Through many tribulaciones we must enter the Kingdom of God!!! Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your Faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2-4
God is good in all he does and allows/ permits. God is righeous, this means that he can do no wrong. If you are a true Christian, a Lover of God, then ALL things, including all illnesses and deceases, God is using for your good, as a parent disciplines his child, so our Blessed Father in Heaven disciplines his Chrildren!! He has a purpose in all this, for he has perfect Wisdom. He knows us Best and knows whats Best for us. We can Trust in him. If you dont Trust God, you dishonor him. Pray that he will enable you to Trust in him better, because in our fallen nature, we cant trust in what we dont see, but it is by Faith that we can see the work of God in our lives and in all sercumstances!! God honors those who Trust in him!! May God bless you all! Thanks pastor John for your help, I love the way you Glorify God in your teachings!!
"God is here, there, everywhere, enveloping you, embracing you and giving you purpose, meaning and direction. You do not need to judge God at all because God is not an object. You either accept God or you do not. If you do not accept God, you must create substitutes for God because you must have some sense of purpose, meaning and direction to be in the world. If God is not your purpose, meaning and direction, you will create your own substitutes. You will then make your substitutes your god, and you must love them and serve them, for you must love and serve something in life. Some of these substitutes seem benign, and some are clearly destructive. Yet they all deprive you of true relationship. They all deprive you of real purpose, meaning and direction in your life because a substitute cannot truly provide these things. It can only replace them. A substitute cannot give you what life gives you. It can only mimic what life gives you. It can only stimulate you temporarily. Taken a step further, ultimately you can only have relationship with God or with your ideas because all substitutes must be ideas. Though you may devote your life to supporting these substitutes, fortifying them and attempting to re-experience them, they are in essence only ideas in your mind to which you are attached. That is why the most important and difficult thing for people to give up is their ideas because it is upon their ideas that they base their identity and sense of certainty and stability. To experience your relationship with God, you must begin to set aside the substitutes for God that you have created and that you share with others. God is a pure experience of relationship because God is a pure experience of affinity. This is a pure experience of shared power. This is a pure experience of the right order of authority in your life. It is a pure experience of love and inclusion. If your desire for this relationship is strengthened and if your capacity to experience this relationship is gradually expanded, then you will be able to experience this affinity with God within your meaningful relationships with others and with the world." A quote from a beautiful free online book entitled *Relationships and Higher Purpose* - Chapter 1: Your Most Primary Relationship
In a sense, there is an 'ultimate causation' which God is clearly responsible for. None of us would be here without Him, and no thing can act against His direct will. I want to note: if a particular issue bothers you - theological, spiritual, textual, or what have you - research it. Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life" (from John 14:6) - we have nothing to fear if He's telling the truth, for any truth ultimately points back to Him, and therefore we have nothing to fear in seeking out answers to doubts (even if we don't find answers). While we'll not know everything on this earth, that doesn't mean to seek ignorance, but we should seek the Truth.
Everything that happens in some sense comes from God's hand, and that must include sickness. But it is right that we should aim to look for cures to illnesses and expect God to often heal supernaturally.
@@mountainmonkey15 I would agree that God doesn't usually cause sickness directly. But there are rare instances, such as when Miriam's skin suddenly becomes leprous in Num 12:10.
Many do not understand why people get sickness in their life or why children may be born with a sickness or a disability. They fail to understand that it is sin and sin alone that is destroying their life and the life of their children as well. “But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” I Peter 1:15-16 NKJV “For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.” I Peter 3:12 NKJV We are all born in sin and in ignorance of God’s truth since we are born into a sinful fallen world that is ruled by the devil. God promised to protect us from the devil’s diseases as long as we lived a holy and righteous life by following what He commanded of us. So any person who is not following God’s commands will then lose God’s protection in this evil fallen world. So if a husband and a wife are not living a holy and righteous life as God commanded this then means that they have not learned how to overcome sin. And if they are living in sin then they have now allowed Satan and his demons to enter and destroy their lives. Sin is what opens the door for the devil to torment us with sickness and suffering and yes you will then pass your sin unto your children since even your children are vulnerable to the attacks of Satan’s demons. And yes these attacks can occur both inside and outside of the womb. “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you. You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock. And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.” Deuteronomy 7:12-15 NKJV “So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.” Exodus 23:25-26 NKJV “And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” Exodus 34:6-7 NKJV The iniquity (immoral behavior, sin) of the fathers will visit the children to the third and fourth generations. In other words the sins that the parents are committing will be laid upon their children and their children’s children. Since everyone is born in ignorance of God’s truth this is why God commanded the parents to teach their children His word and truth so that they would then understand how to live righteously and not live in sin. Sickness is simply a curse and it is a sign that we are living in sin and disobeying God and His commands. “You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do-to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him- then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you. “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.” Deuteronomy 11:19-28 