GOD'S MINISTRY
 

THROUGH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH
BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Revs. Mr. and Mrs. H. Dean Daniels

E-mail: gods-ministry@hdd-gods-ministry.com

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I AM THE LORD THAT HEALETH THEE!

 

Malachi 3:8-12  Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. [9] Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. [10] Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. [11] And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts. [12] And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.

 

And!

 

Exodus 15:26  And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.

 

[If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments and keep all his statues]

 

Four Conditions of Healing

 

1.   Diligently hear God's voice—acknowledge Him as God; live free from idolatry.

2.   Live righteous lives in His sight.

3.   Give ear to His commandments—not just the ten, but all of them.

4.   Keep all His statutes—regulations for civil and religious life.

 

Seven Commands to Hear

 

1.   Give ear to My commandments (Exodus 15:26).

2.   Bow down your ear and hear (2 Kings 19:16).

3.   Give ear to My law (Psalm 78:1).

4.   Incline your ear to wisdom (Proverbs 2:2).

5.   Incline your ear to My sayings (Proverbs 4:20).

6.   Bow down your ear to My understanding (Proverbs 5:1).

7.   He that hath an ear, let him hear (Matthew 13:9; see also Matthew 13:15, 16, 43; Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 29; Rev. 3:6, 13, 22; Rev. 13:9).

 

No one can expect to be free from sickness unless he meets the conditions; but every one can expect such blessings by meeting them (Exodus 20:6; Exodus 23:22-25; Psalm 91).

 

   [I will put none of these diseases upon thee] God is responsible for disease only in the sense of making the law of sowing and reaping (Galatians 6:7-8); making penalties for sin (Exodus 15:26; Exodus 23:22-25; Leviticus 26; Deut. 28); and permitting agencies with the power to execute the curse on man to have their way (Job 1:6-22; Job 2:1-13; Job 42:10; Psalm 91; Luke 13:16; John 10:10; Acts 10:38; Hebrews 2:14-15; Rev. 9:1-12).  If there had been no sin there would be no curse.  When Christ reigns on earth there will be no sickness (Isaiah 33:24; Isaiah 35:5-6).  When God's will is done on earth as in heaven, there will be no curse (Rev. 21:1-22:6).

 

   [for I am the LORD] The reason given for no sickness on the obedient was, God is the healer of His people.  Here God is revealed as Jehovah-Rapha, Jehovah the Healer, or Jehovah your Physician.   

 

   [that healeth thee] To prove not only that He could heal, but was willing to (thus fulfilling His promises and covenants), He healed them all by His word and there was not a feeble person in all their tribes (Psalm 105:37; Psalm 107:20).   

 

Another Promise of God!

 

God promised to make everyone immune from all diseases in the future, upon meeting conditions (Exodus 23:22-25; Psalm 91; Isaiah 58).  Sicknesses and diseases were and still are special curses on human beings only when they won't obey or when they fail to understand and appropriate God's provision by faith (Exodus 23:22-25; Leviticus 26; Deut. 28; Job 33:14-33; Psalm 91; Psalm 103:3; Isaiah 58; Matthew 8:17; John 10:10; 2 Cor. 11:30;  James 5:14-16, notes; 1 Peter 2:24).

 

The everlasting Father is “The” “I AM”

 

With His Stripes!

[The Stripes of Jesus Christ]

 

Isaiah 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

 

[wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities]

 

Two Bodily References in Making Atonement  

 

1. Wound. Hebrew: chalal (HSN-2491), to wound; bore; slay; pierce (Isaiah 53:5; Isaiah 51:9; Psalm 109:22). This refers to piercing the hands, feet, and side.

2. Bruise. Hebrew: daka� (HSN-1792), to crumble; beat to pieces; break; bruise; crush; destroy; smite (Isaiah 53:5, 10; Isaiah 3:15; Job 19:2; Psalm 72:4; Psalm 94:5). This refers to the stripes by scourging, cuts by thorns, and other physical sufferings, and proves this was part of the work of atonement by which blood was shed. It was by this particular phase of punishment that physical healing was provided for all alike (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24).  

 

[chastisement]

 

Our Correction  

 

Hebrew: muwcar (HSN-4148), correction. He did not sin, so any needed correction was ours. We had sinned and were estranged from God, so God sent Him to be chastised in our place in order that we might become reconciled and have peace with our Maker again. What was necessary to reconcile God and man was placed upon Christ to make peace again between them (Isaiah 53:5).  

 

[stripes]

 

Messiah's Stripes  

 

Hebrew:  chabbuwrah (HSN-2250), a black and blue mark.  Translated "stripe" (Isaiah 53:5; Exodus 21:25); "bruises" (Isaiah 1:6); "hurt" (Genesis 4:23); "blueness" (Proverbs 20:30); "wounds" (Psalm 38:5); and "spots" (Jeremiah 13:23). Christ could have received as many as 468 stripes from scourging alone (note, Matthew 27:26).  

 

[healed]

 

Messiah's Healing Power  

 

Hebrew: rapha� (HSN-7495), to mend; cure; heal; repair; make whole (Isaiah 53:5; Isaiah 6:10). It has no reference to spiritual healing whatsoever. There are at least 14 Hebrew and Greek words found in scores of passages which plainly teach physical soundness, healing, health, preservation, salvation, and deliverance. Sometimes one of these words is used in the same passage of both body and soul, thus proving that it is not limited to the spiritual part of man. See Thirty-seven Biblical Diseases and Infirmities and Biblical Plagues.  

 

Thirteen Hebrew and Greek Words That Refer to Physical Healing:

 

1. The Hebrew: rapha� (HSN-7495) is translated "cure" (Jeremiah 33:6); "make whole" (Job 5:18); "heal" (Isaiah 19:22; Isaiah 57:18-19; Numbers 12:13; Deut. 32:39; 2 Kings 20:5,8; Psalm 6:2; Jeremiah 17:14; Jeremiah 30:17; Hosea 6:1; Zech. 1:16); "healed" (Isaiah 6:10; Isaiah 53:4; Genesis 20:17; Exodus 21:19; Leviticus 13:18,37; Leviticus 14:3,49; Deut. 28:27,35; 1 Samuel 6:3; 1 Samuel 8:29; 1 Samuel 9:15; 2 Chron. 22:6; 2 Chron. 30:20; Psalm 30:2; Psalm 107:20; Jeremiah 17:14; Ezekiel 34:4; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 11:3); "healeth" (Isaiah 20:26; Exodus 15:26; Psalm 103:3; Psalm 147:3); "thoroughly healed" (Exodus 21:19); and "physician" (Genesis 50:2; 2 Chron. 16:12; Job 13:4; Jeremiah 8:22).

 

2. The Hebrew:  marpe� (HSN-4832) is translated "healing" (Jeremiah 14:19; Malachi 4:2); "health" (Proverbs 4:22; Proverbs 12:18; Proverbs 13:17; Proverbs 16:24; Jeremiah 8:15); "cure" (Jeremiah 33:6); "remedy" (2 Chron. 26:16; Proverbs 6:15; Proverbs 29:1); "sound in health" (Proverbs 14:30); and "wholesome" (Proverbs 15:4).

 

3. The Hebrew: yeshuw€ah (HSN-3444) is translated "health" (Psalm 42:11; Psalm 43:5; Psalm 67:2); "deliverance" (Psalm 18:50; Psalm 44:4); and "salvation" (Psalm 91:16). The entire 91st Psalm teaches perfect healing and health physically. So, the salvation of Isaiah 53:16 includes the body as well as the soul.

 

4. The Hebrew: �aruwkah (HSN-724) means restoration to sound health (Isaiah 58:8; Jeremiah 8:22; Jeremiah 30:17; Jeremiah 33:6).

 

5. The Hebrew: chabash (HSN-2280) means "healer" (Isaiah 3:7); and "to bind up" or "heal" (Isaiah 30:26; Isaiah 61:1; Job 5:18; Psalm 147:3; Ezekiel 34:16; Hosea 6:1).

 

6. The Hebrew: riph�uth (HSN-7500) means "health" (Proverbs 3:8).

 

7. The Greek: therapeuo (GSN-2323) is translated "heal" (Matthew 8:7; Matthew 10:1,8; Matthew 12:10; Mark 3:2,15; Luke 4:23; Luke 6:7; Luke 10:9; Luke 14:3); "healed" (Matthew 4:23-24; Matthew 8:16,17; Matthew 9:35; Matthew 12:15,22; Matthew 14:14; Matthew 15:20; Matthew 19:2; Matthew 21:14; Mark 1:34; Mark 3:10; Mark 6:5,13; Luke 4:40; Luke 5:15; Luke 6:18; Luke 8:43; Luke 9:6-11; Luke  13:14; Luke 14:4; Acts 4:14; Acts 5:16; Acts 8:7; Acts 28:9); "cure" (Matthew 17:16; Luke 9:1); and "cured" (Luke 7:21; John 5:10).

 

8. The Greek: iama (GSN-2386) means "healing" or "repairing" (2 Cor. 12:9, 28, 30).

 

9. The Greek: iaomai (GSN-2390) is translated "heal" (Matthew 13:15; Luke 4:18; Luke 5:17; Luke 9:2; John 4:47; John 12:40); "healed" (Matthew 8:8,13; Mark 5:29; Luke 6:17,19; Luke 7:7; Luke 8:2,47; Luke 17:15; Luke 22:51; John 5:13; Acts 3:11; Acts 28:8; Hebrews 12:13; James 5:16; 1 Peter 2:24); "healing" (Acts  10:38); "whole" (Matthew 15:28; Acts 9:24).

 

10. The Greek: iasis (GSN-2392) means "healing" and "cure" (Luke 13:32; Acts 4:22, 30; Acts 28:27).

 

11. The Greek: hugiaino (GSN-5198) means "sound health" (3 John 1:2).

 

12. The Greek:  hugies (GSN-5199) means "healthy," "sound," and "whole" (Matthew 12:13; Matthew 15:31; Mark 3:5; Mark 5:34; Luke 5:31).

 

13.The Greek:  diasozo (GSN-1295) means "to save" and "to heal thoroughly," "make perfectly whole," and is used of the body being healed (Matthew 14:36; Luke 7:3).

