaiah prophesied a complete redemption: Spirit, soul (mind will and emotions) and body.

Matthew 8:14-17 NKJV [14] Now when Jesus had come into Peter's house, He saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever. [15] So He touched her hand, and the fever left her. And she arose and served them. [16] When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, [17] that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses.”

Matthew said, he did all these things “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, “He himself took our infinities and bore our sickness.”

When you study out the word “fulfill” you will find it often applies to an action that extends throughout the whole church age.

Jesus healing during His time on earth wasn’t the fulfillment in total, it was the beginning. If He is still saving and cleansing of sin, He is still saving and healing bodies.

Jesus began with His actions while on earth, but he solidified and completed with the cross and resurrection.

1 Peter 2:24 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.

Isaiah and Peter were looking at redemption from two different vantage points.

Isaiah, looking forward to what Jesus would do, said, “we are healed.”

Peter, looking back at what Christ has already accomplished, said, “ye were healed.”

Healing for my body is just as much an accomplished fact in Redemption as is the forgiveness of my sins!

The provision for healing is just as much part of Redemption as is the provision for forgiveness.

Both provisions have been made for everyone, because of what Jesus has already accomplished.

Isaiah prophesied it, Jesus demonstrated it during His life on earth and sealed, Peter pointed us back to it. Isaiah was looking forward to what Jesus WOULD do, Peter was looking back at what Jesus HAD done!

Saved/SOZO

Romans 10:13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

When we read this verse we have been trained to automatically associate it with salvation, meaning the forgiveness of sins.

Mark 5:21-32 21 Now when Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a great multitude gathered to Him; and He was by the sea. 22 And behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue came, Jairus by name. And when he saw Him, he fell at His feet 23 and begged Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter lies at the point of death. Come and lay Your hands on her, that she may be healed (SOZO), and she will live.” 24 So Jesus went with him, and a great multitude followed Him and thronged Him.

25 Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, 26 and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. 28 For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.” (SOZO)

29 Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the [a]affliction. 30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?”

31 But His disciples said to Him, “You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ”

32 And He looked around to see her who had done this thing. 33 But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. 34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”

James 5:14-15 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.

If healing is part of the atoning work if Jesus, then it is past tense and we must approach it as such!

Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Grace makes it available, faith makes it possible!

We have to appropriate healing the same way we appropriate forgiveness… BY FAITH!

Appropriate;

to set apart, authorize, or legislate for some specific purpose or use:

to take to or for oneself; take possession of.

Jesus appropriated the price He paid toward healing.

We must appropriate, take possession of, healing for ourselves by faith!

Jesus dealt with sin and sickness the same way.. He removed it as part of redemption.

Jesus Redemptive work was a complete work. Jesus took our sins and sickness upon Himself. He took our sickness upon Himself. Since Jesus bore my sins, I don’t have to bare them. Sense Jesus bore my sickness, I don’t have got bare them!

He didn’t just cover them, He removed them!

If healing is part of redemption:

Its God’s will that all are saved. Forgiven. It’s His will that none should parish. It is always God’s will for us to be healed.

If healing is part of redemption, it is an established truth that we should believe and act upon. It is past tense and too be received.

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