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Andrew's Live Bible Study Notes - 8/15/17 Healing: I. It Is God'S Will To Heal
Andrew's Live Bible Study Notes - 8/15/17 Healing: I. It Is God'S Will To Heal
Andrew's Live Bible Study Notes - 8/15/17 Healing: I. It Is God'S Will To Heal
Live Bible Study Notes – 8/15/17
Healing
I. IT IS GOD’S WILL TO HEAL.
A. Healing is in the atonement of Jesus.
1. Definition of the Greek word sozo (Strong’s Concordance, G4982)
a. Translated "save" in reference to forgiveness of sins thirty‐eight times (Mt. 1:21;
1 Cor. 1:21; 1 Tim. 1:15; Heb. 7:25)
b. Translated "saved" in reference to forgiveness of sins fifty‐three times (Mt.
19:25; Mk. 16:16; Jn. 3:17)
c. Translated "healed" three times (Mk. 5:23, Jairus’s daughter, Lk. 8:36; Gadarene
demoniac; Acts 14:9, cripple that Paul healed)
d. Translated "save" in reference to healing (Jam. 5:15, prayer of faith save sick; Lk.
6:9, save life on the Sabbath)
e. Translated "whole" in reference to healing twice (Mt. 9:21, woman with issue of
blood; Mk. 5:28, woman with issue of blood)
f. Translated "made whole" in reference to healing eight times (Mt. 9:22, twice‐
woman with issue of blood; Mk. 6:56, sick made whole; Lk. 8:50, Jairus’s
daughter)
2. Many scriptures mention the healing of our bodies and the forgiveness of our sins
together as one work of God.
a. Psalms 103:3
b. Isaiah 53:4‐6 with Matthew 8:16‐17
c. 1 Peter 2:24
3. Scripture provides its own commentary on healing being in the atonement.
a. Isaiah 53:4‐6
b. Matthew 8:17
B. Jesus showed us the Father’s will perfectly (Jn. 5:19, 30; Heb. 1:3).
1. Jesus healed all (Acts 10:38).
2. There is no instance where Jesus made anyone sick.
C. Sickness in the New Testament is always from the devil.
1. Acts 10:38 (healed all who were oppressed of the devil)
2. Luke 13:16 (Satan had bound her for eighteen years.)
II. HEALING IS GOVERNED BY LAW.
A. Romans 3:27 – Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but
by the law of faith.
B. Mark 5:25‐34 – And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, [26] And
had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was
nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, [27] When she had heard of Jesus, came in the
press behind, and touched his garment. [28] For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I
shall be whole. [29] And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt
in her body that she was healed of that plague. [30] And Jesus, immediately knowing in
himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who
touched my clothes? [31] And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude
thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? [32] And he looked round about to
see her that had done this thing. [33] But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing
what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. [34]
And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be
whole of thy plague.
C. Isaiah 45:11 – Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of
things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye
me.
III. SOME DEGREE OF FAITH ALWAYS HAS TO BE PRESENT FOR HEALING TO OCCUR.
A. Instances where an individual’s faith made them whole:
1. The woman with the issue of blood (Mt. 9:22; Mk. 5:34; Lk. 8:48)
2. Blind Bartimaeus (Mk. 10:52; Lk. 18:42)
3. The Syrophoenician woman’s daughter (Mt. 15:28; Mk. 7:29)
4. One of the ten lepers (Lk. 17:19)
5. The centurion’s servant (Mt. 8:13; Lk. 7:1‐10)
6. Two blind men (Mt. 9:29)
B. Instances where Jesus quickened people’s faith to affect healing:
1. Jairus (Mk. 5:36)
2. The blind man at the gate of the temple (Jn. 9:1‐7)
3. The man at the pool of Bethesda (Jn. 5:2‐15)
4. The man with the withered hand (Mt. 12:9‐14; Mk. 3:1‐6; Lk. 6:6‐11)
5. The widow at Nain (Lk. 7:11‐17)
6. The blind man of Bethesda (Mk. 8:22)
7. The healing of the demoniac boy (Mt. 17:14‐21; Mk. 9:19; Lk. 9:41)
8. The ten lepers (Lk. 17:12‐19)
9. The raising of Lazarus (Jn. 11:25‐27, 40)
C. No instances where healing occurred and faith was not present:
1. Jesus could not do many mighty works of healing because of others’ unbelief.
a. Mark 6:5‐6 – And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands
upon a few sick folk, and healed them. [6] And he marvelled because of their
unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
b. Matthew 13:58 – And He did not do many mighty works there because of their
unbelief.
2. Various degrees of faith:
a. Great faith:
i. Matthew 8:10; Luke 7:9
ii. Matthew 15:28
b. Little faith:
i. Matthew 6:30
ii. Matthew 8:26
iii. Matthew 14:31
iv. Matthew 16:8
v. Luke 12:28
D. Failure to receive the miraculous linked to doubt or unbelief:
1. Because of your unbelief (Mt. 17:20)
2. Peter as he began to sink (Mt. 14:31)
3. James 1:6‐8
4. Mark 11:23‐24
E. The apostles perceived faith in people they ministered healing to:
1. Peter in Acts 3:1‐16
2. Paul in Acts 14:9
IV. REASONS WHY PEOPLE ARE NOT HEALED:
A. Unbelief
1. Unbelief from ignorance (Rom. 10:14‐17)
a. The cure is to minister the Word.
2. Unbelief from wrong doctrine
a. The cure is to minister the Word.
3. Unbelief from natural senses (Mt. 17:20‐21)
a. The cure is much fasting and prayer.
B. Failure to act on the Word
1. Faith without works is dead (Jam. 2:14‐21).
a. Actions are essential to releasing our authority.
b. The violent take it by force (Mt. 11:12).
C. Misguided faith
1. Man at the pool of Bethesda (Jn. 5:2‐9)
a. Happens with doctors and medicine today
b. Happens with nutritionists today
D. Sin
1. Sin no more, lest a worst thing come upon thee (Jn. 5:14).
2. Thy sins be forgiven thee (Mk. 2:1‐12).
3. Matthew 18:23‐35
a. Not a personal rejection by God; just God’s laws
b. God is love (1 Jn. 4:8); not walking in love is not walking in God.
4. James 3:16 – For where envy and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
E. Sowing to the flesh
a. Galatians 6:6‐9 – Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that
teacheth in all good things. [7] Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. [8] For he that soweth to his
flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the
Spirit reap life everlasting. [9] And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if we faint not.
V. DIVINE HEALTH
A. Eliminate all of the above (unbelief, failure to act on the Word, misguided faith, sin, and
sowing to the flesh).
B. Continue to walk in that revelation.
C. Be quick to repent if you violate the Word.
D. Fight because you have been healed, not to get healed.