My background premise:
All of us were in Christ before the foundation of the world.
We were found before we were lost.
We were in Christ before we were in Adam.
You were good, before you thought you were bad.
The most natural condition that you can find yourself rested in, believing truth, is as he is.
Sin is your inability to see or believe this.
Common church premise:
But Western evangelicalism says you need to be delivered from sins, and that sins are what you do that God doesn't approve of, and so the only solution to sins, is that you behave.
But behaviour modification never changed anybody permanently.
The old testament introduced the concept of breaking the Mosaic law.
Transgressions. Stepping over the line.
In the new testament that word is rarely used, it is talking about sin causing transgression.
Transgressions aren't the root, they are the fruit.
His atoning removed the sickness.
Sin is delusion. It's distorted form.
He was transfigured before them his face Shone like the sun and his clothes became White as light Mark 9:2 says' after 6 days Jesus Took Peter James and John led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves and he was transfigured before them...
....in Romans 12:2 it says don't be conformed to this world but be a transfigured (not transformed)...
In Matthew and Mark Jesus' divinity Shone through his mortal body "metamorphooa", that's metamorph that is Transfiguration.
But then Romans 12:2 because it has to do with humans, we go and to reduce our expectations because we don't want to see Divinity encapsulate Humanity because that's too weird ?!
But in Romans 12:2 it doesn't say that you'll be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that just means you might get better than you used to be; this says that:
you'll be transfigured by the renewing of your mind
you will be as transfigured as Christ was before the disciples,
that means Divinity is literally visible,
if you've seen me you've seen the father,
that is the Redemption of creation through the human vessel that God ordained from before the foundation of the world.
2 Corinthians 3:18 but we all with unveiled face behold in a mirror the glory of the Lord we're being transfigured into the same image from glory to glory Justice by the spirit of the Lord.
Two instances where Jesus actually addresses sin and its connection to sickness.
John 5.1
Jesus heals man at Bethesda pool where an Angel stirred up the water once a day and the first person in got healed.
NB He didn't know who Jesus was. You don't have to be a believer to experience Jesus or be healed.
Jesus isn't reduced, because somebody doubts him.
Anyway, Jesus tells him he has been made whole and warns him not to sin lest something worse comes upon him.
He's telling him how to gauge and aim his perspective, if you're going to evaluate yourself, you need to see wholeness.
If you're going to turn introspective then you need to make sure that you're beholding the glory of the lord in a mirror, not something else.
Not distortion, not delusion, but only truth.
He tells him if you sin again, you can actually permit something thats not your portion, to be evident in your life.
Plus the blind man healed with mud made from spit. John 9.1, where he explains it's not his sins or his parent's.
Bad theology causes you to sin by faith!
Bad theology tells you that you're a sinner saved by grace.
You are delusional, not because you can't do any better, but because its actually the foundation of your belief system, that something's wrong with you, you need to remedy and not that you are with Him from before the foundation of the world and you need to understand and believe it.
The delusion is the failure to see your created self.
This was introduced by the serpent in Genesis, giving you something to do, to become something you already were.
Luke 5.17 Crippled Man let down through ceiling.
Jesus says at first "your sins are forgiven you."
The Greek reads "hamartia / are left you" (forgiven, is an odd translation).
Or "Your distorted views of yourself have left you".
Our perspective is "oh great, you say you've forgotten about the bad things I've done, but I'd like to walk please"
To a Jew, transgressions were what they were concerned about.
Their entire life was centred around breaking, or not breaking, the Mosaic law.
So when he said "your sins are forgiven you" he's speaking a new language that they're not familiar with.
They said "who is this that thinks he's got authority on earth to forgive sins?"
Jesus reframes their understanding of sin and forgiveness.
The word forgive is the Greek word aphiēmi which is actually the same language that John the Baptist used when he recognized Jesus as the Lamb of God who "takes away" (to leave you) the sin of the world aphiēmi means away from who I am.
Considered the implications.
If Jesus isn't trying to forget about the bad things that you've done, but he's actually trying to remove from you everything you were never meant to be, that's a much bigger picture and you have to have the right expectations of the actual validity and sufficiency of the atoning work of Jesus, or you will reduce the blood of Jesus to the blood of a Ram or a goat, because all they can do to you is make you innocent, temporarily.
So when these Jews see Jesus say "your sins are forgiven you" they think "who thinks that they're enough to forgive sin" because in their system, nobody could forgive the sin, except the high priest that inspected a sacrifice, so they're not even mad at him for saying that, only God can forgive sins they said, we can forgive sins, but you have to offer something (a sacrifice).
So he reframes the entire picture for them and he says this "friend, your sins are forgiven you"... and the scribes and Pharisees began to reason saying who is this who speaks blasphemies who can forgive sins but God alone, but when Jesus perceived their thoughts he answered and said to them "why are you reasoning in your hearts? which is easier for me to say your sins are forgiven you or to say rise up and walk"
What's harder?
In your system you don't need evidence of the Forgiveness of sins all you have to do is say it!
Mic drop moment...
"to prove to you that the son of man, has power on Earth, to forgive sin take up your bed and walk"
He did not say to prove to you that the son of man has power on Earth to HEAL take up your bed and walk, no he was putting sin and sickness in the same category and making the solution to both of them the same!!
If you believe that you're forgiven enough to make it to heaven when you die, then you have to believe that that same sufficient atonement took care of everything you were never meant to be, this is what Jesus is trying to teach these people to prove to you that I have power on Earth to take away delusion, to remove the distorted form, watch this guy get up and skip out of here what did he say just happened to that man that caused him to be able to walk? not that he was healed, his sin was forgiven, his delusion was taken away.
The early church fathers were not centered on the death burrial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, those were parts of a much larger larger picture.
They focused on the Incarnation of the God word the entire time he wore human flesh, including his conception he was losing everything you gained through delusion the entire time he wore human flesh and he was gaining everything you lost through delusion when you learned to see this picture, it's the much larger picture than just the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, then you realise that he was overcoming Anxiety for you in Gethsemane, he was overcoming all sickness and disease when he had his back ripped open when a cat of Ninetales ripped him open to the ribs and then he was resurrected in a perfect body that was him apprehending victory over all sickness and disease.
His atoning work is sufficient and inclusively perfect, he gained everything that you ever lost through delusion.
What did you lose? Union
Do you ever wonder why he says "my God why my God why have you
forsaken me?"
He only said that so he could overcome your delusion, so he could feel like you feel, so he could come back into Union and give you Union as a free gift.
God never turned his back on his son, just like he never turned his back on you, but Jesus had to know what your delusion felt like in order to overcome it through truth, so that he could give it back to you as a free gift.
The sufficiency and inclusion of the atoning life of Jesus Christ is why he took away everything you were never meant to be and he gave you everything that He is, in everything that he has, and if you can rest soundly in that
atoning being sufficient, then, sickness is sin.
Most of this section is from sermons by pastor Tommy Miller.