You Are Healed!

There are two views of healing. The most common view is that healing is not in the Redempetive of work of Christ, but belongs to us if we have faith enough to claim it.

This belief holds that faith is a gift of God. If God gives you faith for your healing, you will be healed. If He does not give you faith there is no need to struggle for your healing. Your only hope is the arm of flesh.

This view is superficial. It is a result sense knowledge. Our intellect!

Sense knowledge is the knowledge of natural man and is gained through the senses. It is a kind of knowledge taught in all our high schools, technical schools and universities. It is not God's revelation knowledge. It can not understand the Word of God.

The other kind of knowledge is Revelation Knowledge. It teaches that miracles are for today. That Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. It is taught by God.

Sense knowledge repudinetes it in a very large measure because it is above the knowledge of the senses. In other words, man does not understand it, so therefore he must disagree with it.

The second view of healing is that it is a part of the plan of Redemption, that disease came with the fall, and that sickness is a work of the adversary. Sickness is of the devil. Through Jesus Christ, we have complete authority over the devil and his demons.

Because disease came with the fall, God is the natural, logical Healer.

Man cannot deal with the sin problem. He cannot make himself Righteous. He cannot rid himself of sin-consciousness.

These can only come through the finished work of Christ. God planned that when we were re-created (Born-again) we would be righteous, and partake of His righteousness which is His very nature. This would give us the position of sons---who sit at the right hand of Jesus-positionally as God sees it.

The new creation is more than being baptized or confirmed. It is receiving the life and nature of the Father. Our spirits are re-created by receiving eternal life.

Isaiah 53 holds the key of redemption. Jesus was made sin with our sins. Not only was he made sin with our sins, but he was made sick with our sicknesses.

Natural man is called sin.

2 Corinthians 6:14-16, "Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion hath light with darkness?"

The believer is called righteousness; the unbeliever is called iniquity. He has not only committed sin, but he is sin.

The believer is called light and the unbeliever is called darkness.

Just as the sinner is sin, the sick man is not only sick but he is sickness. Sin deals with the Spirit; sickness is a spiritual thing revealed in the body.

When God laid our sin on Jesus, he laid us on Jesus, He laid the whole man on Jesus. He laid his sins, his weaknesses, his infirmities and diseases, his union with the adversary, on Jesus. Jesus became sin with our sin, became sick with our sickness.

Jesus was made sick with our sicknesses. He was made sin with our sin. This was God's method of dealing with the same problem.

He settled the sin problem. There is no sin problem. Christ puts it a way, and satisfied the claims of justice for man.

There is no sickness problem. There is simply a problem of the believer coming to know his rights and inheritance in Christ. Sin and sickness come from the same source---Satan is the author of both. I am sure that it is God's order that the believer should be as free from sickness as he is from sin. He should be as free from the fear of disease as he is from the condemnation of sin.

He wants us to know that when he laid our sins and sicknesses on Jesus and Jesus bore them away, it was to the end that sin and disease should no longer have dominion over us. He wants us to know in the second place, that sickness and disease do not belong in the family of God.

If there should be any sickness among us, it is because of a low state of knowledge of our rights and privileges in our redemption. At the new birth, sins are all remitted. The sin nature is displaced by the nature of God. Disease leaves with the sins. When we recognize the fact that our sickness was laid on Christ, and that he bore our diseases in his body on the tree, and that by his stripes we are healed it will be the end of the dominion of disease in our lives. (The Believers Authority  by Kenneth E Hagin is an excellent book on our rights in Christ).