We need to settle the fact that God has
provided healing along with forgiveness
in His Atonement. That He wants every
person to be healed and live healthy all
their lives.

As long as we waver, we will not receive
anything according to James 1:6-7,
"But let him ask in faith, nothing waver-
ing, For he that wavereth is like a wave
of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
For let not that man think that he shall
receive any thing of the Lord."

Healing like salvation is a gift, already
paid for. All we need to do is believe it
and receive it as ours as children of God
because it belongs to us.

Sometimes believers make the mistakes of
thinking that if God wants them to have His
promises of salvation, healing, prosperity,
etc; that God will just give them to them, if
they don't get them, God must not want
them to have it.

We need to get into the Word of God and
find out what belongs to us. If it is promised
to us, or if it is provided for us in His Word,
then it is His will for us to ask and believe
we receive it.

God has laid on Jesus our sicknesses and
our diseases; He bor them, He was ' stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted' with ours; so
Satan has no right to put on us what God
has put on Jesus.

Also what right would God have to put our
sickness on Jesus if He wanted us to keep
them.

There is no need for both Jesus and us to
bear them. Because He has bore them, we
ARE FREE!

Our thinking has to be in line with the Word
of God. 1 Peter 2:24 says ". . .by whose stripes
ye were healed."

Notice that it say "were" not "going to be." If
we believe what the bible says, then we will
believe that "we ARE healed".

Here Peter was looking back at the cross and
he accepted that.

When people are told that they don't have to
pray in order to be healed, they look amazed.

But many fail to receive healing because they
have based their faith on prayer instead of
God's Word.

They expect prayer to do what God's Word
will do for them.

Praying is only necessary if it is based on the
promises in God's Word.

What Jesus did for us means, 'One bearing
another's load.' As our substitute He bore
our sins and our sicknesses.

That is why divine healing belongs to every
child of God. We don't need to question God's
will about it when we know this.

Since He bore our sicknesses and carried our
pains, there's no need for both of us to bear
them.

Merry Christmas

In Isaiah 53:4 the Hebrew word for 'borne'
means to remove to a distance.

The Hebrew word for 'carried' means to
assume as a heavy burden.

The two words are the same as those used
in the 11th and 12th verses regarding His
bearing our sins; "He shall bear their iniq-
uities. . . .and he bare the sin of many. . . ."

They show that He actually took on Himself
the burden of our sin nature. So it is equally
true that He actually took on Himself our
sicknesses and pains. They mean a complete
removal.

Just as that goat bore the sins of Israel, the
Word of God teaches that Jesus bore our
sins and our sicknesses.

Sin and sickness have passed from us to
Jesus, on the cross, and salvation and health
have passed from Him to us!

The word "borne" is a Levitical word, and it
is applied to the scapegoat that bore the sins
of the people.

It is the same Hebrew word used in Leviticus
16:22 ". . . .the goat shall bear upon him all
their iniquities. . ."

The high priest laid his hands upon this goat,
and by faith gave or transferred, to that goat
the sins and the iniquities of Israel.

Then the goat was taken out, "unto a land
not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in
the wilderness."

If Jesus has borne our sicknesses - and Isaiah
53:4 says He has - there is no reason for us to
bear them.

Looking up the word translated "borne" in this
text, in the original Hebrew it means to "lift up,
to bear away, to convey, or to remove to a dis-
tance."

So when the bible says, "He hath borne our
sicknesses," it means that He has borne them
away, or removed them to a distance.

When the

woman with

the issue of

blood
touched

Jesus and

He felt this

power go
out of Him

he said,

". . .who touched my
clothes? And his disciples said unto him,
Thou seest the multitude thronging thee,
and sayest thou, Who touched me?"

There wasn't any way of telling how many
people had touched Him just to see if any
thing would happen.

