Luke 5:13 – Then He put out His hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." Immediately the leprosy left him. (NKJV)

Is it Jesus’ will to heal? •His response is always the same as it was to the leper: I am willing!•Last week we started talking about the Big Lies about God concerning healing.

What happens when you turn a light on in a dark room?

•The Light dispels the darkness.•That is the same when the light of the truth encounters the lies of the devil.•They are exposed!•Lies are keeping people in bondage.

•Plantation Owner deposits $50,000 . . . •This story illustrates the plight of most believers. •Jesus has set us free from our sins and has made incredible riches available to us. •But, most only make 50 cent requests. •They believe the lies of the devil and stay in bondage. •I am here to proclaim the truth of God’s Word! •You can be free!

Lie # 1 – God Stopped Healing when the Apostles died or when the Bible was finalized. •But, we learned that He still heals today just as He did 2,000 years ago!•Character – the issue at stake is God’s character. •To say healing and miracles have ceased is to say that God has changed. Jehovah-Rapha, I Am the God who heals you! Guess what? He has not changed His name. •Just as He was a healing God then, He is a healing God today. •What He did then, He still does today.

Lie # 2: God puts sickness on us to teach us a lesson!

1)God cannot give us what He does not have! •He doesn’t have sickness to give us. •He is the God of life and not of sickness.

2)# 1 way God receives glory in Scripture is through healing, miracles and signs & wonders. •God receives glory in our healing and not in our sicknesses.

Lie # 3: God Does not Will that all be Healed! 1)Look to Jesus•If you want to see the Father’s will, look to Jesus. •John tells us He only did what He saw the Father do & only said what He heard the Father say. •Jesus said: If you’ve seen Me, you have seen the Father. •Jesus always healed them all. •Since Jesus only did what He saw the Father do, healing must be God’s will.

How many times when reading the Gospels do we read that Jesus “healed them all”?

Matthew 15:30-31 – A vast crowd brought to Him people who were lame, blind, crippled, those who couldn't speak, and many others. They laid them before Jesus, and He healed them all. [What was their response?] 31 The crowd was amazed! Those who hadn't been able to speak were talking, the crippled were made well, the lame were walking, and the blind could see again! And they praised the God of Israel.

•This is the normal result of miracles—people begin to praise the Lord.

•God receives glory in miracles; not in the lack of it.

•Look at the Leper, a societal outcast, and Jesus’ response to him.

•We see the heart of Jesus in this healing:

Luke 5:12-13 – In one of the villages, Jesus met a man with an advanced case of leprosy. When the man saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground, begging to be healed. “Lord,” he said, “if you are willing, you can make me clean,” 13 Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” He said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared.

Luke 5:12-13 – In one of the villages, Jesus met a man with an advanced case of leprosy. When the man saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground, begging to be healed. “Lord,” he said, “if you are willing, you can make me clean,” 13 Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” He said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared.

• This man was a total outcast in society. • Everywhere he went he was condemned.• He knew Jesus could heal him but would He? • It was not a question of power but of willingness. Everyone else has rejected him, but would Jesus? • He evidently could tell there was something

different about Jesus. What was Jesus’ response? I Am willing!• Mark: “filled with compassion.”

•No where does it say, I Won't!•No where does it say, He Refused!•No where does it say, I can’t . . .•But rather it always says, He Healed them ALL!

Guess what? •He is eternal and He has not changed. •That is still His response to us when we approach Him—I am willing!

2) THE LORD'S PRAYER answers the question of God's willingness to heal: Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven . . .

Have you ever stopped and thought about what that means?

Is there sickness, bondage, fear or lack in heaven? So, what exactly is Jesus saying here? • We can pray for these things here on earth! If it was not possible for this to happen, then why

would Jesus have us pray for it?

• There are 3 places where you can find God’s will:1. In the Garden before sin—What was it like?2. In the ministry of Jesus—He healed them all!3. In Heaven—What is it like?

Does Jesus desire ALL to be saved? • Yes! Why would He be selective in healing if He is not

selective in salvation? • He accepts all who come to Him in faith.

• We’ve established healing is God’s will. • A truth that the devil doesn’t want us to know. • The devil tries to put us in a position of non-

resistance. • When you get sick, you will not resist it because you

may not be 100% sure it is God’s will to heal you.• Often this lie goes along with the one where God

put this on me to teach me a lesson. • If that were true, then it is probably against God’s

will for you to go to the doctor. • If it’s God’s will for you to be sick, then by taking

medicine you may be frustrating the will of God.

• Nowhere in the Bible do you see, “Father, if it be Your will, heal” type of prayers.

• They never even prayed petitionary, begging type of prayers either.

Oh, Father, pleeeeeease heal this lady! • You don’t find it in Scripture.• What you find are command prayers. • Peter at the Gate Beautiful said to the lame beggar,

Look at me! Silver & gold have I none, but I give you what I have. Rise in the Name of Jesus & be healed!

• Paul in Lystra seeing that a lame man had faith to be healed, and He simply said, Get up!

