Divine Healing In The Age Of Corona- Part 5

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 clearly.
• Jesus was seeable in the Old Testament.

Jesus Preaches about How the Old Testament Scriptures Makes Him Visible

• John 7:38
• Luke 24:13-49
• Jesus is emphatic: you can cultivate faith in Him from the Scripture.
• You won’t trust who He is if you don’t trust what He says (Luke 6:46).
• This is why we’re admonished to mediate in the Word day and night.
• Joshua 1:8
• Psalm 1:1-3
• The faith of all of these famed Old Testament saints was rooted in a preincarnate Jesus.
• Their faith accomplished supernatural things (Hebrews 11:33-35).
• This is what is fascinating about the Old Testament saints: they accomplished supernatural exploits with less revelation and manifestation of Christ and His work. (Hebrews 11:39-40).

New School Faith is Just Old School Faith Remixed

• We can accomplish the supernatural 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 directly 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 context.
• Mark 5:25-43
• Mark 6:1-6

Faith is About Who, Not What

• 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 someone.

© Joshua D. Smith, Ph.D., 2020