". . .he looked round about to see her that
had done this thing. But the woman fear-
ing and trembling, knowing what was
done in her, come and fell down befor him,
and told him all the truth. And he said to
her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee
whole. . ." Mark 5:24-34 Jesus said her
faith did it. But the others who touched
Him received nothing because there was
not faith.

By laying on of hands, God's healing power is
transmitted to those that are sick, because of
the anointing of that power.

This power doesn't work automatically. We
can't transfer that healing power to whomever
we want to. Jesus couldn't. Jesus said unto
them, "A prophet is not without honour, but
in his own country, and among his own kin,
and in his own house." Mark 6:4

Everyone who has been baptized in the Holy
Spirit has an anointing of the Spirit in them.

1John 2:27 "But the anointing which ye have
received of him abideth in you. . . ." We have
the right to lay hands, in faith, on anyone, if
they release their faith and we can expect
them to be healed.

Someone said, "When you laid hands on me
I felt the power of God. I felt alright for two
or three days, but now every symptom has
come back.

There was no faith on the part of the person
to give action to that power. They knew it was
there; they felt God's healing power through
out their body, but they didn't act on the Word
of God.

There are reasons why the manifestation
isn't always instant.

One is that healing comes in steps. . . .
the degree that healing was ministered;
the degree of the person's faith.

Some people have looked at their watches
when hands have been laid on them. Even
if nothing physical happens, they believe
they received then and there at that time.

There wasn't any manifestation at that
moment, but they simply look at their
watch and say "That's it! Praise God, I
accept my healing now."

Then the manifestation comes.

People have been filled with the Holy Spirit
the same way. They will come to meetings to
be filled with the Holy Spirit, but when hands
are laid on them they don't receive.

But they keep coming back and their faith is
built up by listening to the Word taught to
them and then they receive.

Many times doctors will tell people that they
are going to put them in the hospital for
several days to build them up for an operation.

But what if a man of God told them, "I want
you to stay in the services several days to get
built up for God to perform their healing."
They would get mad!

If they would stay under the sound of the
Word of God, it would have an effect on them,
and the Spirit of God could heal them.

"And there sat a

certain man at

Lystra,
impotent in his

feet, being crippled

from his mother's

womb, who never

had walked:
The same heard

Paul speak: who

stedfastly
beholding him, and perceiving that he
had faith to be healed, Said with a loud
voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he
leaped and walked" Acts 14:8-10

Full Gospel Churches line people up and lay
hands on them. Some have gotten healed
and some haven't. Some have been through
every line in the country.

People who are chronic seekers for healing
and the baptism of the Holy Spirit are best
to attend Bible Classes on the blessing that
they are seeking.

Faith comes by hearing the Word of God.

One time Jesus

walked up to the

pool of

Bethesada, and

there were five

porches around

the pool full of

sick people.

An angel came

down from

heaven every so

often and troubled the water, and the

first one into the water got healed.

Jesus said to one man, ". . . wilt thou be

made whole? The impotent man answered

him, Sir, I have no man when the water is

troubled, to put me into the pool: but while

I am coming, another steppeth down before

me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy

bed, and walk. And immediately the man

was made whole, and took up his bed, and

walk. . . ." John 5:6-9.

Even though many people were sick and

crowded around that pool, he was the only

one who got healed by Jesus or we would

have been told of the others. They were too

busy looking at the pool for their healing,

that they missed the healer.

Peter and John

went through

the gate that

was called

Beautiful, just

a few days after

Jesus had been

there.

A man who had

been crippled

from birth

lay begging

alms.

The Bible says he was carried there every

day. It hadn't been too many days since

He, Jesus, had been through the same

gate.

Apparently this man wasn't believing then

that Jesus could heal him. But now when

Peter and John came through and told him

to arise and walk in the name of Jesus, he

did.

The reason we are not always successful in
a lot of our laying on of hands is because we
make it a practice without the preaching and
teaching of God's Word about it.

Too many times in our churches the laying
on of hands become simply a form, a ritual,
or empty formality. We have hands laid on
us, but nothing happens.

