The Great Physician

The Great Physician is Jesus Christ.

Part One: A Done Deal

Healing is part of Christ’ Atonement. If He suffered and took stripes on His back for our physical healing, then it is not insignificant. If He thought enough of healing to purchase it for us, then we ought to think enough of it to receive it.

God the Father caused His Son to bear all of our sins and all of our sickness on the cross. Jesus took our disease just as much as He took our sins. The Lord used healing like a bell to get people’s attention and to prove that He did have power on earth to forgive sins.

“ ⁵ When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. ⁶ But there was certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, ⁷ Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? ⁸ And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? ⁹ Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?” - Mark 2:5, 6, 7, 8, 9