A listener named Ian in Australia writes in to ask this, Pastor John, how would you preach

from Psalm 103-3, which says that God heals all our diseases?

Do we just spiritualize this?

He heals us from the disease of sin, or do we take it in the ultimate sense that one

day we will be healed in heaven?

There are many Christians today who die of awful diseases.

Yeah, this is an absolutely crucial question, because verse 3 of Psalm 103, he forgives all

your nicotine, he heals all your diseases, is one of dozens of places in the Psalms that seem

to promise things that are so idealistic, so far beyond anybody's ordinary experience, and so

we really do need an answer to this question of not only how to teach them, but how to believe

them, how to enjoy them.

What comforts me and has helped me perhaps as much as anything in wrestling with the

absolute statements of blessing in the Psalms is that Jesus knew this problem and the devil

knew it, and the way they interacted about it is very illuminating.

So the devil knows Psalm 91, it's one of those Psalms like the arrow will not come near

you, you know, it's just amazing Psalm, Psalm 91, you're going to be protected, nothing

is going to harm you.

So the devil quotes this to Jesus, standing on the top of the temple, and he says, if

you're the son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written in the Bible,

the devil is quoting the Bible.

He will command his angels concerning you to guard you on their hands, they will bear

you up, lest you strike your foot against his tone.

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