Topic: Why sickness comes

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Does God ever use sickness to chastise people?

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Now, maybe the privilege of getting that person before me, maybe there’s something causing that. Well, if I get it, maybe when standing before the person, or this lady setting here, you, or any of you, it might see the reason. Now, you notice I’m very particular how I rebuke a spirit out there. Beca...

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Is every sickness caused by the sick person's own sin?

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Now, sin is the cause of sickness. Before we had any sin, we had no…Now, sickness is either a direct or indirect cause by sin from the fall; maybe nothing you done, something your parents done, you just inherited their weaknesses, and so forth.

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Does God ever use sickness to chasten His children?

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Now, sometimes, I will admit this, that our heavenly Father sometimes chastens us with sickness, permitting Satan to do it, to try us sometimes to—to bring us back. If we go out of the way, then our heavenly Father might let something happen to us to bring us back. But it’ll only be for the good. Se...

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What did Jesus say caused the deaf and dumb man's condition?

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Now, I want you to notice the arrangements of the Scripture here. First, the blind man. And he just…?…Yea, he said, “Lord, have mercy.” And Jesus said, “I can if you believe that I can.” (Did you get it?) Then He… They said, “Lord, we believe.” So He touched their eyes and said, “Now, according to y...

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Is there a spirit behind a germ or a cancer?

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But notice. A germ…What is a germ? Now, we take a cancer, what is it first? Why, it’s a growth, tumor, cataract, goiter? They’re growths. Is that right? And they become malignant and cancers. Well, a growth is a multiplication of cells. And let’s dig down below that now. Below that growth is a—is a...

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Why is there more sickness today despite the best doctors, hospitals and drugs?

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Now, Divine healing died out for a while here a few years ago; it just let down, as it happens through the age of the history. It’s let down so often. And during that time, cancer broke out, sickness in the church. Oh, my. Eighty percent of the people are sick now. And the people…Medical science, I...

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Why would a disease such as cancer be called a devil?

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Now, we’re going to form the prayer line just in a few moments. And I want you to do this: If there be a modern skeptic in the building, I warn you in the Name of the Lord Jesus, do not set in the building during this time, for cancers, deafness, epileptic, they come from one to another. I’ll explai...