NKJV Now certain demons bring sickness or disabilities while others can reek havoc with the sexuality or desires that a child may possess. This is why a child may be born with a sickness, disability or they may even start portraying characteristics of the opposite sex and this is where homosexuality then comes into play. Any problems that your child may have is simply because they are being attacked by a demon spirit. Realize that there are all kinds of demons who bring all kinds of sickness and disease. What doctors call cancer, God calls it a demon. What doctors call leukemia, God calls it a demon. What doctors call Coronavirus, God calls it a demon. What doctors call hereditary or genetics is simply a parent’s sins being passed onto their children through a demon spirit. Every sickness of this evil world is from a demon spirit. Next, understand that doctors and medicines cannot heal anyone and that God does not use doctors in order to heal. Only understanding God’s word and truth can completely heal you. Jesus healed everyone without the use of any doctor. Doctors may be able to subdue the demon’s symptoms but they are not removing the cause of the problem and the demon will eventually return and bring along other demons. “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.” Matthew 12:43-45 NKJV Now there are many believers who do not believe that their sins can be past unto their children and for some it is because they have confused what the Ezekiel 18 scripture is relating to us. This scripture is simply telling us that our eternal fate is based on the sins that we ourselves commit during our lifetime. We will all answer to God for the sins that we ourselves commit so a child will not be eternally condemned for the sins of their parent nor a parent condemned for the sins of their child. This scripture has nothing to do with how we are born into this evil world and it is simply relating that our eternal fate is based on our own actions during our lifetime here on earth. “The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord GOD, “ and not that he should turn from his ways and live? “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.” Ezekiel 18:20-24 NKJV So if you are still finding it hard to believe that what I am relating is absolutely true then maybe comprehending this scripture may help you understand. Psalm 107:17. “Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.” Know what this means? First transgression, it means an act that goes against a rule, a law or a code of conduct. Next iniquity, it means a wicked act or thing, sin. Finally, affliction, it means something that causes persistent pain or suffering. Translated it is saying that you are a fool if you do not follow God’s laws and commands and you go and sin because you will then have pain, suffering and sickness. There is no sickness with God, there never was and there never will be. So if there is sickness in your life then you definitely are living in sin and you certainly lack knowledge of God and scripture. And yes it is certainly possible to live a life where no sickness or disease can ever touch you or your child for I am someone who is living that life.
@@mikerutkowski7265 I know this is old. But thank you. I think you have answered what I've been looking for. I started getting sick two years ago. They think I have copd. But I've gotten so bad now. My lungs hurt and I can't breathe. No energy. But I struggle with sin. A sin I've struggled with since I was a kid. I'm hoping God will cure me if I turn away once and for all from this sin. I can't live like this
@@steveshelton3081 Jesus removed the sickness from EVERYONE who came to Him in faith in scripture and I can testify that Jesus still heals today since I someone who allowed the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ to teach me how to overcome sin and sickness in this lifetime through God’s purification process that is known as sanctification. I can also prove how the majority of believers do not even possess the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ since countless believers still possess sin and sickness in their lives and they do not even realize that sin and sickness is strictly of the devil while righteousness and health are strictly of God. Anyone who truly possesses God’s Holy Spirit is now someone who is being guided by the pure and Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ and so they can no longer sin. So if you are a believer like myself and you believe that you possess the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ then how is it that you are still experiencing sin and sickness in your own life especially since Jesus did not sin nor did Jesus ever get sick and He is same yesterday, today, and forever? In Deuteronomy 28 God related His blessings for those who would obey Him and the curses that will fall on anyone who chooses to live in sin and disobedience. Realize that every sickness is definitely a curse so possessing any type of sickness in your life reveals that you are living in sin and you are disobeying what God commanded of us in scripture. “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE Lord YOUR GOD, then the LORD will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues-great and prolonged plagues-and serious and prolonged sicknesses. Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. Also EVERY SICKNESS and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed.” Deuteronomy 28:58-61 NKJV Nearly every day I am confronted by deceived believers who claim that it is impossible to stop sinning and who foolishly believe that sickness is just a normal part of this life. When these people relate this nonsense they are proving that they have no idea what scripture is relating and how they are actually unbelieving children of the devil. Why? Because their very own words are proving how they will not believe that possessing the Holy Spirit of Jesus can keep their wicked souls from sinning nor will they believe that possessing the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ can protect their souls from the devil’s afflictions. “Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” Mark 9:23 NKJV “Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.” Psalms 107:17 NKJV Know what this above scripture means? First transgression, it means an act that goes against a rule, a law or a code of conduct. Next iniquity, it means a wicked act or thing, sin. Finally, affliction, it means something that causes persistent pain or suffering. So this scripture is relating that you are a fool if you do not follow God’s laws and commands and you go and sin because you will then have pain, suffering and sickness. “But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a multitude being in that place. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.” John 5:13-14 NKJV God does not lie so Jesus would have never instructed the man that He had healed to sin no more if it were impossible for the man to stop sinning. Plus what this above scripture is clearly revealing is how it was the man’s sin that brought the devils afflictions into his life. This is why Jesus warned him that if he did not stop sinning then a worse affliction could come upon him. The apostles were our examples of the overcoming life that is available to someone who is a true believer of Jesus Christ and this is where the huge deception begins since many are foolishly believing that the apostles never learned how to stop sinning. Over and over I am confronted by misguided souls who foolishly believe that scripture is relating that Paul, Peter and the other apostles were believers who continued to sin and these people have no idea how they are proving that they lack knowledge of scripture and that they do not possess the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” Hosea 4:6 NKJV Scripture relates how we are all born in sin and that Jesus was the only person who was born without sin and that He lived His entire life without sinning. But scripture certainly is not relating that we can never stop sinning and it is actually stating the exact opposite. Scripture relates how we need to learn how to overcome our sins by being sanctified in truth through the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ and this is what occurred in the life of the apostles. They were sinners who allowed their Lord and Savior to teach their sinful souls how to overcome their sins by living through the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. Jesus revealed this blessing to us in His prayer for His disciples that is being related in John 17:6:23. Scripture also relates that God does not hear the prayers of sinners and what most foolish people clearly do not understand is that Peter, Paul and the other apostles could never have done the healing miracles that they did if they were still sinners themselves and God was not listening to their prayers. “Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.” John 9:31 NKJV “For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.” I Peter 3:12 NKJV Jesus did not come to call on the righteous and this is because a righteous person is someone who does not sin. Jesus stated that He came to call sinners to repentance which meant to never sin ever again. Why? Because a sinner is an unrighteous person who does wicked things in the eyes of God and scripture clearly relates that an unrighteous person will not inherit the kingdom of God. So there is no possible way that the apostles could have ever kept on sinning and then perform the healing miracles that they did. “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” Luke 5:32 NKJV “For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:20 NKJV “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” I Corinthians 6:9-10 NKJV Jesus did not sin nor did Jesus ever get sick and if you are someone who is living through His Holy Spirit and you are allowing the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ to guide you in your life then it is impossible for you to sin or to get sick as well. Anyone who is truly living with the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ possess the same Spirit and power that raised Jesus from the dead and anyone who claims that they can never stop sinning is certainly proving that they do not possess the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. “He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.” I John 3:8-9 NKJV In closing, this above scripture clearly relates that anyone who sins belongs to the devil and that anyone who is born of God does not and cannot sin and there are no scriptures that ever relate that a sinner is a child of God nor are there any scriptures that ever relate that a sinner belongs to God. Plus there are no scriptures that ever relate that a believer can never stop sinning or that a believer will always sin. There are also no scriptures that ever relate that sickness is a normal part of this life or that a Christian will possess sickness in their life. As I related above, sin and sickness is strictly of the devil and if you possess either in your life then you certainly do not possess the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ.
Is any sick among you? 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 shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
The rationale that God is ultimately responsible for sickness presented by Ps John seems faulty and raises grave questions about God. Let me explain. All sicknesses are the result or effect or cause of Sin. If God is the ultimate "causation of sickness" He has to introduce Sin as a secondary cause. Is holy God the creator of evil? God forbid. The theology of "God uses sickness to teach us or make us" has destroyed the Church. God is not the one who causes the sickness to come into the world but Sin. We all get sick NOT because God makes us sick to teach us under any circumstances nor does He "allow" it. People get sick because there is Sin in the world. God is for us to heal us. That is why He put all our sickness and pain on Jesus and He made Jesus Sickness and Pain as He made Him Sin. By the atoning death of Jesus, we are saved from Sin and sickness (Isa 53:4-6,10 and 1 Peter 2:24). It is amazing to observe that whenever there is mention of salvation from sin, the freedom from sickness i.e. healing follows. So when you are sick pray and believe God for healing. God has a wonderful Word/Scripture (2 Tim 3:16,17) for us to teach us NOT sickness.
Jesus only did what he saw the father do, and Jesus never made anyone sick. He only healed everyone. It would make zero sense for God to make people sick, and then send his son to die for their healing. God allows sickness, but he does not use it to teach lessons. He may allow a sickness but he’s never maliciously causing people to be sick to teach them something. To say God causes sickness is to say God causes little children to get cancer and suffer in pain and die which you didn’t want to bring that up. Because anyone who would cause a little child to suffers in pain and die would be evil and God is good. He heals sickness, he doesn’t cause it.
Acts 10:38 - -"How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing ALL that were oppressed of the (who?) ...the devil: for God was with him." That should clear up any nonsense about Jesus not healing. The oppressor is the devil. Here is another one: "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 YOU WERE HEALED." Healing is past tense. We can also receive healing as well as salvation by faith in Jesus Christ.