We seem to have the idea that Jesus went
around laying hands on everyone but He
didn't.

Paul wrote a letter to the churches in Galatia.
He said, "He therefore that ministereth to you
the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you,
doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the
hearing of faith?"

Of course, the answer was, by the hearing of
faith.

He said that the miracles which were done
among them, and the Holy Spirit that was
ministered was done by the hearing of faith.

There is more to laying on of hands than
just for healing.

The New Testament church laid hands on
men who were ordained into the ministry.
They laid hands on the seven deacons
appointed to serve tables. They also laid
hands on believers to be filled with the
Holy Spirit. (Acts 8:17)

Laying on of hands is one of the principles
of the doctrine of Christ. In Hebrews 6:1,2
"Therefore leaving the principles of the
doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfect-
ion: not laying again the foundation of
repentance from dead works, and of faith
toward God. Of the doctrine of baptisms,
and of laying on of hands, and of resurrec-
tion of the dead, and of eternal judgment."

God has provided some means to help our
faith to receive healing. One of these methods
is the laying on of hands. ". . . . .They shall lay
hands on the sick, and they shall recover"
Mark 16:18.

Laying on of hands will not heal. If it did then
there would have been no need for God to
lay our sicknesses on Jesus. He could have
told us just to lay hands on one another and
we would be healed.

The laying on of hands help us to release our
faith in the Word of God.

The verses in Isaiah 53 and Matthew 8 deal
with the disease problem that's in the world.

If they don't, then we can't preach salvation
from these chapters.

How can we say that part of it belongs to us
but the other part doesn't.

Jesus Christ provided deliverance from sin
and sickness for us when He purchased our
redemption/atonement at Calvary!

The Word of God states that, "He hath made
him to be sin, who knew no sin; that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him."

Not only did God make Him who knew no sin
to be sin, but He made Him who knew no
sickness to be sick.

He made Him sick with our sicknesses so we
might be perfectly well in Christ.

We believe that God laid our sins on Jesus,
and we don't have to bear them. We also
believe that He laid our sicknesses on Jesus.

It can be said that God laid our sicknesses on
Jesus and made Him sick with our diseases.

Healing belongs to us! "Surely he hath borne
our sicknesses, and carried our pains. . . . . "
God laid our sicknessess and pains on Jesus
and He bore them. That means that the pains
and afflictions we may suffer were laid on Him.

Actually He bore them just like He bore our
sins. "He was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastise-
ment of our peace was upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed."

God works by our faith. He gives us His Word
so we can have faith. Then He expects us to
come according to the Word and believe it.
Then He honors His Word.

When we don't believe it, when we don't act on
it, then He doesn't have anything to honor.

Someone might say, "God may just heal
some of those to prove it is real." Then
why doesn't He just save some of them
to prove it is real. Or why doesn't He just
fill some of them with the Holy Spirit to
prove that the baptism of the Holy Spirit
is real.

God doesn't work that way!

We can't pray with someone who is lost,
and get them saved without their believing
in salvation or Jesus. We can pray from
here and back and never get them saved.

We can't pray with someone to receive
the baptism of the Holy Spirit without
them believing in it.

So then, how can we pray for someone
and get them healed when they don't
know anything about healing!

People are not always ready to be prayed
for. When we go ahead and pray for them,
and nothing happens, many times we push
them further away from God.

We should give them an opportunity to
hear the Word of God taught on the matter
before we pray for them.

Then they can receive, by faith, what they
need from God.

If we can believe that God laid our iniquities
on Jesus, and because He laid our iniquities
on Him that there is salvation for us; then
we can also believe that He laid our sicknesses
and diseases on Jesus.

We can believe for our salvations and our heal-
ings.

Every church believes the part of Isaiah 53:6
". . . .the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all."

Why not believe the rest of the chapter too?
It continues "he hath borne our sicknesses,
and carried our pains" also.

