The Divine Exchange 6

His Healing for our sickness!

1 Peter 2:24-25

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

 

 

• I just listened to a song and in that song it has a line that says, “You (Talking to the Lord) will never run out of miracles.”
• That is the truth! We do serve a God of miracles and we do serve a God that has provided a substantial way for miracles to take place
• Within the laws that He has established He has made a way for an exchange to take place, not that the issue or problem is done away with on its on, but that it is dealt with and removed and in exchange Heaven’s reward is giving.
• NO other place in our life do we want to see more miracles then in the area of healing.
• I am a man who prays for God to heal people, but there are times when He has a bigger plan for the sickness then to offer healing.
• Ravi Zechariah just passed away. The Church has been praying for about 6 months for his healing and then again for about two weeks we have prayed for a miracle. Yet he still passed.
• IS GOD deaf? (NO WAY!)
• Does not care about Dr. RAVI? (More then we will ever know)
• Is God capable of healing? (ALWAYS AND FOREVER)
• SO, why would Dr. Ravi not be healed. Well, the Lord knows and it is between Him and His servant.
• Our days are numbered by the Lord and His plans for our days are there to bring honor and glory to Him.
• That does not mean the Lord does not care, nor does it mean the Lord cant heal or is not willing to heal.
• It simply means He knows what is best and what will bring more to know and understand Him.
• We are going to look at the provision of the Lord for the healing of the body by exchanging.

Matthew 8:14-17

When Jesus came into Peter’s home, He saw his mother-in-law lying sick in bed with a fever. He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and waited on Him. When evening came, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill. This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: “He Himself took our infirmities and carried away our diseases.”

 

• Jesus’ compassion here is revealed
• No one asked, no one prayed, and no one brought her, JESUS KNEW, SAW, and WAS WILLING
• JESUS went to Peter’s home
• Jesus SAW his mother in law sick in bed
• Jesus touched her hand
• There are times when the Lord does what only He can do, and brings to mind what only He knows about.
• The response of the fever, infirmity or what ever it was that was gripping her left. The word used here in GREEK is APHIEMI, which means to leave or to forgive.
• The catch is the subject is not just to itself to leave or forgive but that something is allowing it, or causing it to leave or be forgiven.
• SO, lets say Peter’s mother in law is sick with a fever and she has tried so much to relieve or get rid of it but nothing is working, almost like it is latched on to her then all of a sudden Jesus comes and touches her and thus given release to the point where it has to leave.
• It was like JESUS TOOK IT OFF OF HER
• IN fact Matthew reviews to the Jewish audience just what Scripture has to say to what had just took place.
• He quotes and interprets Isaiah’s prophecy of what the MESSIAH will come to do.
• Notice, she went from lying in the bed gripped with sickness to serving Jesus. AN EXCHANGE!

 

 

Isaiah 53:4-5

However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses,

and he carried our pain,

yet we ourselves assumed him stricken,

struck down by God and afflicted.

“But He was pierced through for our transgressions,

He was crushed for our iniquities;

The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,

And by His scourging we are healed.”

 

 

 

• One translation uses the word took up, another uses the word lift off. This gives a beautiful image of what exactly an exchange looks like.
• Jesus takes it from YOU, in verse 5 shows you how He deals with it by His wounds, and then offers HEALING
• Not just a scab, but a complete removal of… and a given of HEALING! HIS HEALING!

 

 

• Testimony about my mom being healed while in Bible College