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Authors: Praying Medic
I pinched the skin above her ankle. “I can feel you pinching me.” All the numbness in her leg was now gone.
My EMT partner, who had never worked with me before and had never seen a miracle, looked on in quiet amazement. The silence was broken when she finally said, “I think you may have just made a believer out of me.”
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The Biblical Basis for Healing
H EALING IS THE SUBJECT OF much debate, both inside and outside the church. There are many skeptics who would challenge the validity of divine healing. Some doubt healing itself, insisting that there is no clinical evidence demonstrating that healing is a real phenomenon. Others challenge the idea of healing as a biblical principle that is valid for today. In this chapter, we’ll survey the most relevant passages of Scripture showing that healing is not only relevant today, but that it’s a biblical imperative.
The Old Testament is rich with passages that teach the people of God about His character and nature. Each of God’s names, which are found in the Old Testament, describe something about Him that was unknown at the time. In Exodus 15:26, God revealed that one of His names is, “Jehovah Rapha”…
“I AM the LORD, who heals you.”
The literal translation of this name is:
“I AM your healing.”
Healing is one of God’s unchanging attributes, and although God’s plans may change, He himself never changes (see Mal. 3:6). If God’s nature was to heal then, it is still His nature to heal today.
When God’s people rebelled against Him, serpents entered their camp. God told Moses to make a serpent of brass and put it on a pole in the middle of the camp and anyone who looked at it would be healed. God made a way for people to escape death and be healed. All they had to do was turn their eyes upon the brass serpent. Many did, but some did not. Healing has always been like this. It is available to all who desire to be healed, but it is never forced upon anyone (see Num. 21:8-9).
Before He was crucified, Jesus compared the death He would suffer to the time when Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness:
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
JN. 3:14-17
Jesus came to give His life as a ransom for many. His death demonstrated God’s unconditional love for us and His desire to forgive sin. He came to reconcile those who were alienated and redeem that which was lost. He came to teach those who lived in darkness and to reveal the Father’s heart to His creation. Nowhere is God’s mercy and compassion more clearly demonstrated than in the healing miracles performed by the Rabbi who called himself the “Son of Man.”
When Jesus suffered beating and death on the cross, not only did He obtain salvation for us, but He obtained our healing. In Isaiah 53, the prophet declared the things the Messiah would suffer and how His suffering would benefit us:
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned – every one – to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
ISA 53:4-6, NIV
In this passage Isaiah sees four things that are taken from us:
• Our griefs
• Our sorrows
• Our transgressions
• Our iniquities
He sees two things that are given to us:
• Peace
• Healing
With His suffering and death, Jesus purchased not only our freedom from
My EMT partner, who had never worked with me before and had never seen a miracle, looked on in quiet amazement. The silence was broken when she finally said, “I think you may have just made a believer out of me.”
2
The Biblical Basis for Healing
H EALING IS THE SUBJECT OF much debate, both inside and outside the church. There are many skeptics who would challenge the validity of divine healing. Some doubt healing itself, insisting that there is no clinical evidence demonstrating that healing is a real phenomenon. Others challenge the idea of healing as a biblical principle that is valid for today. In this chapter, we’ll survey the most relevant passages of Scripture showing that healing is not only relevant today, but that it’s a biblical imperative.
The Old Testament is rich with passages that teach the people of God about His character and nature. Each of God’s names, which are found in the Old Testament, describe something about Him that was unknown at the time. In Exodus 15:26, God revealed that one of His names is, “Jehovah Rapha”…
“I AM the LORD, who heals you.”
The literal translation of this name is:
“I AM your healing.”
Healing is one of God’s unchanging attributes, and although God’s plans may change, He himself never changes (see Mal. 3:6). If God’s nature was to heal then, it is still His nature to heal today.
When God’s people rebelled against Him, serpents entered their camp. God told Moses to make a serpent of brass and put it on a pole in the middle of the camp and anyone who looked at it would be healed. God made a way for people to escape death and be healed. All they had to do was turn their eyes upon the brass serpent. Many did, but some did not. Healing has always been like this. It is available to all who desire to be healed, but it is never forced upon anyone (see Num. 21:8-9).
Before He was crucified, Jesus compared the death He would suffer to the time when Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness:
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
JN. 3:14-17
Jesus came to give His life as a ransom for many. His death demonstrated God’s unconditional love for us and His desire to forgive sin. He came to reconcile those who were alienated and redeem that which was lost. He came to teach those who lived in darkness and to reveal the Father’s heart to His creation. Nowhere is God’s mercy and compassion more clearly demonstrated than in the healing miracles performed by the Rabbi who called himself the “Son of Man.”
When Jesus suffered beating and death on the cross, not only did He obtain salvation for us, but He obtained our healing. In Isaiah 53, the prophet declared the things the Messiah would suffer and how His suffering would benefit us:
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned – every one – to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
ISA 53:4-6, NIV
In this passage Isaiah sees four things that are taken from us:
• Our griefs
• Our sorrows
• Our transgressions
• Our iniquities
He sees two things that are given to us:
• Peace
• Healing
With His suffering and death, Jesus purchased not only our freedom from
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