 

 

1 Peter 2:24  Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.  

 

By Whose stripes ye “were” healed means; Jesus Christ suffered stripes upon His own body for our “healing” providing His Healing for us in The Atonement for our Sins (transgressions, afflictions and infirmities). By Jesus The Christ going to Calvary and arising again the third day unto newness of LIFE. Christ said “It is finished” and yet, we must repent of our sins and transgressions, asking Him for our healing and forgiveness, believe Him and confessing Him as THE Lord and Saviour of our lives and Souls!

 

Physical healing is part of the redemptive work of Christ.  By His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5; Matthew 8:17).  

 

Thirty-five Facts about Sickness and Healing  

 

1. Health was natural and eternal before the fall (Genesis 1:26-31; Genesis 2:17).

2. Both death and sickness originated with sin and are now being propagated by Satan (Romans 5:12-21; Job 2:6-7; Luke 13:16; John 10:10; Acts 10:38; 1 John 3:8).

3. The first prophecy and promise of redemption included healing (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 53:5; Matthew 8:16-17; 1 Peter 2:24).

4. The first recorded bodily affliction came through wrongdoing (Genesis 20:1-18).

5. The first recorded healing was by the prayer of a prophet (Genesis 20:7-17).

6. God made covenants with His people to heal them (Exodus 15:26; Exodus 23:23; Leviticus 26; Deut. 28; Matthew 8:17; 1 Peter 2:24; James 5:14).

7. God has always kept His covenants and has healed multitudes by spiritual means (Psalm 103:3; Psalm 105:37; Psalm 107:20; Acts 10:38).

8. Spiritual means to heal is all that God promised and commanded (Exodus 15:25; Psalm 91; Isaiah 58; Matthew 8:17; Matthew 13:15; James 5:14-16; 1 Peter 2:24).

9. Spiritual means were used in the wilderness by Israel (Exodus 15:26; Numbers 11:1-3; Numbers 12:13-16; Numbers 21:1-9; John 3:14).

10. Healing was promised on condition of obedience (Leviticus 26; Deut. 28; Exodus 15:26; Psalm 91; Isaiah 58; James 5:14-15).

11. God permits Satan to afflict sinners and even His own people when they go astray, to bring them to repentance (Job 33:12-30; Psalm 38; Psalm 103:3; Numbers 12:13-16; Numbers 21:9; 1 Cor. 5:1-5; 2 Cor. 2:6-11; Galatians 6:7-8).

12. God always healed when lessons were learned and men repented (Genesis 20:7,17; Numbers 11:2; Numbers 12:13-16; Numbers 21:1-9; Job 33:12-30; Job 42:1-12; Psalm 103:3; James 5:14-15).

13. Health as well as healing was promised when men met certain conditions (Exodus 15:26; Leviticus 26; Deut. 28; Psalm 91; Proverbs 3:1-8; Proverbs 12:18; Proverbs 13:3; Proverbs 15:4; Proverbs 18:8,21; Isaiah 58; James 5:14; 1 Peter 3:10-11; 3 John 1:2).

14. Christ came to redeem from both sin and sickness (Isaiah 53; Isaiah 61:1-2; Matthew 8:17; Matthew 9:5; Galatians 3:13; Romans 8:11; Acts 10:38; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 3:8).

15. Healing is in fulfillment of prophecy (Isaiah 35; Isaiah 53; Isaiah 61:1-2; Matthew 8:17; Acts 10:38; 1 Peter 2:24; Matthew 13:15).

16. Jesus proved His Sonship by healing all men (Matthew 4:23-24; Matthew 11:3-6; Luke 4:16-21; Acts 10:38; 1 John 3:8).

17. Every disciple called and sent by Christ was given power to heal (Matthew 10:1-8; Mark 6:7-13; Luke 10:1-21; Acts 1:8).

18. Jesus commanded His disciples to become filled with power to heal before they went out (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4-8).

19. All disciples throughout this age are commanded to observe the same commands Christ gave the first disciples (Matthew 28:20; Acts 1:4-8; Mark 16:15-20).

20. Early disciples did confirm the Word by healing (Mark 16:15-20; Acts 2:43; Acts 3:1-12; Acts 5:2-16; Acts 6:8; Acts 8:7-13; Acts 11:19-22; Acts 14:3,27; Acts  15:4,12; Acts 19:11-12; Acts 28:9; Romans 15:18-19,29; 1 Cor. 16:10; Phil. 1:7; 1 Thes. 2:13; Hebrews 2:3-4).

21. The Holy Spirit was sent into the world to carry on the healing ministry (Acts 1:1-8; Acts 2:33; 1 Cor. 12; Hebrews 2:3-4).

22. Jesus promised every believer, not only ministers, power to do the works that He did (Matthew 17:20; Matthew 21:22; Mark 9:23; Mark 11:22-24; Mark 16:15-20; John 14:12-15; John 15:7,16; John 16:23-26; Acts 1:4-8).

23. Gifts of healing and other gifts are promised as the spiritual equipment of the truly born again church  (1 Cor. 1:7; 1 Cor. 12:1-11; Romans 1:11; Romans 12:6-8; Romans 15:18-19,29; Hebrews 2:3-4).

24. Healing is part of the work of the church (Matthew 10:1-8; Luke 10:1-21; Luke 24:49; Acts 1:1-8; 1 Cor. 12; James 5:14-16).

25. Healing is provided as part of Christ's atonement (Isaiah 53:4-5; Matthew 8:16-17; Matthew 13:14-15; John 3:14; John 10:10; Romans 1:16; Romans 8:11; 1 Cor. 11:23-32; Galatians 3:13; James 5:14-16; 1 Peter 2:24; 3 John 1:2; cp. Exodus 15:26; Psalm 91; Psalm 103:3).

26. Healing is part of the children's bread and their promised right by virtue of redemption (Matthew 7:7-11; Matthew 15:22-28; Matthew 17:20; Matthew 21:22; Mark 9:23; Mark 11:22-24; Luke 13:16; John 3:14-16; John 14:12-15; John 15:7,16; John 16:23-26; 1 John 3:8,20-22; 1 John 5:14-15; 3 John 1:2).

27. Healing is one of the signs of the gospel to follow believers (Mark 16:15-20).

28. Healing was not only for the Old Testament days (Exodus 15:26; Psalm 91; Psalm 103:3) and for the Millennium (Isaiah 30:26; Isaiah 33:24; Isaiah 35:1-10). It is also for this age, or the gospel is faulty and the new covenant worse than the old one (Matthew 8:17; Matthew 21:22; Mark 9:23; Mark 11:22-24; Mark 16:15-20; John 14:12-15; John 15:7,16; 2 Cor. 3:6-15; 1 Cor. 12:1-11; Hebrews 2:3-4).

29. Healing proves that God's promises are true (2 Cor. 1:20; see above point).

30.Healing is part of salvation, for the Hebrew and Greek words for "salvation" all imply the ideas of forgiveness, healing, health, and full deliverance from the curse (Romans 1:16; Galatians 3:13; 1 Peter 2:24).

31. Healing can naturally be expected as part of the infinite care of God over His children (Matthew 6:10; Matthew 7:7-11; Matthew 17:20; Matthew 21:22; Mark 9:23; Mark 11:22-24; Luke 11:1-13; Luke 18:1-18; John 14:12-15; John 15:7,16; John 16:23-26; Hebrews 11:6; James 1:4-8; James 5:14-16).

32. Healing is on the same basis as forgiveness of sins—prayer and faith (Matthew 9:1-7; Matthew 13:15; Matthew 21:22; Acts 28:27; James 1:4-8; James 5:14-16; Hebrews 11:6).

33. Healing proves the resurrection of Christ and the descent of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4-8; Acts 2:33; Acts 3:16; Acts 4:12; Romans 8:11).

34. God has provided all necessary means of healing and complete defeat of satanic powers (2 Cor. 10:4-5; Ephes. 6:10-18; Mark 16:15-20; John 14:12-15; James 4:7; James 5:14-16; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 5:7-9).

35. Healing is always the will of God for His people who may:  "ask what ye will" (John 15:7); "whatsoever" (Matthew 21:22; John 14:12-15; John 15:16); "anything" (John 14:14); "what things soever ye desire" (Mark 11:22-24); and "much more" than earthly parents would or could give their children (Matthew 7:7-11).

 

Thus, it is clear in Scripture that physical healing is provided for in the Old and New Testaments. The New Testament is based upon better promises than the Old Testament (Hebrews 8:6).  

 

[effectual]

 

Greek:  energeo (GSN-1754) (1 Thes. 2:13).  It could read, "a prayer of a just man wrought in him by divine energy."  

 

Matthew 4:23-24  And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. [24] And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.  

 

Matthew 8:7  And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.  

 

Matthew 8:16-17  When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: [17] That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.  

 

Matthew 9:35  And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.  

 

Matthew 10:1  And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. *******

 

Matthew 10:8  Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.  

 

Matthew 12:10  And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.  

 

Matthew 12:15  But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;  

 

Matthew 12:22  Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.  

 

Matthew 14:14  And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.  

 

Matthew 15:20  These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.  

 

Matthew 17:16  And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.  

 

Matthew 19:2  And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.  

 

Matthew 21:14  And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.  

 

Mark 1:34  And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.  

 

Mark 3:2  And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.  

 

Mark 3:10  For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.  

 

Mark 3:15  And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:  

 

Mark 6:5  And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.  

 

Mark 6:13  And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.  

 

Luke 4:23  And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.  

 

Luke 4:40  Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.  

 

Luke 5:15  But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.  

 

Luke 6:7  And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.  

 

Luke 6:18  And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.  

 

Luke 7:21  And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.  

 

Luke 8:43  And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,  

 

Luke 9:1  Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.   *******

 

Luke 9:6-11  And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where. [7] Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead; [8] And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again. [9] And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him. [10] And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. [11] And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.  

 

Luke 10:9  And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.  

 

Luke 13:14  And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.  

 

Luke 14:3-4  And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? [4] And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;  

 

John 5:10  The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.  

 

Acts 4:14  And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.  

 

Acts 5:16  There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.  

 

Acts 8:7  For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.  

 

Acts 28:9  So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:  

 

Exodus 15:26  And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.  

 

Jude 1:5  Jude 1:5  I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

 

[afterward destroyed them that believed not]

 

Twenty-one Examples of Beings Fallen from Grace  

 

1. Lucifer.  He was sinless and walked in the ways of God perfectly until he sinned (Ezekiel 28:11-17, notes).  He fell from God's favor and was cast out of heaven (Isaiah 14:12-14; Luke 10:8).  He became sinful and lustful (John 8:44) and destined to eternal hell (Matthew 25:41; Rev. 20:10).

