The peace of the Lord be with you and your household. I give thanks to the eternal God, the Almighty, for this time He grants us: a time of grace, of mercy, and of revelation in which each one of us can walk according to what the Lord is demanding of us.
We are living in the last times; we all know this perfectly well. But it is not only about saying “come Lord Jesus” and waiting to be reunited with Him. It is, above all things, about the Lord demanding of us in these last times that we establish testimony: the testimony of the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. This testimony does not necessarily consist of what we preach, but rather of what we can establish with each of our lives according to what the Lord is speaking to us.
The eternal God has called us so that in this time we can establish with our lives the Word of God. That is the greatest testimony that the enemy cannot erase or undo. When we go to the book of Job, chapter 1, we find the account of when the Lord says to Satan: “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth?” Job is in his home, shares with others, but his life unfolds in his household and on his property, establishing according to the will of God. That is the testimony the Lord wants us to establish: that we may be witnesses of grace, of mercy, and of the power of God.
Salvation: Beyond the Eschatological Aspect
In this teaching, we will continue studying the topic of salvation. This is an extremely necessary topic because, as we have said, salvation does not only consist of an eschatological salvation (that is, a future salvation that has not yet manifested).
Generally, the vast majority of men and women of God have received the message that we are going to walk in heaven on streets of gold and in mansions that the Lord has prepared for each of us. Most of us have believed that this is salvation. However, in this teaching we are emphasizing that salvation begins here on earth.
Salvation has two aspects:
- Eschatological aspect (future): Indeed, the Lord speaks to us that He has prepared a place for us, so that where He is, we may also be.
- Present aspect: In the present, it has an execution. We are not only waiting for the moment to be reunited with the Lord. The Lord establishes in His Word that each of us must learn to live in the salvation of the Lord.
In this teaching, we are going to begin studying the different aspects of salvation, and the first is the healing of diseases.
Healing is Also Salvation
I want to read several fundamental texts:
Psalm 103:3-4: “Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies.”
Isaiah 53:4-5: “Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.”
There are many other texts in the book of Exodus, in the Old Testament and in the New Testament where we are clearly told that healing is also part of salvation. In fact, one of the reasons why in the old version (the 1909 version) we sometimes read not “salvation” but “health,” is precisely because salvation is an integral word that encompasses:
- Deliverance
- Restoration
- Healing
- Strength
- Vivification
When we speak of salvation, we should not only consider the eschatological aspect, the future aspect of when we are reunited with the Lord, when these heavens and this earth disappear, when the Lord transforms our nature and we are with Him. In the meantime, on the face of the earth, we must learn to live in the salvation of the Lord.
The Divine Process for Healing
To establish what process God has established regarding healing, I want to use the text from Matthew 9:1-7:
“So He got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own city. Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, ‘Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.’ And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, ‘This Man blasphemes!’ But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, ‘Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, “Your sins are forgiven you,” or to say, “Arise and walk”? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins’—then He said to the paralytic, ‘Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.’ And he arose and departed to his house.”
Two Fundamental Truths About Disease
When we speak about the healing of diseases, we must understand two very important things:
1. Disease is the result of satanic intervention
Disease is the result of satanic intervention in life, in activity, and in the environments where man operates. Disease does not come from God. This is the first thing we must establish: disease does not proceed from God. Disease is the result of sin and disobedience.
In Romans 3, the Lord establishes that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”. And in chapter 6, verse 23, it says that “the wages of sin is death”.
Therefore, the first thing we must establish is that disease is the result of sin and disobedience. The intervention of sin in a person’s life will first bring disease, because disease precisely destroys the body and will cause the person to disappear as soon as possible from this earth.
2. To receive healing, we must confront the cause
It is important that we understand that to receive healing we must confront the cause that produces the disease. This is also extremely important.
There is no healing without first resolving or confronting the cause that has produced that disease.
The problem we often see and continually encounter is diseases that apparently resolve but other diseases of a different nature and type arise. Why? Because if the causes that have produced that disease are not treated, the disease mutates, transforms, moves to other regions, even of the human body.
