Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Pt.6 connection between sin and sickness

Sunday, August 30, 2020

• Revival will be sparked and marked by healing. More specifically, believers growing in and learning to receive their healing by the finished work of Jesus and in turn flowing in the power that is available to them from the finished work to bring healing others.
• Last week we talked about the gap between our spirit and our mind.
• The renewed mind empowers us to receive and steward the finished work if Christ.
• “We must narrow the gap between our expectation and the word”.

• We must establish for ourselves if healing is always God’s will because Faith begins where the will of god is known.

• • It is not possible to have faith in an area where you question if it is God’s will or not.

• Jesus is the will and the nature of god revealed and demonstrated.

• • Hebrews 1:3 3 tells us Jesus is express image or the exact expression of God’s true nature- His mirror image. Colossians 1:15 He is the exact likeness of the unseen God [the visible representation of the invisible]…
  • We can conclude according to the Word of God… Not opinion, experience, or circumstance, but by the Word only, that everything Jesus did was in agreement with the will of the Father.

• Healing is always the will of God! (This is radical to most)

• • Every person that came to Jesus that was sick or bound, HE healed and set free!
  • The works of Jesus give us a clear view of God’s will to bring healing and wholeness to the earth, because the Son only does what He first saw His Father doing.
  • If Jesus is the reflection of The Father on earth and, by His own admission multiple times, only does what He sees the Father do and only says what He hears the Father say, THEN WE MUST CONCLUDE THAT HEALING IS ALWAYS THE WILL OF GOD!

• Healing is as much apart of the atonement as forgiveness of sin!

• • This is where I want to come back too today.

The connection between sin and sickness.

• Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned…
• Before Adam rebelled there was no sin. Sin was entered through Adam’s actions. The same is true of death. Before sin there was no death.
• Sin came as a result of Adam’s rebellion. Death came as a result of sin.
  • Death here has two aspects; spiritual and natural.
  • Sin entered the world through man, and death was the result. Sickness is death in its first stages. Every sickness has the goal of death in our lives.
  • There is not sickness that strengthens, blesses or improve the life of the sick person! Sickness of any kind fits into the job description of the thief… to steal, kill, and destroy!

Sin in the human race is the root of sickness!

• I’m not talking about an individuals sin, I’m talking about sin as a whole.
• Adam’s sin unleashed death, and sickness is a product of the power of death in humanity.

• Sin is the root, sickness is the fruit!

• • If we can understand sickness as a fruit of sin, then we can understand that sin is the root that must be dealt with. If the root of sin can be destroyed, the fruit of sickness has no source of authority and no right to stay in our bodies.
  • If you deal with the root, there is nothing for the fruit to feed from. The life is in the root.

• Sin and sickness are linked throughout the Bible.

• David said in Psalm 103 “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases.”
• Isaiah 53:4-5 But He was wounded for our transgressions (our sins), He was bruised for our iniquities (our sin patterns); The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
• Matthew 8:16-17 “When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses.”
• 1 Peter 2:24 24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
• Isaiah prophesied it, Jesus demonstrated it during His life on earth and sealed, Peter pointed us back to it. Isaiah was looking forward to what Jesus WOULD do, Peter was looking back at what Jesus HAD done!
• The root of sin and the fruit of sickness were both carried to the cross so that we could be free from both.
• When the power of sin was defeated, the power of sickness lost its authority.
• In light of sickness being the fruit of sin, let's look at Romans 5.
• Just as sickness is the fruit of sin, healing is the fruit of Grace!
• Fruit is the outward manifestation of an internal reality.
• The fruit of healing will manifest externally when the Grace of God is received and becomes reality internally.
• Healing is a product is Grace, not a result of works.
• Works does not produce manifest the fruit of healing, it produces an entitlement mentality. “I deserve to be healed because I have done....”. “God, I’ve done all you asked me to do, why haven’t you healed me yet?”

If healing is part of the atoning work if Jesus, then it is past tense and we must approach it as such!

• Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
• Grace makes it available, faith makes it possible!
• Jesus dealt with the root. He destroyed the power and dominion of sin and that includes the fruit of sickness and disease.
• 1 Corinthians 11:29-30 “he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.”