2. Holy angels.  Over one-third of God's holy angels rebelled with Lucifer (Rev. 12:3, 7-12) and became destined to hell with Satan (Matthew 25:41; Isaiah 24:21).  Many of these committed the additional sin of fornication and are now in hell (2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6-7).  Angels are sons of God (Genesis 6:1-4; Job 1:6; Job 2:1; Job 38:4-7) and yet those who sin are to be punished forever in hell, so sonship is no unforfeitable guarantee of heaven.

3. Demons (familiar spirits).  They were also created sinless and in God's grace and favor. That they sinned and are doomed to eternal hell is clear from their own admission of being worthy of punishment (Matthew 8:29; Mark 5:7; Luke 8:28-32; James 2:19).  Many of them are now in the abyss (Rev. 9). 

4. Pre-adamites.  According to Genesis 1:2; Isaiah 14:12-14; Jeremiah 4:23-26; Ezekiel 28:11-17; 2 Peter 3:5-8 and other scriptures, Lucifer ruled the earth before Adam and caused all the people of his kingdom to lose God's favor and be destroyed in the flood of Genesis 1:2; 2 Peter 3:5-8.  Not one person, animal, city, or plant was left alive (Jeremiah 4:23-26).

5. Adam and Eve were created in God's grace or favor (Genesis 1:26-31). They fell from grace by sin and lost the eternal life they would have kept if they had not sinned (Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:1-19; Romans 5:12-21; 2 Cor. 11:3). 

     

      Nothing is ever said of their salvation from sin.  They are not listed with the faith-worthies of the Old  Testament (Hebrews 11).  Adam was still a sinner at the age of 810 years. He was a son of God (Luke 3:38).  Thus, again, sonship is proved not to be a guarantee of eternal life.  God promises to punish every angel or man who sins regardless of sonship or relationship (see 210 Plain Laws and Warnings, below).

 

6. Adamites.  Every person born of Adam was once in grace in Adam and fell from grace or favor when Adam did, for they were in Adam's loins when he sinned.  This is why death passed upon all men (Romans 5:12-21; 1 Cor. 15:21-22; 2 Cor. 11:3).  If all people fell from the same favor Adam did and are commanded to regain grace in Christ, then it is settled that falling from grace and regaining it can happen more  than once (notice, Galatians 4:19).

7. Many Israelites.  Before their sin in Exodus 32 they were born again (Deut. 32:18; Galatians 4:28-29), redeemed (Exodus 15:13; Deut. 21:8), sanctified (Exodus 31:13; Leviticus 20:8), converted (Psalm 19:7), in grace (Exodus 33:12-17; Psalm 84:11), had their names in the book of life (Exodus 32:32-33; Exodus 9:25-29), had the same gospel we have (Galatians 3:6-14; Hebrews 4:2), and had other spiritual experiences (see Old Testament Spiritual Experiences). When they sinned they were cut off from God and were lost (Exodus 32:32-33; 2 Cor. 10:1-18; Hebrews 2:14; Jude 1:5).  Scores of times they forsook God and were cursed (Deut. 17:3; Deut. 29:26; Judges 2:11-23; Judges 3:5-14; Judges 4:1; Judges 5:31; Judges 6:1; Judges  8:28-35; Judges 10:6-11:33; Judges 12:7-13:1; Judges 20:13; 1 Samuel 2:12-36; 1 Samuel 3:11-14; 1 Kings 11:1-13,38-39; 1 Kings 12:25-33; 1 Kings 13:33-34; 1 Kings 14:16-31; 1 Kings 15:29; 1 Kings 16:2; 2 Kings 17:7-23; etc.).

8. Nadab and Abihu, holy priests of God (Exodus 19:6; Exodus 22:31), were cut off in sin (Leviticus 10:1-20; Numbers 3:4).

9. Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and other holy men of God were cut off by sin and went to She�owl (HSN-7585) (Numbers 16:1-3,23-33).

10. Saul, who had a change of heart and received the Holy Spirit (1 Samuel 10:9-13, 21-24), went into spiritualism (1 Samuel 28; Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:6).  He lost the Holy Spirit (1 Samuel 16:12-23), and died by suicide and was cursed by God (1 Samuel 31:1-6; 1 Chron. 10:13-14).

11. Many disciples of Jesus left Him and His grace and followed Him no more (John 6:66).  They believed for a while (Luke 8:13).  They drew back to perdition (Hebrews 10:26-39).  To receive Christ and confess Him for only a moment brings the new birth, so those who believed for awhile had grace to fall from (John 1:12; 1 John 5:1).

Before Judas submitted (yielded) to Satan!  

 

12. Judas was once saved because:

(1) He was a familiar friend of Christ (Psalm 41:9).  Would Christ call any unsaved man or the devil (as some suppose Judas to be) "mine own familiar friend"?

(2) Christ trusted Judas at one time or He would not have said "in whom I trusted" (Psalm 41:9).  Hebrew: batach (HSN-982), to confide in, as to be secure without fear.  Used in this sense 107 times.  Would He have confided in such a man if he had always been untrustworthy?

(3) Judas ate of Christ's bread (Psalm 41:9).  This always assures eastern people of very personal and intimate friendship.

(4) He had his name written in the book of life with the righteous (cp. Acts 1:20 with Psalm 69:25-28, notes).

(5) Judas, was a bishop of the church Christ is building (Acts 1:20 with Psalm 109:8).   

(6) Judas, had part of the apostolic ministry (Acts 1:17, 25).

(7) Christ also had given Judas power against unclean spirits to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and disease.  This was true of the twelve, Judas included (Matthew 10:1-4).

(8) He was sent forth as one of the twelve to represent Christ among Israel (Matthew 10:5-6).

(9) He was called to preach (Matthew 10:7).

(10) He was commanded to heal the sick, cleanse lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils (Matthew 10:8; Mark 3:14-15; Mark 6:7; Luke 9:1-2).

(11) He freely received power to heal and it was commanded that he freely give (Matthew 10:8).

(12) He had the peace of God to give to a home as did all others of the twelve (Matthew 10:13).

(13) He was a sheep in the midst of wolves like others of the twelve (Matthew 10:16).

(14) He had the Holy Spirit in him (Matthew 10:19-20). [Judas did not have the fullness of the Holy Ghost as they did on the day of Pentecost.]

(15) He was ordained by Christ to the ministry as much as the others (Mark 3:14).

(16) He was just as successful in preaching and healing as others (Mark 6:12-13; Luke 9:6, 10).

(17) He was an apostle, meaning he was one divinely called and sent to do the work of God (Luke 6:13; note, Acts 15:33).

(18) Judas fell by sin from the ministry and apostleship (Acts 1:25). How could he do this if he was always a sinner, as some say?

(19) Satan entered into Judas at the close of Christ's ministry, proving that he was not always an agent of the devil, much less one from the beginning (Luke 22:3; John 13:2).  Therefore, he backslid (an Apostate) and became a thief (John 12:6), a devil (John 6:70, Greek: adversary), and the betrayer.  To make Judas the very devil, a devil from the beginning and an unsaved man never in grace is to ignore the plain  facts of Scripture.

(20) He once had eternal life, as proved from John 17:2 where we read of Christ giving eternal life "to as  many as Thou hast given him."  Then in John 17:12 it is stated that of "those that Thou gavest Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition."  It is clear, then, that Judas was given to Jesus and Jesus had once given him eternal life.  

 

       (By this understanding, once you have repented of your sins and confessed Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour and have asked Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sins and to come into your heart, you have Eternal Life (which “is” Jesus Christ) as long as Jesus Christ remains in your heart. If you (the person) choose to turn away from Jesus Christ (becoming an apostate) and go back into sin, you (the person) no longer have Jesus Christ (ETERNAL LIFE) because you (the person) have turned your back on Jesus Christ and the righteousness of Christ. Therefore, if you (the Person) in that circumstance chose to turn back into sin (became Apostate) and by choosing the pleasure of sin and perdition, you (the person) loose ETERNAL LIFE (Jesus Christ). Jesus Christ will NOT be a party to sin (take part, participate)!

 

13. Ananias and Sapphira were saved and of one heart and one soul with all the church (Acts 4:32-5:1), until they agreed to lie to the Holy Ghost at which time they were killed (Acts 5:1-11).  "Great grace was upon them all," including Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 4:33; Acts 5:1).

14. The Galatians who had begun in the Spirit and had received the Spirit (Jude 3:2-4), were soon removed from Christ and grace (Jude 1:6; Jude 5:4).

15. Demas, a preacher in the early church (Col. 4:14; Philemon 1:24) went back into sin, having loved this present world (2 Tim. 4:10).  If any man loves the world the love of the Father is not in him.  He is lost if he does not come back to God (1 John 2:15-17).

16. Hymenaeus and Alexander were one time in the faith, but made shipwreck of it and put away faith (1 Tim. 1:19-20).

17. Many others coveted money and erred from the faith (1 Tim. 6:10,21).

18. Many young widows waxed cold toward Christ and cast off their first faith and were damned (1 Tim. 5:11-13).

19. Hymenaeus and Philetus erred from the faith and overthrew the faith of others (2 Tim. 2:17-19).

20. Apostates were once saved, but fell away and departed from the faith.  See Romans 1:21-32; Hebrews 6:4-9; Hebrews 10:26-29; 2 Peter 2:20-22.

21. Many in the churches were once saved but later threatened with destruction if they did not repent (Rev. 2:5, 10, 16, 20-23; Rev. 3:3, 11, 16).

 

Besides the above examples of being cut off from God because of sin, the Word of God abounds with plain laws, commands and warnings of punishment for those who return to sin.  These make it clear that there are no unconditional promises and covenants in Scripture.  Passages where no conditions are expressed are automatically limited by hundreds of kindred verses stating conditions to be met.  It is not always necessary to state the conditions in every passage.  When stated in some, it is clear they apply to all companion scriptures.  For example, in 1 Chron. 22:10 God promises to establish Solomon's throne over Israel forever, but this unconditionally stated promise is based upon obedience as seen in points 27-35 below.   

