Monthly Archives: January 2020

A: God’s desire for the Christian is ultimate healing.  Revelation 22:2 says, “Through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”  This is one of the last activities we see of God in Scripture, and it refers to the reality of the New Heavens and the New Earth that will come down after the Last Judgment at the return of Christ. God will usually heal a sickness on the earth in the fallen world one way or another, but not always. Everyone gets sick sometimes.  Almost everyone recovers.

Three disabled people looking at the sunset. Idea of healing and hope.

God has given the body ways to heal itself, he has given us doctors and medicine, and he has given us the Holy Spirit and people of faith to pray for healing.  In this world where the Kingdom of God has not fully come, sometimes healing is delayed.  But because of Christ, everyone on the New Earth will be healed. Don’t stop praying for healing in this life, but know with certainty that the next life will bring perfection and healing.

God’s plan for the Christian is that one day there will be no pain, no weeping, only health and joy. If he makes you wait for that great day, then he has a purpose in it. It doesn’t change the fact that sickness and disease is demonic, but God will do away with satan and demons in that great day.  It is his promise (Rev 20:10). And he will do away with their evil works on the same day.

A: Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  Make no mistake, you have sinned, and that sin deserves death.  Romans 3:9-12 says,

For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written:  “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.  All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.

There is no one who has not sinned. 1 John 1:8 says, “If we say we are without sin, we deceive ourselves.” The punishment for our sin is death.  But…

Jesus Christ paid that penalty for us, so, while we do deserve punishment for our sin, we do not pay the price, because Jesus did.

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed (Isa 53:5).

With his wounds we are healed. Our sickness and disease is demonic and it is because of sin in the world, but it is not usually directly related to our sin. Jesus’ disciples asked him about a man born blind.

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him (Jn 9:1-3).

In this case, the only reason this man was sick was so that God would be glorified in his healing. God is not punishing you. If you are sick because of your sinful lifestyle that has taken a toll on the body, you will know that.  But Christ has paid the penalty and taken your punishment for your sin.