Did God Promise to Heal us Now?
The Healing of the Sick
3 Views of Healing
1. Healing on Demand (Provided in the Atonement)
2. Healing as a Miracle (God can choose to heal)
3. Healing has Ceased (Healing as a 1st century sign)
View #1 Healing on Demand
The basic principle of the Christian life is to know that God put our sin, sickness, disease, sorrow, grief, and poverty on Jesus at Calvary…One of your covenant rights is the right to a healthy body (Ken Copeland)
The Bible declares that the work was done 2,000 years ago. God is not going to heal you now—He healed you 2,000 years ago. All you have to do is receive the healing by faith…there will be no sickness for the saint of God…not a headache, sinus problem, not even a toothache—nothing (Benny Hinn)
When the Devil tries to put a symptom of sickness or disease on my body, I absolutely refuse to accept it…I’m healed by the stripes of Jesus (Jerry Savelle)
A person seeking healing should look to God’s Word, not to his symptoms. He should say, ‘I know that I am healed because the Word says that by His stripes I am healed.” (Ken Hagin)
When you have developed your faith to such an extent that you can stand on the promises of God, then you won’t need medicine (Fred K. Price)
Isaiah 53:4-5
4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
View #2 Healing as a Miracle
Scriptural Refutation of View #1
1. Isaiah 53:4 was fulfilled during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ (Matthew 8:16-17)
2. Isaiah 53:5 is about spiritual, not physical, healing
Isaiah 1:5-6, 3:6-7, 61:1, Jeremiah 3:22, Hosea 14:4
3. Isaiah 53:5 is two poetic couplets (synonymous)
4. 1 Peter 2:18-25 shows that Peter understood Isaiah 53:5 to mean spiritual (not physical) healing
5. Healing was done as a visible sign to confirm an inward reality (Matthew 9:1-8)
Scriptural Affirmations of View #2
1. A multitude of anecdotal evidence in both O.T. & N.T.
2. James 5:14-16
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
3. Many times, believers were NOT healed on demand
Job (Job 2:7), Paul (Galatians 4:13), Timothy (1 Timothy 5:23)
Elisha (2 Kings 13:14), Trophimus (2 Timothy 4:20)
4. Our bodily hope is in the future (Romans 8:21-25)
5. The early church believed God could heal, but were primarily administered to non-believers as a sign
View #3 Healing has ceased
1. Referred to as Cessationism (Luther/Calvin/MacArthur)
2. Based on Ephesians 2:20, Hebrews 2:3-4, 1 Cor. 13:8-10
3. Multiple early church fathers indicate cessationism
3 Views of Healing
1. Healing on Demand (Provided in the Atonement)
2. Healing as a Miracle (God can choose to heal)
3. Healing has Ceased (Healing as a 1st century sign)
View #1 Healing on Demand
The basic principle of the Christian life is to know that God put our sin, sickness, disease, sorrow, grief, and poverty on Jesus at Calvary…One of your covenant rights is the right to a healthy body (Ken Copeland)
The Bible declares that the work was done 2,000 years ago. God is not going to heal you now—He healed you 2,000 years ago. All you have to do is receive the healing by faith…there will be no sickness for the saint of God…not a headache, sinus problem, not even a toothache—nothing (Benny Hinn)
When the Devil tries to put a symptom of sickness or disease on my body, I absolutely refuse to accept it…I’m healed by the stripes of Jesus (Jerry Savelle)
A person seeking healing should look to God’s Word, not to his symptoms. He should say, ‘I know that I am healed because the Word says that by His stripes I am healed.” (Ken Hagin)
When you have developed your faith to such an extent that you can stand on the promises of God, then you won’t need medicine (Fred K. Price)
Isaiah 53:4-5
4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
View #2 Healing as a Miracle
Scriptural Refutation of View #1
1. Isaiah 53:4 was fulfilled during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ (Matthew 8:16-17)
2. Isaiah 53:5 is about spiritual, not physical, healing
Isaiah 1:5-6, 3:6-7, 61:1, Jeremiah 3:22, Hosea 14:4
3. Isaiah 53:5 is two poetic couplets (synonymous)
4. 1 Peter 2:18-25 shows that Peter understood Isaiah 53:5 to mean spiritual (not physical) healing
5. Healing was done as a visible sign to confirm an inward reality (Matthew 9:1-8)
Scriptural Affirmations of View #2
1. A multitude of anecdotal evidence in both O.T. & N.T.
2. James 5:14-16
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
3. Many times, believers were NOT healed on demand
Job (Job 2:7), Paul (Galatians 4:13), Timothy (1 Timothy 5:23)
Elisha (2 Kings 13:14), Trophimus (2 Timothy 4:20)
4. Our bodily hope is in the future (Romans 8:21-25)
5. The early church believed God could heal, but were primarily administered to non-believers as a sign
View #3 Healing has ceased
1. Referred to as Cessationism (Luther/Calvin/MacArthur)
2. Based on Ephesians 2:20, Hebrews 2:3-4, 1 Cor. 13:8-10
3. Multiple early church fathers indicate cessationism
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