Health and Healing

We are sinners in need of a cross. Jesus is

the savior of the world, and he came to save us. Father,

there will be no arrogant, hateful people in heaven, but

there will be sinners saved by grace who have transformed

natures by the power that subjects all things into Christ,

the Creator. The one thing you can't change is our character.

And Lord, our character is not our nature. We struggle

with our nature. Our character is the choices we make

and the kind of people we choose to be. We

face the mirror right, so Dear God, help us hold

us in Jesus. In Jesus' name, Amen. The title of

the message is health and healing. Thought about this, I

wanted for some time to have one of those health

wind nugget windows.

How many of you have appreciated those? Yeah, they're good.

On a Sabbath morning, you get the pastor up here

and talk about health a little bit. I'm not a doctor,

but I have studied what they call holistic medicine a

little bit. So I tried to run from drug therapy

in this kind of thing because I do believe that

God made the body to heal. I learned how to

heal my back from God because I learned that emotions

affect back pain. And years ago I got ahold of

a book by John Sarno called Healing Back Pain The

Mind Body Connection.

John Sarno was famous.

He ended up in psychology day after his death for

affecting more people's health in back pain through non surgical methods.

So the famous book is Healing Back Pain by doctor

John Sarno. Most people who suffer from severe back pain,

it's emotions that have muscles that have inhibited blood circulation

and thus lactic acid build up and sciatica and all

the kinds of things. But it's one of those groundbak

breaking books that agrees with Sister White who said ninety

percent of all diseases start in the mind. So now

I have my chance to do a sermon today on health.

Is that all right?

Now?

You doctors, be easy on the pastor here all right?

The title of the message for the morning is health

and Healing. We're gonna look at the gospel a little

bit this morning because it is the key for health

and healing in our lives. That's something we often miss

and we talk about health. The ancient Greek word for

savior is sotere and it literally means healer. A savior

in Greek is a healer. The ancient asclepion. A slepion

is a medical institution the ancient world that we have

one largely preserved at Ephesus. I've been to it. There's

a medical center there and they had psychological interventions for people,

and one of those interventions was a snake pit.

Serious.

Yeah, people get paranoia, they get depressed, and they had

a cure for it.

They would tie someone up all night.

And that snake pit and the snakes would go all

over their body and entangle around their legs and feet,

and when the night was over, we are cured. Get

us out of here. Mind body connection. When the night

was over, it didn't matter how depressed or paranoid a

person felt they were, they were suddenly healed because they

wanted to get out of there. They wanted to go home.

And one of those ain't the stones at Ephesus. I

know Greek, and I read I took a photograph of it.

It has a scleppius soter, which means a scleppius healer,

which is the word say. It's the same word used

in the Greek New Testament for Jesus as our savior,

the word so tear in its verbal form translated to

save in Our New Testament.

It's the same word used for Jesus as Savior again

and again and again and again.

So when Christ is our savior, what does it mean?

It's plugging.

It means he is our healer.

And Matthew one after the genealogy of Jesus, where he

cites forty two generations, the Angel came to Joseph to

make a statement. The people in jesus genealogy would make

the hair on your head go straight up. You look

at the list of names from Abraham to Jesus, you

wouldn't want to have them in your family.

A lot of them. They are liars, They're murderers, adulterers.

Immoral women and immoral men, failures, idolators, worshipers of idols,

mass murderers, insignificant people also whose names are on a page,

and they mean nothing to history, and yet they are

in the line that leads us to Jesus.

They are his people, his people.

Coredia numbers thirty three in the Exes from Egypt. Ancient

Israel camped out forty two times in the wilderness before

they finally got to the Promised Land forty two encampments.

You look at the generations they're in Matthew one, it's

forty two generations until Jesus shows up. Now, the one

who led them to the Promised Land after Moses died.

His name was Joshua.

Joshua is the Hebrew word for Jesus, the Greek Jesus.

There are two times in the Bibles where the two

Joshua's the two jesus Is meet Joshua Chapter five, when

he sees the man with sword drawn in hand who says,

take off your shoes for the place you're standing his

holy ground. That's Jesus meeting Joshua. The two Jesus are meeting,

and the other Zachariah three, when Joshua the High Priest

is facing the Angel of the Lords, and the Angel

of the Lord is the stone before Joshua's seven eyes.

