WHY
I BELIEVE IN
DIVINE
HEALING
By
Pastor Max Solbrekken, D.D.
PART
1
Divine healing emanates from
Almighty God, because God is Life! He is the sole creator of the
world and giver of life. Besides Him, there is no one capable of
creating or granting anything. And without Him, there is no life
whatsoever. It is only natural for God to heal, because He is the
fountainhead of health and life!
Divine healing emanates and
flows from Him because He exudes love, peace, health and Eternal
Life! Like the warm rays emitted by the sun fall on those exposed to
its radiance, so it is with those who draw near to God!
They become automatic recipients of His grace, mercy, love, peace, forgiveness and health! Our Heavenly Father daily showers His children with loving kindness and tender mercies (Ps. 103:1-6).
They become automatic recipients of His grace, mercy, love, peace, forgiveness and health! Our Heavenly Father daily showers His children with loving kindness and tender mercies (Ps. 103:1-6).
Because God is Love and
perfect love casts out fear, there is perfect Peace and Healing in
God.(1 John 4: 18). And since fear brings torment and disunity
between God and man and disharmony among men, God's love restores the
harmony within the entire human being; spirit, soul and body!
As the healing process changes
the recipient's attitude toward his Maker, the spin-off effect
touches those around him, bringing harmony out of discord. Because
JESUS IS OUR PEACE, we walk in healing and
health.
When the
fear, torment, unrest and uncertainty is gone,
the healing process starts functioning in the believer's life. As we believe God's Word and
appropriate His promises for ourselves, we recognize His power
actively operating, bringing healing to ourselves and others!
When the
St. Paul stated, "That the
God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you
the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes
of your understanding being enlightened: that ye may know what is the
hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints.
"And what is the exceeding
greatness of His Power to us who believe, according to the working
of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, by allowing HIS
POWER to operate in us!
"Now unto Him that is able to do
exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the
Power according to the Power that worketh in us”. (Eph. 3:20)
The key to receiving God's
power, is to invite the Blessed Holy Spirit into our lives to work in
us mightily, according to His own will. Praise the Lord! And since
the Joy of the Lord is our strength, Divine Healing continues to flow
as we serve Him with gladness
GOD IS AGAINST SICKNESS!
God is against sickness because
God is good and sickness is the exact opposite of that which is good.
It is an evil, destructive force which tears down God's perfect
work! Sickness is a blight and a scourge on the human race and a
direct result of Adam's transgression and disobedience to Almighty
God!
Sickness and disease is
incipient death, which is a slow form of demise; or death on the
installment plan. For with sin came fear, torment, sickness, disease
and death!
When Jesus walked upon the
earth, He took a stand against six things: sin, sickness, fear,
demons, poverty and death! He preached the gospel to the poor, so
they could have their needs met for body, soul, mind and spirit! He
forgave the sinner, healed the sick, dispelled fear, cast out demons,
fed the hungry and raised the dead!
In the Nazareth synagogue, He
openly challenged the powers of darkness by publicly reading the
words of Prophet Isaiah, concerning Himself.
"The Spirit of the Lord is
upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the
poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach
deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to
set at liberty them that are bruised. To preach the acceptable year
of the Lord." (Luke 4:18-19)
Then He went out to the poor,
sinful, sick, and the needy and liberated them by the Almighty Power
of the Holy Spirit! The Bible says, "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". (Matt. 9:35-36)
EVERYTHING
GOD MADE WAS GOOD!
After God had created the
heavens, the earth and everything else, He declared it all "good".
Adam was created in the very image and likeness of God and He is
perfectly well in every respect. In Him, there is no blemish,
frailty, weakness, disease or death! He is ageless, timeless,
unchanging and the very epitome of perfection in every area of His
triune being - Father, Son and Holy Spirit!
In Him is perfect soundness,
perfect goodness, perfect purity, perfect love, perfect peace,
perfect righteousness and perfect health! Adam was made by the hand
of God, out of the dust which He had previously spoken into existence
- out of nothing.
Out of Nothing
– Bereshith Bara – Ex Nihilo! God created the worlds
out of nothing. He made the atoms - the building blocks of the
universe, out of nothing. And He still specializes in doing the
impossible. He is the world's ONLY Healer!
And
since He is the Healer, it isn't difficult for Him to HEAL
us all. Our Creator God made us in the first place, so it is not
difficult for Him to heal us and make us all well!
The Bible states, "And God
said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. So God
created man in His Own image, in the image of God created He him:
male and female created He them". (Gen. 1:26-27).
"And the
Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life: and man became a living soul".
(Gen. 2:7)
A study of the original Hebrew
texts teaches us how important we really are to Almighty God. The
word man is 'adahm' which literally means "the blood of God".
The word image is 'damoot' and denotes "an exact duplication in
kind".
The Hebrew word for dust is
'afar' which means "minute particles" and the word ground
is taken from the Hebrew 'adahmah' which has the literal meaning "the
totality of all that God is". What does this mean and how does
affect me? And why should I care about the literal meaning of these
Hebrew texts?
That may be your attitude
now, but after you have read what I have to share next, you will
rejoice with all true believers in Christ, for God's great plan for
our lives!
"And God said, Let us
(Elohim-triune God) make the blood of God (man) an exact duplication
in kind (in our image) of ourselves." God took of Himself to
make man. He took of His own life (the life is in the blood), that
is why we are so precious to Him!
He made us triune (spirit, soul
and body) just like Himself. He is Father, Son and Holy Spirit! We
were created "an exact duplication in kind" of God. He made
man out of minute particles (dust) of the totality of all that God is
(ground).
Science has recently discovered
that everything is made out of minute particles, exactly as the
literal Hebrew stated!
