05/16/2022
We Are Built Up with the Word
Acts 20:32, “And now I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.”
He commends us to the Word of His grace. This Word builds the Christ nature and the love nature of the Father into the individual. In other words, God is building Himself into us, making Himself a part of us as the Word dominates, rules and satisfies our spirit nature. You cannot build one up spiritually on philosophies or theories about the Word, or on the history of the Word. We are only made spiritual by living in the Word and by the Word living in us.
We Are Healed by the Word
Psalm 107:20, “He sent His Word and healed them.” How few of us have realized that it is the Word that heals us. We talk about faith in the Word, nothing wrong in that, but it is when Isaiah 53:4 becomes a reality in our spirit, “Surely He hath borne our sicknesses and carried our diseases (marginal rendering) and we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted,” that it operates in our physical bodies.
He was stricken and smitten with our diseases and sins. And then the Word declares in the fifth verse, “By His stripes we are healed.” We read it and meditate upon it, and we know that it is true. Jeremiah 1: 12 (American Standard Version), “I watch over My Word to perform it.” We know that the Father watches over His Word and that He will make that Word good in us. He said, “Surely He hath borne our sicknesses and carried our diseases.” Then we do not need to carry them. They cannot be a part of us because He put our diseases and sins on Jesus-”made Him to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the Righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
The righteousness of God cannot be sick then and cannot be ruled by sin. Satan has no dominion over the Righteousness of God unless we give it to Him. It is the Word that has made us know this. It is the Word that has saved us, recreated us, and it is the Word that heals us now. It is the Word that makes us masters of Satan. Mark 16:17, “In my name ye shall cast out demons.” It is the Word that has taught us the value of the Name, the authority of the Name, and our legal right to the use of the Name. So it is the Word in reality that has healed us.
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