Objection: You Have No More Right to Demand Healing Now Than to Demand Your Resurrection Body Now
It should be obvious that the final redemption of our bodies will not be ours until we get our new immortal bodies that cannot get sick or die. So we don’t have the right to demand NOW something that God’s Word makes clear is in the future.
The objector makes a false assumption that some of us “demand” healing from God. I don’t demand healing from God. I receive healing from God because He has already provided it. The wording of the objection implies that healing is a demand that God do something, which in itself shows that the objector doesn’t even understand what he is objecting to. God already DID something and we just take what He has already offered and say “Thank You, Father!” The objector obviously assumes that nothing in Jesus’ atonement bought healing for us in this lifetime and that God would have to do something NEW to provide healing for you.
The day is coming when we will have immortal bodies, but God promises to infuse His life into our mortal bodies in this life (Romans 8:11). That is clearly a promise for this earthly life, not the one to come. In fact, all the healing Scriptures are for THIS life, because you won’t need any healing Scriptures in heaven! The objector assumes that healing and your new body will be yours simultaneously, but this should make you wonder why God’s many healing promises are in our Bibles. We won’t need them later – they’re all for now! God’s declaration that He is The Lord Who Heals You (The Lord Your Physician) is meant for our current lives. We don’t have to “demand” that God be to us who He already is – we just have to believe what He says about Himself.
If healing were not available in this lifetime, and healing isn’t necessary in our eternal future, one would wonder why ANY healing Scriptures would be in our Bibles today, as none of them would be necessary.
Reading the rest of the articles in this book should convince you that you have every right to healing in this life.