 

Ninety-nine Ways of Backsliders

 

1.   They will not listen to God (Leviticus 26:14).

2.   They will not obey commands (Leviticus 26:14).

3.   They despise God's statutes (Leviticus 26:15).

4.   They abhor God's judgments (Leviticus 26:15).

5.   They break God's covenant (Leviticus 26:15).

6.   They forget God (Deut. 8:11).

7.   They forsake God (Deut. 32:15; 2 Chron. 15:2).

8.   They provoke God (Deut. 32:16).

9.   They turn again to folly (Psalm 85:8).

10. They turn aside to sin (Psalm 125:5).

11. They turn from righteousness (Ezekiel 3:20; Ezekiel 18:16-24; Ezekiel 33:12-18).

12. They cast God behind them (Ezekiel 23:35).

13. They trust their own righteousness (Ezekiel 33:13).

14. They are bent on backsliding (Hosea 11:7).

15. They lose savor (Matthew 5:13).

16. They grow cold in love (Matthew 24:12).

17. They become offended (Mark 4:17).

18. They fall away by temptation (Luke 8:13).

19. They permit cares of world, deceitfulness of riches, and lusts of other things to choke the Word (Mark 4:18-19).

20. They become ashamed of Christ (Mark 8:38).

21. They look back to old life (Luke 9:62).

22. They become defeated by Satan (Luke 11:21).

23. They are overcome by sin (2 Peter 2:20).

24. They lust after evil things (1 Cor. 10:6).

25. They are idolatrous (1 Cor. 10:7).

26. They commit fornication (1 Cor. 10:8).

27. They tempt Christ (1 Cor. 10:9).

28. They murmur (1 Cor. 10:10).

29. They become filled with debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults (2 Cor. 12:20-21).

30. They remove from Christ (Galatians 1:6-8).

31. They disobey truth (Galatians 3:1).

32. They fall from grace (Galatians 5:4).

33. They turn again to the old bondage of sin (Galatians 4:9; Galatians 5:1; Galatians 6:1).

34. They put away faith (1 Tim. 1:9).

35. They turn aside after Satan (1 Tim. 5:15).

36. They love money (1 Tim. 6:10-21).

37. They err from the faith (1 Tim. 6:10-21).

38. They depart from the faith (1 Tim. 4:1-8).

39. They deny Christ (2 Tim. 2:12).

40. They love the present world (2 Tim. 4:10).

41. They depart from God (Hebrews 3:12).

42. They harden hearts by sin (Hebrews 3:12-13).

43. They fall in unbelief (Hebrews 4:11).

44. They fall away (Hebrews 6:4-9; Hebrews 10:26-29).

45. They fail God's grace (Hebrews 12:15).

46. They permit roots of bitterness to defile them (Hebrews 12:15).

47. They become blind (2 Peter 1:9).

48. They become barren and unfruitful (2 Peter 1:8).

49. They forget purging from sin (2 Peter 1:9).

50. They do not make their calling and election sure (2 Peter 1:10).

51. They turn away from the holy commandment (2 Peter 2:20).

52. They abide not in the doctrine of Christ and of God (2 John 1:9).

53. They abide not in Christ (John 15:1-8).

54. They leave first love (Rev. 2:4-5).

55. They permit heart to depart from God (Jeremiah 17:9; Hebrews 3:12).

56. They give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons (1 Tim. 4:1-8).

57. They turn away from truth (2 Tim. 4:1-4).

58. They fall from their own steadfastness in Christ (2 Peter 3:17).

59. They err from the truth (James 5:19-20).

60. They become cut off (Romans 11:22).

61. They become broken off (Romans 11:17-24).

62. They shipwreck faith (1 Tim. 1:19).

63. They neglect salvation (Hebrews 2:1-4).

64. They become castaways (1 Cor. 9:27).

65. They become corrupted from the simplicity in Christ (2 Cor. 11:3).

66. They Fail to continue in faith (Col. 1:23).

67. They fail to continue seeking life and immorality (Romans 2:7-8).

68. They go back and walk no more with Christ (John 6:66-68).

69. They fail to take heed lest they fall (1 Cor. 10:12-14).

70. They sin against God (Exodus 32:32-33).

71. They cast off their first faith (1 Tim. 5:12).

72. They defile the body (1 Cor. 3:16-17).

73. They draw back into perdition (Hebrews 10:39).

74. They do not endure (Matthew 10:22).

75. They move away from the hope (Col. 1:23).

76. They fail to walk in the Spirit (Romans 8:1-13; Galatians 5:16-26).

77. They fail to stand fast (1 Thes. 3:8).

78. They hate the brethren (1 John 3:15).

79. They serve sin (John 8:32-36; Matthew 6:24).

80. They yield to sin (Romans 6:14-23).

81. They sow to the flesh (Galatians 6:7-8).

82. They fail to hold fast to the end (Hebrews 3:6, 12-14; Hebrews 4:1-11; Hebrews 6:19).

83. They come short of the goal (Hebrews 4:1).

84. They fail to labor to enter life (Hebrews 4:11; notice  John 6:27).

85. They fail to put to death the deeds of the body (Romans 8:12-13; 1 Cor. 6:9-11; Col. 3:5-10).

86. They refuse to walk in Christ as they received Him (Col. 2:6-7).

87. They continue in sin thinking grace will abound (Romans 6).

88. They turn heart back (Psalm 44:18).

89. They decline to walk with God (Psalm 44:18).

90. They turn way back (Isaiah 50:5; Jeremiah 38:22).

91. They are rebellious (Isaiah 50:5).

92. They cast law behind backs (Neh. 9:26).

93. They turn their back on God (Jeremiah 2:27).

94. They turn back from the Lord (Zeph. 1:6).

95. They slide back from God (Jeremiah 8:5).

96. They refuse to return to God (Jeremiah 8:5).

97. They backslide many times (Jeremiah 14:7).

98. They backslide like a heifer (Hosea 4:16).

99. They go backward, not forward (Jeremiah 7:24).

 

The above occurrences indicates, that a man who once walked in the way of God but has now, turned against Him; a man who fought the world, the flesh, and the devil and now, has retreated from battle against the devil, having now joined the enemy; a man who once belonged with the Saints of God, but now is removed from them; and a man who has been overcome by sin and Satan and is filled with his own ways Satanic desires.

 

210 Plain Laws and Warnings   

 

Those Before Moses' Law:

 

1. You shall surely die (Genesis 2:17).

2. Walk ... be perfect (Genesis 17:1).

3. Keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may fulfil His Word (Genesis 18:19).

 

Those Under the Healing Covenant:

 

4. If diligently hearken ... do right ... give ear to commandments ... keep all His statutes (Exodus 15:26).

 

Those Under Moses' Law:

 

5. That I may prove them, whether they walk in My law or no (Exodus 16:4).

6. If you obey ... then you shall be a peculiar people unto Me (Exodus 19:5).

7. Whosoever sinneth against Me, him will I blot out of My book (Exodus 32:33).

8. By no means (note even by means of grace) clear the guilty (Exodus 34:6-7).

9. If you keep My commandments, then will I bless you (Leviticus 26:3-13; Deut. 7:12-24; Deut. 11:13-14; Deut. 28:1-14).

10. But if you will not keep My commandments, then I will curse you (Leviticus 26:14-45; Deut. 28:15-68).

11. Beware ... forget not God ... if you do forget Him ... you will surely perish (Deut. 8:11-20).

12. What does the Lord require, but to walk in His ways?  (Deut. 10:12-13).

13. Take heed ... be not deceived, and you turn aside from God ... then His wrath will be against you (Deut. 11:16-21).

14. I have set before you a blessing and a curse:  a blessing if you obey ... a curse if you disobey (Deut. 11:26-28).  

 

Those Under Palestinian Covenant:

 

15. Keep the words of this covenant ... do them, that you may prosper ... that He may establish you a people unto Himself (Deut. 29:1,9,13-15).

16. When you hear the words of this curse and you say in your heart, I shall have peace, though I sin.  The Lord shall not spare ... because they have forsaken the covenant (Deut. 29:19-28).

17. If you hear ... keep His commandments ... and if you turn unto the Lord with all your heart (Deut. 30:1-10).

18. I have set before you life and good, and death and evil ... keep His commandments, that you may live (Deut. 30:11-16).

19. But if your heart turn away ... you shall surely perish (Deut. 30:17-20)

 

Those of Joshua:

 

20. Only observe to do according to all the law ... that you may prosper ... have good success (Joshua 1:7-8).

21. Keep and do all of the law ... if you in any wise turn back ... you shall perish (Joshua 23:6-14).

22. Choose you this day whom you will serve (Joshua 24:14-16).

23. If you forsake the Lord ... then He will turn to do you hurt, and consume you, after He has done you good (Joshua 24:20).  

 

Those of Samuel:

 

24. If you will obey ... rebel not, then you will follow the Lord (1 Samuel 12:14).

25. But if you do wickedly, you shall be consumed (1 Samuel 12:24-25).

26. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord ... your kingdom will not continue (1 Samuel 13:13-14).

 

Those of David and Solomon:

 

27. Keep the charge of the Lord ... that He may continue His Word (1 Kings 2:3-4).

28. If your children take heed to walk in truth with all their heart (1 Kings 2:4).

29. If you will walk in My ways ... keep My commandments (1 Kings 3:14).

30. If you keep My commandments, then I will bless ... but if you break them, then will I cut off Israel (1 Kings 9:3-9; 1 Kings 11:1-38; 2 Chron. 7:19-22).

31. Only if they obey (2 Kings 21:7-8).

32. If he be constant to do My commandments (1 Chron. 28:7-10).

33. If My people humble themselves ... pray ... seek My face ... turn from sin, then will I  hear (2 Chron. 7:14).

34. If you seek Him, He will be found of you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever (1 Chron. 28:9).

35. But if you turn away from My commandments ...  Then will I pluck you up ... cast out of My sight (2 Chron. 7:19-22).  

 

Those of Old Testament Prophets:

 

36. The Lord is with you, while you be with Him ... but if you forsake Him, He will forsaken you (2 Chron. 15:2).

37. Because you have forsaken the Lord, He has forsaken you (2 Chron. 24:20).

38. Because they have forsaken Me ...  My wrath shall not be quenched (2 Chron. 34:25).

39. But if they obey not, they shall perish ... die without knowledge (Job 36:12).

40. They have forsaken the Lord ... have gone away backward ...  I will not hear (Isaiah 1:4-15).

41. But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured (Isaiah 1:19-20; Jeremiah 1:16; Jeremiah 2:13, 17, 19; Jeremiah 5:19; Jeremiah 9:13; Jeremiah 15:6; Jeremiah 16:11; Jeremiah 17:13; Jeremiah 19:4; Jeremiah 22:9).

