Are You Living In God's Reality?

We are going to look at how the world as we know it is totally out of order with God's reality, and how that effects us in the realm of physical healing.

The beginning is usually a very good place to start, so let's go to the creation account in Genesis. When God created the world, He did it in an order that evolutionists tell us is impossible. If we try to the creation account from a strictly natural or scientific perspective, it sounds like nonsense and is very difficult to believe. It can't make any sense until we take God's character consideration. Let me explain why.

Genesis 1:1 describes God's very first creative act: God created the Heavens and the earth. According to the bible, He did that before He created the sun, moon or stars. Evolutionists tell us that it all started with gaseous "expanses" that somehow ignited and became our sun and other stars. The stars had little eruptions of fiery material that "broke off" from it, then cooled into planets. They believe that process took hundreds of thousands of years, and they believe that the sun had to be around a very long time before the earth came into existence.

[By the way, if you want to have fun with an evolutionist, just ask them where the materials that comprised the first stars came from. They won't be able to answer it; they have to fill back on "faith" that it just existed. (They call it a "premise," but it boils down to "blind faith.") In truth, it is easier to assume that a purposeful living God "just existed" and that He planned and created us. It takes more faith to assume that inert matter just existed, and by amazing series of coincidences that defy all the laws of probability, this inert matter generated life and the systematic and ordered world as we know it. I would love to go on with this tangent about how much "faith" it takes to believe in evolution, but this isn't a course on "refuting evolution," so I better get back to our main subject...]

God did not just create the earth on the first day, He went on to create light, then He separated it from darkness. Genesis 1:3-4 describes it this way: "Then God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. Then He separated the light from the darkness."

The scientists have a problem with this passage as well. God still hadn't created the sun or stars before He created light and separated it from darkness. Our science tells us that is not possible to have light without some source of light. Evolutionists assume that the sun provided the first light. Yet this passage tells us that God created light before the sun. How is that possible?

Jesus said something in Matthew 19:26 addresses this dilemma nicely. He said, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

The bible explains just how this is possible, both in Isaiah 60 and in Revelation chapters 21 and 22. The solution is very simple. God Himself radiates light, and He is a truer and brighter light than our physical sun. When God is present, we don't need the sun to make light, because God is light.

Let's look at the verses to back up what I just said.

Isaiah 60 talks about what Jerusalem will be like when God restores its glory (e.g., after Jesus returns). It starts out in verses 1 and 2 in a manner that most people think are figurative: "Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and His glory appears over you."

Why do so many of us take that figuratively? Probably because we have been taught to. My guess is that years ago, some bible teacher was trying to reconcile the bible with his understanding of science. Science tells us that the sun gives us our light but the bible can't lie. His solution was to suggest that God was talking symbolically, instead of literally meaning what He said. However, the passage itself proves him wrong, because it goes on to clarify that God literally meant what He said.

Look at verses 19-20. They say that God is going to replace the sun and moon (earthly sources of light) with His own glory and radiant light. The passage reads, "The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end."

We find something similar in the book of Revelation, where it describes what the "New Jerusalem" (or the "city of God") will be like after Jesus returns. Let's start at Revelation 21:1-2a: "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God..." Now look at verses 22-23, "I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp."

In other words, God will eliminate the sun because He doesn't need it to make light. Why? Because God Himself is the source of light.

Let's look at one more verse along this line. Revelation 22:5 says, "There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever."

Now let's go back to the original issue: if we look at creation from the limitation of just scientific understanding, it doesn't make sense--how could God create light before He created the sun? The idea of Him doing so seems "wrong," because science tells us that we can't have light before we have the sun and stars (the sources of light).

The problem is not with the bible account, it is with the way science looks at the world. Science is limited, because it doesn't know or understand the nature of God; it doesn't take God into consideration. Once we realize that God is the source of light, the dilemma (over the order that He created things in) goes away. He did not need the sun to create light because He choose to radiate light from His own Person. That means He did not have to create the sun first.

To sum up what we have been talking about: there are two realms to our reality. There is the physical realm (the one we usually think about), but there is also a spirit realm to reality. If we want to know what is real, we have to consider the spirit realm in addition to the physical one.

What does all of that mean to us in terms of physical healing? It means that the world order (of what is correct/true) does not always line up with God's order. But we find it easier to accept the world order (e.g., science, the empirical method, etc) as reality, and God's order becomes a vague realm of "faith."

In short, the problem is that we are living most of our life in the wrong reality. We accept the "lie"--our misunderstanding of reality is based on the limits of a scientific method that doesn't know God as "truth." The real truth (or true reality) involves the spirit world as well as the physical one. If we remove the spirit world from our view of reality, then all we have left is science and medicine, and that doesn't leave much room for supernatural healing.

Please don't misunderstand me. I think science and medicine are very good things. I love the benefits of science. If it weren't for science, we would not have the internet, and you would not be reading this teaching series. Medicine is wonderful too--when I am sick and God doesn't heal me supernaturally, I go to my doctor and get healed that way. I like my doctor and am very grateful for his help.

Science and medicine are both good things, but they are not all of reality. We must not allow our thinking to be confined to just the thinking behind science and medicine, or we end up living the lie.

We must retrain ourselves to incorporate God's character and nature into our thinking and our view of reality. Then we can see what "true reality" looks like, and supernatural healing becomes a normal component of "reality." When we live in God's order/reality, sick people get healed and miracles become normal.