Amen!  Hallelujah!  The Lord is good; amen?  His mercies endure forever.  We’ve been talking about the doctrine of divine healing.  And, of course, as we’ve said, there’s nothing in the Scriptures that tells us that there are “divine healers” (people who have within their own ability to foresee, foreknow, or somehow initiate healing power at their discretion).  The Lord is our Healer (amen?) and He alone.  We thank God for the gifts of healings that operate within the church, and the Scripture says these gifts operate severally as He wills, which means you should always be ready to be used of God to lay hands upon the sick, to cast out devils, because it’s a ministry and a gift that functions through us at the Holy Spirit’s discretion, not ours.

So, all of us are not to look for others to be that vessel being used; we’re to look for ourselves to be that vessel.  Amen?  That’s why we come, to gather, believing.  And as we come to fellowship together like this, then we should be believing for the gifts of the Spirit to be in operation.  It’s God’s will for us to be healed.  It’s God’s will to come and visit us as we come to recognize Him, to lift His name in praise—to show Himself present, as in the communion services when we remember His body broken for us.  And in the remembering of that body, we should expect to be healed at those times.  We confess our sins, the Scripture says, at that moment, as the Holy Spirit reveals them to us, and receive forgiveness and then partake.  He says to not partake unworthily or without recognizing His redemption alone as the sole source of our reconciliation to God, that we even eat to ourselves sickness and even death, not discerning the Lord’s body.

There’s much to do with the physical man in the Scripture, the desire for God to let us walk in that full benefit of redemption.  When Jesus healed the man and He said, “Your sins are forgiven you.  Take up your bed and walk,” people were horrified.  And Jesus said, “What are you getting so excited about?  Which is easier, to say, Your sins are forgiven; or to say, Take up your bed and walk?  But that you might know that the Son of man has power…” (Matthew 9:2-6).  Amen?  Why could Jesus make that statement?  We just read it this morning in Isaiah 53.  Redemption is for the whole man: spirit, soul, and body.  Amen?  That wholeness that comes to us.  That same death on the cross, that caused our sins to be forgiven, provided for the healing of our bodies.

Think about how powerful that is.  Take a moment and meditate upon the great work that occurred and upon the strength of these words, “It is finished.”  There’s nothing else to be done!  Everything that pertains to your healing has already been done.  Everything that pertains to your regeneration, reconciliation, your redemption, your justification, has already been accomplished, praise God!  And just like we don’t have to work for our redemption, we don’t have to work for our healing.  We don’t have to perform for our justification, and we don’t have to perform for our healing.  It’s done!  It’s accomplished!  We need to believe.  We need to believe and boast in this finished work and realize that it is the will of God to heal us.  Jesus said, “I’ve not come to do My will, but the will of He Who sent Me.”  And what did He do?  “He went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him” (Acts 10:38).  Amen?  It’s the will of God.