42. If you will not obey, I will destroy you (Jeremiah 12:17).

43. When a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity he shall die in his sin (Ezekiel 3:20-21).

44. The soul that sinneth it shall die (Ezekiel 18:4).

45. When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits sin ... all his  righteousness shall not be mentioned.  In his sins he shall die (Ezekiel 18:24-26).

46.The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression ...  If he trust to his own righteousness and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but for his sin he shall die (Ezekiel 33:12-13).

47. If you will not hear, I will curse you (Malachi 2:2).  

 

The New Covenant—Under Grace

 

Those of Christ:

 

48. If the salt has lost its savour it is good for nothing but to be cast out (Matthew 5:13).

49. He that endureth to the end shall be saved (Matthew 10:22).

50. Whosoever speaketh a word against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him (Matthew 12:32-33).

51. Dureth for a while ... which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away (Matthew 13:21; Luke 8:13).

52. Let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me (Matthew 16:24).

53. Labour for eternal life (note John 6:27).

54. If you continue in My word, then are you My disciples indeed (John 8:31).

55. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin (not a son).  And the servant abideth not in the house forever:  but the Son abideth ever (John 8:34-35).

56. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me (notice John 10:26-27).

57. If a man love Me he will keep My words (John 14:21-23).

58. If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned (John 15:6).

59. Continue in My love (John 15:9).

60. If you keep My commandments you shall abide in My love (John 15:10-13).

61. You are My friends, if you do whatsoever I command you (John 15:14).  

 

Those of Paul:

 

62. Persuaded them to continue in the grace of God (Acts 13:43).

63. Exhorting them to continue in the faith (Acts 14:22).

64. When they knew God, they glorified Him not as God ...  God have them up to uncleanness (Romans 1:21-32).

65. They which commit such things are worthy of death (Romans 1:32; Romans 2:2-3).

66. By patient continuance in well doing seek for eternal life (Romans 2:7).

67. Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are?  (Romans 6:16-23).

68. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).

69. Who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit (Romans 8:1-4).

70. If you live after the flesh you shall die:  but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live (Romans 8:12-13).

71. Because of unbelief they were broken off and you stand by faith ... on them that fell, severity; but toward you goodness, if you continue in His goodness:  otherwise you shall be cut off.  And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in again (Romans 11:20-23).

72. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy (1 Cor. 3:17).

73. The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor. 6:9-10).

74. Through your knowledge the weak brother shall perish (1 Cor. 8:11).

75. I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway (1 Cor. 9:27).

76. By which you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain (1 Cor. 15:2).

77. By faith you stand (2 Cor. 1:24).

78. We labor, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him (2 Cor. 5:9).

79. We beseech you that you receive not the grace of God in vain (2 Cor. 6:1).

80. I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity in Christ (2 Cor. 11:3).

81. Christ is in you, except you be reprobate (castaway)—as in 1 Cor. 9:27 also notice (2 Cor. 13:5).

82. I marvel that you are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel (Galatians 1:6-9).

83. If I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor (Galatians 2:18).

84. I do not frustrate the grace of God (it can be done—Galatians 2:21).

85. Who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth (Galatians 3:1; Galatians 5:7).

86. Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? (Galatians 3:3; Galatians 5:19-21).

87. The just shall live by faith (by daily faith, not a faith once for all; Galatians 3:11).

88. After you have known God, how turn you again to be in bondage (Galatians 4:9)?

89. I am afraid for you, lest I have bestowed labor upon you in vain (Galatians 4:11).

90. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you ...  I stand in doubt of you (Galatians 4:19-20).

91. Stand fast in the liberty ... be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage (Galatians 5:1, 3).

92. You are fallen from grace (Galatians 5:4).

93. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump (Galatians 5:9; 1 Cor. 5:7-8).

94. If you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another (Galatians 5:15).

95. Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh (Galatians 5:16).

96. They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19-21).

97. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.  For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting (Galatians 6:7-8).

98. The spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience (Ephes. 2:2).

99. Because of these things (sins) cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience (Ephes. 5:6).

100. That you may be without offense until the day of Christ (Phil. 1:10).

101. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12).

102. Stand fast in the Lord (Phil. 4:1).

103. If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel (Col. 1:23).

104. As you have received Christ, so walk in Him:  rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith (Col. 2:6-7).

105. Beware lest any man spoil you... after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ (Col. 2:8).

106. Let no man beguile you of your reward ... not holding the Head (Christ, Col. 2:18-19).

107. Mortify your members upon earth ... for which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience (Col. 3:5-6).

108. He that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done: and there is no respect of persons (Col. 3:25).

109. I sent to know of your faith, lest by some means the tempter has tempted you, and our labor be in vain (1 Thes. 3:5).

110. Now we live, if we stand fast in the Lord (1 Thes. 3:8).

111. Taking vengeance on them that obey not the gospel ... who shall be punished with  everlasting destruction (2 Thes. 1:8-9).

112. Withdraw from every brother that walketh disorderly (2 Thes. 3:6,14).

113. From which (faith) some have turned aside (1 Tim. 1:5-6).

114. Some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck (1 Tim. 1:18-20).

115. Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils (1 Tim. 4:1).

116. Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in so doing this you shall save yourself, and them that hear you (1 Tim. 4:16).

117. He has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel (1 Tim. 5:8).

118. When they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith (1 Tim. 5:11-12).

119. Some have already turned aside after Satan (1 Tim. 5:15).

120. While some coveted after (money), they have erred from the faith (1 Tim. 6:10).

121. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold of eternal life (1 Tim. 6:12, 19).

122. Some have erred concerning the faith (1 Tim. 6:21).

123. If we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him (2 Tim. 2:11).

124. If we deny Him, He also will deny us (2 Tim. 2:12).

125. Who concerning the faith have erred ... and overthrow the faith of some (2 Tim. 2:18).

126. Continue in the things you have learned (2 Tim. 3:14-15).

 

Twenty-two Warnings to Christians:

 

127. We ought to give the more earnest heed lest we slip away from truth (Hebrews 2:1).

128. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? (Hebrews 2:3).

129. Whose house are we, if we hold fast the hope firm unto the end (Hebrews 3:6).

130. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the Living God (Hebrews 3:12).

131. Exhort one another daily ... lest any of you be hardened through sin (Hebrews 3:13).

132. We are made partakers of Christ, if we hold steadfast unto the end (Hebrews 3:14).

133. Let us therefore, fear, lest you come short of the promised rest (Hebrews 4:1-2).

134. Let us labor to enter into rest, lest any man fall through unbelief (Hebrews 4:11).

135. Let us hold fast our profession (Hebrews 4:14).

136. If they fall away, to renew them again unto repentance is impossible (Hebrews 6:4-9).

137. Show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end (Hebrews 6:11).

138. Be not slothful, but faithful and patient to inherit the promises (Hebrews 6:12).

139. Lay hold upon the hope of eternal life set before us (Hebrews 6:18-19).

140. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (Hebrews 10:23).

141. If we sin wilfully we will receive judgment and fiery indignation (Hebrews 10:26-31).

142. Cast not away confidence (Hebrews 10:35).

143. If any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him (Hebrews 10:38-39).

144. Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us (Hebrews 12:1).

145. Make straight paths for your feet, lest the lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed (Hebrews 12:13).

146. Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest any become a fornicator and sell his birthright like Esau (Hebrews 12:15-17).

147. See that ye refuse not God. For if Israel escaped not God's wrath when she refused Him, much more shall we not escape His wrath, if we turn away from Him (Hebrews 12:25).

148. Let us have grace and serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for God will punish by fire (Hebrews 12:28-29).

 

Those of James:

 

149. When lust has conceived, it brings forth sin:  and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death (James 1:13-15).

150. Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves (James 2:22-25).

151. To him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin (James 4:17).

152. Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ... he that converteth a sinner (who was formerly a Christian) from the error of his way shall save a soul from death (James 5:19-20).  

 

Those of Peter:

 

153. He that hears and works righteousness is accepted of Him (Acts 10:35).

154. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil (1 Peter 3:12).

155. If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the sinner appear? (1 Peter 4:18).

156. He that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins (2 Peter 1:9).

157. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure:  for if you do these things you shall never fall (2 Peter 1:10).

158. If God separated not the angels that sinned (they were once holy and in grace) He will not spare you (1 Peter 2:4-9).

159. The Lord knows how to reserve the unjust unto judgment (2 Peter 2:9).

160. Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray (2 Peter 2:15).

161. They allure into sin those who were clean escaped from sin (2 Peter 2:18).

162. Of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought into bondage (2 Peter 2:19)

163. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse than the beginning.  It had been better not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn away from the holy commandment (2 Peter 2:20-22).

164. Be diligent that you may be found in Him in peace, without spot, and blameless (2 Peter 3:14).

165. Beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your  own stedfastness (2 Peter 3:17).  

 

Those of John:

 

166. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth (1 John 1:6).

167. If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin (1 John 1:7).

168. We know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments (1 John 2:3).

169. He that says, I know Him, and keeps not His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him (1 John 2:4).

170. Whoso keeps His word ... hereby we know that we are in Him (1 John 2:5).

171. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now (1 John 2:9).

172. If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him (1 John 2:15-17).

173. He that does the will of God abideth forever (1 John 2:17).

174. Let that eternal life abide in you (1 John 2:24-25,).

175. Abide in Him; that when He shall appear we may have confidence (1 John 2:28).

176. Everyone that does righteousness is born of Him (1 John 2:29).

177. Everyone that has this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure (1 John 3:3).

178. Whosoever committeth sin transgresses the law and incurs the death penalty (1 John 3:4; Ezekiel 18:4; Galatians 5:21).

179. Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not:  whosoever sinneth has not seen Him, neither known Him (1 John 3:6).

180. He that committeth sin is of the devil, not of God (1 John 3:8).

181. Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin (1 John 3:9).

