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Justification For Healing
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I want to show you the basis for sickness, the basis for healing, and then when you understand the basis for healing, what you need to do to receive healing, and then evangelists will come up. You need to understand that sickness does not just happen. Sickness did not have the right and the jurisdiction to invade the human race. It wasn't permitted. When Adam was in the garden, he was never sick. Because sickness does not just happen. There has to be a legal premise for the allowance of sickness to be able to attach itself to a human person. This is why men could become sick. And then when that legal premise is removed, it also becomes illegal for a man to be sick. Because a man was not created to be sick. A man was created to live in the realm of glory. And I have taught you that glory in this context means living exactly like God. In Genesis one twenty six, the Bible said, God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness, and he said, let them have dominion. So he was created to function in the realm of dominion, and that realm of dominion is the realm of glory, because this dominion is not just about activities. It is first of all about being. It's
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I want to show you the basis for sickness, the basis for healing, and then when you understand the basis for healing, what you need to do to receive healing, and then evangelists will come up. You need to understand that sickness does not just happen. Sickness did not have the right and the jurisdiction to invade the human race. It wasn't permitted. When Adam was in the garden, he was never sick. Because sickness does not just happen. There has to be a legal premise for the allowance of sickness to be able to attach itself to a human person. This is why men could become sick. And then when that legal premise is removed, it also becomes illegal for a man to be sick. Because a man was not created to be sick. A man was created to live in the realm of glory. And I have taught you that glory in this context means living exactly like God. In Genesis one twenty six, the Bible said, God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness, and he said, let them have dominion. So he was created to function in the realm of dominion, and that realm of dominion is the realm of glory, because this dominion is not just about activities. It is first of all about being. It's about who he is, then what he does. Dominion does not begin with what you can do. Dominion begins with who you are. That's why God made man in his image, in his likeness, and he said he should have dominion. So if a man does not become, he cannot manifest. If you studied John chapter one, from these ten to verse fourteen, the Bible said, he came into the world, although the world was made by him. The word knew him. Not, he said, But as many as he came onto his own his own received him. Not, he said, but as many as received him to them, he gave the right to become the sons of God. So every time God encounters a man, his first of all interested in his being before his manifestation, because your being is actually a call to glory. And when the man fell and was denatured, the Bible said he fell from glory. He didn't say he lost capacity for manifestation. Manifestation was a byproduct of his being. The moment he denatured, he lost the ability for manifestation. In Roman six twenty three, he said, for all I've seen and falling short of the glory of God, he has fallen short. So he was created to live in glory, and glory in this context is not him receiving praises for manifestation. God is the one who we always take praise. Glory in this context means he was created to model. God, to live like God. So whatever could not happen to God should not happen to the man. Things that don't happen to God began to happen to the man. When he failed, he fell from glory. He fell from the divine nature, He fell from the divine life, He fell from the divine. Order of existence. I want this consciousness to sink into your minds, Peter was speaking, and I've read this scripture a million times. In Second Peter, Chapter one, verse three is that the cordiness is divine power. He has given us all things that pertend to life and godliness through the knowledge of him that God was to glory. Peter is telling us that we were born, we were created to live in glory. And then he went to verse four and showed us what. It meant to live in glory, he said, whereby are given on to us exceeding great and precious promises. He said that by this we might become partakers of His divine nature, having escaped the corruption that isn't the world through laws. So Peter is telling us that glorified existence is God existence, functioning in the nature and in the class of God. And you know, if you are in that class, you can't be sick because by that nature and that class, sickness can't exist there, sadly, or can't exist there. You can be dominated there, you can't be helpless there. In the God realm and in the God class, dominion is natural over sickness, over devils, over circumstances. Man became seeck cable when he fell from glory. So there is a legitimate ground upon which sickness gained permission to begin to attack men. And this is what Paul taught us in Romans five, twelve, fifteen and seventeen. Because of our time. The reason why men became sickable. A bu to be sick. The reason