Healing Through The Judgment

Pastor George Rainey teaches about the biblical foundations of healing through faith in the finished work of Jesus on the cross.

Summary

On the cross, Jesus delivered us from all of the power of sin, which includes sickness, disease, anguish and everything which is contrary to the Kindom of Heaven. Just like when Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness to deliver people from the curse of judgment did not remove the serpents, but healed those who were bit by them, so also Jesus death on the cross heals those who are suffering sickness and disease due to the effects of sin in the world. There is still sin in the world, but those who look upon Jesus death on the cross with faith will be healed from the effects of it.

Outline

1. When you are ministering to the sick you hear people with a lot of beliefs.

   1. A lot of what people believe does not line up with scripture.
   2. You can read something many times, but the Holy Spirit suddenly will make it alive.
   3. God did that with Pastor George when reading John 3.
   4. If this message isn’t for you, it is for someone. It will be on the internet, get it to them.
   5. The Holy Spirit, however, quickens his word. This message is to help people receive healing.
   6. This message will convince you that God wants you healed.

2. Just as Moses lifted up the serpent, so also the Son of Man must be lifted up.

   1. To understand this, we need to look at what happened when Moses lifted up the serpent.
   2. The people complained saying that God brought them into the wilderness to die, God sent fiery serpents and bit the people and many died.
   3. Then the people repented and Moses began to intercede for the people – that God would take away the serpents.
   4. God told Moses to put a fiery serpent on a pole and that everyone who looks upon it will be healed.
   5. All who looked to the serpent on a pole lived.

3. The serpents were judgment on sin.

   1. The people asked to get rid of the judgment.
   2. God did not remove the judgment, but he made a way for them to be healed from them.
   3. It required faith to be healed.
   4. God wanted the people to learn to live by faith.
   5. The serpents were not removed, but all who look upon the serpent on the pole lived.

4. There were people who would not believe that a serpent on a stick would keep people from dying.

   1. Couldn’t God just removed the serpents?
   2. We are supposed to live by just looking at a serpent on a stick?
   3. God said it, that settles it.
   4. You can be healed if you believe.

5. To look at – means to look intently, to look with pleasure and with favor.

6. Just as the serpent was lifted up – So Jesus was lifted up.

   1. Many say that the serpent represents sin.
   2. It seems more accurate that the serpent represents judgment on sin.
   3. “if I be lifted up I will draw all (judgment) unto me.
   4. Deut. 28 – If people fail to do all that God commands, a curse will come upon them until you perish.
   5. All sickness we see from this is spiritual. It affects the physical body, but it is spiritual in nature.
   6. Sickness is a curse, not a blessing.
   7. Many people call their sickness a blessing, but it is not.

7. Isaiah 53 – What Jesus has done for us.

   1. He has born our griefs & sorrows (means weakness, infirmity, distress, disease | anguish, sorrow, affliction, pain.)
   2. He was wounded for our transgressions and guilt. By His stripes we are healed and are made whole.

8. Why if Jesus dealt with sin on the cross, why is it still here?

   1. The judgment is still here, but Jesus has made a way to be delivered from it.
   2. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life because through Jesus a way is provided to have every curse broken off of us.
   3. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse.
   4. All of the sacrifices in the OT were a shadow for Jesus.
   5. The wages of sin is death – the fiery serpents were the wages of sin – Yet God has provided a way out through faith in Jesus – all you have to do is look intently at it.

9. Namaan the leper was offended at the way that the prophet told him to be healed.

   1. He was offended that it was too easy.
   2. God has provided healing for us, but it is too easy for many.
   3. Often our religious traditions make the word of God of no effect.
   4. The same cross that got you saved is the same cross that will heal you.
   5. Just as you do not work for salvation, you do not work for healing.

10. The things we believe either release or block the healing power of God.

    1. There is a lot of things we believe that sound really good but are not scripture.
    2. By His stripes we were healed.

11. We are a people who are in covenant with God.

    1. Christ took the curse we deserve – when we celebrate communion we remember what Christ did for us – the curse of our sin that he took.
    2. Communion proclaims His death until He comes. It is that same as looking at the serpent on the pole. Every sickness and disease, anguish, pain and all the wages of sin are hanging on the cross. If we look we will be healed.
    3. People are sick and “falling asleep” because they are not discerning what Christ has done for them on the cross.

12. Pastor George used to ask people about their sins when trying to get them healed, but then as he studied God’s word, he realized Jesus took it all on the cross. The way is to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

13. All things in Jesus come by faith.

    1. Forgiveness was earned by Jesus, we receive it through faith.
    2. Healing also comes through faith.

14. If we discern the Lord’s body we will not be sick, weak or die prematurely.