182. Whosoever does not righteousness is not of God (1 John 3:10).

183. Whosoever loves not his brother is not of God (1 John 3:10, 15).

184. He that loves not his brother abides in death (1 John 3:14).

185. Whosoever hates his brother does not have eternal life abiding in him (1 John 3:15).

186. Whosoever shuts up his bowels of compassion from a brother in need does not have God's love (1 John 3:17).

187. He that loves not does not know God (1 John 4:7-8).

188. Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world (1 John 5:1-5).

189. If any man see his brother sin a sin that is forgivable, he shall ask and life shall be given him (1 John 5:16).  This proves that when a man sins he incurs the death penalty (James 5:19-20; Ezekiel 18:4; Galatians 5:21).

190. Whosoever sins and abides not in the doctrine of Christ, has not God. He that abides has both the Father and the Son (2 John 1:9).

191. He that does good is of God; but he that does evil is not of God (3 John 1:11).  

 

Those of Jude:

 

192. Turning the grace of God into lasciviousness (Jude 1:4).

193. The Lord, having saved the people out of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not (Jude 1:5; 1 Cor. 10).

194. Sinning angels are set forth as an example to others who are tempted to sin (Jude 1:6-7).  If God will damn them for sin, He will also damn others.

195. Keep yourselves in the love of God (Jude 1:21).

196. Look for the mercy of Jesus Christ unto eternal life (Jude 1:21).  

 

Those of Christ and John:

 

197. You have left your first love.  Recognize you are fallen, repent, do your first works; or else I will remove your church (Rev. 2:4-5).

198. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you life (Rev. 2:10).

199. Repent or I will come unto you and fight against you (Rev. 2:16).

200. Those that defile their garments will not walk with Me (Rev. 3:5).

201. He that does not overcome I will blot his name out of the book of life (Rev. 3:5; Rev. 22:18-19; Exodus 32:32-33; Psalm 69:25-29).

202. Hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown (Rev. 3:11).

203. Because you are neither cold nor hot, I will spue you out of My mouth (Rev. 3:15-16).

204. Blessed are they that watch and keep their garments, lest they walk naked and ashamed (Rev. 16:15).

205. All who sin will have their part in the lake of fire (Rev. 21:8).

206. All who sin will not enter the Holy City (Rev. 21:27; Rev. 22:15,19).

207. The unjust, filthy, and sinful will forever be that way (Rev. 22:11).

208. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues of this book (Rev. 22:18).

209. If any man shall take away from the words of this book, God shall take away his part out of the book of life (Rev. 22:19).

210. God shall take his part out of the things written in this book (Rev. 22:19).  

 

Scriptures Stating Assurance  

 

1. Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life ... hath everlasting life ... shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life (John 3:15-16,36; John 5:24).

2. I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand (or My Father's hand, John 10:27-29).

3. I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels ... nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God (Romans 8:35-39).

4. We shall be saved from wrath through Him (Romans 5:8-9).

5. There is now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1).

6. He shall be holden up:  for God is able to make him stand (Romans 14:4).

7. Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless ...  God is faithful, by whom you are called into the fellowship of Jesus Christ (1 Cor. 1:8-9).

8. He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love (Ephes. 1:4).

9. You were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise (Ephes. 1:13).

10. You are sealed unto the day of redemption (Ephes. 4:30).

11. He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:6).

12. I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day (2 Tim. 1:12).

13. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation (1 Peter 1:5).

14. We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ (1 John 2:1-2).

15. Beloved, now are we the sons of God (1 John 3:2).

16. Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory (Jude 1:24).  

 

Eternal security is, therefore, taught in Scripture on the basis of obedience to God.  John 6:27; John 10:27-29; John 15:1-8; 1 Cor. 9:27; Hebrews 6:4-9; Hebrews 10:26-29; 2 Peter 2:20-22.  If men truly want security, let them meet God's terms.  No man is obligated to sin.  God has made full provision to keep men and present them faultless in heaven if they will cooperate; but no provision except hell is made for rebels.  All hope of assurance while living in rebellion is a fool's hope.  Any teaching of security that encourages sin is false and satanic.  True security is through faith and obedience to God and grace, not disobedience and disgrace.

 

Proverbs 14:14  

 

[The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways:  and a good man shall be satisfied from himself]  

 

The backslider in heart will be satisfied with his ways, but a good man will be satisfied when he is free from his own ways (2 Cor. 5:17-18).

 

[backslider]

 

Hebrew: cuwg (HSN-5472), to flinch; to go back; to apostatize. Backslider is used only once, but backsliding is found 16 times.  

 

Ninety-nine Ways of Backsliders  

 

1. They will not listen to God (Leviticus 26:14).

2. They will not obey commands (Leviticus 26:14).

3. They despise God's statutes (Leviticus 26:15).

4. They abhor God's judgments (Leviticus 26:15).

5. They break God's covenant (Leviticus 26:15).

6. They forget God (Deut. 8:11).

7. They forsake God (Deut. 32:15; 2 Chron. 15:2).

8. They provoke God (Deut. 32:16).

9. They turn again to folly (Psalm 85:8).

10. They turn aside to sin (Psalm 125:5).

11. They turn from righteousness (Ezekiel 3:20; Ezekiel 18:16-24; Ezekiel 33:12-18).

12. They cast God behind them (Ezekiel 23:35).

13. They trust their own righteousness (Ezekiel 33:13).

14. They are bent on backsliding (Hosea 11:7).

15. They lose savor (Matthew 5:13).

16. They grow cold in love (Matthew 24:12).

17. They become offended (Mark 4:17).

18. They fall away by temptation (Luke 8:13).

19. They permit cares of world, deceitfulness of riches, and lusts of other things to choke the Word (Mark 4:18-19).

20. They become ashamed of Christ (Mark 8:38).

21. They look back to old life (Luke 9:62).

22. They become defeated by Satan (Luke 11:21).

23. They are overcome by sin (2 Peter 2:20).

24. They lust after evil things (1 Cor. 10:6).

25. They are idolatrous (1 Cor. 10:7).

26. They commit fornication (1 Cor. 10:8).

27. They tempt Christ (1 Cor. 10:9).

28. They murmur (1 Cor. 10:10).

29. They become filled with debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults (2 Cor. 12:20-21).

30. They remove from Christ (Galatians 1:6-8).

31. They disobey truth (Galatians 3:1).

32. They fall from grace (Galatians 5:4).

33. They turn again to the old bondage of sin (Galatians 4:9; Galatians 5:1; Galatians 6:1).

34. They put away faith (1 Tim. 1:9).

35. They turn aside after Satan (1 Tim. 5:15).

36. They love money (1 Tim. 6:10-21).

37. They err from the faith (1 Tim. 6:10-21).

38. They depart from the faith (1 Tim. 4:1-8).

39. They deny Christ (2 Tim. 2:12).

40. They love the present world (2 Tim. 4:10).

41. They depart from God (Hebrews 3:12).

42. They harden hearts by sin (Hebrews 3:12-13).

43. They fall in unbelief (Hebrews 4:11).

44. They fall away (Hebrews 6:4-9; Hebrews 10:26-29).

45. They fail God's grace (Hebrews 12:15).

46. They permit roots of bitterness to defile them (Hebrews 12:15).

47. They become blind (2 Peter 1:9).

48. They become barren and unfruitful (2 Peter 1:8).

49. They forget purging from sin (2 Peter 1:9).

50. They do not make their calling and election sure (2 Peter 1:10).

51. They turn away from the holy commandment (2 Peter 2:20).

52. They abide not in the doctrine of Christ and of God (2 John 1:9).

53. They abide not in Christ (John 15:1-8).

54. They leave first love (Rev. 2:4-5).

55. They permit heart to depart from God (Jeremiah 17:9; Hebrews 3:12).

56. They give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons (1 Tim. 4:1-8).

57. They turn away from truth (2 Tim. 4:1-4).

58. They fall from their own steadfastness in Christ (2 Peter 3:17).

59. They err from the truth (James 5:19-20).

60. They become cut off (Romans 11:22).

61. They become broken off (Romans 11:17-24).

62. They shipwreck faith (1 Tim. 1:19).

63. They neglect salvation (Hebrews 2:1-4).

64. They become castaways (1 Cor. 9:27).

65. They become corrupted from the simplicity in Christ (2 Cor. 11:3).

66. They Fail to continue in faith (Col. 1:23).

67. They fail to continue seeking life and immorality (Romans 2:7-8).

68. They go back and walk no more with Christ (John 6:66-68).

69. They fail to take heed lest they fall (1 Cor. 10:12-14).

70. They sin against God (Exodus 32:32-33).

71. They cast off their first faith (1 Tim. 5:12).

72. They defile the body (1 Cor. 3:16-17).

73. They draw back into perdition (Hebrews 10:39).

74. They do not endure (Matthew 10:22).

75. They move away from the hope (Col. 1:23).

76. They fail to walk in the Spirit (Romans 8:1-13; Galatians 5:16-26).

77. They fail to stand fast (1 Thes. 3:8).

78. They hate the brethren (1 John 3:15).

79. They serve sin (John 8:32-36; Matthew 6:24).

80. They yield to sin (Romans 6:14-23).

81. They sow to the flesh (Galatians 6:7-8).

82. They fail to hold fast to the end (Hebrews 3:6, 12-14; Hebrews 4:1-11; Hebrews 6:19).

83. They come short of the goal (Hebrews 4:1).

84. They fail to labor to enter life (Hebrews 4:11; John 6:27).

85. They fail to put to death the deeds of the body (Romans 8:12-13; 1 Cor. 6:9-11; Col. 3:5-10).

86. They refuse to walk in Christ as they received Him (Col. 2:6-7).

87. They continue in sin thinking grace will abound (Romans 6).

88. They turn heart back (Psalm 44:18).

89. They decline to walk with God (Psalm 44:18).

90. They turn way back (Isaiah 50:5; Jeremiah 38:22).

91. They are rebellious (Isaiah 50:5).

92. They cast law behind backs (Neh. 9:26).

93. They turn their back on God (Jeremiah 2:27).

94. They turn back from the Lord (Zeph. 1:6).

95. They slide back from God (Jeremiah 8:5).

96. They refuse to return to God (Jeremiah 8:5).

97. They backslide many times (Jeremiah 14:7).

98. They backslide like a heifer (Hosea 4:16).

99. They go backward, not forward (Jeremiah 7:24).

 

Isaiah 53:1-5  Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? [2] For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. [3] He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. [4] Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. [5] But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

 

Isaiah 53:6-9  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. [7] He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. [8] He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. [9] And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

 

Isaiah 53:10-12  Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. [11] He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. [12] Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.  

