Healing

Sickness for God’s Glory?

Published June 30, 2011 | By Cornel

This is a subject I feel very strongly about and I am going write about it very bluntly. If you want to make me angry, tell me God permits suffering through sickness for a higher purpose. Not only do I take it personally as an insult to my Dad, but in what way is saying God personally approves of suffering for a higher purpose suppose to give Him any glory? Perhaps like this:

“I give You glory Lord for killing my husband with a heart attack.”

“We praise Your Name for permitting my sister to be diabetic in order to try and draw her closer to you. She really hates You at the moment, but I guess You’re still busy drawing, right? Perhaps make the diabetes worse by letting her lose her eyesight or a leg? That should do the trick. …I hope.”

“Lord, we would be able to give you so much more glory if you would strike this whole congregation with cancer so we could suffer for you day and night in pain and agony. More sickness Lord! Let us suffer for you! Even kill some of us so we can really understand that you came to bring us LIFE and LIFE IN ABUNDANCE, or at least those who are so prideful!”

If this is your idea of glorifying God, you need to think again before you say or believe stupid things. “Come now Cornel, you are taking things a little out of context, you are being too extreme.” I have to be extreme to make my point because most of the “church” seems to believe God places His stamp of approval on certain cases of sickness and suffering for a higher purpose, like His glory, or drawing people closer, or teaching us lessons. Not to mention punishment of sin…

Before somebody jumps on his or her bandwagon, I am not talking about persecution. I am talking about sickness. Persecution is suffering at the hands of other people for preaching the gospel. You have to actually preach the gospel before you can claim persecution, so even there a large part of the ‘church’ is lacking. I am in a new covenant with God. We relate to each other in a totally new way, unlike God has related to man in times past. Sickness is NOT a better promise. Sickness is a curse, even under the old covenant. Those who want to justify sickness and suffering under the banner of God’s sovereign permission, answer me this:

If your sickness is God’s will, aren’t you in rebellion if you go to the doctor or take medicine?

If God both heals and permits sickness, is His Kingdom divided?

If God approves of sickness and suffering but Jesus heals and delivers, then is Jesus in rebellion against God? Is Jehovah Rapha having an identity crisis?

Should we pray for our unsaved friends and family members to get sick so they can be drawn closer to God?

If the Holy Spirit is our teacher and some say God uses sickness to teach us and draw us closer, does that make the Holy Spirit a spirit of infirmity?

Why is there not one account of Jesus NOT healing a sick person and telling them there is purpose in their sickness as opposed to multiple cases of Him, the disciples and the early church healing all?

Did God get glory from restoring the blind boy’s sight in John 9, or by keeping him blind?

If God’s will is to be done on earth AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, and His heavenly will on earth for you is sickness, then doesn’t that mean you will be sick in heaven for all eternity? Or does God have a different will here on earth than He does in Heaven? Is God double-minded?

I can go on and on but hopefully you get the point. For more on this, read ‘Who Are You Representing?‘ and watch these 2 videos:

The Sovereignty of God – Andrew Wommack

Jesus Healed Them All – Ryan Rhoades

In Grace

Cornel

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10 Reasons Why Isaiah’s Prophecy Refers to Physical Healing

Published May 13, 2011 | By Cornel

There are many people who still hold strongly to the belief that Isaiah 53:4-5 exclusively refers to spiritual healing. Here is a list of 10 quick reasons why that can’t be:

Jesus healed real people of real diseases in order to fulfil that prophecy. (Matt 8:16-17). If it were only for spiritual healing, apparently Jesus didn’t know about that interpretation…
Nobody needs spiritual healing. Your spirit wasn’t sick, it was dead (Eph 2:5). Hence the fact that you needed to be born again. You were raised in newness of life, not in an improved version of the old life.
Your new spirit, is united with the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:17). If you need spiritual healing, does that mean the Holy Spirit is sick?
Even if it only refers to sin, physical healing is still available. Death entered through sin (Rom 5:12) and if sin has been dealt with, then it automatically makes death and its infant forms of sickness illegal. You don’t acquit a prisoner and leave him in jail. If you have been set free you don’t go on serving your punishment. Sickness was punishment for sin. Your sin has been forgiven therefore you punishment comes to an end also.
If Isaiah 53:4-5 refers only to spiritual healing, why did Jesus have to suffer physically? The wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23), not beatings and floggings.
The word ‘griefs’ in our English translation of Isa 53:4 is actually a Hebraic word, ‘choliy’ which means sickness. The same word appears 24 times in the old testament and in the majority of cases in reference to physical sickness.
This is not the only prophecy Isaiah made concerning physical healing and Jesus. See for example Isaiah 35:3-6, and Isaiah 61:1-2. Incidentally the latter passage is what Jesus Himself quoted in Luke 4:18-19.
The events of the cross were foreshadowed long before Isaiah made this prophecy. In Numbers 21:7-9 the Israelites were attacked by snakes in the desert because of their sin and they became sick and some even died. Moses was instructed by God to make a bronze serpent and place it on a pole. Whoever looked on the snake got healed and lived. This is a picture of Jesus becoming sin for us. He became the cause of our distress so the effects of it could be dealt with. He became sin to free us from not just from sin but also the punishment for it.
Jesus refers to His flesh as the Bread of life (John 6:51). When we take communion, we remember His body broken for us. For our what? Our sins? No. That’s what the blood is for (Matt 26:28). His body was broken for our healing because His flesh is the bread of life.
The Greek word for salvation and healing is the same word: ‘soterio’, as is the Greek word for saved and healed: ‘sozo’. Jesus also saw them as inseparable because He healed a lame man in order to prove He actually forgives sins (Matt 9:2-7). If physical healing was not what Isaiah was talking about, then Jesus could not offer it as evidence of forgiveness.

Thanks Paul Ellis for teaching me the effectiveness of making lists If anybody wants to add some more reasons to this list, comment below!

In Christ,

Cornel

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Administering The Children’s Bread

Published March 18, 2011 | By Cornel

My good friend Simon Wilson and I took some time to write about the basics of healing in the New Covenant and this manuscript is what we ended up with. I am sure it is a work in progress and additions and will be made as time goes by. We are making it available totally free, so share it around!

We have also given Pete Cabrera Jr and Thomas Fischer permission to use the manual with their own cover for their Power of Attorney Seminars. Check them out on facebook and YouTube, you will learn a lot from them. www.royalfamilyinternational.com

Thanks for the awesome cover design by Ryan James Rhoades of Reformation Designs

Anyway, here is the manuscript. Click on the name to open it, or right-click then ‘Save File As’ to download.