Psalms 138:2 (Amplified) says, "I will worship toward Your Holy Temple and praise Your name for Your loving kindness and for Your truth and faithfulness; for You have exalted above all else Your name and Your Word and You have magnified Your Word above all Your Name."
According to this scripture, God has based the very integrity of His name on His Word. If His Word is no good, then His name is no good. The very existence of God Himself is based on the truth of His Word.
In bygone years, you could draw up a verbal contract with a man of integrity by nothing more than a handshake and your word. If a man's word was no good, then the man wasn't to be trusted. A man's word was his bond and all that he was, was based on his word. Even a poor man had integrity because he would allow anything else to come to nothing in order to pay his obligations and keep his word.
Somehow, we've lost some of the truth about our fellow man because of laws that permit us to draw back from our word. We can find ways to not live up to the commitment of our word by hiring lawyers to find loopholes in our commitments. By so doing, our word is no longer any good. This always brings doubt and distrust in those we deal with. The very essence of a person was judged by was his word trustworthy.
We've carried this over even to being able to trust God's Word in our lives. We've seen the Word of God as we have seen the word of mere men. Psalms 12:6 (Amplified) says that, "The Words and promises of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over." Verse 7 goes on, "You will keep them and preserve them (Your Words) oh Lord; You will guard and keep us from this (evil) generation forever. He watches over His Word to perform It."
If we could only put our whole trust in the power of God's Word, then it would change our entire life forever. We seem to have trusted Him as far as going to heaven when we leave this earth, but then fail to believe in what His Word can do for us while we're still living in the earth. We stumble at the Words in 1 Peter 2:24 (Amplified) that tell us, "He personally bore our sins in His (own) body on the tree (as on an altar and offered Himself on it), that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed."
We even stumble sometimes at the fact that Jesus has borne our sins and made us righteous before God. We still stumble when we don't do everything right as though our mistakes will dissolve His covenant. Even when we miss it, God's Word is still true. We have misgivings in our walk before Him because we aren't yet perfect. If we will only believe in the finished work of Jesus, then we would find that it's the perfection of the Sacrifice He see and not our imperfections.
The healing that Jesus bought for us on the cross is just as true as the sin that He bore for us at the same time. You don't have to be perfect in your walk with God (He knows we're not perfect) in order to be healed. All we're required to do is to simply believe His Word. If we try to wait until we're perfect to receive, then we never will.
The Lamb's perfection is what the Father's looking at. If the Lamb was perfect, then the Man Who offered It was looked upon as perfect. This was true even under the old covenant. The sacrifice was what God saw; not the man. Our Lamb Jesus was so perfect that His Blood and sacrifice so perfectly cleansed you and I so that God Himself can actually live in our bodies. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (Amplified) says, "Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received (as a Gift) from God? You are not your own." Verse 20 says, "You were bought with a price (purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His Own). So then, honor God and bring Him glory in your body."
The sacrifice of Jesus didn't just forgive us, it made us new. There's not even a residue of the old self left to condemn us. We are so clean that now the Holy Spirit can actually live in us as the Holy of Hollies. You can't get any more clean than that. We don't dare to believe in this great truth and so we still walk in the condemnation of the past life instead of the glory of the new life. The scripture says to "Honor God, and bring Him glory in your body." By honoring Him in this body, we believe in what His Son did for us. You can't honor Him in this body and still believe that you're somehow unclean.
This condemnation will hold back the healing of this body and bring forth disease that doesn't belong in the temple. We try to do what we think will glorify God instead of believing that what Jesus did is what actually brings Him glory.
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