In the text we have read (Matthew 9:5), we are clearly told: “Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’?” It is easier to say “arise and walk,” but what happens is that if the person resolves a disease without having worked on the cause that produced that disease, sooner or later they will incur a similar or worse disease.
The Order Established by Jesus
Jesus established an order that is clearly seen in this account. The process is to confront the cause that has produced that disease so that it can be completely resolved. Otherwise, I repeat, otherwise, it will convert, transform, or mutate into another disease, and many times it is worse than the first one that attacked them.
That is why in verse 2 of this account we are examining, the first thing Jesus establishes is forgiveness. He says: “Be of good cheer, son; your sins are forgiven you.” Why? Because it is the sinful condition that has established the disease. Once confronted, it is resolved so that the person can receive healing.
The process is crucial: we must confront the causes, not just the consequences. Otherwise, we will spend our lives confronting symptoms without resolving the root problem.
The Causes of Diseases
In the gospel of John 10, the Lord established: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” When He speaks of stealing, killing, and destroying, He is not only speaking of properties; He is speaking of the person’s life: it destroys the body, destroys the person themselves.
I am going to present at least four main causes of diseases. Not all diseases have the same cause. There is a particular cause that has been developed by each person. Even if it is the same disease in two or three people, none of them necessarily has the same cause. Each person must identify what their particular cause is, their personal cause.
First Cause: The Sins of the Ancestors
The first cause we find in Exodus 20:5:
“You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.”
We are referring to the sin of the ancestors. In many Christian circles, this type of situation is presented as “hereditary curses.” The sins of the ancestors are clearly established in this verse: God visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.
This is the primary cause that each of us must know and identify.
When we speak of the sins of the ancestors, we must understand the great variety of sins that can occur, among them:
- Idolatry
- Sorcery
- Witchcraft
- Occult sciences
- All those practices that the ancestors practiced in their respective times or places
Even though the disease may be the same for several people, each one has developed, or their family developed, a particular cause, and they converged on the same type of disease.
The Importance of Confession
Many people do not pay attention to this because a great majority believe that the Lord has already forgiven everything. Yes, God forgave it, but it is necessary for the man, for the woman, to be able to confess it so that it may be completely forgiven. Otherwise, the sin is current and reaches the person, even when the person is a believer, even when the person is a Christian.
Let us look at Daniel’s example in Daniel 9:4-6:
“And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, ‘O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.’”
Daniel is not confessing only on a personal basis. With “we have sinned,” he is including the entire present nation, but he is also including the entire past nation. He is speaking of his fathers, of his ancestors.
Another text is found in Lamentations 5:7:
“Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their iniquities.”
The Old Testament contains many texts that show that the sins of the ancestors, as Exodus 20:5 says, reach to the third and fourth generation. This does not exclude people who are now within the Christian life.
There are people who, despite seeking the Lord, are suffering certain situations. When they come to review the life of their family, the life of their generation, they realize that there were situations that they developed and established, and that are now reaching to the third and fourth generation.
Hereditary and Repetitive Diseases
Those repetitive diseases that repeat in the family: do not look for them in the present, look for them in the past. Why? Because the ancestors did or practiced:
- Sorcery
- Witchcraft
- Spiritism
- Occult sciences
- Pacts
- Practices that the family does not want to talk about
They are hidden sins. Many know about what was done in the past, but they leave it in memory. We must understand that the causes of diseases are precisely the sins of the ancestors, and each of us must work on it adequately.
How to Work on This Situation?
Returning to Matthew 9, Jesus said: “Your sins are forgiven you.” We must confront the cause, because otherwise the disease will not be able to be healed. The disease cannot be healed because the cause has not been worked on, because the cause has not been confronted.
What we must learn is to confess as if we ourselves had been the actors of those sins. We must confess. It is not asking for forgiveness (because there is a difference between the prevailing idea in many Christian circles of “I ask you for forgiveness,” which proceeds precisely from Catholicism).
It is not about asking for forgiveness. It is about confessing. It is about repenting before the Lord as if we had been the ones who developed that activity.
The cases I have presented clearly establish this: “We confess our sins before You, Lord, and we come in repentance before You.”
