Healing is one of the most important things you can learn about in life. Why? At some point in your life, you or someone very close to you is going to need it. You or someone very close to you will be sick, and the options given you by the medical community will not be good ones. They may have nothing for you but means to prolong your life without giving you quality of life. You may have to take medications that have side effects as bad as the original condition.

I have learned that you don’t want to wait until you are diagnosed with something serious before you learn about this. That would be like going off to war without ever having gone to boot camp.

Healing for some people is like winning the lottery, but for most people it is like fighting off somebody who is trying to break into your house.

But beyond all this, healing will teach you more about God than you will probably ever learn otherwise. When you pray for other people and other things, you are not the only person who is involved in the outcome. So the first mountains you want to move are the ones in your own life and body. As you see these move, you will gain confidence to move others.

Healing might be the first place in which you will see miracles from God. God will seem more real to you, and you will become more aware of His love when you see Him work on your behalf.

In 1996, I was diagnosed with stage 3, mixed cell, non-Hodgkins lymphoma. I refused all medical treatment and have not received any medical treatment since then for that. It was quite an experience, and I have written a book, called The Importance of Healing, that tells about it as well as just about everything else I have learned about healing from the Bible and life.

I am not trying to sell you a book here. I am trying to save your life. Or least give you an understanding of God and the Bible which is usually sadly missing today. I have started posting chapters from the book and will continue to do so.

You can get the book at amazon.com or other book sites on the internet.

I also have two other websites where I have posted my writings: poligion1.blogspot.com has my articles on politics, culture, and public life and LarrysBibleStudies.blogspot.com has my other articles on the Bible. And I have started to make videos on youtube.

If you want to contact me, email is best: lacraig1@sbcglobal.net

Thank you.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

For Whom Did Jesus Die?

For Whom Did Jesus Die?

   Isaiah 53:4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.  53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his stripes we are healed.
            In this passage from Isaiah, we read of Jesus’ coming to die for the sins of the world.  Did He die for the sins of the people living at that time, or did He die for the sins of all the people yet to come, including us?  I think we can agree that when Jesus died for sins 2,000 years ago, He died for our sins as well.
            In the first line quoted above, the Hebrew word for ‘griefs’ means ‘sicknesses’ and the Hebrew word for ‘sorrows’ means ‘pains.’  Jesus bore our sicknesses and carried our pains.  Did He bare the sicknesses and pains of only those living in that generation, or did He bare the sicknesses and carried the pains of all those for whom He died?
            Some people have said that the sicknesses and pains referred to here are emotional ones, not physical ones.  Frankly, I don’t see how that makes anything any easier, because emotional problems seem harder to fix than physical ones, though perhaps less deadly.
            When Jesus died for our sins, He also died for our healing.  When sin came into the world, so did sickness.  Jesus came to redeem us from all of that.

            Still have questions?  That’s why we had to write a book.  Just too many questions.
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