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never know what God’s going to…” Do you see how ignorant this is? Do God and the devil ever
swap jobs? There are people who will try to tell you that sometimes the devil heals people, and
there are a lot of people who will tell you that God makes people sick for numerous and varied
reasons. They are just completely ignoring verse after verse of Scripture.
Here’s a third witness. It ought to be established by now, in the mouths of two or three witnesses.
Job 2:7 says that the devil made him sick. Psalm 41:8 says that sickness is an evil thing, a thing
of the devil. In Luke 13:16, Jesus, the Head of the Church, Who knows what He’s talking about,
calls this woman’s physical problem “satanic bondage.” Doesn’t he? I accept that.
Say this out loud:
“Sickness is of the devil. It’s evil, satanic bondage.”
We’re quoting the
Bible.
We are sure, convinced, and persuaded that it’s God’s will—His perfect will—for all of us to be
healed today. Why? Among other reasons, because sickness is a work of the devil.
How about another witness? Acts 10:38 says, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the
Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good…” Did He ever do any evil? Of course
not. He only did good, and what was part of the good He was doing? “He went about doing good
and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him.” According to the Holy
Spirit, speaking here through the Book of Acts, everyone to whom Jesus ministered healing was
oppressed of the devil. It didn’t say He went about doing good and healing people who were
oppressed of God, or that God put sickness on them to teach them something. No, everyone who
Jesus healed, the Scripture says, was satanically oppressed. According to Acts 10:38, sickness
and disease are satanic oppression.
We could keep going, but are four witnesses enough? How many more do we need? In the
mouths of two, it can be established from the Bible.
Let’s go over these again. Job 2:7 says that the devil made him sick. It doesn’t say God did it.
The devil did it. Psalm 41:8 says that disease is evil, a thing of Belial, a thing of the devil. Luke
13:16 says that sickness is satanic bondage, and to the woman who was bound, Jesus said, “She
ought to be free. She ought to be loosed from this satanic bondage.”
You never hear Him saying God was teaching her something, or that it wasn’t God’s timing for
her to be healed yet. You hear that out of the mouths of preachers, or in seminaries, but you
never hear it in the New Testament.
Jesus ministered to a lot of people. The Bible says that multitudes were healed in one day—
multitudes being thousands. (Matthew 12:15; 19:2) It says that as many as had this or that wrong
with them, when they brought them to Jesus, again and again they were healed—every one of
them; they were all healed. Not even one was told, “It’s not time. Sorry, not for you. No, not
yet.” No, all were healed. It says all of them that were healed—and there were many—were all
oppressed of the devil. The devil did it. It was a thing of the devil, satanic bondage, satanic
oppression. Is that enough for us to believe that sickness is bad and that it is a work of the devil?