I would like to know why does GOD heal some people supernaturally, but not others.No, I do not believe that father GOD causes illnesses. Some people are ill via genetics.
Many do not understand why people get sickness in their life or why children may be born with a sickness or a disability. They fail to understand that it is sin and sin alone that is destroying their life and the life of their children as well. “But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” I Peter 1:15-16 NKJV “For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.” I Peter 3:12 NKJV We are all born in sin and in ignorance of God’s truth since we are born into a sinful fallen world that is ruled by the devil. God promised to protect us from the devil’s diseases as long as we lived a holy and righteous life by following what He commanded of us. So any person who is not following God’s commands will then lose God’s protection in this evil fallen world. So if a husband and a wife are not living a holy and righteous life as God commanded this then means that they have not learned how to overcome sin. And if they are living in sin then they have now allowed Satan and his demons to enter and destroy their lives. Sin is what opens the door for the devil to torment us with sickness and suffering and yes you will then pass your sin unto your children since even your children are vulnerable to the attacks of Satan’s demons. And yes these attacks can occur both inside and outside of the womb. “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you. You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock. And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.” Deuteronomy 7:12-15 NKJV “So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.” Exodus 23:25-26 NKJV “And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” Exodus 34:6-7 NKJV The iniquity (immoral behavior, sin) of the fathers will visit the children to the third and fourth generations. In other words the sins that the parents are committing will be laid upon their children and their children’s children. Since everyone is born in ignorance of God’s truth this is why God commanded the parents to teach their children His word and truth so that they would then understand how to live righteously and not live in sin. Sickness is simply a curse and it is a sign that we are living in sin and disobeying God and His commands. “You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do-to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him- then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you. “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.” Deuteronomy 11:19-28 NKJV Now certain demons bring sickness or disabilities while others can reek havoc with the sexuality or desires that a child may possess. This is why a child may be born with a sickness, disability or they may even start portraying characteristics of the opposite sex and this is where homosexuality then comes into play. Any problems that your child may have is simply because they are being attacked by a demon spirit. Realize that there are all kinds of demons who bring all kinds of sickness and disease. What doctors call cancer, God calls it a demon. What doctors call leukemia, God calls it a demon. What doctors call Coronavirus, God calls it a demon. What doctors call hereditary or genetics is simply a parent’s sins being passed onto their children through a demon spirit. Every sickness of this evil world is from a demon spirit. Next, understand that doctors and medicines cannot heal anyone and that God does not use doctors in order to heal. Only understanding God’s word and truth can completely heal you. Jesus healed everyone without the use of any doctor. Doctors may be able to subdue the demon’s symptoms but they are not removing the cause of the problem and the demon will eventually return and bring along other demons. “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.” Matthew 12:43-45 NKJV Now there are many believers who do not believe that their sins can be past unto their children and for some it is because they have confused what the Ezekiel 18 scripture is relating to us. This scripture is simply telling us that our eternal fate is based on the sins that we ourselves commit during our lifetime. We will all answer to God for the sins that we ourselves commit so a child will not be eternally condemned for the sins of their parent nor a parent condemned for the sins of their child. This scripture has nothing to do with how we are born into this evil world and it is simply relating that our eternal fate is based on our own actions during our lifetime here on earth. “The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord GOD, “ and not that he should turn from his ways and live? “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.” Ezekiel 18:20-24 NKJV So if you are still finding it hard to believe that what I am relating is absolutely true then maybe comprehending this scripture may help you understand. Psalm 107:17. “Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.” Know what this means? First transgression, it means an act that goes against a rule, a law or a code of conduct. Next iniquity, it means a wicked act or thing, sin. Finally, affliction, it means something that causes persistent pain or suffering. Translated it is saying that you are a fool if you do not follow God’s laws and commands and you go and sin because you will then have pain, suffering and sickness. There is no sickness with God, there never was and there never will be. So if there is sickness in your life then you definitely are living in sin and you certainly lack knowledge of God and scripture. And yes it is certainly possible to live a life where no sickness or disease can ever touch you or your child for I am someone who is living that life.
You know what I've been studying this issue and about suffering and evil all of my life over 50 years and you are totally right. God does not cause this or send this. Ask Dr Bruce Little PhD. Ask Dr Frank Turek and many of the best scholars and professors.
help us Lord to see your will regardless of circumstance
Through many tribulaciones we must enter the Kingdom of God!!! Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your Faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2-4
God is good in all he does and allows/ permits. God is righeous, this means that he can do no wrong. If you are a true Christian, a Lover of God, then ALL things, including all illnesses and deceases, God is using for your good, as a parent disciplines his child, so our Blessed Father in Heaven disciplines his Chrildren!! He has a purpose in all this, for he has perfect Wisdom. He knows us Best and knows whats Best for us. We can Trust in him. If you dont Trust God, you dishonor him. Pray that he will enable you to Trust in him better, because in our fallen nature, we cant trust in what we dont see, but it is by Faith that we can see the work of God in our lives and in all sercumstances!! God honors those who Trust in him!! May God bless you all! Thanks pastor John for your help, I love the way you Glorify God in your teachings!!
