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Healing God at Work
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September 20, 2023
Healing God at Work
By Pastor Kenneth Byrd Round Mountain Community Church,

Some Christians who need healing have said, “Maybe God put this on me for some purpose.” W e l l , did Jesus ever put sickness on anyone? When people came to Him for healing, did He ever turn even one away, saying, “No, it’s not my will, just suffer a little longer.” No, not one time. And the scriptures tell us that to see God, we look at Jesus.

Jesus Himself said in John 14:9-10, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? We that hath seen me halt seen the Father, and how sayest thou there, shew us the Father? Believest

thought that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me. He doeth the works.

Do you want to know God? Look at Jesus. Jesus is the will of God in action (John 6:38). Did Jesus go about making people sick? No, he went about doing good and healing.

Acts 10:38, How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil.

Notice who was healed by Jesus: All that were oppressed of the devil. That’s a pretty plain statement. That means everyone who was healed under the ministry of Jesus was oppressed of the devil. In other words, the devil had something to do

with their sickness.

Thank God for the word, because to hear some people talk today, even ministers, you would be led to believe that God and the devil had swapped places for the last 2,000 years. You would think God was putting sickness on people, but that’s a lie, the devil is the author of sickness and God is still the healer.

Mark 16:15, 17-18, And He (Jesus) said unto them, go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. And these signs shall follow them that believe, in my name shall they cast out devil… they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.

Which one of the sick did Jesus say to lay hands on? He just said the sick, period. Well, if God were the author of sickness and disease on people, and if it were His will for some to be

sick, then this statement would be confusing because Jesus authorized us to lay hands on all the sick and said they would recover.

If it were God’s will for some to stay sick, Jesus would have had to say something like, “Lay your hands on those whom it’s the will of God to heal and those shall recover, and those whom it isn’t God’s will to heal, they won’t recover.”

But that wasn’t the case. God set the church against sickness, period!

James 5:14-15, Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

Notice verse 14 asks, is any sick among you?’Among whom?

The church. So it must be God’s will to heal any of the sick in the church. Therefore, it can’t be the will of God for any in the church to stay sick.

The enemy will try to take the scripture and twist them to confuse people along this line.

II Timothy 2:12, If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him, suffer what? Sickness and disease. No. That did Jesus suffer? Persecution, and we will too, if we live right.

Another scripture is Hebrews 12:6, Whom the Lord liveth, He chasteneth.

It doesn’t say whom He loveth He maketh sick. People have put their own interpretation on that verse.

The word chasten in Greek means to “child train or to educate.” You train your children and you send them to school to get educated. But have you ever told a teacher, “if my child doesn’t do right, knock his eye out, break his leg or put cancer on him?” No, that’s not the way you discipline your children or train them, and it’s not the way God does it either.

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