Understanding the relationship between healing and salvation

jesus healed all.

Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. Luke 4:40

This scripture shows us a picture of Jesus Christ. This picture of Him, revealed by the Holy Spirit, shows us Jesus touching and healing every person that came to Him.

I think that's so important for us as believers in ministering healing to others. So, every person that came to Jesus, the Bible says that He laid His hands on them and He healed them. Again, Hebrews 13:8 says, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. As we understand Jesus from the Bible, then we can expect Him to do the exact same thing in your life, in my life and into the lives of those to whom God has called and sent us to minister to.

the holy spirit abides

The Holy Spirit has been given into the life of the believer. And the Bible said the Holy Spirit would abide or remain in you forever — John 14:16.

So the Holy Spirit is a person, He's not an emotion, He's not a feeling, He's come to live inside of you forever. 24-7-365, the Holy Spirit is the same, living in you. Whether you're asleep, whether you're waking up, whether you're eating breakfast, whether you're getting ready for work, whether you're on your drive to work, every moment of every day the Holy Spirit is abiding. He's remaining inside of you.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:19

So it's not just simply that he lives in us but that scripture gives us a clear distinctive that he actually lives inside of our body. So inside of your organs, inside of your tissue, inside of your cells, the Holy Spirit is alive. He's a living, active, working of God's power and anointing inside of you 24-7 all the time

When we put our attention there, as we think on those things and look in that direction, the Holy Spirit begins to work inside of us. When we talk about Jesus laying His hands on every one of them and healing them, it gives us a picture of what He's doing right now and that He wants to heal you.

He doesn't want you to suffer. He doesn't want you to be sick. He wants you to be healed. He wants to raise you up to be a minister of healing to others that you encounter in your family, your neighbors and everyone else that's in your life.

Today is the day of salvation

Once we understand salvation, then immediately we know that's exactly how the healing power of God also works in your life. There's no difference. Many times people see it differently, but I want to show you in the Bible how it's actually the same. First of all, regarding salvation, salvation is already provided. In other words, it's already something that Jesus has accomplished through His death, His burial, and His resurrection.

The Gospels record the account of the crucifixion of Jesus, the death of Jesus, the burial of Jesus, and the resurrection of Jesus. So He's already paid the price. Salvation has already been paid for.

It says in 2 Corinthians 6:2, the Bible said, Behold now is the accepted time. Behold now is the day of salvation. So when is it God's will for you to be saved? Right now. Today is the day. Right now is the time. So whoever reads this message, wherever it is in the world, when they hear the message of the Gospel, if they believe the message that Jesus already paid the price, died, buried, resurrected, ascended to heaven and call on the name of Jesus, the Bible said they shall be saved.

So who decides when? The person decides. He makes a choice. He decides to believe. He decides to receive because God already provided salvation. Its free and it's waiting for every person that's alive today.

Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. Revelation 3:20

He's knocking at your heart's door right now. John says, if any man hear his voice, open the door. Jesus said, I will come into him. You can be born again right now. Your sins can be forgiven right now. You don't have to wait another second. You don't have to wait on some mysterious moment when it's God's preordained time for you to be saved. No, the moment you believe and receive Christ at that moment, that is God's time. Today is the day of salvation.

Today is the day of healing

Now in all reality, healing is given to us in exactly the same way. It's exactly the same way. When you receive Jesus as your Savior, Jesus through the Holy Spirit comes to live inside of you. He comes inside of you with all of his resurrection power. And, when he comes in, there's so much power that the Bible says, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature — 2 Corinthians 5:17.

He's a new creation. That power is so great inside of you. It recreates you and you become a new person. You become a new man. You become a new woman. Old things are passed away. All your sin is passed away. All your past is passed away. It doesn't exist anymore. You're a new person, a new species, one translation says. You're a person who has never existed before in time or in eternity. You are made brand new.

That's the power that came into you when you called on the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. That's the salvation of Jesus. Jesus Christ working inside your spirit, inside your heart, and He made you a new person.

Now we understand that regarding salvation. So what is healing then? What is healing? Healing is the salvation of Jesus Christ at work in your body, the same way as it worked in your heart when you were born again.