In the book Revelation and the Lamb has seven eyes,

Joshua is facing Jesus. Amazing that two of these key

stories shape the future because Jesus is the high priest

and Jesus is the commander of God's army. That to

Joshua's meet and the Joshua yet to come, and it

was Joshua who took God's people to the Promised Land.

Matthew's trying to say that Jesus is the new Joshua

who will lead us people who save his people. It

means Yahweh saves the meat of the name, and so

the Lord saves. From Abraham to Jesus was a wilderness

until Jesus shows up, and Jesus is the way out

of the wilderness. Friend, you may have a family system

where you're struggling in your marriage. You may have children

that are out of control, who have lost their way.

The devil may have brought some cynic into their life

to teach them that they can't rely on the spirit

of prophecy, the Bible, or a message, or even have

a relationship with God. You may have been hit by

things that you cannot measure in your life. But I'm

gonna tell you right now, we have a Joshua who

can get our families to the Promised Land. And it

is time we stop cowering in fear and we take

our stand for ourselves and our families. Because Jesus is

in the saving, healing business for all of us. So

when the angel appears to Joshua, Joshua, the angel peers

to Joseph, who should have been king if the genealogy

was right.

But he's a carpenter.

He has something to say about Jesus yet to be born.

He has something to say about us too. Look what

he says, Matthew on't eighteen. Now the birth of Jesus

took place in this way. When his mother, Mary had

been betrothed to Joseph before they came together, she was

found to be with child of the Holy Spirit, and

her husband, Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to

put her to shame, resolved to divorce herly. Jesus' birth

was another scandal in a long line of scandals in

the forty two generational genealogy from Abraham to Jesus.

First twenty.

He picks up the narrative, but as he considered this,

he ever thought about your background. You know I came

from this. You know I have an unbelieving spouse. Maybe

I got treated badly when I was a kid. Maybe

I had trauma deep child too, trauma. They made us

take a test at the conference. I'm not into public disclosures.

But I thought i'd tell some of you this so you.

Kind of know.

And on that trauma test, it's ten points. If you're

like seven or six, your life expectancy goes down.

I was ten. You know.

I had deep childhood trauma as a young person. I

don't even tell you what it was, but I have

suffered all ten of those points that they talk about

in the trauma test. Now some of you experts know

what that test is.

So what I'll tell you why?

Because through faith in Christ, every deficiency of character may

be supplied, every fault corrected, every excellence developed. We learned

this from the book Education. See, it's not where I've

come from that defines me. It's who has called me

into his future that defines me. I'm not a slave

to a past I cannot control, but I am set

free for a future in which God is in control.

See.

I believe that a Jerusalem above is our mother in

Glatians four twenty three, and she is free. And I'm

gonna tell you right now, I will not allow by

faith God not God. I want not allow, by faith

the devil to make me a victim by things I

cannot control. But having said that I need a savior

because I can't fix the stuff that I came out

of on my own. I made that transition. I was

baptized just before I turned sixteen. The man who baptized

me was Donald Vollmer, who was wonderful, godly man. Still

my pastor. He's not an outgoing kind of type. He's

an introverted pastor and never been a senior pastor, always

an associate pastor. He works with people rather than being

in charge. I'm different than that. I just can't tell

you how important it is to have someone who can

see your flaws and your warts and love you. God

put us in the church not to make us perfect people.

He put us in the church to love other people.

And what happens is that we're in the loving, hugging

and carrying business. Our lives are changed. Peter says, love

covers a multitude of sins. So look at verse twenty. Behold,

as he considered this, he was thinking in his head, Behold,

an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.

Not the Angel of the Lord, that's Christ God and

angel form an angel appeared to him, saying Joseph's son

of David, that felt good. He's actually related to King David.

Do not fear. He lived his life in fear. Do

not fear to take marry your wife for that which

is conceived in her as of the Holy Spirit. And

I'm gonna tell you right now, the Holy Spirit can't

be some nebulous, intangible force and bring into existence the

person of Jesus Christ, the powerful third person of the God,

had had hovered over Mary like he had at the

dawn of time, and as he would at the at

the baptism of Jesus, and Christ was formed in human nature.

The second person of the God had became a human being.

Merging two natures.