It is not until all those things of the ancestors have been brought to light that there is an opening of the Kingdom of Heaven so that the person can be healed of that disease that is oppressing them.
Generally, these types of diseases are hereditary diseases, congenital diseases, or cyclical repetitive diseases that affect the person with certain regularity.
Second Cause: Personal Sins
Galatians 6:7 says: “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”
The second group of causes that produce diseases are our personal acts, individual acts. There were no family members or ancestors involved, but rather what each of us did.
A Common Error in Contemporary Christianity
There is a practice within contemporary Christianity that we need to eradicate. A vast majority of believing men and women say: “But I did it when I was in the world, before coming to Christ.”
It does not matter if you did it before, because life did not begin when you came to Christ Jesus. Your life began when you were born. The life of each of us began when we were established in our mother’s womb, but it materialized when we were born. That is where our life began.
Therefore, we cannot, as if excusing ourselves, say: “I did that before coming to Christ,” because all our life is before the presence of the Lord. All of it, complete. The psalmist David clearly says: “Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.”
When we come before the judgment seat of Christ, we will be judged not from the moment we began in the life of faith, but rather we will be judged for everything we have lived and developed in life.
It is important that each of us not shield ourselves with this declaration: “Yes, but I did it before, that no longer matters, the Lord has already forgiven me that.” Where do we get that declaration from?
Galatians 6:7 begins by saying: “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked.” Therefore, the second group or second cause that produces diseases are the sins we have committed.
What is Sin?
When we speak of sins, let us understand: it is everything that does not please the Lord. It is not only those morally scandalous situations.
- Romans clearly says that “whatever is not from faith is sin”. It is not speaking of adultery, fornication, or murder, but it says it is sin.
- James says that “to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin”.
Sin is not only those morally scandalous situations, but rather it is everything that does not please the Lord, even when there has not been a scandalous situation classified by society as sin.
Jesus said it: “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.”
Identifying Beyond Actions
When we speak of sin, we should not only identify actions. We must identify:
- Attitudes
- Postures
- Thoughts
- Feelings
We must identify what has been our participation or our involvement in situations.
Many times, diseases do not yield precisely because we have not brought to light the things we established in the past.
The Importance of Bringing to Light
Ephesians 5:11-13 establishes:
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.”
Just as with the sins of the ancestors, it is necessary, it is important that each of us learn to confess. To confess means to bring them to light.
When man, when woman hides, represses, when we are not capable of bringing to light (and in many occasions not necessarily confessing them only to God, because in many cases people do not know how to confess them and even worse, repent of them), we have a problem.
A great majority have the idea that “well, since I no longer do it, I stopped doing it, I stopped practicing it, I abandoned that type of life or conduct, everything is already fixed.” No, brother; no, sister. It is not like that.
As long as we do not go to the past saying: “I, Lord, should not have done this” (and name it, identify it), it is not resolved.
It is not summarizing it as “everything, Lord, I ask You, I repent of everything I did in the past,” and with that we wrap up 15, 20, and sometimes more years, and we believe that with that we have already resolved it. No. It is not like that.
It is being able to identify:
- Events
- Situations
- Actions
- Thoughts
- Attitudes
- Postures
And call them by name and bring them out.
Anyone could say: “But why confess them, why mention them if God knows them?” Yes, but our attitude of bringing them to light is what enables and allows God to open an opening of grace and mercy.
A Fundamental Principle
Let us keep in mind something that is very important: the gospel belongs to God, not to us. Therefore, we cannot innovate the gospel and work on things as I think they should be worked on.
“I already resolved it.” It is not as I think. It is as He, God, the Eternal, the Almighty, has determined that all things should be worked on.
Therefore, the second group that is important for us to understand is personal sins. It is important that we be capable, diligent, to bring them out from the past and bring them to light and repent of each situation that happened in the past.
Not asking the Lord for forgiveness for everything we did in the past, because, let me tell you, you are wasting your time. “I asked Him for forgiveness for everything I did before coming to Christ Jesus.” You are wasting your time. It does not work like that. It does not work that way.
Third Cause: Fornication
I am going to 1 Corinthians 6:16-18:
“Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For ‘the two,’ He says, ‘shall become one flesh.’ But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”
The third group is fornication, and here I want to necessarily establish a correction.
