I am still so tickled at the Greek word sozo. See more.
I love the mental idea of salvation being a healing. It only makes sense. Without God, without His Spirit with us, we are walking dead, no hope, wounded beyond all treatment, sick beyond all care.
Oh, that this word is the root of savior, of rescuing, of healing! It gives me such a thrill to think of salvation as healing. I never considered salvation, the covering of our sins as a healing. Better than healing, even.
Consider 2 Cor 5.17: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!NIV
When we accept that great gift if salvation, such healing, redemption, rescuing occurs that we who were are no more---instead becoming alive! We walk with the Spirit of God within us, a totally changed person.
Every new trial is a chance for healing, rescuing. Every time a hardship comes, it strips more of the sick part of us away. Fires are needed to make certain plants start to grow from seeds. Because we love in a fallen world, fires will come and hit us, or those we love. Such as this never seems fair, and it is puzzling that God lets it happen. Yet for all His allowing this or that terrible trial to happen, He is there to rescue and heal as best as is needed for that time and place; giving strength, peace, joy even and glory to Him!
He never leaves or forsakes us. He paid a great price, more than we can comprehend, to save us, heal our broken spirits and sin filled hearts. He paid so much. So so much.
I am healed. I love that. I still have RA. I still have iritis. I still have sickness and pain. Fear at times. But I am healed because i am saved. He has rescued me from the loneliness of a lost soul, the terror of not being with Him in eternity. He has healed me of a sick, sin filled heart and poisoned mind of selfishness and wickedness. So by Him, I am healed, I am rescued, and such thoughts bring joy to my heart in the midst of all else.
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Sunday, September 24, 2017
Saturday, September 23, 2017
Healed and Saved
After finishing my post of yesterday's, i discovered that the greek word for healed also means saved. (Mk 2.17)
I have been thinking of how beautiful it is that the word can mean the same thing!
Some might say, then, that the healings weren't healings, he just was providing salvation, or sanctification in some manner. Helping with psychosomatic issues.
I say, from looking at the words used that healing is done for the sin nature, and for the heart nature, and with better tools than we might ever have or find.
"knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? 5Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 6But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.” 7Then the man got up and went home. 8When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to man." MtNIV 9
Before this, the leaders heard Him say the man was forgiven, yet rather than being pleased for this man for being whole, the leaders get hostile. What He says when giving Himself authority to forgive sins is equality with or being, God. This is seen as blasphemy as The Messiah will be a great king, removing the crushing force of Roman rule. He is not to be God. However, in all truthfulness, He meets all Scripture requirements I have studied. He is GOD...
In Mark 2.17, He is saying that they don't need salvation, because they don't know they are sick. A cancer has spread and is spreading, but they cannot see it. A clean vessel, filthy inside. They feel, with the same self righteousness we get which nauseated people as much as now as then, how utterly wonderful they were. And here some guy was making them look worse than they already looked to the public!!
Right after this passage is the calling on the 12. I am thrilled by the fact each was called, was wanted, and answered. These people thought at the moment that they were "sick", in need of something this man might offer in strength. possibly the Messiah, fascinating man. Each human is called. It only depends on if he or she sees themselves as needing a doctor or not.
Thinking of healing as salvation is so beautiful. Healed from body ailments, from demonic presences, from shattered hearts and minds, and certainly not least, covering our sins that we might have that deep deep deep relationship with Him.
I have been thinking of how beautiful it is that the word can mean the same thing!
Some might say, then, that the healings weren't healings, he just was providing salvation, or sanctification in some manner. Helping with psychosomatic issues.
I say, from looking at the words used that healing is done for the sin nature, and for the heart nature, and with better tools than we might ever have or find.
"knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? 5Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 6But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.” 7Then the man got up and went home. 8When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to man." MtNIV 9
Greek Word
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Main Definition
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Number of Uses in KJV
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Sozo (Strong’s number is G4982)
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Salvation – Restoring spirit, soul and body
94 times translated as salvation |
120 times total and of these, only
3 times it is translated “healed” |
Therapeuo (G2323 and G2322)
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Therapeutic – To cure through various ways
God provides “Gifts of Healings” |
48 times total and of these,
38 times translated “heal” |
Iaomai (G2390) & Iama (G2386)
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One way of healing
Instantaneous miraculous healing |
32 times total and of these,
28 times translated “heal” |
| Reference only for Greek translations |
Before this, the leaders heard Him say the man was forgiven, yet rather than being pleased for this man for being whole, the leaders get hostile. What He says when giving Himself authority to forgive sins is equality with or being, God. This is seen as blasphemy as The Messiah will be a great king, removing the crushing force of Roman rule. He is not to be God. However, in all truthfulness, He meets all Scripture requirements I have studied. He is GOD...
In Mark 2.17, He is saying that they don't need salvation, because they don't know they are sick. A cancer has spread and is spreading, but they cannot see it. A clean vessel, filthy inside. They feel, with the same self righteousness we get which nauseated people as much as now as then, how utterly wonderful they were. And here some guy was making them look worse than they already looked to the public!!
Right after this passage is the calling on the 12. I am thrilled by the fact each was called, was wanted, and answered. These people thought at the moment that they were "sick", in need of something this man might offer in strength. possibly the Messiah, fascinating man. Each human is called. It only depends on if he or she sees themselves as needing a doctor or not.
Thinking of healing as salvation is so beautiful. Healed from body ailments, from demonic presences, from shattered hearts and minds, and certainly not least, covering our sins that we might have that deep deep deep relationship with Him.
Friday, September 22, 2017
Not The Healthy
I promise that I will indeed get that Bride of Christ series out---it is still being studied and written out in a Word document so I can figure out how to best divide the article into easy-to-read posts--believe me, it is WELL worth the wait on the amazing additions that this knowledge shows the love of our great God for us, His own.
Today I am looking at the well known verse in Mark, and I will provide two translations:
"When Jesus heard this, He told them, " Healthy people don't need a doctor---sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners." Mark 2.17 (NLT, from Joni Earekson Tada's Beyond Suffering Bible, 2015 ed. pg 1129.)
17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Mk 2.17 NIV
I have always liked this passage, though I am more familiar of it with the NIV translation. I was reading the Beyond Suffering version, with its NLT, and was intrigued with the "those who know they are sinners". While both versions say it, the NLT tosses it a bit more bluntly into the open.
When I consider the people I meet or have met, there are those who would openly say they are sinners. Some more openly would say that they were not perfect than others. But there are still today the people who say that salvation is theirs' based on the works they have done. Or they are not as bad as Joe next door. A misconception of salvation.
In the time of Christ, the way to forgiveness was to lead a blameless life, following each of the laws of Moses as he was given them by God. There are 613 of these laws, most spinning off of the ten commandments while dealing with finer issues, from what I have read, but also including how and when to worship. The leaders of the Temple added their own laws, or interpretations of the laws, and this has continued to today. Some laws have been ousted, some added upon. It is said in most Judaic books to "try your hardest to do good works and be perfect."
Paul, if you recall, speaks of the perfection of his following the laws.
When a law was broken, a sacrifice was made of a perfect animal, without blemish. Then, too, a sacrifice was made for the laws broken that that man or his family were not aware of. It was indeed a great amount of effort to be righteous, and to not need "a doctor".
However, with such "perfection" comes pride. And pride in oneself, not in God, is again a sin. So we therefore find that those who think they are perfect are not perfect, but are sick without knowing it.
The system then was so difficult, and the people felt swallowed up in sin, surrounded by pagan gods of the Romans. The teachings of Christ sounded so alive, so powerful, the people hungered for more. They cried out to Him as a healer of their bodies, but also as their souls. They saw themselves as wicked, as not quite managing the status of the Teachers of the Laws. The Teachers could not see where they were missing out---relying so on human standards and human deeds.
