Objection: Our Bodies Wear Out.  Even Some Healing Ministers Wear Glasses!

I wore glasses all the time from when I was in Kindergarten until about two decades ago at this writing.  (I will admit to sometimes using “readers” now.)  Someone asked me if I got contacts, and I replied, “No, I made contact!”  Even back when I wore glasses all the time, I did not go out and get contact lenses just to make myself look more like a faith man!  I stopped wearing glasses because I can do fine without them, and actually, they’re still somewhere in Colorado!  I had started to just put them in my pocket after noticing one day that I could actually see better without them than with them.  They must have fallen out somewhere, but it doesn’t matter.

It really doesn’t matter if the healing minister wears glasses or not; many do.  The only thing that matters when you are determining doctrine is the Word, not anyone’s experience – even the experience of the people who are preaching to you!

Our bodies do wear out.  God does renew your youth like the eagle’s (Psalm 103:5), but clearly, your mortal body will not last forever.  That does not mean that you have to be sick, though.

Have I just admitted that sickness is for all, then?  No.  God still “heals all your diseases” (Psalm 103:3) throughout your life on earth.  You can’t stay here forever, but while you’re here, God wants you to prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers (3 John 2).

I know for a fact that God heals bad eyesight.  It often comes down to a question of desire.  If your eyesight gets bad enough, you will definitely want to be healed.  If it’s a minor nuisance that glasses can fix, it will probably not be high on your “faith agenda.”  That’s how it was for me.  I was losing my sight in my left eye to the point where I could hardly work anymore due to an inoperable condition, so I was very highly motivated to believe God!  I believed and acted on the Word and received my healing.  I ended up “20/20” in that eye.  The other eye isn’t 20/20, but it doesn’t interfere with my daily life.  So why don’t I just believe God, ditch the readers and have perfect vision?  I suppose it’s a lack of motivation.  (If enough people nitpick about it, I suppose that would provide more motivation.)  I guess someone else was more motivated; he did not need glasses anymore after I laid hands on him!

But if our bodies will eventually break down, is it not inevitable that some body parts will fail, thus bringing on some kind of “sickness?”  Let’s consider that Jesus healed every sickness and every disease among the people.  This would include any “disease” caused by the failure of a body part (such as diabetes).  Among the multitudes that were healed, there were surely some in this category.  If you sampled thousands of sick people today, you would find at least some who have such a condition.

Even if something like that happens to you, you have a right to be healed.  If Jesus healed every disease, which would include old-age-related diseases, He surely does the same today.  To say otherwise is to put an age limit on God’s promises to heal all your diseases and take sickness away from you.  There is no age limit on this in the Bible, so why add one yourself?

Every disease is part of the “curse of the Law” found in the Law of Moses.  Paul said that we are redeemed from that curse.  Because we are redeemed from every disease, we are redeemed from “old-age” diseases.  As a lawyer would say, these diseases are “including, but not limited to” Alzheimer’s, senility and dementia in general, kidney failure, incontinence, feebleness, osteoporosis and arthritis.  If it’s an illness of any kind, you are legally redeemed from it, no matter how old you are.

Consider the two million or so Jews who went out into the desert with “none feeble among their tribes.”  Can you imagine two million people in one geographical area where no one was feeble or crippled because of old age?  It happened under a worse covenant that was based upon worse promises than your covenant.  You should expect better under our better covenant today.  It is a tradition of man that makes void the Word of God that you have to be decrepit and senile for a season before you die.  Tell that to Moses when you see him; he was fine at the age of 120.  No one had to carry him around in a sedan chair!  Tell that to Caleb when you see him.  He was 80 or so when he wanted to go conquer more giants!  This was under the Old Covenant!  Don’t let modern tradition and man’s thoughts talk you out of God’s best.

Mortality is part of the curse on the earth in Genesis 3, and we are not redeemed from that curse yet.  We will all die eventually, but we don’t have to be sick before we die!

Sickness is part of the curse of the Law according to Deuteronomy 28:15-68 and Leviticus 26:14-39.  We are redeemed from the curse of the Law according to Galatians 3:13.

Therefore, we are not redeemed from death (mortality), but we are redeemed from sickness.  You have to die, but you don’t have to be sick before you die.  See the answer to the objection about never dying if we’re always healed for more insight on this subject.