why Paul was telling us that men were not seeckble, men could not be sick, men could not. Be attacked by sickness. The reason why men attacked becoming successible to sickness, there was a legal ground, and so in Romans five twelve is awarefore as by one man, seen entered into the world, and death by seeing. So it was seen that legitimized death, and death is sickness inclusive. And he said when death entered the world, death passed on to all men. For that all have seen. That means if sin didn't enter the world, death wouldn't have access into the world, and if death didn't enter into the world, death would not have been passed to men. So the reason why men could receive sickness and death was because Sein entered the world. And the reason Scene entered the world was because Adam threw rebellion opened the door. So seen and sickness is legitimization in afflicting a human person. It's not that the person is weak. The legitimization of sickness is that Sein has passed to men and death came by sin. So if there is no Sein, there's no death, and if there's no death, there will be no sickness. So this is the legal ground. If you read verse fifteen, Paul Nann began. To introduce that the same way there is a legal ground for seen for sickness and death, there is also a lego ground for healthyliving. So when we are talking about a person being sick or healthy, it's about spiritual legalities. It's not about whether the person is sick or it's strong or not strong. It's not about whether the person exercises or not. It's not about whether the person. Rests or not. All of those things are good. But when we are talking sickness and health, these are spiritual legalities. The lego ground for sickness is seen, the lego ground for death is seen. So when sin is taken care of, sickness shouldn't have right to function. Are you following so Paul told us in verse fifteen, Except but not as the offense, So also is the pregift, Except for it through the offense of one many be dead. He's still talking about the rebellion of Adam boys, telling us that the reason most of us die, most of us for sick is said, it's because of the offense of Adam. Is that if by the offense of. One Adam many be dead, is how much more. The grace of God and how much more the grace of God and the gift by grace, which is by one man Jesus Christ had abounded on too many. Can we have this enalty? If many people can be sick, if many people can die because of the offense of one man, can you imagine the grace that many more should have because of the obedience of Jesus. So poet telling us that the obedience of Jesus is superior to the disobedience of Adam, And so so the grace and the enablement that Jesus brought is superior to the. Weakness of death that Adam Sein brought. But there is a great difference between adam seing and God's gracious gifts. For the sin of this one man, Adam brought death to many, except for even greater is God's wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this. Order man, Jesus Christ. So what Jesus did is superior to what Adam did. Grace is superior to death. The power of life that comes through grace is superior to the power of sickness and death that came through Adam's disobedience. Verse seventeen. Paul now made us understand that this grace we didn't just receive it in bits and pieces except for the sin of one man, Adam. Cause death are you saying? Cause death to rule over many? He said? But even greater in. God's wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who received it well live in triumphs over seen and death through one man, Jesus Christ. So the ground for with sickness entered the realm of men was the disobedience of Adam. So you are not sick because you eat bad food, Jesus said, if you eat any deadly thin, it should know how to you. You are not sick because you didn't exercise. You are not sick because you didn't rest. Now, don't get me wrong. All these things are important. But you are sick because Aidamn seined. And when Adam seinned, he legitimi sickness to attack your body. Boys, telling us that now that Jesus has obeyed God, he has also illegitimized sickness. So sickness, she don't attack you anymore. So the basis for health and sickness and legalities of the spiritual and the good news tonight is that the legal premise for health is superior to the legal premise for sickness. If you go to Isiah fifty three from the four, you're gonna see what Jesus did in practical terms in order to remove and erode the power of sickness. He say, yet, it was our weaknesses he carried. It was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment of his own sins, he said, we thought God was punishing him for seining. He never sinned. He said, it was our weaknesses he carriage. So if you carried your weakness. It needs there's no legal ground for you to carry it anymore. He wasn't carrying his own weakness. He didn't have any weakness. It was our sorrows he carried, So if he carried our sorrows, there is no legal ground for us to carry sorrows anymore. In verse five, he now began to break it down. He said he was pierced for our rebellion, crossed for our scenes beating so we could be whole, and he was stripped so that we could be healed. So he specified it in case you think it's a veg statement. No, he was pierced for my rebellion, so. There is no record that rebellion can present in the spirit for which I'll. Be bodied or be enslaved. He said he was crossed for my sines, so. There's nothing there's no testimony in the spirit him anymore that gives