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NASB | Romans 8:28 ¶ And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 8:28 ¶ And we know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose. |
Subject: Is God's will prosperity/healing always? |
Bible Note: Gracefull: There is no "explaining away" to do with 2 Peter 2:24. Peter is talking about spiritual regeneration in his book, not physical healing. The suffering servant of Isaiah 53 is a type of Christ, and Isaiah's theme is spiritual restoration, not physcial healing. Come to think of it, Christ is the theme of the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation and Christ is the Messiah, the Savior, our Advocate with the Father, the propitiation for our sins. Sin and atonement, healing of the spiritual fall of man through disobedience -- that is what the Bible is about. Sin came into the world and with sin, death and the things leading to death, such as disease and physical suffering. Eternal life comes when we are healed by the stripes of Jesus that He suffered in His atoning death on the cross. That's our healing. Spiritual, not physical. If we are healed of a physical disease we are going to get another, and then another, and in a few years we are all of us going to die. If we are healed of spiritual disease (regenerated, born again in Christ) it is for all eternity. Which is the more important: temporary healing of a physical malady or permanent healing of a spiritual malady? The Bible is not a handbook on physical healing; actually it lays very little stress on that, very little indeed in comparison to the stress it lays on sin and salvation. Frankly I'm at the end of my tether when I try to fathom the reason why some religious groups put so much stress on physical healing. It's an emphasis that is not borne out in the broad context of God's word..... I am not for a moment saying that divine healing is bunkum. Not by any stretch. God can and, I surely do believe, does heal. The sovereign God has the power to empty every hospital bed on the face of this earth. He heals, and indeed does everything else, according to His will and His purpose. This does not mean that God has delegated to mortal man the power to "name and claim" health or wealth or anything else under the sun. God, I say again, is sovereign. I don't know what that means to you where you live, but down here in Arkansas, friend, that means that God is the boss! --Hank |