Understand this regarding healing: your pain, your disease, your diagnosis, Jesus already paid for your healing. It's already paid for. Hallelujah.

what was the price?

Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. Matthew 27:26

I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting. Isaiah 50:6

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 ye were healed. 1 Peter 2:24

The word scourge means be flogged with a Roman scourge. A scourge, according to historians, had a wooden handle and nine leather straps embedded with pieces of bone, metal and glass. Those leather straps were long so they wrapped around the body of the victim and when pulled off, then those pieces of glass, metal and bone would dig into the flesh and cut the flesh. The prophecy says of Jesus in Psalms 129:3 said, the plowers plowed upon my back, they made long their furrows.

When men were beaten the way Jesus was beaten, it was regarded under the Roman law as equivalent to the death penalty. I realize that a lot of people have the tradition that Jesus received 39 stripes but really that was a Jewish law. The Jewish law said that a man could receive 40 stripes, but the Pharisees were so strict in fear they had miscounted they would only give a man 39 stripes. But if you read the Gospel account, it was not a Jew that was beating Jesus, it was a Roman soldier. The Roman soldiers had no limits. History records men receiving the scourging as Jesus took and men actually bleeding to death hanging at the whipping post.

That was the price he paid to heal you. Hallelujah.

When I understood that, when I saw that in the Bible, there is no way anybody is ever going to talk me into the idea that God doesn't want me healed or that God doesn't want you healed.

He paid the price. Why would he pay such a price and then say no? He's not saying no. He paid the price.

There is provision. Healing is more than a promise. So, if I made you a promise togive you $100. You don't know when or how — just that some time in the future I will give you $100. But that's not what God did in healing. He didn't promise healing, He provided healing. He gave it through Jesus already and it's ours to receive.

See, if I were handing you that $100 right now and I said, here's the $100, I'm giving it to you, I'm offering it to you, it's your responsibility at that point to acknowledge the gift, receive the gift and be blessed. So it is with Jesus. He bore the stripes on his back. He suffered. He paid the price and now he offers to you healing. Just open your heart and allow the Holy Spirit to minister into you the thing that Jesus paid so much to provide for you.

Hallelujah! He paid the price!

The Power of the Holy Spirit inside of you

a message excerpt from pastor jonathan morgan

This is part three of our series on the Healing Ministry of Jesus. What we want through these messages is simply see Jesus as he's revealed in the scripture by the Holy Spirit.

I believe as you see Jesus, I believe your faith is going to be lifted and encouraged.

I'm often reminded of Peter seeing Jesus walking on the water. The Bible says it was at night, there was a storm, and they were fearful for their lives. When Peter saw Jesus, something inside of him said, I can do that. Jesus said to him, “come” and Peter accepted that. While he was focused on Jesus, he could do what Jesus could do. So, I'm saying to you today that as these messages direct you to the person of Jesus, you set your focus on him, the power of the Holy Spirit is going to rise up inside of you, and you're going to be able to do what doctors have told you you'll never do again.

In our last post, I talked about redemption. Jesus took our infirmities, he bore our sicknesses in his body on the cross to redeem us from our sickness and diseases. In the same way, he redeemed us from our sins so we can be forgiven, we can be healed.

Today I want to talk about the life of Jesus in you. I want to talk about the power of the Holy Spirit inside of you.

This is God's plan. It was God's intention that having saved you, the blood of Jesus, wash all your sins away, that the Holy Spirit would come live inside of you. More specifically, he would come live inside of your body.

a new type of life

 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

He's not talking about living a long life, he's talking about having life. “that you might have everlasting life”. That's a new kind of life that God gave you, it's divine life, it's the life of God.

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. John 7:38

Jesus is not just talking about a little bit of life, he's talking about an overflow of life.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10

There's an abundance of life. God planned that the life of God would do more than just come inside your heart, would do more than just come inside your spirit or inside your soul, but that it would overflow into your body.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1 Corithians 6:19

Paul here is talking about the indwelling Holy Spirit inside of the life of the believerIf I ask most Christians, where is the Holy Spirit? They say the Holy Spirit is in me, and that's true. But here in this scripture, he gives us another truth that we also have to add to that. Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit has come to live inside of your body. He lives in your flesh. He lives in your organs. He lives in your cells. He lives in your tissues. He lives in your muscles.

the holy spirit is in motion

• Fire — a fire that's not burning is not a fire. So a fire is burning, right? So the Holy Spirit is a fire in your body burning. He's in motion. He's burning right now.

