God’s Miracle Hidden Behind Curtain Number One Just For Us

The only way to the other side of the curtain is through the blood of Jesus. And His wondrous blood cleanses everything on the way in. Only in Him can we put our trust. We cannot desire to hold onto any of the old way of life: our sin, our affliction, those things we used to be known by. In His presence those things, the list found in Leviticus, cannot remain; they are purified. Be it the spiritual version of blindness or the physical, because our very bodies are the temple of God (1 Corinthians 6:19). We must desire the inner room, at any cost. Even if it meant we had to serve food at the feast of the lamb to even be allowed there. We should desire to serve food at his table. To serve him and those there at the meal. We should desire it more than whatever has been keeping us on the outside. Only when we let those things go can we go in.

Many of us do not realize how sin goes hand in hand with disease. Sickness, disease, infirmity, all come from sin. Sin set in motion by Adam and Eve. Sin which brought death to us spiritually but will also bring an end to humanity on this earth. It is why God will make a new Heaven and a new Earth (Revelation 21:1). After Jesus healed a man of leprosy he encouraged him, “Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you” (John 5:14). Paul said, “So anyone who eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily is guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. That is why you should examine yourself before eating the bread and drinking the cup. For if you eat the bread or drink the cup without honoring the body of Christ you are eating and drinking God’s judgment upon yourself. That is why many of you are weak and sick and some have even died” (1 Corinthians 11:27-30). Trying to justify sin or even pass it off as not so big of a deal while entering into the presence of God does not end well. Sin always results in death, in every shape and size death comes in. Not just in the spirit, but the soul, and also in the body. A little leaven works through the whole loaf of bread.

When reading Leviticus 21 I was grieved. I was grieved because I knew I had flirted with sin in different ways. There was something in me which I realized I had left the door open for the devil to have his way in my body, because I was willing to let him entertain my soul. And how sad is it to stand at the curtain and realize I’m not allowed in as I am. How many of us crack open the door just a sliver due to the allure of sin, and we don’t realize that with the devil, if given an inch he will take a mile. We may never walk into terribly grievous acts, but as long as we stand at the Temple Curtain with one eye looking back out the temple door, we will never experience what it means to see the inner sanctuary of our Father.

There must be a complete and total breaking away from these things to receive the fire of God, the purifying, cleansing, and holy fire of God. We do not realize just how grand this fire is. No sin can be in this presence. No product of sin can be in this presence, including the whole list in Leviticus: scabs, skin sores, defective eyes, broken bones, deformities, lameness. Which means on the most foundational core of who we are, God can reach there and bring healing. He cleanses both the soul and the body carrying the weight of that soul. God can take what we have done with our bodies and completely cleanse them. The heart and body can regain the purity of virginity through the fire of God. Then we ask, “How is this possible?”

Paul wrote, “Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault” (Colossians 1:22). Without a single fault. What incredible power. What incredible salvation. But only one we can understand due to Leviticus. We are drawn into God’s perfect holiness. A perfect holiness which leaves us without a single fault.

Some may be wondering, Well I’m saved so I don’t know why I should care about skin sores. Who are we to decide what is holy and what is not holy? God has made it clear. Sin and the effects of sin do not belong in His presence. But how wonderful of a truth is this. God, in His perfect love has provided for us a perfect and whole grace. He has already brought us into His presence by His power. Just because something is attacking our bodies doesn’t stand in the way of being in His presence. It is because we are in His presence we can trust His Spirit to bring to pass the work of Christ in our lives. Just as we have put faith in God for salvation, we must also stand in faith for deliverance. Deliverance from sin, deliverance from demonic oppression or possession, deliverance from disease, deliverance from afflictions, the list goes on.

One time in ministry a young man had come up for prayer. The Spirit of God came over me in fire and I yelled at the spirit holding his back in bondage. We cast the demon out. Then I made him bend over. I placed one hand on his chest and one on his back and began to rock him back and forth. He couldn’t bend over more than a couple inches. I bent him back and forth until we broke a couple inches, a foot, two feet. Then when the Spirit of God was satisfied I took my hands off him. It wasn’t until two weeks later when I met the man in downtown Uppsala, Sweden. He came up to me with face beaming. He said, “Look at this”. He bent all the way over and nearly laid his hands flat on the sidewalk. I was as amazed as him because I had never been that flexible in my life. He praised God and told me he had been a missionary’s son who had grown cold for the things of God. I may not have had a full explanation of what had crept into his life, and likewise his body, but God had fully delivered him of both. He was set free and later held evangelistic meetings in the same city. Praise God!

We may not fully realize how willing God is to completely cleanse and purify our lives if we will let him. How could we fully imagine what God is able to do? He is too beautiful. Only hearts completely surrendered and on fire for Him will experience this day by day, glory to glory, grace to grace. It should make us cry out to God for Him to cleanse our hearts and minds, desiring more of Him. And when sin or the products of sin tries to beset us, we should kick it off, not coddle it. As for many today, we feel the man at the wedding was done a disservice by being kicked out. He may have brought a gift, he may have worn his favorite tie, or he may have not gone out in public for a long time. But we must face the facts. We cannot come into the most glorious miracles and blessings God has for our life when we are willing to entertain the devil or our pride to do things our way. We must call holy what God calls holy, and unclean what God calls unclean.

I do not write this to put down those who suffer some sort of ailment, for I have been one of those people. A story from John 9 helps us with this:

“As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?”

“It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him. We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us. The night is coming, and then no one can work. But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Jesus includes the disciples in those who are assigned tasks to do, and likewise because we have received their message, us. Jesus says we must quickly carry out the tasks assigned to us. The night will come, but right now, the Light of the world is here. Jesus sent us His Spirit so we would never be alone, and for all who are willing to grab ahold by faith can be saved, fully saved, totally saved, and shouldn’t that include all the things Jesus did in His day. Shouldn’t this salvation cover all the things He paid for at the cross? He paid for them, so we owe it to Him to believe in His work.

We should be passionate about standing in faith for God to purify the whole person. And in fact, God says it is already done. Nahum 1:9 states, “Why are you scheming against the Lord? He will destroy you with one blow; he won’t need to strike twice.” When God decides to be done with something, it is done. It won’t take a second time. The only reason it looks like it takes awhile is because it is up to us to stand in faith upon His Word and His promises. One time Jesus spit on a blind man’s eyes then laid his hands on him and asked him if he could see. The man said he could but not clearly. So Jesus laid his hands on the man’s eyes again. Then, he was completely healed. (Mark 8:22-25) Jesus stood upon the truth. He kept at it until the full manifestation came. We should be the same way. Stand in faith and having done all, keep on standing. Stand upon the truth of the Word.

By faith in God’s full work, we can be those who prepare the best meals for our Father in Heaven. We can present Him with the wholesome offerings of our lives. We can walk free of our past and walk into eternity with Him. All it takes is faith in His grace. In fact, “it is impossible to please God without faith” (Hebrews 11:6). It is faith in the work of Christ to have worked a perfect salvation for us that pleases Him. It pleases Him when we dare to stand on the Word and believe it is for us. Have a heart on fire for God and accept nothing less than His best. Accept nothing less than full devotion to God in your life. And pray in faith until you see your whole life transformed and filled with the presence of God. Pray in faith that God completely restore you to serve him, leaving no trace of what sin has done to your body. No trace of the devil’s work. Where the only thing that remains is the demonstration of the power of God in your life so that all the glory will go to Him.