Divine Healing In The Age Of Corona- Part 4

Review

• Last week, we continued to build a foundation for a belief in divine healing.
• This series has two objectives:

1. To demonstrate that developing faith for divine healing is biblical, practical and beneficial.
2. To foster reasonable expectations for divine intervention in the healing and recovery of your physical body.

• Receiving divine healing has everything to do with seeing Jesus .
• When we can see the God that heals in , we can receive healing from Him, like so many people did when Jesus walked physically on the earth.

Old School Faith Still Teaches Lessons

• People in the Old Testament had faith in a Jesus they saw from afar (Hebrews 11).
• • Able
  • Enoch
  • Noah
  • Abraham
  • Sarah
  • Isaac
  • Jacob
  • Joseph
  • Moses
  • The Children of Israel
  • Joshua
  • Rahab
  • Gideon
  • Barak
  • Samson
  • Jephthah
  • David
  • Samuel
  • The prophets
  • Countless unnamed people

• The fact that unnamed people are on this list speaks to how the supernatural was and is to people with no noted spiritual gifts.
• Both the named and unnamed people in the “hall of faith” are the same way. (Hebrews 11:13).
• What were the things promised?
• Christ and His
  • Genesis 3:15
  • Jude 1:14
  • Genesis 12:2-3
  • Galatians 3:8
  • Deuteronomy 18:15
  • Deuteronomy 18:17-18
  • Micah 5:2
  • Isaiah 7:14
  • Isaiah 9:6-7   
  • Isaiah 53:1-5
  • Daniel 7:13-14

• The faith of all of these famed Old Testament saints was rooted in a preincarnate . (Hebrews 11:24-26).
• faith accomplished supernatural things (Hebrews 11:32-38)
• Who could look at what Old Testament believers accomplished in Christ and not imagine that by having faith in Christ today, one could also be ?
• This is what is fascinating about the Old Testament saints: they accomplished supernatural exploits with less and manifestation Christ and His work. (Hebrews 11:39-40).

New School Faith is Just Old School Faith Remixed

• We can accomplish the by adopting the same faith that our spiritual ancestors did (Hebrews 12:1-2).
• We have a privilege that our spiritual ancestors did not: the capacity to go to Jesus and boldly when faced with problems that require supernatural intervention (Hebrews 4:15-16).
• The faith of Old Testament saints puts the woman with the issue of blood in (Mark 5:25-34).
• Ultimately, faith is essential to pleasing God. (Hebrews 11:6)
• However, the faith discussed here is not a faith for things, but a faith in .

© Joshua D. Smith, Ph.D., 2020