What Does It Mean to Be Healed?

In this second message of our new series, Healed to Move, Pastor Steve leads us into the House of Mercy, Bethesda, where Jesus meets a man paralyzed for 38 years and asks a soul-piercing question: “Do you want to be made well?” Many of us know what it means to sit in church, hear the Word, and still carry the residue of brokenness. We’ve received healing, but we haven’t moved.

This sermon explores what biblical healing truly means, not just surface relief, but divine restoration of what sin, suffering, or the fall has broken. Drawing from Exodus 15 and 1 Peter 2, we learn that healing is:

God-Initiated – The Lord is our Healer (Jehovah Rapha).

Christ-Centered – Jesus bore our wounds and paid our penalty to heal us from sin.

Through a powerful illustration, Pastor Pettis helps us understand how old patterns, spiritual limps can linger even after we’ve been made new. Healing is not the end of the journey; it’s the beginning of movement into obedience, righteousness, and wholeness in Christ.

Whether you’re stuck, wounded, or simply watching this message, it is a call to respond. Jesus is not just offering to heal your pain, but to restore your walk.