The Truth about Healing

Introduction

Welcome to the first week of our four-part series where we're going to tackle some major lies that have been circulating in the body of Christ about healing. Today, we're focusing on the first lie: "God puts sickness and disease on you.

Let me tell you right off the bat—that's a lie straight from the pit of hell! This false belief has kept countless believers from receiving the healing that Jesus purchased for them. So let's dive into the Word of God and set the record straight.

Main Points:

Main Point #1: God’s Nature is Goodness and Love

James 1:17 NKJV

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

God is the source of all good things. Sickness and disease are not good gifts; they steal, kill, and destroy. That's not God's nature.

Illustration: Imagine a loving parent. Would a good father break his child's leg to teach them a lesson? Of course not! Yet some people attribute far worse actions to our Heavenly Father.

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Transition:

Main Point #2: Jesus Revealed the Fathers Will

Hebrews 1:3 NKJV

who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Jesus is the exact representation of God the Father. If you want to know God's will, look at Jesus.

Acts 10:38 NKJV

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Jesus went about healing, not making people sick. He healed all who were oppressed by the devil—not oppressed by God.

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Main Point #3: Sickness is an Oppression not a Blessing

John 10:10 NKJV

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Jesus identifies the thief—the devil—as the one who brings destruction. Sickness steals health, kills joy, and destroys lives. It's from the enemy, not from God.

Illustration: Some might point to Job and say, "But didn't God allow Job to be afflicted?" Yes, but it was Satan who did the afflicting. And remember, Job didn't have the covenant we have through Jesus. Plus, God restored Job's health and blessed him abundantly in the end.

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Main Point #4: Misunderstanding Old Testament Scriptures

Exodus 15:26 NKJV

and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”

Even in the Old Testament, God reveals Himself as the Healer, not the afflicter.

The original Hebrew language, verbs that are translated in the causative sense can also be understood in the permissive sense. This means that when Scripture says God "put" sickness, it can be interpreted that He "allowed" sickness due to people's choices.

The plagues on Egypt were specific acts of judgment against a nation that had persistently oppressed God's people. These events were part of God's plan to deliver the Israelites and demonstrate His sovereignty over false gods.

They were not intended to establish a doctrine that God desires to inflict sickness on His people.

Under the Old Covenant, blessings and curses were conditional upon obedience to the law (Deuteronomy 28). Sickness was listed among the curses for disobedience. However, this covenant pointed forward to the need for a Savior who would redeem humanity from the curse.

Think of it like an old contract that's been replaced by a new, better one. The terms have changed, and we need to live according to the new agreement.

Since the fall, our world has been marred by sin, leading to pain, suffering, and sickness.

Galatians 3:13 KJV 1900

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

Isaiah 53:4–5 NKJV

Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

Conclusion:

Prayer

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