Possessing Your Healing by Kynan Bridges

Author:Kynan Bridges [T. Bridges, Kynan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780768442045
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.

CHAPTER 10

Sin’s Effect on Healing

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him (James 5:15).

A common misconception that we hear concerning healing is that sin will prevent the believer from being healed. This is neither scripturally nor logically sound.

Many people have been told by well-intentioned and not so well-intentioned leaders in the Church that the reason they are sick is because they have sin in their lives. It just does not match what the Word of God has to say. I will continue to reiterate that every theological belief that we hold must be based on the uncompromised Word of God. Many people say they believe the Word of God, but they try to nullify it through reason and logic.

You will never receive the blessing of healing by dismissing what the Word of God says concerning healing.

WHO SINNED?

In the Gospel of John, Jesus was asked by His disciples whether a particular man was born blind because of his parents’ sin or his own sin (see John 9:2). At that time, people related all sickness to sin or evil.

Now it is important to note that all sickness originated from sin and is inherently evil because it is outside of the original plan of God. However, in the matter of this man, Jesus said something very interesting: “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him” (John 9:3).

Here Jesus changed things up and presented a viewpoint that is both counter-religious and countercultural. They lived in a society of extreme self-righteousness and superstition. Yet Jesus deflated both of those paradigms.

The reason given for the blindness was not sin, but an opportunity for the works of God to be manifest. The man’s condition was clearly an evil that needed to be addressed, but the man was not encouraged to have a mentality that made him feel unworthy of healing.

Well, did the sickness come from God? The Bible makes it emphatically clear through this passage. If God was the one responsible for the man’s blindness then it would not say that the work of God should be made manifest, because the blindness itself would have been a work of God.

The same apostle John wrote the following in First John 3:8:

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

JESUS CAME TO DESTROY SICKNESS

Scripture says that Jesus came to destroy the works of the evil one. Blindness was a work of the evil one that needed to be destroyed. How was it destroyed? By Jesus manifesting the works of God in healing the blind man.

The important point here is that sin was by no means a barrier to Jesus’ ability to heal. Many people have been convinced that they are sick because of sin;

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