So, the first week we studied out the Word that assures us that free means free, that when we believe in Jesus, confess our belief in Him, ask Him to forgive us, and to be Lord of our life, that is exactly what He does. Free is free, Jesus paid our debt once and for all. He told us not to fall back into Satan’s deception of bondage.
John 3:16 (KJV) 16 For God so loved the world (everyone), that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
So Jesus came for everyone, anyone who believes on Him can have life.
The second week we studied just a few of the Names of God, but concentrated on His amazing unconditional Love for us (for every person).
James 1:17 (KJV) 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
So this is for everyone, for all people, for any person who will believe on His son Jesus as their Lord and savior, His gifts are always good, and He never changes.
This week we are going to study out everything that Jesus provided for us at Calvary. Greek word Sozo.
Salvation (Sozo) is the life of God coming to one who believes the Gospel and receives “the life of” Jesus Christ. That life replaces sin with peace, and it replaces sickness with health. Health for the body, health for the mind, and health for the spirit. The scriptures abundantly confirm that salvation includes healing. When the Gospel is shared in its fullness, the sick will be healed, and unconverted people will be transformed.
God does not ever force His will, His blessings, on anyone. We have to believe to receive, and what has happened through years of theological traditions, traditions of man, is that we have people believing that salvation means a promise of heaven when we die. So, we have a whole lot of Christians running around streaking because the only piece of God’s Armor that they “put on” is the helmet of salvation, and the single belief that they are going to heaven when they die. God is a “now” God!
Galatians 2:20 (KJV) 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Romans 12:3 (KJV) -- according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
The first thing that I want to emphasize is that Paul says, “I live by the faith of the Son of God.” He did not say “in” the Son of God. Because it is Jesus’ own faith which we are all given a measure, the same measure, when we accept Jesus as our Savior.
Note 13 at Galatians 2:20: Paul was preaching a death to self, but it is very important to notice how this death took place. Paul was dead through what Jesus did. Paul experienced this death by simply reckoning what had already happened through Christ to be so (Romans 6:11).
There are people today who have taken the “dying to self” doctrine to an extreme, and instead of being free of self, they are totally self-centered. They constantly think of self. It may be in all negative terms, but it is still self-centered. Truly humble people are ones who are Christ-centered. Dying to self is not a hatred for self but rather a love of Christ more than self.
There are false religions that preach a denial of self. The legalistic Jews Paul was preaching against did that. Paul was not just dead to self; he was alive to God. A focus on the denial of self without the enthronement of Christ leads to legalism.
Note 14 at Galatians 2:20: Paul’s “old man” was dead through Christ (Romans 6:2-11). He was truly free to live, but it wasn’t actually Paul who was living–it was Christ living through him. Paul had learned the secret of victorious Christian living; it is not us living for Jesus, but Jesus living through us.
Failure to understand this simple truth is at the root of all legalism and performance mentality. The Law focuses on the outer man and tells it what it must do. Grace focuses on the inner man and tells it what is already done through Christ. Those who are focused on what they must do are under Law. Those who are focused on what Christ has done for them are walking under grace.
The Christian life is not just hard to live–it’s impossible to live in our human strength. The only way to walk in victory is to let Christ live through us.
Andrew Wommack's Living Commentary.
Romans 6:6 (NLT2) 6 We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. (No longer in bondage to sin.)
“Isaiah 53 says, He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of pains, and acquainted with sickness: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our sicknesses, and carried our diseases; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” It was not what the Roman soldiers nor the angry mob did. It was what God did. It shocks us when we realize that He was stricken, smitten of God with our diseases and our sin. There was laid upon Him the diseases and sicknesses of the human race. Isaiah 53:10 “Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath made him sick.” He was not only made sin and separated from His Father, until His broken heart cried, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” but the diseases of the human race fell upon Him.
Isaiah 52:14 (Margin, Cross-Reference Bible) “Just as many were amazed over Him, and princes on His account shuddered, were astonished and appalled, amazed, frightened. His visage was so marred, unlike to a man, and His form unlike to the sons of man, so deformed was His appearance not to be a man, and His figure no longer resembled a man.” This was spiritual suffering. This was when the hidden man of the heart became not only sin, but sickness. This was the spiritual side of the agony of the cross. This was when our sin and diseases were laid upon His spirit. His spirit was made sin. His spirit was made sick.
If the heart could only take it in that He was made sin, and that we were Identified with Him on the cross, then we could grasp the reality of His Substitutionary work. This truth has been a doctrine instead of a reality to most of us. He not only laid our sin on Him, but He laid us on Him. The whole man was involved in this sacrifice—His spirit, Soul, and His body. We were nailed to the cross with Him and in Him. Our diseases were part of Him. When the heart recognizes this, it will be the end of the dominion of disease. For if He was made sick with our sickness, Satan has no legal right to put diseases upon us, and in the Name of Jesus we can free ourselves from Satan’s power.
