Healing:  Blockades to receiving Healing: Sin

This document is written to obedient believers, who want to obey God’s will and command to heal the sick. 

Personal Sin

A sick person’s sin is not always the cause of sickness, but it can give the devil a foothold to bring maladies into them.

 

Psalm 38:3
Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; my bones have no soundness because of my sin.
(Whole Chapter: Psalm 38 In context: Psalm 38:2-4)

 

Proverbs 14:30
A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
(Whole Chapter: Proverbs 14 In context: Proverbs 14:29-31)

 

Isaiah 64:7
No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away because of our sins.
Isaiah 64:6-8 (in Context) Isaiah 64 (Whole Chapter)

 

Then again, many unbelieving sinners are very healthy physically.  So never look down on sick people. God explained His will to keep His people healthy and heal them is based upon the condition of obedience to His commands.

 

John 5

The Healing at the Pool
1Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 2Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[1] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.[2] 5One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
7"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."
8Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." 9At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."
11But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "
12So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?"
13The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." 15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

 

            Exodus 15

26 He said, "If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD , who heals you."

 

God has always been the healer.  He has been ever since Adam and Eve brought death and sickness into the world through their sin.  So in that sense, you could say that “all sickness is caused by sin”:  Original/Adamic Sin, or personal sin. However, you can’t blame God for Adam’s mistake, and you can’t just blame the sick person either.

 

John 9
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
1As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
3"Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.

 

Blaming accomplishes nothing.  Diagnoses can be productive and redemptive if it points to Christ as Savior unto our righteousness in Him, and as Deliverer from the curse of all sickness which is ultimately caused by someone’s sin – even all the way back to Adam.

 

This document is an important part of the document on Blockades to God’s will and command in healing the sick. 

 

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