People spend billions every year to retain or restore health. No one wants to be sick. Yet, religion often tells us that God is either causing sickness or allowing it for a reason. But that’s not true—GOD WANTS YOU WELL.
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Thursday’s broadcast of the gospel truth
today I’m continuing a series on healing
that I started this week on Monday of
this week talking about healing and
basically I’ve just been trying to
establish that healing is valid for us
today that people are still sick today
and God has never changed he’s the same
he used to heal the sick in his day he
still heals the sick today if people
will just believe in receive but it’s
not God’s lack of willingness to heal
that’s the problem the problem has been
that most people have coped with the
sickness and the suffering and the
disease that we see and rather than say
it’s not God’s fault and they certainly
aren’t going to say well it’s because I
don’t know the Word of God and I don’t
know how to believe God and rather than
accept any responsibility themselves
they just say well this isn’t for us
today
either the non-religious have just never
been told this stuff and so they assume
by looking around that people don’t
receive miraculous healings today or if
it’s a religious person most of the
religious system today actually teaches
against healing and tells you that those
kind of things passed away with the
Apostles and when I start teaching on
healing you know Here I am trying to get
people well you think that nobody would
would complain about that that that
would be something that well you know if
there’s only one person that receives
what you say and they get well that’d be
good but I can guarantee I’ll get a lot
of criticism because there’s people that
don’t want to believe that God heals
because if it was true that it was God’s
will to heal well then what about all of
the people that are just sitting here
and suffering and they’re struggling and
people that die and they would say you
mean I could have believed God and we
could have received a miracle this
person didn’t have to die this person
didn’t have to be in hurt and pain all
of their life and rather than accept the
fact that maybe we
aren’t receiving everything and that
would mean that we have to change and
that we have to accept responsibility
and maybe we just can’t sit and watch
five or six hours worth of television a
day and we’re going to have to get into
the word and we’re going to have to
start grow it and rather than accept
that responsibility
most people just respond by saying well
those things don’t happen today or some
people will respond by saying well it
was God’s will for this person to go
like when my dad died at 12 years old
the pastor of the Baptist Church I went
to he came to me and I remember walking
and I knew when the pastor came over to
our house something was up and my mother
had been staying at the hospital for
weeks with my dad and so we were
actually staying with some other people
and when the pastor of the church walked
in I knew something was up and he says
well God needed your dad in heaven more
than you needed him God took him today
and they credited this to God that it
was God’s will and it wasn’t God’s will
that my father died at 54 years of age I
wasn’t God that killed him and yet see
this is a way that religion basically
copes with this and I tell you there’s a
lot of people when I start talking about
these things this really rubs a lot of
people the wrong way but I’m telling you
you’ve got to face some of these things
and realize that God wants you well that
healing is in Christ atonement that it’s
part of what was purchased for you it is
not just optional you know let me take
this very word Sozo this is a greek word
that was translated healed or made whole
and it is the basically the most
all-inclusive word in the New Testament
for salvation it’s translated salvation
saved hundreds of times in the New
Testament but this Greek word Sozo it’s
spelled s Ozio but it’s pronounced as if
it’s s o de and then zo is the way it’s
pronounced is so though and it literally
means to make hole to save heal to
protect or make hole whether it’s
literally our figurative it was used
made a hole in the Bible when the woman
with the issue of blood came to Jesus
and she said if I can touch but the hem
of His garment I shall be made whole and
she touched and in Matthew chapter 9
verse 20 to mark 534 Luke 848 this same
Greek word Sozo was translated made
whole in reference to healing also in
James chapter 5 in verse 14 it says is
any sick among you let him call for the
elders of the church and let them anoint
him with all praying over him in the
name of the Lord and the prayer of faith
shall save the sick the words save right
there of course is talking about healing
their body it’s not talking about that
you get your sins forgiven it’s applied
directly to healing and my point for
bringing this up is to say that if you
go to the Bible and just take this word
Sozo that is used hundreds of times to
refer to forgiveness of sins it also
refers to the healing of your body and
if you actually study out salvation in
the Bible and in the Greek it is not
broken up into just the forgiveness of
your sins and then you know there’s
other things like God could heal your
body God could bless you financially God
could help you emotionally but know all
of this is included in the atonement of
the Lord Jesus Christ now this is a very
very important point this is like the
first nail in the wall that I hang
things on when it comes to the subject
of healing you’ve got to know is it
God’s will or not you know one of the
