Pastor
Walter C. Scott
6/30/13
Diseases
and disorders, whether physical or mental, have been with us since
Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden. How we approach the healing of
these afflictions is critical in receiving healing and the effect
that it has on our relationship with Triune God. A positive
relationship with Triune God is the essence of a healthy soul and
spirit. What does the Bible say about this?
Exodus 23:25-26
Worship the Lord your
God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take
away sickness from among you, and none will miscarry or be barren in
your land. I will give you a full life span.
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the
Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach
good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for
the prisoners,
Isaiah 53:4-5
Surely he took up our
infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken
by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our
transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment
that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
1 Peter 2:22-24
“He committed no
sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.” When they hurled their
insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no
threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. He
himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die
to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been
healed.
Matthew 8:17
This was to fulfill
what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
“He took up our
infirmities and carried our diseases.”
Physical
diseases and disorders have been with us to the same degree
throughout history. Some we have been able to overcome. But, it
seems, that new ones appear as fast as we eradicate an old one.
Mental diseases and disorders however, have been, and are becoming,
more and more of a serious problem in our society. Possibly because
they are easier for us to recognize now. I don't know. I do know they
can be healed, and possibly avoided altogether.
Luke 10:19
I have given you
authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the
power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.
Mark 16:17
And these signs will
accompany those who believe; in my name they will drive out demons;
they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their
hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at
all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get
well.”
John 14:12-14
I tell you the truth,
anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do
even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And
I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring
glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name and I
will do it.
Jesus Christ died for
our salvation and our
healing. God does not bring or promote disease, physical or mental.
Satan does this. Relationship with Triune God and close fellowship
with other Christian believers, prayer
and Bible study can
and will heal. We need to ask for and expect healing. We must never
fear or doubt. We must believe, trust, obey
and have unwavering faith
in Triune God.
Philippians 4:19
And my God will meet
all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Mark 11:24-25
And when you stand
praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that
your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.
Matthew 7:7-8
Ask and it will be
given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be
opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds;
and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
We must give ourselves
over to Triune God and the realization about what has happened in our
past. A Japanese man once said, “Nightmares are caused by a
person's shame”. There is no shame in justification. God will
justify. There is no fear or shame after salvation and redemption.
JUSTIFIED:
To be released from the guilt of sin and accepted as righteous.
Romans 8:28-39
And we know that in
all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have
been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might
be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he
also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified,
he also glorified.
What, then, shall we
say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He
who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all-- how will
he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will
bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who
justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died-- more
than that, who was raised to life-- is at the right hand of God and
is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or
nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:
“For your sake we
face death all day long;
we are considered as
sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these
things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am
convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height
nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to
separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
To be justified by God is
to acquire the realization that through acceptance of our Lord and
savior Jesus Christ we are forgiven of all sins; past, present and
future. Our duty is to accept and receive this forgiveness. The past
is only good for learning what to do or not to do today and tomorrow.
Then we move on to present situations.
Romans 12:2
Do not conform any
longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what
God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
We also need to offer
forgiveness to and accept forgiveness from anyone we have offended or
been offended by. It is especially important to forgive yourself to
realize Triune God's justification.
Matthew 6:14-15
For if you forgive men
when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive
you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not
forgive your sins.
Jesus Christ has overcome
the world and everything in it. It's over, he has won. All we need to
do is believe and accept this. Really believe, beyond any shadow of
doubt.
Revelation 3:21
to him who overcomes,
I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame
and sat down with my Father on his throne.
John 11:25-26
Jesus said to her, “I
am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live,
even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never
die. Do you believe this?
Once we believe that he
has overcome the world, we are enabled in realizing not only our
salvation, but in the total healing of our minds and bodies.
2 Corinthians
5:17-21
Therefore, if anyone
is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has
come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through
Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was
reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins
against them. And he has committed to us the message of
reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God
were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf:
Be reconciled to God. God made him who had sin to be sin for us, so
that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
We all
have value to God, and a purpose and destiny chosen by God. When we
are influenced by anything else; when we can't forgive ourselves or
others; when we can't accept Triune God's justification and
forgiveness for our past behavior, we fail. Give it all to God. Let
yourself abide in the body of Christ Jesus and let the Holy Spirit be
your comforter and counselor.