A Hebrew scholar named Dr Robert Young,
the author of Young's Analytical Concordance,
in his Literal Translation of the Bible has
translated this passage Isaiah 53:3-6,10,12 as:
"He is despised and left of men. A man of pains
and acquainted with sickness. And as one
hiding the face from us, He is despised and we
esteemed him not. Surely our sicknesses he
hath borne, And our pains he hath carried
them, And we, we have esteemed him plagued,
smitten of God and afflicted. And he is pierced
for our transgressions. Bruised for our
iniquities. The chastisement of our peace is
upon him and by his bruise their is healing
to us. All of us like sheep have wandered, each
to his own way we have turned. And Jehovah
hath caused to meet on him, The punishment
of us all. . .And Jehovah hath delighted to
bruise him, He hath made him sick. . .With
transgressors he was numbered, And he the
sin of many hath borne, And for transgressors
in intercedeth"

Matthew 8:17 says, "That it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by Esaias [Isaiah] the
prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities,
and bare our sicknesses."

Matthew is quoting Isaiah 53:4. The correct
translation is "Surely he hath borne our sick-
nesses, and carried our pains," for as Matthew
said, "Himself took our infirmities, and bare
our sicknesses."

Chapter 53 of Isaish holds the key to our
atonement/redemption spiritually and
physically.

The fourth verse in Hebrew reads, "Surely
he hath borne our sicknesses and carried
our pains."

In the tenth verse the KJV reads, "yet it
pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath
put him to grief. . . " Again that is the word
for 'sick'. The Hebrew literally says, "He
hath made him sick."

"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 [Hebrew word
sicknesses], and carried our sorrows [pains]:
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 chastise-
ment of our peace was upon him; and with
his stripes we are healed."
Isaiah 53:3-5

We need to believe in supernatural mani-
festations. We need to expect them. But
in the meantime we must preach God's Word,
and believers should continue to feed on His
Word concerning divine healing to keep their
faith strong.

Healing belongs to us!

We must endeavor to help sick people to
understand that God wants them healed
one way or the other.

Either by supernatural manifestations of
the Spirit of God or by getting the Word into
them so that their faith will rise up in their
hearts.

Then when hands are laid on them and they
are prayed for; they can receive their healing
through combined faith.

Healing belongs to every born-again believer.

It isn't a matter of prayer or spiritual gifts. It
belongs to us because the Lord Jesus provided
it as part of the atonement/our redemption.

He has saved us from sin, sickness and dis-
ease and all the works of the devil.

We should stay open for manifestations of
the Spirit of God, but we don't have to wait
for a supernatural manifestation to be
delivered from anything that is wrong with
us.

In Chapter 4 of Luke, Jesus said that when
there was a great famine in the land during
Elijah's time; there were many widows in
the Israel.

"But unto none of them was Elias sent, save
unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman
that was a widow" [vs 26].

Even though Elijah had God's power in his
life, he couldn't make it work for everybody.
But because he was sent to this particular
widow's house, there was a continuous
miracle. The meal barrel never emptied, it
kept giving out meal and the cruse of oil
never stopped.

In Matthew 13:58 we learn why Jesus couldn't
heal on some occasions.

"And he did not many mighty work there
because of their unbelief."

Their unbelief hindered Him.

Jesus didn't heal people just to prove that
He was God. He was not ministering as the
Son of God. He was ministering as a prophet
of God, anointed with the Holy Spirit.

He said in Luke 4:24 "Verily I say unto you,
no prophet is accepted in his own country."
He called Himself a prophet.

The Amplified New Testament says, "He
laid His hands on a few sickly people."
They were just sickly, nothing like being
blind, deaf, crippled or palsied.

W.E. Vine's Expository Dictionary of New
Testament Words also brings out the fact
that the Greek reads, "He laid His hands
on a few sick folk with minor ailments and
healed them."

Mark 6:5 "And he [Jesus] could there [Nazareth]
do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands
upon a few sick folk, and healed them".