Faith is what God asks of us. It was the faith of Abraham, taking Isaac to the mountaintop that pleased God. Faith in God is what He wants, to call Him "God", and to stop call ourselves god. We are sick and know we are sick when we can call out and ask God for forgiveness, that we believe in His Son who died for us. The righteous do not need a doctor, for they are not sick. But only one Man was never sick, and He was God. Those who fool themselves into thinking they are righteous (and don't we all with some pride, or some lies) are the ones who are sick and do not know it.
Remember faith in Him, to lean on Him and not our own thinking and doing. Do what He sets before you, but not with the idea you are "earning" anything. Nothing could be done to repay what was given to us in love. What can any of us do to even repay a human deed done to us in love? How then could we repay God, the Creator of all about us? Sing Him praises in your hearts, be proud of the God of all, and rejoice that He came to you when you still said you weren't sick and convinced you you were sick after all.
Today I am looking at the well known verse in Mark, and I will provide two translations:
"When Jesus heard this, He told them, " Healthy people don't need a doctor---sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners." Mark 2.17 (NLT, from Joni Earekson Tada's Beyond Suffering Bible, 2015 ed. pg 1129.)
17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Mk 2.17 NIV
I have always liked this passage, though I am more familiar of it with the NIV translation. I was reading the Beyond Suffering version, with its NLT, and was intrigued with the "those who know they are sinners". While both versions say it, the NLT tosses it a bit more bluntly into the open.
When I consider the people I meet or have met, there are those who would openly say they are sinners. Some more openly would say that they were not perfect than others. But there are still today the people who say that salvation is theirs' based on the works they have done. Or they are not as bad as Joe next door. A misconception of salvation.
In the time of Christ, the way to forgiveness was to lead a blameless life, following each of the laws of Moses as he was given them by God. There are 613 of these laws, most spinning off of the ten commandments while dealing with finer issues, from what I have read, but also including how and when to worship. The leaders of the Temple added their own laws, or interpretations of the laws, and this has continued to today. Some laws have been ousted, some added upon. It is said in most Judaic books to "try your hardest to do good works and be perfect."
Paul, if you recall, speaks of the perfection of his following the laws.
When a law was broken, a sacrifice was made of a perfect animal, without blemish. Then, too, a sacrifice was made for the laws broken that that man or his family were not aware of. It was indeed a great amount of effort to be righteous, and to not need "a doctor".
However, with such "perfection" comes pride. And pride in oneself, not in God, is again a sin. So we therefore find that those who think they are perfect are not perfect, but are sick without knowing it.
The system then was so difficult, and the people felt swallowed up in sin, surrounded by pagan gods of the Romans. The teachings of Christ sounded so alive, so powerful, the people hungered for more. They cried out to Him as a healer of their bodies, but also as their souls. They saw themselves as wicked, as not quite managing the status of the Teachers of the Laws. The Teachers could not see where they were missing out---relying so on human standards and human deeds.
Faith is what God asks of us. It was the faith of Abraham, taking Isaac to the mountaintop that pleased God. Faith in God is what He wants, to call Him "God", and to stop call ourselves god. We are sick and know we are sick when we can call out and ask God for forgiveness, that we believe in His Son who died for us. The righteous do not need a doctor, for they are not sick. But only one Man was never sick, and He was God. Those who fool themselves into thinking they are righteous (and don't we all with some pride, or some lies) are the ones who are sick and do not know it.
Remember faith in Him, to lean on Him and not our own thinking and doing. Do what He sets before you, but not with the idea you are "earning" anything. Nothing could be done to repay what was given to us in love. What can any of us do to even repay a human deed done to us in love? How then could we repay God, the Creator of all about us? Sing Him praises in your hearts, be proud of the God of all, and rejoice that He came to you when you still said you weren't sick and convinced you you were sick after all.
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