Saved, Healed, Whole
by Kenneth Copeland
What if someone told you they’d been waiting a long time for God to save them? What if they said, “I know the new birth is a scriptural promise but for some reason God hasn’t seen fit to fulfill it in me yet.”
What would you tell someone like that?
If you know even the basics of the gospel, you’d explain to them that under the New Covenant, salvation isn’t a promise, it’s a gift. It’s something God has already provided. He secured it for all mankind 2,000 years ago through the death and resurrection of Jesus and, as a result, getting born again is as simple as can be. As Romans 10:9 says: “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
When it comes to the new birth, that verse is foundational, isn’t it? Even if someone tried to tell you it didn’t always work, they couldn’t talk you out of it. Confess with your mouth, believe in your heart, and you will be saved is Salvation 101. It’s the spiritual reality upon which all of us, as believers, have built our lives.
What a lot of believers haven’t realized, however, is that reality doesn’t just include the new birth. It also includes something else God wants every one of us to have. You can see what I mean in Mark 5. It tells about the woman with the issue of blood. Before the new birth was even available, she heard about Jesus’ ministry and believed in her heart and confessed with her mouth that the power of God that flowed through Him would heal her: “For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole” (verse 28).
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