Is it God's will to heal me part six.
Hi.
Welcome to today's little lesson.
This is another special edition in the DR Congo and we're looking at the scripture,
seeing what the Bible has to say regarding God's will for healing.
If you haven't listened to the first five, you're probably making a mistake.
Go back, try to find the earlier lessons that I did working up to today because I've covered
a lot of objections and I know that sometimes emotions can get running high on this subject
and I just want you to know I'm not trying to win an argument.
I'm not trying to make you believe what I believe.
I'm trying to help people understand what the word of God says, rightly divide the word
of God, take the whole of scripture, not just one little verse pulling verses out of their
context to convince you that God loves you and he not only wants to forgive you of your
sins, but he wants to heal you of your sicknesses and your diseases.
Now, there might be some qualifications behind that.
Obviously, doesn't happen automatically.
Pretty easy to see that, but we've seen a theme running through scripture that there's
the stipulation of obedience.
You can't claim God's best when we're not giving them our best, and then there's also
the stipulation of faith and not just any kind of faith believing that God will heal
you because that's not really faith.
That's actually hope.
I don't know if you realize that or not, but this is a major problem I think in our understanding.
People are substituting hope for faith, and hope always leaves room for the possibility
that what I want, I may not get it.
So, people have strong hope.
Oh, I believe God's going to heal me one day when it's his will.
I've watched a lot of people say that and they never got better.
Faith, Hebrews tells us, Hebrews chapter 11 verse number one, faith is the assurance of
things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen,, the assurance of things hoped for.
So if you're hoping you're going to be healed, well then you're not meeting the condition
to have faith to be healed.
Okay?
And I didn't write the Bible.
Okay.
So, don't get mad at me.
Nothing wrong with hope.
Hope is great.
Hope is great, but Jesus never said to anyone, your hope has healed you.
He didn't say to some guy, keep on hoping and you will see the miracles.
No, it's faith.
In fact, I was just reading a scripture here before I was getting ready to talk to you.
In the new Testament, Galatians chapter three in verse number five, the apostle Paul in
the new Testament writing to the Galatians says, "So then, does he who provide you with
the spirit and works miracles among you...".
So, the Galatians were experiencing miracles among them.
Does he who does these things does miracles among you, do it by works of the law, which
of course, you know the answer is no, or by hearing with faith?
So, Paul saying, God's given you the spirit because of your faith.
God's working miracles among you because of your faith.
That's the key.
Jesus said in Mark 1123 whatever you desire in 24, this is actually verse 24, whatever
you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive it and you will have it.
So, a lot of people are making a mistake there.
They'll believe when they have it, but Jesus said, you got to believe before you have it.
You have to believe you receive before you have any other evidence for it other than
God's word.
I know people have taken that to the extreme and do all kinds of nutty things and so forth,
you know?
But nevertheless, that's what Jesus said.
So, there's a scripture to hone in on.
Okay?
All right.
There's so many scriptures.
The Bible lays this bedrock foundation of Jesus, the healer, a God as Jehovah Rafa.
Here's one I've already quoted to you from Psalm 103 in verse number two.
"Bless the Lord O my soul and forget none of his benefits."
I would say a lot of Christians have forgotten the sum of God's benefits.
Who pardons all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases.
See, this Psalmist knew the covenant that Israel had with God that he promised.
If you'll obey me, listen to me, I'll take sickness out of your midst.
I'll put none of the diseases upon you, which I put upon the Egyptians.
I'll fulfill the number of your days.
We read a lot of those ones already in these little lessons.
Okay.
Even in Proverbs, I found a promise for healing.
Proverbs chapter four in verse number 20, "My son, give attention to my words."
See, there's the key.
You got to know God's word in order to know what his will is in order to believe and receive.
That's how salvation works, right?
Yeah, sure.
You had to hear the gospel.
You had to know it was God's will for you to be saved and have your sins forgiven before
you could believe it.
"My son, give attention to my words.
Incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your sight.
Keep them in the midst of your heart because it's with the heart, man believes", Paul wrote
to the Romans, for they are life to those who find them.
No Christian would disagree with it's in God's word that we find life, eternal life, but
look at the second part of the promise and health to all their body.
So, the key to health and our body is found in God's words, and by knowing his promises,
knowing his will, and keeping that in our heart, believing it, that's where you find
life and that's where you also find health to all your body.
That's why I'm giving you the word of God.
I'm trying to get it into your heart, so that it'll bring health to your body.
I love you.
Okay.
So, you might not like me because you're saying, oh, you're one of those preachers who preaches
about healing.
Well, forgive me for being like Jesus, and Paul, and Peter, and James and John.
Forgive me, I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Speaking of Jesus.
Not only did Jesus heal people like crazy, and he says, I only do what I see the father
do.
So, Jesus was the exact representation of the father's nature.
Every person that Jesus healed it was because God the father wanted that person to be healed.
The Bible says oftentimes Jesus was moved with compassion and then he healed people.
See, he was motivated by his love and compassion, his mercy upon people.
People will say, well, during the Jesus' ministry he was trying to prove he was the son of God.
Now that's proven.
He's not healing anybody anymore.
Where'd you get that?
Where's that in the Bible?
Show me a verse in the Bible where it says, Jesus healed people to prove his deity and
now that he proven his deity, he doesn't need to heal anybody anymore.
Where is that?
I double dog challenge, double dog dare you challenge you to show me a verse in the Bible
that says that.
AU contraire Mon soar.
Let me read to you from Mark chapter 16 of verse number 17.
The Lord Jesus Christ said, this is in red in your Bible.
Well first because he was going to all over preach the gospel, he who believes and is
baptized will be saved.
He who does not believe shall be damned.
So, there's believers and there's unbelievers.
Then he says, "These signs will accompany those who have believed in my name.
They will cast out demons.
They will speak with new tongues.
They will pick up serpents.
If, if, if, if they drink any deadly poison, it won't hurt them and they will lay hands
on the sick and they shout, recover."
Is that in your Bible?
Yeah.
Sure it's in your Bible.
It's in every Bible.
That's one of the signs that will follow the believers if they'll lay hands upon the sick
and they shall recover.
Doesn't say they'd get instantly healed necessarily, but they shall recover.
So, every believer can have that kind of a healing ministry of laying hands upon the
sick and asking God to do a miracle that they would recover.
And of course, it's not just the faith of the person doing the handling, but there's
also the faith of the person having the hands laid upon them.
Okay.
We've talked about that a little bit.
All right.
So, that's not the entire revelation on healing in the Bible.
Okay.
We're out of time for this little lesson.
I'm so sorry that time goes so quickly.
I'm going to pick up right here on our next little lesson and delve into this cause I
know what some people are saying and I'm going to answer that objection.
I've heard them all.
Okay.
Love you.
I hope to see you next time.
God bless.