I hope you’re talking from a place of experience and not some happy go lucky bs
"God is here, there, everywhere, enveloping you, embracing you and giving you purpose, meaning and direction. You do not need to judge God at all because God is not an object. You either accept God or you do not. If you do not accept God, you must create substitutes for God because you must have some sense of purpose, meaning and direction to be in the world. If God is not your purpose, meaning and direction, you will create your own substitutes. You will then make your substitutes your god, and you must love them and serve them, for you must love and serve something in life. Some of these substitutes seem benign, and some are clearly destructive. Yet they all deprive you of true relationship. They all deprive you of real purpose, meaning and direction in your life because a substitute cannot truly provide these things. It can only replace them. A substitute cannot give you what life gives you. It can only mimic what life gives you. It can only stimulate you temporarily.
Taken a step further, ultimately you can only have relationship with God or with your ideas because all substitutes must be ideas. Though you may devote your life to supporting these substitutes, fortifying them and attempting to re-experience them, they are in essence only ideas in your mind to which you are attached. That is why the most important and difficult thing for people to give up is their ideas because it is upon their ideas that they base their identity and sense of certainty and stability.
To experience your relationship with God, you must begin to set aside the substitutes for God that you have created and that you share with others. God is a pure experience of relationship because God is a pure experience of affinity. This is a pure experience of shared power. This is a pure experience of the right order of authority in your life. It is a pure experience of love and inclusion. If your desire for this relationship is strengthened and if your capacity to experience this relationship is gradually expanded, then you will be able to experience this affinity with God within your meaningful relationships with others and with the world."
A quote from a beautiful free online book entitled *Relationships and Higher Purpose* - Chapter 1: Your Most Primary Relationship
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@@oneworldonehome Thanks!
In a sense, there is an 'ultimate causation' which God is clearly responsible for. None of us would be here without Him, and no thing can act against His direct will.
I want to note: if a particular issue bothers you - theological, spiritual, textual, or what have you - research it.
Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life" (from John 14:6) - we have nothing to fear if He's telling the truth, for any truth ultimately points back to Him, and therefore we have nothing to fear in seeking out answers to doubts (even if we don't find answers).
While we'll not know everything on this earth, that doesn't mean to seek ignorance, but we should seek the Truth.
Everything that happens in some sense comes from God's hand, and that must include sickness. But it is right that we should aim to look for cures to illnesses and expect God to often heal supernaturally.
God doesn’t cause sickness directly though. Sickness and disease are just a by product of sin.
@@mountainmonkey15 I would agree that God doesn't usually cause sickness directly. But there are rare instances, such as when Miriam's skin suddenly becomes leprous in Num 12:10.
Many do not understand why people get sickness in their life or why children may be born with a sickness or a disability. They fail to understand that it is sin and sin alone that is destroying their life and the life of their children as well.
“But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
I Peter 1:15-16 NKJV
“For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.”
I Peter 3:12 NKJV
We are all born in sin and in ignorance of God’s truth since we are born into a sinful fallen world that is ruled by the devil. God promised to protect us from the devil’s diseases as long as we lived a holy and righteous life by following what He commanded of us. So any person who is not following God’s commands will then lose God’s protection in this evil fallen world. So if a husband and a wife are not living a holy and righteous life as God commanded this then means that they have not learned how to overcome sin. And if they are living in sin then they have now allowed Satan and his demons to enter and destroy their lives.
Sin is what opens the door for the devil to torment us with sickness and suffering and yes you will then pass your sin unto your children since even your children are vulnerable to the attacks of Satan’s demons. And yes these attacks can occur both inside and outside of the womb.
“Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you. You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock. And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.”
Deuteronomy 7:12-15 NKJV
“So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.”
Exodus 23:25-26 NKJV
“And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
Exodus 34:6-7 NKJV
The iniquity (immoral behavior, sin) of the fathers will visit the children to the third and fourth generations. In other words the sins that the parents are committing will be laid upon their children and their children’s children. Since everyone is born in ignorance of God’s truth this is why God commanded the parents to teach their children His word and truth so that they would then understand how to live righteously and not live in sin. Sickness is simply a curse and it is a sign that we are living in sin and disobeying God and His commands.
“You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do-to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him- then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you. “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.”