• Wind — the Holy Spirit is wind. The Holy Spirit is wind, in other words, he's blowing. So a wind that's not blowing is not a wind. So we know the Holy Spirit is right now in motion. He's right now in action inside your body.

• River — A river is always flowing. A river that's not flowing is not a river. So a river is flowing. So the Holy Spirit is a river that is flowing inside your body.

He is a wind that's blowing inside your body. He is a fire that's burning inside of your body. Now that is the plan of God. Jesus redeemed you from your sin. Jesus carried your sin. He carried your sickness. He carried your disease. He redeemed you from it. He sets you free. Then He gave you the life of God. He gave you the Holy Spirit who came to live inside of your flesh, who come to live inside of your body.

Right now He's active. Right now He's in motion inside of your body. That's why you're being healed. That's why you're being kept healthy, kept safe because of the action of the Holy Spirit inside of your body.

People think: OK, I'm going to pray and I'm going to pray and I'm going to pray and God in heaven is going to send healing down upon me. That's not how it works. God gave you the Holy Spirit who came to live inside of you, more than live inside of you, to literally live inside of your body. That is healing. That's healing action. That's healing action inside of you right now.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Romans 8:11

Your mortal body is the body you live in right now. Mortal means “death doomed.” It's not talking about the body that's laying in the grave. He's talking about the body you have right now. The Holy Spirit lives inside of your mortal body. And what's He doing? The Bible says He's making life. He's quickening. He's making life inside of your body right now. Hallelujah.

I accept that the Holy Spirit is working inside of my body. He's healing me right now. He's healing you right now.

He's not just sitting there. He's not just inactive. He's in me and he's active. He's fire that's burning. He's wind that's blowing. He’s a river thats flowing.

The holy spirit is transforming…

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12:2

Let’s look at that word “transform.” You know the word transform there is the same exact word that's used in the gospels regarding Christ as transfigured on the mount of transfiguration.

There was Jesus in prayer, suddenly the glory of God, the voice of God, and Jesus is transfigured before them. Which means what? Which means the power, the radiant glorious power inside of Jesus, suddenly begin to radiate through Him.

The glory didn't come literally out of heaven. It was already residing inside of Jesus. It began to radiate out of his inside, from his spirit. The glory radiated through his intestines, it radiated through his stomach, it radiated through his pancreas, it radiated through his liver, it radiated through his kidneys, it radiated through his flesh until it got into his clothes. When it got into his clothes, the Bible said, they became white. They lost their color and they became resplendent with radiant light. That was transfiguration.

Romans 12:2 says that we are transformed, we are transfigured as our mind is renewed, as we begin to shift how we see things, to line up with God's Word, then we begin to be transfigured.

So God's intention is that you be transfigured, which means that this life of God, this glorious life of the Holy Spirit that's inside of you begins to radiate through you. It begins to radiate through your intestines, through your kidneys, through your liver, through your heart, right out into your skin.

That's what God's doing right now. That's what the Holy Spirit is doing inside of you right now. When you take your eyes off of your situation, off of your pain, off of your diagnosis, and you put your eyes upon what is inside of you, my friend, you have a spiritual nuclear power plant inside of your spirit.

The moment you take your eyes off of your physical limitation, your pain, and your sickness, and you put your focus on the power that's inside of you, this power begins to radiate through you and will make you every bit whole, completely healed.

Hallelujah!

Jesus, Isaiah, Healing and Redemption

A message excerpt from Pastor Jonathan Morgan

why did Jesus heal them all?

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever so what we see Jesus doing in the Bible is exactly the same today.

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.

Matthew 8:16,17

Here's a question that I want to ask based on this scripture: why is Jesus healing them all? I'm not asking why he healed the sick but according to this scripture why did he heal them all?

Because if there's a reason Jesus healed them all, that's based in the scripture, then I know that it includes me and it includes you. I can have faith and you can have faith and we can expect Him to do the same in our life just like He did in the lives of these people right here.