And then verse twenty one, the angel, most likely Gabriel, said,

some people say, oh, they're angels. You better angels are

ET's on steroids. They're ancient extraterrestrials with powers beyond belief.

You know, forget Superman, Marvel, junk on the movies and

all that. These angels are their real deal. They could

snap their fingers, this place would blow up, but they

don't do that because they're humble, loving beings who follow

God's will. They're here in this room. The sister White

tells us that when we leave pews empty in the front,

evil angels like to come in and take up those places.

So get out of here. I'm asking angels to feel

of those seats in right now. Okay they did, Okay,

but notice what the angel tells Joseph, this loser in

the line of Jesus, she will bear a son, and

you shall call his name Jesus. You see, you're to

name him Joseph. You're not even related to him, but

you're gonna name him. For he will save his people

from their sins. That's what he's coming for. Now.

What does the word save mean again?

Come on, heal now, plug it in, for he will

heal his people from their sins.

To be saved means to be healed.

Friends, Jesus came this world to heal us from our sins,

to heal us from every disease caused by sin. Healed

people will inherit eternity nothing last is the outcome for

God's people. Now. The problem with perfectionism is that perfectionism

would have you believe that you have to be perfect

to be accepted by God. Do you hear me? That's

a satanic lie. The Reformation rightly understood the Gospel of

Romans as the early pioneers of our church came to

understand it more deeply after eighteen eighty eight, through the

guidance of the Spirit of Prophecy, that at the moment

a person has faith in Jesus, that person's accepted as

if they'd never sinned. The full regard of God for

Jesus Christ is given to that baby believer. So they

are in the Beloved. They don't do things so that

God will accept them. They grow because they are accepted

and loved. And yes, God will not admit rebels into

the kingdom, but he disciplines us, so we will never

be a rebel. And if we do not run away

from him, if we do not distance ourselves from Him,

he will.

Not reject us.

And so those that the Father has drawn to the Son,

Jesus says, I will know why it's cast out. We

got to remember that when we're having tough times, when

we fail God. Now we should ever planned to sin,

we should be quick to repent, but we should realize

we are not cast off. We're accepted in the Beloved.

Jesus came to this world to heal sinners, heal people

will inherit attorney. So don't settle for anything less than

being healed in your life by Jesus. Now, what gets

in the way of that is a victim complex. Oh me,

I went through all of this and no one helped

me with this. And have you ever had a victim

I'll raise my hand. I've had a victim complex before.

Anybody with me, I might see my droopy hand. Victim complex. Okay,

no more, friends, It's not God's will for any of

us to have a tragic story, a bad attitude life,

to feel like we're the victim of someone treating us wrong.

I get treated wrong all the time. What about you?

You have people treat you wrong?

Oh okay, well.

Friends, Jesus came to heal us now for the future,

So how do we get healed? Romans one, sixteen seventeen.

For I'm not ashamed of the gospel. I don't care

who teaches what in what church. There's two elements of

the gospel. One is the gospel the Christ died for

our sins.

It was bare. He was raised for our justification, our acceptance.

The other side is the gospel is the outworking of

God's covenant at the ten Commandments because the character of

God is embedded in the law. The Gospel is a

revelation of the law of love, of the character of

God that I am who I am God, of which

the Ten Commandments describes so eloquently. So when people are

trying to do away with any one of the ten precepts,

they have a false gospel, because Jesus died for our

what sins. Sins are the violation of God's law, and

whatever it is not a faith is sin also. But

you see, if anyone does the way of the Gospel

to keep the law, that's just as bad. Oh, well,

you know you're not really accepted. You've got to get better.

If you don't improve, then you're going to not You know,

the Lord can't have you the way you are. Well,

the truth is he can have you right now the

way you are, as you are on your knees asking

for help. He does not throw you away, but he

changes us. So Paul says, from I'm not ashamed of

the gospel. It is the power of God. Now, the

Greek word power is dunamus. We get a word dynamite,

dynamite power of God for salvation. What does word salvation mean?

Again healing to everyone who has faith, to the jew

first and also the Greek, for in it that is

the gospel. The righteousness of God is revealed through faith

for faith, which means we start with faith, we end

with faith. We don't give up our faith in Jesus

because things are going bad. As it is written, he

through faith is righteous shall live.

