And these signs shall follow them that believe…if they drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them… (Mark 16:17-18).
The Words of Jesus in this Scripture above are as clear as they
ever could be- the believer is immune to deadly ingestions! If he drinks any
deadly or poisonous substance, it should have no effect on him. Notice that
Jesus didn’t say, “If they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not kill
them,” He said “it shall not hurt them.” This means it’s not supposed to hurt
you, let alone kill you. It makes no difference whether the deadly substance
gets into your system through your mouth or through your veins–it shall have no
effect on you.
The Bible gives us the account of the Apostle Paul, after he and
his co-travelers were shipwrecked at the island of Malta. Being a very cold
Island, the natives went out of their way to build a huge bonfire and gathered
Paul and his colleagues around it. The Bible says “After Paul had gathered some
wood and had put it on the fire, the heat caused a snake to crawl out, and it
bit him on the hand” (Acts 28:3 CEV).
Everybody watching froze in terror because they knew that species
of snake injects deadly venom into the bloodstream of its victims. But Paul
“shook the snake off into the fire and wasn’t harmed” (Acts 28:5 CEV). Then,
the people “watched him for a long time, and when nothing happened to him, they
changed their minds and said, “This man is a god” (Acts 28:6 CEV). That’s
exactly what God has called us–gods (Psalm 82:6), because we can’t be harmed or
poisoned.
The life of God has completely supplanted the human life with
which you were born. That life is divine and can’t be affected or infected by
any deadly thing. If you were hurt by something you ingested in the past, the
truth has come to you now; live in the reality of this truth henceforth. You’re
now a partaker of the divine nature.
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