Take It First for Health, God's Unconditional Love Given Through The Cross!
By Pastor John Marok
This is a teaching about receiving the unconditional love of God. This is for those who are standing against any type of sickness. God wants to heal you. First you need to see that God’s word through Jesus Christ has forgiven all of your sins—past, present, and future. Then you need to step on the other side of the cross and receive that forgiveness. Then you’ll be able to receive His unconditional love. Then you’ll be able to step into healing. God wants you healed. Listen to this teaching.
This is titled, Take It First for Good Health. Take what first? Take perfect love for good health. That’s what we want to talk about. How that through a revelation of understanding God’s perfect love that the Lord wants to open the door for all of us to live in health, because that’s part of what He’s given us in Christ and through the cross. And we can see from different examples and different scriptures, I want to show that and I want to see that. Jesus made some fantastic statements about health. And so did His apostles about health and we see through the acts of the apostles and through what Jesus did it says He went about healing all that were sick. And the apostles, there’s different stories about them where there’s one story in the book of Acts where Peter and John came to outside of the Temple. It was called the Gate Beautiful and there was a lame man sitting there and he was begging for alms. He was begging for money and they said to him, “Silver and gold we have none but what we have we’ll give to you. And they grabbed him and touched him and they lifted him up and they said, “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.” And immediately he was healed. The anointing that was in them went out of them into him and it did something for him and touched him and changed him.
Well I believe the Lord has given us stuff in His word that He wants to open our hearts to see what is in there. And number one here I have:
1. What is sickness or ill health and where does it come from? That’s what we want to look at.
Well the common belief in the natural realm is that it comes from germs, comes from the environment that it may be bad for your health. It may be hereditary. You may have gotten something from your parents. You may have a low immune system from what you eat or different things. Well, I’m not dispelling or putting out that that is totally wrong, but there’s a greater thing in the spirit realm that the Lord wants us to open our eyes to and wants us to see that it does affect that natural realm.
There’s a spiritual relationship between judgment and sickness and between forgiveness and healing. Say this to yourself, there’s a spiritual relationship between judgment and sickness, between forgiveness and healing.
Let’s take a look at some scriptures. This is 1 Peter 2:24
24 - 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.
And what I want to first point out is the writer here, which was Peter, anointed by the Holy Spirit, what he first explains to you is that Jesus died for your sins, for forgiveness. Say again to yourself, forgiveness first. Then he goes on to say, “by whose stripes you were healed.” Say it again, forgiveness first then healing. That’s the relationship we want to point out and look at, forgiveness first, then healing.
This very scripture Peter is quoting is from Isaiah 53 so let’s look at Isaiah 53 verse 4 and 5:
4 - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 - But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Say this to yourself, “He was wounded for our transgressions.” What’s a transgression? Sin. What’s an iniquity? Falling short, lack, wrong—doing. Again it’s like a parallel of the scripture in Peter where he’s saying first forgiveness of sins: He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. Again forgiveness of sins and then it goes on to say, by His stripes, and with His stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:4-5 says we are healed. 1 Peter 2:24 says, we were healed. When did it happen? It happened on the cross, right on the cross. What happened? Forgiveness happened.Jesus on the cross wants to give you the great exchange!
Another scripture I want to look at is Psalm 103: 3, another excellent scripture for healing. I’m going to read verse 1.
1 - Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 - Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 - Who forgives all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
What is the first thing He says? “Forgiveness of sin.” Say that again to yourself. “Forgiveness of sin and then healing. Forgiveness of sin and then healing.” Blessings from Pastors John and Nancy Marok
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