How many do you want to live? You cannot have

a few without the Gospel in your life. The death.

Now, look, everybody here has messed up bad in life.

She say, Amen, pastor Mike, shall you say something like that.

Everybody here has messed up bad in life.

God knows it.

You can say him into that, and Jesus died on

a cross for every bit of it. So when some

browbeating perfect person comes into your life and wants to

set you on fire so that you are a mess inside,

look him in the eye and in your mind's heart.

If you don't say a personally, say Jesus died for

me on the cross of Calvary, and in Christ I

am accepted as if I had never sinned, and I

have sinned, But I will live for him.

And he'll clean me up in time for heaven.

The Gospel is the power of God for salvation, and

that were salvation means healing. The Gospel heals people from

their sins. It heals their minds, it heals their emotions.

It heals us to the deepest part of our being

Isaiah fifty three four. Surely he has borne our griefs

and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken. And

the Hebrews says God was smitten. That's what the Hebrews says.

It says smitten by God. But the hebrew says God

was smitten and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions.

He was bruised for our iniquities. Some people run around

say Jesus couldn't die for our sins. It's a pagan idea. Well,

it doesn't work here. Verse five says he in fact

died for those things. He was wounded for our transgressions.

He was bruised for our iniquities. Upon him was the chastisement.

It means the whipping that made us whole. That's a

psychological term. And with his stripes we were healed. Every

disease you've ever had, every sickness you'll ever have, every

disappointment and grief. It was all put into Jesus had

in heart. From Gsemite to the Cross. He has borne

every illness, every psychological trauma, from Adam to the end,

as Us in Gosemone to the cross. That's what he's

saying that what does it mean. It means Jesus died

for you. He was our substitute. Jesus died with you

because you were in Christ. Paul says, Jesus died as

you because he identified with all of your challenges. Jesus

carried all of you in him when he died to

heal us from our sins. He identified with you, dear heart,

as if there was no one else in the universe

on the cross of Calvary to heal you. How can

someone else's suffering take away your suffering? Jesus can do

it because Jesus became each and every one of us

on that cross. That's what Isaiah is saying. Peter says

that he bore our sin in his body on the

cross one Peter two twenty four. He himself bore our

sins in his body on the tree that we might

die to sin and live to righteousness.

By his wounds you have been healed. See we're not

waiting for healing.

In Jesus, we have healed on that cross, for you

were strained like sheep, but have now returned to the

shepherd and guarded your souls. You see, true healing means

coming to Jesus in our lives. Our souls can live,

and our souls can be free of guilt, because Jesus

bore our diseases, our guilt, package our condemnation in his

body on the cross, and in Jesus we find the

shepherd of our souls. Jesus was terminally ill on that cross,

from every illness from Adam to the end. The sins

of the world should have wiped him out, and the

guard of Casemone fell down from the load of it all. Thromboy,

it says in the Greek quots of blood colapsed in trauma,

deep trauma, childhood trauma, midlife trauma, the trauma of death,

the trauma of sin, the trauma of guilt, the trauma

of immorality, trauma of idolatry, our sins. He should have

died from the pressure that forced the blood and sweat

out of his pores when he fell to the earth

and pain. Yet that angel came from heaven the garden

Consimbi to hook him up to the respirator to sustain

his life, to do the atonement.

What is atonement and onement? To bring us to God?

Peter says, by dying for us as us with us

on Calvary's cross, you see the end time judgment of

the destruction of the wicked, of the end of the

millennium happened to the cross. To Jesus, it's the hottest

hell in the universe. As Calvary, the cpu AI needs

all this electricity to run because the CPUs get hot

and everything artificial intelligence.

They say they'll have to have entire power plants to

run it.

Imagine the power that is needed for Jesus to process

as a human being, every human life as them to

die for our sins. The Bible says that he was nine,

he was offered up in the eternal spirit. The fire

of God's glory was funneling through him, burning out.

The sins of the world. So when he said it

is finished, there was nothing left to condemn.

So what does it take. What does Jesus heal us from?

