Calvin L. Passmore
1) The Gospel is the power of God unto healing.
2) Healing is of the kingdom.
3) Healing is of conversion.
Each of these three are separate messages that I will post on this site.
How do we receive that healing?
Simply believe that the kingdom is at hand (within reach) as close as the words on your lips. Confess (acknowledge) that since you are saved and converted (you believe the Gospel with all your heart and are obedient to it) you therefore know that the kingdom has come unto to you. Because you believe with all your heart that Jesus Christ is the son of God you know that the kingdom of God is at hand (within reach!) As the gospel is “nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart” then so is healing because the gospel is the power of God unto healing.
In the Old testament, under the old covenant, access to healing was available to those who lived by the works of the law….
Deuteronomy 30:10-16 (KJV) If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Now, under the new covenant in Jesus’s blood, having been justified by grace, we have access to healing by faith as it is written, the just shall live by faith….
Romans 10:5-10 (KJV) For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
“The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;”
The “word of faith” that this verse speaks of is the Gospel itself.
Romans 1:16-17 (KJV) For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
As the gospel is “nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart”
Then so is healing because the gospel is the power of God unto healing. And as it says in verse 9 and 10…
Romans 10:9-10 (KJV) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
As confession and belief is made unto salvation, so is healing. The word of healing is nigh thee even in thy mouth.
Simply confess and believe the truth that healing is of salvation.
If you are unsure or if sickness remains then seek the counsel of the elders of a Bible believing church. It may be that you need to examine yourself and confess your faults
James 5:14-16 (KJV) Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
The word “confess” in verse 16 means to agree fully or acknowledge. It implies that sickness sets in where someone refuses to completely acknowledge some known fault in their life. This is when a person waters down the significance of some fault or even refuses to acknowledge that some ungodly behavior or mindset is fault. This is why we will all always need wise counsel and prayer from those anointed church leaders who are full of the Holy Ghost and have given their lives to prayer and the word. You need not necessarily tell all the details of your fault to men but you must confess that there is fault if you know that there is.
Fault here means side-slip (lapse or deviation) which can be an unintentional error or willful trangression.
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