I’ve been preaching a series drawn from the church’s foundation scripture, John 10:10: The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. (NKJV) Part of that abundant life is divine health.
Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ should not be afraid of the “Swine Flu.” Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. (Galatians 3:13 NKJV). Every sickness and every plague is under the curse of the law. (Deuteronomy 28:61 NKJV). Logically, then, Christ has redeemed us from every sickness and plague – including the Swine Flu. It’s part of why He came. Isaiah, forseeing what Jesus would do, prophesied:
Yet it was our sickness he was bearing, our suffering that he endured. We accounted him plagued, smitten and afflicted by God; But he was wounded because of our sins, crushed because of our iniquities. He bore the chastisement that made us whole, and by his bruises we were healed. (Isaiah 53:4-5 JPS).
Don’t be like Job. A hedge was around him, but he lowered it by fear. “For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.” (Job 3:25 NKJV). We have not been given a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7). So keep the faith hedge up.
I recommended to my congregation that they just turn off the TV and close the newspaper stories that sow seeds of fear about the Swine Flu. Yes get your rest. Yes drink plenty of water. Yes get your exercise and eat right. But spend more time reading the Word, meditating on it, and confessing it over yourself than you do fretting and worrying about Swine Flu. Christ has redeemed you from it. So at night, turn off your light, roll over, and fall asleep safe in the Lord.