you legal ground for that to rule over me. He was crossed for my sins. And he didn't just deal with the costs. He did dealt with the problem as well. He said he was beating so that I'll be made whole. And he said he was whipped so that I would be healed. And when Peter looked back in dealing with this invest bitter two twenty. Four, Peter discussed it in past. That means it has already been perfected as far as Peter was concerned, you will not be healed. Peter said, you are already healed, because that's how God sees you. You are already healed. He personally carried our scenes in his body on the cross, so that we can be dead to sin. And live for what is right. And he said by his wounds we are healed. So if you are sick this evening Your challenge should not be what did I do? Can I get well? What did I do? And can I get. Well are no longer questions, because the reason you found yourself in sickness in the first place was not because of you. It was because of Adam. Adam was the one who gave lego ground to sin so that death can rule over you. And when Jesus came, Jesus went to the foundation and can suit what Adam did, so that the lego ground for we'ch sein hard for wech sickness are to attack you is removed. So if there is any feeling you have now that is God's sickness, that feeling no longer has legal ground to be in your body. That's why tonight we are going to approach you with authority and say be healed. We are going to approach you with authority and command cancer to get out. If there was a legal ground, we won't have the authority to command cancer. You know why, if we tell cancer get out, cancer can't say why I came here because something happened. If you tell the devil to get out, the devil could say why. But now when you say cancer go, he has no choice because there's no premise, there's no legality. This is the understanding that you must have, and this is all God wants to achieve for which he sent Jesus and cause Jesus to die on the cross. I was teaching two days ago at Dominion City, and I was teaching on the message of the Cross. I told them the message of the cross has a historical dimension. He has a theological dimension, and he also has an essential dimension. The historical dimension is the fact that. Is captured in First Corinthians fifteen, vers. Three and four. The Bible said, factually speaking, Jesus died according to the scripture. Factually speaking, Jesus was buried according to the scriptures. Factually speaking, Jesus rose again from the dead according to scripture. This is a historical fact. It can be proven. Scholars, historians have verified these and there are many evidences to prove that this happened. But the message of the Cross is beyond this. When we speak about this, this is not. The message you want to preach. We want to use this to preach the message because we need these facts to be able to preach the message. The real message of the cross is fivefold. Number one is the love of God. So when we tell you Jesus died for you, we are trying to communicate something to you that the death of Jesus represents. Why did Jesus die for you? God could not watch you perish. God was motivated to deliver you. So the love of God is the first that motivated God to reach out to you. So that every time you think about the death of Jesus, you will be. Confident that God will never allow me perish. There is something inside God that motivates God to always reach out to me. That's God love. That's the message of the Cross. Why would God use to. Die for me? He loves me, and that love will let him keep quiet when I'm suffering. So in John three sixteen, the Bible said, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begott in soul, that whosoever believed in him should not perish, but however last in life. So the love component of the message of the Cross is the motivation in the heart of God. So every time I see the cross of Jesus, every time I remember that Jesus died, what comes to my heart is not the history. What comes to my heart is that there is a God. Somewhere that we do anything possible to reach out to me when I'm in trouble. So the cross represents the love of the Father. This is why Paul was speaking in Romance eight thirty two. He said, if if if he did not withhold his only begot in son, but gave him freely for you. He said, how. Shah, he not with him give you all things. So I can tell you God lost me. He didn't come because we are many. Even if I was the only person he would have come. And in case there's not that person on it. Today, God will reduce the provision that he has given. He will still leave all for me. He lost me that much. He's not motivated because we have plenty. He's motivated because there's something. In him called love, and on the strength of that he paid. The price to remove the legality. The message of the cross also has to do with the power of God, because when God showed up, there were resistances. The devil already had already taken charge. So when Jesus came, certain was there. Confronting I have taken charge. You can't come here. So God had to remove Satan from the way. He took power. And when God takes your death, if it's not powerful death to. Bind him there that he rose from the death is a statement that he came. With enough power. So anything that I suffered today, when I look at the cross of Jesus, I am persuaded that God does not just have love and motivation to reach me, he also has the power to deal with the matter. You know, somebody can love you, boy, he doesn't have the