• When you command healing, you are not commanding God to perform.

• You are commanding, in the name of Jesus, the body to respond.

• You are taking the authority Jesus has given you as an ambassador of His Kingdom.

• Many of these lying traditions have developed because of the lack of power in the church.

• They are based on experience and not on the Word of God.

• Think about these statements:1.Would you trust a doctor who said that he wills

some to be healed and some of his patients to die? • That’s how people think of God! • No wonder some don’t trust Him!2.Would you go to a doctor who said that he wanted

people to suffer so their character would be developed?

• This is another accusation made of God! • If sickness and disease are to develop our

character, hospitals should be like churches.

3. How would you feel about a parent who deliberately injected their child with cancer?

• They should be locked up & the sooner the better. • God is regularly accused of this and in churches.4. If someone had the ability to help a person

drowning but refused to do it, how would you feel about them?

• That is in essence what many say God does. • They say that He has the power to heal, but He

refuses to heal some for whatever reason. • Preposterous!

•Here’s a promise the devil certainly doesn’t want us to know or to believe:

1 John 5:14-15 – This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us — whatever we ask — we know that we have what we asked of Him. (NIV)

Did you catch that?

• We can have this confidence that if we ask anything according to God’s will, He hears us.

• We know it is His will to heal. • Then, if that is an established fact, look at verse 15

again: 15 And if we know that He hears us — whatever we

ask — we know that we have what we asked of Him.

• Since healing is God’s will for me, then I know that He hears me.

• If I know that He hears me, I will have what I ask.• Wow! That’s too easy!

•But, the devil does not want us to know this.

•God does want you healed!

•He sent His Son to pay for your healing.

•He died on the cross for your sicknesses.

•It is His will!

But, did Jesus really pay for my sicknesses when He died on the cross or did He just die for our sins? •The question is: Is healing in the atonement? Did Jesus pay for it at the cross?Isaiah 53:5 – But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. (NKJV)

•Some say that is only a reference to spiritual healing and not sicknesses.

Matthew 8:16-17 – When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses." (NKJV)

•Matthew connects the work Jesus did at the cross with healing by quoting Isaiah 53:5. •It’s amazing how many people who know the Word overlook this point.

•The Gospel of salvation is meant to heal the whole man: body, soul and spirit. •Today, when we say salvation, it only means forgiveness of sins. •That in itself is the greatest of all miracles, and I don’t want to might light of that in any way. •But, in the Biblical sense, salvation means so much more.

Luke 9:56 – For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.•Save = sozo •Sozo = refers to forgiveness of sin, healing of diseases and deliverance from bondages and torment. •This is the Biblical definition of salvation. •Jesus made provision for the whole man to be saved:

– Spirit = forgiveness of sin– Soul = deliverance from torment & bondages– Body = healing

Matthew 6:13 – Deliver us from evil. (KJV)

•Evil = poneros•This word represents the entire curse of evil upon the world. •Evil – pain •Pain – poor What did Jesus come to do? To destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8). What are the works of the devil?

– Evil = Sin– Pain = Sickness– Poor = Poverty

•Take the lame man healed at the Gate Beautiful. •The Bible tells us that when he was healed, he walked, leaped and praised God!

– Walked = physical healing– Leaped = emotionally healed– Praised = spiritually healed

Why do we have more faith for someone’s conversion than for their healing? •Both are equally the will of God and both were paid for at the same time. •It’s not Biblical but it is our experience. •We tend to interpret Scripture in light of our experience.•Today, we are living in the momentum of the cumulative experience of conversion from one generation to the next. •But, when it comes to healing, one generation will pursue it and the next will not (momentum lost).

Watch the digression here. •Believing lies like healing is not the will of God or not for today empowers the father of lies. •Coming into agreement with the devil by believing his lies allows him to steal from us that much more easily. •When we deny what Jesus did for us, we lose the ability to discern what is of God and what is not. •We begin to attribute to God what the devil did. •We begin to say things like, God put this sickness on me to teach me a lesson.

The thief comes to steal, kill and to destroy. •He never stops! •If he steals your health and cuts you off from the Source of your healing, then he can easily move you down the chain to kill and destroy.What should our response be to this?1 Corinthians 14:1 – Pursue love, yet earnestly desire the spiritual gifts especially that you should prophesy. •We are clearly commanded to pursue the spiritual gifts, and to do it earnestly. •Earnestly = to burn with zeal for something. •This is a command; not a request or a suggestion.

• Healing is certainly one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit we are to desire.

• While pursuing the gifts of the Holy Spirit makes some people nervous, it is a sign of life in a church.

• Yes, there are excesses, but that should not deter us from our pursuit of the truth.

• This is the power we need to destroy the impact of the devil’s work in our own lives.

Take Away: Healing IS God’s will for you!

ConclusionWhat are you facing now that in your own strength you are not able to overcome? •It could be:

– Family Situation– Need for healing– Finances, a Job or a better working environment– Restoration of your Marriage– Forgiveness

•Whatever it is, God wants you to know that His Power is more than sufficient to meet your needs.•He is willing!