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Do you really think that Jesus would have a more compassionate response to you today? Absolutely not! I’ve failed. I don’t always see healing manifest. I’ve had to accept partial responsibility. Am I condemned by that? No, I’m not condemned at all. I believe that God loves me. He has comforted me. But knowing the truth has motivated me to learn what His Word says and not allow it to happen again. It’s God’s will to heal every single person every single time. The reason this doesn’t happen isn’t because God fails to do it; it’s because His representatives aren’t operating in the fullness of what He has provided for them. I’d rather maintain God’s integrity than my own. God is a good God, and He isn’t causing people to die. There are three main reasons people get sick. One of them is sin. | Do you really think that Jesus would have a more compassionate response to you today? Absolutely not! I’ve failed. I don’t always see healing manifest. I’ve had to accept partial responsibility. Am I condemned by that? No, I’m not condemned at all. I believe that God loves me. He has comforted me. But knowing the truth has motivated me to learn what His Word says and not allow it to happen again. It’s God’s will to heal every single person every single time. The reason this doesn’t happen isn’t because God fails to do it; it’s because His representatives aren’t operating in the fullness of what He has provided for them. I’d rather maintain God’s integrity than my own. God is a good God, and He isn’t causing people to die. There are three main reasons people get sick. One of them is sin. | ||
<blockquote>''<big>“</big> <small><sup>14</sup></small> Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. - [[John 5:14]] <ref>King James Version (KJV)</ref></blockquote> | |||
Jesus made it very clear in this verse that this man’s sickness returning, and even something worse than what he’d had, could come on him if he sinned. When alcoholics drink all of their lives and get liver disease, they did that to themselves—not because God did it, not because the devil did it directly, but because they’re reaping the results of their sin ([[Romans 6:21-23]]). | |||
<blockquote>''<big>“</big> <small><sup>21</sup></small> What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. <small><sup>22</sup></small> But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. <small><sup>22</sup></small> For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - [[Romans 6:21]], [[Romans 6:22|22]], [[Romans 6:23|23]] <ref>King James Version (KJV)</ref></blockquote> | |||
The second major reason we get sick is because we are in a battle with the devil. Sometimes our Enemy just fights us, and it’s not based on an individual sin we’ve committed. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. John 9:2-3 | |||
<blockquote>''<big>“</big> <small><sup>21</sup></small> And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? <small><sup>22</sup></small> Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. - [[John 9:2]], [[John 9:3|3]] <ref>King James Version (KJV)</ref></blockquote> | |||
===Part Five: The Law of Faith=== | ===Part Five: The Law of Faith=== | ||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == | ||
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