The Bible Secret of Divine Health by Gordon Lindsay

Author:Gordon Lindsay
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780899850238
Publisher: Christ for the Nations, Inc.
Published: 1995-10-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Does the New Testament Teach Divine Health?

We see that both the Old and New Testaments teach divine healing. We have also seen that the Old Testament goes beyond teaching healing to divine health. Does the New Testament teach this also?

It is significant that not one leading character in the New Testament was sick. There was sickness in the New Testament Church, of course, but it was not praised. In fact, Paul considered it an indication of something seriously wrong.

For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep (I Cor. 11:29,30).

Here Paul explains why members of the Church are sick. He in no way suggests that sickness is a blessing, but rather that it comes because of serious neglect.

In this passage, Paul was talking to the Corinthians about communion. Most believers agree the cup represents the blood of Christ, shed for their sins. However, they are less knowledgeable about the bread—Christ's body which was broken for our body. Many Christians, even those who believe in healing, have not discerned the Lord's body—that He already bore their sickness in His body. Paul says "many are weak and sick" and "many sleep" because they have not discerned the Lord's body.

FACT SEVEN: It is important during communion that each believer not only discern the cup as representing the blood of Christ, shed for the remission of his sins, but also that the bread is a token of the body of Christ, broken for His body.

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