LIVING LIFE IN A REALM OF HEALTH
(An answer for Religious people)
Maybe you have wondered as I have, why is disease and sickness just as prevalent in what we call "the church" as it is in the world. Why is there not a people living and demonstrating what Jesus Christ came to live and demonstrate, a life of perfect health, dependent on him as our source of strength and health as even he was dependent on his father in heaven for his strength and health?
We have been taught God is infinite, but what does that mean? Infinite means having no boundaries or limitations, extending without end, perfect, and is applied to those things which are measureless, numberless, countless and innumerable. Jesus had a deep revelation that his source was infinite, and even greater, this nature was also fully and completely in him! He never went about looking for some thing outside of himself. He never spoke of need, was never sick, and death couldn't hold him! He demonstrated the perfect spiritual power of God residing in a human body. Jesus made an astonishing statement; he said. “as I am, ye may be also!”. He said he came to bring us “life” (spirit life) and that life would be “more abundantly” (beyond measure).
Jesus was teaching that we too can live from that infinite and divine source of God, which by the Holy Spirit is placed within us. Can we believe what Jesus said? Is it (health) for us today in 2007?
It seems there is always some new disease popping up in our world, just ready to steal our health and our life! Are there some reasons we can learn in order to avoid illnesses and remain in God’s plan for health? We must know the truth! The answer is yes, yes, yes, there are many natural causes, many medical causes, many drug-related or chemical causes, germs and parasites, but in this article I am interested in Spiritual causes…and the bottom line for spiritual causes is called sin.
Sin is a form of rebellion, a desire to do those things God in His Word has told us not to do, or things we know are not proper to do.. Hundreds of books about sin are in the libraries and book stores.
Actually there are just three types of sin; one is sin against God; the second is sin against others, and third is against your own body. God in His Holy Book, the Bible, names what we need to do, to eat, what to avoid , how to live, and how to become healthy, -but we like to do ‘our own thing”. We inherited a nature to sin…we know what God said, but still do what we like…-and so we pay the consequences!
This scripture stands out as one major reason many believers in Christ become sick themselves , and it becomes the reason for this article. Other reasons for illnesses may be discussed another day, but hear this one...
I Corinthians 11:30: "For this cause many are weak
and sickly among you, and many sleep."
Here we see one key which talks about a cause, and a warning for sickness, weakness, and even death. Let's examine this cause! This is the verse used when we partake of the Lord’s Supper. called “Communion” in Western churches, or called the “Mass” in Catholic or Orthodox Churches;. Are we ready to release old beliefs and paradigms which have kept us in bondage, so that we can receive the life of Salvation and health Jesus came to give? Let's begin by seeing what the Spirit is saying here.
In the Mass, ‘Communion’ is a picture for us of our oneness with Christ and God. When we eat, we become ‘one’ with what we eat. It goes into our bodies and is converted into energy, strength, and becomes life to us, both as spiritual and physical life.. These verses tell us when we eat the bread, (Christ is the bread) which came down from heaven, it is a picture of partaking of his body and his life. When we drink the wine it becomes to us the life-blood of Jesus. “Life is in the blood.”.
“Communion” or union! What we eat of, we become! Can you see it?
We are not to take it” (Divine Life) “unworthily” –that is, with hidden or un-confessed sin in our lives…” -for this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.” (are dead) Verse 28 - 29: "But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body."The blood of Jesus kills sin…Think about it; -the Bible says “the life is in the blood.” So if a person, with an unforgiven sinful heart partakes of the communion wine, which becomes for us the blood of Jesus, God’s Son, it can make the unqualified person sick even unto death! This warming is for the one who dares to be “unworthy” and yet receives the life blood of God, incures “damnation” (destruction) to himself, or herself. God’s power…the “life” that is in the Communion Sacrament is similar to electricity. When handled properly and with respect, it has wonder-working energy and power. But if handled improperly, like with dirty wet hands, it can kill him or her.. It is also similar to when in medieval times, an unauthorized person would dare to approach a King…
while even wearing dirty clothing, the King, indignant at the person’s lack of respect, would say to his Swordsmen, “Off with his head!” Jesus is the “King of Kings” We must come humbly into his presence with respect and a ‘clean heart’.
The purpose of the New Testament is the fulfillment of the plan for man’s Salvation and to forgive sin by the blood of Jesus which when shed on the cross, paid the death penalty of sin for everyone who will believe in him.. –the wine, His blood –the “blood of the New Testament” , is a picture of receiving his blood…(like a transfusion; it is a transformation life) we do it in remembrance of Jesus death. What are we to be remembering as we eat? That as Christ is, so we should be on this earth. We are one with him, and one with the father! We eat and drink to give ourselves a physical picture of our oneness with him, which is true communion or union! What we eat of, we become! Can you see it?
This same picture was given in the garden in Genesis, Chapter two.. Adam was told not to eat from the tree of the “knowledge of good and evil”, or a mixture of ‘right and wrong’.. God knew that eating from a mixture would produce death. What you eat you do become! Here is that same root cause of sickness, disease and even death spoken of in I Corinthians 11. It is feeding off a mixture of good and evil, holy and unholy, righteous and unrighteous, worthy and unworthy. It is eating from a mistaken identity by thinking as a sinner there is something more you can do to be like God. This kind of thinking comes from what the Bible calls, a double minded man. It also tells us this thinking produces a life which is unstable. The Greek definition for unstable, is disorder, commotion and confusion, which in the spiritual sense will cause eternal separation from God and Heaven, and in the natural sense will cause the breakdown of your body functions, diseases, and physical death.
In concluding this article on ‘one reason Christians get sick’, God placed in His Word an antidote, -the answer for sickness. -We call it Divine Healing. It is summed up in the book of James. Read James 5:14-15, “is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Name of the Lord, (Verse 15) “And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed any sins, they shall be forgiven him.”
Conclusion; “if we abide under the shadow of the Almighty, we will fear no evil, including sickness, Psalms 91 has the answer;
(Verse 1) “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
!2) “I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in Him will I trust.
(3) “Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence, “ (“Pestilence” means parasite diseases.)
This too can be “God’s Answer To Cancer”.