Is it God's Will to Heal Everyone? - Q&A for Jan 16 2020

This week Pastor David Guzik answers the question "Does God always heal everyone?". He takes a look at a publication by Pastor Bill Johnson of Bethel Church, "Jesus Christ is Perfect Theology" and compares it to what the Bible has to say on the topic of Healing and Suffering. Pastor David discusses a theory a lot of Christian movements and churches promote, known as the "Heaven on Earth" approach, saying that what is true for the Kingdom of Heaven is also true for the lifetime we have on this earth.

[labraw]

Phenomenal, one of the most balanced teachings I've ever heard on divine healing 🙂👍👍

[adriel]

Praise God ! He’s led me to you David. I’ve been looking for clarity to everything you spoke about. I have a couple of loved ones that have been captured and manipulated by these false doctrines and teachers. I’ve spend countless nights awake praying for God to send me wisdom so I may be of help in clarifying things for them. Thank you and God bless brother 🙏

[homervargas]

Thank for this great teaching. I am 71 years old and I have never heard this ever explained this before. I have learned alot. Thank you for your teaching.God Bless.

[pamelamyers]

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I have been told yje most ridiculous and condemning reasons for why I am not physically healed now. I am the old lady now. Paul said our old man is deteriorating daily, but our inner msn is being renewed..❤❤

[davidfl]

I'm a pastor with the Assemblies of God and i agree with you 100% .Very good explanation .

[Jport]

Thank you sooo much!!! I have prayed for GOD to show me WHY I am not TOTALLY healed. He did but because my best friend's husband is our Pastor(who believes it's because of our weak faith and we have not received the healing) I ignored it. And in His perfect timing, He led me to your Ministry. Thank you LORD. I am at peace with it now. 🙌🙌🙌

[jet]

Hi David. Thanks for taking the time to talk about this.
I do respectfully disagree with your points though.
1/ You talked about death being a kind of sickness. Galatians 3:13 says we have been redeemed from the curse of the law’ (not the curse of the fall). Death will remain till God restores all things.
Deut 28 ( the curse that we have been redeemed from) speaks in detail of all sorts of diseases, and v61 talks about sickness and plague, not even written in the Law. Christ through his redemption has redeemed us from all of it.

2/ You said that not everything in our redemption is available now.
I fully agree. We only know things in part now, but soon we will see all things clearly. We will only receive our crowns and rewards later. Much of our authority will be established later. There is a lot to look forward to, but healing does not have to be one of them.
Salvation and healing is available today.

“Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, ”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭103:2-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬


3/You did quote James 5:14 but you didn’t keep going to v 15

“Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.”
‭‭James‬ ‭5:14-15‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“The prayer of faith will save the sick”

You said that we should still pray for the sick and believe for healing, but you can not believe (have faith) for healing if you don’t know Gods will or what He has said. Faith comes by hearing. And faith is the substance of the thing hoped for.

Mark 16:18 says

18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

We should be more concerned about offending God rather than people
Why is it an issue to say it’s faith?
Jesus had no problem telling His disciples their faith was too small.

I can’t help but think that this kind of doctrine plays to the people. Instead we should keep seeking, keep standing. Keep fighting. Keep resisting. It’s Christ who gives us the victory but we are called to be believers.
Instead of making excuses for what is written, we should be seeking God for revelation

I have many questions about healing, and have at times prayed for people, including myself and not seen healing.
But I don’t use my experiences to interpret the word of God

I believe let God be true and every man a liar.
If faith can receive the greatest gift of salvation it can sure receive healing.

This kind of doctrine steals peoples faith, not builds it.
Who after listening to this would have said “ I’m one of the few who could be healed by faith”
How would they know they were one of the (lucky) ones. How does somebody know they can’t be healed by faith, when should they quit standing by faith and which scripture gives this direction.


With love in Christ
Danny

[pamelamyers]

Yes. True. Over here in the Western world, we have largely bern taught we are not supposed to SUFFER.

[MichaelCTruth]

This was such a great compassionate view on this subject. I've seen so much abuse in this area. I was subjected to suffering as the result of ignorant uncompassionate church goers.

[platypusponderings]

Hello David. Thanks for taking time to speak at a conference last week in Orange County. You spoke to my daughter regarding missions and it really blessed her. Love, support and appreciate your ministry!

[jessyjonas]

Amen brother
We await the blessed resurrection

[joshuawoodin]

Hello pastor David. I'm very hesitant on observing christain content, I have 4-5 christan youtubers I watch. After observing Jesus himself in the Bible. But I like this video u have done. Im not a bill johnson fan, but it is good he is admitting not all people he prays for will be healed. This is true. So thank u for this pastor David. I minister to a small group at a nursing home, so this video has helped in my ministry and I will clearly tell them that these are ur words not my own. So thank you fellow brother in christ!

[jessyjonas]

Jesus said to her " your brother will rise again." Martha said to him, " I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."
Jesus said to her" I am the resurrection and the life."
John 11:23-25✝️

This was Mary's response to Jesus
I know, not now but then
Jesus's response to her was NOW

Our posture
we ask, we pray and we wait on God
And respond like the Hebrew boys

" We know our God is able ....but even if he does not, we will not serve any other God" Daniel 3:17✝️

[jackiescobie]

I have been thoroughly enjoying your teaching on Jeremiah and your teaching on the parables of the Kingdom in Matthew 13. I am of the opinion that our theology on healing is one such element of corruption in the Kingdom. The message being distorted from that which Jesus demonstrated.

