A summary of the writings of Emmanuel Boateng.
Initially published on Facebook in 151 instalments, this is a summary of those writings.
IT IS HIGHLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE BORN AGAIN TO BE SICK
A Systematic Doctrinal Treatise
1. THE ORIGIN OF SICKNESS AND THE NEED FOR REDEMPTION
According to Romans 5:12, sin entered the world through Adam, and death through sin.
Death, in Scripture, includes:
• Corruption
• Degeneration
• Sickness
• Fear
• Lack (of possessions to steward, and freedoms)
• Physical death
Adam’s transgression introduced a corrupted order into creation (Genesis 3; Romans 8:19–22).
Sickness is therefore a fruit of sin, not a part of God’s original design (Genesis 1:31).
All creation awaits the manifestation of the sons of God (Romans 8:19). Manifestation is of something, not needing creating, but of something that already exists.
Since sickness is corruption, the redeemed must themselves realise that they are free from corruption, in order to liberate creation.
It’s a realisation, and a living out of that realisation, rather than an effort of will.
Jesus bore the sin of the world (John 1:29) and condemned sin in His body (Romans 8:3; 1 Peter 2:24).
Since sickness is the wage of sin (Romans 6:23), removing sin removes sickness’ legal grounds.
Christ was bruised and put to grief (Isaiah 53:4–5,10).
Grief (Hebrew: choli) includes sickness and disease.
He tasted death for all (Hebrews 2:9) — including all forms of death: sickness, fear, poverty, oppression.
Christ abolished death and brought life and immortality to light (2 Timothy 1:10).
If sickness is a form of death, and death has been abolished for the believer, sickness has also been abolished.
To be born again is to be born of God (John 1:12–13; James 1:18; Titus 3:5).
It is not behaviour modification but a new nature (2 Corinthians 5:17).
The believer is created in righteousness and true holiness (Ephesians 4:24).
Righteousness is incompatible with sickness, because sickness is a manifestation of sin’s corruption.
Romans 6:2–11 teaches that the believer is dead to sin.
Dead people cannot sin — nor can they be sick, because sickness draws its life from sin.
Believers are baptized into Christ’s death and raised with Him (Romans 6:3–5; Ephesians 2:5–6; Colossians 2:12).
If Christ died to sickness, the believer died to sickness.
1 John 4:17 states that as Christ is, so are believers in this world.
Since the resurrected Christ cannot be sick, His body cannot be sick — and believers are His body (Colossians 1:18).
The believer’s body is a literal member of Christ (1 Corinthians 6:15; Ephesians 5:30).
Thus, for a believer to be sick would imply that Christ’s own glorified body is sick — an impossibility.
Christ is in a body (not a floating spirit) in Heaven, seated at the right hand of the father. Therefore, we have a body like His, seated at the right hand of the Father in Heaven. When we pray “let it be on earth as it is in heaven”, we are asking in part for this heavenly reality, the one with our redeemed bodies, to be so here.
Believers have been translated out of darkness into the Kingdom of Christ (Colossians 1:13).
Sickness exists in darkness, not in the Kingdom of God.
Jesus possesses all authority (Matthew 28:18).
Believers share this authority (Luke 10:19; Mark 16:17–18; Ephesians 1:22–23).
Mark 16:18 shows believers as healers, not those in need of healing.
Healing validates forgiveness (Mark 2:9–11; James 5:15).
The church heals the world; the church itself is not the sick.
The Holy Spirit indwells the believer’s physical body (1 Corinthians 6:19).
He animates every organ and cell (Romans 8:11).
Immortality has been brought to light now (2 Timothy 1:10).
The believer’s body has put off “the body of sin” (Romans 6:6; Colossians 2:11).
A place with flowing water could not be defiled (Leviticus symbolism).
The Spirit is the living water — therefore the believer’s body cannot be defiled by sickness.
Even though sickness is impossible by nature, a believer may experience symptoms through misbelief.
“As he thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7).
Thinking sickness manifests sickness.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21).
Words authorize experience.
Fear enslaves (Hebrews 2:15).
Fear of sickness gives place to sickness.
Yielding to sin gives Satan an opening (Romans 6:16), not by power but by legal cooperation.
Satan cannot touch the believer except through deception (Ephesians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 2:11).
Romans 8:29–30: those He justified, He also glorified.
Glory is the environment and essence of God — where no sickness can exist.
John 17:22: “The glory You gave Me, I have given them.”
Glory is God’s immunity zone.
1 John 4:15 declares a perfect intermingling.
What cannot touch God cannot touch the believer.
Every disease has a name and must bow (Philippians 2:9–10).
Believers possess this name by inheritance (John 14:13–14).
My authentic name is therefore, Nathan Christ, not Nathan Schofield. I bare His name, He gave it to me before I believed it. I just need to believe it.
The believer is animated by the same power that raised Christ (Ephesians 1:19–20).
Nothing in creation can overcome this power.
According to recent science, the amount of force / energy that it took to raise that body from the dead, was the equivalent of a nuclear explosion for 140th of 1 billionth of a second. If that energy would have lasted more time, all of creation would have been enveloped.
Therefore, the born-again believer cannot be sick because:
Sin is removed (John 1:29; Hebrews 9:26).
Sickness is the fruit of sin (Romans 5:12).
Christ bore sickness (Isaiah 53:4–5; Matthew 8:17).
We died with Christ (Romans 6:3–7).
We rose with Christ (Ephesians 2:5–6).
We are the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Righteousness means healing (1 Peter 2:24).
We are partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).
The divine cannot be sick.
Our bodies are members of Christ (1 Corinthians 6:15).
Christ’s body cannot be sick.
The Spirit sustains our bodies (Romans 8:11).
We are glorified (Romans 8:30).
Glory contains no sickness.
We are light; sickness is darkness (1 Thessalonians 5:5).
Darkness cannot overcome light.
We live in God; God lives in us (1 John 4:15).
We are seated far above sickness (Ephesians 2:6).
We have the name of Jesus (Philippians 2:9–10).
We have authority over all sickness (Mark 16:17–18).
In conclusion: sickness is incompatible with the new creation.
What Christ cannot be, the believer cannot be.