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healing, or it’s something else, don’t try to explain it away because you haven’t experienced it or
because don’t have it yet. Humble yourself before the Word of God, and say, “Just because I
haven’t done it or I haven’t seen it doesn’t mean this is wrong. This is right, and Lord, I’m
asking You to elevate my experience. Bring me up to this.” And we’ll be doing that the rest of
our lives.
Now, we’re looking in the Scriptures to see what Jesus did. When we see it, we will find the
unchanging will of God for all men for all time. Each time the word “all” or “every” is used in
reference to someone getting healed, it will be in bold letters.
Matthew 4:23 says, “And Jesus went about
all
Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and
preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing
all
manner of sickness and
all
manner of
disease among the people.”
Do you believe it is still the will of God for there to be teaching? Is it still the will of God for
there to be preaching of the Gospel? Then why do we drop the last one? If you would agree that
He was showing the will of God, that we are supposed to be teaching and preaching, then why
would you leave off the last part?
“And his fame went throughout
all
Syria: and they brought unto Him…” how many? “
all
sick
people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with
devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.”
Them
refers to
all
that they brought. It didn’t say that He healed
part of
them. It says that He healed
them,
all
who came.
How many people got healed that day? Where are the unlucky ones? What about the ones that it
wasn’t time for their healing, or it wasn’t the will of God, or who God was teaching something?
How many people got healed there that day? A bunch, and it was
all
of them.
We’re going to look at an example in Matthew, then at the same happening in Luke. But Luke
says it a little bit differently than Matthew. Don’t let this be too simple for you. Let it get into
your spirit. You know it is working in your spirit when you get excited about it. Matthew 8:16
says, “When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils:
and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed
all
that were sick.” Did He heal several of
them—fifty, sixty, ninety-nine percent? No.
All
means everyone included, nobody excluded.
All
means
all
. He “…healed
all
that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah
the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.” He took whose? He
didn’t just take theirs. He is healing
all
in manifestation of that scripture and in manifestation of
the unchanging will of God for
all
men for
all
time.
Luke’s account says it like this, in Luke 4:40. This is the same happening. “Now when the sun
was setting,
all
they that had any sick…” Hear the language of this: everyone that had anyone
sick, “with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on
every
one of them,
and healed them.” Where are the ones who didn’t have enough faith? Where are the ones for
whom it wasn’t God’s timing for them? Where?