I would like to look at that this morning. Let's

look this morning. Five things where Jesus heals us. Number one,

Thank you, Lucia. The Lord heals us from our disobedience

in our physical diseases. Thank you for that slide. And

they are related. In Access fifteen twenty six, God says,

if you will diligently hearken to the voice of the

Lord your God, to do that which is right in

his eyes, and give heed to his commandments and keep

all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases

upon you which I put upon the Egyptians for the

Lord your healer, obeying God's law. Now, legalists can't obey

God's law. Narcissists can't obey God's law. Broken people can.

It's the pooring spirit who start the journey to obey.

When we come to obey God's law not to earn salvation,

but because the Lord died for our sins. It's at

that moment we are healed and we begin to be healed.

Number two, The Lord heals us from our bad attitudes

and actions like gossip, backbiting, depression, victim mentality. Could we

had a long list of that. Okay, Miriam was guilty

of gossip and backbiting against Moses because he had married

a Cushite woman who was dark skinned. We call that racism,

don't we. Lord hates racism. God directly intervened and struck

her with leprosy, So don't doing that in the church.

All right? Fair enough, He didn't allow.

That to continue one minute longer with Aaron and Maryam

acting that way as leaders in the church. The Lord

stopped it. Numbers twelve thirteen, and Moses cried to the Lord.

See Moses intervened. And Moses would be considered dysfunctional leader

because he let things go way too long, we would think,

But the Bible says he was the meekest man in

the earth, so he just let things go, and he

always got stung by. But then he intervenes for the

people who should have gotten judged. And Moses cried to

the Lord, heal her, Oh God, I beseech thee. But

the Lord said to Moses, if her father had but

spit in her face, should she not be shamed?

Seven days?

Let her be shut up outside the camp seven days,

and after that she may be brought in again. That's

Jesus speaking, by the way, before he became human being.

You go wow, yep, that's Christ has an other side

to him. It's good though there are times in life

we need to be healed by an intervention because bad

attitudes are disease. God is our healer from these unlawful

things inside. And so when we do the assessment of

our souls, we need to ask ourselves what kind of people?

Are we?

We toxic? Or do we add life to others by

being truly loving? Does everything have to revolve around us?

Are we the stain of the universe? Or is it

about giving, caring, sharing that our lives are enriched? Number three,

The Lord forgives our sins and heals our land. The

Lord not only heals individuals, he also heals groups of people.

There's such a thing called group illness, group sickness, group evil.

The subject was to create as a psychological study. After

the Holocaust, doctor M. Scott Peck wrote a book called

The People of the Lie where he analyzes evil, working

off of the research of others group evil and individual evil.

Second Chronicle seven fourteen. If my people, who are called

by my name that means God's law and character, humble

themselves and pray and seek my face, what will he do?

He says? And turn from their wicked ways. Then I

will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin,

and I will heal their land.

And the Bible.

Repentance exists at different levels. Individual people can repent. Have

you ever gotten on your knees and just said, Lord,

I'm messed up. I was harsh, I messed up here,

I lied, or I was dishonest, or I messed up

here trying to defend myself. I didn't do the right thing.

And what does the Lord do when you do that?

He forgives you. He forgives you. Isn't that sweet? He

forgives you.

You don't don't take that to some priest or preacher.

Take it to God. You don't have to have someone

in the room. He doesn't want anyone else there but

you and him. Families can also repent. There are times

when families need to say, we all messed up as

a family. You know. Visiting the iniquity of the third

and fourth generation means four generations are alive at any

one time in an ancient tent, and if evil was

being done in that tent, they all knew it. Therefore

was group evils the families scaniving families need to repent.

When families sin, nations can repent. Is it okay if

a nation repents. If a nation tries to repent, don't

go acting like it's a bad thing. Now a nation

doesn't have a right to take over God's law or

enforced worship. But if a nation repents of sin and evil,

praise the Lord. Is that a good thing? Nothing wrong

with it? Let's take it one step further. Churches can repent,

local and world churches can repent. The problem with the

latesty in condition in the book Revelation is root in

the problem of arrogance and narcissism.

The latesty in.

Church says, I am rich and increased with goods and

have need of nothing. Now I've been very clear. There

are two books, two churches. In book Revelation is Seventh

Day Adventism. To the end, what are they?

I'm quizzing you.

