Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Pt.3
This morning I am going to review quite a bit and then get into where I believe The Lord wants us to do for today. Next week I will not review near as much and I believe next week is extremely important.
”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.”
It is not that difficult to convince most believers that Jesus healed the sick while He was on the earth. The more difficult task is to convince them that He STILL heals! Can we establish, 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.
We must be willing to repent. to change the way that we think in order to change our perspective.
Repent/Metanoia: literally means to change your mind. Not just to think different thoughts, but to change your entire thought process by changing what you believe about reality.
The focus of repentance is to change our way of thinking until the reality of His Kingdom fills our thought process.
Romans 12:2 AMP 2 And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values and customs], but be transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind…
Transformed; from the Greek word meaning “metamorphosis.” Refers to an internal transformation that leads to an external manifestation.
When we change the way we think about healing it opens us up to receive healing. Remember, Perception determines reality. Something can be completely and readily available to me, but if I don't perceive it to be true I can not receive it.
Perception vs Perspective. I don’t have time to review. Refer to the podcast or our website and listen to the first message. My notes are available there as well.
If my perspective (the lens looking through) has been transformed, not conformed to the world any longer, but in line with God’s perspective, then my perception of healing will be in agreement with His word which will cause faith to rise within me to actively and aggressively pursue healing for myself and others!
Mike did a great job last week talking about this subject. One of the things that stuck out and encouraged me the most from his message is that while the overall process of renewing the mind will take place over a lifetime, getting to a place of thinking from a Kingdom perspective does not.
I loved how he brought out the 40 days Jesus spent teaching the Kingdom to the disciples after His resurrection and pointed to His 40 days in the wilderness as our example.
I know my mind is renewed to Kingdom perspective in the area of healing when my initial response to pain or sickness is not to reach for the medicine or call the doctor, but to stand on the word and declare healing!
I know my mind is renewed when impossibilities look like opportunities!
(In order to make sure our perspective is correct) We must establish a standard by which everything else will be judged.
Your experience can not form your belief system. We can not lower the standard of Jesus to explain or justify our lack or results.
We must begin to see things through the finished work of Jesus and the example He gave us until our results are raised to His standard.
If Jesus is the example, the standard If what we believe does not line up with what He taught and what He demonstrated, then we have believed a lie. If we have believed a lie, we must identify it, reject it and replace it with truth.
Is healing a peripheral issue or a central issue to the Gospel of The Kingdom?
In 37 recorded “miracles” in the Gospels performed by Jesus, 28 of them were physical healing or deliverances! 76%!
Healing was a major part of the ministry of Jesus. If healing was a major part of His ministry then, why wouldn’t it be a major part of His ministry now?
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. 24 Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them. 25 Great multitudes followed Him—from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
Why did Jesus heal?
To establish the dominance of the Kingdom of god.
Jesus came with a mandate to restore the dominion of The Kingdom of God.
1 John 3:8 …For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
Acts 10:38 38 how 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.
Matthew 12:28 28 “But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.”
To prove that he was the Messiah, the coming king.
Healing offers scriptural proof of Jesus’ clear identity as the Messiah. The Savior!
In Isaiah 61, the prophet describes the coming Messiah’s healing ministry.
Luke 19-22 TPT “19 So John dispatched two of his disciples to go and inquire of Jesus. 20 When they came before the Master, they asked him, “Are you the coming Messiah we’ve been expecting, or are we to continue to look for someone else? John the prophet has sent us to you to seek your answer.” 21 Without answering, Jesus turned to the crowd and healed many of their incurable diseases. His miracle power freed many from their suffering. He restored the gift of sight to the blind, and he drove out demonic spirits from those who were tormented. 22 Only then did Jesus answer the question posed by John’s disciples. “Now go back and tell John what you have just seen and heard here today. The blind are now seeing. The crippled are now walking. Those who were lepers are now cured. Those who were deaf are now hearing. Those who were dead are now raised back to life. The poor and broken are given the hope of salvation.
John 14:11 TPT 11 Believe that I live as one with my Father and that my Father lives as one with me—or at least, believe because of the mighty miracles I have done.
Jesus, out of His own mouth, said believe because to the miracles you have seen! Healings, miracles, etc…. Proved Jesus was the savior… Correct? Jesus expects us to reveal to the lost He is the savior, correct?
Why would Jesus demonstrate one way of proving who He was and then send His followers out to win the lost without the same power can authority.
Why would miracles not be needed or used today too prove Jesus is who He we say He is? “Now we have the Bible”. Why would an atheist believe what the Bible says?
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.
Why is it important to know weather or not it is God’s will for you to be healed?
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.
You can not have faith for healing if you are not absolutely certain that healing is His will. When we know His will on a situation, we are equipped to fight the battle that the enemy will bring to stop us from receiving what God has.
1 John 5:14-15 14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
AMPC 14 And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us. 15 And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.
TPT 14 Since we have this confidence, we can also have great boldness before him, for if we present any request agreeable to his will, he will hear us. 15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we also know that we have obtained the requests we ask of him.
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.
1 John 1 He is the word manifest in the natural. God’s word is His will, so you could say Jesus is the will of God manifest.
The Greek word that is used here is “LOGOS,” and it denotes “the expression of thought–not the mere name of an object” (Vine’s Expository Dictionary). Jesus totally expressed the thoughts of the Father and was manifest in a physical form so all the world could read them.
Hebrews 1:3 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power
TPT The Son is the dazzling radiance of God’s splendor, the exact expression of God’s true nature—his mirror image!
The Greek word translated “express image” speaks of an identical copy or a perfect representation. This reveals that Jesus is the identical copy and perfect representation of His Father.
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 totally represented the Father in actions, nature, and character. Jesus said, “He that has seen me has seen the Father”
By doing the works of God, Jesus gave the world the most accurate picture of who the invisible God is.
Jesus said multiple times “I only do what I see my Father do; I only say what I hear my Father say.”
Can we conclude 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!
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”.
Jesus never said, “You just need to suffer a little more so that you can grow spiritually.”
Jesus never said, “God is trying to teach you something through this 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!!!
What God does anywhere, he wills to do everywhere! What Jesus does for anyone, He wills to do for everyone!
Matthew 4:24 24 Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them.
MATTHEW 8:16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and HEALED ALL THAT WERE SICK:
MATTHEW 12:15...and great multitudes followed him, and HE HEALED THEM ALL;
There are seventeen times in the Gospels where Jesus healed all of the sick who were present. There are forty-seven other times where He healed one or two people at a time.
John 5:14-19, 30
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!
