Salvation From Sickness And Death Series

Most of us can earn a salary or create wealth. There are many very rich people in the world who believe they have become very rich because of their own doing. You can be clever, design, invent and be talented. There are great musicians in the world, amazing sportspeople. Most people, give no credit to God for their capabilities.

There exists a single act that lies beyond your capability, which is granting yourself perfect health.

It remains unattainable for even affluent, intelligent, and gifted individuals to attain divine physical health solely through their personal abilities. Life, breath, and health can only come from one place and that is from the God who has given life to all. You can have the best diets, vitamins, antiaging medicines, and Botox but you cannot protect yourself from diseases and death. No matter how good your security is, sickness will find a way into your most safe place.

Adam introduced the world to sickness and death.

Genesis 2:16-17 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

From that day death started creeping into every human life on earth. The day you are born, you start dying. Sounds terrible and not something we really want to think about, but it is the truth.

But God!

From before the foundation of the world, God had everything planned, disobedience, unbelief, and sin did not catch God off guard.

1 Peter 1:17-21 And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you 21 who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory so that your faith and hope are in God.

We were bought back by the blood of Jesus, not with silver or Gold or any of our own behaviour or clever ideas or traditions of our forefathers. Jesus paid with His own life the ransom for our lives. The Atonement.

Exodus 30:11-16 Then the LORD said to Moses, “When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the LORD a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them. 16 Receive the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD, making atonement for your lives.”

The meaning of atone or atonement at its root means “to cover.” There are many other words associated with it, among them are: cleanse, forgive, be merciful, and reconcile. It has been said that atonement is the foundation of all other doctrines. This is because without what Jesus Christ did on the cross, there would be no need for any other doctrine.

Psalm 103:1-5 Bless (affectionately, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul; and all that is [deepest] within me, bless His holy name!

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;

5 Who satisfies your mouth [your necessity and desire at your personal age and situation] with good so that your youth, renewed, is like the eagle’s [strong, overcoming, soaring]!

Psalm 103 starts with Bless the Lord oh my soul.

3 John 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

A definition for soul “nephesh” is first taken from the Bible story of creation. “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:7 KJV).

Soul came into being when God breathed into the body. Body (dust) + breath (spirit) = life (soul).

At death the opposite procedure takes place; The body turns to dust again, and the spirit or breath goes back to God, who gave it. It returns as a breath. The soul ceases to exist. Body (dust) – breath (spirit) = death (no soul). Thus, according to God’s Word, souls die.