Is healing in the Atonement part two?
Hi, welcome to today's little lesson.
This is another very special edition coming to you from the Democratic Republic of Congo
and Heaven's Family, the ministry that I'm blessed to direct has been working in the
DRC for a number of years, but we're opening up a new territory here in Southern DRC, launching
one of the programs that Heaven's Family is involved in called Farming God's Way.
Through Farming God's Way, we've already helped thousands of very poor subsistence farmers
in five nations in East Africa become self-sufficient and lift themselves from poverty, because
we've taught them agricultural methods that help them to double and triple, and quadruple
and quintuple and even more their crop yields.
And they go from very poor, starving subsistence farmers to prospering farmers who can grow
more than what they need for their families.
And so they have cash crops to sell so they can participate in their local economy.
So it's a beautiful thing.
It's great success stories.
And we of course incorporate the most important things, evangelism and discipleship.
And so it's an integral part of one way that Heaven's Family is involved in expanding God's
kingdom around the world.
So happy that we're here in Southern DRC in the second largest city of DRC, Lubumbashi,
where God has opened a door for Heaven's Family and we're walking through it.
Praise God.
And I'm so blessed to be here with one of my colleagues from Heaven's Family, Dick Samuels.
All right, so let's get into today's little lesson.
I used up too much time already.
We're trying to answer that question, is healing in the Atonement.
And if you didn't see the last little lesson, it would be good if you watch that one first,
because we lay a little bit of a foundation.
So the question is, does Jesus's atoning sacrifice, does His death on the cross, which every Christian,
you know, true Christian universally agrees that that atoning sacrifice makes possible
the forgiveness of our sins.
The new birth, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, son-ship, adoption in Christ, redemption,
eternal life, heaven, a new body one day.
So everybody agrees that the atoning sacrifice makes possible, and that's the only thing
that makes possible all those blessings that we receive in Christ.
So I'm asking the question, does that atoning sacrifice also include physical healing for
our bodies?
And it is interesting to me that so many Christians are so quick to say that the atoning sacrifice
of Christ includes all those things that I just listed and many other things, the benefits,
you know, but no, it doesn't include physical healing.
And I think some draw that conclusion because they see it as a dangerous conclusion.
And if you don't know any better, I guess you could come to that conclusion, okay?
And so let me show a little bit of mercy here.
You know, some folks that said, well, if healing's in the atonement, then everyone who's a Christian
would automatically be healed and they'd be healthy, right?
And so then we'd have to go from there and conclude that any professing Christian who's
not healthy is not really a Christian.
And so, boy, wouldn't that cause a lot of havoc?
Well, it sure would.
So I'm going to just, I'm going to leave that argument.
Well, I'll touch on answering that argument briefly, all right?
But I want to get into what the Bible says, not people's arguments or human logic.
And what I'm about to tell you is irrefutable.
It can't be argued against, at least not intelligently.
So would you agree with me that many people whom Jesus healed when He was on this earth,
in His earthly ministry, He said to them, "Your faith has healed you."
Would you agree with me that yeah, yeah.
If you're not saying yes, you might as well, just, you know, move on to something else
because there's sense of us even talking.
Many time Jesus said to people whom He healed, "Your faith has healed you" and they were
healed.
Now, if they would not have had faith, would they have been healed?
Well again, this is irrefutable.
Unless Jesus is a liar, unless you say Jesus is a liar, who said "Your faith has healed
you," He credited their faith for their healing.
So unless you believe He was a liar, if they would not have had faith, they would not have
been healed, period.
Right?
Right.
Irrefutable, irrefutable.
Now, here's the third point.
All those people whom Jesus healed because of their faith, it was God's will to heal
them.
Can you refute that?
You know, that's pretty hard to refute.
You can't refute that.
Obviously it was God's will for them to heal.
They were healed, but you just agreed with me about 30 seconds ago that if they would
not have had faith, they would not have been healed.
So, you just admitted, because this is irrefutable, that they would not have been healed even
though irrefutably, indisputably, incontrovertibly, it was God's will for them to be healed.
People would not have been healed whom it was God's will to heal because they didn't
have faith.
Now, people get upset about that.
Bless their hearts.
They get angry about that because they don't want to hear that I have anything to do with
it at all.
We want to push everything off on God and blame Him for anything that doesn't go the
way we like it.
I'm just telling you to repent and grow up, repent and grow up.
If I fall dead right here right now because of some sickness that suddenly hits me, that
doesn't change the Bible.
And that doesn't mean it wasn't God's will, you know, for me to have what the Bible says
God wants me to have, all right?
It has nothing to do with anybody's experience.
It only has to do with the word of God.
God wanted all of Israel to enter into the promised land.
Did they enter into the promised land?
No.
Why?
Because they, because of, well the Hebrew says two things, because of their unbelief
and because of their disobedience, they failed.
They didn't receive God's will because they didn't believe.
Now a couple of guys, Joshua and Caleb ultimately got in because they believed, but nobody else
over the age of 20.
See?
So God's will doesn't always come to pass.
When people give these pious religious platitudes, you know, well, the Lord's will is always
done.
Oh really?
Have you ever read any sentence in the entire Bible?
God's will is rarely done, and that's why he told us to pray.
May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
That prayer request itself implies that God's will is not being done on this earth.
All right, so let's face up to facts.
Well, we never got to really look at the Scripture.
Okay, so in our next little lesson, we're going to go into the most famous chapter of
the Old Testament to begin to answer this important question, is healing in the atonement?
Hope to see you next time.
God bless.