So, why? It says He healed all that were sick. Why did He heal all that were sick? To fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah. So, if Jesus had only healed some people, it would not have fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah. The fact is He healed all that were sick in order to fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah. The prophecy is that Himself, Jesus, took our infirmities and He bear our sicknesses. Now, where is He quoting from Isaiah?

That's Isaiah chapter 53. Now, the book of Isaiah chapter 53 is the chapter that talks about redemption. It's almost like the Gospel prophetically recorded by Isaiah.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Isaiah 53:4 KJV

The Holy Spirit gives us divine commentary on the real meaning of that verse in the ministry of Jesus by saying he healed all that were sick, that it might be fulfilled, which is spoken by Isaiah in Matthew chapter 8. when you read it in Isaiah, it sounds like he's only talking about grief or emotional pain. God is moved with compassion toward your emotional pains and your broken heart. Jesus healed the broken hearted. But that's not really what this verse is saying according to what the Holy Spirit said in Matthew 8:17.

grief — the Strong's number 2483, that comes from 2470.

sorrow — the Strong’s number 4341

how is that word translated everywhere else in the Bible?

In Isaiah chapter 38, the Bible gives us a story of King Hezekiah. King Hezekiah is a good king. He's a righteous man in Israel, but the Bible records that he's sick.

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,

And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

Isaiah 38:1-5

The point here that I’m making is I want to look at the words “sick unto death”. We know that sickness here is a sickness that and Hezekiah is near to the point of dying of the sickness. The word sickness is 2470, which is the root word of the same word that's used in Isaiah chapter 53 translated as grief.

The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: Isaiah 38:9

the word sickness is used twice in that verse. He said he had been sick, that's the Strong's number 2470 and was recovered of his sickness, that's 2483.

Okay, so what point am I making? When you study the Hebrew words, without even going and getting a Hebrew dictionary or talking to a Hebrew scholar, if I look at the words and how they are used in the Bible, I understand their meaning.

In Isaiah 38 it is sickness or sick, but when you get to Isaiah 53, they change the translation. Everywhere else in the Bible, when it uses that word, it's translated sickness or disease until you get to Isaiah 53 and suddenly it's translated as grief.

So I can conclude, the word in Isaiah 53 doesn't mean emotional pain. The word in Isaiah 53 “sorrows” doesn't mean emotional pain. It's talking about sickness and disease.

the work of redemption

Surely he, Jesus, bore our diseases and he carried our pains in his own body. That's his work of substitution. That's his work of redemption. That was when he was nailed to the cross.

We understand that when Jesus was nailed to the cross that God took all of our sins. He took every one of our sins and he laid them on the body of Jesus. Jesus took them from us and he died in our place so that we could be saved, so that we could be forgiven.

He redeemed us from our sin. But what Isaiah 53 prophesies is that Jesus at the same moment that he took our sins, he also took our sicknesses. He took our diseases. So here's God from eternity looking at the timeline of your life.

The day you were born all the way to the day that you go to heaven. God sees the whole timeline of your life. God sees every sickness, every disease that you'll ever encounter in that timeline of your life and God does what? God takes that from you and he lays that on Jesus on the cross so that he pays the price. He redeems you from your sickness. He redeems you from your disease. Hallelujah.

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Isaiah 53:10

Now again, the word grief is used there, but it's like verse 4 - the Hebrew word in the Strongs concordance is for disease. So it would be translated like this: “Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, he, God, has made him sick.”

In other words, Jesus on the cross, he bore your disease, he bore your sickness, he bore your pain, he was made sick with your sickness. He was suffering your sickness on the cross in the same way that he bear your sins on the cross.

When did he bear your sickness? When did he bear your disease? He said, he hath put him to grief. He hath made him sick when you make his soul and offering for sin. At the same moment Jesus became an offering for sin, he also was made sick with our sickness.

Now think about that. Jesus bore your sin so you could be made righteous. Jesus suffered for your sin so you could be forgiven of all your sins. In the same way Jesus bore your disease so you could be healed. He bore your pain so you don't have to suffer pain. He did it in your place. That is a truth of redemption. Jesus did it for you, so now you don't have to do it.