Correcting the Concept of Fornication
Socially (and this happens practically throughout all of Latin America, with all Latin Americans), there is the idea or definition that fornication is sexual relations before marriage. That is how it is defined, and I say this practically throughout all of America.
I must tell you that this is the social religious concept that has been established, and it was established precisely so that man, so that woman, could arrive at marriage without having developed prior sexual activity.
Fornication is not sexual relations before marriage.
What Then is Fornication?
Fornication is everything that has to do, indeed, with sexual relations, but that includes other elements such as:
- Prostitution
- Homosexuality
- Lesbianism
- Bestiality
- Pornography
- All those situations that today are also developed virtually
It is not only a premarital relationship, but rather it is much broader.
Observe verse 18: the apostle by the Spirit of God says “flee sexual immorality”, and in verse 16 it says: “Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her?” And he is speaking of fornication.
Why is Fornication a Cause of Diseases?
Look at what verse 16 says: “Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her?” And observe the following: “For ‘the two,’ He says, ‘shall become one flesh.’”
Where have we read this last part, “shall become one flesh”? In Genesis, when God formed man and woman. God Himself was the one who said: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
That declaration was given by God to refer to marriage. Marriage begins when the man takes the woman and lives, cohabits intimately with her. Marriage does not begin, according to the Word of God, when the law establishes husband and wife. Marriage begins when the man takes the woman and cohabits with her.
That is why now, in verse 16, the apostle by the Spirit of God says: “Keep in mind something: that if you cohabited, even if it was only once with a harlot, the sexual act united you as in a marriage.”
Active Spiritual Bonds
Now let us think: how many people are united in spiritual bonds (because that is what it is about) with harlots, or not necessarily with harlots, but with all the people with whom the person (man or woman) was sexually intimate?
Those sexual acts, if the person is alive, the person is spiritually united with him or with her. For all purposes, there are men who could have three, four, or more marriages, because marriage is a spiritual bond.
It says so there: “He who is joined to a harlot is one body with her.” The bond is still active. And how many women are likewise spiritually united with two, three, or more men with whom they cohabited sexually.
Many people do not want to see this. And many could say: “Well, yes, but I got married.” And some could say even more: “And I got married in the church.”
That does not make the difference, because Adam and Eve did not get married in the church. And yet, God said of them: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
Many times we live not by the Word, not by what the Word says, but rather by what society establishes, and we have given it a value even above the Word.
“I got married in the church,” as if wanting to say with that “that is the maximum, it does not matter what I did before, it does not matter what I did previously, but I got married in the church.”
There are bonds that are still open. There are bonds that are still alive. And in the case of both (because it occurs in the case of both):
Why are there so many diseases today that affect the prostate? Why are there so many diseases today that affect the uterus?
We would have to go to the past and review:
- How many bonds are still open?
- How many bonds are still alive?
- How many bonds are still establishing a right over the person?
I am speaking, of course, of believing men and women. I am not speaking of men and women in the world. What good does it do me to speak of men and women of the world? I am speaking of believing men and women who are within a congregation, but who are sick. Why? Because they have not realized that fornication…
“But I no longer do it, I already stopped it.” But we have not reproved it as Ephesians 5 says. We have not reproved it yet. And as long as we have not reproved the past, the past is active and current. And proof of this are the diseases.
Other Aspects of Fornication
“Flee sexual immorality.” Fornication is a strong and active cause of many diseases, not only in men, but in many women as well. Why? Because there was sexual intimacy and sexual activity from adolescence.
What about homosexual tendencies and homosexual practices? What about lesbian practices? “Yes, but I no longer do it.” It is alive. It is current.
What about practices of bestiality? “Yes, but I no longer do it.” It is current. All of that is current.
Over the years, let us compare now, the present, with the past. Many people, men and women (of course, I am speaking of Christian men and women):
- Many men, many women weakened
- Many men and many women emaciated
- Many men, many women with conditions in which they resort, to make matters worse, to chemical medications that still multiply the person’s conditions
We are seeing it.
That is why it is important that we can identify and bring out from the past those things that are still hidden.
