Does God Still Heal? - Physical Healing - A Biblical Assessment, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
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Summary
Imagine you are going about your day when suddenly, your phone rings. It is your doctor, and the news is staggering—a life-threatening diagnosis that changes everything in an instant. How would you respond? In this powerful program, Chip delves into James chapter 5, uncovering what Scripture reveals about physical healing. More importantly, he shares a profound message of hope for anyone facing trials and suffering. Learn the comfort and strength our Heavenly Father offers during life’s most challenging moments.
Main Points
A look at the problem: "Sickness" - 4 types:- Sickness for death. --1 John 5:16
- Sickness for discipline. --1 Corinthians 11:30-32
- Sickness for God's glory. --John 11:4
- Sickness from the enemy. --Luke 13:11
- Sensationalists
- Confessionalists
- Anti-Supernaturalists
- Rationalists
- Medical/Biblical/Spiritual Integration
- Who are the sick?
- What are the sick to do?
- What are the elders to do?
- What does God promise to do?
- What sin or other conditions might qualify God's promise to heal?
- What is the presumed relationship between sin and sickness in this passage?
- What are we all told to do regularly for our health?
- What kind of prayer has healing impact?
- Who qualifies to be heard by God for healing and the miraculous?
- The intervention of God. --Acts 3:1-9
- The interaction of God. --1 Timothy 5:23
- The enabling of God. --2 Corinthians 12:9-10
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
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| 0:00.0 | Does God physically heal people today? One group of people would say, if you believe hard enough, it will happen every time. Another group will say, it happened in the New Testament. It doesn't happen anymore. What does the Bible actually teach? That's today. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:22.0 | Our mission is to inspire Christians to be genuine followers of Jesus |
| 0:25.7 | and to empower them to be active disciple makers in our world. |
| 0:30.3 | Thanks for being with us as we continue our series, Does God Still Heal? |
| 0:34.1 | Based in James Chapter 5. |
| 0:36.2 | On this program, our Bible teacher, Chip Ingram, delves into the delicate and hotly debated |
| 0:40.7 | topic of physical healing. |
| 0:43.2 | There's a lot of ground to cover, so grab your Bible and go to James Chapter 5 as we settle |
| 0:47.7 | in for Chip's meaningful talk. |
| 0:51.0 | To begin, I want to ask you a question that is not all that hypothetical, |
| 0:55.0 | but I would like you to ponder that if in just a few days from now, |
| 1:00.0 | let's call it Monday afternoon, you, a friend or a family member, |
| 1:05.0 | was diagnosed with terminal cancer. |
| 1:08.0 | You walked into a doctor, you got the biopsy report back. What would you do? What would you |
| 1:18.7 | expect from God? What does the Bible teach about physical healing in our day specifically? And therefore, how would you |
| 1:34.8 | respond in view of unless God intervenes, someone you love is going to die? Now, I'm not the sharpest guy in the world, but I'm also not |
| 1:48.9 | stupid. And these are the kind of topics that as pastors, it's wise to avoid. There's a broad |
| 1:57.4 | spectrum in Christianity on a topic like this, and no matter what I say, someone will be |
| 2:03.1 | mad. This is an emotionally charged issue where people have very, very strong feelings. But I had |
| 2:10.6 | an experience as a young pastor that forced me to dig in at a very deep level, because what I |
| 2:16.2 | learned is faulty theology will fracture lives. |
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