op: no need to suffer sickness?
Precious friends,
depends On God's Word Of Truth, Rightly Divided:
Prophecy/Covenants/law, for twelve tribes of Israel with 12 apostles:
"all are healed"
(Matthew 4:24, 8:16, 9:35, 12:15; Mark 6:56; Luke 4:40, 6:17,19, 8:43, 47;
Acts 3:11, 5:15)
Rightly Divided (
2 Timothy 2:15) From “Things That
Differ” (
online)
Grace/
Mystery, for the One Body Of Christ, One apostle, not all are healed:
In the
beginning of Paul's ministry, special miracles
"by the hands of Paul" (gift) (Acts 19:11-12)
However, at the
end of Paul's ministry, no more 'gift' of physical
healing
(1 Timothy 5:23; 2 Timothy 4:20 cp Philippians 2:26)
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Paul's own "thorn in the flesh," Note
God's Teaching prayerfully and Carefully!:
"And He said unto me, My Grace Is Sufficient for thee: for My Strength
is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory
in my infirmities, that The Power Of Christ may rest upon me."
(2 Corinthians 12:9 cp v 10; 2 Corinthians 11:23-30)
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GRACE Word For our infirmities!
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Excellent article:
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Every true Christian believes that spiritual healing, salvation of the soul
from sin, is to be found only in the death of Christ, but there is disagree-
ment as to whether His death is supposed to provide physical health also
for the believer. Some teach that Christ bore our sicknesses upon the Cross
as well as our sins, and that it is therefore as much the will of God that we
be healed of sickness as to be saved from sin.
Since salvation is received through faith, healing must come in the same
manner, and if one is not healed it proves he doesn’t have faith. If the
premise of this argument is true, i. e. that Christ died for our sickness and
that God is not willing that any should be sick, then the above conclusion
logically follows; but we ask:
Is the premise true?
This teaching is based upon Matthew 8:17: “Himself took our infirmities, and
bare our sicknesses,” a quotation from Isaiah 53:4. But the all important thing
to see is that Jesus fulfilled this scripture three years before His death. He was
bearing their sicknesses all during His earthly ministry, but He never bore any
one’s sins until He died upon the tree.
Since the Bible declares that He fulfilled the work of bearing sicknesses before
Has death, any teaching is proved false which claims He fulfilled that work in
His death.
The second important fact is found in the word “bare”. Peter tells us that Christ
“bare our sins in his own body on the tree.” This word is “anaphero” in the Greek,
and means to bring to the altar or to offer a sacrifice. It is used in Hebrews 9:28:
“Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many”;
and most significantly the translators of the Septuagint chose this word in
Isaiah 53:12: “and he bare the sins of many.” But there is an entirely different
word used regarding the bearing of sickness in Matthew 8:17. It is “bastazo”
and means to lift or to carry or to endure. It is never used of bearing sins.
This is the same word John the Baptist used in Matthew 3:11: “whose shoes
I am not worthy to bear.” Paul used it in Galatians 6:2: “bear ye one another’s
burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Paul asked Christians to do in
Romans 15:1 exactly what Christ did:
“bear the infirmities (or sicknesses) of the weak,”
but he never told any Christian to bear the sins of another. And again, most
significantly the Septuagint uses this same word in Isaiah 53:4: “surely he
hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.” Thus Christ bore sicknesses
in an altogether different sense from which He bore sins.
The third fact is based upon logic. If healing is in the atonement to the same
extent as salvation, then one possesses salvation to the extent he enjoys
physical health. But since all Christians in the past have died, and mostly from
disease, this would prove that all had lost salvation; for all surely lost health.
Fourthly, Paul, the model Christian, gloried in his infirmities
(II Corinthians 11:30; II Corinthians 12:9 and 10—this word means
sickness, the same word as used in Matthew 8:17). If sickness is
contrary to the will of God, then Paul gloried in being out of the
will of God, and it was the Grace of God which taught him to do it.
Fifthly, this teaching denies such Scriptures as Romans 8:23: “but ourselves
also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
Yes, praise God, our salvation includes a body as perfect as Christ’s own
glorious body, but none will receive it until the resurrection for which
we wait.
Lastly, let it be noticed that God promised health to Israel along with other
temporal blessings. He revealed Himself as Jehovah-Ropheca, The LORD that
healeth thee (Exodus 15:26).
See also Deuteronomy 28:1 to 14. But not one of these promises can be
found directed to the Body of Christ, but often just the opposite. God not
only promised to heal but to make rich (Deuteronomy 28:11 and 12).
Therefore if you are not rich it is just as much a sign of unfaithfulness
as if you are sick.
Surely we believe that God hears and answers prayer for the sick, but
Plain Scripture forbids us to believe that healing is in the atonement
or that sickness brands one as unfaithful or disobedient." (CF Baker)
Amen.