Biblical Testimony
In the book of Numbers 14:33 it says:
“And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.”
And if you move in the same book of Numbers to chapter 25, verse 1, see what it says:
“Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab.”
And if you read chapter 25, you will see that to commit harlotry was nothing other than practices with prostitutes. In chapter 26 it says:
“And it came to pass, after the plague, that the LORD spoke to Moses and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest.”
There was a great plague precisely because of this: fornication. Understand, everything that has to do with:
- Prostitution
- Homosexuality
- Lesbianism
- Bestiality
- Pornography (pornography is part of fornication)
- Everything that has to do visually
- Today in our time, virtual forms
It is the cause of many diseases. Of many diseases. It is not, as some people try to see it, as a deviation. It is not about that. They are causes of diseases, and many of them are fatal, deadly, leading the person to complete destruction.
In the case of sexual relations that have been developed in the past, many of them are still claiming the lives of men and women who are today within Christianity, who believed that was something passing, that was something they could not avoid. And it has become a cause.
Fourth Cause: Idolatry
I want to go to the book of the prophet Hosea 4:12:
“My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, and their staff informs them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray, and they have played the harlot against their God.”
There is a variant of fornication that has to do with idolatry, and that is the fourth group: idolatry.
Idolatry causes diseases, many of them degenerative, many of them that have to do with conditions that completely destroy the person.
What is Idolatry?
Idolatry was originally considered as an idol before which they prostrated themselves, which they worshiped. But idolatry has been developing, transforming, mutating. And today, idolatry constitutes everything that represents value to the person, because in reality, idolatry is something that has value to the person.
Idolatry can be:
- An amulet: There are people who carry amulets of different natures, amulets for protection, or amulets to attract luck. All of this is idolatry. In some cases something physical, but in other cases it could be something even virtual.
- Elements introduced into the house: Elements that are established as a decorative value, as a decorative object.
- Collections: Collections of different things. There are people who collect coins, who collect cultural objects.
All of this has to do with idolatry. Everything that the person introduces:
- To their property
- To their person
- To their house
- In their practices
- Even in their relational practices
It constitutes idolatry.
Consecrating Our Children to Idolatry
And unfortunately, I have to say this: unfortunately, many parents consecrate our children to idolatry.
In many Latin American countries, the practice of January 6th is idolatry, and many parents unfortunately consecrate our children through these practices.
December 24th, 25th is an idolatrous practice. See how a man, as a woman, we can prostrate ourselves before a tree. And anyone would say: “What do you mean prostrate before a tree?”
Have you not realized where the gifts are placed so that everyone can find them? What are they doing? How are they going to pick up the gift if they do not prostrate themselves, if they do not bow down? It is a prostration. It is worship. It is idolatry.
We are seeing it, and these are practices that prevail even within our churches. How many churches (unfortunately many of us went through there) introduced trees into our congregations.
Idolatry is a cause, and it is a strong cause of diseases.
The Consequences of Idolatry
In the same book of Hosea, chapter 8, verses 1-7, this is even more impactful:
“Set the trumpet to your mouth! He shall come like an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law. Israel will cry to Me, ‘My God, we know You!’ Israel has rejected the good; the enemy will pursue him. They set up kings, but not by Me; they made princes, but I did not acknowledge them. From their silver and gold they made idols for themselves—that they might be cut off. Your calf is rejected, O Samaria! My anger is aroused against them—how long until they attain to innocence? For from Israel is even this: a workman made it, and it is not God; but the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces. They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; it shall never produce meal. If it should produce, aliens would swallow it up.”
I must tell you that idolatry is a great source of destruction.
Manifestations of Idolatry
There are two characteristics of idolatry that I must point out, that I must denounce. And in many Latin American countries this is being seen today.
First manifestation: Violence
How do we know there is idolatry in a country? Simple: by the violence that develops. When violence awakens in a country, be assured that it is because there is idolatry within that country. When there is violence in a country, it is because the people have turned to idolatry.
Many Latin American countries: their presidents or their rulers have access to shamans, witches, magicians to maintain themselves in power. Immediately, all their inhabitants seek to access idolatry in the same way. That is a norm, and the first thing that manifests is violence.
