Sickness and Disease – Where does it originate from?

The medical world has an entire book on sickness and disease, the Merk Manual, but knows very little about the roots of sickness and disease and even less on how to heal most of these sicknesses and diseases in this book.  The medical world treats the symptoms. 

Even Christian ministries have little success in the area of sickness and disease.  Most often they pray for the symptoms and don’t know where sickness and disease originate from.  Symptoms are not sin.  They are the aftereffect of the sin

So, where can one find this information about the roots of sickness and disease?  Very complicated process if we look to man for this information.  But we can choose to search the Scriptures which are quite basic.

I want to take you to Deuteronomy 28 (see Leviticus 26 as well) where it talks about blessings and curses:

Blessings – Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God

To summarize these verses, God wants us to obey Him and not to sin so that we can receive His blessings.

Curses – 15 “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 16 “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. 17 “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 “Cursed shall be the fruit of your body (Offspring) and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. 19 “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. 20 “The Lord will send on you cursing (including generational and spoken), confusion (Chaos, unsound mind, God is not the author of confusion 1 Cor 14:33), and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness (Iniquities) of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. 21 The Lord will make the plague (Infectious disease) cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. 22 The Lord will strike you with consumption (Wasting away of the body, Tuberculosis), with fever (symptom of sickness and disease), with inflammation (swelling, aches, pains), with severe burning fever (diseases which fever is a prominent symptom), with the sword, with scorching (Dehydration), and with mildew (is a fungus that can cause illness and disease) ; they shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze (Dryness and hardness), and the earth which is under you shall be iron (hard and impenetrable). 24 The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed. 25 “The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you with the boils (Infected hair follicles) of Egypt, with tumors (Cancer), with the scab (Immune system skin disorders), and with the itch (Excessive histamine secretion or Psoriasis), from which you cannot be healed (Psoriasis). 28 The Lord will strike you with madness (Calamity and Mental Illness), and (Spiritual) blindness (Spirit of Stupor Romans 11:8) and confusion of heart (Disorderly). 29 And you shall grope (searching blindly) at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you. 58 “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, 59 then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed. 62 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Summary of Curses: These verses identify some sicknesses and diseases from sin (disobedience), but also includes “every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed” in verse 61. This means every sickness and disease that is a result of mankind’s sin.

So, as believers in Jesus Christ, what can we do to be healed of these sicknesses and diseases?  The Bible promises us healing for all sicknesses and diseases including curses passed down through the past generations. Generational sin is quite evident in mankind. Deuteronomy 5: you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity (wickedness) of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.  Most often we fail to address the sins of the past generations in ministry.

Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

Mark 16:18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

So, why is the Body of Christ not being healed?

The Bible has all the answers and it is not complicated.  Key to healing is to look at the sin that is causing our sickness and disease.  Fear causes circulatory and air passages to constrict, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, insomnia, sleep apnea, backaches, and cramps, to name a few. Un-forgiveness (bitterness) and anger compromise the immune system (Proverbs 14:30 A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones, Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones). The bones are where the blood marrow is produced.  Blood marrow is where the white T cells are produced to fight off sickness and diseases.  Some of the characteristics of Un-forgiveness is arthritis, anger, and rejection. Mental illness is a sickness and something we all have experienced at one level or another.  Example:  Have you ever felt a little down?  This is called depression (hopelessness and despair), which is mental illness.  These are just a few of the multitude of sins that causes sickness and disease.

“And by His strips, we are healed.”  Jesus died for our sins and once we are saved these past sins are forgiven, but believers get trapped into thinking the “once forgiven, always forgiven” mentality applies to all past, present, and future sins. That is not what the Bible says.   

Ask yourself then, why do you have sinful thoughts desires, and thoughts.  Why do you worry and get angry?  Is this not sin? People forget that each new sin is not automatically forgiven.  There are over 100 verses in the Old and New Testament that instructs us to repent.  God tells five of the seven churches to repent of their sins in Revelation.  If all sin is forgiven because Jesus died and took on our sin, why do we need to repent? Jesus takes on our sin IF we confess our sin and ask God to forgive us.  How can the body of Christ get this so wrong?  The conditions of blessings and curses are set in Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26.  It’s about obedience (not sinning) and disobedience (sin).

Just what is repentance?  Repentance is turning away from sin and is something we cannot do on our own power.  It is a process and it requires that we confess our sin (be specific and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal hidden sin) to Our Father God, tell Him how sorry we are, ask Him to forgive us for our sin and help us to change our ways (repent).  Only then, can our sin be washed away by the blood of Jesus for our sins, “By His strips, we are healed.”

Summary: If Deuteronomy 28:15-68 tell us our sickness and diseases are from disobedience, which is sin, and repentance is the key to eradicating sin by the blood of Jesus, then, we will have healing according to God’s Word.  God’s Word is truth.

It may sound basic and it really is, but it is a lot of work in that we must repent each and every day because we sin every day.  We cannot let mountains of sin build up by waiting weeks and months to pass before we repent. _{Tony Sanchez 9-25-20}