I am always amused by this objection because I wear glasses myself. (I do not intend to wear contact lenses just to make myself look more like a faith man! I sometimes preach without them in the tropics when I get sweaty since I can see quite well without them anyway.) Supposedly, if I were in faith, I would not be wearing glasses, and my wearing of glasses "proves" that I don't really believe what I'm preaching.

Yes, our bodies do wear out. God does renew your youth like the eagle's, but clearly, you are not going to have the endurance of a teenager when you are 95 years old. That does not mean that you have to be sick. However, our bodies are mortal and will not last forever. You are not guaranteed an infinite lifespan on this earth in your mortal (subject to death) body.


Have I just admitted that sickness is for all, then? No. God still "heals all your diseases" throughout your life on earth. You can't stay here forever, but while you're here, God wants you to be in health.

I know for a fact that God heals bad eyesight. It often comes down to a question of desire. If your eyesight gets bad enough, you will want to be healed. If it's a minor nuisance that glasses can fix, it will probably not be high on your "faith agenda."

But if our bodies will eventually break down, is it not inevitable that some body parts will fail, thus bringing on some kind of "sickness?" Let's consider that Jesus healed every sickness and every disease among the people. This would include any "disease" caused by the failure of a body part (such as diabetes). Among the thousands, there were surely some in this category. If you sampled thousands of sick people today, you would find at least some who have such a condition.


Even if something like that happens to you, you have a right to be healed. If Jesus healed every disease, which would include old-age-related diseases, he surely does the same today. To say otherwise is to put an age limit on God's promises to heal all your diseases and take sickness away from you. There is no age limit on this in the Bible, so why add one?

Every disease is part of the "curse of the law" found in the law of Moses. Paul said that we are redeemed from that curse. Therefore, since we are redeemed from every disease, we are redeemed from "old-age" diseases. As a lawyer would say, these diseases are "including, but not limited to" Alzheimer's Disease, senility and dementia in general, kidney failure, incontinence, feebleness, osteoporosis and arthritis. If it's an illness of any kind, you are legally redeemed from it, no matter how old you are.


Consider the two million or so Jews who went out into the desert with "none feeble among their tribes." Can you imagine two million people in one geographical area where no one was feeble or crippled because of old age? It happened under a worse covenant that was based upon worse promises than your covenant. You should expect better under our better covenant today. It is a tradition of man that makes void the Word of God that you have to be decrepit and senile for a season before you die. Tell that to Moses when you see him; he was fine at the age of 120. No one had to carry him around in a sedan chair! Tell that to Caleb when you see him. He was 80 or so when he wanted to go conquer more giants! This was under the Old Covenant! Don't let modern tradition and man's thoughts talk you out of God's best.


Mortality is part of the curse on the earth in Genesis 3, and we are not redeemed from that curse yet.

Sickness is part of the curse of the law in Deuteronomy 28, Leviticus 26, and elsewhere. We are redeemed from the curse of the law according to Galatians 3:13.

Therefore, we are not redeemed from death (mortality), but we are redeemed from sickness. You have to die, but you don't have to be sick before you die. See the answer to the objection about never dying if we're always healed for more insight on this subject.