No More Sickness (Isaiah 33:24)

“And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick.” — Isaiah 33:24

 

Summary:

No one can make this promise true of the present life, where weakness, pain, and sickness touch everyone. Illness entered the world through sin, yet under God’s providence it can serve merciful purposes: restraining wandering, removing temptations, and revealing the tender care and faithfulness of Christ. Still, sickness remains an evil that diminishes earthly comforts, hinders duties, darkens the mind, and may separate believers from public worship. The Christian therefore looks beyond present suffering to the world where sin and pain are gone. At the resurrection, the body will not merely be restored but gloriously transformed—raised in power, made incorruptible and spiritual, and fashioned like Christ’s glorious body. Then every burden, weakness, and disorder will end, and no inhabitant will ever again say, “I am sick.”

 

Outline:

• Sickness belongs to the present world
  • Weakness, pain, and illness are common to nearly every human life.
• God can use illness mercifully
  • Sickness may restrain wandering, lessen temptation, and reveal Christ’s tender care.
• Sickness remains a real trial
  • It diminishes comforts, hinders duties, darkens the mind, and separates believers from worship.
• The believer looks toward a painless world
  • When sin is finally removed, pain and sickness will pass away with it.
• The resurrection body will be glorious
  • Christ will raise his people in power, incorruption, immortality, and likeness to himself.