Kenyon, E.W.. Identification: A Romance in Redemption . BookBaby. Kindle Edition.
The Truth says that salvation is both spiritual, and physical. The two redemptive blessings which Christ brought to the world are salvation and healing – deliverance from sin and deliverance from sickness. It is incomplete for an unsaved person who is sick in body to be saved from sin and not be healed of sickness, after he or she has heard and believed the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I’m going to say that again: Deliverance is for the total person. For you to be healed and not to be saved, or to be saved and not to be healed, would lack fullness.
Romans 10:9 (NLT2) 9 If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
This word saved is the same Greek word, “sozo” as was translated in Mark 6:56 as made whole. So “saved” equals “healed” and “made whole.”
Mark 6:56 (KJV) 56 And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole (sozo).
We see even when we go back into the Old Testament teachings that all of these benefits are found together, over and over again.
Psalm 103:2-4 (AMP) 2 Bless (affectionately, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul, and forget not [one of] all His benefits— 3 Who forgives [every one of] all your iniquities, Who heals [each one of] all your diseases, 4 Who redeems your life from the pit and corruption, Who beautifies, dignifies, and crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercy;
All throughout scriptures both Old and New Testaments all of these “benefits” are found together, when one believes on, confesses them of the Lord.
Mark 5:23 (AMP) 23 And Jairus begged Him earnestly, saying, My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay Your hands on her, so that she may be healed and live.
Jairus was saying: My daughter is dead. But, I believe, that if You Lay Your hands on her, she will be saved. Jesus did, and a dead girl was restored to life. She got saved. She received “Sozo.”
Jairus believed for his daughter. Two things made this possible, she was young, probably “age of accountability” kicking in, but also “she was dead.” Remember Jesus told Jairus you have to still believe, and He kicked all the other people out of the room, because they were already mourning her death, therefore not believing in her life.
Mark 16:16 (NLT2) 16 Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved (Sozo). But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned.
Luke 8:36 (AMP) 36 And those [also] who had seen it told them how he who had been possessed with demons was restored [to health]. “sozo”
Hebrews 2:3 (AMP) 3 How shall we escape [appropriate retribution] if we neglect and refuse to pay attention to such a great salvation [as is now offered to us, letting it drift past us forever]? For it was declared at first by the Lord [Himself], and it was confirmed to us and proved to be real and genuine by those who personally heard [Him speak].
Acts 2:21 (AMP) 21 And it shall be that whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord [invoking, adoring, and worshiping the Lord—Christ] shall be saved.
Amos 3:3 (KJV) 3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Psalm 91:2-3 (NLT2) 2 This I declare about the LORD: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I trust him. 3 For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease.
Acts 14:9-10 (AMP) 9 He was listening to Paul as he talked, and [Paul] gazing intently at him and observing that he had faith to be healed, 10 Shouted at him, saying, Stand erect on your feet! And he leaped up and walked.
Paul could see in the crippled man that he was in agreement with the Word, that he believed, that God is my Sozo, God is my refuge. . .
Ephesians 2:8 (NLT2) 8 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a (free) gift from God.
James 5:15 (KJV) 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Prayer doesn’t save the sick; it’s the prayer of faith that saves the sick. Prayer without faith isn’t true prayer.
The Greek word “SOZO,” which was translated “save” here, is related to the same Greek word that was translated “salvation” hundreds of times in the N.T. (see my note at Matthew 8:17). This shows that biblical salvation isn’t limited to forgiveness of sins but includes physical healing.
Andrew Wommack's Living Commentary.
John 10:10 (AMP) 10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it (life) in abundance (Greek word “Zoe” = the miracle life of God, life to the full, till it overflows).
Mark 5:34 (AMP) Passage about the woman with the issue of blood. 34 And Jesus said to her, Daughter, your faith (your trust and confidence in Me, springing from faith in God) has restored you to health. Go in (into) peace and be continually healed and freed from your [distressing bodily] disease. KJV says “Made you whole.”
The “Zoe” life from God brought “Sozo” to the woman and her flow of blood stopped. It healed any disease. This woman had faith in Jesus Christ. She had said, “If I may touch but His clothes, I will be whole. Mark 5:28
Sozo causes sinners to be saved.
Sozo causes sick people to be well.
Sozo gives life to the dead.
Sozo makes blind eyes see.
Sozo makes cripples leap and walk.
Then why are we sick! Because of our unbelief, our lack of faith. We have been taught that we are saved so that when we die we will go to heaven and there will be no more sickness, and no more pain, and no more tears, and there will be a mansion over there. . . As we read the Truth for ourselves, eternity with God starts from the moment we accept Jesus as our savior. And when we accept Him all of these benefits are ours, we simply have to take them, possess them, receive them. Faith is an action! When God tells you that He is giving you the land, you have to be willing and confident in His promise to cross the Jordan, in His strength, to face the giants, and to take the promised land.
