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Article 11

Our Church Mission Statement

  • Our mission is to be a family of believers who desire to see the lost saved, provide an opportunity for a growing relationship with Christ for all ages, embody His love through service and fellowship with one another, create an atmosphere where individuals and family units can find healing, and go beyond the church walls into the community to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.

 

Article 11 – We believe divine healing is provided for all in the Atonement.

 

1. The Cross MUST BE the Center

  • Matthew 9:9-13
    • As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”  On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
  • The cross must be at the center of our healing
    • Forgiveness of sin is the greatest healing/miracle we can ask for
  • Forgiveness and healing go together under the authority of Jesus

2. Miracles / Healing Looks Different for Everyone

  • Matthew 4:23-24
    • Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed; and he healed them.
  • Matthew 8:14-17
    • When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him. When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:  “He took up our infirmities
  • Acts 3:1-10
    • One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon.  Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them. Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”  Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong. He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God. When all the people saw him walking and praising God, they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

 

  • Healing can also be…
  • Instant, Progressive, Private or Public
  • Spiritual, Physical, Mental or Emotional
    • Healing that occurs as a direct result of the Holy Spirit’s leading one to make lifestyle changes

3. The Answer May Be “No”

  • God’s provision of healing does not mean that everyone will be healed this side of eternity
    • Romans 11:33-36
      • Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and[a] knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”  “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?”  For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
  • When we are not healed of particular difficulties, there most likely are many reasons why we remain in our current condition – reasons we may never understand in this life
  • John 9:1-3 – for the works of God to be revealed
    •  As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”  “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
  • 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 – for us to learn more about faith and trust in God
    • or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
  • We cannot completely understand the ways of God and why some people are healed this side of heaven and others are not
    • One of our greatest failures in humanity is trying to figure out God, and constantly debating the “why”

4. Complete Healing Will Only Come in Heaven

  • Revelation 21:4
    • “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”