 

Two Reasons All should Believe

 

1. The report itself. God has spoken by the mouths of the prophets since the world began (Acts 3:21; Hebrews 1:1-3; 1 Peter 1:10-12). God Himself began the long list of prophecies of the coming Redeemer by promising that the Seed of the Woman would crush the serpent's head and restore man's dominion (Genesis 3:15-16). Abraham and Isaac spoke of Him coming through their seed (Genesis 12:1-3; Genesis 15:4-6; Genesis 17:4-8,19-21; Genesis 21:12; Genesis 26:4). Jacob said He would come from Judah (Genesis 49:10). Moses predicted Him as a prophet like himself (Deut. 18:15-19). David referred to Him as coming from his seed (2 Samuel 7). Isaiah said He would be born of a virgin in Judah of the house of David (Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 9:6-7), and pictured His rejection and sufferings (Isaiah 52:13-53:12). Others also made reports of His coming, so Israel had no excuse for their unbelief when He did come.

2. Miracles confirming the report. The report was not only predicted and then literally fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth, but there were also miracles confirming to Israel the fact that He was the true Messiah sent by God (Isaiah 11:1-2; Isaiah 42:1-6; Isaiah 61:1-2; Matthew 11:1-6; Luke 4:16-18; Acts 2:22; Acts 10:38). The arm of the Lord is figurative of His power, which Isaiah predicted would be revealed along with the report (John 5:20,36; John 10:25-38; John 12:38-40; John 14:10-12; John 15:24)

 

Ten Proofs that Christ Bore Sin and Sickness  

 

1. It is so stated in Isaiah 53:4-5: Surely (Hebrew: �aken (HSN-403), surely; firmly; certainly) He hath borne our griefs (sicknesses and diseases, as in Grief Defined, above), and carried our sorrows ... He was wounded (pierced, slain physically) for our transgressions ... bruised for our iniquities ... with His stripes we are healed.

2. The quotation and fulfillment of this prophecy in Matthew 8:16-17 proves that the bearing of sicknesses and infirmities was physical, not spiritual healing. Physical healing is mentioned hundreds of times in covenant, promise, prophecy, and experience in Scripture, whereas healing of the soul is mentioned only one time - in  Psalm 41:4.

3. Many versions confirm this plain truth of Isaiah 53:3-5,10 and state that both sin and sickness were borne by Christ in His sufferings, and that physical healing and forgiveness of sins were both provided for in the atonement of Christ. Berkeley: "acquainted with sickness ... Surely He has borne our sicknesses ... pierced for our transgressions ... bruised for our iniquities ... with His stripes we are healed"; Septuagint: "He bears our sins ... by His bruises we were healed"; Peshitta: "He was slain for our sins ... with His wounds we are healed"; Moffatt: "A man of pain, who knew what sickness was ... ours was the pain He bore ... He was wounded because we had sinned, 'twas our misdeeds that crushed Him ... the blows that fell to Him have brought us healing"; Fenton: "He was convicted because of our crimes, and punished because of our vices; and by His stripes we were healed ... yet the Lord pleased to depress Him with pain"; Young: "A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness ... Surely our sicknesses He hath borne, and our pains - He hath carried  them ... by His bruise there is healing to us ... He hath made Him sick"; Rotherham: "Man of pains and familiar with sickness ... surely our sicknesses He carried, and as for our pains He bare the burden of them ... He was pierced for transgressions that were ours, was crushed for iniquities that were ours, - the chastisement for our well-being was upon Him, and by His stripes there is healing for us ... He laid on Him  sickness."

4. According to the Hebrew (as in versions quoted above) Isaiah 53:10 plainly says that He (Jehovah) hath made Him sick, depressed Him with pain, laid on Him sickness - in addition to His soul being made an offering for sin.  He was made sick for men as He was made sin for them.  The idea is that He became the sick offering as well as the sin offering for man.  Naturally, He never committed personal sin, neither was guile found in His mouth (1 Peter 2:21-22).  He never committed robbery, adultery, blasphemy, or any other sin; yet it is stated in 2 Cor. 5:21 that He was made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.  Likewise, He did not personally experience all the sicknesses and diseases, but He became sick in the sense of becoming an offering for sickness.  He made atonement for sin and all its  effects.  Both sin and sickness were a part of the one curse, and both became a part of the one redemption.  Christ atoned for and made provision for sickness to be healed, as well as for sin to be forgiven.

5. God does nothing to remove sin, sickness, and every other part of the curse, apart from the redemptive work of Christ. Even the future restoration of the earth, the creatures on earth, and the whole human family, including their bodies, souls, and spirits, will be done through redemption (Romans 8:18-25). How could redemption be apart from atonement, and how could it be complete without provision for the body as well as the soul? If the whole creation will be delivered from the bondage of corruption it is bound to be by blood, and will include both body and soul.

6. God has made covenants to heal the body as well as to save the soul (Exodus 15:26; Exodus 23:25; Leviticus 26; Deut. 28; Matthew 26:28). Promises and prophecies were made also to this end; and God sent Jesus Christ to fulfill these and demonstrate the provisions for man by healing the body and saving the soul (Matthew 8:16-17; Matthew 9:5-6; John 10:10; Acts 10:38). Christ sent the early disciples out to carry  on such work (Matthew 10; Matthew 28:20; Mark 16:5-20; Luke 10; Luke 24:49; Acts 1:1-2,8; 1 Cor. 12:1-11; Hebrews 2:3-4).

7. God has declared that healing will accompany conversion if the gospel is taught properly and men receive and act on the truth (Isaiah 6:9-13; Job 33:14-29; Psalm 103:3; Matthew 9:5-6; Matthew 13:14-17; Acts 28:24-28; James 5:14-16).

8. Peter confirmed the doctrine of Isaiah in stating that Christ bore the sins of all men in His body on the cross, and that by His stripes we are healed (1 Peter 2:24).

9. In typology, atonement is associated with healing in many scriptures. Whole chapters are devoted to making atonement for sins and sicknesses and even for the minutest touch of uncleanness—that of merely touching dead bodies, graves, issue of blood in childbirth, leprosy, etc. (Leviticus 12:7-8; Leviticus 14:1-57; Leviticus 15:1-33). Why these detailed instructions in connection with atonement for cleansing from sin  and sickness in typology, if there is no connection between atonement and healing of disease in Christ who fulfilled the types?

10. In many cases of healing recorded in both testaments, prayer and atonement were fully recognized as God's method of dealing with sin and sickness. Note the necessity of atonement and proper confession of sin in the various healings (Exodus 32; Numbers 11:1-3; Numbers 12:1-16; Numbers 16:46-50; Numbers 21:1-9 with John 3:14; 2 Samuel 24; Matthew 8:1-4,16-17). Many died of sickness in Corinth because they did not recognize and appropriate healing through the broken body and shed blood of Christ (1 Cor. 11:27-34). Christ Himself recognized atonement in connection with healing (Matthew 8:1-4).  

 

[borne]

 

Borne Defined  

 

Hebrew: nasa� (HSN-5375), to lift; bear; carry away; cast away; ease; erase; take away.  The idea is that of one person taking the burden of another and placing it on himself, as carrying an infant; or, as the flood lifted up the ark (Isaiah 53:4; Psalm 103:12; Matthew 8:16-17; 1 John 3:5).  If Christ bore our griefs (sicknesses, as in Grief Defined, above), then they were taken away in the same sense sins are taken away, or borne, as in Isaiah 53:11.  This was not only done for people who lived during the few years of Christ's ministry on earth, but it was accomplished for all men of all ages.  If sickness was borne only for these few, then sins were likewise borne only for these few, and others are lost, are subject to sickness, and have no remedy for either.  

 

[our griefs]

 

Griefs, sicknesses (Grief Defined).

 

[carried]

 

Carried Defined  

 

Hebrew:  cabal (HSN-5445), to carry; bear.  Translated carried (Isaiah 53:4); bear (Isaiah 53:11; Genesis 49:15; 2 Chron. 2:2); and burden (Eccles. 12:5).  The idea in all these passages is that the full load is borne by the one carrying it so that all others might be free of it.  The meaning is that Christ bore all our sicknesses and pains so that we do not need to have them; if we do have them it is because we have not unloaded them on Him, by faith.  There is no need for us to bear them if He bore them.  If God had not intended for His people to be free from such, then He would not have laid them upon Christ to bear for us (Isaiah 53:3-4,6,8,11).  One can be rid of his sicknesses as well as his sins upon the same basis of prayer and faith in the atonement.  We must believe in the provision to experience the benefits.  All the promises of Scripture and all benefits of the gospel are for believers, not unbelievers.  The law of God is that the one who believes will be blessed, and the one who doesn't believe won't be blessed (Mark 1:15; Mark 16:15-20; John 7:37-39; John 14:12-15; Hebrews 11:6; James 1:5-8).  In all things the rule is:  "According to your faith be it unto you" (Matthew 8:13; Matthew 9:29).  

 

[we did esteem him]

 

Messiah's Reception  

 

The idea here is that those who rejected the Messiah sinned the greatest by condemning Him to death, turning their faces from the very sufferings they caused, and supposing that He was suffering on account of His own sins and crimes, and that God was meting out proper justice to Him in striking, smiting, and afflicting Him (Isaiah 53:4).  In this they erred, for it was not His own sins, sicknesses, pains, and sorrows that He bore, but ours. It was not for His own crimes that God suffered Him to be stricken, smitten, and afflicted, but for those of all others.  Being so judged by God did not prove that He was a sinner and deserved what He suffered, but that we were the greatest of sinners and deserved punishment.  It only demonstrated the love of God when He freely gave Christ to be a substitute for such sufferings, and it further proved love on Christ's part when He showed Himself willing to become such a substitute.  We deserved what He suffered, but He was the one who bore such penalties for sin.  

 

[stricken]

 

Messiah Stricken  

 

Hebrew: naga€ (HSN-5060), to touch; lay the hand upon; strike violently; bring down; smite with a plague (Isaiah 53:4; Deut. 21:4). Translated touch with various endings, 92 times.  

