BY
C.W. WOOD DEC.
2018DEWITT TABERNACLE TEACHING SERIES
“WHO
IS THE AUTHOR OF SICKNESS?”
BY
C.W. WOOD DEC.
2018
A PERSONAL NOTE TO OUR READERS: It is the Birthday of our Lord again.
He was Born to die so that we could live forever.
He became Poor, so that we are enriched.
Because He was forsaken of God, we are brought back to God.
Because He was stripped of His Robe we are clothed with the Robe of
Righteousness. He was humbled that
we might be exalted. He came to
earth that we can go to Heaven. He
became a true Servant that we might be made Free.
He was troubled so that we might be comforted.
He was tempted that we might have the Victory.
He was beaten in Pilate’s Judgement Hall so we could be healed.
He was dishonored so that we might be Glorified.
God cannot demand Payment twice for Sin, first at the Hands of Jesus and
then again at ours! Complete Payment
was made for whatever We Sinners owed. How
then can wrath come to me while I trust in His death?
My soul may then trust in His rest, who is our Great High Priest.
When sickness comes it is not from Him, and we are told to resist it
until it leaves. God bless each one
of our readers and Thank You for any and all support as we Press the battle.
Br. C.W. Wood & Church
Does
a Loving, Caring, Compassionate Father (Jesus Christ) send sickness on His
children to teach us some things that we need to know?
We can answer that question by asking another one.
If we had the Power or ability to put a sickness on one
of our children in
order to teach them, would
we give them cancer, heart
trouble, sugar diabetes or some other deadly disease?
We shudder at the thought of such a thing.
Yet some of us accuse God of doing that in order to teach us something.
The Bible truth is that our God has never done such, but has always
been the one to take the sickness away when the
devil
has Put one on us.
It is
a fact that the Lord
will use
a sickness to
teach us, but
He is never guilty of causing it. Concerning
this matter, the Lord said, “Beloved,
I wish above all things that thou mayest Prosper and be in health,
even as thy Soul Prospereth” (3rd John, Verse 2)
Again He said, “The thief cometh not, but
for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might
have life,
and that
they might have
it
more Abundantly” (John
10:10)
But there is a general teaching in the religious world that accuses the
Lord of being the author of sickness. There
seems to be a very thin line between God allowing a sickness to come to
us and in Him Sending it! But actually, there is a million miles
difference between the two things. The
carnal mind will accuse God of sending sickness, but the spiritual mind will
lay the cause where it belongs, which is at the feet of the devil!
He is the author of sin and sickness, but Christ Jesus came to bear our
Sins in His own body. (1st
Peter 2:24)
Which Sins? Not just
a few of them, not most of them, but everyone that was on the docket
against us! “Having
forgiven you all trespasses (Col. 2:13) Christ came to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and
to make reconciliation for iniquity.” (Dan. 9:24)
There
is no wrong that Sin has done that Jesus has not repaired. There
is no
debt that
Sin has
made that
He has not Paid. There is
no enemy that Sin has brought us that He has not conquered.
There is no fire that sin has caused to burn that He has not quenched.
There is no curse that sin has caused that He has not borne.
There is no mountain that has blocked our way that He has not
overturned. There is no distance
between us and Himself that He has not spanned.
And so we quote His Word.
Rom. 8:1, “There is no
condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus….”
God has said, “Come now and
let us reason together” Reason
says it is not reasonable to be free from all condemnation, then accuse
God of Putting sickness on us because of it.
Isa. 38:17, “Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my
soul delivered it from the pit of
corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.”
Even as
we turn
our back on
something we do
not wish to look at, so in
like manner does our God turn His back on our Sins.
All of our sins have been removed from the Eyes of the Great Judge.
Isa. 43:25, declares that “He
will not remember thy Sins.”
Isa 44:22, “I
have blotted out as a thick cloud,
thy transgressions,
and, as a cloud, thy sins: ….”
Just as a dark cloud
empties its rain on the Earth then melts away under the rays of the Sun, so
our Sins have been dried up by Divine Mercy following the storm of judgement
which was Poured out at the cross.
