Today a few words to aid us in understand healing, the sick, and their disease in general. Let’s begin with a joke told to me by a friend (Alcee), which gets right to the heart of the matter.
The LORD comes to a group of three men, all of them suffering from some type of infirmity. Of course He sees the need and goes to the first man and laying His hand on him he is healed. He does the same to the second man. Then to the third man He reaches out his hand and the man pulls away terrified, and says, “Don’t touch me LORD, I get 100% disability from the VA.”
The point is some people refuse to be calmed from their dis-ease, because of what they get from being sick.
This takes us to the riots – some people just have to have something to complain about. Yes, I am directly calling out the protestors and those who are inciting them (and the worst of those call themselves men of God). Most of these folks, the pawns, have no moral standard that tells them it’s wrong to loot and burn their own cities, and to act out their race hate, and when it happens those inciting it wash their hand of their responsibility for it. None of these folks want to be healed because it allows them to remain in a constant state of justified rage. Those justifying it are the same anarchists in suits who incite it, and then shield from the deserved public condemnation the armies they’ve deployed to work their destruction.
They make the criminals icons of the pop-culture and heap praise upon them, while in truth they are being manipulated into a mindless response acting out hate that only benefits the puppet masters.
The goal of these inciters of violence is chaos and confusion, as they tell us the way to solve the dis-ease is to do what we have done in the past. The past record is of moral decline by bad policy, and in the decline an ever-increasing volume of the same poison materialist remedy accelerated by the surrender of traditional opposition. The opposition was once with sound moral and well reason foundational truths that resulted in policy with positive effect. We know this past opposition was battered into surrender and retreat by accusations of racism and every other isms, spewed at it and a stupefied world by academia, liberal elites, pop-culture icons, social justice preachers, the modern political class, globalists, crony capitalists, and their mouthpieces in the establishment media networks.
Some people just want to see it burn, and these are those used by those who have something to gain from it (Soros should be arrested/charged). Many of the dis-eased don’t want to be cured, because they like it where they are. That is truth we must face.
It is the idea seen in John 3 when it says: “and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
John 3
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hates the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
This is the message He gives us: Believe God and place His wisdom and ways above all those offered by men to replace Him, which are mere reinventions of the same evil committed throughout history against your neighbor. This is the same message we have heard from the beginning:
1 John 4:5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them.
6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.
8 He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
We have often discussed the ideas invoked by our Declaration of Independence when it gives the reason for our separation from British rule as our being entitled to do so under the law of nature and nature’s God. Both these standards of civilized living tell of the reality that there will always be those who refuse to live in a state of mutual security and will therefor put life, liberty and property of others in a constant state of jeopardy and dis-ease.
The foundation of our civil and Christian law is based on the mandatory separation from the civilized those who reject its ways. In civil law it is by imprisonment, and with Christianity it is the idea of separation into the place of eternal self-inflicted torment. Both of these provide means of repentance and recovery when the old life is cast away in favor of the new way that will not threaten the peace of the society. They must just as surely allow or the self-inflicted consequences to occur to those individuals and societies that continually not only reject and refuse correction, but also openly condemn and vilify those choosing right.
These are the rules of civilization and peace and I give you our world in chaos without them as the undeniable evidence of their validity.
Isaiah 57
1 The righteous perishes [is separated – wanders away – frees himself], and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away [assembled or gathered], none considering that the righteous is taken away [assembled or gathered] from [out of] the evil.
2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
3 But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and those selling themselves to their Idols.
4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood.
5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth stones of the stream [shaped by the flow (of corrupted advice)] is your portion; they, they are your lot: even to them have you poured a drink offering, you have offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
7 Upon a lofty and high mountain [high places risen to power in the earth] have you set your bed: even there went you up to offer sacrifice.
8 Behind the doors also and the posts have you set up your remembrance: for you have discovered yourself to another than Me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them; you loved their bed where you saw it.
9 And you went to the king with ointment, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your messengers far off, and did debase thyself even unto the place of eternal self-inflicted torment.
10 You are wearied in the greatness of your way; yet said you not, There is no hope: you have found the life of your hand; therefore you were not grieved.
11 And of whom have you been afraid or feared, that you have lied, and have not remembered Me, nor laid it to your heart? Have not I held my peace even of old, and you fear Me not?
12 I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you.
13 When you cry, let your companies deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
14 And shall say, Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of My people.
15 For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on perversely in the way of his heart [own reasoning].
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.
20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
Psalm 69
1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
5 O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.
6 Let not them that wait on you, O LORD God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.
10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15 Let not the water-flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16 Hear me, O LORD; for your loving-kindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
17 And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: mine adversaries are all before you.
20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
33 For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.
35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
