The Power to Forgive

There is a direct con­nec­tion between sin and sick­ness.  Today the church has grown weak and looks at the word sin as a wicked word.  The Word of God says we all have sin and if any­one says they don’t have sin is a liar.

1 John 1:8–101 John 1:8–10
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive our­selves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we con­fess our sins, he is faith­ful and just to for­give us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unright­eous­ness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. occa­sion…: Gr. scan­dal  

WP-Bible plu­gin (NCV) “If we say we have no sin, we are fool­ing our­selves, and the truth is not in us. 9 But if we con­fess our sins, he will for­give our sins, because we can trust God to do what is right. He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make God a liar, and we do not accept God’s teach­ing.”

Con­fess Our Sins

Accord­ing to this scrip­ture, espe­cially vs. 9, if we con­fess our sins, he will for­give our sins … He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done.  That is why Jesus was sent on earth.  He knew no man could be per­fect even though Jesus was per­fect.  God knew that and wanted to redeem us from the curse of death and sep­a­ra­tion.  He sent His son to die and bore our sins and sick­ness on the cross so that when we do mess up, we can run to Jesus and con­fess our sins and we are cleansed.  Con­fes­sion to Jesus refreshes us.  Amen.

In James 5:15, 16James 5:15, 16
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have com­mit­ted sins, they shall be for­given him. ¹⁶ Con­fess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effec­tual fer­vent prayer of a right­eous man availeth much.  

WP-Bible plu­gin it says also to con­fess our sins to one another. “The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have com­mit­ted sins, they shall be for­given him.  Con­fess your faults one to another, and pray one for another that ye may be healed.”

We see the sin and sick­ness con­nec­tion.  Oth­er­wise, why would we have this scrip­ture?  As in other scrip­tures, the par­don of sins and the heal­ing of sick­ness are closely united.  James declares that par­don of sins will be granted with the heal­ing; and for this rea­son he desires to see con­fes­sion of sin accom­pany the prayer which claims heal­ing.  Uncon­fessed sin presents an obsta­cle to the prayer of faith or soon the sick­ness may reappear.

Prayer of Faith

Most of us go to a physi­cian for diag­nose the cause of the dis­ease.  If he suc­ceeds he stands a bet­ter chance to com­bat it.  You see our Lord also goes back to the pri­mary cause of all sick­ness that is, sin.  It is our part to con­fess and God’s to grant the par­don which removes this first cause so that heal­ing takes place.  In seek­ing heal­ing by means of earthly reme­dies, the first thing to do is to find a cleaver physi­cian and fol­low his pre­scrip­tions exactly.  If a per­son takes the prayer of faith, fix our eyes on the Lord, allow the Holy Spirit to show us the rea­son why we are sick, then we can con­fess and the spirit of the Lord can heal us.

James points out to us a con­di­tion which is essen­tial to the recov­ery of our health; con­fess and for­sake sin.

Did God put this dis­ease on me?  Where does dis­ease come from?  One, God per­mits it; it is in order to show us our faults, to chasen us, and purify us from them.  Sick­ness and dis­ease is not God’s per­fect will.  Sick­ness was not in the gar­den and death was not in the gar­den.  The source of dis­ease is from the devil and when we sin, he has a legal right to put it on us.  He is out to kill, steal and destroy.  John 10:10John 10:10
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abun­dantly.  

WP-Bible plu­gin.  Kill means to bring to death.  Jesus was sent to bring life and for­give­ness to those who ask.  God brought the Israelites out of Egypt to give them life.  Another way of look­ing at sin and sick­ness is that Sick­ness is there­fore a vis­i­ble sign of God’s judg­ment upon sin and Satan car­ries out that judg­ment.  Sin sep­a­rates us from the Father espe­cially when the Lord Jesus Christ is pray­ing for you and stand­ing with His open wide to receive you when you con­fess to Him so that we are par­doned from our sin.

To con­fess our sins is to lay them down before God with the fixed pur­pose to fall into them no more.  When we have con­fessed our sins, we must receive also the promised par­don, believ­ing that God gives it in very deed.  When the soul has con­sented to make a sin­cere con­fes­sion and has obtained par­don, it is ready to lay hold of the promises of God; it is no longer dif­fi­cult to believe that the Lord will raise up His sick one and bring healing.

It is when we keep far from God that it is dif­fi­cult to believe, con­fes­sion and par­don bring us quite near to Him.  Many believ­ers, when they get sick, blame God so they sep­a­rate them­selves with anger and bit­ter­ness towards God instead of stand­ing in faith, going to Him (Jesus) in prayer and mak­ing it right.

Now, many times sick­ness and dis­ease can be inher­ited but many times it is because we open the door to the same sin.  What do I mean.  The Word of God says to love God with all your heart soul and mind, love your neigh­bors as your­self.  How many of you like who you are or wish you were some­one else or maybe you believe God has for­given you but you don’t allow your­self off the hook.  Maybe your mother or father has issues and that spirit went down the gen­er­a­tional line and now you feel the same way about you.  That is uncon­fessed sin.

“Set­ting Cap­tives Free from the Devil and Disease”

by: Traci Morin, The Min­istry of Deliv­er­ance Heal­ing
Ser­vant and Ordained Min­is­ter of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

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