Jesus redeemed you from your diseases. He redeemed you from your sicknesses. Think about how much God wants to heal you. God knew you before you were ever born and God knew every pain you'd ever have, every sickness you'd ever have. Jesus on the cross, God took those diseases and laid them on Jesus. Now that's the reason why Jesus healed them all. He healed them all.

Matthew 8:16,17 — He healed them all to fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah.

Jesus took our infirmities and he bear sicknesses. That's how I know God wants to heal everybody. That means he wants to heal you because the disease, the pain, the sickness you're suffering with right now, Jesus took it on his own body. He redeemed you from it. Now that thing is illegal and it has to leave you. That's the gospel. That's the good news of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!

The Healing Ministry of Jesus: Introduction

A MESSAGE EXCERPT FROM PASTOR JONATHAN MORGAN

The Bible says that faith comes by hearing the Word of God. How do you know what to believe unless you hear what God says on the subject?

So if we know what God promised, we know what God will do. We know what to expect God to do in our life. I want to share with you about the healing ministry of Jesus. I believe your faith is going to be built up and you're going to receive a miracle from God.

the healing ministry of jesus - the pattern of teaching

Lets begin in Matthew 4:23.

“And Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.” Matthew 4:23

That's the first scripture in the New Testament that tells us anything about the healing ministry of Jesus. Since it's the first verse, I believe that it's significant. This verse tells us what about his healing ministry becomes a pattern of how he's going to minister healing. You'll find that pattern throughout the Gospels. We believe that it continues even to this day.

It says that Jesus went about teaching and preaching. So what we see is that Jesus is first of all a teacher and a preacher before he's a miracle worker. I want to give you two scriptures in the gospels about how the people responded to the teaching ministry of Jesus.

But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. Luke 5:15

Notice the scripture says the people came to hear AND to be healed. They didn't just come to be healed, they came to hear. That tells us there was a hunger. There was a curiosity about the healing ministry of Jesus. He's healing multitudes of people. They've heard about his miracles, but now they've come to hear from him exactly how does this work? And so the Bible said they came to hear and to be healed of their infirmities.

And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; Luke 6:17

The Bible said faith comes by hearing the word of God, Teaching and preaching is the way Jesus is ministering healing to the people. That's the way he's administering the power of God into their life.

He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Psalm 107:20

So Jesus teaching and preaching was the way He ministered healing to the sick. There's another scripture that declares that while Jesus was teaching, the power of the Lord was present to heal them. So, it's in the middle of the teaching, while the people were listening enjoying the message, learning from God's Word, and suddenly the power of God is present to heal them.

The Bible says again and again that He healed all of their sickness and diseases. That is the healing ministry of Jesus. That's how it works. It's ministered through teaching and preaching. While you're listening to the word, His presence is there to heal you.

“all manner of”

“And Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.” Matthew 4:23

What is interesting is this scripture is the phrase “all manner of” is the same exact Greek word that's used in John 3:16 that is translated as whosoever.

We believe God wants to save everybody. We believe that God will forgive everybody. His desire to save everybody, forgive everybody, is based on one word in John 3:16 of “whosoever”.

But did you realize that the healing ministry of Jesus, the Bible uses exactly the same word? He went about healing whosoever of disease, whosoever of sickness.

I've got good news for you today and that is that God loves you, his compassion is toward you, and he wants to heal you today!

Whosoever. It means whoever came to him. If you read the story of Jesus in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, he never said no. There was never an occasion where someone came to him that he turned them away for any reason.

The Bible says again and again that he healed them all. I tell you, I'm so happy that Jesus healed them all because if Jesus only healed some people, then I don't know if He'll heal me. But if the Bible says that He healed them all, then I know He'll heal me and I know He'll heal you. We can have faith now. We can have confidence now in the healing ministry of Jesus for us, for you, right where you are, amen.

All i want you to do is see jesus

All I want you to do is see Jesus. There's so many doctrines, so many traditions, so much anti -healing people but I just want you to see Jesus.

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: Matthew 8:16

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

But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; Matthew 12:15

And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. Matthew 14:14

And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: Matthew 15:30

And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. Matthew 19:2

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. Matthew 21:14

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8

Jesus went to all the cities, all the villages, healing every sickness and every disease. Great multitudes followed him and he healed them all. Following our theology, certainly there would have been somebody in that crowd of great multitude that maybe it wasn't God's will to heal. Maybe in that great multitude there had to be somebody that God was punishing them for their sin with a sickness, but it wasn't the case. Great multitudes came to him, and he healed them all. Hallelujah.

