Pastor Cheri
PRAYER
Thank you Lord for your Word coming to us today, we receive mixing it with faith, to produce our desired miracles, in the Name of Jesus.
Welcome to Church.
We are beginning our Book-Study today with our Book for the Month, NONE OF THESE DISEASES!
As we study, you should go back to study any Chapter we are yet to study before our next Service.
This means you have to get your copy, also, you should be involved in the sponsorship of the book. If you are ready to do so, you can use the link for the offerings. As you send in your seed, tie it to your desired miracle. God wants to do something for you and the time is now. So make that move and get your miracles flowing in. Hallelujah!
I believe that by the end of our study of this book, your would be leaping in joy and bubbling in your health, if you had a pain, sickness or disease. Get ready now as we ride on.
We'll begin from Chapter 1.
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his comnandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee (Exodus 15:25-26).
God gave to the children of Israel a revelation of Himself at the waters of Meribah. Up till this time they had only known Him as El-Shaddai and Jehovah. But here, He reveals Himself to them as Jehovah Rapha - the Lord their healer. And how very comforting this particular revelation was at this time. They had come to a place without water, only bitter water. And they murmured against God. Yet God was merciful towards their unbelief, and told them, if only they would hearken to Him and observe His statutes, He would put none of the evil diseases, with which He had smitten the Egyptians upon them.
God makes here, a distinction between His people and the rest of the world. No disease was to come upon them. He was setting them apart. If they would only hearken to His voice and serve Him, no disease would have the ability to afflict their bodies. What is striking here is that God said this to a people of the old covenant. All they had was a relationship with Jehovah, yet this was enough to immunize them, and make them 'disease-free.' If only they would learn to serve Him.
By reason of the fall, man had come under the influence of disease and all that was evil. In fact the devil had a legal right to afflict them with all he wished to. But God told them if only they would give ear to Him, and walk right; He would not allow any
of these diseases to afflict them.
God is more than enough. He said to Abraham, "I am El-Shaddai." He is enough for all man would ever need. God is to you all that you will ever require Him to be. Man's need always brings to him a new revelation of God. In this case man was under the influence of sickness, but God revealed Himself and said, "I am the Lord that healeth thee." How wonderful!
Exodus 23:25, "And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. "
If they would only serve Him, He would bless their bread and their water, and take sickness away from their midst. There would not be enough forces in hell to put the sickness on them. But did you notice, first they had to serve Him; they had to worship Him. Service and worship come ahead of healing. To prove to them that not only could He heal, but that He was also willing to fulfill His promises, He healed them several times by His Word and, there was not one weak person among them.
Psalm 105:37, "He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. "
Psalm 107:20, "He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
*Get immunized today as you serve God! Hallelujah!*
NONE OF THESE DISEASES
Deuteronomy 28:27-28, "The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and wvith the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:"
The Amplified Version puts it this way; "The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and the tumors, the scurvy and the itch, from which you can not be healed. The Lord will smite you with madness and blindness and dismay of (mind and) heart."
In this scripture God was telling them of the different types of diseases which would come upon them, if they wouldn't hearken to Him and serve Him as He had instructed. But He also promised that these boils, tumors and scurvy wouldn't come upon them
if they would only obey and serve Him.
This was for people in the Old Testament, who were not born again. They had the condition of obedience to fulfill before they could enjoy God's promises. But for us of the new covenant, it's different. We have a better covenant based upon better promises. A covenant with a better mediator and, a more excellent sacrifice. We're not told to obey God; we're already His obedient children. If God wanted the people of the Old Testament well and 'disease-free,' how much more those of us that were bought with the precious blood of His Son Jesus Christ?
*Your life has been made easy. Jesus paid for you and made your life easy. He settled everything about you on the cross. This includes every, disease, pain and sickness, they have all been settled by the death of Jesus.
We are not trying to obey God to get something done for us, no! We are His obedient children. This makes us live the way He has patterned. In this case, we live sickness-free, disease-free and death-free. Hallelujah!*
CHAPTER 2
WHERE DID SICKNESS COME FROM?
