YOUR RIGHT TO HEALTH

That you have God-given, purchased and guaranteed right to health is expressly stated in God’s word. He openly declared His plan for your being in health so clearly that it is easily understandable.

God entered into a covenant relationship with His people under the Old Testament. One of such covenants is the covenant of good health.

And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Exodus 23:25

As long as you are in God’s service, sickness, disease, affliction and any such evil shall not and cannot have dominion over you. Note that He said "I will take sickness away from the midst of thee." God will take it away from you. If sickness is taken away, all you have left is health! That is divine health.

There are many things involved in that passage of scripture. It is a four-term contract.

• You shall serve the Lord your God:

• He shall bless your bread;

• He shall bless your water;

• And He shall take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Everyone who is involved in God’s service is entitled to divine health. Are you in His service? Sickness has been removed from you. In God’s mind, you are in health. The term of the contract is service to God. If that is carried out, God has taken care of His own side of it. If you are faithful, God is faithful.

A faithful ambassador is health.
Proverbs 13:17

A faithful servant of God is health. That means he is an embodiment of health. We are all ambassadors of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20) therefore, health is ours by right. It is not a special favour from God. It is not for a selected few. It is for you by right, on covenant basis.

God has a duty to make you healthy and stay so. He has made everything available to guarantee your health. It is your responsibility, however, to walk into it and enjoy it.

The fulfillment of this covenant of health was clearly manifested in the lives of the people of Israel, the Church in the wilderness (Acts 7:38). They moved with God and served Him and as long as they obeyed God and were in His service, He upheld the covenant of health He had earlier made with them.

He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble (weak, sick) person among their tribes.
Psalm 105:37

The Psalmist is talking about the church in the wilderness. He is giving an account of how God brought them out with strength and throughout their forty years journey, there was no sick person among their tribes. Sickness had no entrance into their midst.

Note that this was for the church in the wilderness, under the ministration of death, with the old covenant. And if the ministration of death could be that glorious, such that there was no feeble person among all their tribes, how much more shall the ministration of life excel in glory.

The figurative church had no sickness. The real body - the church of the Lord Jesus Christ should not have any such thing! The Bible says that Jesus Christ was the rock that followed them in the wilderness. He was with them as a rock, he is now with us as the Living Saviour. The risen and glorified Christ is with the New Testament Church. He is exalted and set on the right hand of Majesty on high. God’s divine purpose for the church is to stay in divine health.

In the beginning, we are told that God created man and everything that was necessary, and He saw that it was very good. But do you ever notice that God did not provide a means for healing?

He created His man, put him in charge of everything He had made, and provided no means of getting healed. The reason was that when God created His man, He made him in His own very image, immune to any form of sickness. In fact, man had no sickness or disease-consciousness. So, that man (Adam) did not need healing.

God did not provide for healing because they (Adam and Eve) were not made to be sick. He knew they needed food, so He provided everything for food; none of those things were made for drugs. Their creation was made drug-free.

The Entrance of Sickness

There are three areas through which sickness entered into the world. The first is sin. There was no sickness in the world until Adam sinned. Before this time, Adam was in a state of perfect and absolute health. He did not know sickness. He was always strong, hale and hearty. There was no symptom of headache or fever.

It was when he sinned that sickness came in. An unregenerated man is not entitled to divine health. The Bible says that man has sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Man cannot enjoy divine health except the sin problem is dealt with. There is no way a man that is sin-ridden can enjoy divine health. He has to first submit himself to Jesus Christ, then he will have access to God’s provision of divine health.

There was no sickness before sin, and if sickness must leave, sin, the root cause, must go. The Bible says the sting of death is sin. Death is the ultimate of all bodily oppression. Jesus, on the cross, took care of all that is called sin, once and for all. He was "...bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5). From that day, the price for sin was fully paid.

Now, if sin is the root of sickness and this root has been dealt with, then sickness, the product of sin, has been finished. It has no legal right over you any longer. There is no reason why sickness should fasten its hold on you now.

Get this right: the man or woman who has a right to divine health is that man or woman who has accepted, believed and acted upon the finished and comprehensive atonement of Christ on the cross. Anyone who has not come under the cleansing and atoning blood of Christ cannot be free from sin and its consequences. But if you have done that, you are free from sin, sickness and all satanic wiles today and now. If you can stand on this truth now, the devil himself will acknowledge the fact of it.

You have no legal right to continue in servitude to sin and sickness because Jesus has really and fully taken your position in these things. You have to believe this before it can be real to you.

Paul said sin shall not have dominion over you. You are no longer under the rulership of the devil. Jesus paid the price. The power that made you free from sin has also made you free from its consequences.

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son.
Colossians 1:13

That you have been delivered from the power of darkness is a fact. It is in the kingdom of darkness that you see and experience everything evil. There, the devil is the king and lord and he reigns and exercises mastery over every creature under him. He torments them with sickness, poverty and all manner of evil works of darkness. But at new birth, you are delivered from this power of darkness, and translated from that evil kingdom into God’s own Kingdom.

The new birth did not leave you at the mercy of the devil. He translated (transferred) you into the Kingdom of light, where darkness cannot approach. Sickness has no place there. It has no power over you any more. You have been made free, so stay freed.

