Topic: Heavenly Health[David Jeremiah Ministry 23 OCTOBER  2024 | Turning Point Ministries]

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Heavenly Health

October 23, 2024

And the inhabitant [of Zion] will not say, “I am sick”; the people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah 33:24

 Recommended Reading: Psalm 103:1-3

The World Health Organization estimates that global healthcare spending rose to $9 trillion in 2020—when the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread. That dollar amount represented around 11 percent of global gross domestic product. Nine trillion dollars is an incomprehensible number, but imagine how those dollars could be spent if the world wasn’t subject to illness.¹

There was no sickness in the Garden of Eden, but when sin entered the world, sickness followed. All sickness is the result, directly or indirectly, of sin—of living in a fallen world. Scripture clearly connects sin and sickness in the same discussion (Psalm 103:3; Isaiah 53:4-5; Matthew 8:16-17; Mark 2:8-11; James 5:14-16). But in the Millennium, things will be different. The world will be a healthier place (Isaiah 4:2; 27:6; Joel 2:24) and most people will live in resurrected, immortal bodies not subject to illness (1 Corinthians 15:43-53).

Even though we may be subject to illness today, we can seek and trust “the Lord who heals [us]” (Exodus 15:26). His words are “life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh” (Proverbs 4:22).

Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
J. C. Ryle

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