Maintaining Freedom Part 2 Healing Part A

Maintaining Freedom Part 2
Healing Part A

By Pastor Gary Wayne

Ga 5:1 “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” NIV

I can be a Christian all my life, and know that when I die, I’ll go to Heaven yet not live my life in freedom.
There are different things that happen when I open the door to our enemy. Consequently, I can live with bondages and live without complete freedom.

In this second part of “Maintaining Freedom,” I want to do a couple of sessions on the topic of healing.
Healing of our physical bodies, and healing of the person I am inside.
Paul said "first the physical, then the spiritual" (1Cor.15:46) So I want to do part A talking about physical healing that is ours for today.

Text: Isaiah 53:4-5, 1 Peter 2:24, Romans 10:9-10, 13

Multiple times in the NT, when we read the word salvation, the Greek word is “sozo.”
Sozo = to deliver, to heal, to save, to make someone COMPLETELY WHOLE!

Who does Rom.10:13 say sozo is for?
Who is physical healing for?

Isa.53:4-5, 1Pet.2:24 - Notice how Salvation & Healing are included in what Jesus did for us. They are tied together.
At the crucifixion, Jesus was making payments for our WHOLNESS.

Hundreds of years ago, there was a division in the different theological camps of leaders. To some, salvation – being saved from sin became a separate happening to healing. And healing was set into a category for only certain people who either were in the right place at the right time, or you finally arrived at the place where you were good enough to be healed.

That separation is wrong! Healing and Salvation are two, but one – it’s like two sides of a coin, but one coin.

All through scripture, and especially in the NT – New Covenant, we are instructed to pray for people to be saved and healed.
It’s fascinating to study and see how many people received healing before they came to the knowledge they needed to be saved.

Before Jesus healed people, he didn’t ask if they knew God first. He healed them.

And in scripture we are not instructed to give people a quiz to see if they qualify before we pray for their healing.

Jas 5:13 -15 Note how healing and being free from sin are together.

Scripture does tell me if I have something in my life where I am resisting God, and I’m rebelling against Him, I put a roadblock between God and myself.
But that roadblock is simple to remove – I simply confess my sin and ask God to forgive me.

In the great commission, what did Jesus tell us to do? Go, preach the gospel, baptize people, cast out demons, lay hands on the sick and pray. (Mar.16:15-18)
Jesus said - "… I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father Joh 14:12.
In V.16, Jesus said when He got to the Father, Father sent the Holy Spirit to be with us FOREVER.

Who are the ones Jesus gave these instructions to? Preachers? Special healing ministry people? NO, Every BELIEVER.

If you are a Christian, you have the Holy Spirit inside you, so wherever you go, there He is. Your hands have been anointed to pray for healing!
It is that presence and power of the Holy Spirit that causes miracles to happen.
You have been called and anointed to do this.

I don’t need to understand this for God to move.
I simply need to be obedient and believe God.

The main point I want to drive home is that salvation and healing are for everyone, and that every believer has been instructed to pray for people to be saved and healed.

That is a message of FREEDOM!