DIVINE HEALING.
1. Christians agree that all sickness is, in a general way, the result of sin in the world. If sin had never entered, there would be no sickness.
2. Sometimes sickness is a direct result of sin in a person’s life (1 Corinthians 11:30).
3. Not all sickness is a direct result of sin in a person’s life (Job 1:8; John 9:2-3; Philippians 2:30; 3 John 2)
4. Sometimes sickness is a result of satanic activity (Job 2:7; Luke 13:10-17; 2 Corinthians 12:7).
5. God can and does heal. In a very real sense, all healing is divine. One of the names of God in the Old Testament is “Jehovah-Rapha – the LORD who heals you.” We should acknowledge God in every case of healing. It is clear from the Bible that God uses different means in healing. Sometimes He heals through natural bodily processes. He heals through medicines. He heals through “deliverance from underlying fears, resentments, self-preoccupation, and guilts, all of which produce illness.” He heals through physicians and surgeons. God uses doctors in the ministry of healing. “The surgeon dresses the wound; God heals it.”
6. God also heals miraculously. The Gospels contain many accounts of this.
7. It is not always God’s will to heal (2 Timothy 4:20; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10).
8. God has not promised to heal in every case; therefore, healing is not something we can demand from Him. In Philippians 2:27, healing is spoken of as a mercy, not something which we have a right to expect.
9. Healing is in the “Atonement,” yet not all blessings that are in the Atonement have been given to us yet (Romans 8:23).
10. “Failure to be healed indicates a lack of faith “is an untruth. If it were, this would mean that some would live on indefinitely, but no one does.
1. Christians agree that all sickness is, in a general way, the result of sin in the world. If sin had never entered, there would be no sickness.
2. Sometimes sickness is a direct result of sin in a person’s life (1 Corinthians 11:30).
3. Not all sickness is a direct result of sin in a person’s life (Job 1:8; John 9:2-3; Philippians 2:30; 3 John 2)
4. Sometimes sickness is a result of satanic activity (Job 2:7; Luke 13:10-17; 2 Corinthians 12:7).
5. God can and does heal. In a very real sense, all healing is divine. One of the names of God in the Old Testament is “Jehovah-Rapha – the LORD who heals you.” We should acknowledge God in every case of healing. It is clear from the Bible that God uses different means in healing. Sometimes He heals through natural bodily processes. He heals through medicines. He heals through “deliverance from underlying fears, resentments, self-preoccupation, and guilts, all of which produce illness.” He heals through physicians and surgeons. God uses doctors in the ministry of healing. “The surgeon dresses the wound; God heals it.”
6. God also heals miraculously. The Gospels contain many accounts of this.
7. It is not always God’s will to heal (2 Timothy 4:20; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10).
8. God has not promised to heal in every case; therefore, healing is not something we can demand from Him. In Philippians 2:27, healing is spoken of as a mercy, not something which we have a right to expect.
9. Healing is in the “Atonement,” yet not all blessings that are in the Atonement have been given to us yet (Romans 8:23).
10. “Failure to be healed indicates a lack of faith “is an untruth. If it were, this would mean that some would live on indefinitely, but no one does.
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