The first one Philadelphia and Laydesa Philadelphia becomes it's not

the majority experience as we come up to the mark

of the Beast. Lay to Sea is the large class

that has professed faith in Third Angel's message. But within

the Adventist church, both groups exist side by side, side

by side, and really we must decide to be latest,

to be, to be Philadelphians. If we're lay at its stands,

the cure is Philadelphia. And we can talk more about

that when I interact with prophecy, because we're living in

a year where Bible prophecies unfolding. I was just talking

outside in the Foeer. I think, I think we're the

generation that we'll see the mark of the beast and

so start ordering your life.

You would go home or be deceived.

You don't have a choice, cast your lot with Jesus

or go down the wrong road. The latesty in church

says I am rich, increased with goods, and have need

of nothing, a self righteous, arrogant church system, individual leadership,

and I'm not saying all leaders of this way. They

can't get to square one without becoming poor in spirit

as an entry point. The latesty in church can't get

to the first line of the Beatitudes in the Sermon

of them Mount because of its proud and boastful attitude

claiming that it is rich with no need. Friends, we

need to feel our need and our deep spiritual poverty

to be healed of religious arrogance and pride and sin itself.

That is why Jesus begins his blessings in the Sermon

of Them out with an appeal for true humility.

Matthew five.

Three, Blessed are the poor in spirit, for their is

the King of Heaven. The only church in the book

Revelation that is has no commendations at all is the

Church of Ladacea, which makes it the worst of all

of them because it cannot face the fact that it

can mess up and sin. And because of that arrogance,

the Ladesian Church can't get to square one in the

Sermon of Them Mount blessed with the poor in spirit.

And yet Philadelphian Adventism says, it says that you have

a little power, but you've not denied my name or law.

See law keepers are really people who obey because they're small,

and they live for the Lord because of grace. Thus

they become obedient Christians. We have in our church culture.

I'm not here to poke at different things because I

don't like doing that in the pulpit, But we have

godly committed people in our world church who are doing

the work of the Philadelphian Church, taking the Gospel to

unreached areas of the world. Four hundred thousand baptized in

New Guinea, and I can go on and on Philadelphians.

Then we have people come to church, don't do anything,

don't want to learn the Bible, don't study it, don't

pray for people, don't try to really win their neighbors

because they're into themselves, their status, the position they have

or don't have. Lay the sins. We've been told as

the test approaches, a large class that have professed faith

in the Third Angels message. It's in the chapter the

Final Warning, great controversy will become the fiercest adversaries of

those people who are truly committed to the prophetic vision

and mission of the remnant Church. We can't afford to

be in that compromising crowd. We have to come to

Jesus and let him get his work done. Some people say, well,

you know, I'm a conservative, I'm a liberal. I'm not either.

I don't turn to the right or the left, at

least in my mind, I want to turn to Jesus.

So we don't need to be party spirit in the

church that's of the world, but we do need to

be obedient. There are things in some conservatism and liberalism

I like each, but I'd rather not focus my life

on them. I'd rather model it after Jesus example. So

don't treat repentance lightly in your experience so as to

make it a trivial thing. It is part of worship

in light of the Cross. We should be quick to

humble up, eager to repent, fast to move forward with

Jesus in our lives, and do not think we're the

sinner of the universe. A church that cannot repent or

admit it is wrong and time becomes an evil church, toxic.

So we don't want that, do we.

If Latecy doesn't repent, Jesus says he will spit it

out of his mouth. He never says that to Philadelphia.

Revelation three nineteen. Those whom I love, I reprove and chase,

and the chasing will be the mark of the beast.

So be zealous and repent. Number four. The Lord heals

us from our personal pain and our emotional distresses. I

don't know about you. I've had emotional pain in my life.

Has anybody else here had deep emotional pain in your life?

Really to lingered for weeks or day, you know, months?

Maybe when my dad died, I was diagnosed with clinical depression.

My blood pressure went to one hundred and eighty or

one hundred and twenty, and I had those bleeds. That

was because of emotional distress trauma. I survived it. They

wanted me to drop out of college. Dinah says, because

you had a calcium deficiency. I think it was this stress. Frankly,

who knows. Maybe in both Let's look at Isaiah Ffty

three again, verse four. Surely he has borne our griefs

and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten

by God and afflicted. Literally, God was stricken and afflicted

in Jesus, That's what it says in the Hebrew. But

he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for

our iniquities. Upon him was the chastisement that has made

us whole. And with his stripes we were healed. Jesus

can heal you psychologically in life, because Jesus has dealt

with the stuff inside your head inside of his head.

