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spirituallove,
which is the LOVE
OF Goo, which one can have only
by God's GRACE, through his Holy
Spirit-which
/S
that spiritual
LOVE! The penalty for violation of
that law is THE SECOND, and ETER–
NAL,
DEATH!
When you are sick, the
physical
laws
that regulate the human
mec)lanism..have been.. violated! Of
course, there can be injury from
accident or violence. You, yourself,
may or. may
not
be responsible for
that. Accidents nearly always result
from carelessness- but of c<;>urse it
could
be the other fellow's careless–
ness! Perhaps you drank a germ in
drinking water-supposing it was
pure water. Yes it is possible-and
sometimes happens-that the sick
or injured one did not, himself, vio–
late the physical law. But, regard–
less, NATURE'S LAWS WERE VIO-
LATED.
So, SICKNESS, DISEASE, INJURIES
AKE THE PENALTY of pbysical SIN!
Jesus Christ himself said so! Heal–
ing is forgiveness of toe sin and
miraculous removal
of the PENAL–
T )'.
Healing ls Forgiving Sin
Once Jesus Christ was in a h()use in
Capernaum. Crowds flocked in.
The house became jam packed ,
many unable to enter. Then carne
four men carrying on a pallet a man
sick with palsy. Unable to get
through the crowd, they climbed
on the housetop, tare off severa!
tites and let the man on the pallet
down through the roof in front of
Jesus.
"When Jesus saw their faith, he
said unto the sick of the palsy, Son,
thy sins be forgiven thee."
lmmediately the Pharisees and
doctors of the law among the crowd
began to accuse Jesus of blasphe–
my-claiming tO FORGIVE SIN! He
said to them:
"Whether is it easier to say to
the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be
forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and
take up thy bed, and walk? But
that ye may know that the Son of
man hath power on earth to forgive
sins, (he saith to the sick of the
palsy,) I say unto thee; Arise, and
take up thy bed, and go thy way
into thine house" (Mark 2: 1-11).
June / July 1982
Jesus Christ performed this
HEALING in arder to show that
healing ÍS THE FORGIVENESS OF
PHYSICAL SIN-and, by divine MIR–
ACLE, the REMOVAL of the penalty
being suffered.
How is this penalty removed?
By tbe POWER of the Holy Spirit,
because
Jesus Christ was Aogged
-beaten with stripes- scourged
-beaten so that he was disfig-
ured, or marred, more than any
man (Jsa. 52: 14). He, who never
broke nature's physical health
laws- wbo never was sick or dis–
eased- PAID THE PENALTY of
OUT
physical transgressions IN OJJ..R
STEAD. Thus, if we accept his sac–
rifice (of being so scourged
before
being nailed to the cross), God,
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Many if not most
doctors know
so little about
proper food and diet
that they
are unable themselves
to observe
the dietary law of
health.
divine miraclg_,
has promised to
remove from us the PENALTY we
are paying in the form of sickness
or disease.
All humans have SINNED-spiri–
tually. Sin is the transgression of
God's LAw. All have broken the
Spiritual LAW. The PENALTY is the
second DEATH-and it ÍS ETERNAL
punishment. But we can have this
penalty
removed.
How? By the
fact that Christ paid the DEATH
penalty for us- he
bled to death–
his blood was his physical human
LIFE. The LAw took
his
life instead
of ours. JF WE REPENT, and
BELIEVE, then by divine
miracle
God's Holy Spirit REMOVES the
death penalty from us. Our sins are
forgiven by the BLOOD of Christ,
and we are SAvED from the second
death!
God HEALS
by precise/y the
same principie!
Not by Christ's
BLOOD-but by his STRIPES we are
healed (I Pet. 2:24). He paid the
PENALTY in our stead. He did the
suffering
for us,
so God can
remove it from us!
God revealed this dual truth
about spiritual forgiveness and
physical forgiveness through Da–
vid: "Who forgiveth ALL thine in–
iquities; who healeth all thy dis–
eases" (Ps. 103:3).
n
is as much
Goo's WI LL to heal as it is to
SAVE!
What, Then, ls Use of Fasting?
Now it ought to become crystal
clear that FASTING is
not
healing.
Fasting
does not forgive sin.
Fast–
ing is
not a miracle.
Yet, I myself have recommended
that people go on fasts who were
afflicted with rheumatism, ulcers
of the stomach, constipation, high
blood pressure, fevers- and after
the fast they were
rid of
the sick–
ness or disease.
Well then, didn't the fasting
HEAL them? NO-emphatically
NO!
Let me explain what happened.
Fasting is good for certain things–
indeed many things-when intelli–
gently and properly used. But what
happened is this: the sickness in
these instances was brought on by
faulty diet.
lt
was
the penalty
of
putting improper things (usually
excess starch, sugar and grease)
into the stomach. Now the first
thing t hat happened was, that on
beginning the fas , these people
stopped sinning.
They stopped , by
fasting, putting more of these tox–
in-producing elements (really poi–
sons, not foods) into their stom–
aChs.
Second, fasting tends to
speed
up
the elimination of toxins and
poisons. rasting is not pleasant.
The Bible refers to it as "afflicting
the soul"-that is, the body. So,
they suffered the PENALTY
of
having eaten that POISON, suppos–
ing it to be FOOD. In fact, the .fast–
ing
intensified
the penalty by
speeding up the elimination.
In summary, what happened in
fasting was this: 1) t hey stopped
the sinning t hat
causea
the penalty
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