jesus healed all.
Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. Luke 4:40
This scripture shows us a picture of Jesus Christ. This picture of Him, revealed by the Holy Spirit, shows us Jesus touching and healing every person that came to Him.
I think that's so important for us as believers in ministering healing to others. So, every person that came to Jesus, the Bible says that He laid His hands on them and He healed them. Again, Hebrews 13:8 says, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. As we understand Jesus from the Bible, then we can expect Him to do the exact same thing in your life, in my life and into the lives of those to whom God has called and sent us to minister to.
the holy spirit abides
The Holy Spirit has been given into the life of the believer. And the Bible said the Holy Spirit would abide or remain in you forever — John 14:16.
So the Holy Spirit is a person, He's not an emotion, He's not a feeling, He's come to live inside of you forever. 24-7-365, the Holy Spirit is the same, living in you. Whether you're asleep, whether you're waking up, whether you're eating breakfast, whether you're getting ready for work, whether you're on your drive to work, every moment of every day the Holy Spirit is abiding. He's remaining inside of you.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:19
So it's not just simply that he lives in us but that scripture gives us a clear distinctive that he actually lives inside of our body. So inside of your organs, inside of your tissue, inside of your cells, the Holy Spirit is alive. He's a living, active, working of God's power and anointing inside of you 24-7 all the time
When we put our attention there, as we think on those things and look in that direction, the Holy Spirit begins to work inside of us. When we talk about Jesus laying His hands on every one of them and healing them, it gives us a picture of what He's doing right now and that He wants to heal you.
He doesn't want you to suffer. He doesn't want you to be sick. He wants you to be healed. He wants to raise you up to be a minister of healing to others that you encounter in your family, your neighbors and everyone else that's in your life.
Today is the day of salvation
Once we understand salvation, then immediately we know that's exactly how the healing power of God also works in your life. There's no difference. Many times people see it differently, but I want to show you in the Bible how it's actually the same. First of all, regarding salvation, salvation is already provided. In other words, it's already something that Jesus has accomplished through His death, His burial, and His resurrection.
The Gospels record the account of the crucifixion of Jesus, the death of Jesus, the burial of Jesus, and the resurrection of Jesus. So He's already paid the price. Salvation has already been paid for.
It says in 2 Corinthians 6:2, the Bible said, Behold now is the accepted time. Behold now is the day of salvation. So when is it God's will for you to be saved? Right now. Today is the day. Right now is the time. So whoever reads this message, wherever it is in the world, when they hear the message of the Gospel, if they believe the message that Jesus already paid the price, died, buried, resurrected, ascended to heaven and call on the name of Jesus, the Bible said they shall be saved.
So who decides when? The person decides. He makes a choice. He decides to believe. He decides to receive because God already provided salvation. Its free and it's waiting for every person that's alive today.
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. Revelation 3:20
He's knocking at your heart's door right now. John says, if any man hear his voice, open the door. Jesus said, I will come into him. You can be born again right now. Your sins can be forgiven right now. You don't have to wait another second. You don't have to wait on some mysterious moment when it's God's preordained time for you to be saved. No, the moment you believe and receive Christ at that moment, that is God's time. Today is the day of salvation.
Today is the day of healing
Now in all reality, healing is given to us in exactly the same way. It's exactly the same way. When you receive Jesus as your Savior, Jesus through the Holy Spirit comes to live inside of you. He comes inside of you with all of his resurrection power. And, when he comes in, there's so much power that the Bible says, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature — 2 Corinthians 5:17.
He's a new creation. That power is so great inside of you. It recreates you and you become a new person. You become a new man. You become a new woman. Old things are passed away. All your sin is passed away. All your past is passed away. It doesn't exist anymore. You're a new person, a new species, one translation says. You're a person who has never existed before in time or in eternity. You are made brand new.
That's the power that came into you when you called on the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. That's the salvation of Jesus. Jesus Christ working inside your spirit, inside your heart, and He made you a new person.
Now we understand that regarding salvation. So what is healing then? What is healing? Healing is the salvation of Jesus Christ at work in your body, the same way as it worked in your heart when you were born again.
Understand this regarding healing: your pain, your disease, your diagnosis, Jesus already paid for your healing. It's already paid for. Hallelujah.
what was the price?
Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. Matthew 27:26
I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting. Isaiah 50:6
who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 1 Peter 2:24
The word scourge means be flogged with a Roman scourge. A scourge, according to historians, had a wooden handle and nine leather straps embedded with pieces of bone, metal and glass. Those leather straps were long so they wrapped around the body of the victim and when pulled off, then those pieces of glass, metal and bone would dig into the flesh and cut the flesh. The prophecy says of Jesus in Psalms 129:3 said, the plowers plowed upon my back, they made long their furrows.
When men were beaten the way Jesus was beaten, it was regarded under the Roman law as equivalent to the death penalty. I realize that a lot of people have the tradition that Jesus received 39 stripes but really that was a Jewish law. The Jewish law said that a man could receive 40 stripes, but the Pharisees were so strict in fear they had miscounted they would only give a man 39 stripes. But if you read the Gospel account, it was not a Jew that was beating Jesus, it was a Roman soldier. The Roman soldiers had no limits. History records men receiving the scourging as Jesus took and men actually bleeding to death hanging at the whipping post.
That was the price he paid to heal you. Hallelujah.
When I understood that, when I saw that in the Bible, there is no way anybody is ever going to talk me into the idea that God doesn't want me healed or that God doesn't want you healed.
He paid the price. Why would he pay such a price and then say no? He's not saying no. He paid the price.
There is provision. Healing is more than a promise. So, if I made you a promise togive you $100. You don't know when or how — just that some time in the future I will give you $100. But that's not what God did in healing. He didn't promise healing, He provided healing. He gave it through Jesus already and it's ours to receive.
See, if I were handing you that $100 right now and I said, here's the $100, I'm giving it to you, I'm offering it to you, it's your responsibility at that point to acknowledge the gift, receive the gift and be blessed. So it is with Jesus. He bore the stripes on his back. He suffered. He paid the price and now he offers to you healing. Just open your heart and allow the Holy Spirit to minister into you the thing that Jesus paid so much to provide for you.