Keys to Healing - Part 2

Key #2 - You must understand the covenant

I have a really important question I want to ask you: Is healing part of the atonement and new covenant we have through Christ?

"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5 KJV)

Now some of you might say, "But that was just for our spiritual healing. That couldn't be for our physical healing!" Turn to Matthew 8 and read the story in verses 16 and 17:

"When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. " (Matthew 8:16-17 KJV)

Were those "spiritual healings" or were those full blown physical healings that took place? I would say that irrefutably proves that our physical healing was indeed part of the atoning work of Christ on the Cross. Don't you?

If healing is part of our covenant with God through Christ's atoning work, what is this business about "in God's timing" or "if it's God's will to heal me"? If He has made a covenant with us, and Jesus has paid the price for our healing in the atonement, then for God to withhold on that provision, His integrity would be worth squat.

Many people are not healed because they lack basic knowledge of the covenant we have with God. Just as we are told in Hosea chapter 4, Christians today are destroyed for lack of knowledge:

" 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." (Hosea 4:6 KJV)

We need to be diligent in seeking to understand the scriptures and not be ignorant of the things which God has for us. You can stake your life on God's integrity, but we doubt His integrity when we still ask if it's God's will to heal us, as it's clear that healing is one of the benefits of the New Covenant.

The thing we have to keep in mind is that the promises of the New Covenant are received by faith. Just as Jesus died for the sins of the world, does not mean that the world will be saved.

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