catch phrases one of the default phrases
that religion uses a lot they just pray
and say Lord if it be your will do this
and they’ll refer back to Jesus and say
well he prayed Lord if it’s your will
let this cup pass from me that is not
what those scriptures saying I’m not
going to spend time I could literally
spend 30 minutes or 40 minutes teaching
on that but if you’ll go look it up he
didn’t just say if it’s your will and
not know what he said was Lord here’s
what I want nevertheless not my will but
your
we’ll be done he was saying I will
submit to your will and he knew what
God’s will was which was to go ahead and
be crucified and bear the sins of the
world and he submitted to it it was a
prayer of commitment and Submission not
a prayer like you just throw your prayer
out there and que sera sera whatever
will be will be
this way that people pray where they say
Lord if it be your will is wrong the
scripture says in James chapter one
verse five If any man lacks wisdom let
him ask of God that gives to all men
liberally and upbraideth that means he’s
not going to criticize he’s not going to
say well you stupid person you you’re in
this mess you caused it you just deal
with it I’m going to let you stew in
your own juice no that’s not 20 that God
is if you’re in a mess
yes you probably had something to do
with it maybe the enemy that caused this
problem but maybe we haven’t you know in
the area of healing maybe we haven’t
taken care of ourselves we haven’t
exercised we hadn’t eaten right we
hadn’t done everything right and yes we
probably have parked to play with this
but if you come to the Lord and say God
give me wisdom what do I need to do to
receive this even he’s not going to
upbraid you he’s not going to criticize
you and tell you it’s just your fault
you got to live with it so again James
1:5 If any man lacks wisdom let him ask
of God that gives to all men liberally
and upbraideth not and it shall be given
him but let him ask in faith nothing
wavering for he that wavers is like a
wave of the sea driven with the wind and
tossed let not that man think that he
shall receive anything of the Lord a
double minded man is unstable in all of
his weight now see right there it’s
saying that if you don’t know God’s will
then pray and get God’s will have him
tell you in other words this prayer of
Lord if it be your will and you just say
we’re just going to wait and see and if
it works it must have been God’s will
for them to be well if it doesn’t work
it must have been God’s will for them to
die that’s not right that’s not the way
that the scripture tells you to approach
things if you don’t know God’s will go
to James 1 5 through 8 and pray and get
wisdom and find out what God’s will is
and then according to first John chapter
5 verses 14 and 15 it says this is the
confidence that we
having him that if we ask anything
according to his will we know that he
hears us and if we know that he hears us
then whatsoever we ask we know we have
the petitions that we desired of it so
you have to pray according to God’s will
this prayer if God if it be your will
and you just leave it up to God you
aren’t going to receive you know I could
go through more scriptures I could make
this much more detailed and hopefully
convince people but I’m just not going
to spend a whole program or two days
programs trying to make this if you
would just be honest if you would think
you aren’t going to receive from God if
you don’t pursue the things of God it
doesn’t just automatically come to pass
you don’t get born again by saying well
Lord if it’s your will I’ll receive
salvation no you have to believe that
Jesus died for your sins you have to
confess with your mouth you have to
believe with your heart and you have to
pursue the things of God if you pursue
it you’ll get it if you don’t you want
and that’s true with healing this whole
attitude of well I know that God can
heal but we just don’t know if it is
God’s will well then you ought to go to
the Word of God and find out what does
the word say and like I’ve been using
this Greek word for salvation was also
translated made whole heal in a number
of different places and you can see that
salvation included the healing of your
body it wasn’t just forgiveness of sins
I think that one of the worst things
that’s happened in the body of Christ is
that over 2,000 years since Jesus
established the church we have
degenerated and today we have people
that say salvation is just about the
forgiveness of your sins Jesus came to
forgive the sins of the world well
certainly he came to forgive the sins of
the world and he did it but that’s not
all he did
he also took stripes on his back for
your physical healing he also became
poor so that you through his poverty
might be made rich 2nd Corinthians
chapter 8 verse 9 says that that’s a
part of what Jesus came to do he also
came to deliver you from the oppression
of the devil
matter of fact there’s an Old Testament
scripture says whoever calls on the name
of the Lord shall be delivered in the
New Testament in the book of Acts that
same scriptures quoting it says whoever
calls on the name of the Lord will be
saved and it shows you that part of
salvation is deliverance freedom from
the oppression of the devil and then you
put with that Acts chapter 10 verse 38
how that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
with the Holy Ghost and with power who
went about doing good healing all that
were oppressed of the devil
so salvation includes healing the
forgiveness of your sins the physical
deliverance from the oppression of the
devil and financial prosperity and
blessing and I think it’s one of the
greatest travis’s that ever happened
