Bible Questions Answered: Healing For Soul And Body

Bible Questions Answered:
I see that on one occasion in Matthew chapter nine, that Christ forgave a man his sins and then healed him.
The man had not asked to be forgiven any sins, what was the situation there?
Kiri/ Auckland, New Zealand

Bible Answers:

Text:
Matthew 9:1-8 KJV (Mark 2:1-12/ Luke 5:17-26)
1And He entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into His own city.
2And, behold, they brought to Him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
3And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
4And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
5For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
6But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith He to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
7And he arose, and departed to his house.
8But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.

The answer is quite simple. The “cause,” of the mans disease, was sin.
What his sin was, we are not told.

Can sin, cause illness and death? Yes!

What person, doesn't know that the life of a drunkard ends in life threatening mishap or terminal disease? Yes, sin can, and may be behind many diseases, yet not all!

In this case of the paralytic man, Jesus said that it had been.
This is why our Saviour, first told the repentant man, that his sins had been forgiven.

Oh, how true those words....
Galatians 6:7,8 KJV
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Job 4:8 KJV
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

Isaiah 3:10,11 NLT
10 Tell the godly that all will be well for them. They will enjoy the rich reward they have earned!
11 But the wicked are doomed, for they will get exactly what they deserve.

Jeremiah 2:17,19 NLT
17 And you have brought this upon yourselves by rebelling against the Lord your God,
even though He was leading you on the way!
19 Your wickedness will bring its own punishment. Your turning from Me will shame you.
You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is to abandon the Lord your God and not to fear Him. I, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!

Jeremiah 17:10 KJV
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Proverbs 5:22 KJV
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Proverbs 6:27 KJV
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

Hosea 8:7 KJV
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind..."

I Corinthians 6:9-11 NLT
9 Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality,
10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.
11 Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

I Peter 1:17 KJV
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

II Corinthians 5:10 KJV
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

I John 2:16,17 KJV
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Revelation 20:12 KJV
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Revelation 22:12 KJV
And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

Here in our story is a picture of illness, not of body only, but of the soul as well. The Lord Jesus, most important of all, is a healer of the soul!

Isaiah 43:25 KJV
I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins

Matthew 9:2 KJV
“ ...Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.”

Christ not only saw the soul of the paralytic, but saw the thoughts of the Pharisees.

Matthew 9:3-7 KJV
3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
4And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
5For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
6But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith He to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
7And he arose, and departed to his house.

Sick souls, and bodies still may be made well through the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 103:2,3;11,12 KJV
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him.
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.

I John 1:9 KJV
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

I Peter 2:24 KJV
Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.