Hurts and Healings: The Church as a Hospital

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Hurts and Healings The Church as a Hospital

• Jon Wright
• 3rd Apr 2005

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A Short Season Of Back To Basics.

• Celebration of the Jewish feasts (last week was
  Purim)
• A grounding in the basic principles of
  Christianity (the Christian ABCs)
• 3-4 weeks on God
• A few weeks on teaching on Man
• Finishing on Jesus and salvation
• Some family services

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God is called by many names.

• Jehovah-Jireh 'the Lord will provide' Gen
  2214
• Jehovah-Nissi 'the Lord our banner' Ex 1715
• Jehovah-Shalom 'the Lord our peace' Judges
  624
• Jehovah-Rohi 'the Lord our shepherd' Ps 23
• And many more names (over 70)

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Jehovah-Rophe 'the Lord who heals'.

• Spiritual healing Mark 25, forgiveness of sins
• Physical healing Jer 3017, restore to health
  and heal wounds
• Emotional healing Isa 611, binding up the
  broken hearted
• God heals the whole person body, soul and spirit

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Spiritual Hurts Healing.

• Spiritually we are all dead when not in
  relationship with God - this started in the
  Garden of Eden (Gen 3)
• Spiritual healing is restoration of our
  relationship with God
• Sin separates us from God, sin can create legal
  ground for spirits to reside (anger, frustration)
• After restoration of relationship with God the
  legal ground can be removed and the spirits
  evicted!

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Physical Hurts Healing.

• OT Ex 2325 Worship the LORD your God, and His
  blessing will be on your food and water. I will
  take away sickness from among you
• NT Acts 20 7-12, a man falls from a window but
  after Paul declares him to be alive he is.
• Physical healing after prayer, Oasis often has a
  time of healing during the service, dont be
  afraid to come forward for prayers of healing
• Not all are healed, it is according to Gods Will

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Receiving physical healing is not just for
Christians.

• Did you know 70 of NT physical healings happened
  in evangelistic meetings? Often healings first
  then proclaiming the Gospel
• Mark 16 17And these signs will accompany those
  who believe In my name they will drive out
  demons they will speak in new tongues 18they
  will pick up snakes () they will place their
  hands on sick people, and they will get well.
• John 5, An invalid man healed without knowing who
  Jesus was at that time

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Emotional Hurts Healing.

• Peter after disowning Jesus 3 times to the guards
  broke down and wept (Mark 1466-72), but Jesus
  restores him (John 2115-22)
• Today its often related to criticism, loss,
  rejection
• Emotion hurts held in will devour / poison a
  person from the inside out. The hurts will
  destroy relationships and lead to major
  resentments
• Recognition is required, prayer is needed,
  friends are often needed to lead a person to a
  position where they can forgive those that hurt
  them

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Rejection is often a major root of hurts.

• Rejection Self-rejection, rejection from others,
  rejection of others.
• Man is supposed to spend time with each other
  (e.g. the Church body, some are feet, some hands)
• Self-rejection is often caused by abuse from
  others
• Abusers are often rejected themselves
• Rejection often follows the family tree (Holy
  Spirit can revealed knowledge of family tree even
  if you do not know your own parents)

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God sent His son Jesus for our salvation.

• Jesus Christ's name is important in itself
• Jesus derived from Hebrew Joshua means Jehovah
  is salvation
• Christ equivalent to the Hebrew Messiah means
  The anointed one
• Jesus the ultimate rejected man

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Jesus - the sacrifice for our sins.

• Jesus died on the cross to be a sacrifice for
  all our sin, for everyone allowing us to have
  relationship with God again
• This is how much God loved the world He gave
  his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why
  so that no one need be destroyed by believing in
  him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.
  John 316 - The Message
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God is the God of 2nd Chances.

• We can take our hurts to the cross where Jesus
  died for our sins and forgive those that hurt us
  (The Lords prayer, Matt 69-15, 14For if you
  forgive men when they sin against you, your
  heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15But if
  you do not forgive men their sins, your Father
  will not forgive your sins.) 14?????????
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• We can ask God to heal us emotionally,
  spiritually and physically according to His will

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Summary God is the God of Many Names including
Healer.

• We are often wounded rejected people
• Need to be reconciled with God (thro the cross)
• We must forgive those that hurt us (may be hard!)
• We should give our hurts/rejection over to Jesus
  on the cross
• The Church can help in the healing process by
  loving and accepting rejected people
• We can ask God for healing because He heals
  today, physically, emotionally and spiritually