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Sickness Is of the Devil
says, “So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.”
Who did it?
Satan did it.
The New Living Translation says, “Satan left the Lord’s presence, and he struck Job with a terrible case of boils from head to foot.”
Who did it?
Satan did it.
Now, just a few verses later, Job says, “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
It’s good that Job didn’t turn against the Lord or curse Him, but Job did not know that the devil did this to him.
As you read scripture after scripture and chapter after chapter, you see that Job was completely oblivious to the devil.
Job was in the dark about who was doing this to him, but millions of Christians who are still accusing God of making them sick have no excuse.
We have the Bible, right?
If the Bible says the devil did it, why would you keep saying God is doing it?
Reason number six we are sure it’s God’s will for all to be healed is because sickness is a work of the devil.
The Bible says, “In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”
() In Job’s case, here’s one witness: Who does the Bible say made Job sick?
It’s inescapable.
According to , it is clear that the devil did it; he made Job sick.
In , what kind of disease is it talking about?
Do you know of any scriptures that talk about good diseases?
“An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.”
The New International Version calls it “a vile disease.”
Sickness is vile.
I want you to see this verse in the Young’s Literal Translation because Young is the same author of Young’s Analytical Concordance.
If you want a really good literal translation, look at that.
It’s not easy to read, but it’s just like the original.
He says, “A thing of Belial is poured out on him.”
Who is Belial?
Belial is a name for the devil, right?
“A thing of the devil.”
What is he talking about?
He is talking about disease.
So that makes two witnesses.
Did you see that phrase “evil disease”?
God is not involved in anything evil, is He? Certainly not.
Is disease evil?
The psalm says it is.
Is sickness evil?
You’ll hear people saying, “Well, we just don’t really know what’s good and what’s evil.
God knows, and we don’t know enough to know.
I mean, maybe we think this disease is bad, but you know, it may be good, and we just don’t know it.”
Have you ever heard people talking like this? Are we really to believe that God does not want us to know the difference between what’s good and what’s evil?
Then how would we know if we have His will or we don’t, or whether we are doing His will or not?
If someone asks, “Are you doing good?”
Do you answer, “I don’t know.
I’m doing evil, but it might be good, because you just never know”?
Or, “This thing on your life—is it bad or good?”
Do you say, “I don’t know.
God is so high above us and beyond us, we just can’t understand His ways, and I know it feels bad, and I don’t like it, but it could be good.”
Then you are hopelessly confused as to whether you’re in the will of God or out of the will of God, or whether you should receive something or resist it.
People say, “I feel confused, but that’s just the way it is.”
No, that is not the way it is.
Ephesians tells us not to be foolish or unwise, but to understand what the will of the Lord is.
(5:17) That’s why He gave us the Bible.
That’s why He gave us the Holy Spirit.
He’s not trying to hide things from us.
He wants us to know plainly and clearly.
If it’s good, receive it.
If it’s evil, resist it.
If it’s good, do it.
If it’s evil, stay away from it.
He wants us to be crystal clear on what’s good and what’s evil.
Well, what do you need to convince you that sickness is bad?
We have two witnesses already.
What’s a witness in Job?
The devil did it.
Who made Job sick?
The devil did it, as plain as you can read it.
The psalm says that disease is a thing of the devil, and it’s evil.
There are some more witnesses in the New Testament.
In , a woman was bent over for 18 years and couldn’t straighten herself up.
Jesus spoke to her that she was loosed.
He laid His hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and glorified God.
Nothing is said about her glorifying God those 18 years that she was stooped over.
But as soon as she was loosed and straightened up, it says that she glorified God.
In verse 14, it says, Hypocrite!
They never had a healing day.
They never had a day when they were going to lay hands on her and get her straight.
They had 18 years with her, and nothing happened.
says, When Jesus calls you a hypocrite, you’re a hypocrite.
“Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?”
What was wrong with her?
She was physically bent over.
You’ve seen folks like that, who couldn’t straighten up.
She was bent over.
People might have called it “curvature of the spine,” or just arthritis.
It was some kind of disease that had her bent over, and what did Jesus say it was?
That it was His Father teaching her something?
No.
Where did this come from then?
Who did that to this woman?
Some might say, “Well, now, it said in that specific instance that the devil did it.
But, sometimes it’s the Lord working out...” “Sometimes it’s the devil, and sometimes it’s the Lord, and you just never know what God’s going to…”
Do you see how ignorant this is?
Do God and the devil ever swap jobs?
There are people who will try to tell you that sometimes the devil heals people, and there are a lot of people who will tell you that God makes people sick for numerous and varied reasons.
They are just completely ignoring verse after verse of Scripture.
Here’s a third witness.
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