Remember, sin is the capital source of sickness and it has been dealt with; so sickness has been taken care of.

Our Redemption From the Curse

The second major source of sickness is the curse of the law. In Deuteronomy 28, from verse 15, the curses of the law are clearly outlined.

If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Verses 58-61

You can see from verse 16 to the end of the chapter that the various curses of the law are stated with meticulous clarity. It is also clear in verses 58-61 that sicknesses and plagues are also covered under the curse of the law. In fact, He went further to say that the sicknesses include those that are not written in this book.

This shows that new sicknesses will come and they have started coming. Just like God is preparing for His end-time move, the devil is also doing his worst to mobilize every evil he has in store for his last and final onslaught on humanity. New diseases and sicknesses are coming to light.

Medical science has never gone on recess since its inception. Researches are always going on because something new is always happening and the devil is playing his last card in a frantic effort to dissuade people from the faith. The truth is that every form of sickness comes under the curse of the law.

Thanks be to God that one of the things Jesus dealt with on the cross is the curse of the law! If He had died by any other means apart from hanging on the cross, the curse of the law would still have been intact, effective and active over us. But the Bible says that Jesus went to the cross to deliver us from that curse. He was there as our substitute. He took our very place under the curse and was cursed for us.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree.
Galatians 3:13

The reason Jesus went to the cross was to avert all curses of the law, and sickness is one of them. Christ has redeemed us from it. He fully bailed us out. Christ has redeemed you from all forms of sickness, disease, and plague, including the ones the devil is still planning to introduce to the world. It does not matter what name it is called. You have been made free from it.

For some time now, people have been talking about the deadly AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). They have said it is a killer disease and it really is. It is one of the most deadly diseases the devil has ever invented and medical science has not been able to find an answer to it.

When it strikes a man, it can result into just anything. It is like a sickness machine. It strikes all. It blinds the eyes, paralyses the hands, affects the legs, and even the appetite. It affects all the body system at the same time! Yet the devil is planning deadlier ones in times to come. He knows his time is short and has determined to move in an alarming rate. This is one reason why you have to get yourself fully prepared and comprehensively insured against the evil day.

Christ has redeemed us from all these—the curse of the law. He was made a curse for us. If the devil can effectively contest it and argue it out, then we can give up. But the truth is that Jesus really took your place and was made a curse for you. No curse of the law has any right, legal or illegal, over you any longer.

It is just like Barabas, the notorious criminal during the earthly walk of the Lord Jesus Christ. The moment he was released in the place of Jesus, no authority in Jerusalem could arrest him any more. Jesus had taken his place, so he was a free man. Jesus has also taken your place under the curse and it covers all forms of sickness, known or unknown. He truly took your place, so you are free.

The way many people respond (instead of reacting against) to sickness, gives the impression that it is God who has put sickness upon them. All they do is complain. They talk, pamper and placate the sickness as if it were from God.

God did not put it there. He does not put sickness on His people. He is the one who has redeemed you from it. If you continue to pose as if God put it there, you will remain under that situation for a long time. It is time to react against sickness. It is the curse of the law and Christ has redeemed you totally from it.

Satan As The Tormentor

The third source of sickness is satan. It has always been the devil (Satan) who afflicted people with sickness. In Job 2:7, the Bible records that satan smote Job:

So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Job 2:7

It was Satan, not God. Satan was single-handedly responsible for Job’s calamities and woes.

In the New Testament, Jesus talked of a woman who had been bound by Satan.

And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Luke 13:16

It was Satan who bound that woman. Not God. Jesus really recognized that Satan is in active partnership with sickness. But I have news for you. The devil is no longer a problem to you. By virtue of the victory of Christ on the cross, you are more than a conqueror of sin, sickness and the devil himself. All you need to do is to believe these things, and that puts you above the devil permanently. The Bible says you have a victory in Christ that overcomes the world, even your faith.

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:4

You have world-overcoming faith that wards off all the fiery darts of the devil. He cannot be your problem any longer. You were once under his authority, but you have been transferred from his kingdom into the Kingdom of light. You have been exalted far above him. You are seated together with Christ in the heavenly places far above principalities and powers. You are no longer under him. He is now under your feet! (Ephesians 2:6; 1:20-23).

Paul said, the God of peace shall bruise the devil (Satan) under your feet shortly (Romans 16:20). That is where he is - under your feet! You were under him but he is now under your feet.

This is why the Bible commands us not to give place to the devil. In fact, Jesus said you are superior to him. He cannot bring a thing on you because you are his master. Jesus is your Lord and you are lord to satan and his fallen angels. He cannot force anything on you. He cannot afflict you in anyway. You are far above him in God’s order of beings.

It is ridiculous for a messenger to attempt forcing his boss to take orders from him. It is just the same thing. It is above Satan to afflict you. Get this fact fully settled in your mind. Therein lies your victory.

Whenever he comes against you, resist him. Stand your ground. Refuse to shift an inch and he will definitely flee from you.

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7

Friend, you have been set free from these three sources of sickness. Sickness has no power, authority, and right over you. But you need to get acquainted with this fact. Hosea 4:6 says:

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

You will not be able to act on these facts until you come into the full knowledge that you have been redeemed and exalted above all these sources of sickness.