BIBLICAL HEALTHCARE (1)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
0. Introduction
a) Healthcare is such a major area of our lives that we cannot continue to delegate it to the world, the government or to the commercial sickness-care giver. It is all right for pre-believers as they do not have any authoritative guide for the life, but for God's people, we have His Word to direct us in our healthcare.
b) Biblical healthcare involves taking care of each individual in a holistic way so as to overcome any potential cause of disease so that the person's health is maintained.
c) A medical profession is likely to center itself upon disease management rather than health attainment i.e. God's way to ultimate health.
1. God is our ultimate healer
a) We must be fully convinced that God is the Creator of all things and that our bodies are wonderfully and fearfully made by God. The Lord himself knows best how our physical body should function. Our Lord himself is "Jehovah Rapha - the Lord our healer."
b) God may use different approaches or methods of bringing about healing matter through medication, surgery, nutrition etc. Nevertheless ultimately it is God who heals.
i) 2 Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits—3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases. (Psalms 103:2-3 NIV)
c) Here are some more Scripture that shows us that healing comes from God.
i) 26 He said, “If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.” (Exodus 15:26 NIV)
ii) 25 Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you. (Exodus 23:25 NIV)
iii) 20 He sent out his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave. (Psalms 107:20 NIV)
iv) 24 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” (1 Peter 2:24 NIV)
v) 12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted with a disease in his feet. Though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek help from the Lord, but only from the physicians. 13 Then in the forty-first year of his reign Asa died and rested with his ancestors. (2 Chronicles 16:12-13 NIV)
d) Not to seek God during our times of sickness show our unbelief in God's ultimate ability to heal and a lack of faith. God has instituted within our bodily functions to heal itself when all nutritional requirements, health factors etc. are met. It is God who determines our healing.
The End ...
0. Introduction a) Healthcare is such a major area of our lives that we cannot continue to delegate it to the world, the government or to the commercial sickness-care giver. It is all right for pre-believers as they do not have any authoritative guide for the life, but for God's people, we have His Word to direct us in our healthcare.
b) Biblical healthcare involves taking care of each individual in a holistic way so as to overcome any potential cause of disease so that the person's health is maintained.
c) A medical profession is likely to center itself upon disease management rather than health attainment i.e. God's way to ultimate health.
1. God is our ultimate healera) We must be fully convinced that God is the Creator of all things and that our bodies are wonderfully and fearfully made by God. The Lord himself knows best how our physical body should function. Our Lord himself is "Jehovah Rapha - the Lord our healer."
b) God may use different approaches or methods of bringing about healing matter through medication, surgery, nutrition etc. Nevertheless ultimately it is God who heals.
i) 2 Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits—3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases. (Psalms 103:2-3 NIV)
c) Here are some more Scripture that shows us that healing comes from God.
i) 26 He said, “If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.” (Exodus 15:26 NIV)
ii) 25 Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you. (Exodus 23:25 NIV)
iii) 20 He sent out his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave. (Psalms 107:20 NIV)
iv) 24 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” (1 Peter 2:24 NIV)
v) 12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted with a disease in his feet. Though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek help from the Lord, but only from the physicians. 13 Then in the forty-first year of his reign Asa died and rested with his ancestors. (2 Chronicles 16:12-13 NIV)
d) Not to seek God during our times of sickness show our unbelief in God's ultimate ability to heal and a lack of faith. God has instituted within our bodily functions to heal itself when all nutritional requirements, health factors etc. are met. It is God who determines our healing.
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