The Lord is good and His mercies endure forever.  Hallelujah!  As we have been talking about the covenant of healing, we were bringing up the fact that many today who are of the Cessationist group don’t believe that miracles are for us in this age; that they ended in the first century after the foundational Apostles were formed.  When the Scriptures, then, were fully revealed to us at that time, God put away the working of miracles and, though they would not deny that God can sovereignly perform miracles today, the majority of professed Christians do not believe that healing is in the Atonement.  

We all know God can heal.  Will He?  Is healing just expressed arbitrarily through the sovereignty of God or is healing something that was paid for by the blood of Jesus and has been given through covenant and promise to His church, to His bride, to His beloved?  When we look at this topic, it can’t just be something that is looked at through a philosophical perspective.  It’s not even a theological question per se, other than the idea that it hinges upon the understanding of who God is, based upon His revelation, who He declared Himself to be and who He revealed Himself to be.  In other words, we have to know whether or not divine healing suits the character and the nature of God.

We start this thing understanding who our God is.  We know God is love; amen?  Thank God for that.  We see many of the different attributes of God throughout the Scriptures, but God is love.  God is merciful.  God is kind.  God is just; amen?  Remember we have, many times, spoken of the term used very readily over the years, but the Word is revealing, or His Word has stated to us, that God is a unitary being.  God is one.  God has revealed Himself and is three distinct persons; amen?

God has many attributes.  They are never in conflict.  When we talk about the unitary essence of God, nothing of who He is through all of His attributes, nothing of what He has declared in His Word is ever contradictory.  When it come to understanding God, that’s something that we have to use as a foundational truth for this study.

I was listening to a debate between a guy who claimed to be the pastor of a church, and it’s a church of these transgender folks.  In his commenting about God, he was talking about how loving God is and how kind God is, how merciful God is, all of these things that are true about God.  He never mentioned justice.  He never talked about wrath.  There were no comments on holiness and separation, but in this dialogue, he made a very interesting statement.  It just jumped out at me, as it would you.  He said, “And God is ever changing, ever evolving.”  Isn’t it interesting how he has to try to bring God into the cultural position of where men are today, living from a perspective of the idea that everything is relative to the moment and that culture decides truth, and he has God conforming to culture instead of what needs to happen?  The culture needs to conform to the will of God; amen?