Where did sickness come from? Did God create sickness? Did He create disease germs? After all some people say He created all things. So many people have asked these questions about God, and a lot of Christians believe that God punishes and corrects with sickness.
The most important thing to understand is this - God wants you well and in good health, and He isn't the originator of sickness.
James 1:17, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
Only good and perfect gifts come from God. Sickness is not a good gift, just as lack is not a good gift. Sickness destroys and cripples. God wouldn't do that to any of His children.
Sickness is incipient death. And the Bible calls death 'an enemy' (1 Corinthians 15:26). God would not punish His children with the tool of the enemy. Sickness has ruined many families, it drained their entire livelihood until they became poor, just like the woman with the issue of blood (Matthew 9:20). God wouldn't give His children such 'gifts.'
I wish you would know the heart of God when death seizes upon a family. The Psalmist said, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints" (Psalm 116:15).
*"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." 3 John 1:2.
This is God's greatest wish for you.*
Sickness - A Legacy of the Fall
After God created man in the Garden of Eden, He gave him dominion over all the works of His hand. God told Adam he could have anything in the garden for food except for the tree in the midst of the garden.
Genesis 2:16-17, "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
God told Adam; "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die."
This was more than physical death, which is a cessation of life. After Adam ate from the tree he did not die physically immediately. This scripture therefore referred not only to physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; being cut off from fellowship with God. Thus the day Adam disobeyed God's instruction and ate from the tree, he died spiritually, and only then could he die physically.
Man is a spirit, he possesses a soul with which he regulates his life, actions, thoughts, reasonings and emotions, and he lives in a body (1 Corinthians 5:23). The body is his house. Through disobedience, sin gained dominion over man's spirit, and through sin fear also got a hold of him. His soul fell and he was cut off from God. His reasoning changed. He now became afraid of the creatures over which he had previously exercised dominion.
He was cut off from fellowship with God because he now had the nature of the devil, and a new master. Death came in with its companions, one of which is sickness - incipiernt death. So sickness came about as a result of the sin of the first Adam.
Yes, bacteria and viruses were created by God, so was the mosquito. Mosquitoes were never made to suck blood. God made all insects to suck nectar, and bacteria and virus cells were not made to bring sickness to anybody. But after the fall of man, when the devil stole man's dominion, he infused them with death - which is his life. That's the reason they harm those that are under his power till today.
The Reign of Death
Man died spiritually and right from then on death reigned over him.
Romans 5:12, 14, 17, 21, " Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have inned: ...Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the simili tude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come ...For if by one mnan's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abun dance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.. That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord."
By one man's sin death reigned over all men. Death gained the dominion over all men, and from Adam to Jesus, sin gained the mastery over man's spirit, and sickness came in, leading to physical death. Thus the reign of sin and sickness began in man's spirit and ended up in his body, such that the human body could now experience death.
But happy are you if you're born again, because death no longer reigns over you!
Romans 5:16-21, "And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgmet was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abun dance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to coit demnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one nan's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much mnore abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord."
Praise the Lord! By the righteousness Jesus obtained for us, the full gift of righteousness came upon us unto life. The reign of sin and sickness over us has ended, and so has the dominion of disease. This is why any of the diseases that afflicted the Egyptians, or any other disease that afflicts man should not af flict us.
*Study Chapter 3 before our next Service. We will continue from Chapter 4 in our next Service.
Jesus has brought for us a life that is far superior to the life of the ordinary man. This life is the eternal life of God. You are kept healthy and strong with this life. It is the normal life for every Christian. This is how we came about the knowledge of being sickness-free and death-free. This life came to you so you can reign in your health.
You can walk out of any pain or diseases, they are not associated with your life, eternal life. Stay healthy, that is God's design for you. Hallelujah!
We will continue in our next Service. Ensure to send in your sponsorship.
Lift up your hand and worship the Lord. Thank Him for His Word to us today!