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Forgiveness and Healing

Forgiveness and Healing. Forgiveness is related to sin Healing is related to sickness. Forgiveness and Healing. Common themes in the gospels Jesus is frequently presented as the one who forgives (sins) and heals (sickness).

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Forgiveness and Healing

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  1. Forgiveness and Healing

  2. Forgiveness is related to sin Healing is related to sickness Forgiveness and Healing

  3. Common themes in the gospels Jesus is frequently presented as the one who forgives (sins) and heals (sickness) Forgiveness and Healing

  4. The public ministry of Jesus is the beginning of the promised restoration The ‘in-breaking’ of the kingdom (the ‘already’) It is a glimpse of what is to come (the ‘not yet’) Forgiveness and Healing

  5. Why is there a need for forgiveness and healing? Forgiveness and Healing

  6. Dysfunctions due to sin Disorder (creation is broken) Discord (broken relationships) Disease (our bodies and minds suffer) Forgiveness and Healing

  7. How should we view the connection between sin and sickness? One common view is to ‘Blame the victim’ If one is ill (e.g. physically, emotionally, mentally), it is due to personal sin Forgiveness and Healing

  8. How should we view the connection between sin and sickness? Biblical ‘proof’ (texts like Deuteronomy 28) Pestilence (v 21; cf. Lev 26:25) Wasting disease and fever (v 22; cf. Lev 26:16) Madness, blindness, confusion of mind (vv 28, 34) Every sickness and every affliction (v 61) Forgiveness and Healing

  9. How should we view the connection between sin and sickness? Since we find here that disobedience and sin result in all types of sickness, it is assumed that this explains all sickness Forgiveness and Healing

  10. How should we view the connection between sin and sickness? We see this view expressed by the disciples in John 9:1-2 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Forgiveness and Healing

  11. How should we view the connection between sin and sickness? Yet this sounds like Job’s three friends Eliphaz(Job 4; 15; 22) Bildad(Job 8; 18; 25) Zophar(Job 11; 20) Forgiveness and Healing

  12. How should we view the connection between sin and sickness? We need to think carefully and clearly about this issue It is true that sickness is in the world because of sin (the fall) But it does not follow that every sickness is the result of personal (and unconfessed) sin (cf. Job; John 9:3) Forgiveness and Healing

  13. How should we view the connection between sin and sickness? We need to think carefully and clearly about this issue There are times when personal sin is the cause of sickness (cf. 1 Cor 11:30; John 5:14) But it does not follow that sickness is always the result of personal sin Forgiveness and Healing

  14. How should we view the connection between sin and sickness? We need to think carefully and clearly about this issue A brief lesson in logic (the box of opposition) Forgiveness and Healing

  15. both can be false

  16. both can be true

  17. How should we view the connection between sin and sickness? We need to think carefully and clearly about this issue Some sickness is the result of personal sin Thus we should confess our sins and pray for forgiveness Forgiveness and Healing

  18. How should we view the connection between sin and sickness? We need to think carefully and clearly about this issue Some sickness is NOT the result of personal sin Thus we should pray for wisdom in dealing with the sickness as we pray for healing Forgiveness and Healing

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