Confusion on Suffering vs Affliction
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Confusion on Suffering vs Affliction
It is observed with much grief that there is an increasing trend of believers confusing sufferings with sicknesses.
These false teachers, who have never laid hands on anyone and getting them healed, actually think themselves to be qualified to teach otherwise on divine healing, making God a liar.
Is there no fear of God?
Why don't we learn from respected man of God of the past with real biblical experiences rather than those paper theologians who are hearers and never doers?
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Divine Healing
By Andrew Murray
God's Prescription For The Sick
"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"
(James 5:14-15).
Notice, first, that James here makes a distinction between affliction (or suffering) and sickness.
He says (verse 13): "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray."
He does not specify what shall be requested in such a case; still less does he say that deliverance from suffering shall be asked.
No; suffering which may arise from various exterior causes is the portion of every Christian.
Let us therefore understand that the object of James is to lead the tried believer to ask for deliverance only with a spirit of submission to the will of God, and, above all, to ask the patience which he considers to be the privilege of the believer (James 1: 2-4,12; 5:7-8).
James 1
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.
James 5
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
But in dealing with the words, "Is any sick among you?" James replies in quite another manner.
Now he says with assurance that the sick one may ask for healing with confidence that he shall obtain it, and the Lord will hear him.
There is therefore a great difference between suffering and sickness.
The Lord Jesus spoke of suffering as being necessary, as being willed and blessed of God; while He says of sickness that it ought to be cured.
All other suffering comes to us from without, and will only cease when Jesus shall triumph over the sin and evil which are in the world; while sickness is an evil in the body itself, in this body saved by Christ that it may become the temple of the Holy Spirit, and which, consequently, ought to be healed as soon as the sick believer receives by faith the working of the Holy Spirit, the very life of Jesus in him.
On
Confusion on Suffering vs Affliction
It is observed with much grief that there is an increasing trend of believers confusing sufferings with sicknesses.
These false teachers, who have never laid hands on anyone and getting them healed, actually think themselves to be qualified to teach otherwise on divine healing, making God a liar.
Is there no fear of God?
Why don't we learn from respected man of God of the past with real biblical experiences rather than those paper theologians who are hearers and never doers?
~~~
Divine Healing
By Andrew Murray
God's Prescription For The Sick
"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"
(James 5:14-15).
Notice, first, that James here makes a distinction between affliction (or suffering) and sickness.
He says (verse 13): "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray."
He does not specify what shall be requested in such a case; still less does he say that deliverance from suffering shall be asked.
No; suffering which may arise from various exterior causes is the portion of every Christian.
Let us therefore understand that the object of James is to lead the tried believer to ask for deliverance only with a spirit of submission to the will of God, and, above all, to ask the patience which he considers to be the privilege of the believer (James 1: 2-4,12; 5:7-8).
James 1
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.
James 5
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
But in dealing with the words, "Is any sick among you?" James replies in quite another manner.
Now he says with assurance that the sick one may ask for healing with confidence that he shall obtain it, and the Lord will hear him.
There is therefore a great difference between suffering and sickness.
The Lord Jesus spoke of suffering as being necessary, as being willed and blessed of God; while He says of sickness that it ought to be cured.
All other suffering comes to us from without, and will only cease when Jesus shall triumph over the sin and evil which are in the world; while sickness is an evil in the body itself, in this body saved by Christ that it may become the temple of the Holy Spirit, and which, consequently, ought to be healed as soon as the sick believer receives by faith the working of the Holy Spirit, the very life of Jesus in him.
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