Second manifestation: Hurricanes and whirlwinds
See what verse 7 says: “They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind.”
Hurricanes, hurricanes. Although this may seem absurd to you, but I must tell you: hurricanes, whirlwinds, tornadoes, are a manifestation of idolatry.
Why? Because hurricanes no longer arise from the places that originally, the route they used to take. There are whirlwinds that are being generated in sites where hurricanes or whirlwinds were never generated before. Why? Because in those regions there is idolatry.
There are hurricanes that follow a route on land, or whirlwinds that follow a route on land. Why? Because that route, in that region, there is idolatry.
The Lord speaks to us. The Lord gives us testimony. The Lord speaks to us, gives us testimony, and these are the ways the Word teaches us to identify what is in those regions.
Third manifestation: Diseases
Which is what we are studying for our purposes: diseases. Many sick men. Many sick women.
The Problem with Chemical Medications
That is why you can now understand why from my position, I have said on many occasions, going against medications, particularly chemical medications. Why? Because we are not resolving. On the contrary, we are complicating the situation more.
God is giving us testimony that there is something that has not been concluded in your life, that there is something you have not brought to light in your life. But we want to silence the voice of God.
A chemical medication will produce side effects that are often worse than the disease itself that was oppressing.
Conclusion: The Need to Treat the Causes
As we conclude this teaching: if we do not treat the cause, if we do not treat the cause, we will never be able to resolve our disease. Never.
If you realize, it is necessary to return to Matthew 9, where we began. Jesus said: “Your sins are forgiven you.” And with that, what He was saying is: Treat the cause of your condition. Treat the cause of your disease.
Because whatever you do, you will find relief, but not solution. And in some cases we could incur even greater consequences.
The Apostle Paul’s Recognition
Look, brother: even the apostle Paul recognizes something that is very important. I want to read this to you in 2 Corinthians 12:7:
“And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.”
Even the apostle Paul is recognizing that the reason, the cause of his disease, is exaltation to which there was that tendency in him, to exalt himself because of the greatness of the revelation. If he himself recognizes it when he is speaking to Timothy, he himself recognizes it: “I was the best of all my class.” You see it.
There is no disease without a cause. And it is necessary to work on the causes to be able to resolve them in the grace and mercy of God. Because if it pleases the Lord, the Lord will allow us healing.
Healing is Present Salvation
Healing is also salvation. It is also salvation.
What good does it do us to believe in a future salvation, when in our environment, in our current condition, we are invalidating the salvation that God has given us? What good does it do us?
Many times we deny things in our present precisely because we do not walk according to the Word of the Lord.
So in tonight’s teaching:
healing is also salvation.
“He bore our griefs. By His stripes we were healed.”
But what happens then? Why are we not seeing the results? Ah, because it is not only about confessing it, it is not only about declaring it, it is not only about saying it.
It is about coming out of our hiding place and presenting ourselves as we are before the Lord.
Remember that in Genesis 3 the condition of man was to hide. Today it is exactly the same: we want to hide, we want to repress, we want to conceal. But the Lord, in His grace, sends us situations many times so that all those things come to light.
Final Call
So we now have much more clarity, and now you can understand that if we do not seek the Lord, our diseases will truly not be healed. But it is important now, with conscience, with certainty: we must work on the cause.
Identifying Our Particular Causes
Only you know who your ancestors were and what they did. Do not hide it.
Only you know what you did. Do not hide it. Nor hide yourself in the fact that since you did it before coming to Christ, you do not have great responsibility. Do not hide in that, because many of the situations we are living in the present are precisely in those times, in the practices and in the deeds that were done.
Keep in mind fornication. All those sexual bonds you established still have executory power, because the Word clearly says: they are valid until the man or woman dies. Keep it in mind. Do not see it as errors of the past. See it as the cause of the situations you are living today in the present.
And idolatry. Which is not only prostrating before an idol, but everything that represents value to each of us.
I bless you. The peace of the Lord be with you. And now you have much clearer clarity by which you can work on your situation.
The peace of the Lord be with you.
Amen.
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