Notice that Mark didn't say that He wouldn't do
any mighty work there, he said Jesus couldn't.

Many of us have been taught that the only
reason Jesus healed was to prove His deity.

If that was the case, He didn't prove it in the
city of Nazareth, because He could never do
any mighty work there because of their unbelief.

People don't operate these supernatural gifts,
they are manifested through them.

These gifts will not work any time we want
them too! We just have to stay open for them
to manifest as the Spirit of God wills.

We need to tell the difference between heal-
ings received through supernatural gifts or
manifestations, and those that are received
by exercising faith in God's Word only.

Gifts of healings and supernatural manifest-
ations are given mainly to advertise the Gospel
and the gain the attention of those who are not
in the Church!

These supernatural manifestations of healing
are seen either among sinners or denomina-
tional people who have not heard divine heal-
ing taught.

Seldom do they work for Full Gospel people.
The believers should be healed by releasing
their faith in the Word of God.

The supernatural gifts are not always in
operation.

Many times Christians have been healed
by a special manifestation, then the next
time they are sick, instead of believing
God's Word, they expect to be healed again
in the same way, and they are disappointed
when they're not.

Also much has been placed on the gifts of
healing which are among the gifts of the
Spirit mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10.

There will be manifestations of the super-
natural gifts where people preach them,
teach them, believe in them, and yield to
the Spirit of God.

If we do not know what God's Word says,
we cannot release our faith in it.

Then we just release our faith in the laying
on of hands or the anointing of oil and are
disappointed when these won't work.

Much has been taught on the laying on of
hands; on the anointing of oil; and praying
for the sick. They will not heal!

These are methods (or points of contact)
used to help people to release their faith
in God's Word. It will heal!

Healing belongs to the born-again believers!

"By His stripes ye were healed" 1 Peter 2:24

Our right to healing has been expanded in
the authority of Jesus Name.

Today He is watching over His Word to
confirm it, just as He confirmed it in the
days of the early christians Mark 16:20:
"And they went forth, and preached every
where, the Lord working with them, and
confirming the word with signs following."

The double blessing ministry which began
with Jesus, continued with the apostles and
is now with the christians today wherever
they dare to act on His Word. . . .!

The disciples preached a complete redemp-
tion, the new birth of the spirit and healing
for the body!

The ministry of the disciples, guided by the
Holy Spirit, had the same double blessing
ministry that Jesus Christ had.

Jesus bore our diseases so that we wouldn't
have to bear them.

The provision for our healing is this: "In My
Name. . . . . .they shall lay hands on the sick
and they shall recover."

Both promises hang on the word "believing".

The miraculous promises following, belong
to them that believe, or the 'believing ones'
which is a literal translation.

We have held strong to the first promise,
because we know how to use it, and we have
tossed away the second part because we
didn't know how to use it.

The other part of the commission is, Mark
16:17 "And these signs shall follow them that
believe"

The Greek word 'believe' is the same as the
word for 'believeth' in verse 16.

No one has the right to separate these words
of Jesus; telling us that the first words in
verse 16 are for us but that the words in verse 17
were only for the disciples and the early believers.

The Great Commission is to meet our
spiritual need, Mark 16:16, "He that believeth
and is baptized, shall be saved."

Everyone of us can apply this part of the
commission to ourselves; teaching that
faith in Christ is necessary for salvation and
that unbelief excludes us from it.

In Mark chapter 16, Jesus gives His disciples
the Great Commission.

He is going to depart to be with the Father.
He will be seated at the Father's right hand.

Now Jesus' disciples are going to take His
place here on earth. They are to continue
His ministry. They will continue to do what
He was doing before He left.

So Jesus reveals that His ministry of healing
and salvation would be carried on by His
followers.

Jesus bore our 'spiritual death' so we may
have life. In His Word He made provision
for our salvation.

He bore our diseases and in His Word He
made provision for our healing.

