0772. Satan Binds Men with Unbearable Diseases

Satan Binds Men with Unbearable Diseases

"This woman * * whom satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years" (Luk_13:16).

The key verse has to do with the story of a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift herself.

Christ healed her, and the rulers of the synagogue were indignant because it was the Sabbath Day. Christ said unto them: "Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed?"

The daughter of Abraham mentioned here is not the only one whom satan hath bound. The world is filled with misery. There are bodies bound with disease, and racked with pain; there are souls sick with sin, broken with grief. Back of all this misery is satan and sin.

Sometimes people are prone to condemn God for the bitterness of their lives. They forget that "every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights." They fail to grasp that every pang and sorrow is the result of sin: while back of sin is satan.

Some one may ask if all sickness is due to sin, and to satan, are all of those bound by sickness, satan bound?

Our answer to both questions is, "Yes."

We know that sickness is sometimes sent from God as a chastening stroke, but nevertheless it is sent because of sin.

We know that a vast part of sickness is due to natural causes.

There is miasma in the atmosphere, myriad’s of germs float everywhere. However, germs and all unhealthy conditions are the results of sin.

We know that Christ said of the man born blind, "Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents." The man was not blind because of his sin. He was not blind because of his parents’ sin. Yet, if there had never been sin, anywhere, there had been no blindness.

It is satan who binds mankind with sicknesses, both of the body and of the soul.

In Eden there was neither sickness nor pain nor death.

In the eternal city, the New Jerusalem, there will be no more sickness, neither sorrow, nor pain, nor death, for the former things will have passed away.

Where God reigns there is no misery. All the wreckage of the ages has been due to satan and to sin.

When the first parents sinned, God said: "sorrow" and "sweat," and "death," and "thorns and thistles."

Let the unbeliever no longer lay the cause of his sufferings at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let him know that satan is the cause of his grief.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR