"For God so loved the world that He gave us Jesus…"
(Jn 3:16).
Jesus and God have the same nature (Jn 10:30—I and my Father are one).
If God loves us enough to give us Jesus to help the world attain eternal living as Sons
of God, then Jesus loves the world enough to come and help us attain eternal living
as Sons of God.
It is love that compelled Jesus to heal, and not for reason of coaxing people to become
Christians.
Love is Jesus' nature, as it is God's.
The scriptures say that "God is Love, and He sent His Son to the world to be the propitiation
for our sins and that we might live through him (1Jn 4:8).
Brother John G. Lake points out that "Jesus' love gushed forth like an electric billow"
like steam from boiling water.
And that, attracted the multitude always to surround and want to touch him.
So much so that, Luke 6:19 stated that: "…virtue (power) went out from Him and healed all."
You must know that healing is the evidence that God has forgiven all and that He does
not remember their sins anymore (Heb 8:12—I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more).
Jesus heals everyone who comes to him, and many He even seeks out, in and by the affection
of His love.
The compassionate love of Jesus for humanity, for everyone, compels Him to seek them out
and offer to heal.
He said to the paralytic man by the pool of Bethesda in the Bible
"Do you want to be healed?"
(Jn 5:1-9).
Eventually, Jesus healed this man first, saying to him "See, you have been made well,"
then He preached to him "sin no more so you don't get worse."
However, religious folks interrogated the man, who didn't even know who Jesus was
before he was healed and his sin forgiven.
(See Video on "Does God Heal the Sinner as well as the Saved?").
Let us not hold people down with shackles of religious burdens, dogmatic intolerance,
and critical bigotry.
Remember Jesus said, "Heal the sick first, then preach the gospel of the Kingdom to them"
(Luk 10:9).
Nevertheless, some healing ministers continue to degrade divine healing by handcuffing people
desirous of healing under the influence and control of their ministries.
Scripture showcases religious or denomination bigotry and control by Jesus' disciples
when had not yet grown into the soul-stature of Jesus.
They said to Jesus in Mark 9:38, "we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and
we forbade him, because he is not one of us.
Of course, Jesus rebuked them, as He does the priest- and pastor-crafts of today who
coax people into church membership because of healing; by saying "Do not forbid him,
for no anyone who works or receives a miracle in My name will not speak evil of Me"
(Mar 9:39).
We all need to grow into the maturity and stature of the fullness—spirit, soul, and
body—of Christ (Eph 4:13); following His pattern and thinking (Heb 8:5).
Jesus' Apostles share the same experience of healing by the love of Jesus.
Act 5:15 states "…so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them
on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of
them."
James writes in James 5:14-15 "Is anyone among you sick?
Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him...
And the prayer of faith will save the sick…
And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven."
If we can believe that God has truly forgiven our sins, the sins of everyone, then Heaven
testifies with Healing as proof of God's love that He truly does not remember anyone
sins.
They say that the taste of the pudding in the eating.
Yes, the taste of God's love is in making your body (everyone's body), whole and healthy
like His; sickless, sinless, and deathless.
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