Deuteronomy 11:19-28 NKJV
Now certain demons bring sickness or disabilities while others can reek havoc with the sexuality or desires that a child may possess. This is why a child may be born with a sickness, disability or they may even start portraying characteristics of the opposite sex and this is where homosexuality then comes into play. Any problems that your child may have is simply because they are being attacked by a demon spirit. Realize that there are all kinds of demons who bring all kinds of sickness and disease. What doctors call cancer, God calls it a demon. What doctors call leukemia, God calls it a demon. What doctors call Coronavirus, God calls it a demon. What doctors call hereditary or genetics is simply a parent’s sins being passed onto their children through a demon spirit. Every sickness of this evil world is from a demon spirit.
Next, understand that doctors and medicines cannot heal anyone and that God does not use doctors in order to heal. Only understanding God’s word and truth can completely heal you. Jesus healed everyone without the use of any doctor. Doctors may be able to subdue the demon’s symptoms but they are not removing the cause of the problem and the demon will eventually return and bring along other demons.
“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”
Matthew 12:43-45 NKJV
Now there are many believers who do not believe that their sins can be past unto their children and for some it is because they have confused what the Ezekiel 18 scripture is relating to us. This scripture is simply telling us that our eternal fate is based on the sins that we ourselves commit during our lifetime. We will all answer to God for the sins that we ourselves commit so a child will not be eternally condemned for the sins of their parent nor a parent condemned for the sins of their child. This scripture has nothing to do with how we are born into this evil world and it is simply relating that our eternal fate is based on our own actions during our lifetime here on earth.
“The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord GOD, “ and not that he should turn from his ways and live? “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.”
Ezekiel 18:20-24 NKJV
So if you are still finding it hard to believe that what I am relating is absolutely true then maybe comprehending this scripture may help you understand.
Psalm 107:17. “Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.”
Know what this means? First transgression, it means an act that goes against a rule, a law or a code of conduct. Next iniquity, it means a wicked act or thing, sin. Finally, affliction, it means something that causes persistent pain or suffering. Translated it is saying that you are a fool if you do not follow God’s laws and commands and you go and sin because you will then have pain, suffering and sickness.
There is no sickness with God, there never was and there never will be. So if there is sickness in your life then you definitely are living in sin and you certainly lack knowledge of God and scripture. And yes it is certainly possible to live a life where no sickness or disease can ever touch you or your child for I am someone who is living that life.
@@mikerutkowski7265 I know this is old. But thank you. I think you have answered what I've been looking for. I started getting sick two years ago. They think I have copd. But I've gotten so bad now. My lungs hurt and I can't breathe. No energy. But I struggle with sin. A sin I've struggled with since I was a kid. I'm hoping God will cure me if I turn away once and for all from this sin. I can't live like this
@@steveshelton3081 Jesus removed the sickness from EVERYONE who came to Him in faith in scripture and I can testify that Jesus still heals today since I someone who allowed the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ to teach me how to overcome sin and sickness in this lifetime through God’s purification process that is known as sanctification. I can also prove how the majority of believers do not even possess the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ since countless believers still possess sin and sickness in their lives and they do not even realize that sin and sickness is strictly of the devil while righteousness and health are strictly of God.
Anyone who truly possesses God’s Holy Spirit is now someone who is being guided by the pure and Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ and so they can no longer sin. So if you are a believer like myself and you believe that you possess the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ then how is it that you are still experiencing sin and sickness in your own life especially since Jesus did not sin nor did Jesus ever get sick and He is same yesterday, today, and forever?
In Deuteronomy 28 God related His blessings for those who would obey Him and the curses that will fall on anyone who chooses to live in sin and disobedience. Realize that every sickness is definitely a curse so possessing any type of sickness in your life reveals that you are living in sin and you are disobeying what God commanded of us in scripture.
“If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE Lord YOUR GOD, then the LORD will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues-great and prolonged plagues-and serious and prolonged sicknesses. Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. Also EVERY SICKNESS and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed.”
Deuteronomy 28:58-61 NKJV
Nearly every day I am confronted by deceived believers who claim that it is impossible to stop sinning and who foolishly believe that sickness is just a normal part of this life. When these people relate this nonsense they are proving that they have no idea what scripture is relating and how they are actually unbelieving children of the devil. Why? Because their very own words are proving how they will not believe that possessing the Holy Spirit of Jesus can keep their wicked souls from sinning nor will they believe that possessing the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ can protect their souls from the devil’s afflictions.
“Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Mark 9:23 NKJV
“Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.”
Psalms 107:17 NKJV
Know what this above scripture means? First transgression, it means an act that goes against a rule, a law or a code of conduct. Next iniquity, it means a wicked act or thing, sin. Finally, affliction, it means something that causes persistent pain or suffering. So this scripture is relating that you are a fool if you do not follow God’s laws and commands and you go and sin because you will then have pain, suffering and sickness.