Jesus' ministry here on earth affected our
spirits and our bodies.

His death bore our sins and sicknesses.

He is the same today! His ministry of
blessing our spirits and bodies continued
from His earthly ministry up to today.

By His bruising, we are healed from the law
of sickness and disease!

When Jesus brought the works of Satan to
nought [totally destroyed]; He also brought
sickness and disease to nought [totally des-
troyed].

Satan, who had the authority in the realm
of 'spiritual death' has been brought to
nought [zero, nothing] totally destroyed.

Hebrews 2:14 "Forasmuch then as the
children are partakers of flesh and blood,
he also himself likewise took part of the same;
that through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, that is, the devil;"

In Jesus' ministry, the Father revealed that
it was His will to heal man physically. Jesus
went about healing all manner of sickness
and disease because the Father was with Him.

The Father has made Jesus to be our sin-
bearer and our sickness-bearer.

He who knew no sin was made sin for us
and He who knew no sickness was made
sickness for us.

Jesus Christ bore our sins and the penalty
that we might be free from sin, its power,
and its judgment.

Upon the same grounds He bore our diseases
and pains. He carried them that we might be
set free, that we need not bear them.

Isaiah 53:10 reads in the Hebrew, "Yet
Jehovah hath delighted to bruise Him; He
hath made Him sick."

God made Jesus sin with our sins, and sick
with our sicknesses. He delighted to do it
because of one reason. . . it meant healing
for us!

When Jesus arose from the dead, the body of
sin, of 'spiritual death' had been destroyed.

Romans 6:6
"Knowing this, that our old man is crucified
with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,
that henceforth we should not serve sin."

Sin has lost its power and so has disease!

Jesus could not be raised from the dead until
we were declared righteous by God.

"Who was delivered for our offences, and was
raised again for our justification."
Romans 4:25

Sense Knowledge has tried to refuse this,
but the truth is that God laid our diseases
and our sins on Jesus!

Jesus was made sick with our diseases. He
was made sin with our sins.

In the Father's mind, and in the mind of
Jesus, and according to the Word, our
diseases and sins were bore by the Savior.

If they were bore by Him, then it is wrong
for us to bear them.

God made Him [Jesus] sick, when He [God]
made His [Jesus} soul an offering for sin.

Literal translation: "disease and sicknesses"
not griefs and sorrows.

God not only laid upon Jesus our iniquites
[our sins] but also our diseases.

"Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried
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 chastise-
ment of our peace was upon him; and with
his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have
turned every one to his own way; and the
LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all."
Isaiah 53:4-6

God shows us through the prophets, Himself
dealing with sin and sickness.

Literally it reads, "He was despised, and
rejected of men; a man of pains, and
acquainted with sickness."

If our redemption from 'spiritual death' is
to be a complete redemption, it must be a
redemption from disease as well as from sin.

God realized this, and He has plainly shown
us in His Word that He has made provision
for the healings of our bodies.

Study carefully this in Romans 5:12-21

"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:
(For until the law sin was in the world: but
sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to
Moses, even over them that had not sinned
after the similitude of Adam's transgression,
who is the figure of him that was to come.
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift.
For if through the offence of one many be
dead, much more the grace of God, and the
gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus
Christ, hath abounded unto many.
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is
the gift: for the judgment was by one to
condemnation, but the free gift is of many
offences unto justification.
For if by one man's offence death reigned
by one; much more they which receive
abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness shall reign in life by one,
Jesus Christ.)
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment
came upon all men to condemnation; even
so by the righteousness of one the free gift
came upon all men unto justification of life.
For as by one man's disobedience many
were made sinners, so by the obedience of
one shall many be made righteous.
Moreover the law entered, that the offence
might abound. But where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound:
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even
so might grace reign through righteousness
unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord."

"Forasmuch then as the children are par-
takers of flesh and blood, he also himself
likewise took part of the same; that
through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, that is, the devil;"
Hebrews 2:14

He came to completely redeem man from
the effects of Adam's sin by identifying
Himself with them.

