FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
July 16
IT IS NO SECRET WHAT GOD CAN DO “FOR ALL MANNER OF DISEASES.” WHAT HE DID FOR ISRAEL, HE’LL DO FOR YOU!
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
BUT unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with HEALING in His wings: and ye shall grow up as calves of a stall. . . . REMEMBER ye the LAW of Moses My servant, which I COMMANDED unto him in Horeb FOR ALL ISRAEL, with the statutes and the JUDGMENTS.” Malachi 4: 1, 2, 4, KJV.
God said, “For I am the Lord, I change not.” (Mal. 3:6). Christ, Emmanuel, “God in the flesh with us (Matt. 1:24; John 1: 1-4, 14; 1 Tim. 3:16), is also “the same yesterday, today, and forever.”(Heb. 13:8).
What He required, promised, provided for, and thus righteously expects of individuals, such as Adam, and the chosen nation and people, such as Israel, is exactly the same for us today.
Now, let’s review what God commanded and promised Israel regarding DISEASES (and Covid 19 and all its variants is of course, a disease!):
“And God 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 you.” Exo. 15:26, KJV.
Now make sure to compare the foregoing verses with its enhancements as
recorded in Deut. 8: 6-14. Verse 15 reads: “And the Lord will TAKE AWAY from thee ALL SICKNESS, and will PUT NONE OF THE EVIL (harmful, deadly) DISEASES of Egypt, WHICH THOU kNOWEST, upon thee: but will LAY THEM UPON ALL WHO HATE THEE.”
Again, God warns His chosen people of both Old and New dispensations: Please be sure to read Deut. 28: 1-68. Verses 59-61 says: “Then the Lord will
make thy plagues wonderful [amazingly terrible], and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and SORE sickness.
Moreover He will bring upon thee ALL the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast AFRAID OF, and they shall CLEAVE unto thee. Also, every sickness, and every plague, WHICH ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, them will the Lord bring upon thee, UNTIL thou be destroyed.”
God is not fooling around. He who “is love,” means business Let none dare rifle with His requirements and words!
We often say, “God is in full control.” Indeed! Satan has the power of death, that is why he is also called the “murderer from the beginning” as “father of lies.”
But Christ has all the power over life and death; the power both to “put none” (prevent), heal (if and when afflicted), and bring or lay on (inflict) diseases or plagues or sickness of any kind upon those He deems deserving of either His mercy or justice—all demonstrating His divine wisdom, love, faithfulness, mercy, power, righteousness, and justice from beginning to end.
God’s physical and dietary laws are as sacred as the Decalogue for “we have been purchased by Christ’s blood and our physical bodies He claims as His dwelling place, His temple! He promised to protect this body-temple IF we obey all His laws! Bless all, NMF