Micah 7:18-19, “Who
is a God like unto thee, that, pardoneth
iniquity, passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He
retaineth not his anger forever,
because he delighteth in mercy.
We could go on and on quoting God’s Word that Promises His children
health and Prosperity, and feeling urged by the Holy Ghost, I will give more
Scripture that definitely proves what God’s will is Concerning all sickness
that comes to His children. It is
Written that God has sent His Word to heal us, so let’s review some more of
it. His Word brought into our
inner man, the Soul, is the true medicine.
It is the Gos-Pill that we need.
Ps. 103:1-3, “He forgives all our iniquities and heals all our diseases.”
Rom.
1:16, “The
Gospel is the power of God.”
Pro. 4:20-22,
“My words are life and health to
all their flesh.”
Ex.
23:25,
“….I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.”
Matt.
15:22-26,
Jesus said, “Healing is the
children’s bread.”
Ex. 15:26,
“I
am the Lord that
healeth thee.” (Who does thee
mean?)
1st.
Peter 2:24, “By
whose stripes ye were healed.”
James
5:14,
“Is there any sick among you? Let
him call for the elders….” (Who
does any mean?)
Matt. 8:17, “HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES, AND BARE OUR SICKNESS.” (Who
does our mean?
Psa. 34:19, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth
him out of them all.”
Matt.
4:23, “And
Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching and preaching the gospel and
healing all manner of disease among the people.”
Matt.
12:15, “….And
He (Jesus) healed them all.”
Luke
4:40, “Jesus
laid hands on the crowd and healed everyone of them.”
Luke
6:17-19, “Jesus
healed a great multitude of people. Virtue
went out of Him and healed them all.”
Luke
9:11,
“Jesus healed all of
them that had need of
healing.”
Luke 10:8-9, The disciples were sent into the different cities
with orders from Jesus to heal all the Sick.
Acts 10:38, “Jesus being
anointed with the Holy Ghost went about doing good and healing all that were
oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”
The
minute that we accept
God’s Gift of Healing, that’s the minute our healing starts!!
Then we just know it’s ours and do not worry about it anymore.
Consider a young child at home with its Mother and Daddy.
Here in the U.S. there is normally not a worry on the child’s mind
about his next meal or for that matter, they are not concerned about any of
their needs. They know they are
loved and they have put the whole load of their existence on their Parents.
How wonderful it would be if we grown up children of God could come
into such a relationship with our
Heavenly Father. It is
possible
for us
to turn from our Sins unto
God and repent daily as we fail. It
is written, “Let the wicked forsake
his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the
Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly
pardon.” (Isa. 55:7)
God will not remit the guilt while our heart remains in love with Sin
and continues to indulge in it.
If he did, He would compromise His Holiness and encourage us in evil
doing. God died,
not to Reconcile
Himself to our
Sins or to Pardon our Sins while we remain in them, but rather to bring
us back to the service of
God and to the joy of it.
What are some of the true Evidences of a Holy Ghost filled life?
No. 1, we will have a genuine love for God.
The more we are forgiven for, the more we will love Him.
Then we will have a reverential fear of God.
Psa.
130:4, “But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.”
A
converted Person will no longer rush heedlessly into Sin.
A truly saved Person will have a spirit without guile.
He will not lie
to himself about his sins,
but
confess them and pray daily for help to forsake them.
He will hold God’s law in his heart.
He will be
found mourning for his sins.
Where
the heart is unbroken and still
hard, God’s condemnation still rests on it.
The Power of indwelling Sin will eventually be broken in the life of a
converted Person, for the Scripture says, “He
will subdue our iniquity….Micah 7:19
The Holy Ghost in us will cause us to Worship and Praise God, and give
thanks daily for our deliverance from the Pit.
There will be a genuine spirit of forgiveness toward those who wrong
them.
Luke 11:4 “…Forgive
us our sins; for we also forgive every one that
is indebted to us…..”
Amen