It is of vital importance that as the Church we get our theology on healing and salvation straight...the world needs us! In Psalm 91 we are promised to be satisfied with long life and to be shown God’s salvation...not our man made understanding of salvation. The maybe, maybe not position we have on healing that says ultimately we are healed in eternity isn’t what Jesus demonstrated and isn’t the witness of the New Testament.

Sickness in the Old Testament was a curse and sent as judgement. As another comment rightly pointed out we have been redeemed from the curse of the law (Gal 3:13). He forgives ALL our iniquity, He heals ALL our diseases (Ps 103:3). Neither of these truths are automatic but need to be appropriated by the individual. These are the benefits for those who put their trust in Jesus not universal benefits for all mankind...even though they are available to all mankind...God’s not willing that any should perish (2 Pet 3:9).

Jesus in His earthly ministry went about proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing EVERY disease and EVERY affliction among the people (Matt 4:23). Elsewhere the Bible says He went about doing good and healing ALL who were oppressed of the devil (Acts 10:38). These are facts that make us a little uncomfortable when we think about them because our own experience doesn’t match this let alone exceed it like Jesus promised (John 14:12). And so we ask the question why?

The NT writers provide us with some answers to that question. In 1 Corinthians 11:29-30 we are told that failure to discern the body has brought sickness and death into the church at Corinth. So we consider what it means to discern the body. In Revelation 2:18-29 we are told that sickness, death and great tribulation are sent by the Lord to the church at Thyatira because they tolerate the false prophetess Jezebel who teaches the people to commit idolatry. And we recognise the subtle ways these things can creep in from the warnings in Jude and consider in what ways we have tolerated Jezebel and committed idolatry. We see in Acts 5:1-11 that both Ananias and Sapphira were struck dead for lying about the money they brought as an offering to the Lord. And we soberly reflect on the ways we ourselves compromise and tolerate compromise.

David Guzik stated that people who believe that it is God’s will to heal every time are essentially saying that people who aren’t healed either don’t believe the truth or don’t have enough faith. He has missed two important other factors. Firstly there are natural causes for sickness. All sickness isn’t the result of unbelief or our sin or our lack of faith but sometimes there is a natural cause that a natural remedy will solve. Is there a biblical example of this? Yes. Paul in writing to Timothy instructed him to drink a little wine instead of drinking only water for the sake of his stomach and his frequent ailments (1 Tim 5:23). There is reason to believe his stomach was being affected by drinking the local water and that this could be resolved by avoiding the water and drinking wine instead. Whatever the cause, the remedy here was natural.

The second factor is that we have an enemy who we are told in 1 Peter 5:8 prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. And we recognise that sometimes he succeeds. Sometimes we are overcome by the temptation, sometimes we are overcome by sickness, sometimes we don’t see the sick healed and they die. Sometimes the devil gets the apparent win. But God! Praise the Lord death is not the end. And that even if we die, we win...to live is Christ to die is gain (Phil 1:21). But let us not reduce the Gospel to that which we experience. Let us not constrain God’s will to what we see with our eyes. The Word is the revealed will of God. Bill Johnson is correct to say Jesus is perfect theology...He is the perfect representation of the Father therefore the perfect demonstration of the Father’s will.

I believe we need a fresh revelation of the Lord. The vision of the Lord Isaiah had in Isaiah 6...the Lord high and lifted up seated on His throne and the train of His robe filling the temple (v1). This is our exalted Lord Jesus Christ who when He walked this earth wearing His priestly garments the very edge of His garment when touched healed the people (Matt 9:20 and Matt 14:36)...as many as touched Him were healed. And Isaiah’s response to this vision was to cry out “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips” (v5) His eyes had seen the King and he became acutely aware of his own uncleanness. It was in this context that Isaiah’s lips were cleansed and he was sent to proclaim God’s word.

God give us fresh vision, cleanse our lips so the message we proclaim is the pure gospel of the kingdom and send us out in power with that message into all the world.

[anjaHH]

This is very helpful! Thank you so much!

[charlester]

This came to me at a much needed time. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[cherylchan]

Thank you David for this very balanced, detailed and important Biblical truth every Christian should know. Many Christians hold very extreme views on healing; believing that either God always heal if we have enough faith or that the age of healing has ceased and we should not pray for healing at all. Both views are disturbing and untrue.

[tamsenglishprogress]

Hi Pastor, I have talked to a Vietnamese church leader of All nation church in my country and they said that the people who Jesus didn't heal was minority and special situations like Paul and Timothy, Jesus heals the majority. Could you please share how I can defense in this situation? Thanks!

[kevinstamper]

Philippians 2:27 and 2Timothy 4:20 Paul had to leave 2 Disciples sick, WHY?? Nobody can answer??

[keithbossard]

Who is responsible for a person being sick.
Did not Jesus come to destroy all the works of the devil.
Did Jesus not say healing/deliverance was the children's bread to the Syrophonician woman. But she responded that even dogs get the crumbs that fall from the table.
Her faith made a difference.