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NASB | Isaiah 57:1 The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to heart; And devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from evil, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 57:1 The righteous man perishes [at the hand of evil], and no one takes it to heart; Faithful and devout men are taken away, while no one understands That the righteous person is taken away [to be spared] from disaster and evil. |
Subject: Thorn in the flesh |
Bible Note: I am not sure which group out there says that we are all supposed to be the picture of health. Believing in the Bible stories of how people were healed who had faith in Christ to heal them during his ministry on earth and afterwards in the stories in Acts and other passages does not mean a saint will never get sick. There must needs be sickness that healing be manifest. If there were no sickness there would be no need for healing. But now we see sickness and therefore we still need healing. When that which is perfect is come and we see him face to face in our bodily resurrection then we will have perfect health and there will be no more need for healing. It is pleasing to God for a handicapped person to give their whole heart to Christ and be content to serve Him in their bodily infirmity. It is not Pleasing to God to blame bodily infirmity on God. It is Pleasing to God to have faith. It is never pleasing to God to say God Can't Heal today. God is not limited by any so called "dispensation" a theologian tries to construct. And I am glad for that. How many miracles would have been left undone if God listened to the theologians that we have left the despensation of miracles behind. If you do not believe in healing for today it does not mean you are not saved or cannot be saved. Howbeit I do not see how a saved saint can limit the Grace and Power of God and think to themselves "God is not willing to heal" and think that they are not possibly at some fault in thinking so. It only takes a casual reading of the Gospels to see that a lesson seems to be repeated over and over again, "Have Faith in God" and in nearly every account the lesson is "having faith in God to do the impossible" Calm the stormy wind with His Word, Open blind eyes that were blind from birth, heal the incurable leper whose flesh was already gone, heal a lame man lame forty years whos legs were not doubt atrophied, Raise the dead and reverse the effects of rigormortus, And such things were not only done by Jesus but he sent the apostles to do the same, and not the apostles only but we see even men such as Phillip the evangelist and one of the seven deacons who reveal the qualification of these signs and wonders in that it was said they were mean full of FAITH and the HOLY GHOST. And all this agrees with Mark 16 of which some would like to rip from the pages of their bibles but nevertheless it remains to this day.. "these signs shall follow them that believe.. they shall lay hands on the sick and the sick shall be healed." Yes God can heal a wheel chair bound person today and it does not matter if her legs are atrophied by disuse any more than it did when Peter said.. silver and Gold have I none but such as I have give I thee, in the name of Jesus Rise up and walk!" But when Jesus comes back will He find faith on the earth? Or will he find a church that has constructed religous sounding nice explanations about why we should not have faith for such things today. A people that will say they have faith in a God who is far off and of whom they do not expect anything today is lip service and demonstrates no faith at all. It is one thing to say God if it be they will heal me one day in the future. It is another to go out on a limb and say I believe I receive RIGHT NOW and expect something to happen. CONTINUED NEXT POST |