Word Study: Healing

I. EXORDIUM:

Are you healed?

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that GOD heals yesterday, today and forever. (Hebrews 13:8)

Hebrews 13:8 (Amplified Bible)

13:8 Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is [always] the same, yesterday, today, [yes] and forever (to the ages).

IV. TEXT:

Genesis 20:17 (Amplified Bible)

20:17 So Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female slaves, and they bore children,

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are my Healer and I worship You with my healed and whole body.

VI. TITLE:

Word Study: Healing

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Moses (commonly accepted)

B. Date written: 1450 - 1410 B.C.

C. Purpose: The book of Origins

D. To whom written: People of Israel

E. Main theme: Man's sin and the initial steps taken for his redemption by a divine covenant made with a chosen race whose early history is here portrayed.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

F. Keyword: Beginning

G. Key verse: First Messianic Promise,—Genesis 3:15.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

Genesis 3:15 (Amplified Bible)

3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel.

VIII. MAIN BODY:

A. Hebrew word: "rapha-rapha" (raw-faw raw-faw) [68 matches] meaning:

1. to mend by stitching

2. to cure

3. physician

4. repair

5. make whole

B. Greek word: "therapeuo" (ther-ap-yoo-o) [44 matches] meaning:

1. to wait upon menially

2. to adore GOD

3. to relieve of disease

4. cure, heal, worship (being healed or whole in itself is a worship to GOD, it brings GOD glory and worship when we are well or whole)

Acts 17:25 (Amplified Bible)

17:25 Neither is He served by human hands, as though He lacked anything, for it is He Himself Who gives life and breath and all things to all [people].

C. Trivia of healing:

1. First time mentioned:

a. JESUS is the Healer. first time it was mentioned in Genesis 20:17 was used in past tense and followed by "eth" (aleph-tav) which represents the LORD JESUS CHRIST, meaning Healing came from the LORD even before crucifixion, the LORD was already healing.

Genesis 20:17 (Amplified Bible)

20:17 So Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female slaves, and they bore children,

b. JESUS healed every disease and weakness, infirmity

Matthew 4:23 (Amplified Bible)

4:23 And He went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news (Gospel) of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every weakness and infirmity among the people.

Matthew 4:24 (Amplified Bible)

4:24 So the report of Him spread throughout all Syria, and they brought Him all who were sick, those afflicted with various diseases and torments, those under the power of demons, and epileptics, and paralyzed people, and He healed them.

Matthew 8:7 (Amplified Bible)

8:7 And Jesus said to him, I will come and restore him.

Mark 3:10 (Amplified Bible)

3:10 For He had healed so many that all who had distressing bodily diseases kept falling upon Him and pressing upon Him in order that they might touch Him.

Luke 5:15 (Amplified Bible)

5:15 But so much the more the news spread abroad concerning Him, and great crowds kept coming together to hear [Him] and to be healed by Him of their infirmities.

2. Physicians can heal (Genesis 50:2)

Genesis 50:2 (Amplified Bible)

50:2 And Joseph ordered his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

3. Conditions of healing in the Old Testament:

a. hear GOD's voice

b. do what is right in His sight

c. listen and obey His commandments

Exodus 15:26 (Amplified Bible)

15:26 Saying, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God and will do what is right in His sight, and will listen to and obey His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord Who heals you.

4. Sicknesses that gets healed in the Old Testament:

a. boil

Leviticus 13:18 (Amplified Bible)

13:18 And when there is in the skin of the body [the scar of] a boil that is healed,

Deuteronomy 28:35 (Amplified Bible)

28:35 The Lord will smite you on the knees and on the legs with a sore boil that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

b. scales and scald from leprosy or leprosy

Leviticus 13:37 (Amplified Bible)

13:37 But if in his estimation the mange is at a standstill and has black hair in it, the mangelike disease is healed; he is clean; the priest shall pronounce him clean.