1 John 3:8 "For this purpose the Son of God
was manifested, that he might destroy the
works of the devil."

Jesus came to destroy what Satan had done
to man when he became their spiritual father
because of Adams sin.

He came to bring Satan to nought [zip, zero]
in his power over man.

When the scribes questioned Jesus about
His statement, He answered, "Which is
easier, to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy
sins are forgiven; or to say, Arise, and
take up thy bed, and walk?"

Really He was saying, "What's the differ-
ence, to forgive sins which are the results
of Spiritual Death in a man's spirit, or to
heal the disease of his physical body, which
is the result also of the same Spiritual death."

Either way Jesus was dealing with bondage
of man to Satan.

"And again he entered into Capernaum after
some days; and it was noised that he was in
the house.
And straightway many were gathered together,
insomuch that there was no room to receive
them, no, not so much as about the door: and
he preached the word unto them.
And they come unto him, bringing one sick of
the palsy, which was borne of four.
And when they could not come nigh unto him
for the press, they uncovered the roof where
he was:


and when
they had
broken it
up, they
let down
the bed
wherein
the sick
of the
palsy
lay.


When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto
the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be
forgiven thee.
But there were certain of the scribes sitting
there, and reasoning in their hearts,
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies?
who can forgive sins but God only?
And immediately when Jesus perceived in
his spirit that they so reasoned within
themselves, he said unto them, Why reason
ye these things in your hearts?
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?
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,)
I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed,
and go thy way into thine house.
And immediately he arose, took up the bed,
and went forth before them all; insomuch
that they were all amazed, and glorified
God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
And he went forth again by the sea side; and
all the multitude resorted unto him, and he
taught them."
Mark 2:1-13

His answer was, Ought not this woman,
whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eight-
een years, to have been loosed from this
bond on the day of the Sabbath?

He made it clear that Satan was the cause
of the infirmity that had bound her body.

Jesus' position regarding disease is seen in
Luke 13:10-17
"And he was teaching in one of the synago-
gues on the sabbath.
And, behold, there was a woman which had
a spirit
of
infirmity
eighteen
years,
and was
bowed
together,
and could
in no wise
lift up
herself.








And when Jesus saw her, he called her to
him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art
loosed from thine infirmity.
And he laid his hands on her: and immed-
iately she was made straight, and glorified
God.
And the ruler of the synagogue answered
with indignation, because that Jesus had
healed on the sabbath day, and said unto
the people, There are six days in which men
ought to work: in them therefore come and
be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
The Lord then answered him, and said,
Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you
on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from
the stall, and lead him away to watering?
And ought not this woman, being a
daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath
bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed
from this bond on the sabbath day?
And when he had said these things, all his
adversaries were ashamed: and all the
people rejoiced for all the glorious things
that were done by him."
Luke 13:10-17

Christ's ministry proclaimed healings and
blessings to the physical part of man's nature,
as well as to the spiritual.

If sickness and disease was in God's plan,
then Jesus' ministry would have been contrary
to the Father's will.

He was the Father's will revealed to man!

He revealed that it was the Father's will to break
the power of sickness and disease over man's
body and set him free from pain and suffering.

Healing had a major place in Jesus' ministry.
Throughout His ministry He delivered all
those who were oppressed by Satan.

These deliverances included the healing of
their physical bodies.

If disease didn't come from Satan, it must
have had a place in God's plan for man.
But Matthew 8:16-17 says:
"When the even was come, they brought
unto him many that were possessed with
devils: and he cast out the spirits with his
word, and healed all that were sick:
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken
by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took
our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."

And Mark 1:32-34:
"And at even, when the sun did set, they
brought unto him all that were diseased,
and them that were possessed with devils.
And all the city was gathered together at
the door.
And he healed many that were sick of
divers diseases, and cast out many devils;
and suffered not the devils to speak,
because they knew him. "

God looks upon disease as He looks upon sin.

