Victory Life KY

FINISH WHAT HE STARTED VI

Episode Summary

Jesus is absolutely expecting us to finish what He started. As His body on the planet, our assignment is to continue all He commanded us.

Episode Notes

• Jesus is absolutely expecting us to finish what He started. As His body on the planet, our assignment is to continue all He commanded us.

• Remember, Peter tells us God has givenus everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him, and He has given us His great and precious promises, so that through them we may participate in His divine nature.

• Everything Jesus did while He was on the planet in a human body was pointing us to what He was about to fulfill at the cross.

• Here’s a revelation that every Christian has to get settled, The Word of God is the Will of God.

• Once we get settled on what His will is, then we have to allow it to transform the way we think.

• After all, “As a man thinks in his heart so is he.”

• John 6:38,NKJV- For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

• John 8:28,NKJV, When you lift up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me.

• John 9:4,NKJV, I must work the works of Him who sent Me.

• John 14:10,NKJV- ...The words I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority, but the Father who dwells in Me does the work.

• Matthew 8:16-17,NLT- That evening many demon-possessed people were brought to Jesus. He cast out the evil spirits with a simple command, and he healed all the sick. 
• This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said, “He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases.”

• Think about it, why would Jesus, emphasize healing the entire time He was on the planet, instruct His first disciples to do the same, then leave us to live a completely different way than He did and not tell us?

• Exodus 15:26, “I am the Lord who heals you.”

• So which one is more real? What we see, what we feel, or what He says?

• Once we make up our minds about what He says, will we stay with it long enough to let the fruit of His word produce is our physical lives.

• This is how a life of faith comes into manifestation.

• The thing is, it’s still up to us to actually engage our faith, start speaking to our mountain.

• Hebrews 4:2,NKJV- For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

• There has to be a transformation in our thinking in order for us to appropriate the things God has already done for us.

• To the degree that what God says becomes more of a reality than anything in this natural world.

• Isaiah says, “Keep your mind stayed in Him.”

• Practice getting in agreement with God. Practice living more God inside minded.

• Is it possible that we’ve settled into a place of selective believing based totally on signs of confirmation. In other words, walking by sight, not by faith.

• This is why the apostle Paul told us, “The same way you received Jesus, live your life in Him”

• This is why Jesus repeatedly said, “All things are possible to him who believes.

• Matthew 9:27-30,NKJV- When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, “Son of David, have mercy on us!”
• And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” 
• Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.” And their eyes were opened. 

• God wants us at a place where we live everyday of our live with intentional expectations. Trusting in every word He’s said to us.

• Proverbs 3:5-8,NIV- Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 
• in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight. 
• Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. 
• This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.

• And since Jesus lives in Heaven now, He's actually expecting His body here to be just that, His body. Empower by His Holy Spirit.

• And the only way that happens is by faith. He actually designed and commanded us to live by faith. To finish what He started.

• As a Christian, at some point we’re going to have to make our mind up as to which part of the word of God is true.

• When you follow Jesus through the scriptures, which part is true?

• When He healed everyone that came to Him for healing, is it true? 

• When Jesus said, “The works that I do, you can do also,” is it true?

• Until we make our mind up which part is true, I’m not sure it’s actually possible to be in faith.

• James 1, When you come to God, you must come in faith, not doubting. The one who doubts is like waves blown around by the wind. 
• That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.

• Does what we believe have anything to do with our salvation? Then why would we think differently about healing?

• Here’s something to consider, Is what the prophet Isaiah said concerning Jesus true? Is what Matthew and Peter, inspired by the Holy Spirit wrote true?

• And if we follow the life of Jesus through the NT, it appears that He took our sickness and disease just as much as He took our sin.

• Keep in mind, Jesus is the one who told us to follow His example. To be His disciple. To imitate Him. To do the things He did.

• Matthew 4:23,NKJV- Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the Kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.

• Matthew 8:16-17,NKJV- When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”

• Matthew 12:15,NKJV- But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there. And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.

• Matthew 14:14,NKJV- When Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; He was moved with compassion for them and healed their sick.

• Matthew 15:30,NKJV- Then great multitudes came to Him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others; and they laid them down at Jesus’ feet, and He healed them.

• Matthew 19:2,NKJV- And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there.

• If Jesus was here in person, do you think He would heal all the sick that came to Him? Why?

• God is not a man that He could lie. He actually binds Himself by His own words.

• Hebrews 13:8,NKJV- Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

• Malachi 3:6,NKJV- I am the Lord, I do not change.

• He’s not picking and choosing who gets healed and who doesn’t anymore than He’s picking who does and doesn’t get saved.

• The New Covenant has been settled.

• Give no place to the devil, give no place to unbelief.

• John 10:10,NKJV- The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy, I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

• 1 John 3, For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

• Psalm 107 says the He sent His word and healed them.

• Romans 10:17,MSG- But not everybody is ready for this, ready to see and hear and act. Isaiah asked what we all ask at one time or another: Does anyone care, God? Is anyone listening and believing a word of it? 
• The point is: Before you trust, you have to listen. But unless Christ’s Word is preached, there’s nothing to listen to.

• Do we put more of an emphasis on an experience or on what God’s word tells us?

• 2 Corinthians 4:16-18,NKJV- Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”