that people have come along and just
said our we’re only going to preach this
portion and we’re going to say that this
is what Jesus died to do because the
other things are controversial because
the other things if we preach ev’leen it
doesn’t seem like every single person
gets healed and we’re going to have to
deal with the problems here and talk
about why isn’t every person healed and
deal with this and so let’s just not
talk about that because it’s going to
offend somebody somebody’s going to be
hurt and so they just don’t talk about
healing they don’t talk about prosperity
they don’t talk about deliverance
because those things are things that you
know not everybody agrees on so let’s
just preach one portion of it I tell you
that’s wrong if you could imagine that
first if somehow if I was God and if I
took one of my sons and crucified him
and saw him suffer and it produced not
only the forgiveness of your sins if it
was going to stop the the hatred between
us and it was going to remove all of the
problems and bring us back into unity
well that would be good but if also I
had him bear stripes and be brutalized
like some of you saw that movie The
Passion of the Christ and I don’t even
believe that that fully Illustrated but
it was brutal and you if you can picture
that in your mind’s eye and see what it
was like when gee
this was physically beating and you do
that to your own son so that you could
provide a healing for people and then it
says in second Corinthians 8 that Jesus
became poor so that we through his
poverty might be made rich and of course
this is a relative statement Jesus of
course was God in heaven with all of the
glory in the world in the universe and
everything and he left that to become a
man and he walked down here and he had
to work and do things to make a living
he was a carpenter with his father
Joseph and you know in relative terms
Jesus became poor so that we through his
poverty might be made rich and if I was
to do that for you and do not only
sacrifice my sons just to stop the
hostility but then also to heal your
body and to deliver you and to prosper
you and if I did all of these things and
went to all of this effort and if you
came and said well I appreciate what
you’ve done but you know what I’m only
going to receive one-fourth of this I
really appreciate the fact that now we
aren’t going to be at odds with each
other anymore and so now the hostility
is gone and thank you but these other
things they just aren’t important to me
I’m not going to receive those I tell
you what that wouldn’t bless me it would
make me feel like well why did I pay
this price why did I go to this effort
my son suffered all of these things and
you’re only going to receive one-fourth
I’m just pick and choose what you think
is important
I wouldn’t Please Me I guarantee you if
if man if I was a good thing that I’m
not God I think I might turn us all into
a pile of ashes and just blast them but
praise God he’s bigger than that He
loves us even though we haven’t received
everything that he’s provided for us but
I tell you what I don’t believe it
pleases God I don’t believe that he is
pleased with the way that we are just
picking and choosing and saying well
we’ll receive the forgiveness of sins
but the healing of our body we believe
you could do that but I’m not going to
accept that as being something that you
provided when the Bible very clearly
states that by the stripes of Jesus we
were healed it was done let me just use
some scriptures over here Isaiah chapter
53 I’ve used these verses often in
teaching on different things like the
war is over but breaking right into the
midst of this it says in verse 3 he is
despised and rejected of men a man of
sorrows and acquainted with grief and we
hid as it were our faces from him he was
despised and we esteemed him not
surely he hath borne our griefs and
carried our sorrows Jesus didn’t just
die for the forgiveness of our sins but
he died to set us free from grief and
sorrow surely bore our griefs and our
sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken
smitten of God and afflicted but he was
wounded for our transgressions he was
bruised for our iniquities the
chastisement of our peace was upon him
and with His stripes we are healed again
I made reference to this earlier in the
week but the church has not preached
healing physical healing they have
discredited and they’ve taken all of the
verses in the Bible that talk about
physical healing and they have
spiritualize them to the point that
people don’t even recognize that this is
talking about physical healing there’s a
lot of people I read this verse before
the Lord really changed my life and I
had had it explained so many times that
I just automatically defaulted to
thinking that this was talking about
well he healed me emotionally he set me
free from my sin in my sense of guilt
and condemnation and that there is a
proper place for that yes God does heal
us emotionally but this isn’t talking
about just limited to emotional
spiritual healing this is talking about
the physical healing of our bodies over
here in Matthew chapter 8 is an instance
where Jesus was ministering healing to
people and they brought all of the sick
he healed Peters mother-in-law which you
know what you can’t have a mother-in-law
if you don’t have a wife so for those
who believe that Peter was the first
pope and never got married that kind of
kills that doctrine right there he
healed Peters mother-in-law and then
because of all of these healings people
begin to come from every
we’re and it says in Matthew chapter 8
and in verse 16 it says when even was
come they brought unto Him many that
