30/10/2025
Is It God’s Will To Heal You?
Scripture reveals the nature of God to us. It also
reveals the attitude of God toward sin, sickness, and
disease. God’s nature has not changed through the ages.
Neither has His attitude changed toward sin, sickness,
and disease.
You need to know this in order to understand divine
healing. In fact, the first principal fact you should know
about divine healing is: It is God’s will to heal you,
because healing is in His redemptive plan.
The Bible says that in the mouth of two or three
witnesses every word shall be established (Matt. 18:16).
Notice that the following texts from Isaiah, Matthew, and
First Peter all agree that Jesus took our infirmities and
bore our sicknesses.
ISAIAH 53:4,5
4 Surely he [Jesus] hath borne our griefs [sicknesses], and carried
our sorrows [diseases]: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of
God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for
our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and
with his stripes we are healed.
This passage of Scripture is taken from the King James
Version. A good reference Bible will have a marginal note
by the words “griefs” and “sorrows” (v. 4) to tell you that
the Hebrew words are literally “sicknesses” and
“diseases.” Dr. Isaac Leeser’s translation of The Hebrew
Bible, a translation authorized for use by Orthodox Jews,
reads: “Our diseases did he bear himself, and our pains
he carried: while we indeed esteemed him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted.”
MATTHEW 8:17
17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the
prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our
sicknesses.
This text is clearer yet. Matthew is quoting Isaiah. If
you check the reference, you’ll find that he is quoting
Isaiah 53:4. I like to say it this way: “Jesus took my
infirmities and bare my sicknesses.”
I read this verse for years before I understood what it
was saying: Jesus actually—literally—took the cause of
our sickness and disease. He took our infirmities and
bare our sicknesses. We know that Jesus was made to be sin for us (2 Cor.
5:21). The object of His sin-bearing was that we might be
free from sin, and the object of His sickness-bearing was
that we might be free from sickness. This truth is also
reflected in First Peter 2:24:
1 PETER 2:24
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by
whose stripes ye were healed.
Thus, three witnesses—Isaiah, Matthew, and Peter—tell
us not only that Jesus shed His blood for the remission of
our sins but that with His stripes, we were healed. Some
people do not believe this. I once read a commentary
whose author said that “by whose stripes ye were
healed” does not mean physical healing; it means
spiritual healing. So according to the commentary, your
spirit is healed by His stripes.
God, however, does not heal the spirit of the sinner. He
recreates it and makes the person a new creature.
Jeremiah and Ezekiel, prophesying in the Old
Testament, said, “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel. . .”; “. . . and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will
take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them
an heart of flesh” (Jer. 31:31; Ezek. 11:19).
Those who believe that God heals man’s spirit do not
believe that man ever failed or sinned. Their unscriptural
propaganda says that all of us have a spark of divinity
that God needs to perfect. No! A sinner needs to be born
again to become a new man—the new creature described
in Second Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore if any man be in
Christ, he is a NEW CREATURE: old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new.” (The marginal
note here says that he is a “new creation.”)
When a person gets healed, however, old things do not
pass away and become new—just the sickness passes
away. The part that was diseased becomes new. (If I have
a boil on my nose and that boil gets healed, I don’t get a
new nose. It’s the same nose I always had. Just the
diseased part is gone.)
Therefore, First Peter 2:24 does not mean spiritual
healing; it means just what it said. As I read further from
this gentleman’s commentary, I thought, If this means
spiritual healing, then the Lord Himself didn’t know it
and He made a mistake. I was recalling an incident that
happened during a meeting I held in Oklahoma.
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