Healing is a Picture of the Gospel of Salvation, of the Forgiveness of Sin

This article in process: 

This is an unfleshed outline so that you can return for the filled in gaps later if you wish.  This is basically what we share with people when we minister healing to them. It helps them open their hearts to understand and believe what is being offered them. 

The Mystery of Forgiveness of Sins

• Much attention has been given to the forgiveness of sins in Christian doctrines/churches. But there are some discrepancies in how people explain what it means that our sins are forgiven by Jesus. What about tomorrow's sins? Today's sins? "Unconfessed" sin. It is confusing. Christians struggle to comprehend what it means to be forgiven--that Jesus said their sins are "removed." People are walking around feeling condemned and beat up over sin that has been forgiven. 

• That is partly the reason why  Jesus healed while he preached about the forgiveness of sin, saying things like, "So that you will know that I have authority to forgive sin, I'm going to tell this man to take up his mat and walk."   The healing is a demonstration of the forgiveness of sins? HUH? keep reading. 'So that you will comprehend what I am doing when I forgive your sins, I am going to heal his man.'
• Healing and forgiveness are mentioned side by side in the scriptures often. 

Healing (the REMOVAL of sickness--which we can see) explains/demonstrates the amazing gift of the REMOVAL of sin (which we can't see.)

•   The scriptures give us many mysterious  explanations of what happens when we receive the forgiveness of sin and become  "Christians"--even though many of us 'felt' NONE of these things happening internally.  We could not look inside our spirits and see any of this happening even though God's Word tells us it did.
  
• We were "transferred from darkness to light"
• We were "born again"
• We were made "a new creation,"... "recreated in all holiness"
• We experienced a "circumcision of the heart in which the body of the flesh was stripped away"?
• A "heart of stone" was removed and we were "given a heart of flesh."
• We were "declared righteous"
• The "righteousness that comes by faith" was "given" as a "free gift"
• HUH?? These are all pretty wild weird metaphors. 
• How can I believe that I am new when I have the same feelings. How can I feel like sin is removed when I keep facing the fact that I am falling short of God's Glory (sinning)?!

•   WHO CAN just remove a sin? Like a judge removing a crime? That can't be? He'd have to pretend you didn't do it.  No judge would do that!
• Just like WHO can just lift cancer out of a person? They'd have to pretend they didn't bring it on themselves with poor nutrition and emotional coping patterns. No friend would do that!
• The two are the same.  They are both glorious, extravagant gifts of grace, displaying God's love for us. To forgive us of blatant sins that were our own doing and forgive us from diseases that often are our own doing, too!
• To help you believe that your sins have been removed, he SHOWS us EXTERNALLY that a disease and sickness is also removed the same. By asking and receiving by faith! 

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE IN GOD'S MIND

• God punished Jesus in your place, as your substitute. Jesus took what belonged to you. The scriptures in Isaiah 53: "Surely he bore our iniquities and carried our diseases.....by his stripes we are healed." His body was crushed with all of our diseases poured out on his perfect body to experience. 
• 2 Corinthians 5:19:  "... God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation."
• Isaiah 53. 2 Peter 2:24, Psalm 103:1-5. Both healing and forgiveness occurred (were provided) at the cross.  Whether or not we ever receive them, they were provided before we were born! How humbling is that!?   He healed your diseases; he forgave your sins.  (Isaiah 53, Psalm 103). But both are received by faith: by believing that they have been offered to you through the death and resurrection of Christ and then by reckoning yourself as having had them credited to your account.  RECEIVE IT.  Just say, "Yes, Lord, thank you!"  "If you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth, you shall be saved*" (Romans 10:9).