The Grace of Healing by Bob Yandian & Rick Renner

Author:Bob Yandian & Rick Renner
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Harrison House Publishers
Published: 2020-05-19T07:00:00+00:00

Isaiah Foretold of Jesus Bearing Our Sicknesses

When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet [Isaiah 53:4], saying: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses” (Matthew 8:16-17) (Author comments bracketed).

In the midst of individual healings in Matthew chapters 8 and 9, this verse is quoted from Isaiah as the basis for Jesus being able to heal all who came to Him of every disease. This passage in Matthew 8 has been very controversial among scholars who do not believe Jesus took our sickness on the cross along with our sins. They believe Jesus only took our sins when He died for us. They teach that our pains and sicknesses can be healed, but it is outside the work of the cross. In other words, healing is left to the sovereignty of God, not the grace of God. The Holy Spirit, through Matthew, correctly translates the two Hebrew words in Isaiah 53:4, koilia and makob as “infirmities” and “sicknesses,” instead of “griefs” and “sorrows.” In Isaiah 53, verse 4 addresses our sicknesses and verse 5 addresses our sins.

The cross cries out loudly of the grace of God. And anything which comes by way of the cross arrives to us through God’s grace and is available simply through our faith. Many scholars say anyone can trust God for salvation, but one has to wait on God’s sovereign will to be displayed for healing. It is also taught by these teachers that if you are not saved, it is not God’s fault but yours. You simply did not receive what was available for all mankind. But if you do not receive healing after asking for it, it is not your fault but God’s choice. His sovereign will for you was not to be healed. Again, if you remove any work of Jesus from the cross, you remove it from God’s plan of grace.

But Healing Is Also a Grace

But the Holy Spirit emphatically included healing as part of Jesus’ work for us on the cross. He took a verse that scholars only attribute to salvation and said it included healing of all our diseases as well as salvation from all our sins. Jesus said on many occasions that the healing was manifested in the bodies of those who were sick because of their faith. He told the woman with the issue of blood, “…Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction” (Mark 5:34). The lame man at the Gate Beautiful was raised up and made whole by his faith in Jesus’ name (Acts 3:16). Jesus told the leader of the synagogue, concerning the raising up of his daughter from the dead, “…Do not be afraid; only believe” (Mark 5:36). Faith receives what God gives in grace.

In Grace, Jesus Took Our Place so We Could Take His Place

A story is told in Genesis 48 of the events just before the death of Jacob.

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