As we’re going into this study, I'd like to make a clear statement: sometimes, in this covenant promise, you don’t feel righteous, but you are righteous.  Can anybody say “Amen” to that?  Sometimes you may not feel healed, but you’re healed, praise God!  It’s the same faith for our righteousness, our justification, as it is for our healing.  We say what God says; amen?  Everything else subordinates to that and bows its knee.  Now how is it that we come to that belief?  Even cessationists—the people who believe that miracles are over and that all of these different manifestations of God ended back when the canon was finalized—they believe that at that time, all of these signs, wonders, and miracles ceased to function in the church.  They direct it a lot at tongues.  They direct that ceasing at this doctrine we are speaking of: divine healing.  None of them will say that God can’t heal, if they’re true believers.  They believe God can, and they believe that sometimes He does.  They can’t deny a miracle when it occurs, they just said it’s not in the atonement.  They say it is not something, in the covenant we have through Jesus Christ, that can be expected.  It’s something that should be experienced, just as the benefits of our justification.  So, they won’t go there.  Why is it, then, that we believe differently?

Let’s look at why we believe that, and we’ll start by going to Exodus, Chapter 15.  These are verses that many of us know.  It doesn’t matter how many times we’ve heard these verses, or how well we think we understand the doctrine.  This Word is alive and powerful; amen?  Every time you glimpse it, every time you take it into your spirit, “It’s life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh” (Proverbs 4:22), praise God!

As we’re hearing these great promises of God, the reason we believe that these things are for us today is because God is immutable; amen?  God doesn’t change.  God is eternal, so He doesn’t change forever; amen?  We know that He, the Lord, representing the great council of God, is “…the same yesterday, and today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8), praise God!  So as God began to reveal Himself to man, He began to show us Who He was, what His nature was, what His attributes were; and those are immutable, and those are eternal.  We rest in those promises.