Is it God's will to heal me?
Part 10 the final message.
Hi, welcome to today's little lesson.
Thank you so much for joining me.
We've been talking about healing and looking at the Bible and I got one more lesson because
I said at the beginning I was going to limit myself to 10 little lessons on healing and
there was much more we could say but I wanted to cover one area of healing that I think
people are sometimes confused about.
Jesus healed people by different methods and means and we could break them down.
I only have eight minutes here.
So I'm going to break it down into two categories and I could break it down no more.
But just for simplicity sake, he healed people by two methods.
One was through their faith and them believing and they received by faith.
And you know this from the Bible, Jesus often told people he healed your faith has healed
you or he mentioned faith as a component.
But Jesus also operated as a prophet, as a man even because he was 100% man.
But he was of course 100% God.
But in his ministry, he didn't heal people by virtue of the fact that he was God.
And of course, God can heal anybody.
Jesus operated as a man, anointed by the Holy Spirit.
That's why Jesus didn't do any miracles until about age 30 after he was baptized in the
Jordan river by John the Baptist and the Holy spirit descended upon him.
And from then on we see a supernatural element in his ministry.
He said, "The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he's anointed me."
And so he was an anointed man of God, minister.
And because he had stripped himself, Paul said in Philippians of certain prerogatives
that he would have by virtue of being God, he wasn't omnipresent anymore when he became
a man.
Jesus was not omnipresent.
He wasn't everywhere.
And it's very clear he wasn't all powerful.
Neither was he all-knowing as a man.
Okay.
He stripped himself with those things.
And so when Jesus knew something about somebody, like the woman at the well, you've had five
husbands, that was revealed to him by the Holy spirit and spontaneously at that moment
that was a manifestation of the spiritual gift of the word of knowledge.
Okay.
And Jesus said, "I can do nothing of myself.
I can only do what I see the father do."
So again there's so much proof that Jesus in his ministry operated as a man, anointed
by the Holy spirit.
So another method he used to heal people was through gifts of healings.
And like the man at the pool of Siloam, he wasn't healed by his faith.
He got zapped by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus said, "Will you be made well?"
He said, "I'd like to get well, but when the angel stirs the water here, I can't be the
first one in the water.
And so someone beats me to it."
Well Jesus said, "Take up your pallet and walk."
And the guy was instantly healed and he really didn't even know who had healed him.
Because later on the Jewish leaders asked him, "What happened?
And what are you doing carrying your pallet."
And so forth.
And so he wasn't healed by his faith in Jesus.
He was healed through gifts of healings, gifts of healings according to 1 Corinthians and
according to Hebrews, operate as the spirit's wills.
Nobody understands it.
You'd never going to figure it out with your brain or my brain.
It's as the spirit wills, but God heals people sometimes just sovereignly, zam and they get
healed.
And Christians who see that think, "Oh well we never know when God's going to heal somebody."
Because they see God heal somebody through a gift of healing.
But not everybody gets healed that way.
Only a few actually get healed that way.
If you study the ministry of Christ, the majority of people were healed through faith.
The minority were healed through gifts of healings.
Okay, so gifts of healings, don't wait around for them.
It may never come for you.
Now, they may, God may send some anointed prophet or whatever, or God might give your
pastor the gift of healing for you or something.
You may, you may.
And that happens, praise the Lord.
But God's doing those things as signs and wonders to get our attention and to build
our faith because faith is what pleases him.
He doesn't just want to be sovereignly healing everybody all the time.
Apparently he wants to heal some people that way sometimes to spur on the faith of everybody
else.
So they'll say, "Hey, God's still in the healing business.
And let me dig into the word to see what his will is on this subject and let me build my
faith and let me stand on his promise and take him at his word and receive what God
has provided for me and promised me."
That's what God's up to.
Okay.
So when you don't understand that and you just think, well back in the '70s during the
charismatic revival, a lot of people were being healed back then and that's how God
was moving back then.
But it's kind of waned and it's not happening now, so we can't expect it.
So I'm not expecting it.
You see, you're making a mistake.
That'd be like saying, "Back when Jesus was on the earth, boy that God was moving then
there were lots of miracle, but it's not available now."
No, no, no, no.
Jesus came to the earth.
Yeah, he ministered for three and a half years and he revealed God's will over and over again
through his healing ministry.
110th of everything that's been written about Jesus on the four Gospels concerns his healing
ministry.
And so he revealed himself once again as God the healer, trying to build our faith so that
we will reach out to him as God the healer.
You got it?
Okay.
And God does anoint certain ministers today with gifts of healings.
Sure.
That can happen.
And a percentage of people, I'm going to tell you the truth.
A small percentage of people will be healed that way, but the majority won't because they
weren't under the ministry of Jesus.
And so don't wait around for that special sovereign healing gift that God sometimes
manifests on this earth.
You think about it at the pool of Siloam there all those people, sick, blind, diseased, sitting
around the pool of Siloam every once in a while.
Not every day, not every hour, not even every week.
Every once in a while an angel would come down and trouble the water and whoever was
the first one, and God healed.
That's a sovereign act of God, see.
Still required something about a part of the people.
But when people say, "It's God's will to heal some and not all."
Well, think about this case that it was God's will to heal the first person who got into
the water.
So it's up for grabs.
It wasn't a sovereign's selection by God to say, "I like you.
I'm going to hell you."
It's, "I'm going to stir the waters and whoever gets in first gets healed and I'm trying to
show all the rest of you that I'm a healing God because every single person sitting in
that circle around the pool of Siloam, they could read their Bibles and find that God
said, if you'll obey me, I'll take sickness out of the midst of you and the number of
your days I'll fulfill."
See they had a covenant with God that they could have laid hold of by faith.
And you say, "Are you implying that they weren't obedient?
And that's why they were sick."
Actually I am.
Because I think it was to the guy that Jesus healed later on when he found him, he said,
"Now go and sin no more that nothing worse may be fall you implying the reason you got
in that shape the first time buddy is because you weren't obedient and so you open the door
to your illness.
But I came along and mercifully healed you.
But this is not a guaranteed permanent healing because the Bible hasn't changed.
Health and healing is contingent upon obedience.
And if you're going to go back into your sin, I can't guarantee your health buddy."
But all those people who saw that miracle could have said, "Why didn't Jesus do that
for me?
Is he partial?
Does he love that guy more than he loves me?
Well, wait a second.
I hear the news that everyone is being healed by Jesus, who touches the hem of his garment
and comes to him by faith, and he's tells people all the time, your faith has healed
you."
See, he's trying to stir them up and stir their faith up just like I'm trying to do
with you.
Okay.
All right.
We're out of time on this little lesson.
Once again, thank you so much for joining me and for being with me for these last 10
lessons on healing special edition in the DR Congo.
I'm heading home today and I've got a long ride ahead of me.
Hope to see you next time.
God bless.