In John 6:38-39 (Amplified), Jesus tells His followers, "For I have come down from Heaven not to do My Own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me. And this is the will of Him Who sent Me, that I should not lose any of all that He has given Me, but that I should give new Life and raise them all up at the last day."
The above scripture clearly tells us that Jesus came to give us new Life and that He will raise us up at the Last day. We've been confused about what this new Life is, though. Jesus' entire ministry was restoring earth to what Heaven's will is. Jesus performed miracles and healings, in order to restore to man, the things that were lost from Adam's fall. He couldn't fulfill all of His ministry, as the Sacrifice of God, while He was still alive. In His earthly form, Jesus could only completely fulfill the things He was sent to do, after His death and resurrection. Jesus could bring man's natural bodies, back into God's will for mankind, though.
The teachings from natural man's concepts of the Word and God's will, were taken from the old covenant and how God dealt with natural men. The teachings that, "God is responsible for making men sick" or that "Sickness and disease are God's will for teachings His children," are derived from carnal minded men and the Law. Much of the Church have been taught that sickness and hardship, are how God teaches and disciplines His children.
As new covenant, new creation children of God, we see that God put all of this on Jesus, in order for us to be made righteous, which was God's Own will for His family. This isn't something that we had to do, but was something Jesus did, as an act of completing God's will for us. We were made righteous, justified, consecrated and sanctified, by an act of His Own will. Even before men could be saved, Jesus healed their natural bodies during His earthly ministry. Jesus healed them and brought them back to meet God's will for mankind.
In this time of Grace, much has been said about God's will and plan for mankind. Grace has been extended to both the lost and the saved. The difference is that those who are saved, have received God's Grace by faith and have accepted the Offer of God, while others ignored this Offer of Grace.
The Church has been taught and trained to see ourselves after the old covenant Law. Paul taught in Galatians 5;4-6 (Amplified), "If you seek to be justified and declared righteous and to be given a right standing with God through the Law, you are brought to nothing and so separated (severed from Christ). You have fallen away from Grace (from God's gracious favor and unmerited Blessing). For we, not relying on the Law but through the Holy Spirit's help, by faith anticipate and wait for the Blessing and good for which our righteousness and right standing with God, our conformity to His will in purpose, thought and action, causes us to hope. For is we are in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through Love."
This faith works by Love and it's really our faith that grows into mature faith. This faith is always activated, energized and expressed in us, when we understand God's Love for us. When we truly understand the real power of His Love towards us, our faith in Him will bring us to a place where we cannot only know God's will, but we will walk in His will without fear of anything. When we don't fully understand God's Love, we don't have a full understanding of His will.
We console ourselves by saying, "It's must be God's will," when we see good Christian people suffering from sickness and disease. The Truth is that it's not God's will for us to be sick or die from sickness. We assume it must be God's will, because we don't understand why Christians still get sick. I know people, who today, believe the things occurring around the globe, are God's will and plan. Many of them will misquote Romans 8:28 saying, "All things work together for our good."
This isn't what the Verse says or what it means. It doesn't mean that the hell, heartache, misery, sickness, death, rape, drugs and the terrible things satan has done, are "for our good." If we read the Word and understand it by the Holy Spirit, then we would know that everything going on around us, is not God's will. In Galatians 5:6 (Amplified), Paul explains how our absence of faith in God's will, comes from our lack of understanding His Love, because our faith in Him comes by knowing His Love for us.
1John 4:16-18 (Amplified) says, "And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience, and believe, adhere to and put faith in and rely on, THE LOVE GOD HAS FOR US. God is Love and he who dwells and continues in Love, dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. In this union and communion with Him, Love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us; that we may have confidence for the day of judgment with assurance and boldness to face Him, because as He is, so are we in this world." Verse 18 tells us, "There is no fear in Love (dread does not exist,) but full-grown, complete, Perfect Love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror. For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of Love (is not yet grown into Love's complete Perfection)."
If we believe that God brings sickness, disease and hardship upon us, as punishment for our wrongdoing and failures, then we are not "made Perfect in Love." We are still walking in fear and lack of knowledge, where our covenant and family relationship with God is concerned. We can't seem to get beyond how God dealt with man under the Law and understand that we're under a completely new family covenant. When we don't understand Love, we don't know the Father. When we don't know the Father, we don't know His will.
Sickness and disease are from the devil. God doesn't have the devil help Him with disciplining His Own children. I don't know why some people get sick or leave this planet ahead of their time, but I do know that "It's not my Father's doing." I've heard some say, "I know Christians who are sick, so healing must not be God's will to heal everyone." That's like saying, "I know people who aren't saved, so it must not be God's will for everyone to be saved." We've seemed to have forgotten that every individual plays a part in receiving or rejecting anything that God has offered us.
Some don't believe that God gave us a free will, to choose or reject what comes in life. If this was true, then why even preach the Message of salvation? In the Garden of Gethsemane, as an act of His Own will, even Jesus surrendered His will to the will of the Father. It was Jesus' choice to be obedient to the Father's will. He knew what the Father's will was and Jesus chose to do God's will, over His Own
We've surrendered our will over to some pretty foolish things, believing we were being obedient to God's will. Many been deceived by satan, to believe something was God's will, which led to their befalling many things that weren't God's will at all. In His great Grace, mercy and Love, God has delivered us, in spite of our wrong thinking. God judges the heart and knows our reason for doing things. When we fail to understand His will, we give the enemy place in our lives and this leads to our enduring things that were never God's will for us.
We're entering into the great day of deliverance, by revelation knowledge of His Love and will for His family, in these last days. There is a day coming soon, where recompense will happen for all who have suffered persecution at the hands of the enemy. We've almost come to believing it's God's will that some are tortured and burned at the stake. Just because God receives them into Heaven, doesn't mean that God took them.
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