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Reason 6 – the Promises of God and our faith

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REASON VI

The sixth reason why we should expect God to heal our sicknesses today is because of His marvelous promises, the fulfillment of which depends altogether upon the exercise of our own faith.

Here are just some of these promises:

Matthew 18:19, “Again I (Christ) say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father which is in heaven.”

Does “anything that they shall ask” include bodily sickness ? Yes. Then take Christ as your Healer.

Matthew 21:22 (Christ says), “And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” Does “all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing” include bodily sickness? Yes. Then take Christ as your Healer.

Mark 11:22, “And Jesus answering saith unto them. Have faith in God. (2) For verily I say unto you. That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. (24) Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive (have received) them, and ye shall have them.” Does “what things soever ye desire, when ye pray” include bodily sickness? Yes. Then take Christ as your Healer.

John 14-: 13, “And whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name, that will I do; that the Father may be glorified in the Son. (14) If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it.” Does “whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name,” and “If ye shall ask anything in My Name” include bodily sickness? Yes. Then take Christ as your Healer.

John 15: 7, “If ye abide in Me and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto “you.” Do these words, “Ye shall ask what ye will” include bodily sickness? Yes. Then take Christ as your Healer.

1 John 3:22, “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him (God), because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.” Does “whatsoever we ask” include bodily sickness? Yes. Then take Christ as your Healer, for He is no “respecter of persons.” What He did for John, who made a practice of keeping all His commandments and doing only what was right in His sight. He will also do for you.

James 5:14, “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: (15) And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.” Do you believe the book of James is inspired of God ? Yes, Then obey James 5:14, and take Christ as your Healer.

If bodily Healing was not in the Atonement

Reason #5 the Great Commission

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REASON V

Society people should believe in “Divine Healing” today, (a) because of Christ’s last great commission, and (b) because of God’s direct command in James 5: 14.

(a) Examine here Christ’s last commission to His disciples in Mark 16: 17: “And these signs shall follow them that believe (literally, ‘to those believing’) ; in My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; (18) They shall take up serpents (as Paul did, Ac. 28: 3-5) ; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Here then is a direct command from Christ that His followers should pray for the sick, and expect Him to heal them.

(b) Here listen to James 5: H: “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: (15) And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.” The word “call” here is “proskalesasth

Reason #4 – The Holy Ghost Quickens our Flesh

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A fourth reason, why all Society People should expect God (the Holy Ghost) to heal our sick bodies today, is because He is the very same Holy Spirit who did all of Christ’s miracles, and raised Him from the dead, and is still in the earth, and has all His old time, life-giving power.

John 14: 16 declares emphatically that the Holy Ghost will abide with us forever. 1 Thessalonians 1: 5 asserts, “For our Gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power (dunamis) and in the Holy Ghost.” This word for power (dunamis) is the Holy Ghost power of Luke 24: 49 and Acts 1: 8.

Paul also declares (2 Tim. 1:7), “For God hath not given us (the Society) the Spirit of fear, but of power (dunamis

Reason #1 – Why We Take Christ as the Healer of our Bodies

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REASON #1

Because God used to heal the sick, and He is an unchangeable God.

(a) In Old Testament times God was man’s healer.

In Exodus 15:26 we read, “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord, thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord which healeth thee.”

In Exodus 23: 25 we read, “Ye shall serve the Lord your God . . . ; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.”

Psalm 103:3, “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases.” God is still forgiving sins, and He is still healing diseases, or else He is not the same God He used to be.

Psalm 105:37, “He brought them forth also with silver and gold; and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.” Why? Because God was their healer.

Psalm 107: 20, “He (God) sent forth His word and healed them.”

(b) In New Testament times God was man’s healer through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew 9:35, “And Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching . . . and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness, and every disease among the people.”

Note, Christ preached and healed publicly. Then Mark 6:12 informs us that Christ gave power to His disciples to heal the sick. Mark 6: 12, “And they (the disciples) went out and preached that men should repent. (13) And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.”

These disciples, like their Lord, also held great preaching and healing campaigns. Has God changed, or is He the very same God today as in Old and New Testament times?

In Malchi 3:6 we read, “For I am the Lord, I change not.”

In Hebrews 13: 8 we read, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.”

Again James says (Jas. 1:17), “Every good gift (including the gift of healing) is from above, and Cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

Here then James declares that God does not change even slightly. Now God used to he:

(1) Jehovah-shammah

Where did sickness come from?

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Let us begin by asking a very important question, How did sickness enter this world?”

Our answer is found in Romans 5: 12, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” Then physical death and all that produces it are the direct results of sin.

But how came man to sin? Read Genesis 2: 17 and Genesis 3: 1-19 and you will find that it was Satan who caused our first parents to disobey God. Then Satan is the real originator of sin, sickness and death. Many deny this, and say that God Himself is the real author of sickness and death because He said to Adam (Gen. 2: 17), “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” But who caused Adam and Eve to disobey God’s command, and so bring sin, sickness and death into this world? Satan. Then Satan, and not God, is the real author of sin, sickness and death.

This explains why Christ said to the man whom He cured at the pool of Bethesda (Jno. 5:14), “Sin no more lest a worse thing come upon thee.” His sickness had come as the result of sin. This explains also Christ’s words in Mark 2: 9, “Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy. Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say. Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? (10) But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins (He saith to the sick of the palsy), (11) I say unto thee. Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.”

The people would not believe that Christ had power to forgive this man’s sins, so He says to them in effect, I will now prove to you that I have the power to forgive sins by curing this palsy, which is one of the consequences of sin. When you see that I can cure or take away this sin-produced disease, then you will know for a certainty that I can also take away sin itself.

Again we are absolutely sure Satan is the author of sickness as well as sin, because Christ always uses the same harsh word, “epitimao,” to rebuke sickness (Satan’s work), as He uses to rebuke evil spirits.

In Luke 4: 35 we read, “And Jesus rebuked (epetim