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None of These Diseases
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FOREWORD
How God wants His people well! This is proved over and over again in our ministry as we take the message of Healing to the nations through our crusades and healing outreaches and various other arms of ministry. All over the world, God is extending His hands of love, mercy and grace, touching and healing as many as would receive His Word and act in faith.
A lady from Australia e-mailed us, telling how the anointing of God overwhelmed her while reading the first edition of this book and healed her completely of her cancer. She exclaimed in her letter, “What did you put in that book!” Another woman from Nigeria was healed before she was through reading the first edition of this book. Testimonies abound of many that have literally had their lives given back to them as they received the message in this book and put their faith to work.
In this second edition we have included pictures of a few out of the thousands who have received their healing at our healing outreaches and Healing School where the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the deaf hear, the dumb speak, and all manner of sicknesses, diseases and infirmities are destroyed. Let your faith rise as you look through these pictures, because God is no respecter of persons; what He did for them He will do for you too!
No matter who you are and what stage of life you’re at, there’s a message in this book for you with a prayer: That the words contained in this volume would open your eyes to the reality of who you are in Christ; loose the pangs of sickness; destroy the yoke of fear and liberate you into the prosperous and healthy life God has provided for His children.
There are also worksheets included at the end of every chapter, where you’re engaged with questions as well as practical excercises and activities (confessions, prayers, Scripture reading and memorization e.t.c) relating to the subjects discussed. This will help you better understand the vital truths in this book and apply them in your personal life.
If you’re sick and bed-ridden; if medical science has given up on you, the words in this book will cause faith to be stirred up in your spirit, and cause you to rise, take up your bed and walk! Yes, you will rise and be healed!
This book is loaded with power; it’s packed with the anointed WORD of God that will challenge you and launch you into a clear and complete understanding of the divine life. It will cause you to walk in the reality of that life of God that has been imparted to you and enjoy the full benefits of it. This book will stir in and around you an atmosphere of miracles.
Chris Oyakhilome
August 2001
CONTENT
Foreword
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Chapter 2Where Did Disease Come From?
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Chapter 5The Life of the Blood or
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Chapter 6The Impact of Zoë on the Human Body
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Chapter 8Why Christians Get Sick
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Chapter 11Authority in the Name of Jesus
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Chapter 13Dominion Over Diseases
Chapter 14The Influence of the Word of God
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INTRODUCTION
“And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee (Exodus 15:25-26).
God gave to the children of Israel a revelation of Himself at the waters of Meribah. Up till this time they had only known Him as El-Shaddai and Jehovah. But here, He reveals Himself to them as Jehovah Rapha - the Lord their healer. And how very comforting this particular revelation was at this time. They had come to a place without water, only bitter water. And they murmured against God. Yet God was merciful towards their unbelief, and told them, if only they would hearken to Him and observe His statutes, He would put none of the evil diseases, with which He had smitten the Egyptians upon them.
God makes here, a distinction between His people and the rest of the world. No disease was to come upon them. He was setting them apart. If they would only hearken to His voice and serve Him, no disease would have the ability to afflict their bodies. What is striking here is that God said this to a people of the old covenant. All they had was a relationship with Jehovah, yet this was enough to immunize them, and make them ‘disease-free.’ If only they would learn to serve Him.
By reason of the fall, man had come under the influence of disease and all that was evil. In fact the devil had a legal right to afflict them with all he wished to. But God told them if only they would give ear to Him, and walk right; He would not allow any of these diseases to afflict them.
God is more than enough. He said to Abraham, “I am El-Shaddai.” He is enough for all man would ever need. God is to you all that you will ever require Him to be. Man’s need always brings to him a new revelation of God. In this case man was under the influence of sickness, but God revealed Himself and said, “I am the Lord that healeth thee.” How wonderful!
Exodus 23:25, “And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.”
If they would only serve Him, He would bless their bread and their water, and take sickness away from their midst. There would not be enough forces in hell to put the sickness on them. But did you notice, first they had to serve Him; they had to worship Him. Service and worship come ahead of healing. To prove to them that not only could He heal, but that He was also willing to fulfill His promises, He healed them several times by His Word and, there was not one weak person among them.
Psalm 105:37, “He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.”
Psalm 107:20, “He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
None of These Diseases
Deuteronomy 28:27-28, “The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:”
The Amplified Version puts it this way; “The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and the tumors, the scurvy and the itch, from which you cannot be healed. The Lord will smite you with madness and blindness and dismay of (mind and) heart.”
In this scripture God was telling them of the different types of diseases which would come upon them, if they wouldn’t hearken to Him and serve Him as He had instructed. But He also promised that these boils, tumors and scurvy wouldn’t come upon them if they would only obey and serve Him.
This was for people in the Old Testament, who were not born again. They had the condition of obedience to fulfill before they could enjoy God’s promises. But for us of the new covenant, it’s different. We have a better covenant based upon better promises. A covenant with a better mediator and, a more excellent sacrifice. We’re not told to obey God; we’re already His obedient children. If God wanted the people of the Old Testament well and ‘disease-free,’ how much more those of us that were bought with the precious blood of His Son Jesus Christ
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WHERE DID
SICKNESS COME
FROM?
“Where did sickness come from? Did God create sickness? Did He create disease germs? After all some people say He created all things. So many people have asked these questions about God, and a lot of Christians believe that God punishes and corrects with sickness.
The most important thing to understand is this
- God wants you well and in good health, and He isn’t the originator of sickness.
James 1:17, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
Only good and perfect gifts come from God. Sickness is not a good gift, just as lack is not a good gift. Sickness destroys and cripples. God wouldn’t do that to any of His children.