“But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a multitude being in that place. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”
John 5:13-14 NKJV
God does not lie so Jesus would have never instructed the man that He had healed to sin no more if it were impossible for the man to stop sinning. Plus what this above scripture is clearly revealing is how it was the man’s sin that brought the devils afflictions into his life. This is why Jesus warned him that if he did not stop sinning then a worse affliction could come upon him.
The apostles were our examples of the overcoming life that is available to someone who is a true believer of Jesus Christ and this is where the huge deception begins since many are foolishly believing that the apostles never learned how to stop sinning. Over and over I am confronted by misguided souls who foolishly believe that scripture is relating that Paul, Peter and the other apostles were believers who continued to sin and these people have no idea how they are proving that they lack knowledge of scripture and that they do not possess the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
Hosea 4:6 NKJV
Scripture relates how we are all born in sin and that Jesus was the only person who was born without sin and that He lived His entire life without sinning. But scripture certainly is not relating that we can never stop sinning and it is actually stating the exact opposite. Scripture relates how we need to learn how to overcome our sins by being sanctified in truth through the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ and this is what occurred in the life of the apostles. They were sinners who allowed their Lord and Savior to teach their sinful souls how to overcome their sins by living through the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. Jesus revealed this blessing to us in His prayer for His disciples that is being related in John 17:6:23. Scripture also relates that God does not hear the prayers of sinners and what most foolish people clearly do not understand is that Peter, Paul and the other apostles could never have done the healing miracles that they did if they were still sinners themselves and God was not listening to their prayers.
“Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.”
John 9:31 NKJV
“For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.”
I Peter 3:12 NKJV
Jesus did not come to call on the righteous and this is because a righteous person is someone who does not sin. Jesus stated that He came to call sinners to repentance which meant to never sin ever again. Why? Because a sinner is an unrighteous person who does wicked things in the eyes of God and scripture clearly relates that an unrighteous person will not inherit the kingdom of God. So there is no possible way that the apostles could have ever kept on sinning and then perform the healing miracles that they did.
“I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Luke 5:32 NKJV
“For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 5:20 NKJV
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.”
I Corinthians 6:9-10 NKJV
Jesus did not sin nor did Jesus ever get sick and if you are someone who is living through His Holy Spirit and you are allowing the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ to guide you in your life then it is impossible for you to sin or to get sick as well. Anyone who is truly living with the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ possess the same Spirit and power that raised Jesus from the dead and anyone who claims that they can never stop sinning is certainly proving that they do not possess the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ.
“He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.”
I John 3:8-9 NKJV
In closing, this above scripture clearly relates that anyone who sins belongs to the devil and that anyone who is born of God does not and cannot sin and there are no scriptures that ever relate that a sinner is a child of God nor are there any scriptures that ever relate that a sinner belongs to God. Plus there are no scriptures that ever relate that a believer can never stop sinning or that a believer will always sin. There are also no scriptures that ever relate that sickness is a normal part of this life or that a Christian will possess sickness in their life. As I related above, sin and sickness is strictly of the devil and if you possess either in your life then you certainly do not possess the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ.
Amazing explanation, thank you
Is any sick among you? 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 shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Hello, Pastor John!🙏🏽
I regret I was not disciplined to take care of my gut health now I suffer the consequences of it.
The rationale that God is ultimately responsible for sickness presented by Ps John seems faulty and raises grave questions about God. Let me explain. All sicknesses are the result or effect or cause of Sin. If God is the ultimate "causation of sickness" He has to introduce Sin as a secondary cause. Is holy God the creator of evil? God forbid. The theology of "God uses sickness to teach us or make us" has destroyed the Church. God is not the one who causes the sickness to come into the world but Sin. We all get sick NOT because God makes us sick to teach us under any circumstances nor does He "allow" it. People get sick because there is Sin in the world. God is for us to heal us. That is why He put all our sickness and pain on Jesus and He made Jesus Sickness and Pain as He made Him Sin. By the atoning death of Jesus, we are saved from Sin and sickness (Isa 53:4-6,10 and 1 Peter 2:24). It is amazing to observe that whenever there is mention of salvation from sin, the freedom from sickness i.e. healing follows. So when you are sick pray and believe God for healing. God has a wonderful Word/Scripture (2 Tim 3:16,17) for us to teach us NOT sickness.
but where does deseases originally comes from???
Jesus only did what he saw the father do, and Jesus never made anyone sick. He only healed everyone. It would make zero sense for God to make people sick, and then send his son to die for their healing. God allows sickness, but he does not use it to teach lessons. He may allow a sickness but he’s never maliciously causing people to be sick to teach them something. To say God causes sickness is to say God causes little children to get cancer and suffer in pain and die which you didn’t want to bring that up. Because anyone who would cause a little child to suffers in pain and die would be evil and God is good. He heals sickness, he doesn’t cause it.
