Unveiling Our Heritage of Divine Health in Christ, Part 1
There is a saying that “Health is wealth.” It is very true, good health is a spring board to good success and prosperity. Bad health can diminish your wealth. Look at how in 2019 a flu grounded the entire world. If you don’t think this is important, you should definitely think again.
Psalms 103:2-3 (NIV)
2 Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits,
3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,
Any disease you can think of, God has the capacity to heal it. We count ourselves blessed to have a God that can heal all our diseases so we can thrive in life.
Why is this topic so important?
The Redeemed Have a Covenant Right to Divine Health. Do not nurse sickness thinking God is testing you. You have a right in Christ to be in good health.
Mark 7:27 (KJV)
27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
Jesus refers to healing as bread. In any kingdom your government will always make sure every family has bread in their home. Likewise in the kingdom of light.
3 John 1:2 (KJV)
2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Divine health is God’s best wish for us as believers. He saved our soul and spirit, but He is also concerned about the wellbeing of your body.
1 Corinthians 6:20 (KJV)
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Your body also belongs to God and he paid a heavy price to redeem you to good health. Jesus’s blood was shed for your body as well. When you buy something and it costs you everything you never enjoy watching it decay. Likewise God doesn’t rejoice in watching His valuable asset waste away. You don’t understand what God paid for your body to be well. Accept it in your spirit.
Root of Sickness and Disease
You cannot confront what you don’t know. You cannot fight an enemy you don’t know. This is why governments invest a lot of money in something called intelligence.
1 Corinthians 9:26 (KJV)
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
There are 3 Routes to Which Sickness and Disease Enter a Person
1. Sin
Sickness and Disease was legalized to attack mankind through sin. As you read about Adam in Genesis 1 and 2 he was in perfect health. This is why God didn’t make any provision for His healing.
Genesis 1:29 (KJV)
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
No sickness could have attacked Adam so trees were not for medicine but for food. Most medications are made through herbs. We have taken what God meant for food and turned it into medicine. Your true healing is divinely appointed through Christ.
Only after the fall did Sickness enter the world.
Romans 5:12 (KJV)
12 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:
Death comes as a result of sickness. If Death entered by sin, sickness also entered by sin.
The man at Bethesda was there for a very long time:
John 5:14 (KJV)
14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
The wisdom of God shows you that sin legalized sickness into his life. That’s why if you play around with sin you find sickness follows you.
- We can never enjoy full divine health unless the sin problem is properly dealt with.
John 1:29 (KJV)
29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
- Jesus Christ deals with the sin problem in our life.
- There is no other way to find atonement for sin except through Jesus Christ.
- There is no other god.
1 John 2:2 (KJV)
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
- The blood has set you free from the consequences of sin, including sickness.
1 Peter 2:24 (KJV)
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
- Sickness may try to sit on you because the devil is testing what you know about your rights.
- You must engage the blood of Jesus Christ.
- You can respond violently against any sickness and disease.
“I respond to a headache the way I respond to cancer” - The devil only needs a foothold.
2. The Curse of the Law
Deuteronomy 28:58-63 (KJV)
58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
- Meaning this one also affects the bloodline.
- It is a long type of sickness that you will have to live with.
60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
- It wipes out the family.
- Curses for not obeying the law of God do this to a person and their family.
- But there is good news, God knows the believer cannot fulfill the law by their own efforts.
Romans 3:20 (KJV)
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
- God is saying that it was never possible for you to fulfill the law yourself.
- He has therefore made a more excellent righteousness for you and I in Jesus Christ.
Romans 3:21-22 (KJV)
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
- This is good news, we are under the law of the Spirit of Life in Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:2-4 (KJV)
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
- The law has been fulfilled through Jesus Christ.
- You must hide yourself in Jesus Christ.
- Your redemption is not based on what you can do but on the power of the blood of Jesus Christ.
- Jesus Christ became the curse of the law for you and I.
Galatians 3:17 (KJV)
17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
- Sickness has no legal right in your life, as a believer anymore.
- We are no longer subjected under the curse of the law.
- It is foolish to pay for something that has already been paid for.
- All you need to do is sign and take it.
- You don’t have to walk under the weight of sickness and disease.
- You append your signature through faith in the promise.
- Barabbas was condemned to death:
Matthew 27:26 (KJV)
26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
- But Jesus took his place despite the level of his sin.
- Jesus has paid the price no matter how bad your sin was.
Matthew 8:17 (KJV)
17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
- Even generational sicknesses, you don’t have to take them anymore.
3. Satan and his cohorts
Acts 10:38 (KJV)
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; for God was with him.
- Sickness and disease was a manifestation of the work of the devil.
- Simon’s mother in law was sick:
Luke 4:38-39 (KJV)
38 And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.
39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
- You cannot see a demon under a microscope and in a hospital test.
- Medicine can never deal with sickness the way Jesus Christ can, medicine has it’s short comings.
- He rebuked the fever and when the demon left the fever followed it.
Job 2:7 (KJV)
7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
- Even if he had put calamine lotion it wouldn’t have dealt with the spirit of sickness put on him.
- You need to rebuke him and his agents out.
Luke 13:11 (KJV)
11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
- It was a spirit of infirmity that deformed her spine.
Luke 13:12 (KJV)
12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
- He rebuked the demon and the deformity left.
Luke 10:19 (KJV)
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
- You have the power to deal with demons.
Mark 9:25 (KJV)
25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
- Behind the man’s infirmity was a demon, he was born that way, but it was a demon.
- Don’t nurse demons in your life.
1 John 3:8 (KJV)
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 5:4 (KJV)
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
John 10:10 (KJV)
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
- Jesus has dealt with Satan and his cohorts through the cross.
Hosea 4:6 (KJV)
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”
- Don’t die because you don’t have revelation.