Ignorance Can Keep Us Sick

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. ---Hosea 4:6

I have heard it said, “Ignorance is bliss!” Wow! Isn’t that just like the devil, to want to keep Truth from us so we will stay sick, depressed, anxious, and hopeless? Ignorance is actually what kills God’s people. Our scripture today is God speaking. He said, “My people.” His people are the believing ones. The ones who love God with all their hearts and want to serve Him. His people are the ones who will live for eternity with the Father in Heaven. But, unfortunately, we get there much sooner than He planned for us.

Why do Christians die early? Why do we suffer so? Because we don’t know His Word. We have been taught incorrectly or not taught the hope of our salvation! The word, salvation means “deliverance from sin” for sure but it has a much deeper meaning. Here is what the Strong’s Concordance says salvation (soteria) means: rescue or safety (physically or morally) deliver, health). Now the word save (sozo) means: to save, i.e. deliver or protect (literally or figuratively), heal, preserve, save, do well, be made whole.

Salvation for the child of God gives hope, deliverance, health, physical protection, healing in the mind and body, and to do well in life. WOW!! Who wouldn’t want to secure their salvation through the Son of God, Jesus! Unfortunately, much of the church goes around looking whipped, talking doubt and unbelief, and dying much too early because they simply know what is theirs through Christ Jesus.

We have been studying why people, especially Christians, are sick. This is probably the main reason. We are ignorant of God’s love, the sacrifice of Jesus’ life so he could take on all our sins and that by His stripes we have been healed. (1 Peter 2:24) This is past tense. Every stripe that Jesus bore on His body represented every root sickness known to mankind. He took your sickness upon Himself so you wouldn’t have to. He did this because He knew we live in a corrupted world that Satan is ruling through evil, intimidation, mind-games and fear.

Jesus gave us all the tools we need to defeat every device that Satan uses. We have received His promise that Jesus will never leave us or forsake us. We are in covenant with the Most High God and that covenant is forever binding. Jesus gave us His Name to defeat every maneuver the devil would try to use. Not only that, but Jesus gave us His power of attorney; His authority to override anything Satan would assault us with. All the power that Jesus carried was also handed over to the believing ones to use in the spiritual realm.

In Mark 16:15-17 we find the last words that Jesus spoke before He ascended into heaven. This was Jesus’ most important message because it was His final instructions. He said, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized WILL be saved; but he who does not believe WILL be condemned. And these signs WILL follow those who believe: In My name they WILL cast out demons; they WILL speak with new tongues; they WILL take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it WILL by no means hurt them; they WILL lay hands on the sick, and they WILL recover.”

Make no mistake; those words are for us today. If you are a Believer, then this instruction goes for you, to. Salvation gives us more power in our little finger than any devil has over us! We must be not only aware of who we are in Christ, but also confident that we WILL do these things. Stay with this blog and you will find out more how to be victorious in your life.

Confession: I am saved and according to scripture that means I am delivered from all my sins, I have been healed of my sickness and infirmities, my mind has been restored, I am rescued from bad habits and attitudes, I am protected by angels sent from heaven, I am preserved from calamity and my life is made whole! I have power over my greatest enemy, Satan, who orchestrates my demise, but he will no longer succeed because I am wise to his devises!