That is why it's called the Wonderful Counselor. In the

book of Isaiah. Remember when Samson and his wife were

trying to figure out how to raise little Samson they

didn't have a clue because they lived in the time

of the judges. The Angel of the Lord, who was

the pre existing Christ, showed up, took the rod Moses rod.

Because they took it to heaven, made the sacrifice turn

to fire, and Sister White says that Rod now is

in heaven. See, so we've got to follow the Bible

line represents the Holy Spirit. And what happened there is

that the Angel the Lord told him what to do

so little Samson would turn out okay. He says, what's

your name? He says, why do you ask? Seeing that

it is wonderful? And Isaiah will pick up on that

that the Christ child would be the wonderful counselor he

was there helping families in the Old Testament. Being healed

psychologically means integration and a simulation of pain to acquire meaning.

When pain has meaning in your life, it loses its

power to harm you anymore. Did you hear what I said?

When pain has meaning in your life, it loses the

power to harm you. PTSD is the product of naivete

I have had PTSD. I was diagnosed with it after

I left Sligo and I met with a professional counselor

who helped me and prayed with me. And that's the

best kind of counseling. And I learned that people who

suffer from post traumatic stress disorder can't believe that people

could be so evil to hurt them. So it's a

naivete or that the life could be so unjust that

it could hurt them. Well, guess what, friends, we live

in an evil world. That's naivete. It fuels depression. In nature,

the weak die. You cannot afford to be weak. It's

not God does not call the Christian to that kind

of whiny, mournful weeping. He calls us to deal with

it by integrating pain, addressing it evil. We'll be here

until the end. We don't overcome pain by getting rid

of it in our lives. We overcome pain by integrating

and allowing the Lord to make us hole by facing it.

That is why rejoicing and giving praise to God in

the midst of pain and yes, failure, is so.

Important in life.

If you can rejoice in your sufferings, pain can no

longer tear you away from God and break you down

in life Hebrews twelve to one. Therefore, since we are

surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses. Let us

lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely,

and let us run with perseverance the race that is

set before us, looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfectory

of our faith, who for the joy that was set

before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is

seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

When we are healed, truly healed, our souls prosper in salvation.

John ten ten says that Jesus came to this world

to give us the abundant life. Abundant living is only

possible if we've been healed, and joy comes to us

as the fruit of the spirit that is rightly ours,

because we have.

Tasted of the sweet salvation.

And the honey of the healing power of the Lord.

Third John verse two. Beloved, I pray that all of

you may go well, it may go well with you,

and that you may be in good health. I know

that it is well with your soul, for I greatly

rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to

the truth of your life. As indeed you do follow

the truth see the connection between following the truth and

being healthy. That's why theology matters, you know. Imagine believing

as some do falsely from scripture, misunderstanding the verses that

God will torment people forever and ever in a pit

called hell, rather than destroying evil, as he says in

Malachi four and Revelation chapter twenty and many other places.

John three point sixteen, Jesus taught the same like I

think Matthew ten twenty six. Do not fear him who

can kill the body only, but fear him and can

destroy both body and soul and hell. They ignore verses

like that, But imagine what it means to worship a

God where you have a view like that.

What does it do to you? See?

The truth corrupts your character, It corrupts your relationship with God.

It makes you into something awful too. This is why

we need to be informed Christians, allowing the word of

God to inform us of the character of God in

such a way. The Gospel is the gospel, you know.

If we worship a God who himself has bad news

to worship, it's no gospel, So no greater joy, he

says the report can I have than this to hear

that my children follow the truth. That's the way I

feel at Reaching Hearts too. I don't want our kids

going to be crazy, out of control Christian rock concerts

or non Christian rock concerts because the truth isn't in it,

you know. I don't want them being sucked into some

movie watching event where there's compromise going on and they're

having to be exposed to nudity in that movie or

language which is despicable. I mean, the church ought to

be a haven from that stuff, right man. I want

men and women of character to come out of Reaching

Hearts rather than a crowd of rebels to be the

product of our culture. Here, friends, when we are healed,

we are truly healed. The Lord heals us from our past,

our presence, so we can move into his future Philippians

three twelve to fourteen. Not that I've already obtained this

or am already perfect?

