And, in the twentieth verse, he says, "He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions". Then if you look in the hundred and seventh Psalm for a moment, and if you'll notice, what he says there. So you'll see that, that relationship all through the Old Testament, that their idea of sin, part of the problem was that there was sickness that usually went along with it. And remember in the Old Testament, usually they always recognized sickness, but they recognize it as a result primarily of sin. They'd been going through a difficult time because of their sin and God says, " I will remove sickness from your midst". He says, "But you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water and I will remove sickness from your midst". And, if you'll notice, in this, in this twenty-fifth verse, here's what he says. And God is again in the business of healing. If you look in the twenty-third chapter of Exodus for a moment, and I want you to look there to look at verse twenty-five, if you will, and, notice what's happening here. And so the Bible says that God healed him. And you remember that little incident where he said, "Well no, she's my sister". For the Lord had closed fast all the wombs of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife". The scripture says, "Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maids, so that they bore children. In the seventeenth verse of the twentieth chapter. And in the book of Genesis, we find the first mention of healing which is with Abraham and Abimelech in chapter twenty of Genesis. So let's begin and I want you to turn if you will to the book of Genesis. Now in this message, I want us to see what the Bible says about healing. And He does it according to His will and in His perfect timing. So, where's this healing issue with us? That is, if we really and truly believe that Jesus Christ is who He says He is that God is the Great Healer why don't we go to Him first? But God is still in the healing business and He's still in the miracle working business. And it's interesting that the Apostle Paul, as godly as he was, and the faith that he had, one of his choice companions was Doctor Luke and was with him in prison at times. And isn't it interesting, knowing that He's who He is, that we first of all run to the doctor first? And then when we get desperate, then we go to prayer.ĭon't you think it ought to be the other way around? That we go to Him first, and then if not, watch this, not if He can't heal us, but if He delays it for some reason, or He sends you to the doctor then that's another whole story. God doesn't practice, He knows everything perfectly about you and me. And I think it's very interesting that they say about all these other doctors, they're practicing medicine. The truth is there's only one physician, and that's the Great Physician who is God. But isn't it interesting that being a believer and believing that God is a healing God, that when we get sick or something happens to us the first thing we do is we want to call the doctor. We've seen people who have claimed to be healed and then the next thing you know they're right back where they were before. Or maybe we're just ignorant of what the Bible teaches about healing. Probably because we've had disappointments or maybe because deep down inside of us we don't really believe it. But there's one promise that is the most difficult of all, the one we have the most problem with, and that is any promise that has to do with healing. And so when you think about all these promises, I could ask you, Do you have a favorite one? More than likely, you would say, I do. We love them because they are for our benefit. There are many promises God has given us in His Word.
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