And He Healed them all: Examples of Healing XIII.mp3 Podcast: Download (29.9MB)
Key Text:
Acts 4:1-23
Acts 5:12-42
Acts 8:1-8
Acts 14:6-20
Acts 16:16-24
Acts 19:11-22
Overview:
Tonight we began walking through the book of Acts to see if and how the ministry of Jesus Christ was continued in the furtherance of the Kingdom and in healing the sick and deliverance from demons.
What we have found so far is that the ministry of Jesus Christ continued strong and unaltered through the Apostles hands.
Some main points:
- Satan will always try to intimidate you out of furthering the Kingdom of God through healing and deliverance by challenging the genuineness of your relational trust (faith) in God.
- Through threats and mistreatment from the world.
- Through threats and mistreatment from our brothers.
- Through fear of failure.
- Through all the “what ifs”
- and mostly through thoughts of self – “how will I look if this happens?” “What if I’m wrong?”..etc.
- After Paul had been stoned and left for dead, he arose and went right back into the same city to sleep that night before continuing on his journey to Derbe.
- Anyone who knows anything about being stoned by a crowd – you do not get up again and even if you did you would not likely be able to walk. Bones are broken when one is stoned – so either God protected Paul or healed him one.
- Along with the blessing of healing comes the affliction of demonic attack.
- For the believer, demonic attack is nothing – it cannot do the one thing that would matter – separate us from Him or His love.
- We must be careful not to focus on healing for healing’s sake, but to use healing as a means to further His Kingdom. If the blessing of healing is all we have in view and therefore all be teach concerning healing we are teaching a foreign gospel of “Bless me Bless me Bless me” – such a gospel will never solicit a potential martyr.
- Healing for the sinner is a sign which follows the preaching of the word in order to induce relational trust.
- Healing for the believer is his blessing and bread – but it is still a Mercy.