He Healed Them All
Scripture: Acts 10:38Devotional Series: By His Stripes
Teaching: By His Stripes pt. 2 (SUN_AM 2024-03-17) by Pastor Star R Scott
There are consequences of sin. We are going to deteriorate. We are going to get sick. There is disease in this world. We are going to see how faith pertains to it because, even though we have a covenant with God, that same covenant that causes us to be just and righteous with God—and we are not always living righteously, though we are legally still righteous—we will not always, every time, necessarily get healed or delivered. But we are a healed people, a delivered people, through the blood of Jesus Christ.
It takes faith to declare what we are not seeing and what we are not feeling. We don’t always feel righteous, but we still declare it; amen? Somehow, in our physical realm, whenever the physical doesn’t match up, we just say, “What’s wrong?” “I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I must not have enough faith.” Well, just declare what the Bible says, “Lord, I believe; help…mine unbelief.” Amen? Truly, faith is the answer to all of these things. Jesus healed them all because Jesus was perfect in His faith. He never sinned. He never sinned through unbelief. Unbelief is sin; unpersuadableness is sin. When God has made a declaration of truth and we do other than “amen” that, then we have sinned, and we need to confess those sins. We do it for our justification; we should do it for these areas of our physical healing. “Lord, I’m sorry that I have not been able to draw on that grace.”
Jesus came to do the Father’s will; amen? We have seen that so many times in John’s gospel. He lived separate from all other people. He said, “I came not to do My will but the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work” (John 4:34). Acts 10:38 says, “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.” That is the will of God; amen? My deliverance from oppression, my deliverance from sickness, my deliverance from the power of sin, Romans 6:6, it does not dominate me any longer. That is my confession; that’s how I see myself, praise God! Amen? The accuser of the brethren is constantly telling you, “You’re not good enough. You’re a failure. You’re not going to make it.” Yes, I am! I am not going to make it on my own, because without Him I can do nothing, but I will make it because if God is for me, who can be against me? He will keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day; amen? Hallelujah! Our loving Father, our Redeemer, who is He? He is the Lord that heals us; He doesn’t change.