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DIVINE  HEALING

Study provided by Tom Kent.      Many people ask if God still heals today? Of course the answer is yes. However, we all know that diseases and infirmities are a part of life. Everyone, even well know faith healers, get sick.       A few people have claimed that physical healing is found in the atonement of Christ. The passage in Isaiah 53:5 is also found in 1 Peter 2:24: He himself bore our sin in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. This clearly shows us that the healing spoken of in these passages is primarily spiritual and not physical.       There are some teachers that have tried to tie the healing into the atonement of Christ by taking passages like Isaiah 53:4 and 5 out of context. It is so very easy to see that physical healing is not part of the atonement. Simple common sense will tell you this. The fact is everyone in the world still gets sick. No person would ever get sick if what these faith healers say is true but even the most renowned of these eventually die. Kathryn Kuhlman suffered from heart disease for nearly twenty years and finally died from it. Kenneth Hagin died of heart disease after spending many days of suffering in a cardiac care unit. Oral Roberts has had open heart surgery and now wears a pace maker. Joyce Meyers is being treated for breast cancer. E.W. Kenyon died in a coma brought on by a malignant tumor. The list could go on and on. The fact is that everyone is going to die. Even every one of the faith healers will get sick and die. That is just part of life. We live in a fallen world and sickness and disease will always be a part of the human condition until the second coming of Christ.       Of course we must be open to the reality that it may not be God's will for everyone to be healed of all their sickness or disease, as we can see in the life of Paul. God allowed Paul to suffer from physical disease, for His glory (2 Corinthians 12:7-10).       True faith involves a complete surrender of our lives to the will of God, whatever the circumstances are, even when God chooses not to heal us. We are willing to be healed, or willing to remain in sickness, or even willing to die. We are willing to pray in complete faith as Christ did in the garden, "If it be Thy will." There is no scriptural evidence that it is God's will to heal every person. Many times, our being sick shows us that we are Spirit-filled, as we find the Holy Spirit helping us in the midst of our illness.       If God allows us to be sick and refuses to heal us, we should joyfully accept His will and glorify Him through every situation He chooses to lead us.