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The Covenant of Healing
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they went on and continued their ride. They went back to that place the next day and saw skid
marks that went off the edge. They tried to figure it out, but they could not.
Well, Brother Hagin didn’t know that. He was back here in the United States sleeping, and the
Lord woke him up and said, “Because you obeyed Me, he’ll come home.”
Friends, when we obey God, it’s not that God plays favorites, it’s that it gives Him a legal right.
Why? Because we’re keeping covenant with Him. We’re obeying Him. We’re doing what He
told us to do, and if we do that, it gives Him every right to do what He said He would do for us
and keep us, protect us, heal us, and cause us to live a long life. Isn’t that what we just read? “I’ll
take all sickness out of the midst of you, the number of your days I’ll fulfill.” He’s the faithful
God Who keeps covenant. Verses 12 and 13 say, “It shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these
judgments, and keep and do them, that the L
ORD
thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and
the mercy which he swore unto thy fathers: And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply
thee.” What did we read before this? We read “if.”
If
you’re going to choose to obey Him and do
His plan and will... Now, if you’re going to do your own thing, all of this is off. If you would
obey Him, He’s going to love you, and bless you, and multiply you. “I will bless the fruit of your
womb.” What is that? It’s your kids. “And the fruit of your land,” that’s your business, your
investments, and your work. “Your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your kine,
and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore unto your fathers to give you
.
You will
be blessed above all people: there will not be male or female barren among you, or among your
cattle.”
There is a humorous story along this line. There was a mother who read these scriptures to her
children frequently. They were little bitty guys, and one of them had a dog that was sick. I think
the boy was four or five years old, and he came up and said, “Well, Momma, isn’t…” I forget
what his name was, Shep maybe? “Isn’t Shep our cattle?”
She said, “Well, honey, I reckon he is.” So they laid hands on Shep, and before the afternoon
was over, Shep was okay. Well, what did He say? These are your animals.
Verse 15 says, “And the L
ORD
will take away from thee all sickness…” How much? All. “…and
will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them
upon all them that hate thee.” It wouldn’t pay to hate us, either. Is this covenant language? Do
we have a covenant?
Some people say, “Well now, that’s just for the Jews. That’s just for Israel. That has all passed
away.”
I’m glad you brought that up. Let’s look in the New Testament, but before we look into this any
further, can you agree that there is a covenant of healing? Whoever you think it may be for, can
you see obviously there is a healing covenant? Do you agree that if they would obey Him and do
what He told them to do, He would keep them from being sick? He would take all sickness out of
their midst, and cause them to fulfill their lives. They’d be healed. They’d be strong. Was
sickness the will of God for His people? No. How could it be, if He said, “If you keep covenant
with Me, I’ll keep you healthy”?