were possessed with devils and he cast
out the spirit with his word and healed
all that were sick that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the
prophet saying himself took our
infirmities and bare our sicknesses
that’s a quotation from Isaiah chapter
53 verse 4 we just read that and over in
isaiah 53:4 it says surely he hath borne
our griefs and carried our sorrows when
that was quoted by Matthew in the New
Testament it was quoted this way it says
that this was fulfilled by Isaiah the
prophet saying himself took our
infirmities and bare our sicknesses and
again I could go back into the Hebrew
words from Isaiah chapter 53 verse 4 and
show you that the word sorrows and grief
literally are talking about the sorrows
and griefs associated with physical
sickness and disease and it was
interpreted that way you don’t have to
know the Greek or the Hebrew you could
just take the Word of God and if you
keep reading the Word of God will be a
commentary on itself and it will explain
the word and so when this verse was
quoted in the New Testament the words
sickness and disease were substituted
for the word sorrows and grief in the
Old Testament showing you that this
isn’t just spiritual eyes it’s not just
talking about spiritual emotional
healing Jesus died and by His stripes
you are healed physically that’s what
these verses are saying and this
scripture under the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit Matthew said this is the
fulfillment the physical healing of
these bodies it didn’t talk about the
people being born again it didn’t talk
about them getting their sins forgiven
in this context he was talking about
people being healed and it says that
this physical healing of their bodies
was the fulfillment of the old testament
passage that says he bore our sorrows
and griefs here it says that he bore our
sicknesses and our diseases it’s talking
about physical healing over in 1st Peter
chapter 2
and verse 24 it says who his own self
bare our sins in his own body on the
tree that we being dead to sins should
live unto righteousness by whose stripes
you were healed here again is talking
about physical healing and notice this
that it couples the forgiveness of your
sins in the first part of that verse it
says who his own self bare our sins in
his own body on the tree that we being
dead to sins should live unto
righteousness by whose stripes you were
healed it talks about the forgiveness of
your sins and the healing of your body
in the exact same verse here’s another
passage of scripture it goes right along
with that is Psalms 103 verses 1 through
3 it says bless the Lord O my soul and
all that is within me bless His Holy
Name bless the Lord O my soul and forget
not all his benefits who forgiveth all
thine iniquities who healeth all thy
diseases in the exact same verse it
talks about the forgiveness of your sins
and the healing of your bodies the point
that I’m trying to get across is that
healing is for us healing is God’s will
God wants you well this is not right the
way that the church has said oh well the
only thing that is guaranteed the only
thing that Jesus really came to do for
every person and that any person can
receive is the forgiveness of your sins
no that’s wrong
the very greek word Sozo that was
translated salvation was also translated
made whole in reference to healing it
was also talking about that you would be
healed if the elders prayed a prayer of
faith over you and anointed you with all
you would be healed of that disease that
very Greek word that is talking about
salvation includes healing here I’ve
given you examples of where healing is
used in the same verse in Psalms 103
verse 3 in 1st Peter chapter 2 verse 24
I’ve used the scripture in Matthew
chapter 8 verse 17 that quotes the Old
Testament passage from Isaiah chapter 53
verse 4 and it substitutes the words and
invitees and diseases for sorrows and
griefs and shows that when it says by
His stripes you are healed it is talking
about the physical healing of your body
you know the very prayer that we call
the Lord’s Prayer where Jesus taught us
how to pray he says your will be done on
earth as it is in heaven and it’s very
clear in Scripture in the book of
Revelation that in heaven there’s no
more sorrow no more sickness no more
crime no more disease God wants to set
you free it is God’s will for you to be
well and I know that there are many of
you that know God could do it but you
have no confidence that God really wants
you well many of you think that God is
punishing you that you deserve
everything that you’re getting and you
may have done things wrong that allowed
the devil to come against you but I’m
telling you God does not want you to
suffer God does not want you to limp
through life with some deformity or some
pain or some problem that just
incapacitates you the rest of your life
it is God’s will for you to be well God
wants you well that is God’s will and
that’s what we’re talking about and I
believe that this is going to help you
to receive God’s healing power in your
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gospel truth Bethsaida was one of the
two cities that Jesus said was so full
of unbelief that it was going to be
worse on them than it was on the cities
of sodom and gomorrah and if you couple
this together with what I was saying in
mark chapter 6 where Jesus could do no
mighty work because of their unbelief
then you see that the reason I believe
he took the men by the hand and led him
out of the town was because of all of
the unbelief of those people it would
have affected him from receiving and
even though he got the man out of the
town he hadn’t gotten all the town out
of the man
you