 

[smitten]

 

Hebrew: nakah (HSN-5221), to strike; beat; kill; punish; slaughter; slay; smite; wound; stripe (Isaiah 53:4; Isaiah 10:24; Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 50:6; Zech. 12:4; Malachi 4:6).  For the sins of the people He was stricken (Isaiah 53:8).  

 

[afflicted]

 

Hebrew: €anah (HSN-6030), browbeat; depress; abase self; afflict (Isaiah 53:4,7; Isaiah 58:3,10; Isaiah 63:9).  

 

Why God Was Pleased with the Death of Christ  

 

The only reason it pleased God to permit Him to be crucified was to bring about the redemption of the whole creation so that His eternal program could be carried out with man on earth. He could not have been pleased with the mutilation of His beloved Son because He punished men for this (Acts 2:22-24; 1 Thes. 2:16). Both the Father and the Son volunteered to suffer such indignities for the salvation of men (John 3:16; John 10:18). Such a sacrifice on the part of God showed His divine perfection, justice, mercy, and boundless benevolence. The law was upheld, sin was judged, and a basis of pardon and eternal reconciliation was made possible.  

 

[bruise him]

 

See Two Bodily References in Making Atonement.

 

[grief]

 

Messiah Made Sick  

 

Hebrew:  chalah (HSN-2470), to be rubbed or worn; weak; sick; afflicted; to grieve; make sick; suffer a stroke; be diseased; have infirmity; put to pain; be wounded.  It is translated "sick" 34 times (Isaiah 33:24; Isaiah 38:1,9; Isaiah 39:1; Genesis 48:1; 1 Samuel 19:14; 1 Samuel 30:13; 2 Samuel 13:2-6; 1 Kings 14:1,5; 1 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 1:2; 2 Kings 8:7,29; 2 Kings 13:14; 2 Kings 20:1,12; 2 Chron. 22:6; 2 Chron. 32:24; Neh. 2:2; Psalm 35:13; Proverbs 13:12; Proverbs 23:35; Song 2:5; Song 5:8; Ezekiel 34:4,16; Daniel 8:27; Hosea 7:5; Micah 6:13; Malachi 1:8,13); "diseased" (1 Kings 15:23; 2 Chron. 16:12); "infirmity" (Psalm 77:10); "pain" (Jeremiah 12:13); "wounded" (1 Kings 22:34; 2 Chron. 18:33; 2 Chron. 35:23); "grief" (Isaiah 53:10;  Isaiah 17:11); "grieved" (Amos 6:6); and "grievous" (Jeremiah 10:19; Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 30:12; Nahum 3:19).  This could literally read:  He has made Him sick.  This, of course, refers to the time Christ took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses (Isaiah 53:4-5,10; Matthew 8:16-17; 1 Peter 2:24).  See Isaiah 53:3-5.  

 

Ten Statements about the Body:

 

1. That the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead to sin is free from sin (Romans 6:6-7).

2. Who walk not after (according to) the flesh, but after the Spirit (Romans 8:1-4).

3. If Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness (Romans 8:10).

4. We are debtors not to the flesh, to live after (according to) the flesh. For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live (Romans 8:12-13).

5. Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service (Romans 12:1-2).

6. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body (2 Cor. 6:13).

7. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit (2 Cor. 6:19-20).

8. Know you not that you are (your body is) the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man defile the temple of God (the body), him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are (2 Cor. 3:16-17).

9. I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway (2 Cor. 9:27).

10. You are circumcised ... without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh (Col. 2:11).  

 

These and other statements about the body and flesh emphasize the will of God concerning the body. It is clear that God wants the body as well as the soul and spirit of man to be redeemed. Why would He want the body to be sinful, sick, diseased, and infirm if He is to dwell in it? Why would He want it unclean, depraved, and helpless? It cannot be that He would rather dwell in such a body, or prefer it to a clean, healthy, sinless one. This explains the purpose of Christ in bearing our sins, sicknesses, and infirmities, and shows why atonement includes the cleaning up of the body, soul, and spirit from all sin, disease, and corruption. If God provided healing for Israel, made covenants to heal them until there was not one feeble person in all their tribes (Psalm 105:37; Psalm 107:20); if He gave promises of physical healing and health (Psalm 91; Psalm 103:3; Isaiah 53:4-5; Isaiah 58:1-12); and then made a better covenant by Christ, it should be understood as including all these blessings and more (Hebrews 8:6). If, as stated, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8), this alone should be proof of such provision and that He will heal today as He did in the days of His life on earth.  

 

[thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin]

 

Seven Things Messiah Suffered of God  

 

1. He was stricken by God (Isaiah 53:4,8).

2. He was smitten by God (Isaiah 53:4).

3. He was afflicted by God.

4. God laid on Him the iniquity of us all (Isaiah 53:6,11).

5. God bruised Him (Isaiah 53:10).

6. He was put Him to grief—made Him sick.

7. God made Him an offering for sin and sickness (Isaiah 53:4-5,10).  

 

[soul]

 

Complete Sacrifice  

 

Himself - His entire self, not His personal soul only. It took His body, soul, and spirit to make a complete offering for sin and sickness. He was a complete substitute for man. Since the body, soul, and spirit of man had sinned and were under the sentence of death, it took the whole being of the Messiah to take man's place. The word soul is sometimes used of an individual (Genesis 12:5; Genesis 41:26). There is no such thing as sinning with the flesh and not with the soul and spirit, as taught by some. The flesh cannot be filthy and the soul and spirit be holy. The body became sinful, depraved, and diseased by sin in the fall, and the body must be redeemed from these things if redemption is to be complete.  

 

[offering for sin]

 

Hebrew: �asham (HSN-817), trespass offering; an offering for sin (Isaiah 53:10; Leviticus 5:19; Leviticus 7:5; Leviticus 12:12,21; Leviticus 19:21; 1 Samuel 6:3,8,17).  

 

[see his seed]

 

Twelve Rewards of the Messiah for Suffering  

 

1. He will be exalted above all (Isaiah 52:13; Ephes. 1:20-23; Phil. 2:9-11; 1 Peter 3:22; Rev. 11:15; Rev. 20:4-6).

2. He became the Savior of many nations (Isaiah 52:15).

3. He became the wonder of kings.

4. He became the healer of all (Isaiah 53:4-5; Matthew 8:16-17; 1 Peter 2:24).

5. He became an example to all (Isaiah 52:9; 1 Peter 2:2-22).

6. He will produce a spiritual and an eternal seed (Isaiah 53:10).

7. Prolonged eternal days.

8. Prosperity of God's pleasure in seeing all creation redeemed.

9. The satisfaction of seeing the travail of His soul in the restoration of all things to God (Isaiah 53:11; 1 Cor. 15:24-28).

10. Justification of many (Isaiah 53:11).

11. Greatness above others (Isaiah 53:12; Ephes. 1:20-23; Col. 1:15-18; 1 Peter 3:22).

12. A portion with the great and conquest of the strong (Isaiah 53:12).  

 

[prolong his days]

 

He shall live again in resurrection, and live eternally, for it was impossible for Him to be held in death (John 10:18; Acts 2:24-36; 1 Cor. 15).  

 

[pleasure of the LORD]

 

The pleasure of the Lord is that of seeing all creation redeemed and restored to Himself as before the rebellions of Lucifer and Adam (Romans 8:18-25; 1 Cor. 15:24-28; Ephes. 1:10; Ephes. 3:11; Rev. 11:15).  

 

[in his hand]

 

"In His hand" means by His rule and government all things will be restored to God and all enemies put down (Isaiah 53:10; 1 Cor. 15:24-28; Rev. 11:15).  

 

We, the born again, redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ!

 

Having received and keep (abide by) the promises (covenants) of God also have been given the promise of God that if we obey His Commandments (and statutes) and no longer transgress against Him, He will honor His promises with us which Honor Him faithfully and bestows promises upon us that faithfully obey Him.  

 

Exodus 15:26  And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.  

 

Psalm 91:1  He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. [2] I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. [3] Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. [4] He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. [5] Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; [6] Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. [7] A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. [8] Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. [9] Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; [10] There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.  

 

Psalm 91:11  For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. [12] They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.  

 

Psalm 91:13-16  Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. [14] Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. [15] He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. [16] With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.  

 

[Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder:  the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet] This promises power over wild beasts and creeping things, as well as over all satanic powers symbolized by them (Genesis 3:15; Mark 16:17-18; Luke 10:19; Rev. 12:9).

 

O-give praise unto The Name of The Lord for He is Worthy of All Praise!

 

[There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling]

 

Twenty-three Promises of Psalm 91

 

1.   You shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty (Psalm 91:1).

2.   Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler (Psalm 91:3).

3.   Surely He shall deliver you from the noisome pestilence.

4.   He shall cover you with His feathers (Psalm 91:4).

5.   His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

6.   You shall not be afraid of the terror by night (Psalm 91:5).

7.   You shall not be afraid of the arrow that flieth by day.

8.   You shall not be afraid of the pestilence that walks in darkness (Psalm 91:6).

9.   You shall not be afraid of that which destroys at noonday.

10. Though 1,000 fall at your left and 10,000 at your right, it shall not come near you (Psalm 91:7).

11. Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the wicked (Psalm 91:8).

12. There shall no evil befall you (Psalm 91:10).

13. There shall no plague come near your dwelling.

14. God shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways (Psalm 91:11).

15. They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone (Psalm 91:12).

16. You shall tread upon the lion, adder, young lion, and dragon (Psalm 91:13).

17. God will deliver him (Psalm 91:14,15).

18. Will set him on high.

19. Will answer him (Psalm 91:15).

20. Will be with him in trouble.

21. Will honor him.

22. Will satisfy him with long life (Psalm 91:16).

23. Will show him His salvation.

 

Many are the promises of God. They cover every known need of life, here and hereafter, and reveal to what extent God has made provision to help man in his struggle to overcome sin, sickness, and Satan, and regain the full dominion that he lost in Adam when he fell. The ultimate purpose of God in all His present dealings with man is to bring him back to the place where he was before the fall and purge him of all possibility of failing in the future.

 

Psalm 92:1  A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: [2] To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, [3] Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound. [4] For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. [5] O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. [6] A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. [7] When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: [8] But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore. [9] For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. [10] But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.  

 

Come quickly Lord Jesus. Amen and amen!

 

 

 

Revs. Mr. and Mrs. H. Dean Daniels Sui Juris