The Last Will and Testament of Jesus

Ephesians 1:3–6 (CSB) — 3 Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him. 5 He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace that he lavished on us in the Beloved One.

Everything that God did in Christ now belongs to the church. We have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 

Ephesians 1:3-4 (MIRROR BIBLE) — 3 Let’s celebrate God. He lavished every blessing Heaven has upon us in Christ. 4 He associated us in Christ before the fall of the world. Jesus is God’s mind made up about us. He always knew in His love that He would present us again face-to-face before Him in blameless innocence. 

The prophet Isaiah was shown the future by the Holy Spirit. He saw what Jesus would do on the cross approximately 700 years before it actually happened. He saw what would be accomplished on the cross through Jesus, but it took seven centuries before it came to pass. 

Isaiah 53:3–6 (CSB) — 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like someone people turned away from; he was despised, and we didn’t value him. 4 Yet he himself bore our sicknesses, and he carried our pains; but we in turn regarded him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced because of our rebellion, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on him, and we are healed by his wounds. 6 We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished him for the iniquity of us all.

This is a prophecy of Jesus before His death on the cross. This was a picture of what Jesus was going to do. And then we have the apostle Peter looking back on what Jesus accomplished when he referred to Isaiah 53. 

1 Peter 2:23–25 (CSB) — 23 when he was insulted, he did not insult in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten but entrusted himself to the one who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree; so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 25 For you were like sheep going astray, but you have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Peter was looking back at the cross when he wrote this in his epistle. Isaiah prophesied about what was going to happen in the future, but Peter wasn’t prophesying a future event, but simply stating what had already happened. Peter was stating a fact of something that happened in the past: “You have been healed.”

Faith is simply taking God at His Word (and much of it is past tense), and then believing and receiving what already belongs to us. In this sense, healing isn’t really a promise at all — it’s an established fact in the heart and mind of God the Father. 

Quotes by Novel Hayes:

• “The day you get tired of putting up with something that you’ve already been redeemed from, that’s when it will leave! Rise up and command it to stop!”
• “It’s dumb to not believe God!”

Anything that the Bible promises or says is already ours in Christ; we can have it now in this life. Healing belongs to us now. Don’t put conditions on what the Bible says is ours now. There are no conditions placed on what Jesus did for us. It cannot be earned but is a free gift. Only believe and act like the Bible is true, because it really is. 

Numbers 20:6–12 (CSB) — 6 Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting. They fell facedown, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them. 7 The Lord spoke to Moses, 8 “Take the staff and assemble the community. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will yield its water. You will bring out water for them from the rock and provide drink for the community and their livestock.” 9 So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s presence just as he had commanded him. 10 Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you?” 11 Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that abundant water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank. 12 But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust me to demonstrate my holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land I have given them.”

This was the second time that God had instructed Moses regarding bringing water from a rock. The first time God told him to hit the rock, the second time God told Moses to speak or command the rock to bring forth water. This was a progression — this time there was to be no physical exertion by hitting the rock, but by simply commanding it. This is a picture of what we are to do today!

Numbers 20:8 (NRSV) — 8 Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aaron, and command the rock before their eyes to yield its water. Thus you shall bring water out of the rock for them; thus you shall provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.

It’s not physically possible to bring water out of a rock because it’s just that — a rock. But when God is involved, the Creator Himself, He can do anything! God brought forth the resources His people needed from a physical rock. There is provision all around us in the physically or naturally impossible, where God brings forth His abundance. We must be led by the Holy Spirit to speak and command where He tells us to speak.

Naturally speaking, the entire island of Maui is a rock. There is provision all around us if we will refuse to give place to fear, doubt, and unbelief and learn how to command the resources or provision we need to come forth. 

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