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Luke 13:16
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And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

Note 3 at Lk. 13:16: This sickness was the work of Satan--not the work of God. Jesus said it had bound her--not blessed her -- for eighteen years. The teaching that says that sickness is actually a blessing in disguise because the Lord is working His plan in our life is not found in scripture. As Acts 10:38 says, Jesus "went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil," not "oppressed of God." (Compare with notes 1-2 at Mt. 8:16-17, p. 68; note 2 at Mk. 6:5, p. 163; and note 2 at Jn. 9:2, p. 237.)