Posted on 12/16/2022 6:15:50 PM PST by Frank Broom
Does God heal everyone, let's examine that question. And once again you need to understand God's meaning of healing. In the gospels the words heal, healed, healing in The Strong's Concordance is #2323 and it means-to relieve(of disease)-cure, heal. Don't just look at that by the flesh. Because, if you do you will most likely miss it. God's word says in Isaiah 53:4, "Surely he hath borne our griefs(sicknesses and diseases) and carried our sorrows(pains and afflictions). He's talking about what Jesus would do when he came and sacrificed himself for us. For him to bear ours that means ours had to be removed from us. How does that work, it works just like he bore our sins in his own body (1 Peter 2:24). In Leviticus 16:21 you see a shadow of what Jesus would do. God instituted something called the scapegoat offering, that when Aaron the high priest laid both hands on the head of that goat and confessed over him all the inquities of the children of Israel and all their transgressions in all their sins they would be put on the head of that goat and he would bear them. That's what Jesus did for it says in John 1:29 that Jesus is the lamb of God that would take away the sin of the world.
So, just as he took your sins he also took your sicknesses. And sin and sickness is connected because if there was no sin there would be no sickness. Adam introduced sin in the earth and into mankind when he disobeyed God. But, Jesus took care of that by taking away the sin of the world by bearing them in his own body and since they are connected when he took the sin he also took the sicknesses. I like to use the example sin and sickness are connected like a flame and heat. If you held a flame under your hand you would feel the heat of that flame because everyone knows that a flame and heat go together one is the source and the other is the effect. If you take the flame away will the heat stay, no. If you take the source away the effect will go with it. You don't have to fight the heat just take the flame away. So likewise, you don't have to fight the sickness just take the sin away and sickness will go with it. Now, that has already been done in the spirit. And because it has been done in the spirit you can access it by faith. Romans 5:1,2 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (2.) By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
You access the grace of God by faith, but there first has to be grace for you to access by faith. If there is no grace of healing then you can't access it by faith. But, here's the thing even though the grace is available doesn't mean everyone will receive it or access it. Notice, Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. In other words anyone can receive salvation anytime and anywhere when they choose to, but does that mean everyone will be saved, no. And don't limit the word salvation to just being born again in The Strong's Concordance it also means #4992 and it is the same as #4991 which means rescue, safety,deliver,health, salvation. If you don't access the grace then you don't receive the salvation(healing) even though it is available. For example, you can't say God doesn't save everybody because He has made it available to everybody, but everybody has to accept what is being offered. Now, it's not about God doing anything for anyone to be saved, because He has done all that needs to be done for anyone to be saved. And even though it's God's will that not any should perish (2 Peter 3:9) doesn't mean that no one will perish. So, it's not a matter of if God wants to do it He will. Man has to choose whether or not to receive salvation. And people need to stop thinking that if God wants it done then it will just be done because He wants it. That is not scriptural, you don't even have to look far to see that. God told Adam not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that was God's will. But, did Adam still eat from that tree, yes. Was God's will done,no. It's not a matter of God doing, but it's a matter of you receiving or accessing.
It is not God's will that any should perish. And I wouldn't want to end this article without giving someone the opportunity to receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior. It's very easy just pray: Dear God- I know I have sinned and I now turn from them and I invite Jesus to come into my heart (Revelation 3:20). He died for my sins and you have raised him from the dead and I now confess that Jesus is my Lord and Savior (Romans 10:9,10). I thank you for saving me, Amen
All who want God to heal them will be healed.
You can take that to the bank.
No
“Healing” can take many different forms.
Some have their healing in heaven.
So you are saying Paul didn't access the grace?
2Ti 4:20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.2Co 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Paul didn’t get healed....he asked three times.
“Paul didn’t get healed....he asked three times.”
He’s healed now.
All who want God to heal them will be healed if not in this life then in the life to come. But many will be healed in this life.
Not everyone will be healed because not everyone will come to God in Christ.
Most reading the headline think illness on this earth. And the point remains not all on this earth will be healed of a physical or mental illness.
That's the false message of the health and wealth crowd.
God will heal everyone spiritually. As for physical healing, if it’s in His will, it’ll happen. It not… it won’t.
No some are to suffer for the glory of God, The Lost suffer and die unless they repeat,
Try spiritual healing, not physical healing
2 Kings 13-14 Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
And this…….
Exodus 4:11-12 Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”
Except the health, wealth, and prosperity people won’t accept that about God.
They preach an accursed gospel of prosperity. Galatians 1:8-9 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
Then the prosperity people need to stop presenting healing as if is a right Christians are owed that they can demand from God who allegedly guarantees it.
To present healing as if is guaranteed in this life when you then turn around and admit that sometimes the healing comes after this life is deceitful. It turns people from God because when they aren’t healed as they are led to believe, the they wrongly blame God for it instead of blaming the person who lied to them about God.
[[Then the prosperity people need to stop presenting healing as if is a right Christians are owed that they can demand from God who allegedly guarantees it]]
Exactly- and they need to stop falsely blaming the victims of disease , injury, crime etc who aren’t healed of ‘not having enough faith to be healed’, adding insult to injury
Or the ever useful fallback of “You have sin in your life.”
Or “It’s a generational curse you need to deal with”
I don’t ever recall Jesus laying on people those burdens of guilt that the prosperity preachers do before He healed them, physically, here and now, immediately and completely.
Yup, they claim God always heals and so if you are not healed, it’s not HIS fault. It’s YOURS.
Well said.
I find it surprising and miraculous that sometimes a person who is not healed herself is still able to be a vessel, a conduit, for healing others.
I have seen it time and again in my long life.
Some kind of transformative grace is given to those who endure suffering cheerfully, and are able to unite their suffering sacrificially with Christ on the Cross, to pass healing on to others.
God’s grace is greater than all my sins, and all my suffering.
I have seen it happen right here on this forum.
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