Jesus never changes. People change, churches change, nations change, but Jesus never changes. Maybe you're hurting, maybe the doctors are giving you a bad diagnosis and you have no hope. I tell you today that you can look to Jesus. He's coming to you right where you are, and he wants to heal you. He's moving compassion toward you. The Bible says that Jesus healed every sickness and every disease.

I want to encourage you today that no matter what you're going through, no matter what you've been through, Jesus is the same, and He wants to heal you. He's moved with compassion toward you to heal you.

Understanding Healing: Is sickness part of God's original design?

A MESSAGE EXCERPT FROM PASTOR JONATHAN MORGAN

It's so important that we understand what the Bible says. We need for the revelation truth from the Bible to be our foundation of faith. That is taking line upon line, precept upon precept and laying a foundation of faith for the people of God.

When I grew up in a spirit filled, Pentecostal church, healing was written in our doctrine book. In other words if you were to read our doctrine it said very specifically that healing is provided for all in what they call the atonement. All of my life we went to church: Sunday morning, Sunday school, Sunday night, Wednesday night, revival and camp meetings. BUT I never heard one single sermon dedicated to teaching on the truths of divine healing from the Bible.

You have to have a foundation from which you act in faith. Without that foundation you don't have confidence to act. Once the foundation is laid then you have great confidence to act on God's Word. When you act on the Word of God then the power of the Holy Spirit will manifest in your life and you will be healed. So, it is important that we have a great foundation for healing from the Bible.

what is God’s original intention?

To lay a strong foundation, we of course, begin with Genesis. In the book of Genesis chapter 1, chapter 2 and part of chapter 3, we see God's original intention.

We know God has never changed (Malachi 3:6). Therefore, when we identify God's original plan, God's original purpose, God's original intention toward man, we understand that is still his intention for us today.

Of course as you know, the Genesis chapter 1 we are given the details of creation.

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. Genesis 1:31

So good means that all of creation, all of nature, reflected the nature of God. In creation, we do not find anything that would hurt, destroy, make sick, oppress or harass. Everything was good. Everything was peaceful. That's exactly the way God intended it to be.

Further in Genesis 1, God creates man. The Bible says, Genesis chapter 1 verse 26, God said, let us make man in our image and in our likeness.

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground. Genesis 1:26-28

We can say it like this, God rules everything, but in the earth, God delegated authority to Adam. God gave authority to Adam. That's the way God planned it.

According to God's original design, Adam was never going to die. God said to Adam in Genesis 2:17 very specifically, don't eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for in the day you eat of it you are going to die. What does that mean? That means that Adam's got the breath of God in him and if he doesn't sin, if he doesn't eat that tree, he's never going to die.

He's going to live forever, live forever and never grow old. Live forever and never get sick. There was no disease there. There was no cancer there. There was no blindness there. There was no arthritis there. There was no sugar diabetes there. No sickness at all in that original creation.

So where does sickness come from? Well, it's obvious sickness came with sin. The moment Adam sinned, he opened the door for death, sickness and disease into the human race and into the earth.

If Adam had left that door shut, if he had just walked with God and enjoyed his fellowship with God and fulfilled his purpose, then there would have never been a single sick person in the world. God's will, God's intention would have been and continued to be fulfilled.

There was no sin there, there was no sickness there, there was no poverty there, there were no demons there. That was God's original plan. We know what happened: Adam disobeyed God.

According to Genesis chapter 3, he disobeyed God, God said, in the day you eat, you shall surely die. I want to add another thought to that: when Adam disobeyed God, he obeyed Satan. He submitted himself to Satan and Satan became his ruler. Satan brought sickness that made men sick and then died. All of humanity has suffered because of that ever since that day.

After Adam's sin, God never gave up on his plan. He did not call it quits on his original intention. Instead, He sent a Savior, His son, Jesus to the earth.

Sickness was never God's plan or God's intention.
God has never changed.

Next week, we’ll look at Jesus revealed in scripture to further understand God’s plan to redeem man back to his original design.