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It like the god of the bible and the devil are working together.
Acts 10:38 - -"How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing ALL that were oppressed of the (who?) ...the devil: for God was with him." That should clear up any nonsense about Jesus not healing. The oppressor is the devil. Here is another one: "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 YOU WERE HEALED." Healing is past tense. We can also receive healing as well as salvation by faith in Jesus Christ.
I would like to know why does GOD heal some people supernaturally, but not others.No, I do not believe that father GOD causes illnesses. Some people are ill via genetics.
I think that God does heal, but not
every situation, why that is, is a
mystery to me
Many do not understand why people get sickness in their life or why children may be born with a sickness or a disability. They fail to understand that it is sin and sin alone that is destroying their life and the life of their children as well.
“But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
I Peter 1:15-16 NKJV
“For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.”
I Peter 3:12 NKJV
We are all born in sin and in ignorance of God’s truth since we are born into a sinful fallen world that is ruled by the devil. God promised to protect us from the devil’s diseases as long as we lived a holy and righteous life by following what He commanded of us. So any person who is not following God’s commands will then lose God’s protection in this evil fallen world. So if a husband and a wife are not living a holy and righteous life as God commanded this then means that they have not learned how to overcome sin. And if they are living in sin then they have now allowed Satan and his demons to enter and destroy their lives.
Sin is what opens the door for the devil to torment us with sickness and suffering and yes you will then pass your sin unto your children since even your children are vulnerable to the attacks of Satan’s demons. And yes these attacks can occur both inside and outside of the womb.
“Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you. You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock. And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.”
Deuteronomy 7:12-15 NKJV
“So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.”
Exodus 23:25-26 NKJV
“And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
Exodus 34:6-7 NKJV
The iniquity (immoral behavior, sin) of the fathers will visit the children to the third and fourth generations. In other words the sins that the parents are committing will be laid upon their children and their children’s children. Since everyone is born in ignorance of God’s truth this is why God commanded the parents to teach their children His word and truth so that they would then understand how to live righteously and not live in sin. Sickness is simply a curse and it is a sign that we are living in sin and disobeying God and His commands.
“You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do-to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him- then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you. “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.”
Deuteronomy 11:19-28 NKJV
Now certain demons bring sickness or disabilities while others can reek havoc with the sexuality or desires that a child may possess. This is why a child may be born with a sickness, disability or they may even start portraying characteristics of the opposite sex and this is where homosexuality then comes into play. Any problems that your child may have is simply because they are being attacked by a demon spirit. Realize that there are all kinds of demons who bring all kinds of sickness and disease. What doctors call cancer, God calls it a demon. What doctors call leukemia, God calls it a demon. What doctors call Coronavirus, God calls it a demon. What doctors call hereditary or genetics is simply a parent’s sins being passed onto their children through a demon spirit. Every sickness of this evil world is from a demon spirit.
Next, understand that doctors and medicines cannot heal anyone and that God does not use doctors in order to heal. Only understanding God’s word and truth can completely heal you. Jesus healed everyone without the use of any doctor. Doctors may be able to subdue the demon’s symptoms but they are not removing the cause of the problem and the demon will eventually return and bring along other demons.
“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”
Matthew 12:43-45 NKJV
Now there are many believers who do not believe that their sins can be past unto their children and for some it is because they have confused what the Ezekiel 18 scripture is relating to us. This scripture is simply telling us that our eternal fate is based on the sins that we ourselves commit during our lifetime. We will all answer to God for the sins that we ourselves commit so a child will not be eternally condemned for the sins of their parent nor a parent condemned for the sins of their child. This scripture has nothing to do with how we are born into this evil world and it is simply relating that our eternal fate is based on our own actions during our lifetime here on earth.
“The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord GOD, “ and not that he should turn from his ways and live? “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.”
Ezekiel 18:20-24 NKJV
So if you are still finding it hard to believe that what I am relating is absolutely true then maybe comprehending this scripture may help you understand.
Psalm 107:17. “Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.”
Know what this means? First transgression, it means an act that goes against a rule, a law or a code of conduct. Next iniquity, it means a wicked act or thing, sin. Finally, affliction, it means something that causes persistent pain or suffering. Translated it is saying that you are a fool if you do not follow God’s laws and commands and you go and sin because you will then have pain, suffering and sickness.
There is no sickness with God, there never was and there never will be. So if there is sickness in your life then you definitely are living in sin and you certainly lack knowledge of God and scripture. And yes it is certainly possible to live a life where no sickness or disease can ever touch you or your child for I am someone who is living that life.
You know what I've been studying this issue and about suffering and evil all of my life over 50 years and you are totally right. God does not cause this or send this. Ask Dr Bruce Little PhD. Ask Dr Frank Turek and many of the best scholars and professors.
God is cruel