ability. You are drowning. A friend of mine was drowning some years ago. Those days, we used to sneak go to the river to swim. When we finished swimming and we are coming home. Wait, wait, bye, what do they call it now? Akara? If you don't know it, forgive me. They used to fry bean's caked bean cake. They frightened so by it, squeeze the oil and rub on ourselves because when you swim for hours, your body becomes white, so we have to rob it on ourselves so that we don't appear like people who have been in the river. So we went on this occasion to swim rebelliously, and a friend of ours began to drown. And I was motivated by love to reach out. When I reached out myself, didn't know how to swim away. The guy now grabbed me on the throat. Her sir, what's going on here? I tried to He had me. You know, when somebody is dying, anything you hold unless those hands. Are cut off. When he helped me, I couldn't breathe. I thought that, thinking I had to. I punched him on the face. The first I gave him. I gave him a pacata. His grief left. I took d You're dying that way that's going on here. My destin' is ahead of me. So somebody can be motivated by love, but he doesn't have the power. But when Jesus showed off, he didn't just have love, he had power, the Bible said in Collosians two fourteen. Having spoiled with the parties and powers, he made the public show of Satan triumphing over him by the cross. So he disarmed Satan. In romanschafter one Verst. Three and four, the Bible said, he demonstrated. Power when he rose from the dead. He said, now give me romanschafter one Verst. Three. Is that concerning his son Jesus Christ, which was made of the seed of David according to the Flesh. Verse four, he said and declared to be the son of God with power according to the spirit of Holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. So he challenged that, he challenged Satan, And when he rose off, he said, all here, all power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. You go in that power is that Behold, I am the one who was dead, but now live it forever more. And I have the key of Hell and of the grave. So he rose with the key of death. He rose with the key of hell. He rose with the key. To bounds clave together. Because he didn't just have love, he has power. So when I look at the cross of Jesus, I'm not just looking at. A historical fact. When I look at the cross of Jesus, I'm seeing the power that can cure cancer. I'm three the power that can open blind eyes. I'm three the power that can make cripus walk. I'm seeing the power that can rest the dead. I'm seeing the power that can heal the sea and town circumstances around. I'm showing you the legalities. So when we say you shouldn't be sick, we are not encouraging you we are telling you a spiritual legality that has spiritual potency. Sit down for a moment. When we speak about the cross number three, which is the legal ground for your healing, we are also. Talking about. The messy of God, the messy, because messy speaks about deliverance. Massey speaks about exoneration from judgment. In James two thirteen, he said massy prevails over judgment. In Lamentation three twenty two, he says for the lost mercy that we are not consumed his compassion fail at not they are new every morning. The cross speaks of God's mercy because in efficients chapter one, verse fourteen, the Bible told us God, who is rich in mercy for his great love, wherewit resaved us when we were dead. He quicking us together with Christ by grace, we are saved. So what spumps us love is actually mercy. This guy is supposed to die because the wages of sin is dead, but I want to remove that judgment. So messy is the power that removes judgment. Love is the power that motivates God. And then power itself is the authority that's pop tetter and open the grave goot for him to enter and come out because the key was. In the grave. Well Satain took it from Da. He took it to Headis, so you have to enter head Is to collect it. He took power to enter there. It's that this commandment have I receipt from my father. I have the power to lay down my life and take it off. No one can take my life from me. That the cross is the legal ground for your health. So listen, when sickness comes, don't panic why because. You know what authorizy. Sickness is the scene of ada. But now you also know that that scene has been taken away. You also know that that rebellion has been canceled. So when sickness comes, it's not a time to panic. It's a time to exercise authority. Hey, how did you come here? You have been dealt with already. What gave you the legal ground to come here? This is not where you should enter. This has become the health quot out God, because whoever is joined to the Lord is one spirit. If you are moving around the neighborhood, he say this for you. How dare you come to we are God dwells? Are you not aware that He has conquered you? I believe us understand this, we will stop having miracle service because before you come, you'll div with it at home. And he didn't stop there. The cross is the wisdom of God. Every time I look at the cross, I am persuaded that God we. Always have smart Satan. You know why the Bible said in First Corinthians two, if you read from these six, to use eight. He said, First Corinthians two, verse six, to use eight. See what the Bible said. He said, how be. It we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, Yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princess of this world that come to north. He