Sin, Punishment, Sickness and Satan

Sin deserves punishment.  God, being just, MUST punish sin.  Yet everyone sins.  So how can God avoid having to continue to punish us for our sins?  His way of doing it was to lay our sins on Jesus and punish Him in our place.  Now our sins have been punished.  The price for them has been paid.  We need not pay a debt that was canceled when Jesus paid it for us.

Part of the punishment for sin is sickness.  The “curse of the Law” in the Old Testament makes that clear.  So to be punished for our sins, Jesus had to be made sick.  That is the only way that God could justly declare that the punishment for sin had been satisfied.  Because Jesus took the punishment of sickness in our place, we do not need to bear the punishment of sickness in our bodies.  He redeemed us!

Where does Satan fit into all this?  He doesn’t!  He is an outlaw, a rogue.  He has NO part in the plan of God.  God and Satan NEVER cooperate with each other.  Satan is completely disobedient to God; he is always anti-God and anti-Christ.  God does not “use” Satan as his holy henchman to punish sin!  God says, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay” (Romans 12:19).  He also says that vengeance belongs to Him in Deuteronomy 32:35.  Thus, vengeance upon sin is GOD’S sole prerogative, and He chose to take out His vengeance upon Jesus on the cross for our sins.  That was His right.

Satan is a thief.  He wants to STEAL the right to punish sin, but he does not have that right.  Punishing sin is God’s right alone, never Satan’s.  Satan has no right to punish you or anyone else for sins!  Everything he does is illegal.  If Satan had the right to punish sin, Isaiah would have prophesied that THE DEVIL made Jesus sick when He was on the cross because it would have been THE DEVIL who got to punish our sins when Jesus took them upon Himself.  But the devil had nothing to do with our redemption.  GOD, not the devil, made Jesus sick to punish our sins (Isaiah 53:10).

The next time sickness comes knocking at your door, remember that it is a work of the devil.  He has no right to make you sick.  God alone has the right to punish sin with sickness, and He chose to punish your sins by making Jesus sick.  That means that you get to walk free from sickness as if you’d never sinned.  Don’t accept the devil’s ILLEGAL sickness!  Instead, accept God’s LEGAL healing that Jesus purchased for you!