Acts 10:38:
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Notes on Acts 10:38:
Who says we shouldn’t preach healing as part of the gospel? Peter preached it! Peter was addressing a group of unbelievers at Cornelius’s house. If Peter could preach this part of the gospel to sinners, so can we.
Some object that Jesus did not heal everyone because He left sick people at Nazareth and the Pool of Bethesda, but Jesus did heal all who came to Him for healing. The ones who were not healed were ones who were in unbelief and/or did not come to Him to be healed.
If the Peter and the Holy Spirit consider sickness to be oppression of the devil, so should you. Now that Jesus is glorified and seated at God’s right hand, is He less willing to remove “the oppression of the devil” from YOUR body? NO!
This verse indicates that Jesus ministered as a Man anointed by the Holy Spirit. We can do the same works because we have the same Holy Spirit. If Jesus ministered as God, He would not have had to be ANOINTED with the Holy Spirit and with power. He would have just used His innate God-power to do the miracles. Thus, He could have done that all His life. However, we know that Jesus did no miracles until the Spirit came upon Him after He was baptized in the Jordan River. His first recorded miracle was after that at a wedding in Cana (John 2:11). He didn’t do His miracles because He was God; He did them because God was WITH Him. That should give you hope when it comes to doing the same works. You aren’t God, but God is WITH you. He never forsakes you (Hebrews 13:5). Because God is WITH you just as He was WITH Jesus, you can do the same works Jesus did when God was WITH Him!
The Bible does not say that God kept anointing Jesus with the Holy Spirit and power – it says that He anointed Him. (This is true both in English and in Greek.) Once He was anointed, there is no record that He was ever re-anointed. When you receive the Holy Spirit, you receive power, and you never have to get re-baptized with the Holy Spirit. If you’ve neglected God’s wonderful gift of the Holy Spirit, you may want to re-commit yourself to yielding to Him, but that is not the same as needing to be re-baptized with the Holy Spirit.
The Greek word for oppressed here is katadynasteuo, which means to oppress or exercise harsh control over! It is the same word found in James 2:6 where the rich oppress the poor. Jesus came to set you free from the devil’s harsh control in the form of sickness. I don’t want to be under the devil’s harsh control through sickness. Do you?
See also:
Notes on Job 42:10
Notes on John 10:10
Notes on Hebrews 13:8
Notes on 1 John 3:8
The Baseball Diamond of Healing
Who or What Causes Sickness?
Jesus the Healer Has Never Changed!
The Healing Anointing
The Anointing in the New Testament
How to See God’s Will Concerning Healing
Dealing with Fear
Sickness Is the Power of the Devil
Healing and the Holy Spirit
YOU Can Be Healed
The Acceptable Year of the Lord
Delivered!
The SAVED Test
Power, Then and Now
Why You Don’t Have to Touch Jesus as He Passes By
Job Explained
Ministering to the Sick
I Thought I Was Healed. Why Did the Symptoms Just Start to Return?
Is All Sickness Demonic?
If You Are Sick, Does That Mean There Is Sin in Your Life?
What Is the Difference Between Demonic Possession and Demonic Oppression?
Objection: God Sometimes Leads Faithful Saints into “Wilderness Experiences”
Objection: God Uses Sickness to Draw Us Closer to Himself
Objection: We Cannot Expect to Heal as Jesus Did Because We Are Not the Son of God
Objection: “Faith Healers” Call Attention to Man and Thus Rob the Lord of Due Glory
Objection: David Said That It Was GOOD That He Was Afflicted; So It Can Be with Us
Objection: By Jesus’ Stripes We Were Spiritually, Not Physically, Healed
Objection: The Man in John 9 Was Born Blind, and That Was God’s Will
Objection: God Has Satan on a Leash and Only Permits Him to Do Certain Things to You
Objection: Jesus Didn’t Heal Everyone in His Earthly Ministry; He Left Many Sick at the Pool of Bethesda
Objection: Isaiah 53:4 (Matthew 8:17) Was Fulfilled in Jesus’ Earth Ministry and Cannot Be Claimed as a Promise by Christians Today
Objection: Jesus Healed and Did Miracles to Prove His Deity
Objection: Teaching That Jesus Healed as an Anointed Man Is Heresy Because It Denies His Deity
Objection: If We Are Subject to Death, We Are Subject to Sickness
Objection: If God Wanted Us to Enjoy Perfect Health NOW, He Would Have Already Given Us Immortal Bodies
Objection: Jesus Only Said That He Was Sent to Heal the Brokenhearted, Not the Sick
Objection: God Sometimes Has an Older Person Get Sick to Make That Person Want to Come Home to Heaven
Objection: Disease Viruses Are Part of God’s Creation and Are Therefore Good, Even Though We Often Don’t Think So When We Catch Them
Objection: As Many Doctors Can Tell You, Many People Make Themselves Sick – It Has Nothing to Do with the Devil
Objection: God’s Healing Covenant in the Law of Moses Was Only for the Jews
Objection: To Demand That God Use Supernatural Instead of Natural Means to Heal You Is to Hold God Hostage
Objection: Daniel Got a Vision from God and Immediately Fainted and Got Sick
Objection: 1 John 3:8 in Context Refers to SIN, Not Sickness
Objection: Jesus Suffered and That Is the Example for You to Follow (1 Peter 2:21)
Objection: God Being “Good” Must Not Be Understood from Man’s Perspective
Objection: Like Any Loving Parent, God Sometimes Has to Tell His Children NO for Their Own Good
Objection: Jesus Said to Say, “Thy Will Be Done,” Instead of Demanding Healing
Objection: Any Other Objection Not Specifically Covered in This Book
Condition: Anything Else Not Listed Here