1John 4:7-21
Dear friends, let us
love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has
been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know
God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us:
He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live
through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved
us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear
friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No
one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us
and his love is made complete in us.
We know that we live
in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we
have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the
Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of
God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the
love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever
lives in love lives in God, and God in him.In this way, love is made
complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of
judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in
love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with
punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love
because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” yet
hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his
brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And
he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his
brother.
John 13:34-35
A new command I give
you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one
another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you
love one another.
Learn
to love, because love is the healing salve for all
your wounds. Triune God loves you and will teach you self-sacrifice,
self-discipline, hope, trust, faith and love. God loved us so much he
sent his only son to die for us.
John 3:16
For God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life.
All we need to do is have
an unwavering desire to be healed and believe with all our heart,
mind, body and soul. Our spirit will thank us and celebrate along
with all the heavenly hosts.
2 Corinthians
4:13-14
It is written: “I
believed; therefore I have spoken.” With that same spirit of faith
we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the one who
raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and
present us with you in his presence.
This may require a course
correction and discipline along the way. Some of us fall by the
wayside. Just remember we are forgiven, Triune God will pick us up
and accept us back into the fold, because he never stops loving us.
Hebrews 12:1-13
Therefore, since we
are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off
everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let
us run with the perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix
our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the
joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat
down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured
such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and
lose heart. In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted
to the point of shedding your blood. And you have forgotten that word
of encouragement that addresses you as sons:
“My son, do not make
light of the Lord's discipline,
and do not lose heart
when he rebukes you,
because the Lord
disciplines those he loves,
and he punishes
everyone he accepts as a son.”
Endure hardship as
discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not
disciplined by his father: if you are not disciplined (and everyone
undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not
true sons. Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us
and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the
Father of our spirits and live! Our fathers disciplined us for a
little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our
good, that we may share in his holiness. No discipline seems pleasant
at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of
righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. “Make level
paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but
rather healed.
In the natural world only
so much can be said or done about our healing. There are only a
limited number of ways or methods. Some are successful to some extent
with some people. It depends on the person. A person or persons that
have a sincere desire to bring about healing, and display the heart
and love of Jesus Christ, in conjunction with the knowledge of method
is qualified to instruct. Did Jesus or his twelve disciples
experience any or all of the afflictions they healed? NO! Do all of
the doctors, counselors, and so on, need to personally experience any
or all of the afflictions others experience in order to heal them?
NO! Our duty, if we are serious about recovery, is to accept and
receive this instruction. Be obedient and self-disciplined and always
ask Triune God to lead you through your healing. Our relationship
with Triune God is the only permanent solution. Our desire and will
to be healed in this relationship is all that is required. Never
forget to thank him (Triune God) for all things.
After you know in your
heart that you have received total practical healing in any area of
affliction, you must look at yourself as God sees you. Never again
call yourself “recovering”. You are healed, fully restored and
recovered. No fear, no shame, no self-condemnation. Triune God loves
you. Love yourself so that you can love others and be an example to
them. Be the Good News. God bless you all. I love you.
Hebrews 10:19-25
Therefore, brothers,
since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of
Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain,
that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of
God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance
of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty
conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold
unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and
good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the
habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more
as you see the Day approaching.
2 Corinthians
10:3-5
For though we live in
the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight
with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have
divine power to demolish strongholds.
Colossians 2:9-10
For in Christ all the
fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given
fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.
Psalm 103:1-5
Praise the Lord, O my
soul,
all my inmost being,
praise his holy name.
Praise the Lord, O my
soul,
and forget not all his
benefits--
who forgives all your
sins
and heals all your
diseases,
who redeems your life
from the pit
and crowns you with
love and compassion,
who satisfies your
desires with good things
so that your youth is
renewed like the eagle's.
Reference only: 1
Corinthians 13 (all)
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