said, But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which was ordained before the world, onto our glory. So this wisdom was designed to bring us back to glory. Remember, we fell from glory. Then you go to the next first, he said, which none of the princess of this world knew. He said, for her, they had no need. They would not have crucified the Lord of glory. See, Oh, God dealt with Satan. He did ride it though. From Genesis three, sixteen fifteen the moment man said, God said, the deceived of the woman crossed the head of this sapped. Jesus came. Jesus said, except the son of Man belifted up, he won't draw all men to himself, except but when he's lifted up, he withdraw all men. Jesus said, they try this temple in three days our building. So he was showing Satan, Yes, Satan, who does it? It's talking superiors. Tom and Satan still went ahead, collaborated with men and killed him. Meanwhile, he came to die. It's like Satan giving him transport. Fair. I'm coming to. Destroy you and not paid for the fair. Come and kill me. So the Bible said, the pries of this world didn't know. If they they knew, they would not have crucified the lord. That means if Satan knew when they wanted to kill Jesus, it was Hell that would have stopped the killing. It was hell that would have stopped Pilot. It was hell, but set and didn't know. He was pushing Pilot, he was pushing Kypas, he was pushing the sexual. All of that he didn't know. It was when Jesus entered the grave. Jesus did his struggle. How did you come? Okay, let's fortify the was they one passed. Jesus is struggle. The two pass set and became suspicious. He isn't a you who was going everywhereos out. Now you have metos here? Why are you not fighting? What's going on? So set them became afraid. He knows someone every dam on. Let's gather and see the plan he has come here with. On the third day, the Holy Ghost went to walk hire. The Holy Ghost Suddenly Errand and paraj Ascot came from heaven. The Bible said that same spirit, that spirit, the spirit of creation, the spirit or resurrection. Suddenly the Holy gooes appeared in hair. That was one certain was wanting. I thought you were helpless. No, I'm not helpless. On the third days, that having spoilt principalities and powers high having point. You know what that word means. It means a fight that is on display. It was there a. Fight that was hitting. Jesus shot up, he clicks off, he slaps off, he slaps on. He bind them together in their own strongholds. Does that make sense? He had this? When's Thatta repared to Heaven God in fighting, he said Mike kevil en Seta now went to head his headquarters that's where Jesus should though. If I beat you heavil, you say some fair I came to your strongholda. Da da dada theater no wonder. The Bible said, all things work together for good. To damn that love, God to damn data card according to his purpose. When he gave you cancer, he thought you had finished. But God wanted to use that cancer to glorify himself. When he shut the door for. You not to have the jaw, he thought you was doing well. God used that to train you and to have thought you in the word that tata kudu stop him. I profess I over someone today it's your day of encounter. Ay, he's your day of and counter. Give the Lord the show. Business our victory. This is powerful. But look at what blessed me the most. You know the way God did it. When you are now hearing this truth, you think you are being educated. God now created this system that every wee this tooth is spoken underneath it. Faith is transferred. Faith is transferred. So what you are hearing is what educating you is. They can't do it transfer in faith. That's why why you are hearing it. Your your challenges start becoming small. See what Romance Tands sixteen said Romance Tand sixteen Romance I'm rounding up. Now, see what happened when you hear this truth. See, don't ask for faith, don't look for faith. Just hear this truth. When you hear it, whether you like it or not, fat we enter your heart. This is the very good that brings faith. He said, but have not. But they have not all believed the gospel. For Isaiah said, who had believed our report? We are? Did Isaiah say this God to. Isaiah fifty three vers one, you were here, we are, Isaiah said it. So what Isaiah said was the cross is that who had believed our report? Onto whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? What is the report? Verse five? He was wounded for our transgressions, He was pruced for our inegreatives. The adastisement of our peace was upon him. So this is what Paul was quoting. Pa said, Isiah said that Jesus died, Jesus was veried, Jesus rose from the dead and invest seventeen Romance Temes six seventeen. Paul now said, Fret commet, Fret commet by hearing, hearing by the word of God. So when you hear it is not knowledge comet. When you hear this is fed comet. When you hear this is power comet. When you hear this is victory commet. This is what the princes cannot know. That's why Paul said. Paul said in Fast Corinthians two from vest Team from the twenty twenty five is that the Jews require a high the Greek sink after wisom. Except what we preach Christ and. Him crucified is not to the Jewish a stumbling block. To the Greek is foolishness, except for to us who have been saved, where the Jew or Greek Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God. This is why it brings faith in the name of Jesus. Whatever you came here with. The fat that has risen in your heart, where swallow it? No, it's to a swallow it. No.