Why We Believe In Divine Healing?

Rev.Kong Hee
06.03.2005,Service 5

Exodus 15:26 - Jehovah Rapah

God is a HEALER.
Psalm 105:37 -> prosperity, God wants you to be strong.
Deuteronomy 7:15 - ALL sicknesses.
Psalm 103:1-5 -> 4 benefits (Don't forget your benefits.)

Psalms 103
103:1
A Psalm of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
103:2
Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits:
103:3
Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases,
103:4
Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
103:5
Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.


Isaiah 53
53:3
He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
53:4
Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
53:5
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.


Isaiah 53:4:
Grieves ->Sicknesses
Sorrows ->Physical pains
Isaiah 53:5
How are we so sure that Isaiah 53:3-5 is talking about our physical?
Bible confirms bible.
Jesus died for our PHYSICAL HEALING.
Matthew 8:16-17
8:16
When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,
8:17
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:
"He Himself took our infirmities
And bore our sicknesses."
- Salvation comes by asking -> For healing to happen you need to believe.
If people in the Old covenant can experience healing without JESUS and the HOLY SPIRIT, we in the New covenant can experience more.

Jesus had a powerful HEALING ministry.

Out of 3,779 verses in the 4 Gospels, 727 (or 1 in 5 verses) have to do with healing of the physical and mental illnesses.

Healing is not always INSTANT.
(Gk. therapuo) (Eng. therapeutics)
(Gk. ioamai) miraculously called over a period of time. *
Mark 8:24-25
Acts 28:7-8
God uses DOCTORS and MEDICINE to cure sicknesses too.


Matthew 9:12
When Jesus heard that, He said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

1 Timothy 5:23(TLB)
Paul:"By the way,this doesn't mean that you should completely give up drinking wine. You ought to take a liltle sometimes as medicine for your stomach because you are sick so often."

SICK->GOD->DOCTORS
Medicine is not God
We do not elevate doctors as God.

2 Chronicles 16:12
And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady was severe; yet in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but the physicians.

Mark 6:1-6
Unbelieve will not bring healing. Faith is not by sight.

WHY AREN'T PEOPLE HEALED?

Lack of FAITH for healing.
Child-like faith
HIDDEN HINDRANCES that are not dealt with.

James 5:16
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Unforgiveness
What must we do? Repent from sin/stubborn/rebellious nature.
Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear.

Regard: Treasure
Luke 5:17->pride
Intellectual pride
Uneducated people are simpler. Don’t use your education to limit what God can do to your life.
Science has no cure for Cancer and HIV but JESUS can heal you.

POOR MANAGEMENT of the human body.
Philippians 2:27,30
2:27
For indeed he was sick almost unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
2:30
because for the work of Christ he came close to death, not regarding his life, to supply what was lacking in your service toward me.

We live in an IMPERFECT, BROKEN DOWN world.
Why are there still sickness and disaters in the World today?
Simple. We live in and fallen world. But whatever we experience here is temporal. We can still trust God for healing...Praise God if I am healed on earth but if I am not... Praise God there is no sickness or hurts in heaven.
If Mr. Calvin did not see for his whole life on planet earth but still trusted God that he will be healed...Praise God...One day when he gets to heaven for the first time he can see and he will see forever the "cool things" in Heaven.

SOVERIGINITY of God.


WHAT TO EXPECT IN "BENNY HINN HEALING CRUSADE"?

Working with the ANOINTING.
Without the power of God nothing will happen.

Acts10:38
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

2 Kings 3:15
But now bring me a musician."
Then it happened, when the musician played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.


Exciting but LONG services.
Luke 24:49
Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry[wait] in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high."

Lots of focus on the MAN of God.

Acts 3:4,6
3:4
And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, "Look at us."
3:6
Then Peter said, "Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk."

1 Corinthians 12:9
to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit

There will be a lot of focus on Rev. Benny Hinn as he shares his testimonies.
Don't get worried if he doesn't lay hands on you. Our faith is not in the Man of God. REV. BENNY HINN IS NOT GOD.
Lots of TESTIMONIES to build faith.
Testimonies are shared to destroy the power of doubts.

Revelation 12:11

11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

CRITICS and MOCKERS in the face of genuine healing.
Matthew 12:22-24
12:22
Then one was brought to Him who was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and He healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.
12:23
And all the multitudes were amazed and said, "Could this be the Son of David?"
12:24
Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, "This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons."

Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul.

UNUSUAL miracles.
Acts 19:11-12
19:11
Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul,
19:12
so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.
Life TRANSFORMATION.

Acts 8:6-8
8:6
And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
8:7
For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.
8:8
And there was great joy in that city.

Romans 15:18-19
15:18
For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, to make the Gentiles obedient--
15:19in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.