Objection: God Won’t Heal Your FINAL ILLNESS That He Uses to Take You Home

Jesus is the same today as He was in the four gospels (Hebrews 13:8).  So suppose that the objector is right.  There would be cases in the Bible where Jesus told someone, “I WON’T HEAL YOU.  That illness you have is God’s way of taking you home.”  When multitudes came to touch His clothes, surely He would have told at least one of them, “Sorry, but that’s your FINAL ILLNESS.  You have to die from it because God gave it to you to make you go to heaven soon.  So get your hand off Me.”  But there is not one case where anything remotely like that happened.  There are plenty of cases where ALL who came to Him were healed.  So there are NO cases today where God will refuse to heal you because He wants you to die.

Consider what God thinks of sickness.  Man thinks of it as a normal part of being on the earth, but God, whose thoughts are higher than our thoughts, has declared all sickness to be a curse (Deuteronomy 28:61).  So in effect, the objector is saying, “God will put a curse on you to make you die.”  This makes God sound more like a Voodoo priest than a loving heavenly Father.

I realize that by definition, if you die of an illness, it was your FINAL ILLNESS.  That does not mean that you had to die that way.  It certainly does not mean that “The Lord Your Physician” “who heals all your diseases” has changed His mind and wasn’t willing to heal you of whatever was wrong.  The fact that Jesus paid for your healing by His stripes shows that you can be healed of ANY illness at ANY time.  You don’t have to die from sickness!

See also:

Objection: If You Could Always Get Healed, You Would Live Forever