Christ came to reveal the Father/God, to make
known His attitude toward man. By following
the life of Jesus Christ we learn God's attitude
towards sickness and disease.

Jesus went about doing good and healing all
who were oppression of the Devil. It was God's
will because Jesus came to do the will of the
Father!

Healing is a part of man's Atonement (his
Redemption) in Christ.

Healing belongs to every child of God.

There is no need to question if it God's will
to be healed. It is in the Atonement!

It is God's will.

When we ask God to save our souls, it is
no greater a miracle than when we ask Him
to heal our bodies, or to answer any request,
no matter how big or small it might be.

An act of healing where God comes into
immediate contact with man's physical
body is just as much a miracle as the New
Birth, where God comes into immediate
contact with the spirit of man, giving to
him His own nature.

Whenever God comes into immediate
contact with men a miracle takes place.

Every answer to prayer, regardless of its
importance, and every New Birth is a
miracle!

A miracle, according to Webster, is an act
or happening in the material or physical
sphere that apparently departs from the laws
of nature or goes beyond what is known
concerning these laws.

It is really an intervention of God into the
realm of natural laws, or the realm of human
activity. It is God coming upon the scene.

Healing for the body is a legal right of every
child of God, and he receives healing for his
physical body on the same grounds that he
receives forgiveness of sin for his spirit!

More words of healing . . . .

In Mark 11:24, Jesus tells us exactly what
He requires for us to receive any of His
blessings and promises. "What things
soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe
that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

We are to believe we receive when we pray,
then we shall have them!

God's word, to each of us, concerning our
healing is just as clear and definite as it was
to each of those He healed in the Bible.

"For we are made partakers. . . .if we hold
the beginning of our confidence steadfast
to the end" Hebrews 3:14

Hebrews 10:35-36, God says to all whose
faith is based on His Word, "Cast not
therefore away your confidence, which
hath great recompense of reward, for ye
have need of patience that, after ye have
done the will of God, ye might receive the
promise."

"Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but
the LORD delivers him out of them all."
Psalm 34:19

Not just some but all!

If we put our faith in how we feel or how we
are getting better rather than on the Word
of God, then as our faith is, it will be unto us.

It is by looking at the promises of God and
being "fully persuaded" [absolutely certain]
that God will fulfill His promises that we
can receive healing of the body and anything
else He has promised us.

Matthew 6:9-10
"Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed
be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done on Earth as it is in heaven."

Jesus always prays the will of God, and He
prays that the will of God be done here on
the earth just as it is in heaven. People in
heaven are not sick, so we can clearly see it
is God's will that we also be free from
sickness and disease.

"He therefore that ministereth to you the
Spirit, and worketh miracles among you,
doeth he it by the works of the law, or by
the hearing of faith?" Galatians 3:5

God tells us that He works miracles on our
bodies the same way as on our souls; that
is by hearing the word of faith.

Since it is "by His stripes we are healed",
we should not forget what our healing
cost and be grateful and full of love to Him!

God can not keep His Covenant with us,
without taking away our sicknesses and
fulfilling the number of our days, according
to His promise!

It's important to remember that the word "save"
in the Greek is the word "sozo" which literally
means to heal, preserve, save, do well, be (make)
whole.

It means deliverance in the present as well
as in the future or in eternity, physical as well as
spiritual.

Jesus used this word to refer to healing
of the body as well as forgiveness of sins. Always
translate this word as "save - heal" when you
come across it in the Word.

Hebrews 7:25 Because Jesus has become the
guarantee of a better covenant (verse 22),
"Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost
those who come to God through Him, since He
always lives to make intercession for them."

Take a look at this scripture in the Amplified
Version: "Therefore He is able also to save to the
uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for
all time and eternity) those who come to God
through Him, since He is always living to make
petition to God and intercede with Him and
intervene for them."