Trusting God's Timing in Healing and Redemption

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There is coming a day when every crutch will be carved and every wheelchair melted down into medallions of redemption and Merlin and ruin and Jim and Hazel and Ruth and all the others are going to do cartwheels through the kingdom of heaven heaven and we will rejoice but not yet it may not be yet the day is coming. [00:02:41]

Jesus Christ came into the world to die to purchase that Redemption demonstrate its character as both spiritual and physical and to give us a foretaste of it now listen very carefully here because right here is where I think many healers in our day misunderstand God's purposes and distort his intentions. [00:03:14]

The blessing of forgiveness and the blessing of healing were perect purchased in the death of Christ and everyone who joins to Christ and lives for Christ will have both blessings but when when that's the question of our day when do those blessings come in full force when will our bodies no longer be enslaved to corruption. [00:04:23]

The ministry of Jesus as we read it in the gospels was a Ministry of healing and a Ministry of forgiveness he said for example to those Disciples of John the Baptist who were very perplexed he said you go tell John what you see and hear the blind receive their sight the lame walk the lepers are cleansed. [00:04:55]

The answer to why Jesus only raised a few people and not everybody is that contrary to Jewish expectation the first coming of the Messiah was not the consumation of redemption nor the closing of this Fallen age the first coming of the Messiah was to purchase that Redemption and to illustrate the nature of that Redemption. [00:05:56]

He is going to come again and now we know from his illustrations that when he comes there will be Resurrection for all his people and there will be healing for all his people no more crying no more pain at that day but let me stress here lest there be misunderstanding we do have a foretaste. [00:06:59]

The benefits of forgiveness and the healing are real God can and does heal the sick now in answer to our prayers and nothing I say should be construed to imply that he doesn't but he doesn't always does he the miracle mongers of our day who guarantee that Jesus wants you well now are guilty of a gross Distortion. [00:07:39]

They have failed to understand the nature of God's purpose in this Fallen age they have minimized the depth of sin and the cruciality of the purgative nature of suffering and the value of faith that comes through suffering and they're guilty of trying to force into this age what God has reserved for the age to come. [00:08:17]

Notice the flow of thought in Romans 8: 23 and 24 we ourselves having the first fruits of the spirit even we ourselves grown in ourselves waiting eagerly for adoption as Sons the Redemption of our bodies for in Hope we have been saved because of Christ's purchased Redemption we already have the spirit. [00:08:39]

But it's only a a first fruit it's only a down payment it's only a foretaste of redemption and you can't help but see that when Paul stresses this we ourselves even we grown in ourselves that what he's doing by stressing even we is by warning the theong Romans and warning us against a false inference. [00:09:09]

The false inference would be I have the Holy Spirit almighty God reigning in my life how then shall I remain subject to the bondage of this age Paul's against that inference he's against it you can see it in the word we even we ourselves grown in ourselves waiting waiting waiting the Redemption of our body. [00:09:34]

Christ has purchased Redemption he has demonstrated and Illustrated that it is both physical and both spiritual and he has given us a glorious foraste of it amen that was John Piper and his sermon titled Christ and cancer preached a month into his Pastor way back on August 17th 1980 uh sermon on Romans 8. [00:10:18]

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