Ken Fish: Passivity is Just Another Word for Unbelief (Matthew 10:1)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2021-01-06

Ken Fish: Passivity is Just Another Word for Unbelief (Matthew 10:1)
Quotes: “Matthew 10:1 says, “And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.” Over time we have become soft in our approach to the supernatural side of kingdom demonstration. We may emphasize other valid expressions of the kingdom for example, feeding the poor, things like that, but we forget the fundamentals of ministering as Jesus did. We say that “healing gone wrong” is because of the “not yet,” and you'll just have to wait until heaven. That is is a form of passivity - which is [just] another word for unbelief. But Jesus said, "all demons and every disease."

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If we go back to the beginning of this current move of God that began in the 1980s, teaching about the kingdom of God tended to emphasize two aspects, “the already and the not yet.” “The already” was that which is clearly seen and manifested. “The not yet” is that which isn't yet seen and manifested, but which will come. We wait for the not yet to become the already. That's because when we study the teaching of Jesus, He talked about the “inbreaking kingdom” and He talked about how the kingdom “was at hand,” but he also talked about when the kingdom would be fully consummated. 

So even in His teaching there is this tension that can lead to a “two-age” framework of already and not yet, and we live right there in the window, the time between the times. What we're seeking to do from a kingdom perspective is to narrow that window. In circles where that kind of theology is used when people are healed, we tend to say "we're experiencing the already" and when they're not healed we say "we're experiencing the not yet.” And really all that is, is a form of passivity - which is another word for unbelief.  We want to move beyond that already-not-yet thing. 

Over time we have become soft in our approach to the supernatural side of kingdom demonstration. We may emphasize other valid expressions of the kingdom for example, feeding the poor, things like that, but we forget the fundamentals of ministering as Jesus did. We say that “healing gone wrong” is because of the “not yet,” and you'll just have to wait until heaven. 

But that's not what Jesus said. He said "all demons and every disease."
Matthew 10:1
“And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.”

There are some other things that can also inhibit healing beyond demons, but right now, tonight I'm focusing on that. I am not saying that all healing gone wrong is purely because of demons. We've got some other things that we've uncovered that can be causes of obstruction - but tonight we're talking about healing and deliverance.

What if some of those healings gone wrong aren't the result of the not yet? What if we've not addressed the root cause of the sickness? What if healing is hindered because we've not addressed those demons that are present when they are present? What if deliverance is needed much more often than we think? 
Often the most dramatic examples of kingdom inbreaking happen at that intersection of deliverance and healing.  

What was done at the cross? That is the gateway to deliverance and what was done at the cross is this: Colossians 2:15 "God canceled the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands and this he set aside nailing it to the cross and he disarmed the rulers and authorities." 

Rulers and authorities are two orders of demons in Paul's cosmology - that terminology also occurs Galatians and Ephesians. So, "he disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame. He humiliated them publicly, triumphing over them in him.”

So that's what happened at the cross, Jesus won - this is the language of the arena, of gladiatorial combat. So it is to say that Jesus and as his vanquished foe fell to the ground, he put his foot on his neck, bloodied sword in hand and said, "Christus Victor." 

That's a little more masculine, robust than gentle Jesus, meek and mild. You may not have thought about it that way but, that's the language Paul's using, I'm just illustrating it in a graphic way. Here's what else happened at the cross Ephesians 1:20-23 "God raised Jesus from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places. Far above here are those words, again "all rule and authority and power and dominion."