Sermon: “Healing Settled Once And For All”    By: D. Karl Thomas

Sermon: Healing Settled Once And For All.    By D. Karl Thomas

God is willing to heal ALL THE TIME. It is always His will that healing be manifest. Why would He purchase the right to manifest something on our behalf and then withhold it from us? 

There are NO deficiencies on His part, in compassion, in promise or in performance. 

We must settle this issue on our part for there is no lack in Him.

Mark 6:56 

“Wherever He entered, into villages, cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged Him that they might just touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched Him were made well.” 

Mark 5:25-34

“When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.  For she said, ‘If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.’”

     She Heard.    She Said.     She Came.     She Touched.      She Was Healed. 

Malachi 4:2  (NLT)

“But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture.”

Psalm 78:40-42 

“Yes, again and again they tempted (Provoked) God, And limited the Holy One of Israel. They did not remember His power: The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,…”

Judges 2:10 

“After that generation died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the Lord or remember the mighty things he had done for Israel.”

Acts 4:29-30 

“Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”

Now they knew Jesus was in heaven so what they were asking for was that God would use them, the body of Christ, to manifest His healing touch. Let our hands be your hand extended and continue healing this broken, sick world.

Acts 5:12 

“And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people;…”  

Clearly their prayer was answered as we can see in the following verse: Acts 5:16 “Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.”

It wasn’t just the apostles. Philip, one of the first Deacons went out and had a signs and wonders revival.

Acts 8: 6 “And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.”

A disciple named Ananias was active in the supernatural. — Conversing with the Lord and obediently releasing the miraculous. 

Acts 9:17-18 

So Ananias left and went into the house. And he laid his hands on Saul and said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, Who appeared to you along the way by which you came here, has sent me that you may …

… recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. And instantly something like scales fell from [Saul’s] eyes, and he recovered his sight. Then he arose and was baptized,…”

Acts 9:17-18 

The Apostle Paul always ministered in the power of signs and wonders. He considered the full presentation of the Good News of Christ is not without the miraculous.

Acts 14:3 

“Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word of His grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.”

Romans 15:18-19 

“Yet I dare not boast about anything except what Christ has done through me, bringing the Gentiles to God by my message and by the way I worked among them. …

They were convinced by the power of miraculous signs and wonders and by the power of God’s Spirit. In this way, I have fully presented the Good News of Christ from Jerusalem all the way to Illyricum.”

1 Corinthians 4:20 

“For the kingdom of God is not in word (logus) but in power (dunamis).”

Jesus said if there is not the evidence of the miraculous don’t listen to the message.

John 10:37-38 (NLT) 

“Don’t believe me unless I carry out my Father’s work. But if I do his work, believe in the evidence of the miraculous works I have done, even if you don’t believe me. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”

John 15:24 (NLT) 

“If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father.”

John 20:30-31  

“And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.”

The early church insisted on the miraculous. 

The Apostle Paul insisted on the miraculous. 

Jesus insisted on the miraculous. 

What about us?

If the early church, that was living in the shadow of the resurrection of Christ, needed authenticating miracle then we need to command then to manifest in our day!!!