There was nothing here in the
beginning, so God took of Himself to make everything that now
exists! For God is all in all! Without Him, there would be
nothing and if He decided to take His hand off this world, we would
cease to exist.
ONLY IN HIM IS THERE LIFE!
He alone is Life and the
Giver of Life for Time and for Eternity! That is why St. Paul stated,
"For in him we live, and move, and have our being". (Acts
17:28). God took of Himself to make the earth, but He took of His own
BLOOD (life) to make man!
That is why God "will
destroy them that destroy (corrupt) the earth". (Rev. 11:18)
And why He is angry with those who worship mere men! And that is why
God will judge those who worship the earth, instead of worshipping
Him and His Son Jesus Christ, who died for the sins of the world in
order to purchase our redemption.
Christ's Victory over Satan has
purchased our Liberty from the Evil One, for Time and for Eternity!
May God deliver everyone reading these lines, from the cursed
doctrine of Mother Earth- GAIA worship!
Those who do not turn from
the occult New Age Movement and their deceptive teachings, will
discover - possibly too late - that they have been deceived, and are
in fact, worshipping Lucifer (Satan) who is the architect of GODDESS
and Mother Earth-GAIA worship!
There are those who say that
the earth has a soul and we must worship the earth. This is
blasphemy! St. Paul tells of the terrible judgment of God upon those
who worship created beings or creatures rather than the Living God
and His Son Jesus Christ. (Rom 1:18-26)
Moses wrote, "And the Lord
God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life (nephish); and man became a living soul".
(Gen. 2:7)
The word nephish means
"spirit". God breathed His own ETERNAL SPIRIT
into Adam! That is why St. Paul speaks of the "law of God in
our members", referring to our conscience. And the Bible speaks
of God placing "eternity in our hearts" (Ecc. 3:11), again
alluding to our God given conscience!
WHY
DID JESUS HAVE TO DIE?
What was the real reason for
sending His Son to die on the cross? St. Paul calls Jesus Christ,
"the second Adam" and "the last Adam". "For
as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. "And
so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last
Adam was made a quickening spirit.
"The first man is of the
earth earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven." (1 Cor.
15:22,45,47) The first Adam (blood of God) disobeyed, betrayed His
trust and sold out to God's enemy (Satan), plunging the entire human
race into sin, death and destruction!
That is why God sent His own
Son as the second Adam (blood of God), to shed His pure and holy
Blood through His vicarious death on the cursed tree, thereby meeting
the righteous demands of Divine Justice in the courts of Heaven,
paying the penalty for our sins.
The sacrificial death of the Jewish
Messiah destroyed Satan's power over mankind who would embrace the
Gospel of Christ!
The
precious blood of our Saviour has redeemed us from the
Curse of
the Law and the power of Satanic Bondage! It has freed
us from
the slavery of sin, fear, sickness, disease and death!
St. Paul writes: "Forasmuch
then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also
himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might
destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And
deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage." (Heb. 2:14-15)
"Blotting out the
handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to
us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having
spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly,
triumphing over them in it." (Col. 2:14-15)
"But made himself of no
reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in
the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
"Wherefore God also hath
highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven,
and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father." (Phil. 2:7-11)
And St. John wrote, "For
this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the
works of the devil." (1 John 3:8)
ADAM
WAS A PERFECT SPECIMEN!
After God had made Adam in His
own image, He was very pleased. The Bible states: "And God saw
everything that he had made, and, behold, IT WAS VERY GOOD."
(Gen. 1:31).
Evidently, Adam was a perfect specimen. God made him
according to His own will; perfect in all respects. And he was
perfectly healthy; spiritually, mentally and physically!
Adam had everything he could
ask for. A beautiful young wife, a good job with full fringe
benefits, perfect health and no bills to pay! And perfect fellowship
with his Creator and God, and a guarantee that if he kept some simple
rules, he could stay in this idyllic place forever!
Into this beautiful picture
enters the world's greatest liar, deceiver and thief - Satan himself!
And after his subtle con job had beguiled Eve, the entire human race
was enslaved and hell bound! Eve was the first to disobey God and her
sin soon contaminated Adam.
was a quick study and also
transgressed against the Almighty. Apparently he understood the
gravity of the situation, but didn't want to lose his wife
WORLD'S
GREATEST TRAGEDY!
Their act of disobedience,
rebellion and high treason, soon infected their son Cain who became
the world's first murderer! And since that infamous DAY in the
Garden of Eden, the human race has been contaminated with Sin! And
the results have been disastrous - bringing guilt, condemnation,
fear, doubt, sickness, disease and death upon the entire human race!
But the good news is that God
foresaw it all, and had prepared "a way of escape" for
fallen man. Through Jesus Christ, His Son, Almighty God made a way
for mankind to be reconciled and restored to fellowship and communion
with Himself. "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
"For when we were yet
without strength, in due time Christ dies for the ungodly. For
scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a
good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his
love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for
us.
"Much more then, being now
justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death
of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his
life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
“Wherefore, as by one man
sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed
upon all men, for that all have sinned: For as by one man's
disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall
many be made righteous." (Rom. 5:1, 6-12, 19)
IN
DYING THOU SHALT DIE!
"And the Lord God took
the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and keep
it". God warned Adam, "Of every tree of the garden thou
mayest freely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, Thou shalt not eat of it.” The literal Hebrew says, "For
in the day that thou eatest of it, in dying shalt thou die"!
In other words, the process of
death would immediately begin in their bodies and they would
eventually die! From that day til this, death has reigned supreme
over the human race. Everyone eventually dies, and the process of
death works from the day an infant is born until he finally expires!
The Good News is that Jesus
Christ – the Second Adam – overcame death, Hades and the Grave
for us when He conqoured Satan by shedding His pure and perfect Blood
for our total Freedom from the curse of sin that we had broken.
Amen.
