Salvation and Healing | The Healer Week 2 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

Salvation and Healing | The Healer Week 2 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

Isaiah 53:5 NIV: But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Salvation: What’s In It?

1. Jesus came to “” us!

Luke 19:10 NIV: For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

2. “Save” Greek: sozo means , to , and to .

3. Christ is our , and .

Matthew 9:35 NIV: Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.

4. Healing is a hallmark of the presence of the .

Matthew 11:5 NLT: the blind see, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor.”

5. His healing covers all areas:

• • Our (1 Pet. 2:24).

1 Peter 2:24 NIV: He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.

• • Our (Rom. 8:6).

Romans 8:6 NIV: The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

1 Corinthians 2:11-15: The natural mind cannot understand spiritual things

• • Our (Is. 53:6).

Isaiah 53:6a NIV: We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way…

• • Our (Col. 3:2-3).

Colossians 3:2-3 NIV: Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

• • Our (Rom. 8:23).

Romans 8:23 NIV: Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.

The Healing Ministry of Jesus and the Early Church

1. Jesus healed people all the time.

• • 20-30 distinct healings throughout gospels
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  • 9 verses that said He healed all who were brought to Him
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2. Why Jesus healed:

• • To show (Matt. 14:14)
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  • To fulfill (Matt. 8:16-17)
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  • To God had sent Him (John 5:36)
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  • To the works of the devil (1 Jn. 3:8)
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3. How Jesus healed:

• • on people and prayed for them, calling upon the power of His Father.
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  • the word of faith and the word of healing.
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  • sickness and disease and the devil.
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  • Through touching or His clothing.
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  • “Your has made you whole.”
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4. The New Testament Church followed in Jesus’ footsteps (Acts and Philippians)

• • 11 times an unbeliever was healed
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  • 4 times a believer was healed
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  •  1 time unknown
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5. The early church fathers including Justin Martyr, St. Iranaeus, Origen, Tertullian and St. Augustine all understood miracles and healing to be an expected part of the Christian experience.

Exodus 15:22-25 NIV: Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah. So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?” Then Moses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink.

1. Healing should be a part of the Christian life.

2. We should expect many different types of healings:

• • Creative miracles
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• • Instantaneous miracles
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• • Intervention in natural processes
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• • Providential miracles
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• • Process miracles
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3. We should expect to and growing in healing.

4. A believer’s statement:

I have authority (Lk. 9:1). I have anointing (2 Cor. 1:21). I have faith (2. Cor. 4:33). I believe God does not lie (Num. 23:19). I have all the power that I need (Mk. 9:18).