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1 | spiritual healing or physical healing? | Is 53:6 | EdB | 49405 | ||
Aristarchus Your absolutely right in most of what you said. But there is one thing you didn't say and it is very important to this discussion. God is sovereign and God will or will not heal according to his divine purpose and pleasure. Too many use the scripture of Isaiah 53 saying God HAS to heal every believer, and that simply is not true! Jesus didn't come to provide for our physical healing He came for our spiritual healing. Physical healing has always been available Exodus 15:26 And He said, "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, THE LORD, AM YOUR HEALER." (emphasis mine) Deut. 7:12-15 "Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you His covenant and His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers. "He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you. "You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren among you or among your cattle. "The LORD will remove from you ALL (emphasis mine) sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you. To me it sounds like the people of Israel could have lived disease free had they obeyed God. However they still needed spiritual healing (salvation). We also know God used sickness to punish apart from the curse, as in the case of the plagues of Egypt and as seen in Leviticus 26:16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up. Deut. 28:60 "He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. Spiritual healing and physical healing are two different subjects and we get into real trouble when we try to make a passage talking about salvation or spiritual healing into a passage on physical healing. EdB |
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2 | spiritual healing or physical healing? | Is 53:6 | Aristarchus | 49418 | ||
I agree completely Ed! I do think we need to take the word for what it says though. There are two different verses there in Isaiah 53 which cover two different things that Christ bore for us. They are both important and useful for the body of Christ. Salvation is, of course, of the ultimate importance. Mark 8:36 "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?" I guess my point is that we don't have to accept sickness. We can fight it - not of ourselves, but through Jesus redemptive power. God Bless |
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