107. Take away Sickness
Deuteronomy 7:15 And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
A further conditional promise for keeping the commandments of God is that He will take away all sickness. He will not put any of the evil diseases of Egypt upon us. Instead, the Lord will plague the enemies that hate us. It is a principle that living a moral, upright life will result in fewer sicknesses, not as a reward for doing good, but just as the outcome of living the right way.
The evil diseases of the Egyptians were divine punishments that the Lord inflicted upon Egypt so that Pharaoh would let Israel go out of slavery. The evil pagan gods that the Egyptians worshiped would suffer punishments in order to reveal the true God of all. These kinds of evil diseases will not be for those who faithfully fear the Lord. The Lord did take away sicknesses from the people while they were sojourning in the wilderness, according to this promise.
However, sickness still comes as a consequence of sin, for sin is still in the world and in our own flesh. Sin causes death, and sickness is a small part of impending death, a “little death.” The way of the Law of God, according to the stipulations (Ten Commandments) of the covenant, leads to life and health. Sin leads to death and disease. Jesus came to defeat sin and death and its diseases, and after we die He will get rid of sin and death, and tears and pain, forever. The Lord will take away all sickness forever in the New Paradise, for then sin and death are gone. Thus in the eternal Life with God the promise is forever fulfilled: all sickness is taken away. For now, in this life before the resurrection of the body, we live in two worlds, one with death and sickness, and the other with life and health. One we enter by natural birth; the other we enter by the spiritual birth of faith in Jesus.