Isaiah 53:4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
1 Peter 24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
I was born again in 2001. Around 2007 I was diagnosed with cancer. How could that be because the scripture said that “by his stripes I was healed” and when I was born again I thought God made me whole in every area of my life. Let me tell you I was then and I am now sold out for Jesus. I had read this scripture over and over and I couldn’t understand it. If I was healed and made whole 2000 years ago (or when I was born again) why was I being diagnosed with cancer. I knew that God’s word was true, but it must be my lack of understanding. Everywhere I went people quoted, “by his stripes you are healed”. 1 Peter 2:24 by his stripes we WERE healed. Here I was sick. Then the religious people would say, “ Oh you just don’t believe and you are just going to have to try harder to believe you are healed”. Well, that frame of thinking kind of put the burden back on me that I just wasn’t believing good enough or I didn’t have faith enough. Well, God said all you needed was a grain of mustard seed faith and you could move mountains. To further my evidence that the scripture meant more was because they would use their obedience to God as the reason they were not sick or they were rich. I knew people who denied God with their mouths and lived to be 100, and I knew people that denied God with their mouths that were rich. So that theory could not be true.
One day I was listening to Bob George on People to People (a question and answering Bible segment) and this lady had called in and she quoted the scripture, “but by his stripes I was healed” and his response, “that isn’t what that mean”. My curiosity was really up then, but he never explained what it meant and I never ever heard him talk about that. A few weeks later God had me studying again about the flesh, etc. How there was NO GOOD THING in the flesh. Another nugget God dropped for my hearing was our flesh was the only thing now that was separating us from God. The more you meditate on that the better it gets.
I was listening to a television healing program and they kept quoting that scripture, “by his stripes you are healed, by his stripes you were healed”, It still did not make any sense. I ran to my husband and presented it to him that it just didn’t make sense. In the inside I was crying out to God, “help me, help me with my understanding”. Then my husband said, “there is still sin and there is sickness”. I just dismiss it in my mind and went back to my silence.
It is like God immediately released the truth out of my spirit into my mind so I could understand. It was like a light bulb went off. My husband was right, there is still sin and sickness. Even in those who God calls his family. His Son Jesus bored all that sin and sickness so that we could be back in relationship with God. We still sin, we still get sick but we are HEALED from the damage that sin did to us. It separated us from God. We are just walking out this life in the flesh, but our real life is in Jesus. It is all about a spiritual healing. John 9 is a clear picture of this healing. Even though this man was presented as physical blindness it was truly a spiritual blindness and it wasn’t his sin or his parents sins that did it; God wanted to manifest himself in him so that God would get ALL the glory.
All I can say is let them who have an ear; let them hear what the spirit of the Lord is saying.
I am in no way saying that God doesn’t still heal physical sickness supernaturally, and I am not saying that how a man thinks in his heart that it isn’t so. I am not saying that God will not give you the desire of your heart which could be healing. I am saying that everyone gets sick and nothing is contingent on your obedience to God in your flesh because your flesh profits you nothing. I’m saying “being BORN of GOD is everything. Being sick is nothing.
I finally get it and all I can say is Thank You Jesus.
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mmm i so disagree and heres why, i too was born again in 2001 and was given the revelation that we are all healed and we are now citizens in the kingdom of Heaven, our true position is in CHRIST, old things have passed away we are a new creation, i was diagnosed with eight tumors went down to 89 pound and even had my thyroid removed, i had to make a decision as to what i believed, and use the faith that jesus gave me and respond to HIS grace, yes we live in a fallen world and yes the flesh profits nothing, but we have been given authority over our flesh other wise we wouldnt be commanded to heal the sick raise the dead and cast out demons, we live in a church age that is weak we donot agree on such elementary matters such as healing and so we see much sickness and sin in the body, I CHOSE to BELIEVE Gods word and his finished work at the cross , i got out from under the authority of doctors( not saying thare bad) but the didnt have the final say God does, today i am healthy, i purposed my healing with gods promises and my thyroid has grown back, i no longer worry over getting sick and i dont get sick its not part of the atonement. i belived before it manifested in my body really believed and trust Jesus just like how we recieved salvation and now i recieve other promises as well and then they manifest, God still loves you even if you dont get better and he wont force his will on you be blessed!
Praise God for your healing and I do believe that God is still in the healing business. I also believe that as a man thinks in his heart so is he. That is the way God made us. But consider this: God did command us to heal the sick, raise the dead and cast out demons, but that is today spiritual. People who are not in Christ are sick, they are dead and some have demons. If Jesus work on the cross was healing our physical bodies and it was a “finished” work then why to we die. That to me just doesn’t make sense to me. I have studied and studied asking so many questions of God. Trying to understand if I was made whole at the moment I received his Spirit, then why did I get sick. I always know that I am a winner because Christ causes us to triumph every time. I appreciate your comments and I do understand. I believe God’s Word as well and it is my final authority; for I sit at the father’s table daily and partake of his goodness, his teaching, his guidance every moment I’m awake. It is all in the understanding. He says those who have an “ear” let them “hear” what the word of God is saying. As we learn and seek him we get more and more understanding that we see things as he see them.
He is an awesome God!
Love You