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What About Paul's Thorn?
By Rev.
Kenneth E. Hagin
"But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before
you;then it shall come to pass,that those which ye let remain of them
shall be pricks in your eyes,and thorns in your sides,and shall vex you
in the land wherein ye dwell"(Num.33:55).
"Don't you remember, though, Brother Hagin 'Paul was sick all his
life.'"
"No, I don't remember that."
"But he had a thorn in the flesh."
"Where did you ever read in the Bible that a thorn in the flesh is
sickness? Nowhere!"
Study the Scriptures. See how the Bible uses that term. In the Old
Testament, God said to Israel, "If you don't kill those Canaanites when
you possess the land, they will be thorns in your side. They will
torment you" (Num.33:55;Josh. 23:13;Judges 2:3).
Paul tells exactly what the thorn was: "The messenger of Satan to buffet
me" (2 Cor. 12:7).
Everywhere Paul went to preach, this evil spirit went before and behind
him, and stirred up everything it could. (And Paul couldn't command the
evil spirit to leave the earth, because the Devil has the right to be
here until Adam's lease runs out.)
So there is no separating sickness and disease from Satan - he causes
them. Jesus' attitude toward sickness was uncompromising warfare against
Satan.
Confession: Since sickness and disease are of the Devil, I follow in
the footsteps and attitude of Jesus, and deal with them as Jesus did!
(Taken by permission from
RHEMA Bible Church , aka Kenneth Hagin Ministries , Tulsa , OK , USA.
www.rhema.org )
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