Luke 17:19 (KJV) 19 And he (Jesus) said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.
Acts 4:9-10 (KJV) 9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; 10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand (the man had to stand up) here before you whole.
Chapter 3:3-4 says, that Peter looked intently and the man fastened his eyes on him in expectation!
Acts 4:12 (AMP) 12 And there is salvation in and through no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by and in which we must be saved.
Through, and only through the name of Jesus, there is a new kind of life available.
Mark 6:56 (AMP) 56 And wherever He came into villages or cities or the country, they would lay the sick in the marketplaces and beg Him that they might touch even the fringe of His outer garment, and as many as touched Him were restored to health. KJV says, “were made whole.”
Anyone and everyone who touches Jesus with faith receives Sozo, salvation, wholeness, healing and restoration. If you don’t believe it you won’t receive it, if all you believe is that you will go to heaven when you die, then all you will get is to go to heaven when you die.
Romans 10:17 (NLT2) 17 So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.
Remember last week that way back in Exodus, God told the Israelites, I am the Lord that Healeth Thee, Jehovah Rapha. Ephesians 1:5 says, “I have been revealed as God’s own child through Jesus.” So, He is my God who heals me. It’s Who He Is, He Is our Healer, Healing Is His Nature, Healing Is His Essence.
John 17:2-3 (AMP) Jesus’ Priestly Prayer. . . 2 [Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.
Psalm 105:37 (KJV) 37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
This was experienced by the entire nation of Israel. This verse proves that healing was also experienced by the mixed multitude that accompanied Israel out of Egypt, which shows that even under the Old Covenant, God wanted to bless ALL who would follow Him.
Luke 4:18 (KJV) 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Most people do not have physical diseases, but they are sick. . . Sick in their minds, in their attitudes, in their lifestyles, in their marriages, in their businesses. Jesus came so that people could be transformed and become uncondemned, righteous, not guilty, saved, Holy, royal, dignified, strong, courageous.
Matthew 7:7 (KJV) 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
John 14:14 (KJV) 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Mark 11:24 (AMP) 24 For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].
Ephesians 2:10 “For I am His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus.”
In order to believe God, we must know God. It is when we don’t know God for ourselves that the devil is able to come at us with half truths (the traditions of men) and cause us to believe things such as “Maybe it’s not God’s will to heal you.” “Maybe this sickness is to bless you.” “If it be Your Will Lord, please heal me!”
God’s Will is His Word. Read it, know it, believe it. The world sees sickness in our bodies, God sees sickness in our spirits. God heals us through the Word. It is the Word that heals our spirits. It is the Word that recreates us. It is the Word that produces faith. It is the Word that unveils to us what we really are in Christ—New Creations. It is the Word, then, that brings healing to these sick spirits of ours.
Salvation from sin and sickness or healing from sin and sickness are both blessings included in our redemption, provided by one sacrifice and by one substitute. It is already a done deal, and it was and still is for anyone and everyone who will believe in Jesus. When He was finished, He took His seat at the right hand of His Father. When we believe on Him, we also are seated at the right hand of the Father.
For Further Study
All that I ought to have assumed as judgement for my sins, has been assumed and borne away by Jesus Christ, in my place.
John 5:24 (KJV) 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Andrew Wommack’s Note on John 5:24
Everlasting life is not a future experience that takes place after we die (John 3:36 and 6:47). Jesus said those who believe on Him have everlasting life now. John 17:3 defines everlasting life as knowing the only true God and Jesus Christ. This is talking about intimacy with God, and that is everlasting life. See my notes at John 3:16 and 17:3.
John 5:22 speaks of all judgment being given unto Jesus. Here, Jesus said that if we receive His Word and believe on God, His Father, we will never come into condemnation or judgment (Amplified Bible, New International Version, New American Standard Bible, Weymouth New Testament, Wuest’s Word Studies in the Greek New Testament). The Greek word “KRISIS,” which was translated as “condemnation” only here and in John 3:19, was translated “judgment” thirty-nine times and “judgments” twice. Jesus will only be Judge to those who reject Him as Savior (see my note at John 5:22). Later in this same sermon, Jesus revealed that it would be the Law of Moses that judges those who reject Him as Savior (see my note at John 5:45).
Life For Today Study Bible Notes
Note 9 at John 5:24: Everlasting life is not something that we look forward to receiving in the future, but it is a present-tense reality (1 John 5:13, see note 94 at John 17:3).
Andrew Wommack's Living Commentary.
Authors that I have read recently:
· E.W. Kenyon (a lot of this lesson was guided by his book)
· T.L. Osborn (a lot of this lesson was guided by his book)
· Barry Bennett
· Arthur Meintjes (guided a lot of first lesson)
· Andrew Wommack’s Living Commentary
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