Sickness is incipient death. And the Bible calls death ‘an enemy’ (1 Corinthians 15:26). God would not punish His children with the tool of the enemy. Sickness has ruined many families, it drained their entire livelihood until they became poor, just like the woman with the issue of
blood (Matthew 9:20). God wouldn’t give His children such ‘gifts.’
I wish you would know the heart of God when death seizes upon a family. The Psalmist said, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints” (Psalm116:15).
Sickness- A Legacy of the Fall
After God created man in the Garden of Eden, He gave him dominion over all the works of His hand. God told Adam he could have anything in the garden for food except for the tree in the midst of the garden.
Genesis 2:16-17, “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” God told Adam; “In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die.”
This was more than physical death, which is a cessation of life. After Adam ate from the tree he did not die physically immediately. This scripture therefore referred not only to physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; being cut off from fellowship with God. Thus the day Adam disobeyed God’s instruction and ate from the tree, he died spiritually, and only then could he die physically.
Man is a spirit, he possesses a soul with which he regulates his life, actions, thoughts, reasonings and emotions, and he lives in a body (1 Corinthians 5:23). The body is his house. Through disobedience, sin gained dominion over man’s spirit, and through sin fear also got a hold of him. His soul fell and he was cut off from God. His reasoning changed. He now became afraid of the creatures over which he had previously exercised dominion.
He was cut off from fellowship with God because he now had the nature of the devil, and a new master. Death came in with its companions, one of which is sickness - incipient death. So sickness came about as a result of the sin of the first Adam.
Yes, bacteria and viruses were created by God, so was the mosquito. Mosquitoes were never made to suck blood. God made all insects to suck nectar, and bacteria and virus cells were not made to bring sickness to anybody. But after the fall of man, when the devil stole man’s dominion, he infused them with death - which is his life. That’s the reason they harm those that are under his power till today.
The Reign of Death
Man died spiritually and right from then on death reigned over him.
Romans 5:12, 14, 17, 21, “ Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: ...Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come ...For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ...That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.”
By one man’s sin death reigned over all men. Death gained the dominion over all men, and from Adam to Jesus, sin gained the mastery over man’s spirit, and sickness came in, leading to physical death. Thus the reign of sin and sickness began in man’s spirit and ended up in his body, such that the human body could now experience death.
But happy are you if you’re born again, because death no longer reigns over you!
Romans 5:16-21, “And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Praise the Lord! By the righteousness Jesus obtained for us, the full gift of righteousness came upon us unto life. The reign of sin and sickness over us has ended, and so has the dominion of disease. This is why any of the diseases that afflicted the Egyptians, or any other disease that afflicts man should not afflict us.
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THE MYSTERY
OF THE CROSS
Have you ever thought about what Jesus did for us on the Cross? What He did was beyond human comprehension. His disciples didn’t know why He was dying. They didn’t understand the mystery of the Cross. They didn’t even know He had to die, and they definitely didn’t want Him to. They didn’t know what He was doing for us. And it’s the same thing today. When we say, “He died for us, “a lot of people don’t really know what it means. They think we’re talking about how He died physically on the Cross. But His death means much more than that.
For us, the Cross holds so much meaning, though to the rest of the world, it was a place of shame.
1 Corinthians 1:18 “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”
If the people of Israel and even the Romans had known they would not have crucified Jesus.
1 Corinthians 2:7-8, “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”
So what happened at the Cross?
The Brazen Serpent
John 3:14-15, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
Jesus made this significant statement to
Nicodemus, the Pharisee who came to meet Him by night. This clearly
referred to His being lifted up at the Cross.
Why would He
liken Himself to the brazen serpent that God instructed Moses to
make?
Numbers 21:5-9, “And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.”
The children of Israel had sinned against God by murmuring, for which He sent fiery serpents amongst them. When they cried to Moses in repentance and he in turn prayed to God on their behalf, God instructed him to make a fiery serpent of brass and set it upon a pole so all whoever was bitten by the serpents had to do was look upon the brazen serpent and live.
Bible scholars agree that brass in Scripture represents judgment. Thus God telling Moses to make a brazen serpent indicated that the serpent had been judged for the sins of the children of Israel. And all they needed to do was accept this substitution by looking at the serpent; then they would live and not die.
This brazen serpent was indeed a type of Christ, foreshadowing His death on the Cross. Thus when Jesus said to Nicodemus in John 3:14-15, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life” He meant He was to be judged for us. Our sins were to be placed on Him, so just like the children of Israel, we would not perish but obtain the life of God and live.
Oh, what grace! At the Cross Jesus became sin for us and was judged for us.
2 Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
Jesus: Our Scapegoat
Leviticus 16:8, “And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.”
Leviticus 16:20-23, “And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:”
Once every year, specifically on the tenth of the seventh month, God instructed the high priest to make atonement for the sins of the children of Israel (Leviticus 16:29-31). He was to select two goats; one to be the sin offering and the second the scapegoat. After killing the sin offering and offering its blood within the veil, He was to take the scapegoat and confess on its head all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and for the rest of the year till the following year, their sins would be covered, and they wouldn’t be judged for them.
Next, the scapegoat would be led by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness, into a land not inhabited; bearing upon its head the sins of the people.
This Scapegoat was actually a type of Christ, who offered Himself as a sacrifice for us. But in His case, He did not die for the children of Israel but for all people everywhere.
When you consider the betrayal, arrest and condemnation of Jesus to death you will understand better why both Jews and Gentiles can hold claim to Him as their sacrifice for sins.