Is there any correlation between sin and diseases? Apparently some sickness is a result of the sin in our lives. Sometimes we pray to be healed and it doesn’t happen because we haven’t dealt with the sin, or sins, in our life.
Think of King David and his sin with Bathsheba. He didn’t repent until God sent Nathan the prophet to him to rebuke him of his sin. From my understanding, David held onto this sin for about a year without confessing it and repenting of it. You can check it out in Psalms 51. All the while he was tormented in his spirit. His joy and gladness had departed. David said in verses 8, 9, “Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones that thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sin, and blot out all my iniquities.” David must have felt crushed and devastated because of the sins he held onto and would not confess and repent of. He said in verse 11, “Cast me not away from they presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from me.” David felt the separation from God that sin causes. In verse 12 David said, “Restore unto me the joy of my salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit.”
When you read the 51st Psalm you can picture David’s brokenness. He sounds like he was in a very depressed state of mind while he held onto his sin. When a person hangs onto his sin it results in arrogance, pride and rebelliousness and opens the door to all kinds of sin! Did David know what God sought from him? Yes, it is recorded in verse 17 where David said, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.”
Sin is a very destructive tool that our enemy can use to destroy our testimony and our faith. If we have unconfessed sin in our lives that we haven’t confessed and repented of it can cause sickness to occur in us that can’t be healed until we get things right with God. Why do we sometimes hang onto sin for so long? Why did King David hang on to his sin for close to a year, which could have been much longer if God hadn’t intervened and sent Nathan to confront him? Maybe David was just too ashamed to take his sin before the Lord or maybe he thought he had gotten away with it, I don’t know. David was a man that God said was a man after His own heart. Maybe David thought that God wouldn’t forgive him, I guess we will never know.
My question to you is: are you engaged in sin, and are you feeling like David did? Have you lost your peace and joy? Are you feeling depressed? Are you plagued with a sickness that may be caused by unconfessed sin in your life?”
Maybe you don’t realize that sin can cause sickness in your body, let me share what the Bible says about a man that had palsy in Luke 5. The men who were helping the sick man couldn’t get to Jesus so they went up on the roof and made a hole and let this poor man down through it to where Jesus was. When Jesus saw their faith He said, “Man thy sins are forgiven thee.” Why would Jesus say that? This man was there to be healed, not to have his sins forgiven.
The Scribes and the Pharisees had a problem with what Jesus said and accused Him of blaspheming. When Jesus perceived their thoughts He answered them, “What think ye in your hearts? Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house. And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.” There is no mistake about it, some sicknesses are caused because of sin.
There was another healing that took place in John 5:1-14, an impotent man was healed and Jesus told him to take up his bed and walk. Then He said in verse 14, “Behold, thou art made whole (healed): sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.”
Now I want to make this very clear, not all sickness is the result of sin. In John chapter 9 it says as Jesus was walking along he saw a man who was born blind from birth. “Teacher,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it the result of his own sins or those of his parents?” “It was not the result of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered, “He was born blind so the power of God could be seen in him.”
So not all sickness is the result of sin, let me say this again, have you lost your peace and joy, have you been feeling depressed and sickly? It may be a result of unconfessed sin. Only you know if you have unconfessed sin in your life. If you do, repent and confess it and get your peace and joy back! Don’t put it off like David did.
Then pray to be healed and you may be surprised, it may happen. And always thank and praise the Lord. Have a great day and God Bless.
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