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NASB | 1 Peter 2:24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 2:24 He personally carried our sins in His body on the cross [willingly offering Himself on it, as on an altar of sacrifice], so that we might die to sin [becoming immune from the penalty and power of sin] and live for righteousness; for by His wounds you [who believe] have been healed. |
Subject: How can God let us go through pain? |
Bible Note: I have seen cancer patients healed by faith in Jesus Christ and through prayer for healing. The Doctors might call it by names such as remission but if it does not come back it would be the same as a healing and so not worth arguing over. I remember when we prayed for a lady who is now healed. She had others around her that were planning her funeral. These people said they were Christians, and they did pray for her, but they never prayed for her to be healed, because they thought that would be too hard for God. OK, honestly I am sure they never said those words, but that is why Christians do not believe that God heals today, they simply find it hard to believe that God can heal. Oh yes they believe it happened in the NT. But then that was 2000 years ago and to acknowledge you believe that it happened then does not require any faith. I know that is a strange sounding statement but it is true nevertheless. It takes no faith at all to say thay you believe the story about Lazuras is true, or of the blind man Bartimaeus. But ask them to pray for this dear sister that was suffering from cancer to be healed like in the stories of the Bible and they quickly try to fish up an doctrine about how God turned in his healing card around 90 AD. I will tell you that many suffer and die becuase no one will pray for healing. Now that being said many might die and not be healed. I will not say it is always about not having faith. Sometimes if a person is ready to go to heaven (they are born again and fellowship with Christ in holiness) they may be healed by dieing. For the death of the saint is precious in the eyes of the Lord. Someone has called it the 'ultimate healing.' But if a person does not know the Lord and has sown to the flesh all their lives is God culpable if the sinner suffers in agony and disease? God forbid. The warning has been sounded for these many centuries, that if a man sows to the flesh of the flesh they shall reap corruption. But who are we to judge? you ask. Whether we judge the reason for human suffering or silently look on, the laws of reaping and sowing continue,. seed time and harvest.. cold and heat.. And whether we are honest and recognize that we are always more to blame for human suffering .. or we decide to belligerently blame God in the light of all the warnings issued for these thousands of years.. either way, God's voice will be heard, and in the end God will be justified, and found True, and righteous, and Just, and man found to be the blame. About the woman that was healed cancer... I was there when believers in the Word of God came to the prayer meeting and laid hands on her and spoke an abundance of scriptures on healing until faith arose in her heart and she was healed. I remember when some who were there kept trying to cast doubt saying .. "god does not always heal... and it may not be his will to heal.." and these saints were rebuked in love and asked to only pray scripture. After that the prayer changed and she was healed. In the bible there is more than one example when doubters are made to leave a room. I cannot explain why God has set it up that way. But He has. Often we receive not because we ask not. You think God would withhold blessing from someone because they did not ask? I think we withhold it from ourselves when we do not ask. Faith pleases God, not passive indifference. And the more fervent the faith, the greater the results. If when you pray for sick people you ask those that are there to only pray healing scriptures, then what happens is that the prayers turn to positive faith prayers. May God bless you in your study of His Word. |