Objection: God Uses Sickness to Teach You Things

The only thing sickness has ever taught me is that it stinks to be sick.  Get real.  God didn’t teach you anything through your sickness because He had NOTHING to do with your sickness to begin with.  God has not entered into a partnership with Satan where He steals Satan’s goods and puts them on you to teach you lessons.

What have you ever been “taught” from a sickness?  One preacher I heard in person (sadly) said that God sent him a heart attack to “teach him to slow down.”  What actually happened is that he wore himself out like Epaphroditus – he didn’t learn from Epaphroditus’s example.  If you push your body too hard, your BODY will “teach” you to slow down, but please don’t blame that on God!  You can’t show me anywhere in the Bible where God sent a heart attack to slow someone down, or where He sent any illness to “teach” anyone anything.

God’s actual methods of teaching you things have nothing to do with sickness, and He tells you what they are!

2 Timothy 3:16-17 shows us that Scripture is profitable for doctrine and instruction in righteousness, among other things.

John 14:26 and 1 John 2:27 say that the “Holy Spirit” and “the anointing” teach you “all things.”  If they teach you all things, there’s nothing left for sickness to teach you.  Do the math!

Ephesians 4:11 shows us that God has put anointed teachers in the Body of Christ to teach us things.

Consider Job.  If anyone knew about serious illness, he did, and his illness taught him nothing.  What he learned was from God Himself when He spoke, not from his physical problems, which actually led Job to get farther and farther from the truth until God corrected him.

So expect to learn things the way GOD says you will, not through some junk that the devil wants you to suffer with.