Now? Was Paul perfect? Yes? Or no? I'm quizzing you

based on this verse? No? Now.

I have a hard time believing that some end time

believer is going to be better than Paul. I think

Paul will be the one closest to the throne personally.

He will never claim that perfect people in God's eyes

are people who are imperfect in their own eyes.

Did you hear me?

Perfect people in God's eyes are people who are imperfect

their own eyes. And who do they look to for

perfection Jesus. So in the relation of Jesus, they are

transformed by beholding they become changed. This final generation theology

that God had start with m el Andreas And years

ago after the death of Ellen White. You could have

taken it right out of the counter Reformation. The Jesuits

had something very similar. They taught a form of perfectionistic legalism.

This happened because why not because Emil andreas And was

a Jesuit. Because it's human nature to want to do that,

to find a way where we help God out. So

look what he says stuff, not that I have already

obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on.

That's faith that never gives up. I press on to

make it my own. I will be one day because

why because Jesus has already made me his own. That's

the Reformers died over that distinction of the flames. They

realize that if you're not accepted at the beginning of

your journey, that you don't have a right now, righteousness

good enough for the judgment day?

Why bother?

And they knew the Gospel sets us free from fear. Brethren,

he says, I do not consider that I've made it

my own. But one thing I do forgetting what lies

behind and straying forward what lies ahead. I like verse fourteen.

I press on toward the goal for the price eyes

of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. I

like to end with a poem by Deborah Ann Belco.

It's called God Heals the Broken Heart. It's a simple poem.

God can do wonders with broken hearts. He can heal

and mend all the injured parts. But you must give

him your heart as it breaks, each little piece of

it and all the little flakes. God can perform miracles

and hearts that are damaged, He can undo the impact

where grief has ravaged. But you must go to him

and the hearts surrendered so he can do the repairs

without being hindered. God can do wonders, miracles he still

performs for on hearts that are broken, he mercifully transforms.

And then at the bottom of this poem they put

this passage from Psalms of one hundred and forty seven ver.

Three.

He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds. Friends,

let us worship the Lord Jesus, the Lord Yahweh, the Godhead, Father, Son,

and Holy Spirit, that hearted love of eternity as our healer.

And thank God for all his mercies. And thank Jesus.

Thank God for Jesus that God has appointed Jesus. It's

the healer of the human race, our savior, the healer.

May God heal you and me. And let's covenant in

our lives not to be hard on other people unnecessary.

Not period.

We may have to intervene in our lives in our

different roles, but let's help other people get to heaven.

Is that fair enough? Okay?

God, bless you Father. You have said that you have

brought us out on eagles wings, and underneath are the

everlasting arms. And Father, those arms are our father's arms,

the mighty counselor's arms, and the other counselor who comes

to us to bring him to us. We are so

grateful for you, and thank you Father that, as we

have been told in the spirit of prophecy, you have

pledged every part of the Godhead, of the Father, of

the Son, the Holy Spirit, the three heavenly worthies, the

three heavenly beings, as she says, so that we will

be saved. And you proved it Jesus baptism as showing

up together, and you'll be there at the second coming

at the end of time. Lord, May you bring the

Holy Spirit into our lives. Help us to be a

repentant church, the Lord, a truly repentant church. Help us

to look for the salvation of other men and women

as primary in our lives, and loving others. Show your

love to us and thinking that love covers a multitude

of sins. And Lord, may we never give up the

right message, the Philadelphian form of Adventism, which has all

the doctrines right, but has Jesus in the heart. And Lord,

may we disown our identity with latesty. If we are

not latest sans, if we are repentant loving people, we're Philadelphians.

And Father give us Jesus help us to get there.

And just bless your dear people. May the fellowship in

the hall help them this weekend. And Lord, no matter

what happens to our nation this year, get us out

of politics in the church, so we're now worried about

it one way or the other.

We don't think the.

World is saved or not by who gets inaugurate who doesn't.

But we will pray for the new leader of this

country as we prayed for the last and Lord, when

the time comes we have to lay down our lives

for conscience, we'll lead that to God. But right now, Lord,

bless your people, Bless the food. I'm having the blessing

for them here in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen,