Is healing in the atonement?
Part four.
Hi, welcome to today's Little Lesson.
Thank you so much for joining me once again in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Great to be here, walking through a wonderful door that the Lord is opening to the ministry
of Heaven's Family.
So glad you joined me on this Little Lesson.
This is part four of answering the question, is healing in the atonement?
Somewhat of a controversial subject, but that's not going to stop us.
Never stopped us before, you know.
It's an important subject.
I mean, you might be saying, "Well, I don't care about this."
Well, okay.
You're probably not sick, and you probably never will be sick, I guess, and never have
a disease, you know, so you don't care.
But, I don't know, I care because I've been sick and I've been healed.
And I'm here with a guy in the DR Congo right now, Dick Samuels, who helps lead Heaven's
Family's Farming God's Way ministry.
We were just talking last night, he had a daughter who was born with spina bifida.
That's monster problems in the spine, oftentimes the spine outside the body.
And she had some surgeries when she was little and so forth, but they said she'll never walk.
And two years old, she wasn't walking, she wasn't even crawling.
But Dick and his wife, Patty, were trusting the Lord.
And one day, that little girl scooted over to the couch and then stood up and then walked
across the room.
Eventually she became a great basketball player, cheerleader, etc., etc.
You know, the Jewish doctor who said, "I don't even believe necessarily in God, but I got
no better explanation for what happened to your daughter than you had a divine miracle."
So, hallelujah!
God is still in the healing business.
If you don't believe that, you need to get back to your Bible.
And pastor, if you call yourself a man of God, or if you're a Bible teacher and you
never teach on healing, well then, you're leaving out an awful lot of stuff that's in
the Bible.
The Bible is pro-healing.
You know, just think about it for two seconds, is the Bible more pro-healing or anti-healing?
Is there more reason to believe that God wouldn't heal you from the Bible?
Or is there more reason to believe that God would heal you from the Bible?
Well that is a no brainer.
Okay, so we're looking at a very fundamental question, is healing in the atonement?
We know that forgiveness of sins is in the atonement, Jesus died for that.
We know that all the other blessings that we get by virtual believing in Christ, or
because of the atoning sacrifice of Christ, including a new body one day.
So, if our future new bodies we can credit Christ's atoning sacrifice, why would we ever
make the claim that healing of our current bodies isn't contained in that package?
You know, something to think about, right?
And we have just, in our previous Little Lesson, looked at Isaiah 53:4, where irrefutably it
says Jesus bore our ... just like he bore our iniquities, it says that in Isaiah 53:5,
it says he bore our griefs and carried our sorrows and, of course, I showed you in the
last Little Lesson that in most other places the words that are translated grief and sorrows,
most other places in the Old Testament, they were translated sickness and pain.
But today, oh my goodness, I've saved a goody for you, because we're going to go into the
New Testament, into Matthew's Gospel, and wouldn't you know it, we find Matthew quoting
from Isaiah 53:4.
And how does ... when Matthew, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, when Matthew quotes the
verse that we read in our last lesson, that surely our griefs he bore and our sorrows
he carried, in which I said, you know, most times the words that are translated grief
and sorrows are translated sickness and pains, how does Matthew translate it?
You probably already figured out, let's start in Matthew 8 and how about verse 14.
Jesus heads back to, I think it's Capernaum, he's there at Peter's home.
And when Jesus came into Peter's home, he saw his, that's Peter's, mother lying sick
in bed with a fever.
He touched her hand and the fever left her and she got up and waited on him.
Well, you know, no shock there.
Jesus does what he so often does.
He's the healer.
And when evening came, they brought to him many who were demon possessed, and he cast
out the spirits with the word and he healed all, a-l-l, who were ill.
If you had been sick and you had been there on that evening, you would have been healed.
It would have been God's will for you to be healed if you had been alive back then.
So why we would ever conclude it's not God's will for you to be healed today?
Just because you weren't born during the right time or you weren't at the right place at
the right time.
Because if you'd a been there that night, you would have been healed, right?
Yeah.
Because he healed all who were ill.
You would have been healed.
Something to think about.
Now, get this, Matthew, under the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "This was to fulfill
what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, 'He himself took our infirmities and carried
away our diseases.'"
Whoo!
See?
Matthew didn't quote, "He took our sorrows and our griefs."
Because that's not what Isaiah said.
That's not what God said through Isaiah.
God said, through Isaiah, "Jesus will bear your sicknesses and your pains."
Or in this case, he said, your infirmities and your diseases.
That's what God said that Jesus would carry away.
And anytime some theologian says, "Well, he was just talking about your spiritual diseases
and your spiritual sicknesses, because, you know ... " Once they cave in a little bit,
they quickly try to recover.
"Well, yeah, I agree, the Hebrew actually says sicknesses and pains, or infirmities
and diseases, that's what the Hebrew says.
Can't argue with that.
But, Isaiah was talking about our spiritual diseases and our spiritual sicknesses."
Well, I have no doubt that Jesus also carried our spiritual sicknesses and our diseases,
but is that what God meant?
Well, Matthew didn't think so, because Matthew equated the fulfillment, at least part of
the fulfillment, of that promise that God made through Isaiah in the physical healing
of people who lined up to be healed and were healed physically by Jesus in Capernaum on
that evening we just read about in Matthew 8.
I'm making a pretty good case here, making a pretty good case here.
And it's not me, it's the Bible making a pretty good case here.
So, I guess the next question would be, "Oh, perhaps," because there's always these doubters
who are always trying to steal everybody's faith and trying to find a reason that God
won't do what he's promised.
You know?
"Well, yeah, Isaiah's prophecy was completely fulfilled that night in Capernaum.
The few people that Jesus healed then, that's it.
That was the fulfillment of Isaiah 53:4."
Well, we'll cover that on our next Little Lesson, but I think you've probably got it
figured out what I'm going to say.
Because that's a pathetic argument.
All right, hope to see you next time.
God bless you.