God’s Will Is Health And Healing (part 2)

Both Forgiveness and Healing are in the Atonement of Christ

1.16.2022

Review

There will never be a time you don’t need faith for healing either for yourself…

If you wait to get faith when you need it, you will be at a disadvantage.

Don’t wait until a physical challenge comes to get faith. Store it up now.

Don’t wait until the toilet paper runs out to get some🙂

Don’t wait until the crisis is on, the storm has cut electricity, etc. before you get extra food. Do it now!

Be a spiritual prepper!

If you’re in school, don’t wait and have to cram the info in for hours into the night before a big exam!

God wants us to walk in Divine health. It is made available by faith in the sacrifice of Jesus at Calvary.

The same faith you have to receive forgiveness is the same faith that will heal you from sickness and disease.

This past year, with so much talk about sickness everywhere, we need to counteract that with the truth of God’s word about our health!

1. Deal with fear.

Faith cancels fear. Or, fear cancels faith.

2. To what information sources do you give the most attention?

Feed your faith, starve your doubts.

Hearing, thinking, believing, speaking, acting.

Romans 10:17

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Change the atmosphere of your life.

The basis for healing in the atonement is found in Isaiah 53, The Great Redemptive Chapter.

Isaiah 53:1-6 – NKJV

Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? (2) For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. (3) He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows (pains) and acquainted with grief (sickness). And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. (4) Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses) and carried our sorrows (pains); yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. (5) But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. (6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Verse 1…

Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Faith is believing the report.

Faith is believing God’s report over everything else!

The arm of the Lord – our redemption.

It’s available to those who believe the report.

Verse 2…

(2) For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.

Root out of dry ground…Jesus supernatural birth. (v.2)

(3) He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Sorrows –

(Hebrew) – makob – pains

 

Job 14:22 – makob – pains

But his flesh will be in pain over it, And his soul will mourn over it.

Job 33:19 – makob rendered pain.

Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, And with strong pain in many of his bones,

Grief –

(Hebrew) Choli – sickness

(rendered sickness and disease)

see Deuteronomy 7:15; 28:65; 2 Kings 1:2; 8:8; 2 Chronicles 12:15; 1 Kings 17:17; 2 Chronicles 16:12

Vs. 4 – A Divine commentary on Isaiah 53:4

Isaiah 53:4

Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses) and carried our sorrows (pains); yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

Many say this verse refers to sin, that Jesus became our sin, our spiritual sickness.

First of all, sin is not a sickness! Sin is a heart issue.

Matthew gave a clear commentary on Isaiah 53:4 to let us know that it is referring to Sickness and not sin.

Matthew 8:16

When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,

Matthew 8:17

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”

There are two words used in Isaiah 53:4 that are levitical words referring to the scapegoat assuming the sins of Israel on the day of Atonement.

Isaiah 53:4

Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses) and carried our sorrows (pains); yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

Borne –

(Hebrew) – Nasa – to lift up, to bear away, to convey or remove to a distance.

Carried –

(Hebrew) – Sabal – to assume a heavy burden; a complete removal of the thing borne!

Same words used in vs. 11 & 12 for the substitutionary bearing of sin.

Isaiah 53:11-12 (NLT)

When He sees all that is accomplished by His anguish, He will be satisfied. And because of His experience, my Righteous Servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear (sabal) all their sins. (12) I will give Him the honors of a victorious soldier, because He exposed Himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore (nasa) the sins of many and interceded for rebels.

Levitical words used of the scapegoat that bore away the sins of the people.

 

Jesus our scapegoat bore (carried away) our sins and our sicknesses.

Leviticus 16: The Day of Atonement

Leviticus 16:21-22 – NLT

He will lay both of his hands on the goat’s head and confess over it all the wickedness, rebellion, and sins of the people of Israel. In this way, he will transfer the people’s sins to the head of the goat. Then a man specially chosen for the task will drive the goat into the wilderness. (22) As the goat goes into the wilderness, it will carry all the people’s sins upon itself into a desolate land.

In the same way, Jesus bore our sins and sicknesses for us when He went to the cross.

1 Peter 2:24

Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness — by whose stripes you were healed.

Numbers 21:4-9 (NLT)

Then the people of Israel set out from Mount Hor, taking the road to the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient with the long journey, (5) and they began to speak against God and Moses. “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?” they complained. “There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink. And we hate this horrible manna!”

(6) So the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people, and many were bitten and died. (7) Then the people came to Moses and cried out, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take away the snakes.” So Moses prayed for the people. (8) Then the LORD told him, “Make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to a pole. All who are bitten will live if they simply look at it!” (9) So Moses made a snake out of bronze and attached it to a pole. Then anyone who was bitten by a snake could look at the bronze snake and be healed!

The serpent on the pole represents Jesus becoming our sacrifice for both sin and sickness.

Numbers 21:9 (AMP)

And Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it on a pole, and if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of bronze [attentively, expectantly, with a steady and absorbing gaze], he lived.

John 3:14-15- NLT

And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.

If you will look away from the media, from the opinions of your relatives, from the doubt thoughts that come from looking at the news, Google , social media, or other information sources, and focus on the Word of God, healing will come.

Action points:

Faith is exercised the same way for both salvation and healing!

Mark 11:24 (AMP)

For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].

Romans 10:9-10- NLT

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.

HEALING SCRIPTURES

Unless otherwise noted, NKJV is used

Exodus 15:26

And said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

 

Exodus 23:25-26

“So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. (26) No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.

 

Deuteronomy 7:15

And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

 

Psalm 105:37

He also brought them out with silver and gold,

And there was none feeble among His tribes.

 

Psalm 107:20

He sent His word and healed them,

and delivered them from their destructions.

 

Proverbs 4:20-22

My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. (21) Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; (22) For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

 

Proverbs 4:20-22 (NIV)

My son, pay attention to what I say; listen closely to my words. (21) Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; (22) for they are life to those who find them and health to a man’s whole body.

 

Isaiah 53:3-4 (Amplified)

He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him. (4) Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]. [Matt 8:17.]

(5) But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.

 

Matthew 8:17 (NIV)

This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”

 

Acts 10:38 (NIV)

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

 

1 Peter 2:24-25

24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

 

Matt 21:22

And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.

 

Mark 11:23-24 (NLT)

I tell you the truth, you can say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart. (24) I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours.

 

John 15:7 (NLT)

But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!

 

John 16:23-24 (NLT)

At that time you won’t need to ask me for anything. I tell you the truth, you will ask the Father directly, and he will grant your request because you use my name. (24) You haven’t done this before. Ask, using my name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy.

 

1 John 3:22 (NLT)

And we will receive from him whatever we ask because we obey him and do the things that please him.

1 John 5:14-15 (NLT)

And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him.(15) And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for.

 

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

 

Psalm 84:11

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.

 

Psalm 89:34

My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.

 

Psalm 119:89

Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.

 

Psalm 138:2

I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.

 

Isaiah 40:8

The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.

 

Isaiah 40:8

The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.

Isaiah 55:11

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.